George Jetson is the star of The Jetsons, a cartoon sitcom of the 1960s that originally ran on ABC.http://www.tv.com/the-jetsons/show/3723/summary.html George and his wife Judy have two children, Jane and Elroy. The family lives in a futuristic place called Orbit City, and George works as an indexer at Spacely Space Sprockets. George is accompanied at work by a robot named R.U.D.I that helps him do his job.http://www.tv.com/the-jetsons/show/3723/summary.html

Cosmo S. Spacely is George's boss at Spacely Space Sprockets, and he fires George on a regular basis. George always manages to get his job back. There are many episodes of The Jetsons that focus on George's ongoing struggle to keep his job.http://www.tv.com/the-jetsons/show/3723/summary.html

Very little background on the character of George Jetson is known. An episode titled "The Cosmic Courtship of George and Jane" reveals that George and Jane Jetson were married on June 2. The couple discover later in the episode that their first marriage was not legal, and they go to Las Venus to get their wedding vows renewed.http://www.tv.com/the-jetsons/the-cosmic-courtship-of-george-and-jane/episode/61717/summary.html

George Jetson and his family were created by Hanna-Barbera partially because of the success of The Flintstones. The Jetson family was the opposite of the Flintstone family because they lived during the space age, and the Flintstones lived during prehistoric times.http://www.tv.com/the-jetsons/show/3723/summary.html The show ran for one season on ABC before it was canceled. In 1985, new episodes were created to run along with the old episodes.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055683/triviaIn recent years, the show has aired regularly on the Cartoon Network.http://www.tv.com/the-jetsons/show/3723/summary.html

"I've got a wife, two kids and 10 finance companies to support. How am I supposed to pay my bills?" - George Jetsonhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055683/quotes

"Yum, it's been light years since you programmed synthetic brownies." - George Jetsonhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055683/quotes

"Nobody could dial a breakfast like mother." - George Jetsonhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055683/quotes