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00:00 The Jetsons' Charlton, issue 15.
00:03 Spaceleaf's boardifies job when George brags that those last three deals he made put them ahead.
00:10 At least now George has a realistic job about making deals, not just pushing one button.
00:17 The Simpsons may seem less sloppy by keeping Homer's official job consistent when he's not fired,
00:23 but it's far less creative and interesting by doing so, 'cause I appreciate it when George has a different job.
00:29 Spaceleaf says his wife has to have all her teeth out, which means a short stay at the hospital,
00:35 and he has to be out of town on business, so he has no one to stay with her when she comes home.
00:41 George says she'll have the best of care at his house, and Spaceleaf thanks him.
00:46 I guess she'll be a terrible house guest, as otherwise it'd be boring,
00:51 but I'd rather it be boring than really frustrating and annoying.
00:55 George is smart enough to tell his kids in advance to keep the noise down.
01:00 A nurse pushes a hovering chair with her, and two days later someone arrives playing Defeater for denters.
01:08 If this was an episode in the show, it would've been a lot less creative,
01:12 because it would've been predictable having Judy throw a party,
01:16 or having Judy have her noisy guitar playing friends over.
01:21 Later on, she tells Spaceleaf they look like horse's teeth.
01:26 It makes no sense that she got overly big denters, and I don't know why Spaceleaf's calling her sweet either.
01:33 The story ends with her and Spaceleaf somehow being offended when Elroy says they were made to fit her mouth.
01:40 In the next story, Judy tells Elroy they should buy their parents a present with all of their money just because it's their anniversary,
01:48 and he happily agrees.
01:50 I feel like this would never happen.
01:52 She's nice, but Elroy's misbehaved a lot.
01:55 You'd think Elroy would've been taught how to get money out of a piggy bank properly so they wouldn't have to constantly buy him a new one.
02:02 Fortunately, Judy explains where she got her money, from babysitting.
02:07 They don't know what to get them because they already have everything.
02:11 Surprisingly, Judy has the brilliant idea to give her parents the money and tell them to do whatever they want with it,
02:19 because she doesn't know what to buy them.
02:21 Thankfully, they appreciate it when some other people wouldn't, and Elroy shows their affection.
02:27 Their parents express how grateful they are, and Jane decides to go out to dinner on Mars.
02:33 George insists on ordering because he thinks he knows the Martian language,
02:37 while Jane doesn't want him to make a fool out of himself.
02:40 The story ends with the waiter giving him an English menu,
02:44 which is a relief because I thought he'd throw food at him for saying something offensive or laugh at him.
02:50 Martians never look like some toy, which is creative, but the more it does it, the more it needs to be explained,
02:57 as it keeps making me wish some explained that Mars is just a melting pot of different alien species from other planets.
03:04 In the next story, some toy shows Elroy a mind-a-lot that transfers thoughts into voice.
03:11 Some decide to attach the helmet to Astro, and Elroy is able to understand him.
03:17 It's a story only this continuity could have.
03:20 It's sweet of Astro to care enough to compliment Judy's dress, even if he's got no excuse for calling her by the wrong name.
03:28 I know that when I was first writing reviews for this series,
03:31 occasionally I'd type down Judy instead of Jane or vice versa because they both start with J and have four letters,
03:38 and I always thought that Jane looked like a Judy and Judy looked like a Jane.
03:44 But in-universe-wise, this is a dog who lives with these people 24/7,
03:49 and out of universe, there's no excuse for the writers making this mistake and the editor not catching it.
03:55 George calls her Jane as well.
03:58 So okay, I hope this stays consistent for the whole story,
04:02 because then I'll just forgive it as a feature of this alternate universe,
04:06 where she actually is called Jane.
04:08 Judy thanks Astro, and then faints along with George.
04:12 Elroy somehow decides to tell Sam to take the invention away,
04:17 and lie to his family that he was being a ventriloquist using a book.
04:21 Which isn't gonna work out, because eventually one of them would ask him to demonstrate his skills.
04:26 Why can't he just tell them the truth? It'd be easy to prove it.
04:30 I assume his logic for giving it back is, even after his family gets used to Astro talking,
04:36 he won't want everyone who hears him talk for the first time to faint as well.
04:40 They should've used this device on a different dog.
04:45 In the next story, George and his family head for a bus to the terraformed Venus,
04:50 with Elroy somehow thinking he's allowed to visit the pilot.
04:54 A hijacker makes me wonder how he ever got there.
04:57 I know airport security wasn't good back in the 70s,
05:02 but there's no excuse for the writers thinking that in the ideal future it'd be so non-existent
05:06 that a guy with a gun can get on a space bus.
05:09 Elroy asks George if they're showing movies on this flight.
