Newbie's Perspective The Jetsons 1963 Issues 16-17 Review
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00:00 The Jetsons 1963, issue 16.
00:04 George politely asks his neighbor how his frozen foods business is.
00:09 He's told they have a problem with their frozen pie line called "The Kind Great Grandma Made"
00:15 and George hates it like everyone else, because they're made over a hundred years ago.
00:21 That doesn't explain it. He couldn't have made it based on a hundred year old pie.
00:26 If there was anything left of it, he would have known better.
00:29 George goes home, bored of his job.
00:32 There's somehow a sign on the wall calling the house "Boring"
00:36 and there's a machine beside Jane with tons of options on it.
00:40 Not that it really matters to the plot when it's not being used.
00:44 There's a dog washer as one of the options, too.
00:47 Judy calls her boyfriend "Boring" because he got distracted trying to figure out what's wrong with her dad's car.
00:53 I wonder if this is what Tails would be like if he had a girlfriend.
00:57 George hears Elroy cheering and surprisingly gets jealous of him
01:02 and when he sees him watching old westerns, he talks about a dude ranch
01:07 and then decides that his family should spend a weekend on one.
01:11 None of them act like they did that already because it's another universe.
01:15 The monohound with a stupid name expends rocket fuel to go along something it's hanging from
01:21 so that it's restricted to only heading in a certain path with no room for error.
01:25 So the family immediately gets to their destination
01:28 and Elroy gets disappointed because they're not taking the kind of covered wagon seen on TV
01:33 as it's hovering, too.
01:35 I have to assume the reason this guy says it's better than normal covered wagons
01:39 is that it won't be bothered by terrain.
01:42 But he'd say that to make his point.
01:44 Elroy hopes the ranch house would be authentic
01:47 and likes the idea that it's based on a native cliff village only to see urban buildings.
01:53 Then the comic shows its age because the tour guide says "ancient" when he'd have been told how to pronounce it properly
02:00 and would've also been told to say something else like "Aboriginal" or "Native American"
02:04 and Elroy gets disappointed at seeing such a person selling ice cold soda pop for a measly 10 cents in the future.
02:13 He's still inexplicably shirtless, so he's not entirely what they're like now
02:17 but Elroy's still irritated because he's not stereotypical enough.
02:21 And I know it's just going off what he was mad about before.
02:24 That's not what old westerns are like.
02:26 It's still impossible to buy that the tour guide would talk like that about him, though.
02:31 It doesn't matter that the comic was written in the 60s.
02:34 It should've been common sense to the writers that people wouldn't always have this jokey attitude
02:40 and become more considerate because it was only a matter of time.
02:43 But anyways, Elroy complains about the dude ranch not having any real horses.
02:48 Someone feeds oil to one of the mechanical horses connected to the wall
02:52 and says he's never even seen a real horse.
02:55 Why didn't the robot horses look like this?
02:58 He has a good point that these make a smooth ride.
03:01 Elroy might only think he wants a rough ride because he's seen the movies
03:05 but he'd hate being thrown off a horse.
03:07 He doesn't like that there's an elevator to get to the room, either.
03:12 It's more fun than walking up stairs.
03:14 Then Elroy complains about the funny-looking cacti that were bred to not have any needles.
03:20 That doesn't justify them being shaped wrong.
03:23 They'd be perfect if they were identical but without needles.
03:26 Elroy gets excited at hearing a hissing snake
03:29 and ends up disappointed by a snake specifically bred to have rattlers on both ends with no fangs.
03:35 They want to have rattlers on both ends because people want to see that.
03:40 Also, don't animals need their fangs to eat?
03:44 It's just being provided with food it doesn't need to bite, like by IV.
03:49 At least it's not dangerous, but at that point it'd be better to just get robot snakes
03:54 identical to real ones that are programmed not to bite people,
03:58 which probably would be less expensive.
04:01 Same goes for the horses, which could be made to look just like real ones
04:05 instead of obvious hovering jet horses.
04:08 So Jane and George appreciate their jet horse ride,
04:11 and Jane's happy that her daughter is being impressed by a guy with a rocket-powered automatic lasso he's spinning around.
04:18 As if it takes that much talent.
04:21 Elroy sees a sign warning him about the badlands and gets warned to be careful,
04:25 and then he's told a blatant lie that a jet horse can't travel over the rugged terrain there,
04:31 even though the entire reason it'd need to be made to hover would be that it could go over any terrain.
04:36 So what he has to mean is that jet horses aren't allowed to.
04:40 He says, "You guys have ruined the good old west of TV."
04:44 They're also keeping the customers safe.
