Episode
The Jetsons: The Wrong Stuff
Overview
After winning a school science contest, Elroy is invited with the family to view a space shuttle launch. But he gets more than he bargains for when he and Astro get aboard the shuttle and get launched into deep space. They're able to return to Earth, but are significantly changed in terms of age. A parody of The Right Stuff.
Details
- Series
- The Jetsons
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 29
- Air date
- 1985-11-05
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
The Wrong Stuff is Episode 29 in Season 2 of The Jetsons. It aired on 1985-11-05. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 28: Jetson's Millions
Spacely offers George a raffle book for the Venutian Sweepstakes, but Mrs. Spacely is offended when George actually wins the grand prize of 10,000,000 Venuties.
Episode 30: The Vacation
Jane wins a vacation on the Love Rocket. George meets his old girlfriend and Jane meets her first boyfriend on the rocket. Elroy and Judy find out and try to save the marriage.
More episodes from this season
Episode 27: Astro's Big Moment
Mr. Spacely assigns George to be the judge for the annual Spacely Space Sprockets Space Dog Show. But this leads to a very stressful situation for him as his family wants him to make Astro the winner, as well as the boss wanting him to insure his wife's poodle comes out on top, and even a mobster named Mangler Mars gets into the act by making George choose his bulldog, Starbite, as the top dog. What choice will George make? In the end, Mrs. Spacely's pooch gets taken away to give birth to puppies; Starbite is revealed to be a stolen dog which gets the mobsters arrested; and Astro wins, with a stray dog winning a consolation prize: dog food.
Episode 31: Team Spirit
The Spacely Sprockets and the Cogswell Cogs are at war on the robot baseball field, and George is the star pitcher for Spacely's team. But when Cogswell tips the scales in his favor, will Jetson have enough energy to last the final inning?
Episode 26: Haunted Halloween
The curator of a museum takes a special interest in Orbitty wanting to make him his special project in time for Halloween.
Episode 32: Future Tense
In an alien shopping gallery, Jane Jetson unwittingly buys sunglasses that allow whoever is wearing them to see into the near future. When George Jetson finds this out, he decides to take his wife to the space-horse races, to make a little extra money off of Jane's ability to see which space-horse will come in first. Will George's idea succeed, or is he playing with fire?
Episode 25: Space Bong
It is a case of mistaken identity when George is kidnapped by an enemy spy organization called SNEAK. During his ordeal as their captive, George discovers his exact doppelganger, a secret agent named Space Bong (a take on James Bond), who aids him in escaping their grasp.
Episode 33: Far-Out Father
Elroy must make a Father's Day Video for his school class, but Astro's fixation with the poodle next door causes more problems than either Elroy or George can handle.
Episode 24: Fantasy Planet
With all the problems the Jetson family have, they decide to take a trip to Fantasy Planet. The host—named Mr. Rocket (played by Sonny Melendrez and a take on "Mr. Roarke" from Fantasy Island)—has each family member in capsules to live out their fantasies:
George: Boss of Jetson's Sprockets
Jane: Queen of an asteroid where she does absolutely nothing
Judy: World-renowned pop star
Elroy and Astro: Superhero team
After realizing their fantasies aren't really what they were looking for, they use a special "stop watch" that can end their fantasies.
Episode 34: Dog Daze Afternoon
George and Jane accompany Mr. Spacely to a business convention where they hope to show off the company's latest invention, the EXIT (EXecutive Instant Transporter). Meanwhile, Judy is in charge of the household as Elroy tests his own invention, a Dog Trainer, in hopes of earning money helping the neighborhood dogs to better behave themselves. But a mix-up of program discs causes near disastrous results on both sides that could lead to George's firing and Elroy having to look for all the missing dogs.
Episode 23: Rip-Off Rosie
George is hailed a hero when he repairs a malfunctioning shipping robot, but when Rosie starts to malfunction afterwards and steal everything she can find, the Jetsons must reprogram her "Jekyll-and-Hyde" personality.
Episode 35: Grandpa and the Galactic Gold Digger
Grandpa Montague Jetson returns and falls in love with a young teenager named Nova Neutron, unknown to him that her boyfriend Tyco has mistaken him for Mr. Spacely and plans to rob him blind.