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The Worst Episodes of The Jetsons

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Meet George Jetson and his quirky family: wife Jane, son Elroy and daughter Judy. Living in the automated, push-button world of the future hasn't made life any easier for the harried husband and father, who

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Jetsons Season 2 Episode 1 - Elroy Meets Orbitty
    4.0/10(155 votes)

    #1 - Elroy Meets Orbitty

    S2:E1

    During a school field trip to a remote asteroid, Elroy finds an odd pink rock, which turns out to be an egg that hatches into Orbitty, a spring-legged creature.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Mark Young

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  2. The Jetsons Season 2 Episode 3 - Solar Snoops
    4.0/10(143 votes)

    #2 - Solar Snoops

    S2:E3

    An unknown package delivered to Spacely Sprockets contains a robot sentry dog named "Sentro", and Spacely decides to use it to guard his "Chocolate Microchip Cookie". However, the "Galactic Sneak"—a spy for Cogswell Cogs—has pulled a Trojan Horse–type move by hiding inside Sentro's body to infiltrate Spacely's plant. When he and Sentro steal the prototype Microchip Cookie, it is up to George Jetson—who discovers a want-ad in the news for an executive secretary for Cogswell Cogs—to become "Georgina Jetstream", infiltrate Cogswell Cogs, and get Spacely's cookie back.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Barry Blitzer

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  3. The Jetsons Season 1 Episode 9 - Elroy's TV Show
    4.5/10(197 votes)

    #3 - Elroy's TV Show

    S1:E9

    The future TV producers got bored with cowboy and doctor's programs, so the want Elroy as 'Space boy Zoom and his dog Astro'. Of course Spacely wants his son and dog on TV instead, badly ...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Warren Foster

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  4. The Jetsons Season 1 Episode 10 - Uniblab
    4.5/10(226 votes)

    #4 - Uniblab

    S1:E10

    Spacely buys a new robot 'Uniblab'. This means George actually has to work the full three hour work day. Or so it seems, until George's janitor finds a solution.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Barry Blitzer

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  5. The Jetsons Season 1 Episode 17 - The Little Man
    4.5/10(196 votes)

    #5 - The Little Man

    S1:E17

    Compression technique explained The Jetson way. Without the decompression mechanism working George is reduced to a mere 6 inches. The only way to fix the decompression system is by replacing parts manufactured by the big competitor: Cogswell Cogs.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Tony Benedict

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  6. The Jetsons Season 2 Episode 4 - Judy's Birthday Surprise
    4.5/10(145 votes)

    #6 - Judy's Birthday Surprise

    S2:E4

    Judy tells her talking lips diary of the events of the week before her birthday on Sat. expecting her parents to throw her a surprise birthday party. Curley Quasar helps her when her space car breaks down when no one else will help her. Then she avoids him the rest of the week thinking he isn't one of the in-crowd. On Sat. thinking everyone has forgotten Curley comes over with a gift for her & she changes her mind about him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Mark Young

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  7. The Jetsons Season 2 Episode 19 - Hi-Tech Wreck
    4.5/10(135 votes)

    #7 - Hi-Tech Wreck

    S2:E19

    When R.U.D.I. malfunctions one time too many, Spacely orders George to relocate his family to "Outer Moongolia"—but is forced to eat crow when R.U.D.I. threatens to destroy his factory.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Tony Benedict

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  8. The Jetsons Season 2 Episode 21 - Elroy in Wonderland
    4.5/10(136 votes)

    #8 - Elroy in Wonderland

    S2:E21

    A take on both "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Wizard of Oz". When Elroy and Astro are forced to be separated while on vacation at Club Mellowstar, they wind up in a dream world where antique robots resembling our modern-day appliances are at war with each other.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Mike Dirham

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  9. The Jetsons Season 2 Episode 22 - The Swiss Family Jetson
    4.5/10(134 votes)