05:13 You'd think he would've heard the hijacker from a mile away.
05:17 It says he's either oblivious enough to stay cheerful,
05:20 or fearless because of all the different things that his family's been through.
05:23 Like all of the criminals George got arrested.
05:26 It could be believable that a kid would think that if even an idiot like George
05:31 was arrested, they can't be very threatening.
05:33 Elroy asks George for a gun and spy candy and is told not to.
05:38 The hijacker somehow wastes time telling him to sit down and think of his reputation.
05:43 You'd think Elroy would've seen his ray gun.
05:46 I can understand why Elroy wouldn't take him seriously.
05:49 What about all the other kids he's flying tag and catch with?
05:52 Hopefully the writer knows why this would never happen,
05:55 as the criminal says he can't believe this.
05:59 I can forgive this kind of lampshade hanging because it's meant to be a joke.
06:02 This comic is funny when you're in the right mood.
06:05 Like when Elroy said "But if it's not there, how can I take it away?"
06:09 Predictably, the hijacker somehow doesn't shoot anyone,
06:12 which would easily get him taken seriously.
06:15 And instead gives up and sits down crying.
06:19 I guess he always wanted an excuse to not shoot someone.
06:22 Thankfully, Elroy explains that he always knew he was a hijacker.
06:27 And the fact that he says "Our plans" proves that the other kids were in on it too.
06:31 I always like it when one of the Jetsons spoils the criminal.
06:35 Especially since the stories are kept short.
06:38 If they lasted too long, like 8 pages, it'd feel like he was taking it too seriously.
06:44 In the next story, somehow some laughter is getting transmitted from a planet's surface
06:49 when sound can't travel in space.
06:52 Hidden microphones and sound receivers in clothes
06:56 are the only way characters in this series could hear each other there.
06:59 I hope that when Jane asks what that is,
07:02 it doesn't expect me to believe she can hear it.
07:04 And she probably doesn't hear it because George responds that it's a small prison planet.
07:09 Somehow, comedians are banished there for telling old jokes.
07:14 He should say that he means comedians from alien countries
07:17 with far stricter governments that stay in power no matter what.
07:20 Because you'd think they'd question such a strict punishment.
07:25 Jane tells George to drive closer to the planet,
07:27 and there's no way she'd hear the planet's from so far away in an airtight car.
07:33 With the way it's drawn, it makes it look like the planet is really small
07:37 and the people on it are extremely small.
07:39 So the planet would need a special machine or spell to keep a breathable atmosphere on it.
07:45 Jane tells George to leave because they're laying eggs with jokes like that.
07:49 And he says the planet is egg-shaped.
07:53 But it didn't look that way until now.
07:55 It has to be an artificial planet, then.
07:57 No wonder it's so small.
07:59 People are probably hit with a shrink ray just to live there.
08:03 I guess they tell the jokes because they're surrounded by people who appreciate them.
08:07 So then why were they banished there for a so-called punishment?
08:11 In that sense, a regular prison.
08:13 George somehow gets asked if he'd like to play football with football players on the terraformed Mars
08:19 by someone who knows his name.
08:22 Because it doesn't explain why he and a football player are friends
08:25 and why they could just casually decide to play a casual game of football at the stadium itself.
08:30 This would've made more sense if it was baseball.
08:33 I doubt adults would play a game as rough as football casually.
08:37 I wonder why one of them has such a ridiculous name nobody would put up with.
08:41 Eventually, George gets inconvenienced and says he's not human
08:46 and gets told they're playing against robots, like in the show.
08:51 Is that really necessary to the story?
08:52 It's interesting, but it makes it hard to buy that them tackling George is survivable.
08:57 Too much of the story is a boring waste of time.
09:00 It's just football, and almost nothing happens.
09:05 I'm pretty sure it was more interesting in the show.
09:08 George runs with a football and then runs backwards with it, getting told he made a touchdown.
09:14 Because they're only programmed to tackle a running man facing them.
09:19 In the next story, George's old army sergeant somehow decides to visit George
09:24 when it should be obvious he wouldn't be welcome there.
09:27 And somehow, Jane thinks he'd be glad to get a visit from the guy who used to yell at him and order him around.
09:33 And it has no excuse for doing that again.
09:36 The story sucks.
09:38 He doesn't let George use the dishwasher for no reason,
09:42 watches TV in his armchair,
09:44 and tells him something to get him to leave him alone.
09:48 George knows he won't listen to reason,
09:50 so he gets a plan and talks to a videophone pretending to be talking to a general,
09:54 and tells him to come over and bring two colonels.
09:57 The jerk leaves, George says he's gone,
10:00 and Jane responds that here comes a general and two colonels.
10:04 This wouldn't make sense to be George's fault, because he literally just told him to leave.
