George Jetson

George Jetson is a fictional character who appears in the animated series "The Jetsons". George is the husband of Jane Jetson and the father of teenage daughter Judy and elementary school aged son Elroy. George is also the grandson of Montahue Jetson, who sometimes visits the family.George lives with his family in the Skypad Apartments in Orbit City, in a future with the traditional trappings of science fantasy depictions of American life in the future, such as robot servants, flying saucer-like cars, and moving sidewalks. Indeed, all the buildings are set on giant poles, resembling Seattle, Washington's Space Needle; the ground is almost never seen.

George is an employee at Spacely's Space Sprockets, a manufacturer of "sprockets" and other high tech equipment. His job title is "digital index operator". His boss is Cosmo G. Spacely, notable for being both short in height and in temper; Spacely usually treats his employees (particularly George) in a rather tyrannical fashion. George's job primarily requires him to repeatedly push a single button (or on occasion a series of buttons) on a computer (named "RUDI" in the 1980s series of "Jetsons" episodes). Once George complained of his heavy work load-having to push a button for one hour for one day of the week! Often, Mr. Spacely will fire George in a fit of anger, only to hire him back by the end of the same episode.

Physically, George is a rather slim man of average height with short red hair and a cartoonishly large nose. His personality is that of a well-meaning, caring father, but he is often befuddled and stressed out by the problems of both his work and family lives. As "The Jetsons" was partially based on the comic strip "Blondie", George himself was probably based on that strip's lead character, Dagwood Bumstead.Fact|date=September 2007

George's most famous catchphrase is "Jane! Stop this crazy thing!" seen at the end credits of the 1960s "Jetsons" episodes, but is also known for frequently uttering the phrase "Hooba-dooba-dooba!" to express wonder or astonishment.

George O'Hanlon was the voice actor who did George's voice in both the sixties and eighties version of the cartoon series. O'Hanlon last did the voice for George Jetson in "", which was released posthumously.

The current voice of George Jetson is Jeff Bergman, who voiced George (and also Mr. Spacely) in some parts of the movie after O'Hanlon's death, and also voiced George for the cameo in the "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law" episode "Shaggy Busted" and Spümcø's two Jetsons cartoons: ' and '.

In the "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law" episode "Back to the Present," George was voiced by Wally Wingert. In the episode, the Jetsons return to the past to sue the planet for causing global warming.

George Jetson also appears at the Cedar Fair Entertainment Company as a meetable character.

External links

* [http://www.toonopedia.com/jetsons.htm Toonopedia entry]
* Drawings of George by John Kricfalusi: [http://lessingessavants.com/towc/benj/images/jetsons.jpg1] , [http://lessingessavants.com/towc/benj/images/JohnKhb15.jpg2]