Quantum Recast: Your Favorite Films, Recast In Different Years
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Quantum Recast: Your Favorite Films, Recast In Different Years
The Jetsons - Mid 2010s: Bringing to Life Hanna-Barbara's Future Family
What if 'The Jetsons' had a live-action adaptation in the Mid-2010s?
Join us as Terran returns to help kick off our new minisode series, "Quantum Reanimation." On this spinoff, we'll bring to life classic cartoons, video games, anime, and more! Starting with "The Jetsons," we reminisce about its 1963 debut, its Saturday morning legacy, and forgotten animated feature, paying tribute to the iconic creators, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
In this episode, we'll dive into the show and "The Jetsons" movie, dissecting its financial hurdles and marketing strategies. What lessons can we learn from its early use of CGI and its ecological themes? We debate its reception and draw comparisons to other films of the era, all while sharing our own childhood memories of watching the show and film. We then leap into the future with discussions on live-action adaptations, exploring fun fan theories and the logistics of bringing the Jetsons’ world to life in modern times.
From personal casting choices to the legacy of Hanna-Barbera, we cover it all with enthusiasm. Don't miss our maiden voyage talking all things 'toons with "Quantum Reanimation" and our excitement for future episodes.!
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1963 LJ. Stop this crazy thing Vs George Jackson. Kids and Boys Melrose, tom and Judy. Welcome to another Minisode and, in particular, this is a new Minisode. Today I'm joined by our man in the chair, sometimes on the show Taron. How are you, sir, glad to be back.
Terran:I am glad you're here. It's been a while since I've been a voice on the show taryn. How are you, sir, glad to be back? I am glad you're here.
Nick:It's been, it's been a while since I've been a voice on the show, been around, you've been in the shadows, you've been helping out on the screens and stuff, but we finally got you back in front of a microphone.
Terran:I'm glad you just admitted that you cast me at the shadow realm well, you know we did, it was an accident.
Nick:you know that we had to find the book that got us, got you back out and collected the items, the horcruxes or whatever they're called. So you're good now. You're good, it's fine. So, but welcome to, I guess, the inaugural edition of our minisode series called Quantum Reanimation. So if you clicked on this, you've seen that we are recasting the classic cartoon series the Jetsons.
Terran:And not performing necromancy.
Nick:Right, yes, exactly. Series, the jetsons, and not performing necromancy. Right, yes, exactly, so on this show. Basically, this is just the spot for us to touch on cartoons, video games, anime, things that haven't, maybe not yet been turned into live action movies or were done very poorly, and we just want a chance to be like, hey, this is how we would do it. And again, we'll bounce around different eras of time. We may do modern casts, we may do casts from, you know, the 80s or 70s or 90s, depending on where it fits appropriately, but today we're taking the Jetsons to the mid-2010s. The mid-10s. That doesn't sound right.
Nick:I don't think we've had enough time to figure out what we're going to call that era. Yeah, I assume the Gen Z kids would call it like the early, you know 20th century, 21st century or something.
Terran:Their childhood.
Nick:Yeah, their childhood, exactly, but yeah, so thanks for joining us again. If this is your first time, this is a mini, so we have bigger episodes where we follow some more rules and guidelines, but this is a little more relaxed, where Tara and I will present a cast to each other built within the years in the mid 2010s, and so if you enjoy the show, please hit like and subscribe on whatever streaming service you're on. Be sure to follow us on social media. We're on all of the above TikTok, instagram, facebook yes, we're still there and X and Twitter. Whatever you choose to call it, it's your choice.
Terran:I think I heard you making a Zanga at one point.
Nick:I tried. I don't know if it's there or not anymore, but we'll find out. We'll find out one day. But again, uh, we're jumping. We're just jumping into this. You know these are shorter episodes, hopefully. You know, we tend to, we tend to like to talk, that's what podcasts do you know?
Terran:so we apologize if it runs long or not, but you know, whatever it'd, be weird if we just sat here and quiet and everyone was listening to us. That'd be weird.
Nick:Don't do that then it'd be like opposite of asmr or something I don't. I'm not ready for that.
Terran:I think that actually is ASMR. Okay, perfect perfect.
Nick:But yes, today we are talking about the Jetsons. I'm going to give you a quick rundown, taryn, for those of you that are uninitiated, unfamiliar, you've maybe heard of them and you're like I don't really know what they're all about. So the Jetsons originally aired in primetime on September 23rd 1962, taryn, and it only lasted one season. 1962, taryn, and it only lasted one season. It was built as a. You know, the Flintstones was so successful a few years before this that ABC was like we want more. And so William Hanna and Joseph Barber, the creators of the Flintstones. They also did Tom and Jerry.
Nick:Back in the day, they produced two shows. First one was Top Cat, which you may have heard of, it's just that, alley Cat and his friends, and then they made the Jetsons, which is basically the opposite thought of the Flintstones. So instead of the modern Stone Age family you have the family of the future, balanced, as all things should be, as all things should be. The original season had 24 episodes. It aired on Sunday nights on ABC. It debuted as the first program for them in color Back in the 60s. There's only a handful of stations at the time that were capable of broadcasting in color. For example, the Flintstones was always produced in color but actually was broadcast in black and white for its first two seasons. So the more you know the show was originally scheduled actually opposite Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color and Dennis the Mendous, oh bold move, yeah, big, bold move there.
Nick:In case you don't know, that was like Disney's like I'm going to come out here and tell you all the cool stuff I'm doing and it was pretty popular. So due to poor ratings it was canceled after one season. But then it got moved to Saturday. Who would have thought going up against Disney in his prime? Not just Disney, but literal Walt Disney, literal Walt Disney, but yeah. So it didn't do super well.
Terran:And then it got moved to saturday morning, where a lot of cartoons and stuff actually got moved to when they weren't doing as well, and I guess that's where we got the birth, a bit uh, of the, you know, saturday morning special that we know you know, I mean yeah, because like what kid I mean I say this not having really a good pulse on the modern youth, but like I I know, for at least Saturday morning, cartoons were a like a foundation of what was going on for us Like growing up, like we look forward to those cartoons every week. So I'm just going to yeah, yeah.
Nick:Yeah, no, I think that that's where it kind of started from. And then obviously, once we got to the 80s, is where H, where Hannah Barbera kind of had this kind of revitalization of a lot of their shows. You know they were kind of the dominant force of TV for cartoons in the sixties and seventies, for sure, you know, with Yogi bear, uh, scooby-doo amongst other things, but they ordered new episodes of this show, uh, for syndication from 85 to 87. They had some specials and stuff, including the Jetsons beat the Flintstones, so they finally had the crossover episode, as we all wanted. And then they had other stuff that they were trying to kind of kickstart, some other spinoffs, like Rockin' with Judy Jetson, where it was more centered around the teenage daughter Judy.
Nick:And then of course comes the 1990 film, jetsons, the Movie movie, and it kind of serves as the series finale to the show, even though it failed to achieve a lot of critical and commercial success. And really beyond that they really didn't do a whole lot. There was some little creative things here and there. Adult Swim did a couple episodes.
Terran:I remember they were very like Adult Swimmy, you know yeah, you know, jumping the shark in the way, only Adult Swim can sure sure.
Nick:And then, of course, the Jetsons andwe straight to dvd.
Terran:Uh, robo, wrestlemania is like the last noteworthy thing I will be perfectly honest, I came dangerously close to buying it just to do research for this, uh, for this episode of quantum recast. Well, I didn't I haven't yet, but the trailer was a wild ride all on its own if I would, I would.
Nick:I would highly recommend you just wait until there's a streaming service that's brave enough to put it out there, taran, and just to save some money, taran, it's okay. But uh, one other note I was gonna make. You know, in the 80s when it came out, it was kind of that revitalization scooby-doo went through the same process and for some reason they I guess hannah, barbara just had a formula and they were like, hey, let's make a new series and we're gonna add a new sidekick. So for scrappy, do this, the jetsons had this character named orbity and if you remember him at all, he was just basically this he was like this little creature that has like a garbled dialect. He has coil springs for legs. He changes colors according to his mood.
Nick:He's been described as described as the jar, jar binks of the jetsons, uhetsons. That that's not a great place to be. Not a great place to be. I remember as a kid watching it and not I wasn't super annoyed, and that's the thing, kids, kids don't really notice it as much. You get older and everybody's like oh yeah, everybody else hated Scrappy Doo.
Terran:Well, I guess I hate Scrappy Doo too it's weird that that was the formula, because like didn't the Brady Bunch prove that formula didn't work, like 10 years prior?
Nick:Listen, if we've learned anything. Hollywood and television never learns their lessons, taryn, they're just like add a new character. Let's just make another sequel of this and not learn our lessons from the last time.
Terran:You're not wrong.
