Wow, four of these in a row. I guess I’m going to have to find a few movies to watch to review or a comic or something to break it all up. Or maybe another random ass thoughts blog post. Those are easy to do. I like to keep the content different but I also really enjoy talking about the Final Episodes of TV shows. It’s a fun way to see how shows ended. Even when the show in question is one I was never a big fan of. Yes, despite my enjoyment of several other Hanna Barbera properties, I was never a fan of the Jetsons. Or the Flintstones. But you would have known this if you read my blog post on the original series.
Yes, while they are considered seasons 2 and 3 I just consider them an entirely new show. I do not care. The original series ended in 1963 and this series started up in 1985. That’s 22 years. I don’t care if anyone else is counting it but I will. The Jetsons was originally in prime time going up against Dennis the Menace and Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color which uh pretty much was a bad idea because it got bad ratings. However ABC then decided to put out the 26 episodes of the original series on their Saturday Morning Block in 1963 – 1964 season. That made the Jetsons a huge hit. It was literally one of the only cartoons that were on ALL three big networks. ABC, CBS and NBC. NBC even had the original show on the TV in 1983. It’s no wonder they finally made new episodes two years later. I was never a big fan but its clear other people enjoyed it.
So, The Jetsons is finally brought back in 1985 and it’s pretty much the same stuff as the original show. Except that Elroy finds an alien pet named Orbity. I like Orbity. He’s a cutie. I also like Astro because I am just a sucker for how Hanna Barbera drew dogs. So wonderful. Anyway The Final Episode is called Spacely for a Day (even though the story takes place over two weeks but whatever) written by Haskell Burnett who worked for Hanna Barbera (on great stuff like Captain Caveman!) and wrote stories for Darkwing Duck, Pound Puppies, Monsters, Spiral Zone, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Tales from the Dark Side and The Twilight Zone (1980s version). That’s a wild mix of television programs to write for.
I’m going to be nice enough because if you like the Jetsons than you’ll probably enjoy this Final Episode. It’s not a bad tale really. I just am not a big fan of these characters except for Astro and Orbity. and Rosie. I cannot hate a robot. I love robots. All of them. Anyway the story starts out with George Jetson working for the worst rich cartoon character ever, a balding short fucker named Mr. Spacely. This fucker is so annoying that I can’t even enjoy the fact that he’s a dwarf. I love dwarves. Just like robots. Uh anyway he’s hired a guy to make production go faster and the guy makes George Jetson sit in an awkward manner.
Mrs. Spacely calls and chews out her husband. He’s to find someone to replace him because she wants to go on a vacation for two weeks. Fuck I hate the Spacelys. They suck. ASS. Anyway the guy whos doing the work says he can test all the workers. Mr Spacely is happy because this might mean George Jetson will fail so hard that he can fire him. Mr Spacely can suck my nuts. Fuck you Mr. Spacely. Anyway George does the tests (which involves playing that find the ball under the cups game and also put back a robot together very quickly) but Mr Spacely interrupts him all the time. I really should write a top 10 worst cartoon characters of all time list.
Anyway George freaks out and then Elroy, Judy AND Astro all somehow easily not only pull up his test results before hand on a computer but change them. Hacking is so fucking easy in the future that even dogs can do it. This makes him the smartest guy the testing guy has ever seen and he gets the job of being Spacely’s replacement. Now in comes Cogswell Cogs who I like because he so annoys Mr. Spacely. I wish he would have won and ruined Mr. Spacely with this episode. Anyway He gets George to sell 3 million sprockets from a shitty company that never pays.
George now becomes an asshole turd just like Mr. Spacely. He’s mean to his family and everything. He’s even mean to Rosie. You are NEVER mean to ANY Robot. If you think thats okay, then fuck you. Cogswell is happy but he decides to trick George into melting the fucking company. You really should have thought while you were ahead but if you did you probably wouldn’t be a bad guy in a cartoon series. Anyway just before George is about to spray the melting juice all over Spacely’s Sprockets. Jane and Elroy show up because Elroy had just told Jane about the hacking crime he did. Didn’t even bring up Judy or Astro but I guess he didn’t see them because he left. Who knows?
They find out about the melting juice and bring the melting juice to Cogswell and leave. Cogswell gets a phone message from George and finds out that George won’t do it so he just grabs his remote and does it. Doesn’t even try to find out where the melting juice machine actually is. I think he might be the dumbest cartoon villain honestly. He ends up melting his own plant. Mr. Spacely comes back finds out about the 3 million sprockets going to Shitty Plant and fires Jetson. Cogswell comes crawling to Jetson who gets him to buy the 3 million sprockets with an extra 100% profit. To show his respect Mr. Spacely gives him his own shitty job back. What a piece of shit.
FINAL VERDICT: It may sound like I hate this show and the Final Episodde but I don’t. It’s just there. If I were to give The Jetsons a star rating it would be 2 and a half stars out of five. Right down the middle. Not the best. Not the worst. Just existed. I’d watch the Jetsons over say Casper or Monster by Mistake or the New Adventures of He-Man any day but there’s also a lot of stuff I’d watch before I ever watched the Jetsons. I guess you could say as the children do these days that the Jetsons is mid.
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