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the future, as imagined by someone who really loved flying cars and hated doing dishes.
means a nickname for anything retro-futuristic — sleek, chrome, and confidently wrong about how the future would actually look.
from from The Jetsons, Hanna-Barbera's 1962 cartoon that gave America a space-age suburb complete with robot maids and flying commutes, meant to mirror The Flintstones but pointed forward instead of back.
original runonly 24 episodes aired before cancellation
set insupposedly the year 2062
robot maidrosey outlasted the show in merchandise
revivednew episodes made in 1985 after 23-year gap