04:47 It's a pretty pointless excuse for a dude ranch,
04:50 barely appealing to fans of old westerns who are the main people who'd want to go here.
04:54 But these guys have believable excuses for how they do things.
04:58 Still, George should've researched how this place would be before going here as a favor to Elroy,
05:03 but apparently he didn't care as long as most of his family and him liked it.
05:07 Then for no reason, the jet horses throw everyone off them and everything is conked out,
05:12 including an acoustic guitar that must be wireless somehow.
05:16 Judy's new boyfriend complains that it has the electronic interference,
05:20 and the tour guide thinks there's a powerful electromagnetic machine operating nearby.
05:25 Elroy writes away on Astro, who's a good sport about it,
05:29 and notices golden silver miners, with one of them using levers to try to dig right into the dude ranch from behind,
05:36 knowing to do this because of a golden silver detector.
05:39 Elroy takes a risk by letting them know he's there before having Astro ride away,
05:44 when he could've had more time to get away if he stayed quiet.
05:48 The Bullets miss him, of course, and he has Astro head for the Badlands.
05:53 Incredibly conveniently, the guard's sleeping on the job with a thing up to let him in.
05:59 Eventually, Elroy uses a lever to lower the gate onto the people trying to kill him,
06:04 saying he hates to do this despite smirking about it.
06:07 He's told to name his reward, and he requests a real horseback ride,
06:12 which he ends up getting inside of a fence-enclosed area in the zoo.
06:16 Finally, George lambshades that Elroy doesn't appreciate the futuristic world he's in.
06:22 Ironically, for someone who can improve on and make technology in the show.
06:26 He says Elroy was born 500 years too late, based purely off the fact that he likes old westerns,
06:33 when that doesn't mean you'd actually want to live in those times without air conditioning and stuff.
06:38 Then George asks the traffic cop while driving with his wife how far it is to Planet X from here,
06:45 so he finally wants to show that planet to his wife.
06:48 The traffic cop drives away and back, thanking them for waiting,
06:53 but I'm annoyed at not being told how long they're awaiting.
06:56 He says it's almost 6,000 miles.
06:59 If this guy is driving insanely fast on his scooter,
07:03 it's gotta have a magical anti-G-force force field to prevent him from dying,
07:08 getting flung off by the speed of the wind heading against him.
07:12 The page ends with Jane saying she was right that it was close enough to visit the Smiths for a few minutes.
07:18 That shows a helpful traffic cop going out of his way to find out the answer to this question,
07:23 when he's supposed to be spying on this part of the sky to ticket people.
07:27 In the next story, George tells Elroy in a hurry to let him ride on a soaring saucer
07:32 that won't hold up anyone big because he needs to make it to the garbage collection truck
07:37 to get his old high school sweater back, which Rosie threw out.
07:41 She throws out every useless thing she finds, supposedly.
07:45 He's her boss, but she somehow has the guts to grab and rip apart his sweater.
07:51 Elroy scolds him on being sentimental and calls himself mature,
07:55 and then gets upset because he lost the comic his uncle Bob gave him earlier.
08:00 Rosie threw it out too, without asking.
08:02 Why does she think she won't get punished for this?
08:05 I doubt a maid would do this, even if she has every reason to think it was useless
08:09 because they wouldn't have been reading it anymore.
08:12 She also threw out a useless souvenir menu of Judy's, and Jane's old love letters from George.
08:18 They get their things back from the dump, and find out Rosie's thrown out a useless trophy,
08:24 a broken, wind-up space car that could be fixed for all she knew,
08:28 and Judy's diary, which would only make sense if all of its pages were full.
08:32 George talked as if this is just built into her programming,
08:36 but this has to be taking place right after they bought her,
08:39 because this is a problem they would have had to deal with all the way back then.
08:43 Otherwise, I'm wondering why it took so long, and wondering if she's glitching up.
08:47 So Rosie gets thrown in the trash for being inconsiderate.
08:51 The family cries, and gets called by the dump director,
08:54 who knew their phone number because yellow pages.
08:58 It turns out Rosie's throwing everything in the dump out of the dump depot.
09:02 Why is she bothering? She knows she's in the dump already.
09:06 She's called heartless, and the family plans on taking her to the robot research lab
09:10 to get her a heart that was conveniently just built, but not tested.
09:14 Since when has Rosie been heartless? Why did she nag any of the family then?
09:19 Why was this only just built, instead of being standard?
09:23 She ends up hugging the person who gave her a heart, hugging the whole family who appreciates it,
09:28 and telling them they can collect all the sentimental stuff they want.
