Comments on: George Jetson Navigates a Series of Tubes

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:51:00 +0000

We do have the light-up clothes. They use a battery, instead of a cord.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RunUvPmUAXU

Today I suppose it would be maglev instead of pneumatic.

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:11:22 +0000

Makes me wonder about the future as pictured in “Adventure Time” (which has a direct line of succession as Hanna-Barbera essentially became Cartoon Network Studios while producer Fred Seibert worked with Bill Hanna at H-B in the ’90s).

There’s exactly one known human alive, a teenage boy, but the world is well-populated with sentient lifeforms, some of which want to kill you while others just want to party. There’s a huge burnt-out chunk missing from Earth but hazelnut-flavored coffee and nachos with molten yellow cheese are still readily available…

By: Dean Finder

Dean Finder — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:33:53 +0000

“Futurama” is very much the heir to “The Jetsons” in that people of the future will be much like the people of the present.
In the pilot episode, Fry (recently un-frozen in the year 3000) rides the tubes that DBenson mentioned for the first time. He’s ecstatically screaming among the blase commuters in the tube with him. He fails the dismount at the end (headfirst into a wall) as a local mutters “*tourist*”
It’s nice to see that future New Yorkers have the same contempt for people who don’t understand how to navigate public transit.

By: Chris Sobieniak

Chris Sobieniak — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:14:30 +0000

Reminded myself of a pneumatic subway system that was once in place in NY during the 19th Century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit

By: DBenson

DBenson — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:02:45 +0000

“Futurama” picked up on the Jetsons’ clear plastic tubes, not only placing them in opening credits but occasionally letting us see clumsy commuters fail to land on their feet.