Episode
The Jetsons: Future Tense
Overview
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?
Details
- Series
- The Jetsons
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 32
- Air date
- 1985-11-12
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Future Tense is Episode 32 in Season 2 of The Jetsons. It aired on 1985-11-12. The runtime is 22 min.
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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 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.
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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.
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 29: The Wrong Stuff
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.
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.
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 36: Robot's Revenge
After an incompetent robot named Ralph is fired from his 32nd job, he decides to take his revenge out on the person who caused his termination—George Jetson.
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 37: To Tell the Truth
George convinces Elroy to tell his mother the truth about what happened to her favorite pitcher, but when Bubbles Blastoff, a guest at Spacely's plant, must leave on the red-eye back to her planet, George ends up being stranded with her on an asteroid. Will he follow his own example and tell the truth to Jane about why he never returned home until morning?
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 38: Boy George
When Spacely convinces George that he is too old to represent Spacely Sprockets, he tries a quick fix to become younger—with disastrous results.