George Jetson

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George Jetson is the pater-familias of the eponymous Jetson family, from the Hanna Barbera 60s cartoon series "The Jetsons". The Jetsons was a development of The Flintstones, the premise changed from a Stone Age setting to a setting in the future, where scientific advances have people living in space, driving flying cars, and using fantastic machines.

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George Jetson makes an appearance in two episodes of Family Guy.

• In the episode Brian in Love, the closing sequence of "The Jetsons" is parodied. George is shown walking Astro his dog on a walking machine similar to a gym treadmill. When the cat jumps on the machine, Astro naturally starts to chase it, pulling George along with the leash. When Jetson gets trapped on the treadmill, going around and around the mechanism, both cat and dog leap off and watch amusedly. George yells for his wife Jane to come and help (as Fred Flintstone yells for Wilma). Eventually George gets back into the house, to tell Jane, who had not heard his screams, about the problem. He strictly tells Elroy, his son, to go to his room, so he could reprimand his wife for not hearing him.

• In the episode Meet the Quagmires, Brian enthuses about the changes Peter's visit to the past have wrought to the present. Al Gore is president and people have environmentally friendly flying cars fuelled on vegetable oil. Action cuts to the opening sequence of "The Jetsons", complete with the original theme song. Whilst the original has Jane Jetson take George's wallet to go shopping, Family Guy shows George grabbing her hand as she leaves the car, saying "I took this out for you. You take this one; I keep this. You're not taking my whole wallet so you can go shopping". Jane responds dubiously "I was just gonna buy some groceries".

Later, Peter needs to summon Death to return to the past, observing however that he only shows up when someone dies. At that moment Jane Jetson falls to her death in front of them, accompanied by a fluttering dollar bill.

George is voiced by Seth MacFarlane.