    #9 - The Swiss Family Jetson

    S2:E22

    When George is laid off by Spacely for six months, the family convinces him to live off the land on Planet Paradisio—but get the shock of their lives when a redevelopment company turns their quaint little paradise into condo estates.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:David N. Gottlieb, Herb Engelhardt

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  10. The Jetsons Season 2 Episode 40 - The Century's Best
    4.5/10(129 votes)

    #10 - The Century's Best

    S2:E40

    The Space-Time Capsule Contest is underway, and Orbitty has an entry form for qualification. However, only one story entry per form will be accepted, and the Jetsons exhaust themselves fighting for control of the contest entry. After an unlikely ally helps them combine their entries into one, the Jetsons are declared "Future Family of the Year". This episode contains clips from past Jetsons episodes "Elroy Meets Orbitty", "Judy's Birthday Surprise", "The Cosmic Courtship of George and Jane" and "SuperGeorge".

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Mark Young

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  11. The Jetsons Season 3 Episode 2 - ASTROnomical I.Q.
    4.5/10(130 votes)

    #11 - ASTROnomical I.Q.

    S3:E2

    Elroy invents an evolution machine. By mistake his evolutes Astro by 10,000 years, increasing his I.Q. by 4000 points. George bets everything he owns by playing chess with a little help of Astro. At that moment Astro is caught by the dogcatcher. When that doesn't work he enters a brainy game show where the contestants can win millions.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:George Atkins

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  12. The Jetsons Season 3 Episode 3 - 9 to 5 to 9
    4.5/10(129 votes)

    #12 - 9 to 5 to 9

    S3:E3

    Rocky Retro is the new hunk in school and Judy loses him to Marcia because she has a car. Judy wants her own car and has to find a job to pay for that. She accepts three jobs: walking dogs through space, doing construction work and taking orders at a fly-thru burger joint in a nearby solar system.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Barry O'Brien, Bob Smith

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  13. The Jetsons Season 3 Episode 10 - Spacely for a Day
    4.5/10(131 votes)

    #13 - Spacely for a Day

    S3:E10

    Spacely convinces all his employees to take an aptitude test and makes sure George scores the lowest. But when Judy, Elroy and Astro alter his father's score to be higher than everyone else's, George is given charge of Spacely's plant for the day when his boss is forced to take an impromptu vacation. Upon discovering that George is in charge of Spacely's plant, Cogswell makes plans to destroy Spacely Space Sprockets once and for all and attempts to ensure that George takes the fall.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Haskell Barkin

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  14. The Jetsons Season 2 Episode 41 - A Jetson Christmas Carol
    4.8/10(259 votes)

    #14 - A Jetson Christmas Carol

    S2:E41

    Based on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Scrooge Spacely orders George to work overtime on Christmas Eve, which begins to tire George. Meanwhile, Astro is injured in a freak accident while chasing a toy robot cat, which causes him to get sick. Now it's up to the Spirits of Christmases Past, Present, and Future to convince Spacely that Christmas is a time for giving.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Barbara Levy, Marc Paykuss

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  15. The Jetsons Season 1 Episode 4 - The Coming of Astro
    5.0/10(250 votes)

    #15 - The Coming of Astro

    S1:E4

    Jane and the kids want a dog for personal protection, George doesn't believe in that but wants to keep everyone happy. To George the answer is an apartment approved electronic dog, one of those nuclear powered trouble free dogs: Electronimo! At the same moment the rest of the family found a biological dog. A contest should point out the superior dog. Astro proves to be the superior dog when he unwittingly tackles a burglar terrorizing the apartment building.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Tony Benedict

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  16. The Jetsons Season 1 Episode 12 - Astro's Top Secret
    5.0/10(196 votes)

    #16 - Astro's Top Secret

    S1:E12

    Another tale of Big Business competition: At the Moonside Country Club, Spacely and Cogswell each vow to put the other out of business. Spacely thinks his ticket is Astro the flying dog. He ultimately discovers that Astro has only swallowed a flying toy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Tony Benedict