10:09 He doesn't have super speed.
10:11 The first story wasn't bad, but seems pointless from having nothing to do with sci-fi,
10:17 and no conflict either.
10:18 When George agreed to let Mrs. Spacely stay at his house,
10:22 I thought it'd be a cliche plot about her being an annoying house guest.
10:26 So it would have sucked in the show.
10:28 Instead, she never interacts with the family,
10:31 giving me the impression that she just stayed in her room ignoring them the whole time.
10:35 So it's a story where the characters actually had common sense.
10:39 The family had the common sense to not bother her,
10:42 and she had the common sense to not bother the family.
10:46 So I'm glad I didn't have a bad story, just because it's a sitcom.
10:49 It's underwhelming that the story ends right after she complains about getting big dentures.
10:54 She and her husband got offended way too easily by a well-meaning child.
10:59 And I'm just wondering why she got oversized dentures,
11:03 when that guy would want to keep his job.
11:05 Maybe that was his way of quitting.
11:08 The second story has George's kids somehow decide to pool their savings,
11:12 and smartly give them to their parents.
11:16 That was sweet, but seemed unrealistic,
11:19 as I never heard of kids giving their parents an anniversary gift.
11:23 And it only pretends to have something to do with sci-fi,
11:26 because the Martian restaurant could have been a French restaurant.
11:30 The third story has the concept of a machine that can turn thoughts into words
11:35 be wasted by slowly getting used to make astrotonk.
11:39 And because Judy and George faint,
11:42 Elroy decides to tell Sam to take it away.
11:45 Fainting is usually not the reaction someone would have to a big surprise.
11:49 So it seems unfair that it's the only reason he gave up on letting astrotonk.
11:54 And there's a lot of cartoons where a mad scientist can invent anything,
11:59 even in the modern day.
12:01 So any story that entirely revolves around Elroy's inventions,
12:05 or Sam's inventions, doesn't really need to take place in the future.
12:09 It's like how in Futurama, because it's so much like the present day,
12:14 it's all about referencing the present day.
12:16 It might as well just have all of the futuristic technology be because of Farnsworth,
12:21 and it could just be a world where aliens and robots are in society in the 21st century.
12:26 The fourth story has a hijacker somehow making it onto a space bus.
12:31 And somehow, when Elroy manages to talk kids into playing tag and catch around him off screen,
12:36 despite his gun,
12:38 he gives up with his self-esteem destroyed.
12:42 So apparently, the gun was only a bluff.
12:44 It's a good thing it was at least explained Elroy knew he was a hijacker,
12:48 because it made no sense that he wouldn't have,
12:50 considering that he would have heard him.
12:52 But if you replace space bus with airplane,
12:55 it's pretty obvious that the story has nothing to do with sci-fi.
12:59 And having it take place in the future has its logic fall apart,
13:03 because there's no way the hijacker would have gotten here.
13:07 The fifth story has George and Jane somehow hear old jokes from a small planet from their car in space.
13:13 And I have to make assumptions to get why it's so small and egg-shaped,
13:17 and why the people there can be heard.
13:20 It doesn't make any sense.
13:22 There's such an unbelievable punishment for telling old jokes.
13:26 Being banished to a planet where everyone there likes them enough that you'll keep telling them.
13:31 And the only reason they would have heard them
13:35 is if the jokes were being broadcast to them,
13:37 and they heard them on the radio in their car.
13:39 The sixth story was about George being asked to play football with football players because one knows him.
13:46 Not enough of an explanation to keep the story from being so confusing that I got detached from it.
13:51 But it was worth it to see him outsmart some robots.
13:54 They were playing against robots who were only programmed to tackle a running man who was facing them.
14:00 I guess he's only being congratulated because he wanted to feel like they won despite the robots.
14:05 This technique wouldn't be allowed against robots in a real game.
14:09 Most of the story was so boring I didn't care because it was normal football.
14:15 The second story was a worthless and lazy one where a sergeant yells at George in his own home.
14:21 And I have to assume it's because he felt like bullying him for fun because he remembered him.
14:27 It's predictable as soon as he first orders him around.
14:30 And while I liked George coming up with a plan to get rid of him,
14:33 the final panel just had to exist having Jane warn him about even more military men.
14:39 There wasn't any sci-fi in this story.
14:42 It seems like most of the comic is written by one guy, Joe Gill.
14:47 But the Jetsons' stories in issue 10 are by Gwen Krause.
14:53 The vast majority of the time, it's impossible to know who actually wrote these stories.
14:58 And with the 60s comic, it was never possible to know who wrote them.
15:03 Even comics.org doesn't know for both of these comics.
15:07 But this was a comic where a lot of the stories were by Gwen Krause.