The Best Son is a 2001 short cartoon starring The Jetsons

The Jetsons

The Jetsons is a animated American sitcom that was produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in prime-time from 1962–1963 and again from 1985–1987...

. It was made by The Ren & Stimpy Show creator John Kricfalusi

John Kricfalusi

Michael John Kricfalusi , better known as John K., is a Canadian animator. He is creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, its adults-only spin-off Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon", The Ripping Friends animated series, and Weekend Pussy Hunt, which was billed as "the world's first interactive web-based...

 and his company Spümcø

Spümcø

Spümcø, Inc. was an American animation production company based in Los Angeles, California. The studio produced three traditionally animated series, two Flash-animated cartoon series, two music videos, five animated shorts, and a comic book. The company also went on to produce content for a few...

 using Macromedia Flash.

Summary

George and Jane argues about Elroy doing pranks at school (such as destroying the substitute teacher's hair with a laser helmet), shoplifting and (with Astro the Dog) beat up a girl who moved to the apartment next door. The parents are offered a bill with an amount due of $1743.62c (One-thousand, seven-hundred and forty-three dollars and 62 cents). George yells to Elroy that he is going to have to work every cent of the bill if it takes him the next five years, while Elroy blurts out, "Aw, don't have a cow, man!", leaving George and Jane shocked. George wanted to know he learned that kind of language, Jane only says "He gets it from those cruddy, 20th century, flat, yellow TV cartoons

The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...

, George lets Elroy watch". George starts screaming "Who's idea was it to have a kid in the first place!?", leaving Jane crying. George finally had it and he and Jane gets rid of Elroy and replace him with a robot kid who obeys all their commands, goes to bed on time and treats the parents with respect.

Voice Cast

George Jetson, Elroy Jetson and Robot Boy: Jeff Bergman

Jeff Bergman

Jeff Allen Bergman is an American voice actor, who provides the modern day voices of various classic cartoon characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, George Jetson, Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear, and Huckleberry Hound.-Life and career:Originally from Philadelphia,...

Jane Jetson: Laurie Fraser

Crew

Direction, Storyboard and Color Design by Gabe Swarr
Script by John K.
Executive Producers: John K. and Kevin Kolde
Executives in charge of Production at Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....

: Sam Register

Sam Register

Sam Register is Executive Vice President, Creative Affairs, at Warner Bros. Animation.Formerly Vice President of Cartoon Network, Register was the brain behind CartoonNetwork.com, which was started in 1998. After creating CartoonNetwork.com, Register came up with the idea of Cartoon Orbit in 2000...

 and Pola Changnon
Creative Coordinator: Matt Schwartz

Matt Schwartz

Matt Schwartz is a multi-instrumentalist record producer a songwriter, an Artist, DJ, and a prolific audio engineer based in the UK.He has contributed to numerous records since 1995 as an engineer, producer, composer, musician and a songwriter, working with all the UK major record labels, he also...

Layout: John K., Fred Osmond, Derrick Wyatt, Ray Morelli, Gabe Swarr
Background Design: Derrick Wyatt
Animation: Matt Danner
Flash Animation:Jerry DeJesus, Tony Mora, Nikki Pontius
Clean-Up: Fred Osmond, Ray Morelli, Wil Branca
Digital Clean-Up: Tony Mora, Jerry DeJesus, Nikki Pontius, Michelle Papandrew, Keith Rainville