--- description: One pleasure of TV on DVD is getting to revisit another era--sometimes two eras at once. The Jetsons Season 1 (Warner Home Video; $64.92) is as much about New Frontier 1962 as about the distant... title: Technology: Meet George Jetson--Again image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Technology: Meet George Jetson--Again by [James Poniewozik](/author/james-poniewozik/) May 17, 2004 4:00 AM CUT by [James Poniewozik](/author/james-poniewozik/) May 17, 2004 4:00 AM CUT One pleasure of TV on DVD is getting to revisit another era–sometimes two eras at once. The Jetsons Season 1 (Warner Home Video; $64.92) is as much about New Frontier 1962 as about the distant future. Its ditzy slapstick is like the peanut-butter-and-jelly mix Goober Grape–if you didn’t love it as a kid, you’re not going to acquire the taste as an adult–and the pop-culture gags (like rock star Jet Screamer and his hit Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah) have not aged well. But the animation is still a classic of gee-whiz atomic-age modernism. Most of all, it’s touching to look back at the show’s optimistic imagined future, in which there’s a flying saucer in every garage and even inept button-pusher George Jetson can afford a robot maid and a Food-a-Rac-a-Cycle without worrying about his job getting outsourced to Pluto. –By James Poniewozik ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6738525/technology-meet-george-jetson-again/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6738525/technology-meet-george-jetson-again/"},"headline":"Technology: Meet George Jetson--Again","datePublished":"2004-05-17T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-28T11:29:26.893Z","description":"One pleasure of TV on DVD is getting to revisit another era--sometimes two eras at once. The Jetsons Season 1 (Warner Home Video; $64.92) is as much about New Frontier 1962 as about the distant...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6738525/technology-meet-george-jetson-again/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"James Poniewozik","url":"https://time.com/author/james-poniewozik/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6738525/technology-meet-george-jetson-again/","name":"Technology: Meet George Jetson--Again"}}]}] ```