2013 Preview: The Jetsons Banquet

Meet George Jetson... his son Elroy... daughter Judy... Jane his wife!

Second and Fourth Session will take a trip to the future with the Jetsons! The Foley staff is prepared to make the Jetsons Banquet very exciting and fun for everyone. Before you come to camp, we wanted to make sure that all of the Second and Fourth Sessioners are ready for the future!

We want to familiarize you with the The Jetsons TV show. The original series aired on Sunday September 23, 1962 and lasted for 24 episodes. Fun fact: The Jetsons was the first show ABC-TV ever aired in color! (The Flintstones was produced in color but was broadcast in black-and-white for the first two seasons.) A second season aired between 1985 and 1987. A feature-length movie, Jetsons: The Movie, was released in 1990. The show centered around George Jetson and his family living in Orbit City in 2062. George Jetson worked for Cosmo Spacely, who was always scheming against his competitor, H.G. Cogswell. In many episodes viewers would hear Cosmo Spacely say, "Jetsooon! You're fired!" (Of course, George never really lost his job!) While Judy and Elroy Jetson weren't at school, they were under the watchful eye of Rosie, the Jetsons' robot housekeeper. Elroy and the family dog, Astro, were often getting into a jam, only to be assisted by Orbity, the Jetsons pet the debuted in the 1980s version. Jane Jetson loved to shop, but hated doing housework. Since the show took place in the future, life was much more leisurely as technology made things simpler. George worked only a few hour a few days a week. Jane could clean the house with the push of a button. And Rosie "cooked" dinner by pushing a button and getting a capsule. Elroy and Judy could get from room to room in the Sky Pad Apartments by traveling on "Slidewalks" - moving walkways.

Characters for the Jetsons are a bit harder to find, but if you read through some of the episode summaries you may happen upon a few more obscure characters! Of course there is Jet Screamer, a pop idol that Judy wins a date with in one episode. Withers, a lawyer, tries to take Astro and return him to millionaire J.P. Gottrockets. Why not dress up as Elroy's TV superhero, Nimbus the Great! There is always Gigi Galaxy, from the episode "Las Venus." She appear around 14 minutes in. Or Judy's cousin, Melissa, who you can find around the 4:55 mark of "Judy Takes Off." A lot of the episodes can be found on YouTube, so getting creative shouldn't be too hard!