Episode
The Jetsons: One Strike, You're Out
Overview
When Spacely discovers that his rival Cogswell has won the "Tycoon of the Day" Award, he goes all out to beat him, forcing all his employees to work a "Triple-Shift". After 24 hours of work and severe hounding by Spacely, George accidentally convinces the human employees of Spacely Sprockets to go on strike. Meanwhile, George is faced with his own problems when he destroys Elroy's athlete robot, "Jocko", and then tries to impress his son by portraying the robot himself.
Details
- Series
- The Jetsons
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1985-09-30
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
One Strike, You're Out is Episode 10 in Season 2 of The Jetsons. It aired on 1985-09-30. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 9: S.M.A.S.H.
Jane accidentally crashes Mr. Spacely's car that she borrowed, which causes him to merrily blame George, making him a virtual slave and groveler, until it was discovered that the brakes are jammed by a piece of fine space china from one of Spacely's space china collections. This absolves the Jetsons, and then the tables are turned and a furious and humiliated Spacely becomes the reluctant servant of George.
Episode 11: Mother's Day for Rosie
Rosie is feeling melancholy because she doesn't have a mother. George Jetson decides that for Mother's Day, Rosie will get a chance to find out who her mother is.
More episodes from this season
Episode 8: Fugitive Fleas
A rock band of fleas take refuge on Astro to escape the tyrannical Solarini's flea circus.
Episode 12: S'no Relative
George and Jane's nephew, Hunky Moonrock, is scheduled to visit Earth, but when a research team loses an inhabitant from the planet Polaris, everything is turned upside down when that alien is thawed out right at the Jetsons' back door.
Episode 7: Instant Replay
An elderly man on the bus home offers George a better life with a special invention called "Replayola", but when George accidentally erases his wedding day with Jane, he must make a choice to either keep his newfound wealth and power or forego it and regain his normal family life.
Episode 13: Dance Time
George tries to make a good impression on Judy's dance party with experimental dancing shoes.
Episode 6: Family Fallout
After some chicanery by Mr. Spacely, the Jetsons appear on a game show called "Family Fallout" (based on Family Feud), facing off against the Spacelys. The Jetsons win a new Foodarackacycle in the end, while the shocked and dismayed Spacelys receive a lifetime supply of Cogswells Cogs.
Episode 14: Judy Takes Off
When Judy is offered a chance to get away from her family and visit her cousin Melissa, she is at first reluctant, but thinks differently when she sees how much her cousin has changed, leading George to inadvertently assume the role of "Space Ace" to spy on his daughter to keep her out of trouble. Meanwhile, Jane and Mrs. Spacely both vie for the "Woman of the Year" Award.
Episode 5: SuperGeorge
George is Superhero for a day with the help of a thought remote, but he might stay that way forever because the remote gets broken.
Episode 15: Winner Takes All
George is duped into an Olympic-themed showdown with Cogswell Cogs, but when Cogswell pulls a twin-brother substitution, can George come out on top when he doesn't know who is who?
Episode 4: Judy's Birthday Surprise
Judy tells her talking lips diary of the events of the week before her birthday on Sat. expecting her parents to throw her a surprise birthday party. Curley Quasar helps her when her space car breaks down when no one else will help her. Then she avoids him the rest of the week thinking he isn't one of the in-crowd. On Sat. thinking everyone has forgotten Curley comes over with a gift for her & she changes her mind about him.
Episode 16: The Mirrormorph
The Jetsons contend with a transmuting alien called the Mirrormorph, who can become an exact duplicate of that person, but remains mute.