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  17. The Jetsons Season 1 Episode 16 - Millionaire Astro
    5.0/10(200 votes)

    #17 - Millionaire Astro

    S1:E16

    Astro turns out to be the long-lost dog of a millionaire. The Jetsons have to let Astro go. Now Astro has everything a dog can wish for, except the love of the Jetson family ...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Tony Benedict

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  18. The Jetsons Season 1 Episode 19 - G.I. Jetson
    5.0/10(185 votes)

    #18 - G.I. Jetson

    S1:E19

    Private Jetson is drafted, as George is a family man he gets a full two minutes to report for duty. They're all given an aptitude test, and one not-so-bright recruit jams a square peg into a round hole, whereupon the automated grading program determines that his 'original thinking shows leadership potential' and makes him a general. Spacely turns out to be the commanding officer and the site is a full 10 minutes away.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Barry Blitzer

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  19. The Jetsons Season 1 Episode 22 - Dude Planet
    5.0/10(179 votes)

    #19 - Dude Planet

    S1:E22

    Jane badly needs some rest and goes to 'Dude Planet' with a friend. The rest of the family stays at home and tries to run the household.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Walter Black

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  20. The Jetsons Season 2 Episode 5 - SuperGeorge
    5.0/10(142 votes)

    #20 - SuperGeorge

    S2:E5

    George is Superhero for a day with the help of a thought remote, but he might stay that way forever because the remote gets broken.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:George Atkins

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  21. The Jetsons Season 2 Episode 6 - Family Fallout
    5.0/10(147 votes)

    #21 - Family Fallout

    S2:E6

    After some chicanery by Mr. Spacely, the Jetsons appear on a game show called "Family Fallout" (based on Family Feud), facing off against the Spacelys. The Jetsons win a new Foodarackacycle in the end, while the shocked and dismayed Spacelys receive a lifetime supply of Cogswells Cogs.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Mark Seidenberg

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  22. The Jetsons Season 2 Episode 7 - Instant Replay
    5.0/10(144 votes)

    #22 - Instant Replay

    S2:E7

    An elderly man on the bus home offers George a better life with a special invention called "Replayola", but when George accidentally erases his wedding day with Jane, he must make a choice to either keep his newfound wealth and power or forego it and regain his normal family life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:George Atkins

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  23. The Jetsons Season 2 Episode 8 - Fugitive Fleas
    5.0/10(137 votes)

    #23 - Fugitive Fleas

    S2:E8

    A rock band of fleas take refuge on Astro to escape the tyrannical Solarini's flea circus.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Barry Blitzer

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  24. The Jetsons Season 2 Episode 10 - One Strike, You're Out
    5.0/10(134 votes)

    #24 - One Strike, You're Out

    S2:E10

    When Spacely discovers that his rival Cogswell has won the "Tycoon of the Day" Award, he goes all out to beat him, forcing all his employees to work a "Triple-Shift". After 24 hours of work and severe hounding by Spacely, George accidentally convinces the human employees of Spacely Sprockets to go on strike. Meanwhile, George is faced with his own problems when he destroys Elroy's athlete robot, "Jocko", and then tries to impress his son by portraying the robot himself.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Mark Young

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  25. The Jetsons Season 2 Episode 12 - S'no Relative
    5.0/10(134 votes)

    #25 - S'no Relative

    S2:E12

    George and Jane's nephew, Hunky Moonrock, is scheduled to visit Earth, but when a research team loses an inhabitant from the planet Polaris, everything is turned upside down when that alien is thawed out right at the Jetsons' back door.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Tony Benedict, Barry Blitzer

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Elroy Meets Orbitty" is the worst rated episode of "The Jetsons". It scored 4/10 based on 155 votes. Directed by William Hanna and written by Mark Young, it aired on 9/16/1985. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Solar Snoops".