10 Insane TV Theories You Won't Believe
8. The Jetsons And Flintstones Exist At The Same Time
Despite being produced concurrently by the Hanna-Barbera animation studio, and both being family-driven sitcoms in a certain time period, The Jetsons and The Flintstones couldn't be more different. While the Flintstones live in a seemingly prehistoric world where machines are powered by (or in some cases just are) birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons live in the far-flung future of 2062, a utopian society full of robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions. It's what made the 1987 TV special The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones such a smart idea, a true culture clash between two groups that are like chalk and cheese, both families brought together by a time travel experiment gone wrong.
Except, if this insane theory is to be believed, they may not be quite so far apart as they seem... So, take that time travel experiment. What's the likelihood that instead of opening a portal to the past, young Elroy Jetson just stumbled across a form of the teleportation technology that already exists? And the portal didn't reach back into prehistory, but a different part of his own world? Basically, what if The Jetsons and The Flintstones exist at the same time? The basic hypothesis is that The Flintstones live in a post-apocalyptic future, rather than an ancient past; that's why they've been reduced to living in rocks and rags, but why they have a preoccupation with recreating "modern" furnishings and inventions.
They're the oppressed underclass who have nothing, and make do with little; The Jetsons, meanwhile, are the rich upper class, with all their fancy technology and the like. The whole thing's actually a sophisticated sociological commentary. Eh? Eh?