09:33 Then she plans on going to the dump to retrieve some blatantly useless garbage from her past,
09:38 which they don't approve of, driving home that she wasn't entirely wrong.
09:43 In the next story, George enjoys watching Candid Camera, and gets told to buy stuff for Jane.
09:49 And it's way too obvious foreshadowing that he might end up on the show.
09:53 He parks near a television truck, and decides to prepare himself for anything unusual just in case.
09:59 I wonder if it'll turn out he's just being paranoid then.
10:02 Because he has no reason to think a camera is under the sun, and that perfume has a microphone.
10:08 So he squirts at the man at the desk with cologne, as it feels bad for both of them.
10:13 Him forgetting himself in trouble.
10:15 Then he ends up spraying a hose by accident, and then it gets videotaped.
10:19 It is satisfying to see him spray the jerks on Candid Camera.
10:22 Realistically, he gets in trouble.
10:24 His car gets towed away by the police scooter, and the TV crew shows up at his cell with a camera to boast.
10:30 It explains that they are just a news crew.
10:32 He gets recognized at the lineup, and out of nowhere, the man's happy with him,
10:36 because thanks to him, his apartment store is going to be on all of the TV sets in the country.
10:41 And they never had such publicity before.
10:44 He tells him that Candid Camera's begging him to let them put their show on there.
10:48 Conveniently, out of all the other places that were on TV.
10:52 So he tells George that anything in the store is his for free.
10:56 And he thanks him, for rewarding him for being an idiot.
11:00 But since he did get bothered by the police, which is punishment as it is,
11:04 I'm sure he's still going to get punished by them after he goes home.
11:07 And he only acted that way because of a mistaken assumption.
11:10 So it's still a relief to see him get some nice treatment.
11:13 Then he's offered a sample of a pie that he just admired a panel ago,
11:17 and he takes it, acting antagonistic.
11:19 But then he apologizes and decides to act polite instead.
11:23 Only to get humiliated on Candid Camera.
11:26 So it's frustrating to see him get punished for wisening up.
11:30 It would be so bad if this happened to him without him almost throwing a pie at the prankster first.
11:36 It's obvious that the audience would've liked to see the pranksters get pranked for once.
11:40 And then Elroy throws a jetball for Astro, and ends up being charged for the taxi Astro sat in.
11:46 And the fact that Astro can talk is the only reason it makes sense that the taxi driver knew where to go find him.
11:53 This was smart of Astro, at least.
11:55 The Jetsons 1963, issue 17.
12:00 For no reason, Spacelight complains about George walking around in an old suit.
12:05 He hears the noon whistle, and notices that George doesn't have a lunch pill.
12:11 So now it is normal for all of his co-workers to bring lunch to work.
12:15 Spacelight tells him to stop it, and he says he's hungry, and he figures out George is hunting for a race.
12:22 They hear a noise from the automatic shutoff turning off the plants, because George forgot to push his button at one point.
12:29 Spacelight says he has to start up the whole factory again by hand.
12:34 Why doesn't he tell George to do it?
12:36 He demotes George to the alloy mixing room,
12:40 where he shovels from a pile of badly named stuff to strengthen the molten sprockets.
12:46 He says no robot would lower itself to do this job.
12:50 There's no reason robots would be programmed to be like that.
12:54 The whole point would be that they'd do any job.
12:57 Why would they have that kind of free will when they could make robots to do this?
13:03 Since he thinks it smells awful, it really would be something a robot would do.
13:08 George sees an explosion that creates a hole in the roof because he put too much stuff in the vent,
13:14 which is obviously Spacelight's fault because he wouldn't have done that if he had been given clear paper instructions on how much is too much.
13:22 And besides, he's new at the job.
13:25 Spacelight gets given an idea of what to do with the bad employee,
13:28 gifts someone a race for it, and decides to promote George to kick him upstairs.
13:33 He makes him an interplanetary sprocket salesman and sends him on a rocket ship to Mars
13:38 with an order to never return until he's sold all of the sprockets.
13:42 And they know he'll never do it because the Martians hate sprockets.
13:47 It's at least unique to portray only the humans in a sci-fi universe as advanced.
13:53 It seems like every other sci-fi series portrays the aliens as more advanced than the humans, and it got tiring.
14:00 This has to be another universe from the one where George had the exact same job and succeeded, or he'd know better.
14:07 The jerk who didn't simply tell Spacelight to fire George says George has a year's supply of food,
14:13 and Spacelight stupidly says it's worth the race to have him out of his hair.
14:18 What idiot would do this instead of firing him?
14:21 George is excited to approach the so-called Mars, and complains that it's weird that he doesn't see any dwellings on it.