Nick:Not wrong. But you know, one thing that people did learn is that there was a lot of tech that the Jetsons kind of predicted, so like a lot like Star Trek.
Terran:Like it's weird how like we tend to base our future technologies based on what we saw as kids on TV.
Nick:Yeah, it's really strange, like, yeah, star Trek did the same thing, but it's just a noteworthy couple of things that the Jetsons kind of put on TV that became reality were like video calls and conferencing. So thanks for for all, for Zoom, jetsons, robotics and animation. That's where the Roomba and stuff like that's coming from your smart homes, your smart watches, even drones. And then one that surprised me Taren was tanning beds. It didn't predict it, but it definitely put it in the forefront of people's minds.
Nick:I'm surprised you didn't mention moving sidewalks, even though we now only have them in airports. So apparently the moving sidewalks did predate the Jetsons, but it just hadn't been pushed out entirely yet. I believe actually one of the Dallas it probably is the DFW airport was one of the first ones to use it. Huh, In my very quick, half-assed research is what I saw.
Terran:So what you're saying is, the creative team behind the Jetsons took a trip to Dallas and they were like this is magical, these are going to be everywhere in the future.
Nick:I don't have to walk anymore, and this is magical. These are going to be everywhere in the future. I don't have to walk anymore. And then we got Wally, where everyone's just in their chairs not doing anything.
Terran:Oh gosh, that future. But anyway, that future we're quickly on the path on.
Nick:We're quickly approaching. It's not far behind. So, really so to kind of hyper focus a little bit, I'm going to talk about Jetsons the movie. Since Jetsons the movie, since we are making a movie. So there was one. There was one that came out in 1990. This was an animated movie. It's actually one of the only proper animated theatrical release movies that Hanna-Barbera did.
Terran:A lot of them were made for TV, like I'm thinking like Scooby Doo and the Rock and Werewolf and the Ghoul School, like those were straight to TV movies.
Nick:Yeah, yeah, and even before that, like they did just a run in the 80s of the Hanna-Barbera All-Stars kind of stuff, where you have all the main characters kind of have their movies and stuff, just hour-long specials basically. But this one was directed by Hanna and Barbera. It's one of their last big projects. It was written by a guy named Dennis Marks. He's basically just known for writing a lot of 80s and 90s cartoons. Know worthy things like spider-man, tmnt, uh, teenage mutant, ninja, turtles and transformers, to note some of them. Uh, the concept of this one, like we said, it's kind of access the series finale. But uh, in the late 21st century, uh, spacely sprockets, uh, you know, mr spacely george's boss, uh, they have opened a new mining colony on a different planet and it turns out that it's being sabotaged by these small teddy bear looking race called grungies yeah, grungies yeah, grungies, because it's destroying their home.
Nick:Clearly it was an ewok situation like let's introduce these characters, maybe they'll sell a lot of toys, and it didn't necessarily work real quick.
Terran:It's interesting that you bring up the ewok similarity because while watching the movie they straight up stole uh, the r2d2 sound effect when he over overloads in new hope. Oh really, wow, I didn't. It happens near the beginning of the movie, I think it's when george is in his car. But like, that sound effect is like one of my like go-to r2d2 ones that I always like and I was like why? Why is it in this movie? Did George Lucas sign off on this?
Nick:Hopefully. If not, he's going to get a big fat paycheck. The budget for this movie was $8 million and it only made $20.3 million. Taren it opened at fourth place behind Die Hard 2, days of Thunder and Dick Tracy, with a weekend gross of $5 million, and they spent about 12 million on marketing and that kind of hurt its ability to turn a profit. They were putting out Kool-Aid ads. I think there was maybe a tie in at McDonald's or Burger King. Wendy's, I believe, actually was the one that got the toy tie in, if I remember correctly. But yeah, they tried their best to be like hey, it's the Jetsons. I think this movie's issue is it came out four or five years too late because it's it's a very 80s vibe movie which makes sense for a, for a Jetsons, you know.
Terran:Yeah, and I mean granted, it's the super early 90s so it's like you know, you always have that sort of like bleed over a decade when it comes to that time frame. But it's like, yeah, like it's. It definitely feels like the movies that came out about three or four years before it. It does not feel like it's breaking ground to stand alongside, like, say, a goofy movie or some of the live action children's fair that we grew up with.
Nick:Yeah, and it's as I said in my letterbox review. I was like it's too close to grunge it. You know the peak of the eighties for for it to have this much of an eighties tone to it, I think. I think that's the thing is like I still enjoyed it as a kid but it definitely watching it now you're like, yeah, this was a little bit of too little, too late kind of situation.
Terran:I will say that it definitely feels like a nineties movie in terms of the ecological like ramification.
Nick:Like it can stand with fern gully in in that way. Sure, yeah, they definitely were like, okay, we're gonna have this save the animals kind of message. But we're still in this like crazy 80s retro vibe kind of thing going on.
Terran:We've got the 3d planets and stuff that are very early stages of cgi kind of thing going on, but it is what it is I found it to be generally fine and enjoyable it is weird that some of that cgi does seem to like look better than some of the modern stuff that I've been seeing like. I don't know if it's like a weird filter pack that's been going around hollywood, but I think there's something to be said about hand-drawn animation over a cgi model versus full cgi.
Nick:That just sometimes does not look good well, one thing, not to get too far off on a tangent. But I did see a video about the phantom menace and it was the film version. Like versus, like their cleaned up digitized version, and the cgi bleeds better. It's like. It's like oh surprise, we made this for film and it looks better on film.
Terran:Who would have thought yeah, you know, yeah there's this weird thing that comes with analog that just kind of like if it's made for analog, it's going to look best on that platform right, yeah, for sure, for sure, to give a quick useless critic stats rundown.
Nick:Um, imdb gave the movie 5.5. Rotten tomatoes gave it a 27 out of 100. Metacritic gave it a 46. From critics. Uh, audiences gave it a 7.1. Letterbox it sits at 2.8. I gave it a three on my letterbox rewatch. Uh, taryn, I don't know if you logged it yet on letterbox, but what would you generally give it?
Terran:I. I would give this probably a solid three. Like it comes to a. It comes to a point where, like it's not a bad film, it's just like, like we've said, it's not breaking any new ground, it's a little too late for the era it was made in.
Nick:It's fine yeah, I think it should. It's obviously it's made by the same creators that started it, so like they get all the characters down and nailed them in the spirit of the original show. But I think and and the attempts to kind of modernize it and make it fit that era are there and I think that they work in different places. In some places they don't necessarily. I mean, we get a full-on music video in the middle of it between when judy's hanging out with her boyfriend and you're just like, oh, that's, this is very take on me right now.
Terran:Okay, we're having're having a moment I thought of a different media that no one else will ever think of. Do you remember the time I traumatized you with the film?
Nick:Toys, the Robin Williams movie. Yes, yes.
Terran:I do. It has a very similar music video in the middle of the movie.
Nick:Okay, maybe I shut that out of my memory. I don't know. I apologize. I apologize, you know. And before we dive too much further, you might be asking yourself, like we often do on the show why did we pick this movie or this series? And, taryn, you're probably asking yourself the same thing. Nick calls you one day and says we're going to do Jetsons, and you're just like okay, sure. Who's this happy?
Nick:to be out of the shadow realm. To be honest, that's fair, that's fair. Welcome back, Welcome back. But the real reason is because this was actually the first movie Taryn I ever saw in a movie theater.
Terran:Oh, wow.
Nick:Okay, yeah, at two years old we were in a mall movie theater in Tennessee. I think my dad was at Reserves or something and my mom was just trying to kill time. So me and my older sisters went to watch it. And my mom explains to me she's like uh, you didn't sit down the entire time, you didn't run around, you just sat in front of your chair and and looked up and probably had your mouth wide open and was just wouldn't move, even though I kept being like nick, sit down, sit down and the love for movies was born in.
Nick:34 years later, we're still here, um. So yeah, it has a little near and dear spot to me, just being that kind of magical first moment for me, and there's pieces of that I still remember. I mean, when you're two years old it's hard to remember a lot of things, but it was still a lot of fun and I enjoyed it and I think there's some nostalgia glasses with it. Rewatching it now, but I can still see like, okay, the pacing's a little off, like it's very much not big enough in terms of the style and the animation to really be worthy, I would say, of a huge theatrical release. I think it was just one of those situations you know oh, yeah, absolutely.
Terran:And um, like going to like I'm trying to remember what the first movie I saw in theaters was and I I don't think this is correct, but the first one I can remember seeing is fern gully. So it's like it's one of those things when you're a little kid and you see something that's larger than life for the first time, like, yeah, like it's going to be grand because it's the first theater experience you're having. But yeah, like, looking back on, like, especially like the Jetsons, it's a film that I think definitely deserved grander than what it got, and it's definitely a film, a franchise. I would say. It's definitely a franchise that I would say.
