The Future According To The Jetsons (and why it's bad!) - Eddache

Wake up babe, new episode of overanalyzing things that were not designed to be overanalyzed just dropped.

To be fair to Jane being "33"... my mom called herself 29 for years. When I turned 29 she congratulated me for being her age.

Flying cars are honestly the most terrifying thing imaginable. People can’t drive correctly on the ground, and you expect them to suddenly do fine in the sky?! Imagine a tiny 9/11 every hour as drivers of flying cars crash into office buildings or people’s homes.

The dark theory of The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones crossover implying that Bedrock happened to be a post-apocalyptic future makes me think that it's just Fallout in disguise. If that's the reason why The Flintstones celebrated Christmas in the BC era, then this went from 0 to 100 real quick.

0:55. The idea of ad breaks being in every last aspect of our lives was a surprisingly prescient moment for a 1960s animated sitcom.

If it’s one thing I’ve learned from being a fan of Disney theme parks is the pop culture understanding of “the future” of the American 1950s/60s were more dystopian than most dystopian media and it’s wild how many people were hoping for that future. Walt Disneys original epcot plan before his death was a actual human zoo: where every residents house was on display to the theme park guests, your home was to be constantly upgraded to showcase future technology with residents being unable to object, The likelihood of voting for a Mayor or local council to represent the residents would be shady at best since the entire city would be managed by Walt, And if you refuse to work or got too old they literally kick you out.

Wow I can't believe Eddie ripped off two Dominos pizza adverts with his time travel character

Jetson future: 2hr workdays, flying cars, robot servants Actual future: 10+hr workdays, climate apocalypse, AI is making art and the humans are the slaves

Never would I expect Jet Lag the Game and Jessie Gender to both be mentioned in an Eddache video. Nebula is the wildest collab project hands down.

About the ground point, I remember that the SCP Wiki did an interesting take on what's down there in an article about a TV remote that could move around and see stuff off-camera in other shows: they had a 50s-style nuclear family called The Jacksons living in a huge, thick cloud of pollution from all the machines above.

I think the #1 thing to prevent hypothetical futures from becoming dated is to avoid specific dates as much as possible. In Fahrenheit 451, the year 2021 is mentioned once but other than that, the date is kept ambiguous. The world of the book is the future from the point of view of the 1950s, sure, but still the book remains “timeless” in that the themes it presents seem to always be relevant. The topics of cens*rship and free thought were important ones in the fifties and are still important today, so it seems like they always will be. Unless you have a specific event or series of events that sets this future apart from our own, like in Fallout with the microchip not being invented and the great war.

We already have many bad drivers in regular cars, bad drivers in flying vehicles would even worse. First the crash, then gravity does its thing, landing on top of whoever/whatever happens to be below

8:52 I think the joke is "Mom was young when we have married, but it was very long time ago (she's not young anymore)"

I just realized I haven't heard anyone use that line Jane stop this crazy thing in 20 years now. The last time I heard a reference to it was The Fairly odd Parents in 2004.

"Meet George Jetson!" No, thanks-I'd rather meet Jet Georgeson.

"Hooba Dooba!" damn i can't believe The Jetsons predicted Sonic Zombies

The Jane age debate is funny and all, but I think we all forget just how common and even expected it was for women to lie about their age in past decades. She was probably intended to be older but it would've "looked bad" for the era's standards (which are another can of worms on its own)

Im gonna be honest. I just assume Jane is lying about her age in that first episode as part of the joke. Like shes 37 or something but doesnt wanna be a number that rounds up.

I vaguely recall a bunch of animated movies involving WWE stars (Scooby Doo, the atrocious Surfs Up sequel) as a desperate attempt to appeal to younger viewers

Is Jane 33 or is she "33". When she says she is 33, she could mean that she is 33 with 10 years experience. I also think this video is a subtle way of Eddy saying he got a vasectomy. /s