All right, let’s figure out if George Jetson will be born tomorrow.

there’s a meme circulating online this weekend—and which has been dragging on for a couple of months, lengthy sufficient to have Obtained on the snopes therapy already – that tomorrow, July 31, 2022, is the birthday of future cartoon man George Jetson. As in, the day of his precise start, after which this unhappy animated bag will first be uncovered to the world that may deal with him so cruelly, leaving him spinning endlessly on a futuristic treadmill straight to hell. The superficial attraction of stated meme is clear: it is an replace to a playbook (and fairly literal, given the present’s use of it) to the previous “The place’s the Flying Vehicles?” query, a consideration of the hole between the long run envisaged by the authors of speculative fiction and the truth through which we stay.

But it surely’s additionally a query that ought to hypothetically have an precise reply, which is the form of factor that tickles essentially the most pedantic (and subsequently the largest and most necessary) components of our brains. The issue with fixing stated query, nonetheless, is that The Jetsons is just not like terminator The place Again to the long run, the place we get good and straightforward readouts of the dates (from the previous) of assorted futuristic occasions. As a substitute, it is a foolish cartoon that normally went out of its technique to obscure when its very bizarre imaginative and prescient of the long run (the place strolling on the bottom was left behind, however not the jokes about ladies who love purchase sneakers), really occurred.

So let’s assume a bit of an excessive amount of about this: is George Jetson actually going to be born tomorrow?

Let’s get to the date first: so far as we all know, there isn’t any canonical proof that George Jetson’s birthday is July 31. Or any date; we won’t discover something on the precise present that ever commits to a birthday for this poor horrible man. No episode seems to happen throughout this one, it by no means seems to have been referenced as a plot level in any of the present’s three seasons (both the primary, from 1962, or the 2 seasons of 80s revival), and the one supply that has by no means been cited as it’s an simply editable Fandom wiki. (In the meantime, Wikipedia has locked edits on George’s web page in an effort to battle off the hordes of George Jetson birthday truthers presently storming its doorways.) So there’s that demystified/undoubtedly de-unified half.

Half 2022, in the meantime, has a minimum of one littlesquint-and-it-tracks, a little bit of canonicity. Like our personal colleagues from Gizmodo identified a couple of years in the past– whereas addressing the equally necessary query of whether or not George and Jane’s seven-year age hole has uncovered any uncomfortable truths about their relationship – there is a textual content that means George Jetson is, in actual fact, 40 12 months. “Check Pilot,” George remarks that he has 110 years to stay.)

The shrug, nonetheless, units the present itself in time. Hanna-Barbera by no means actually gave a definitive reply on the 12 months The Jetsons was put in place, though it has been typically described as set a century sooner or later. Many individuals have interpreted this to imply that the collection is particularly set within the 12 months 2062, 100 years after the unique debut, which might imply, in impact, that George himself would have popped up on the planet as a COVID child over the following few month.

However. However! Contemplate This: In 2017 The Jetsons and WWE: Robo-Wrestlemania! (through which former WWE Superstars and Vince McMahon should journey from the previous to defeat a resurrected Huge Present after he makes use of a military of Wrestlebots to take over Orbit Metropolis), we’re explicitly advised that Huge Present “is frozen in ice for 100 years” – whereas George, Jane, Judy and their boy Elroy do not appear to have aged a day.

Certain, we have proof above that the parents at Jetson live longer (do you know these assholes solely work two hours per week?), however there’s nothing to counsel that their youngsters aren’t growing older at a fee approaching a standard fee. The one conclusion we are able to subsequently draw is that The Jetsons labored on a Marvel Comics fashion slip timescale all this timeand that the collection nonetheless will happen in 100 years. Which implies George Jetson could not have been born tomorrow, as a result of George Jetson’s birthday will at all times be 60 years sooner or later from any current. Ae, thus, within the method of the Xeno Paradox, we understand that George Jetson will likely be by no means be born. The poor bastard won’t ever have the ability to do away with this loopy factor, as a result of he by no means obtained on it within the first place.

(We will additionally conclude that it is rather unusual that WWE made a Jetson film in 20-damn-17.)

What have we discovered? On the one hand, you must by no means belief something on the web that makes you chuckle or really feel something, actually, as a result of he most likely did not correctly cite his sources. However, you’ll be able to completely kill an hour of an in any other case productive day by considering an excessive amount of about The Jetsons on the Web. And, actually, what may very well be a extra superb future than that?