Nick:I'm sorry to see that it yeah, I mean again, like we saw, like we talked about, it didn't blow up when it first was launched in the 60s and then it had this kind of 80s reboot because it just fit the vibe of the 80s and they tried to make this movie.
Nick:And I'm and it's weird because universal bought the rights to this in the flintstones and we obviously got the flintstones live action movie a few years later and there's even tie-ins to the theme park with the jetsons and stuff leading up to this movie. But but I guess they just didn't have the faith to make it like a full live action thing or just put that much money into it as they did the Flintstones, because the Flintstones was like a juggernaut, it was the Simpsons before the Simpsons, you know, and so I think that's just why it got the attention, the budget it got and that's why it just is what it is. But what happened actually is interesting. Because of the failure of the movie they eventually sold Hanna-Barbera to Ted Turner who invented Cartoon Network, or his group did, and then from there we get a lot of the cartoon cartoons of that show. That's why we got to watch so many Hanna-Barbera shows on Cartoon Network. And then they created the new 90s series like Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Lab and Johnny Bravo and stuff out of that.
Terran:So kind of a phoenix rising from the ashes kind of moments something has to die for something new to be born, kind of thing very much so and I mean, this is maybe one of those things that's going to hit the cutting room floor, uh, when we uh, when we look back on this episode. But I remember playing a cartoon network game uh, it's mmo called fusion fall, where one of the stages of that mmo was the hannah barbara ruins that would have like the hieroglyphics of yogi bear and the flintstones and the jessons, and it was just this weird ancient temple that had that so like, like. It's weird that, like cartoon network, at least up until like the point of the 2010s, was acutely aware that they were built on a foundation of the hannah barbara royalty, to sort of be the foundation to hey, we're going to show you these cartoons until we can get our own catalog up and running, which is when we got powerpuff, dexter's laboratory, johnny, bravo, cow and chicken for sure.
Nick:Yeah, no, that's really funny. That's just funny to think about.
Terran:Here are the lost ruins of of what was before, and I think I remember those I think they even spelled it weird in the game to make it sound like it was some sort of lost name to time of the Han-Bar-Be-Bear. There were weird spaces like letters had been left out.
Nick:Gotcha, gotcha. So just before we dive into this, I want to talk about the adaptations that they've tried to do in the last 20 years. So in 2003, adamankman was going to write and direct a film. Uh, then it got to 2006 and it relaunched that idea with adam f goldberg. In 2007, robert rodriguez enters talks with universal studios and warner brothers to make a cgi adaptation, so that could have been really interesting. The spy kids director for those of you that don't know, and also sin city, uh city. Kanye West in 2012 was mistakenly reported as creative director and I think he just ran with that for a minute. It was like yeah, totally. And then they're like he, that's no there. There was nothing that true from that.
Terran:That feels like the thing Kanye would have said, like he would have put that energy out there just to like hype him up.
Nick:Yes, exactly it was. It was Pete Kanye. Pete Kanye before the dark times. Uh, 2015, Warner brothers was planning a new animated Jetsons feature film, which obviously didn't happen. And then, 2017, there was apparently an, a pilot that was ordered by ABC for a live action sitcom of the Jetsons. None of this has has come to fruition, as far as I know. As far as I could research, it just never happened. So that's what we're doing, Taryn, is that we're going to do it ourselves? So we're going to make our own live action Jetsons movie in the mid, you know, 2010s, and just see where we go with it.
Terran:All right.
Nick:Before we do that, there is one, one question, one thing I want to discuss very quickly before we dive in, and that is the fan theory there are. There are two major fan theories about the Jetsons and I'm just going to quickly go over them, and they both stem from the Jetsons beat, the Flintstones TV movie where, if you're not familiar with that, the Jetsons Elroy he's kind of an inventor kid he invents a time machine and he thinks he's going to take his family into the year like 2500 and ends up actually reversing that and going to the time of the Flintstones, you know, back in 10,000 BC.
Terran:And so your Shannon it gets out of hand. Your math was wrong.
Nick:You mathed math wrong. So there are two theories that have come out of this from fans Taren. The first one is the post-apocalyptic, so this theory had its beginnings from the show and the idea is that, instead, what if the machine actually took them to the 25th century? And what if the machine actually took them to the 25th century? And what if the flintstones are actually set in a post-apocalyptic future? So something happened the bombs dropped and and these space sky cities just did not survive, and that's why the flintstones potentially have tv and appliances and stuff of the modern stone age okay, I mean, I think this theory does have merit, just off the simple fact that, like like you said, it's the modern Stone Age family.
Terran:It's right they have. They have TVs, they have. They have different amenities that you know, the average caveman back in the day would not Right.
Nick:No, no, yeah, Like in, a lot of them are animal based, so like their dishwasher, their, their garbage disposal their shower is like is a woolly mammoth or something like that. Their garbage disposal their shower is like a woolly mammoth or something like that.
Terran:I think that's where the theory may fall apart, though. Is that like what sort of fast acting evolution had to occur for the dinosaurs to come back?
Nick:Right. Well, it could be a thing if you're trying to follow the logic of it. It could be a thing where it's like enough people survived, enough technology survived, and maybe it's kind of the same thing that's discussed in like the Dune series, where they're like we don't trust computers anymore, so we're going to go a different route with our technology and stuff. And so maybe they went let's be a little more analog and just we're going to replicate these animals because they're strong and big and they're going to be our machines and stuff like that. So you know, just just enslaving animals and stuff to do our work.
Terran:That's the logic that they I feel like we found a less ethical way of to bring back dinosaurs than jurassic park was doing I would.
Nick:It seems about that way, yeah no capitalism or slavery.
Terran:Um what's the difference?
Nick:uh, but uh. So apparently somebody pointed out that a official publicity photo for the flintstones whenbbles their child was born. A chart on Wilma's bed clearly lists the birth year as 10,000 BC. So the Flintstones cannot exist at the same time and no apocalypse has occurred, apparently. So if apparently somebody did the deep diving, I will believe them. Sure, absolutely 100%.
Terran:I mean this is to assume they didn't come up with a different timeline, the same way we came up with AD and BC.
Nick:Right, come up with a different timeline, the same way we came up with ad and bc, right. So the other theory we'll jump into taran is that it's called the divided coexistence theory. So this one is just. It's not that the time machine went forwards or backwards, it just sucked and went to straight to the actual earth's uh surface.
Nick:Because it's been like all time machine attempts prior to it. Right, it is because in the jetsons, if you don't know, they live in the sky, like they're these cities. It's kind of like Cloud City in Star Wars, like they're all just above the clouds, so we never really see the ground and the earth and stuff, and so that's. The theory is that it's like, well, they're actually existing at the same time, which could be fun. It's a fun idea.
Terran:You know, you've just got all these humans that are living on Earth unaware that there's flying jets and stuff going around them. I I like this theory just because I find it to be like something that would happen.
Nick:Like, like people would just happen to live next door to like uh, cave people, but they don't know it because they're just so wrapped up in their own future nonsense fair, yeah, or it's the whole thing like well, we don't go to the surface, you know that there's there's monsters down there, and then it's just fred flintstone driving to work.
Terran:I just just don't know how the Flintstones don't realize that there are these giant support beams plastered into the ground everywhere.
Nick:They're just disguised as like giant trees or something it's like no one's ever been able to climb them.
Terran:Because I'll say this, between the Flintstones and the Jetsons, the Flintstones were at least OSHA compliant. The Jetsons is a logistical nightmare that there should be dead people falling from the sky on a daily basis.
Nick:Oh, I'm sure I, I bet I wonder what the like, the toll is of people like well, we got another person jumping off the building again. That's a very dark reality to think about, but I mean that happens, you know.
Terran:Yeah, like it's it's one of those things that like the more I looked at Jetsons, I was like how are these people surviving up there? This is a death trap in the sky, it's true.
Nick:It's true. So one thing that does ruin this theory is that there are two episodes that show the Jetsons on the ground. Apparently, in episodes six and seven the original series run, they do end up on the ground. So sorry about you, star Trek is retconned, worse, retconned, worse. You know it is what it is. So, yeah, so, all that removed, I think we're ready to cast here.
Terran:Are you ready? Let's get into it.
Nick:So if you're wondering, okay, what are you casting? You cast in the movie, casting the show, we're casting just the main members of the TV show, the main players, and that's going to astro blue sorry, yeah, apollo blue or whatever his name is from the tv show, the movie. Excuse me one, one of judy jetson's many conquests, one of her many boy boyfriends that she goes after it's. It's a running gag of the show in the movies, especially in the movie, she literally is like crying because cosmo started dating my friend after I left earth and immediately turns and goes oh, it's a romeo and juliet situation. It's a Romeo and Juliet situation.