14:29 That's definitely weird because I know he's trying to be a door-to-door salesman there.
14:33 He leaves the spaceship and says the planet's covered with little mountains and seems familiar.
14:38 He knocks on one, and someone says they don't want any.
14:42 Apparently this is another universe where he never visited Mars and has no knowledge of it.
14:47 None of them see a point to getting his sprockets.
14:50 All the doors slam on George, and he tries to advertise to someone with a shovel and no door,
14:55 so he gets the dirt thrown at him.
14:58 By huge coincidence, it's the exact same thing he was shoveling before.
15:02 He wants to get the taste out of his mouth, so he goes over to his rocket ship for lunch.
15:07 I wonder if he'll end up having to sell food to them.
15:10 But still, they won't be selling the sprockets.
15:13 The aliens see him eating from behind his window, and one of them explains that their poor soil doesn't allow for good food.
15:20 One of them suggests selling them some food.
15:23 Spaceley is surprised to see George land the spaceship in front of his workplace
15:28 and sees millions of dollars worth of the stuff George had been shoveling,
15:32 which he got because the Martians don't want it.
15:35 George explains why none of the other salesmen who went to Mars ever discovered that.
15:40 They didn't know what they were looking at because they hadn't suffered like he had.
15:44 He thanks Spaceley for the raise,
15:46 and this ridiculous ending where everyone in his workplace is happily doing the job he had for no reason
15:52 and even enjoying the smell somehow.
15:55 In the next story, George finds out Elrond's got studying to do for a test about nature,
16:00 so now he's gonna get the dumb idea to try to show him nature on a fishing trip with him
16:04 when there's really no guarantee that he'll be able to teach him the same things the book will.
16:08 It's frustrating that he keeps interrupting him.
16:11 A falcon's able to crack the air dome of George's car just by flying into it
16:16 when you'd think the dome of a spaceship would be built better than that.
16:20 George fixes their ship.
16:22 It's called a ship now.
16:24 He fixes the roof and somehow manages to slam a part of the car in his hand,
16:29 so Elroy bandages it and points out some fresh bear tracks.
16:34 Somehow, George insists that they're old tracks with no evidence,
16:38 making way too obvious that he'll have to deal with the bear.
16:41 He even laughs and ignores him when he says he heard noises,
16:45 and he doesn't believe him when he says he saw the bear cubs himself.
16:49 It's always extremely horrible writing to make a character this stupid.
16:53 It took way too long to have George run from the bear.
16:56 He jumps into the water, with the bear miraculously ignoring them somehow.
17:01 He ends up getting saved by Elroy, says he lost his fishing rod,
17:05 and when Elroy protests, he interrupts him again for no reason.
17:10 He walks off a cliff by accident because what he thought were small trees were the tops of tall trees,
17:16 and Elroy pulls him up with some rope.
17:19 Let me guess, the plant George got was poison ivy, because it's always poison ivy.
17:25 He says he'll fix his scratched knee and gets complimented for it.
17:29 Go figure, it was poison ivy, and Elroy knows how to help him.
17:33 He advises him to see a doctor and gets apologized to for not preparing him better for his test.
17:39 Jane tells Elroy to play in the yard on the other side of the house
17:42 because the noise is annoying George when he's resting.
17:45 George wastes a bunch of time yelling at him, and Elroy takes forever getting him to bed,
17:50 where he finally says that he helped him on the only subject he was worried about, first aid.
17:56 In the next story, Jane panics George by throwing something away without going over it with him first,
18:02 and he ends up getting a box and a string,
18:05 and he says the candy box is just what he needs to store the bits of string he's been saving to add to his bowl of string,
18:12 which is used to tie up bundles of tinfoil he finds, but he doesn't explain why he'd ever want either of them.
18:19 At this point, they really could use Rosie throwing stuff away.
18:22 Because Jane mentions tinfoil, somehow Rosie thinks she's doing her Christmas wrapping early.
18:29 Rosie gets exposition and lampshades it, and reassures Jane that it's just a hobby.
18:34 Jane says he risks his life for it, and we see him risk taking a fall off his apartment building for some string in a car.
18:42 Why was it there? This isn't being Homer Simpson.
18:45 Rosie drives Jane to a doctor in the hopes of curing George.
18:49 She says he cured her of a habit she had no reason to start.
18:53 Jane thanks him for agreeing to conveniently do a house visit for George in the 2060s.
18:59 Elroy throws some string off the porch in front of George, which he must have done on purpose because he'd know he wants string by now.
19:06 The doctor saves him and eventually shows him a bird and calls him a bully for hoarding string that it wants for its nest,
19:13 because apparently all nests are made of man-made string in the future, not sticks or straw.
