I suppose I could chalk this up to the famous cliche, “When I Was a Kid..”
But in all honesty, we still have prime time sitcoms. But this little clip is one for the ages. The Jetsons was about family in the future-future. Like all popular art, it reflects a simpler time, a life not complicated yet with immediate media and forced self-reflection. Sure, it talked about the future (still, I’m sad to say, no flying cars), but had a value-system that still had a nuclear family unit with 2.3 kids.
And, no, I wasn’t even born when it premiered in 1962, on this very date. But when it went into syndication, I was glued to it, even on Saturday mornings.
And we still have a nuclear family, but it has become social critic, like Family Guy or the Simpsons. Or, in the vein of these Jetsons, we have now have Futurama (which to me, surpasses many a television program for social commentary!)
So? Let’s not look to the old in disgust, but see the pure joy in old fashioned comedy. In this very famous clip, Judy, the teenage future-daughter sent in a poem for a lyrics-contest to be made into a song by a Justin Beiber kinda guy. Only her younger brother, Elroy, instead deleted the poem and substituted his own lyrics in an attempt to sabotage the context. The weird words won and the joke was on her little brother.
No violence. No insults. Old fashioned comedy. With a weird Tomorrowland-vibe. Float back for this bit of Roo-nostalgia.
Peace,
Roo
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