Nick:It's immediately Rosalind who, yeah, exactly so, from bottom to top, we're doing Cogswell, the rival of Spacely, mr Spacely and his sprockets. We have Astro, the family dog. Rosie the robot, the butler robot, mr Spacely himself. Elroy Jetson, the boy genius wonder, judy Jetson, the teenage daughter of the Jetsons, jane Jetson, boy genius wonder. Judy jetson, the teenage, uh, daughter of the jetsons. Jane jetson, the wife, and george jetson himself. Mr I go to work and push buttons all day um.
Terran:Relatable in a modern context oh yeah, I do find it kind of odd that george's job is only pushing one button like what? How can I get into that career path?
Nick:see, even in the future. They understood that, ai, we couldn't just fully allow the machines to take over somebody. We had to have at least the human to go. Okay, start. But uh, we're gonna do a quick run, kind of our 30 seconds or less, with cogswell, astro and rosie, just because, uh, we'll have a quick discussion about two of the characters and one of them is actually a character that will be played by a human for sure. So, taryn, let's really quickly talk about Astro and Rosie the robot. Obviously, in the show Astro is a kind of talking dog, alice Scooby-Doo, and then Rosie the robot is a robot. So how, how were you visualizing them in your live action version of your movie?
Terran:So I was definitely thinking more like CGI amongst the human characters, like, even though that this would be like a good 15 years after the fact, I was thinking astro should be like almost verbatim scooby-doo, like live action scooby-doo, yeah, um, just the same animation, the same energy, like probably, you know, you'd have more pixels dedicated to showing his fur, but yeah, like same sort of style yeah, we're still in that era when, when there's adaptations like this, they're still trying to go for a sense of realism, even though you have a talking dog like scooby-doo.
Nick:But you know, and we've reached this point now where, like with the whole sonic debacle which turned out for the better because they were like we don't like hyper realistic sonic, give us cartoony sonic and it worked and it just can be good sometimes, right, yes, so I, I don't know, I think, depending on your aesthetic, because it's also something to think about you. You know the original show was following this style that the name escapes me, but it was that popular kind of look of the 50s and 60s where it had that space age.
Nick:Yeah, kind of art deco. There's another term that starts with a G that escapes me at the moment, some architect type person screaming it right now. Yeah, we're movie people, not art people. Sorry, sorry, so sorry. But I think if you're blending that in with it, kind of giving that shiny kind of future look to it and everything, I think there's room to have a little bit more of a cartoony Astro versus the just we have to make him real as possible.
Terran:I mean Scooby-Doo did that too, like when we were in Spooky Island it definitely felt like, ok, this is a realistic version of what the cartoon was, sort of like yeah, yeah, yeah for sure.
Nick:And then with with rosie, I think I would blend, I would, I would have a robot on set and just have a lot of fun with that, but then have some little pieces that are added for with cgi and stuff now let me ask you this do you modernize?
Terran:how rosie looks? I?
Nick:think that's the question. It's like, do you adhere very strictly to the look of the original 60s show and give it that kind of retro throwback, or do you kind of try to modernize, like the definition of the future, you know, because I think you want to lean towards the fan base and make sure that george and everybody looks like they're supposed to in dresses like they did in the past, but not where it's ridiculous, like if you try to look up cosplay of a lot of these characters, they're gonna look kind of ridiculous because they don't quite fit on normal human bodies oh exactly, yeah, and so I think there's some, some level of like adjustment that's gonna go on.
Nick:But I would, I would like to see, yeah, some of that art deco. Uh, look that sci-fi, retro, look going on I would.
Terran:I would probably steal a page from the not the most modern but now like from the early 2000s Lost in Space when they had to update the robot. So they gave it a very different look, even though they use the same voice. But by the end of the movie, will Robinson has to actually rebuild robot and that's when his classic body comes out. I don't know if you could do that same type of story, but maybe you show, like the Rosie the robot had, like a previous model, that now this is the new upgrade, where you you honor what came before but you still share. Hey, like you know, maybe in the future they still upgrade things right, yeah, I mean, you could.
Nick:Yeah, that could be a whole storyline of itself of like kind of moving on from the past and trying to accept some change that's going on. It's like, well, this is not the rosy I remember. It's like, no, it's still rosy, it's just she just looks different. Yeah, um, so real quick. Uh, we'll start with astro taryn. Who do you have in mind for astro? Is it a voice actor?
Terran:so he has done some voice work, but I think he's definitely more known for his actual like on a film presence. Um, he is known for his work in uh comedy in particular. Um, because I definitely wanted a more comedic field, to be like a child's companion, and I went with Dan Fogler who who I know him from balls of fury, but he was also Jacob in the fantastic B series Gotcha.
Nick:Okay, how do you spell Fogler for F?
Terran:O G L E R L E R.
Nick:And Dan is just D A N D? A? N. Okay, perfect, cool. Yeah, dan Fogler? Oh, the guy from he's also in Fantastic Beast, and when to Find them? He's the assistant guy. I don't know if you said that. I apologize.
Terran:I literally said his name is Jacob, okay.
Nick:Yeah, and then he's in Fanboys and Good Luck, chuck, for people that aren't familiar at that time. Yeah, think that's really funny. He could. He could definitely have some fun with the astro character voice personality, especially I. I went with a more uh, uh classic voice actor from the 90s, hank azira. Uh, known for simpsons. Uh, he's also done live action work, uh, as in mystery men and godzilla. I just think you know it was just kind of like a quick, easy layup of like this guy, he, he does those kind of voices really well and I think he, he would nail like the Astro voice that we all know and kind of love, oh yeah, yeah. But who's your Rosie? Who do you have in mind for her?
Terran:So my Rosie is someone that what she's in for me is very hit and miss, but I went with Melissa McCarthy.
Nick:Okay, yeah, I thought about her for sure. Yeah, she kind of fits the vibe, because Rosie's very sarcastic or kind of isn't just a slave robot, she's a butler or whatever you would call. It Is a female butler, a maid, thank you. She does all the work, but she's not afraid to throw some sass at George when he complains about oh, you didn't cook eggs this morning or you burnt the toast, or something like that my one.
Terran:My one issue with casting her was that I was afraid it would be too close to another role that she had, where she plays the role of a Sookie in um Gilmore girls. She's like the cook for the hotel and she's the best friend to Lorelei and I think of that exact energy like really fits Rosie.
Terran:Energy like really fits rosie. But it may just been a little too close to home, so I couldn't think of anyone else better to fit that role, but I would afraid be a little bit afraid of it being typecasting that's fair.
Nick:That's fair. Well, speaking of typecasting, I might have hit the nail right on the head, taryn, because I'm bringing an old classic from the 90s as well. Uh, she was in the flintstones and I don't really I didn't really think where this is going now so for rosie the robot, I'm bringing you rosie o'donnell, yeah I, I actually thought about her too.
Nick:That one was pretty, pretty straightforward. Yeah, I, I just didn't. She kind of is rosie the robot to an extent in terms of like the sass and the characterization classic 90s rosie o'donnell like absolutely 100 yeah, if you don't know her, yeah, she was bet was Betty in Flintstones, she's in Harriet.
Nick:The Spy League of their Own Sleep is in Seattle. She's done voice work in Tarzan. She was Turk in that one and then here recently she's been kind of doing more of the same. She hasn't been as big on the radar with a lot of stuff, but has made appearances in TV shows like Empire, captain Shake and the Neverland Pirates, the TV series Mom and then the Fosters, and then she has cameos in things like Pitch Perfect 2. But I just think she's going to nail it. We miss Rosie O'Donnell anyway. We need her to come back and I think this is a good little spot for her in the 2010s to have a fun, memorable role here.
Terran:Absolutely. I am not upset with either one of our choices. Excellent, excellent.
Nick:Alright, let our choices, excellent, excellent, all right, let's round out our quote-unquote 30 or less with cogswell. Again, he's the rival to mr spacely. He's the guy with glasses, that's a little taller and he's kind of he's very much a caricature of like that 60s, 50s businessman type. He's kind of got that voice and he's just yeah, you're a businessman, right, and so that's just kind of the original concept for him. So, taryn, I will ask you again who is your Cogswell?
Terran:So, Cogswell, like I definitely went with him, being sort of like the guy that always ones up, Mr Spacely, Like he is the bane of Mr Spacely's existence For sure. And going back, I went back to a specific character from a somewhat obscure movie of Honey we Shrunk Ourselves. Oh, the neighbor to these Linsky's that ends up getting shrunk with with the main couple. His the actor's name is Stuart Pankin, and even though I know him from honey, we shrunk the kids. He was also in Congo. He was played Boyd in Congo.
Nick:Oh, okay, yeah, he's. He's one of those faces. You definitely remember him. I remember him from Honey we Shrunk Ourselves.
