Jetsons

The Jetsons is an animated television series depicting a space-age family living in a futuristic utopia of flying cars, robot maids, and push-button convenience.

The show, which debuted in 1962, became cultural shorthand for optimistic visions of technological progress: We were promised the Jetsons but got climate change.

Jetsons-like describes sleek, retro-futuristic design or automated domestic life.

show

Hanna-Barbera

Classic cartoon production studio

  • AstroCelestial-themed proper name
  • ElroyMale name, royal meaning
  • JudyCommon female name

Jane · George · Rosie · sprockets · apartment · primetime · animation · sitcom · episodes · reruns

futuristic

hovercars

Ground-clearance vehicles of tomorrow

videophones · automated · gadgetry · space-age · utopia · hologram

retro-futurism

mid-century

Halfway through a hundred

optimism · 1960s · nostalgia · vintage · kitsch · streamlined · boomerang · starburst · pastel · mod

Categories
Opposites
temporal/technological setting

JetsonsFlintstones

Animated prehistoric suburban comedy

The Flintstones · Stone Age · prehistoric · caveman · primitive

vision of the future

JetsonsBlade Runner

One who retires replicants

Mad Max · dystopia · post-apocalyptic · 1984 · The Road

aesthetic style

JetsonsFlintstones

Animated prehistoric suburban comedy

rustic · primitive · pre-industrial · Luddite · anti-technology

Phrases
Family

jet, jets, jettison, jetted, jetting, jet engine, jetliner, jetsam, fighter jet

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G