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00:00 The Jetsons' Charlton issue 12.
00:02 Jane says a big storm's approaching, and George says they'd better land,
00:07 and that the nearest planet is an uninhabited one, meaning that he's flying the car in space.
00:13 So there's no excuse for there to be a big storm approaching them to make them do this.
00:17 The audience is left to assume that witches create thunder clouds in space to spite mortals,
00:23 and it's so common that they don't question it.
00:26 But the fact that it isn't explained here is sloppy writing.
00:30 Elri is no excuse to think the planet sounds spooky either, speaking of that.
00:35 George says his car won't start, and his family's hungry.
00:40 Jane says there's nothing growing, but then she finds a picnic already laid out for her
00:45 that's full of human food, and George assumes his family found that food instead.
00:52 It has to be that there's people living here who were luckily generous enough to help them,
00:57 complete with a car motor working the next time Elri tries it.
01:00 They drive home, and thankfully it does turn out that there's people living here who did help them.
01:06 Too bad the story was only two pages.
01:09 I wanted to learn a lot more about how different this planet was from Earth.
01:13 The first panel creates a mystery that's more interesting than the story itself.
01:19 Then I see a page with Jane not being able to balance her checkbook.
01:22 She tells George they have to save money as she's holding his new suit.
01:27 Predictably, she plans to send it back, and she also wants to force her husband to give up
01:34 every single bit of recreationist life outside the house.
01:38 Why would lodge meetings be expensive?
01:41 Poker should be cut for sure, but come on, why is all the cutting in his corner?
01:48 She's a selfish wife in this story.
01:50 He clearly doesn't trust her not to leave him if he won't stand up to her and make her do
01:55 half of the money saving.
01:56 Someone tells Space Lee that a chemical works,
01:59 a secret formula that he thinks will make them number one.
02:03 He doesn't know what to do with it overnight, and he tells George to hide it without telling him
02:09 where, conveniently trusting him not to forget where he put it when he's an idiot.
02:15 And if George was even a little smart, he'd at least anticipate that he could forget and
02:21 write down its location.
02:22 He thinks the obvious hiding spots are too obvious, as I wonder how Space Lee is so paranoid.
02:28 George calls his wife and says he's gotta stay here all night to guard the secret formula.
02:34 Predictably, he forgot where it was the next day, and they search until Space Lee cries.
02:41 Despite running a successful company, Space Lee thinks everyone in it is gonna lose their
02:47 job if the formula isn't found.
02:49 Either the company was already doing poorly, or he went into a lot of debt because of the
02:55 formula and needs to make up for that money.
02:58 George finds out the formula was in his hat, and somehow the story ends with him telling
03:05 Jane that he got a raise, even though he still forgot where he put it and put him through all
03:09 of that trouble because he couldn't even handle one simple task right.
03:12 It's a pleasant surprise, but it's very baffling because he didn't deserve it.
03:17 Space Lee would've found it eventually if he thought to look under his hat.
03:22 He just did what he was told.
03:24 Then Rosie tells George on his day off that she can't serve him breakfast because thanks
03:29 to Jane, who at least takes responsibility for it to get him to leave Rosie alone, the
03:35 automatic food dispenser broke down and she forgot to call a repairman.
03:39 So he's told to settle for instant breakfast pills because for no reason they don't keep
03:45 leftovers or non-cooked stuff in a fridge and cupboard.
03:48 You'd think the food would be kept in the food dispenser if nothing else.
03:52 So it's known they can't even so much as open the thing to get at the food.
03:56 And George doesn't want a bigger bill from the repairman by damaging it to get access
04:02 to the food.
04:03 George walks into a tree outside because he can't see two inches in front of him with
04:08 all of that funk.
04:08 Since when is the Jetsons needlessly dark and toned like this to the point of having
04:14 this happen?
04:14 It's supposed to be an ideal future.
04:17 The story ends with Astro having something on his tail to light the way ahead.
04:22 I guess these advanced people didn't have flashlights.
04:25 But somehow didn't stop having them because they ditched them for something else, like
04:31 cell phones.
04:33 I don't know why George was kidding himself thinking he could come home to a quiet evening
04:37 when he knows he has a family with a teenager in it.
04:40 So of course Judy's having a party.
04:42 Someone she knows plays the guitar and Rosie's singing, which is even more unlikely.
04:48 George has got every reason to be surprised and freaked out because Rosie's never that
04:52 fun loving.
04:54 Maybe it's just that's another universe.
04:55 She even forced them to dance with her, even though he's her boss.
05:01 Jane was listening to music from headphones so she could read the newspaper.
05:06 She tells George that Judy brought a band home because her father didn't want them in
05:10 the house playing that music.
05:11 George decides to take Jane to a restaurant to get away from all of the noise.
05:16 They could have just gone somewhere free like the park.
05:19 Jane looks selfish by saying that now she knows how to get him to take her out.
05:24 So she's gonna have him get put through this again.