Terran:In fact, in 2015, he actually did an episode of Girl Meets World where he plays the principal and even like watching that clip just to see if I was still getting that feeling of him at this stage in his career. It's like he knows how to like play that sort of like that smug, like I know exactly what's going on, but then when the tables turn and he's on like the receiving end of the bad news, he just like it will become still that comedic, like oh no, like I realized the pain I'm about to go through, type character right, absolutely.
Nick:Um, just a quick note, I do want to. This is an animation, uh centric show, so I want to highlight the voice actors of these people. Um, rosie the robot was originally played by jean evander pile. She's best known for playing Wilma Flintstone in the original series. Don Messick is known for multiple roles. He voiced Astro, but he's also voiced Scooby-Doo, bam Bam from the Flintstones, muttley the dog and wacky races, boo Boo and Ranger Smith and the Yogi Bear, papa Smurf and the Smurfs, hampton J Pig for you millennials and tiny to adventures and Dr Ben Quest in Johnny Quest. So he's one of those big, big animation voice actor types. And then Cogswell was voiced by Dawes Butler, who's also a big Hanna-Barbera voice actor. He did Yogi Bear, huckleberry Hound, snagglepuss and Quick Draw McGraw, to just name a few very memorable ones from back in the day.
Terran:So what you're telling me, nick, is that Hanna-Barbera was not afraid to just let these guys like oh, you want to be part of the new show? Well, yeah, you're in.
Nick:I mean, that's just the way it was. You know, up the list we've got Mel Blanc that did Mr Spacey and he was just the Looney Tunes guy. You know, like before we got like the stunt castings of celebrities and us from the 90s that have podcasts now or they show up at comic cons and everybody's just like please do the voice one more time. They like they had a read through the star wars playing all these different characters.
Terran:So it's which is hilarious. If you guys haven't seen that, you should absolutely find that footage online yeah, for sure.
Nick:I'm sure it's on youtube or something. Um, just to move things along, though, I was tempted to pick the literal lookalike in real life of Kevin Spacey, but given that Kevin Spacey is Kevin Spacey right now, I'm going to sidestep that and give you Bob Odenkirk. Okay, yeah, bob Odenkirk. If you know him, he's from Better Call Saul. More recently, he was in Breaking Bad as Saul Goodman. Then he was in Breaking Bad as Saul Goodman, then he was in a movie called Nobody, which is kind of a John Wick kind of ripoff, quote unquote.
Nick:At this point in time in the mid 2010s, he's in between those shows, breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. He's about to start Better Call Saul in 2015. And then he's a writer on the Birthday Boys this TV show and then he's doing a podcast called Comedy Bang Bang is this TV show, and then he's doing a podcast called Comedy Bang Bang. But I just think he has so much fun playing the smarmy lawyer that I could see him easily playing the smarmy company owner. That's just always, like you said, always one-upping Mr Spacely, always giving him crap and just really adding some humor and comedy to it as well, because he's also a pretty decent writer with a lot of stuff as well. Oh yeah, absolutely For sure, for sure. I like both our choices. I think I liked that you went kind of an unexpected character actor. Then I went with someone that's is a character actor, but he's kind of gotten that a boost just being so prominently known as Saul Goodman, for sure.
Terran:Both of our choices. Pick like they. They fit this character well, but in different ways, Sure ways, sure for sure, absolutely.
Nick:Okay, we knocked out our quote-unquote 30 seconds or less, so let's jump into our main five, and we're going to start with the boss man himself, mr spacely. He was originally voiced by mel blank. Uh, in the original series. In case you don't know, mel blank, yes, he's the man of a thousand voices. Bugs bunny, just keep going down that list. He's probably voiced them on the looney toon side.
Nick:Uh, he, this is actually one of his last films, taron. He actually didn't get to finish everything, and so voice actor Jeff Bergman was used in some scenes, just because he passed away during production and the film was actually dedicated to him, and George O'Hanlon, who voices George, because they both passed away while making the movie. But Mr Spacely, he's just a greedy curmudgeon kind of a Scrooge type of character. There's actually an episode from the 80s where they do the whole Christmas Carol thing with him, but he just never gives George rage, never gives him a promotion, and that's something that they finally touch on in the movie, where George finally gets the promotion. But he's just always the yell at George through the intercom, through the voice chat, and he's a small man. He's got some Napoleon complex going on. Taryn, I'm going to go first for you because there wasn't a lot of thought with this one. This one was pretty easy for me.
Terran:I don't know if we have the same person we may, because I thought about this for four seconds before I knew exactly who I was going to pick.
Nick:Well, jesse Reisner is going to be super happy. Friend of the show, used to be our editor and also guy behind the scenes. I'm giving you danny devito taran oh, okay, I can see that.
Terran:I can see that, not who I went with, but I could see it taran.
Nick:There are so many roles from animation that when they're talking about making these live action movies, I'm like he's right there, danny devito's right there, just cast the man he's. We don't have him for much longer. We don't know how much longer we get danny devito don't you put that energy out there not? Knocking on wood, just I'm just saying. I'm just saying art, people get old, it happens. But just cast a new video please, as mr spacely come on, we that's what the world wants to see.
Terran:Oh guys, I mean, let's be perfectly honest, I would want to see danny devito play most, most roles. Like, yeah, like I would watch a whole movie of danny devito playing every character.
Nick:It doesn't matter what the movie is. We need a john malkovich being john malkovich with dan devito, that's. That's the kind of level he's on at this point.
Terran:Yes, absolutely so. Um, I decided on my mr spacely about as quickly as you did, but I went with a different direction because, um, mr spacely, every time I was watching like an episode or I was watching the movie, he just comes across as this guy that like he always knows what's best. Even when he doesn't know what's best, he's 100 percent certain in his own crookedness that like, oh no, this is the morally right thing to do because it helps me, and every time I saw him it just would another character not the actor, but a character would pop up. The problem is is that this character is also tied hand in hand with the actor that portrays him. Oh, okay.
Terran:So every time I would see Mr Spacely, I would see J Jonah Jameson. Oh, okay, which? Means I automatically saw JK Simmons.
Nick:Hey, it's the mustache. I think it works. It works. I don't think that's a bad choice at all. I think he definitely. I mean it's he. You're putting him into a kind of a specific genre of acting where it's like hey, you're just the boss that yells at people, but by gosh, he's so good at it. That's. That's why he does it so well that's why he got an oscar and whiplash for doing it. Yeah, he beat up miles teller telling him to get on tempo. He's gonna yell it.
Terran:I'm doing him a courtesy because in 2015 the thing that he was in, the biggest thing he was in, was terminator genesis oh, no, man, we need a good terminator movie.
Terran:We're due for one and see, here's the thing terminator genesis is like one of those like guilty pleasure movies that like I know it's bad but I'll still watch it, sure, um, but jk simmons role in that movie was not like he wasn't john connor, he was like a detective. That was just proven right because he's witnessed the events of the first terminator movie. Gotcha, okay, gotcha like I feel like I could like say like dude, come in, like play like jay jonah jameson light in this movie, sure have fun with it.
Nick:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh. Danny devito right now other than doing sunny in philadelphia uh, he's in a movie called in the wilderness and ben is in the one direction.
Terran:Music video for steal my girl which mad props for one direction on having the wisdom to hire danny devito.
Nick:For sure, for sure, I'm gonna have to go watch this later because I'm just like what? Why is danny devito? It's not a question of why, but just how are you using danny devito? I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued, all right. Well, yeah, I like both our choices that both work again in different ways in their specialities. So we're going to move up to Elroy. Elroy Jetson. He is the youngest child of the Jetson family. He is voiced originally by a man by the name of Dawes Butler, who also voiced Cogswell, but I guess that he passed away because he's voiced instead by Patrick Zimmerman, and he's a voice actor of 80s and 90s cartoons. But, strangely, what a lot of people may actually know him for is he is the voice of a video game character from the series Metal Gear Solid. He is Revolver Ocelot. It's a. It's a it's kind of this one of the big villains of reoccurring throughout the entire series. So it's just funny that he's playing that character, but also playing Elroy.
Terran:My boy Elroy. What have you become?
Nick:Yes, exactly, but uh for dolls. But let me talk about it. You know he worked on a lot of those, uh, Hanna-Barbera cartoons, quick drama graw Yogi bear kid. He invents things here and there in the movie. He has a. He's a basketball player, because nothing screams 90s more than I love basketball.
Terran:Yeah that was one thing jesson's got right about the 90s is that, uh, whatever sport was big before, basketball reigned supreme in the 90s exactly 100 for sure, um, and he for for being a kid in the show.
Nick:He I never took him as annoying, you know, no, I never sat there and went. Oh, elra is so annoying like he. He strangely was. He's because he's very, like, relaxed and chill half the time and he's never really he's not. He's not the over obnoxious or loud all the time kind of character.
