>Jane: Don't be smart, you know I'm only 33. Well, what do you want for breakfast?
>Judy: Nothing, thanks. I'm on a diet.
>Jane: Wait a minute, aren't you forgetting your bathing suit?
>Judy: No, I have it.
>Jane: That's your bathing suit?
>Judy: Uh-huh, it's the new instant-stretch model. Just add water and watch the boys fizz.
>Jane: If I was only 15 again. In fact, if I was only 32, 22, 32 again.
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wait how old is judy
At least 14 if she's in highschool
Apparently 15.
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Doesn't seem that strange. That was just the era. It's 18 or 22 if the father wanted the girl to get a college education (and land a man there).
Why was it so much less successful than the Flintstones? Is flying-car push-button future a less fertile platform for jokes? Is George, who complains about having to work a few hours a day, too hard to like compared to Fred?
There is something very charming about Flinstone tech, that Jetsons lack.
fred has his own friend group separate from the family
george does not
the onions george vs the chad fred
George had 2 friends, the elderly janitor and the talking computer, but there's just so much they could do with them
thats just sad
The Flintstones copied The Honeymooners, The Jetsons copied The Flintstones
The problem wasn't the premise of the show, it was the jokes. The Flintstones is largely a rip-off of the honeymooners, about a married couple with an infant and a dog. The Jetsons is about a family of 4 with a dog and a robot maid with technology so good for the time that it's like watching a family sitcom about a bunch of whiny rich people like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air without Will Smith.
75 episodes seems successful enough
Setting aside, Fred and Wilma had pretty realistic problems and challenges to overcome so people could relate to them. George and Jane had pretty cushy lives by comparison and didn't garner much audience sympathy as a result. The cushy lives also meant that the Jetsons writers really had to stretch for stories in a way that the Flintstones didn't and that meant that said stories tended to be much more outlandish.
Like an early Flintstones episode might have Fred panicking over losing his job while Wilma is dealing with being pregnant. A Jetsons episode at the same point in its run might be something along the lines of: George has become invisible after accidentally drinking Mr. Spacely's new secret project.
Of course, later seasons of the Flintstones moved away from those more relatable stories with things like constant celebrity cameos and Gazoo but that's also the era of the show where the ratings went downhill.
Two-thirds of those were in the '80s revival; the orignial Jetsons run was only about twenty episodes while the Flintstones had eight times that many episodes in its original run and a bunch of spinoffs with as many or more episodes.
For instance, even Yabba Dabba Dinosaur had more episodes than the original Jetsons series.
>if I was only 32, 22, 32 again
That's a little too narrow in the hips. I know a woman who's 32D-22-34 and she's basically fricking perfect.
Why did she had gray hair when she was only 15?
She probably bleached it.
Effects of the radiation from all the atomic wars.
Great Scott!
>60s Jetsons: mostly focused on Jane and George with both Elroy and Judy having minimal screentime
>80s Jetsons: mostly focused on Elroy adn Judy with Jane and Geoge having a little less screentime and being written as dumber than their OG versions
I honestly liked the 80s episodes more just for how weird they were compared to the original
god I wish that were me
>The seasons with John K focus more on Judy