05:26 And while I can't command her on being so smart, it's not trustworthy.
05:30 At least George cares enough to ask Judy if everyone had a good time at the party the
05:35 next day.
05:35 She says yes, but wishes he wasn't to swear in front of her friends.
05:40 He reads a book to get an idea and walks ahead holding some boxes, wanting to show Jane something.
05:48 Jane laughs at him for wearing a ridiculous wig and outfit.
05:51 Judy and her friend are actually impressed by it.
05:54 Well it is the future.
05:56 George gets shown a green scooter and asks to give it a try.
06:01 Then the next panel is needlessly depressing as a cop tells him to follow him as he's wearing
06:05 a completely different outfit and I don't even get to learn why.
06:09 Jane looks melodramatic by telling him this is the most ridiculous thing he's ever done.
06:14 Just because he drove a flying scooter?
06:17 Was he that bad at it when he can drive a car just fine?
06:21 Somehow she's never been so humiliated when he's always a clumsy idiot.
06:27 How does someone else's behavior reflect badly on her?
06:30 He apologizes and promises not to put the outfit on again after the day is over.
06:36 Why did he put it on?
06:37 It just cuts him in the outfit for no reason.
06:40 The story ends with him showing Judy a picture of him in the blue vest that he had taken
06:45 so that his grandkids wouldn't think of him as a square.
06:48 Rote calling him crazy makes sense because he should know they'd think that anyways from
06:53 his behavior most of the time.
06:54 And one photo wouldn't convince them.
06:57 In the next story, a person with green skin and pointy ears reminding me of a vampire
07:02 gives Judy a diamond necklace and she says that's nice of him.
07:07 George says in interjection that I'd expect to mean he disapproves but his smiling keeps
07:13 going in the next panels because he thankfully appreciates that he gave her the present.
07:17 Instead of having a problem with them for being from Venus,
07:21 a planet that must have been terraformed by witches.
07:24 It turns out diamonds are all over his backyard, which somehow I doubt is the case on Venus.
07:31 So I guess he's rich, naturally wants to partner up with him to become rich off of
07:35 these.
07:36 But then when he puts them in the water for absolutely no reason, they dissolve, which
07:41 he tried to tell him.
07:43 And the story ends there.
07:44 I hate that.
07:46 How are diamonds still rare and expensive enough to get George and Judy's appreciation
07:50 when they're all over the average Venusians backyard and Venusians can live on Earth like
07:54 it's nothing?
07:55 They can't be actual diamonds.
07:58 It's really too bad the story ended there because I wanted to see a lot more of what
08:03 would come out of Judy dating an alien and what his personality was like.
08:07 In the next story, we see Elroy standing in front of a big sign with other kids, advertising
08:13 a thousand dollar first prize for a race to Mars with a powerful rocket racer.
08:19 One of them wants the money for building one as if there's any chance that kids could
08:23 build one.
08:23 Even if 3D printers that can build anything are in the hands of the common man, they'd
08:29 still need to know years of stuff about engineering to know how to make functional blueprints
08:34 for a rocket racer.
08:35 Somehow, Elroy thinks a dollar would let him buy a junior rocket.
08:39 And George happily agrees.
08:42 So he wasn't going to try to build one.
08:45 Jane wonders if it's safe and George thinks it couldn't lift a magazine off the ground.
08:50 He doubts the case of trying to build a toy rocket and Elroy gives him a dollar later.
08:56 He wonders where he got all that money and finds out he won the big rocket race to Mars,
09:01 which I should have seen because that'd be nice and interesting to look at and exciting
09:05 because the characters in the series aren't guaranteed to win or lose.
09:09 George wonders how they won with the little toy rocket.
09:13 Each of them bought a rocket and put them all together.
09:16 Of course, I like that he's smiling about it.
09:18 In the next story, George plans on going on a fishing trip with his friend to a crater
09:24 on Jupiter because Jupiter must have been terraformed by witches.
09:27 I honestly don't know why the writers of the Jetsons keep using gas planets as inhabitable
09:33 planets without explaining it.
09:34 They must have known better.
09:36 Jane hopes they'll catch something and it turns out the crater and lake got bigger.
09:41 I have to assume the planet got hit with another meteor.
09:43 He gets threatened by a mosquito bigger than his head.
09:48 He wouldn't call it a mosquito at that point.
09:50 And they should have come here armed if they could be threatened by aliens any time they
09:54 visit another planet.
09:56 They get scared by a giant piranha and the story ends with them leaving, so that's sad.
10:02 But at least I got to see giant green spotted mushrooms.
10:06 So that's another interesting thing about fake Jupiter.
10:10 In the next story, George kisses Jane's cheek and says for 270 to stay home today because
10:16 Spaceliot's been on his back for days.
10:18 It's not as romantic because he's not saying he wishes he could stay because he loves being
10:23 with her.
10:23 Thankfully, all she does is reassure him.