Terran:He's usually kind of sometimes a voice of reason with a lot of the series and stuff when george is doing something crazy yeah, he's definitely more of like a will robinson character who, like he's a kid, but he's also kind of like that inter, like that introverted type personality. He wasn't like a cousin Oliver from the Brady Bunch. That was just like, oh crap, this kid's on screen again right, for sure.
Nick:Okay, taryn, who is your Elroy?
Terran:so I actually had a little bit of trouble with my Elroy, because I wanted to get a kid who like looked like he could be Elroy's age and not be like a teenager trying to portray a kid, sure, uh, but also have like a level of acting chops behind them to like be able to like portray a more complex character. Yeah, um, I went with oaks fegley, who is not a household name, uh, as of yet I think he's actually getting bigger and bigger because he's actually been in some pretty big stuff here lately. Um, I think he's been in, um, uh, what was it? What was that? A spielberg movie that came out about movie makers, the fableman's. He was in the fableman's, okay, um, but I and you would probably most know him as playing, uh, pete in pete's dragon.
Nick:Oh, the reboot that came out a couple years ago oh yeah, back in 2016 this would be one year before my casting year that I chose for myself nice and again we're loose on the rules in this, in these episodes, so it's not like, hey, you gotta get, you gotta hit, you gotta hit the numbers, but uh, yeah, I think that, that, I think that works. I, I vaguely remembering him, I remember him kind of having that. It's what we would call. What do you call?
Nick:it's like, uh, old spirit or whatever, or he's an old soul old soul, but it's really just like oh, you're a weird kid, that doesn't mean that you're like wise and majestic or anything. Yeah, just like you're saying a lot of interesting things, but no, that that totally makes sense. Like I could. I think I'm, if I'm remembering correctly from that character. I think he, he has all those credentials for sure that we've just discussed. Um, I was initially just gonna really just lean into some fan favorite and give you the guy who voiced Charlie Brown in the Peanuts reboot.
Nick:He's mainly known for Stranger Things and he's Will in Stranger Things it's.
Terran:Noah.
Nick:Shop. I was tempted to go with someone else, but I'll just go with him because he's pretty well known. He gets started with Stranger Things right in 2016. Before that, he does the Pean peanut show or the movie, excuse me and then he's also in bridge of spies. Uh, I think that's another spielberg movie. So we just pick spielberg guys, okay, yeah, so well, we're trusting spielberg with his child actor.
Terran:I mean, if you're gonna, trust anybody.
Nick:It's the one, like spielberg chose him. So we can't be that bad. Yeah, but no, I, I like, I like both of those. I think think again, we just, we trust the master and so we just we're just going to roll with it. So up next, taryn, and remind me it's how do you spell his last name? Oaks, what?
Terran:Oaks, fegley, that's F E G L E Y.
Nick:L E Y cool, cool, cool. So up next we have judy jetson. Now she this. This role in the movie in particular was a little controversial, but originally she was played by janet waldo. Uh, she voiced a lot of hannah, barbara, characters like penelope pitstop from the wacky races, uh, princess from battle of the planets, and then josie in josie and the pussycats. Okay, so she's. She's kind of like their go-to, like we need a young female voice, and they were like get her, except for when we make the movie, because they swapped her out for the pop star known as Tiffany Taryn.
Terran:Yeah, yeah, I saw that recasting in the opening credits.
Nick:Yeah. So Tiffany, if you don't know, she was a pop star back in the 80s. She recorded several songs for the movie and I guess somewhere along the way because Janet Waldo recorded her lines, Somewhere along the way because Janet Waldo recorded her lines and then they just decided for continuity but also to try to get some younger people's eyes on the product. We're going to have Tiffany do all this and it was actually one of her first feature works in this movie. She's just simply credited as Tiffany. But Janet Waldo, she was just super upset, Even like the casting director, Andrea Romano, requested that her name be removed from the credits because that's how much she believed in a mistake it was. They were like, wow, it was just a betrayal of, because she was one of the last voice actors of the original cast that was still alive and after the movie came out.
Terran:Yeah, I mean, I get it, because I mean not to bring up another animated movie to compare it to. But like that's kind of what happened with Scoob. When you have the actors who have been portraying these characters for decades, like literal decades, and they are just replaced without even a phone call, like yeah, it hurts.
Nick:Yeah, it's kind of I don't know if this is the first time it happens where like a star is put in place instead of like an act a proper actor, you know, or voice actor, you know but it's in the 90s. You're starting to see that turn of the tide which really starts to happen because of robin williams's genie which he had. He was very much against him being advertised a lot as it. He didn't want to be like the main focus of it but it just became that and from there now we have where they have. It's like they just you get.
Nick:You get the 20 names on the animated cartoon list because for some reason they think that'll sell. They'll put butts in seats and I'm like, okay, maybe one name, but like you don't need 20 a-list actors to make it. Like the art of voice acting is so much bigger and better and there's so many great names that are out there and they need to have more opportunities than just tv shows and stuff and that's not to say that there aren't voice or there aren't, um, like live action actors who can't do really good voice work.
Terran:Sure, but it's this like this notion that like, oh, we're going to stack the deck and create this like big celebrity casting. It's like, well, no, like if they can do the job, let them do the job, but if not and you also already have people who are like, know these characters and know their personalities and know their ins and outs why are you messing with the formula? Why are you messing with a good thing?
Nick:yeah, and and luckily before uh, hannah and barbara passed away, they did kind of do a public apology about it and they even apologized to her and I think janet waldo was accepting of it. So everyone was cool. There was no, no concurring bad blood per se. But Judy, like we said, she's just kind of a typical teenager, especially that throwback to the 60s and 50s where it's like they're obsessed with a pop artist or that lead singer of the band and stuff and they really lean again into that. Where Judy's in the 80s she's into that rock star looking guy, they definitely make him look like a Boy, boy, george or a david bowie type of looking guy or somebody from, like you know, one of the one of the hair bands of the time. But she again, she's just, she's always kind of a little dramatic, little overly dramatic and stuff, but it's, it's a fun role.
Nick:She. She definitely the voice actress you can tell definitely has a lot of fun. And even tiffany to, to her credit. She did a decent job, I would say, in the movie. It wasn't like it was other than the fact that it didn't, it wasn't the original voice, it was like she did a okay job. Wouldn't like you're like man, this is just, this is not a good reading. But uh, taryn, tell me who you have for judy jesson, because you said you had a pretty quick answer for that, so yeah, uh, judy was actually the first person that I cast, mainly because she was maybe the one I was most concerned about.
Terran:Okay, because when I was watching the movie and I saw that she that she had like a singing role, like you know, tiffany the singer being the character like yeah, like you kind of put those puzzle pieces together Like there's going to be a song somewhere in here.
Terran:So I was like I need someone who is going to fit the role of teenage girl in the mid 2010s, who can also sing. So I went to the factory that generates those kids. I looked at Disney Channel OK sure, and I actually already had this character, this actress, in mind, because I've seen her in a few other things. One of the first things I ever saw her in was she played a small role in Agents of SHIELD, but she is also known for her roles in live and maddie on disney channel and the descendants movie, which I think is about the children of the disney villains on disney channel.
Nick:Yeah, I think that's right. I've never actually watched it, but yeah, I think I think you're on point but uh, the actress I'm going with is dove cameron oh okay, yeah, I've never actually seen anything she's been in but but I'm very aware of her. I'm just like, yeah, I know who that is.
Terran:I've seen her on red carpets all the time. Yeah, I think. More recently she's been in a comedy about Broadway called Schmigadoon with, I think, yeah, key from Key Peele. But she's also been doing a lot of comedy work work. She's been doing a lot of drama work alongside of it. I think she has the acting chops to pull off, you know teenage girl, especially when she was portraying one in disney channel, uh, stuff, uh. But she also has a singing voice that I think if they still wanted to have that big music number, I think she could step up to the plate and still do that gotcha okay, yeah, all right, cool.
Nick:yeah, she definitely has the look that that can agree with you upon for sure. I can't speak on her acting ability or anything, but the looks. Definitely there, a hundred percent. You talking about that, I thought I almost thought you were going to pick a girl of of 2024, sabrina Carpenter, and that made me sit there and go. Oh wait, do I need to change my answer?
Terran:So I thought about Sabrina. I think she would just be a little too young for the role.
Nick:That's as you were talking. It's like, do I need to change my answer? But I was looking and she's still in girl meets world right now. So like, I think later, like the late 20s or late 2010s, she could be up for a conversation, uh, but I think right now, yeah, she's still a little bit of like a tweenager versus teenager. Yeah, but I went in the same vein and I was trying to find. You know, I was looking at actresses and then I found somebody that you could say is controversial not really controversial, just like this kind of leans into her personality or like her stage persona, I guess you could say. But I'm giving you ariana grande oh okay what people have to remember.