19:19 Or more likely, city birds need strings, but not other birds.
19:23 George ends up running off sadly with his tinfoil and string.
19:27 Jane thanks the doctor, as Rosie says he tossed them out the back door, but this is not the end of the story yet.
19:34 I'm expecting them to be disappointed.
19:36 For no reason, the doctor refuses money for this.
19:40 I wonder if he has a problem, too.
19:42 George fails to remember the doctor's name and says he only met him once, which confuses them because they thought otherwise,
19:48 so now I'm wondering why they did.
19:50 Predictably, he has a hoarding problem, too.
19:53 He's a member of that string collector club, and he's seen running off with George's collection.
19:59 That was a weird surprise.
20:01 It seems like it wouldn't happen in real life, but it might.
20:04 It's just extremely unlikely.
20:06 The first story was about Alroy hating a futuristic dude ranch because it's nothing like the old westerns he likes for the purpose of safety,
20:14 and their missing the point of westerns is even further justified because most of Alroy's family still likes it.
20:21 But at the same time, you can sympathize with Alroy.
20:24 Eventually, the technology conks out because of electronic interference from some people who naturally want the gold and silver just sitting there under the dude ranch, not helping anybody.
20:35 But they still cross the line trying to kill Alroy for wanting to tattle on them for no reason, instead of just getting out of here.
20:41 They were idiots for doing this during the day instead of at midnight when no one would bother them.
20:46 But I assume the idea is that if they succeeded, they'd destroy the dude ranch with their digging.
20:51 Maybe making the ground cave in and having the dude ranch fall into a hole.
20:56 Because they'd be too stupid to leave pillars to support a wall.
21:01 But surely gold and silver being sold to people and made into tons of useful things, as well as jewelry that makes people happy,
21:08 would do far more good for humanity than a luxury getaway place that disappoints some people.
21:14 You'd think if Alroy hated this place and is selfish constantly, he'd tell his family to go home instead and let it get destroyed.
21:21 But instead he does a 180 for no reason.
21:24 The second story has Rosie throw out a lot of stuff that only gets sentimental value because she's a robot,
21:30 when you'd think she'd know better than to upset her bosses and end up get rejected by the dump too for something she wouldn't waste time doing.
21:39 And she gets given a robot heart that you'd think every robot would already have as a part of the programming in their CPU.
21:46 She had a good point, but it was confusing that she wasn't glitching out as an excuse for why she was doing this.
21:53 And the third story has George bully a clerk at a cosmetic store because he thinks he's on candid camera,
22:00 get put in jail just to be rewarded for putting the store on the news,
22:04 and then he ends the story getting humiliated on the show anyways,
22:08 when we would've wanted to see him give the pranksters on it some karma.
22:12 It was so cringe-worthy to see him bother the clerk that I read it faster than normal to get past it and wished it was done faster.
22:18 So the only nice part of the story is learning that what he did had some good result from it,
22:23 and he got something free for his trouble, because him being put in jail for an honest mistake was miserable to see.
22:30 The first story is about George getting himself demoted to a job he immediately fumbles at
22:35 because he somehow wasn't given instructions on how much is too much to add to the sprocket pool,
22:41 and somehow instead of basically firing him, he subtly banishes him by making him a salesman on a pre-industrial planet that's nothing like Mars.
22:50 But I already explained that magic makes this kind of thing possible, or it's not even our Mars.
22:56 He ends up coming back early because the Martians wanted to eat his lunches,
23:00 and he had them give him the stuff he was shoveling earlier for it.
23:04 You'd think the Earthlings would have already had a Mars rover discover what the stuff was made of a long time ago,
23:10 and since these people don't see the need for sprockets, the Earthlings would wipe the floor with them in a war,
23:16 so they'd have known they could easily get stuff from this place. George wouldn't get to see any of this stuff.
23:22 The second story, where George takes Elroy on a nature outing to help him study,
23:26 was frustrating because he was somehow not letting Elroy talk when he clearly knew stuff he didn't.
23:32 He constantly gets punished for it at least.
23:35 And eventually it turns out that even forcing Elroy to have to help him wasn't bad,
23:39 because it helped him study for first aid class. I felt bad for Elroy.
23:44 I know George doesn't have any common sense, but he still seemed out of character.
23:48 Nothing about this stuff required him to be in the future.
23:51 Then there's a sad story where George is happily addicted to getting string,
23:56 and somehow risks his life for it, speaking about a character,
24:00 causing his wife to send the doctor to him to guilt him into giving that up successfully.
24:05 (upbeat music)