10:27 She tells him not to pay too much attention to how annoying Spaceliot is because he has
10:31 business pressures on his mind.
10:33 George could have easily not pointed out that he looks frustrated.
10:37 Of course, he snaps at him for it because he's a jerk and this just reminds him that
10:41 he's frustrated.
10:41 George finds out that rather than being upset from overworking like what's being built up
10:47 to, his wife has been visiting her mother on the terraform to Mars for weeks.
10:51 And I'm expected to believe he appreciates her absence even though he's not eating well
10:56 because of it.
10:57 So George gets the idea to have Rosie make a wonderful meal to give Spaceliot dinner
11:02 tonight.
11:03 Spaceliot can't wait and says he's really hungry.
11:07 I thought he was choosing not to eat because he missed his wife.
11:10 But this makes more sense because he really has no reason to.
11:13 Instead, he wasn't eating well because he didn't know how to use the food-o-matic as
11:17 well as her.
11:18 Thankfully, he does say that was the best meal he had in years.
11:23 But it confuses me even more because he wishes Mrs. Spaceliot could cook well.
11:26 Even though in the show, he said he married her because she can cook.
11:31 So why hasn't he been eating well?
11:34 So you'd think he'd refuse the dinner because he doesn't feel like eating.
11:38 Jane gives Rosie the credit and Spaceliot says the universe should know her recipes.
11:43 He plans to have her as a guest chef on a space gourmet series and decides to call the
11:50 network even though she's just a maid-bot for an average family.
11:54 So what are the chances that she'd do well when compared to a bunch of professional chefs?
11:59 I guess he very recently found out about this series.
12:04 And that's why he didn't do this after he first met Rosie.
12:08 And she pelted him with pineapple cake that he really likes the taste of.
12:13 The text says she's been invited and prepared her most mouth-watering recipe.
12:19 And she's shown making it with a bunch of extra robot hands that come out of the table
12:23 to hold cups for and pour seasoning into a bowl and stir it for.
12:27 Then she decides to set the temperature at something.
12:30 And she keeps saying the word "at" as if she doesn't remember what to set it at.
12:35 Why didn't she choose a recipe she's got experience with?
12:38 She just chose a recipe she never tried before when that's clearly an unacceptable gamble to take.
12:45 How would she forget which temperature to set something at when she's a robot?
12:50 She ends the story looking sad saying that she didn't mind burning the dinner.
12:55 But they showed it again on instant replay and it was just as bad.
12:59 The first story is about George's family somehow
13:02 having to land on the nearest planets because of a big storm.
13:05 And after looking for food for nothing,
13:08 they end up getting food and being able to drive home because the aliens helped them.
13:12 It's too bad I never learned anything about this place.
13:15 The second story is about George having to hide something and forgetting where he put it
13:20 because he somehow didn't write it down on a secret note of his.
13:23 But he would have forgotten where that was too.
13:27 But eventually after searching for it with his boss, he finds it.
13:31 And somehow gets rewarded.
13:32 Which is only nice to see because he got something out of all that searching
13:36 because the boss wouldn't reward him for revealing he did his job right like he was supposed to.
13:40 It didn't take advantage of the sci-fi setting
13:43 because he could have had to hide anything for all it mattered.
13:46 The third story involves George suddenly having to deal with a very thick fog outside.
13:52 And thinking to make Astro's tail glow to deal with it.
13:57 Which seems cool, but why didn't he use a flashlight instead?
14:00 I couldn't be more apathetic to the next story.
14:04 Because it's completely mundane.
14:06 George eventually wants to look like he fits in with Judy's crowd.
14:10 And somehow he ends up being told to follow a cop
14:13 just because he was trying out riding a flying scooter.
14:17 And Jane says that she got humiliated by him riding it for no reason.
14:22 Since when does he not want to look lame in the eyes of Judy's friends?
14:27 The fifth story is Judy get a diamond necklace from her alien boyfriend.
14:31 Only for George to put it in water for no reason where it melts away.
14:35 Disappointing George who thought it could get rich from him.
14:38 And I have to assume that the so-called diamonds aren't valuable at all.
14:42 Because otherwise he'd definitely get rich.
14:46 He'd just have to not put them in the water that time.
14:49 The sixth story is Howary wants to win money from a contest with a powerful rocket racer.
14:56 And eventually wins from a clever idea.
14:59 But for no reason the contest was kept off screen instead of an exciting competition being shown.
15:05 The story could have gotten rid of some of the panels and had enough space to show it.
15:10 The seventh story is an overly predictable one where George and his friend go fishing
15:15 on another planet.
15:16 So go figure they get freaked out by the wilds life and go home.
15:20 Because for some reason they didn't bring a gun.
15:24 But it's too uncreative because the wildlife are just inexplicably oversized earth animals.
15:29 The eighth story is basically encourage Rosie to be a chef on a tv show because of her cooking.
15:34 Only for her to screw it up for absolutely no reason.
15:37 This didn't take advantage of its sci-fi environment.