Nick:You know this right at this point, she has just finished salmon cat. Before that she was in victorious the tv show, uh, and. And then at this point she's doing her music, getting getting kick-started with songs like bang bang with jesse j and nikki minaj. Santa, tell me the christmas song that gets stuck on every uh playlist I see now and then, uh, love me harder with the weekend, but. And she does have appearance on Scream Queens the TV show, yeah, but so bad about that.
Nick:Yeah, it's one of those things that you have to remember. She can act, she's pretty good at it, and I think that she can definitely lead into that whole overdramatic like oh my gosh, the world's going to end because this boy doesn't love me, kind of thing. And you know, you gave her the white hair and the ponytail kind of vibes which she already kind of has claimed, and I just think she's kind of going to nail it, especially like in a comedy sense, like I think she'll, she'll get, she'll get the, the note you know.
Terran:Oh, yeah, I think both of our options, like like so many of our previous picks, they definitely fit the role in different ways, but both of them fitted well yeah for sure, for sure.
Nick:Yeah, I like both of those picks for sure. All right, we're at the last two here. We're doing good on time. Let's talk about Mrs George Jetson, jane Jetson herself voiced by Penny Singleton. Most people will know Penny Singleton you probably won't actually, to be honest, but older people may know Penny Singleton, sorry to call you out. During her six decade career on stage, screen and radio, she was known other than this role. She appeared as the comic strip heroine Blondie Bumstead in a series of 28 motion pictures from 38 to 1950. And then the popular Blondie radio program from 1939 to 1950. So one of those classic voice actresses of the time and actresses from yesteryear. But Jane, she's often the level headed of the two parents and she her. The joke is, yes, she's playing and they're playing into the whole, like in the opening sequence when they were naming off everybody. She takes George's wallet, cause she's going to go shopping and stuff. She. She's a. She's a modern woman, taryn. She's a modern woman, taryn, and she spends her time just enjoying the good things in life.
Terran:Did you watch any episodes of Jetsons getting ready for this? Because I saw a big character difference between TV episode Jane and movie Jane. Yeah, dive into that then please.
Terran:Well, like with the movie, Jane is very much like the moral center of the family. She's the one that tells George like hey, your new job is murdering small animals unintentionally, but now that you know you now have to choose to do it like to go against that or otherwise you'll be intentionally murdering small animals. Um, in the tv show, though, like there's multiple episodes where she's kind of played as this, like airheaded, like not really connected into anything, like there's I saw one episode where she's trying to get her driver's license, and it's like just basic things of like hey, don't remove literal like buttons and levers from the dash as you're driving yeah, I think that's very much.
Nick:You're seeing the times shifting, with jane jetson for sure where. Because, like now, you have a bunch of people that complain that tv dads, cartoon cartoon TV dads are all idiots. And it's like, well, the coin was flipped about 30 or 50 years before this, where the wife was the airhead, and now Homer Simpson, peter Griffin, bob's Burgers they're all the more buffoons of the family and the moms become the voice of reason and it's that thing. Both sides are correct. And it's like, well, they don't. They don't like it Cause I, they're making me seem like an idiot. It's like, yes, you've both been the idiot, congrats, we're now. We're on the level table. Hopefully now we can move forward.
Terran:Yeah, and in all fairness, george isn family is maybe elroy again that's he's usually, if I remember quickly.
Nick:It's always like george about just do something done and arrow is like well, dad, are you sure you should do that? He's like george elroy, I got it, don't worry, I got it. And then, and then proceeds to make a fool of himself.
Terran:Yeah, so, uh, with jane, I wanted someone to kind of like split the difference between the two. I needed someone who was going to uh be able to do some of the more comedic elements of like early jane, while still being able to have like the heart as well. Um, and I also like, uh, I wanted to go with someone who could just kind of fit that mold of like maybe you know, in the future you you're able to be, maybe a little bit like you, you look younger because of future tech and future beauty product. Yeah, so I went with isla fisher.
Nick:Oh, that's fun. I like that, that's fun. Yeah, I like that, that's fun.
Terran:Yeah, Cause like she, you know she can do comedy cause she was in like wedding crashers and um, like she's been in like the now you see me movie and it's poorly named sequel, Um, but she's also plays she plays a mom in a godmother, which was like a Disney plus, um, uh, like the mom, like she plays as a single mom, so I know she can carry that like that heart of a character sure, sure.
Nick:No, I love isla fisher. She's always great and like watching her and I think the first thing I saw her in was wedding crashers. But then you get to see her and other stuff and you're kind of surprised like she voices one of the characters in rango and I was like, oh, that was her, that's great, that's actually fun.
Nick:So she, she's one of those. I think when we first saw her it was like, oh, she plays this ditzy character, she should this. And then you get to see like her range really open up in the more role she does.
Terran:From that point on and not to mention she plays mary jane and scooby-doo oh, that's right.
Nick:That's right. She was the shaggy's love interest in the original movie, that's right. But you know, that's the thing I've noticed on tiktok and stuff is everybody's pointing out that Shaggy's the only one that's like dating outside of the group Most of the time. Velma tries in the sequel and then Shaggy's just like hot girl here, hot girl there, hot girl there. I don't know what that is, but that's just something that everybody's noticed. Everyone needs to be a Shaggy, I guess so Well.
Nick:So I picked one of my favorite actresses to the drop here, but when I thought about a live action Jetsons movie, she's always the name that's come up for me it's Carla Gugino. Okay, yeah, most people will know her from. She was the mom in Spy Kids. She's been in Watchmen the movie. Recently she was in Fall of the House of Usher, which was a great series and really got to show her range.
Nick:She's one of those actresses Corey and them will make fun of me because I talk about her too much but she really should be a bigger star than she is. Her range is outstanding. She's got old Hollywood looks to her in terms of her looks stunning. But I think she could just nail not just the look of Jane Jetson, but also the vibes as well, and I think they're still fun to be played with. You talked fun to be played with. Like you talked about those two kind of different versions of her. I think you can still make her a little bit whimsical, a little bit like unaware of her surroundings to an extent, but still like the heart and the you know, the compass of the family for sure. Absolutely, I think both can be true and you could just make for a very fun character to play that still has those dramatic moments like george. We got to get this together yeah, yeah.
Terran:Like when you have that, that, uh, that come to your reasons, come to your senses. Moment in the end of the film, like you need someone to carry that heart but still have fun with the other more comedic elements of living in the post-modern future.
Nick:Yeah and I think you could also play off of the fact that maybe jane and george are both a bit ditzy in a sense, or accidental, and that's kind of how they got together or how like they they relate to each other a lot. It's like oh, we're both a little bit of a little bit of nutcases here, and so I think that that can be an endearing trait that bonds the two characters absolutely so I have, if I was playing by the rules, the normal rules of our quantum recast show.
Nick:Uh, she's doing San Andreas with the rock around this time. The big big movie, and then the Brink tv show, which is not brink, the disney channel original movie, sadly. Oh, but I have no problem with her missing out on either of those.
Terran:So yeah, if we were playing that isla fisher was only in uh what I? The only thing I could see her in in 2015 was visions, which, okay. To be honest, I don't even know what that movie's about.
Nick:Interesting, okay well, yeah, so we're not doing any damage if we had to take her out of something. Yeah, if you're not familiar with the rest of our show, usually if someone is in a movie the year we go to, they lose those movies if we cast them. But here we're relaxed, we're relaxed, we're just having fun, we're just throwing out some casts that we enjoy yeah, we're not yelling at each other and risking our friendship, so I like this version of it's really nice and chill.
Nick:You know, all right, taron, we're at the top of the list. Mr george jetson, the the breadwinner, I guess, of the family, even though he just goes and pushes a button. But I guess that's all you could do in the future, when everything's automated, and mostly robotics also.
Terran:I, when I was doing my research for this, I did find do you know how many hours a week george jetson works? How many hours does he work? Nine what yeah, apparently in the future, like it was predicted that when we were, uh, at that point of technological advancement, you would work nine hours a week and still get full pay okay, sign me up.
Nick:Number one, I know right. Uh, number two why aren't we there yet? Why? Why do we keep? Why do we keep delaying this? The robots are already taking over. Ai is already a thing. Why are? Why are we keep? Why do we keep delaying this? The robots are already taking over. Ai is already a thing. Why are why are we waiting on this? Just let it happen. I'll push a button and get paid.
Terran:Yeah, that's how we had time for all of the hijinks he got into with the show, exactly.
Nick:And what's funny is one man of the people. He wakes up the movies like I was dreaming about sleeping and I'm like he's same For sure. So George is played by a George George O'Hanlon. He was best known for playing a character named Joe McDokes in Warner Brothers live action. Joe McDokes shorts from 1942 to 56. He's also gets a fun cameo in the original Rocky movie as a TV commentator, which is kind of fun. So I have to give it's kind of a downer Taron, but this is his last voice acting role. Yeah, he suffered a stroke. So when he made the series and movie, I guess in the 80s I don't know if it was true in the 60s, but he practically he's basically blind and had very little short term memory and he had to have each line spoken to him so he could repeat it back, which is crazy.
