No, it is not. Think about it.

Yep! No idea which episode, but I think it was raining, so Jane pushed a button and raised the entire apartment complex above the clouds. Too bad if anyone else actually liked the rain, I guess.

I very specifically remember the Jetsons being used for a recycling ad campaign where they said the houses moved up and down because the ground was absolutely covered in garbage and smog. From all the other anecdotes im reading, it looks like no one actually ever paid attention or cared, and just made up whatever they…

OR it suggests that middle-class white dudes will have the exact same life in the future that they do today, with robot maids and flying cars to boot.

Oh crap. Homer was always compared to Fred Flinstone, but that’s always been the wrong comparison. Thank you my friend, I can now pass into the next form of consciousness.

Theory: That isn’t a Hobo, but rather a 2062 hipster.

So the Jetsons is really a precursor to The Simpsons.. Who is George Jetson’s Frank Grimes?

I posted this earlier but, despite the publicity, the British Family has mixed-race antecedents.

But George Jetson is literally the symbol for mediocrity in the future. He is worthless, lazy, and useless, and yet has a cushy life, with a job he can’t get fired from despite constant napping, a house free of real estate price ballooning, a flying car, kids that raise themselves, a robot maid, and a beautiful wife…

You kid (maybe) but the conspiracy theorists are already out in force.

I always assumed the raised structures were avoiding pollution & lower class residents like in “The Fifth Element.”

Just to add more fuel to this particular fire, when The Jetsons Meet The Flinstones (shudder), George tells Elroy while he’s mowing the yard that the green stuff is grass and he read about it in “ancient history.” Those shots of the ground clearly include some green stuff, so this isn’t as settled as you want to…

Yes, but look at the hobo. I saw that episode. He isn’t suffering and he isn’t unhappy. And he gets the flight suit when George throws it out. So being homeless in the time of the Jetsons isn’t really all that bad.

You’re saying the two universes are actually in the same universe?

only for vagrants and drifters. You had to wear a battered top hat or a barrel back then. One of the reasons the 60's was known as the visual gag era

Revived in the 80s, when more episodes were produced.

Smacks of the city-covered planet of Coruscant, where the rich and important figures stay on the highest levels of the world’s infrastructure, whereas the lower you go in levels, the shadier and more dangerous it gets. Crime, poverty, and going home to rethink your life after peddling death sticks to a Jedi run amok…

Those who survived the purge of 2003 were banished to the earthbound.

easy. Poor people and machines harvesting raw materials/fuel

I prefer this version, feels a lot more humble and authentic.