• Vanth@reddthat.com
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    This one doesn’t make sense to me. The cartoon ran for a year in the 1960s and for another two years in the 1980s. I don’t remember it being all that popular. It felt like Flintstones was more popular and that movie (plus made-for-tv sequels) didn’t exactly rake in money at the box office.

    Gotta have media people are nostalgic for in order to play the nostalgia remake card and I don’t think the Jetsons is it.

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      14 hours ago

      Does it need to be popular?

      I’m just happy it isn’t a remake of something recent.

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      The Jetsons was rerunning basically every day throughout my childhood so I imagine, while it wasn’t long lived, there’s an air of nostalgia (and the fact it’s an old license that hasn’t been “exploited” yet).

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        Yeah in the 90s it was always Flintstones then Jetsons back-to-back at lunch, right after school, and Saturdays would have 2 episodes of each.

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      Market research based on the Fantastic Four movie. Maybe people are looking favorably at retro-futurism these days.

      Tomorrowland was a mess, but perhaps ironically before its time.

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        There was absolute nothing ahead of its time about that dipshit Tomorrowland movie.