Terran:Yeah, like that level of dedication though, sure.
Nick:Yeah, and then the fact that he does it so well even despite all of that. So what's even wilder is that he literally died making this movie, taron. Yeah, he, a few moments before his death, george O'Hanlon had recorded all his dialogue for George Jetson. According to voice director Andre Romano, he had suffered a second stroke, found it difficult to read and hear and in the end he died in the recording studio doing what he loved. So I'm like, if that's the case, if that's like his dying wish is like just let me, let me finish this out. It's what I'm holding on to do, by all means. I just hope that they're not, like you know, weakened at bernie's, it almost and just being like come on, just come on, george, do the thing, do the thing. You know, because we've heard horror stories of old hollywood and stuff. I'm just hoping that, yes, he got to kind of do what he loved doing and it was just kind of like his last wish. And they're like absolutely, we'll make you comfortable.
Terran:Whatever you need to happen happens, yeah I mean, it's definitely one of those stories that, like you, you don't hear that story and have like a sense of like, oh well, that's good that you know he got to, you know, do this last thing and then immediately, you know couldn't even enjoy it, but it's, it's definitely like a sign of just like the level of dedication of, especially that generation of hollywood. It's, I mean, you hear that I was uh not to go off on a tangent but um, I just got done last year, like late last last year, reading Patrick Stewart's autobiography and he very much said, like I want to do this, I want to act until I literally die, like I like. It's that dream of like dying on stage, of like you you go, you do, you pour yourself into this artwork and then, like you don't want to have a period of your life where you don't, where you aren't doing that anymore, yeah, yeah.
Nick:And if that's the case, yeah, great, by all means. And that's what I hope really was the case here for sure. Because again you read that and you're like wow, and you think about the dedication he had to this particular role, especially given all the things he had to go through to actually perform it. And he does it so well. It's hard to imagine anybody else doing the voice for the character hard to imagine anybody else doing the voice for the character.
Terran:You know which is what we're about to do now. Which?
Nick:is what we're about to do. It's fine, it's fine. Rest in peace, george rohanlon um. But, taryn, who do you have in mind for george jetson?
Terran:so, like this one was a bit difficult. I actually had a few different names uh right around in my head because, like, like you, like we've said, he's a goofy dad, but like you know, he means well, you know that, like, when the chips are down, he is going to do the right thing, yeah, um, and I went with a guy that is now kind of seen in this like hyper, like almost like morally right figure with a current role than what he's doing. Uh, but I went with jason sudeckis, uh, who is, uh most most commonly now known for his uh named role of ted lasso yes, yes, mr ted lasso himself.
Nick:He's an snl alum known for many, many comedies and things of that nature. What is he doing at this point in time?
Terran:in 2015. He's in like masterminds tumble down like he wasn't in like a whole, whole lot like sleeping with other people was also another 2015 role. In the year before, he was in horrible bosses too.
Nick:Got it okay okay oh good, no, I was just wondering where horrible bosses landed, because I was like I think it's this time period yeah, but the thing that actually like made him come to mind for me was his role in we're the millers, which was 2013 yeah, okay, he, because he he has like some dad kind of like how carlo gugino has mom energy, and it's something that's hard to like describe, but you know it's there.
Nick:Jason can lean in, he can, he has the ability to tap into. It's almost like you just put a polo on him and he's got dad energy yes, that's I don't know what it is, but the polo like he. He gets clean cut. You're suddenly like, yeah, I could believe that that's just the guy from down the street that has kids yeah, so yeah, like I wanted him to like, just kind of like bring a similar energy.
Terran:Obviously probably not as much cursing as what was in with the millers, yes, but uh, just that guy that like you know he knows what his job is, he like his job is not his passion, but like he knows, like, hey, like when I need to bring that heart into this family unit, I can okay, yeah, I like that.
Nick:It's it's more, it's a little more subtle than the people I have in mind, but I, I do like that idea because he, he can't. He can have fun with roles and be a little silly when he wants to, for sure. I had two people in mind as well, and I even up to the last minute, here I was going back and forth about okay, do I want them? Do I want them? Who needs a win? More? Maybe, but, but I'm going to go.
Nick:The first person I had in mind was Jim Carrey, and I thought he could be great. He could nail it. He's a living cartoon. He's one of the few humans that can say that I am a living cartoon. Oh yeah, absolutely. But he's got a lot of good stuff going on. He makes cameos in Anchorman 2. He has goes in uh, increment two. He has kick-ass two he's the best part of kick-ass two, mind you and then he's doing some absolutely. And then he's doing some interesting dramatic work with things like dark crimes and it's, and then he kind of takes a break from 2016 on until we get to see him again sonic the hedgehog as dr robotnik. So I'm gonna let him have his time and his piece because I know he's going through some stuff right now.
Nick:I'm gonna give steve carell the role. Um. Most people know him as michael scott uh, from the office, 40 year old, virgin anchorman. Right now he's. He's just as despicable me too anchorman too. He's. Does a dramatic turn in foxcatcher in the big short, but I just think he also just can play like a, a goofy dad, really well, like we saw in crazy stupid love. I just think he can also nail this role. I can. It's also oftentimes when we're casting these things. Sometimes it's like I just need to hear a line being read in my mind by that character and him saying jane, stop this crazy thing. I immediately hear steve carell screaming it and I'm like I can see that.
Nick:Yeah, I'm, I'm already laughing at the concept of it, but yeah, I just think. I think he can play the bumbling dad who, who's, who means well who sometimes gets a little too big for his britches and gets brought back down by the technology around him, or astro careening into him when he's going to work, or just his kids being like, uh, dad, that's kind of not a good idea trust me.
Nick:I know what I'm doing I, I got this, I got this, I got this. But yeah, I like both. I think both like there's strengths to both sides of them. I think I. I think that Steve's going to be a little more cartoonish, but I think that initially, I think Jason Sudeikis, I'm like he's not silly enough, but I'm like, no, jason Sudeikis can be silly. Oh yeah, he can find his moments for sure. Yeah, I like that. I like both these guys.
Terran:I think they're both pretty fun to where we can see both of them happen.
Nick:Exactly. Yes, we need to let the future technology, ai, just create these movies for us. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Terran:No, no, don't you put that energy out here either, nick.
Nick:Hey, as long as someone pushes a button, it's okay. Oh gosh.
Terran:Okay, let's not George Jetson, the Jetsons.
Nick:Somebody has to push the record button on the camera. All right, folks, folks, that was the jetsons in a 2010, mid-2010s uh idea of what a live action might be. Uh, let us know what you thought about the cast, uh, between me and taryn, which one you like, maybe better? Maybe you thought both of them are trash. Let us know, tell us, give us, leave us a review. Uh, four stars or five, whatever. However, they do it on the streaming service of your choice, or you can go onto our social medias, drop it down in the dms and just yell at us there or just say what you liked, say what you didn't like. We have several people that will like message us and be like okay, here's my cast list, here's who I have in mind. I'm like that's great, I love that, because there'll be things I just didn't think of and I'll be like, oh, that's awesome like we're just two guys, like there are plenty of other people who could see things.
Terran:We don't for sure.
Nick:Just I love when someone will bring up something like why didn't I think of that person whether it's on the show or just a fan or listener going like what about them? I'm like you're right, that was the correct choice, and I now regret everything I've done. But yeah, I think that's great and I hope that we do get a Jetsons movie of some form in the near future, because I would just love to see a live action version of it.
Terran:Well, I mean, didn't george jetson technically just get born, like by our?
Nick:timeline standards. Did he really?
Terran:yeah, I think last year, like they were like oh yeah, this is the year george jetson is born george jetson birthday july 31st 2022, allegedly okay, so yeah, two years ago two, two years off.
Nick:So, george jetson, happy, uh, almost two years of age, uh, we'll be seeing you in the near, in the not soso-distant future. Hope that you make a movie of your life, or we can just at least make a reality. I don't want a reality. Jetsons TV show.
Terran:I want a movie.
Nick:Give me a movie.
Terran:Keeping up with the Jetsons would not be something.
Nick:I would want to see no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's the dark timeline, Taren. That's when it's like, yes, let's have the post-apocalyptic future happen. I'm ready now. Well, that's our cast. We hope you enjoyed the show. We're going to hope to do more of these quantum reanimation episodes in the future. My name's Nick. Thanks, Taren. Yeah, thanks for joining me. Taren, Appreciate you coming back on the show. Welcome back from the shadow realm. It's good to be here. Yeah, make sure to.