Rosie Come Home

Rosie Come Home
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Premiere date	September 17, 1985
Run time	21:40
Starring	George O'Hanlon Penny Singleton Daws Butler Janet Waldo Don Messick Jean Vander Pyl Frank Welker Gregg Berger Howard Morris
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Glenn Leopold
Voice director(s)	Gordon Hunt
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"Rosie Come Home" is the second episode of The Jetsons season two, and the twenty-sixth overall. It aired on September 17, 1985 in syndicated markets that featured The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera programming blocks. It was written by Glenn Leopold, and voice directed by Gordon Hunt.

Rosie is in need of a replacement program, which she overhears and thinks she's being replaced, so she leaves the Jetsons.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Elroy Jetson	Daws Butler
Orbitty	Frank Welker
Rosie	Jean Vander Pyl
Astro	Don Messick
Jane Jetson	Penny Singleton
George Jetson	George O'Hanlon
Judy Jetson	Janet Waldo
Mac	Don Messick
Henry Orbit	Daws Butler
Robot City salesman	Gregg Berger
Mr. Spacely	Mel Blanc
Mechano Maid 2000	Unavailable
Newscaster	Don Messick
Johnny Omega	N/A
Titus T. Tweeter	Howard Morris

Organizations

• Daily Orbit
• Spacely Space Sprockets
• Robot Employment Co.
• Android Agency

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Orbit City
      • Skypad Apartments
        • Jetson residence
      • Robot City
      • Spacely Space Sprockets building
      • Robot Employment Co. building
    • Android Agency building
    • Nebula Hotel
    • Milkyway Hotel
    • Galaxie Hotel
    • Starlite Motel
    • Comet Cafe
    • The Libra Coffee Shop
    • Beta Bingo Parlor (mentioned)
    • Galaxy Strip (mentioned)
    • Cosmic Car Wash
    • Galaxy Scrapyard
• Mars (mentioned)

Objects

• Visaphone
• Daily Orbit newspaper

Vehicles

• Flying cars

Music

The music was composed and conducted by Hoyt Curtin.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 17, 1985 in syndication

Behind the scenes

• This is the first title card to spell the Jetsons' robot maid's name as "Rosie," when it had been spelled as "Rosey."
• The Galaxy Strip, which apparently has robot singles bars, is a parody of the Sunset Strip.
• Judy gets her driving license in this episode.
• This is Jean Vander Pyl's favorite episode of The Jetsons, taking to heart what Rosie was going through.

Errors

• Instead of going back to U-Rent a Maid where Rosie was bought in "Rosey the Robot," George goes to Robot City, which may just be the fact it deals with robots in general, as opposed to outright ignoring the former.
• George says "The Lubra Coffee Shop", but it's spelled "The Libra Coffee Shop" on the building.
• When Rosie offers to drive, Judy's collar is white and her top looks a little short, too.
• The driving instructor seems to be Mr. Tweeter from "Jane's Driving Lesson," but he has brown hair, instead of orange.

Marketing and promotion

• This episode was adapted into a picture book of the same name in May 1995.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • June 2, 2009: Warner Home Video releases The Jetsons: Season 2, Volume 1 on DVD.
  • October 13, 2020: Warner Home Video releases The Jetsons: The Complete Series (Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection edition) on DVD.
  • June 21, 2022: Warner Home Video releases The Jetsons: The Complete Series on DVD.