So I am an avid watcher of Tubi, the last remaining ethical streaming service.
Lately it has been recommending me sitcoms of the 1960s, and so far I’ve really been finding myself surprisingly enjoying this look into the past. Gilligan’s island, The Jetsons, and bewitched.
I was watching The Jetsons today before work just to have Some Noise playing whilst I ingested my ramen noodles before work. Given that this is a sitcom about the future and how American society as pictured in the 1960s would adapt if the Space Age Promises of Tomorrow held true.
Not that kind of got me thinking, the Jetsons is very much in the ballpark of flintstones, it’s a modern family, in a time period that people of the 1960s would not consider modern. Now Flintstones doesn’t really need to be updated, because it’s set in a fictionalized stone age. You would not have to do much to update it if you wanted to do a modern take on that setting.
But what about the Jetsons? Now let’s say you were put in charge of making this reboot happen? How would you do it?
Would you be overly self aware and make jokes about a lot of future predictions that didn’t come true? Would you try to make it a sitcom version of Star Trek, like lower decks, but featuring a family instead of the D Squad?
Or maybe do something a bit more serious?
I want to hear from you, this is a message board for movies and TV shows, so let’s Flex those creative muscles, how would you make a new movie or TV show about the Jetsons?
There’s a Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law episode where he takes the Jetson’s case and they joke about how they live in a dated vision of the future. I’d probably do that. Maybe have them interact with the modern world but have them appearing posh and snobby despite actually being behind the times on a lot of things.
Would highly recommend you watch Harvey Birdman if you haven’t already by the way OP. I think you’d like it
That’s actually one of my favorite episodes, I love how they keep that joke fresh. I think my favorite part is when they give a tape containing their evidence, however because it’s available on this futuristic platform that modern technology has no way of reading, they have to go find something that can. This futuristic media? A betamax tape.