At the end of the twenty-first century, on “Spacely Sprockets’s orbiting ore asteroid,” dark figures sabotage the factory’s mining operation at night. Meanwhile, on Earth, Rosie the Robot takes care of the George Jetson household, tending to a robotic parakeet and robotic flowers. She presses a button to raise the saucer-shaped house above the city smog. Machines pull George Jetson out of bed and into the shower, and brush his teeth. George promises his son, Elroy Jetson, he will attend the boy’s spaceball game at four p.m. Daughter Judy, wife Jane, and dog Astro see George off as an escalator whisks him out of the house and into his flying car. Caught in traffic, George pushes a button to produce an inflatable policeman in his passenger seat, and mimics the sound of a siren on his car’s sound system to scatter other vehicles. A real policeman stops George, punctures his inflatable doll, and issues a ticket for traffic school. Arriving at Spacely Sprockets, George sits at his desk and pushes a button to start his job. Meanwhile, his boss, Mr. Spacely, holds a meeting with his board of directors, which is not happy about the company’s decline in the stock market. Mr. Spacely tells the board his fully-automated new sprocket manufacturing plant on an orbiting asteroid should improve company fortunes, because labor and manufacturing costs are one-tenth what they would be on Earth. Unfortunately, the factory has functioned only three days during the past six months. Worse, Rudy 2, the factory’s robot manager, reports via a giant monitor that the “vice president” Spacely sent to “turn things around” fled the asteroid after the latest emergency shutdown. The board needs to send someone “expendable and not too bright” to replace him. Putting all the company candidates into a computer, Mr. Spacely’s robot secretary, Gertrude, comes up with the name George Jetson. Mr. Spacely’s image on a giant monitor summons George, who is sucked to the main office through a pneumatic tube. Mr. Spacely promotes George to vice president (with no raise in pay) and tells him to pack up the Jetson family and leave tomorrow. Meanwhile, at a rock concert, singer-guitarist “Cosmic Cosmo” picks Judy Jetson out of the crowd to be his date the following night. Elsewhere, at a school spaceball game, Elroy makes the winning shot, but is dismayed that his father is not in the stands to see it. That evening, when George breaks the news of his new assignment, the children are devastated. Judy will miss her big date and Elroy will miss the spaceball playoffs. The following day, on their way to the asteroid, George assures the family that he will have more time to spend with them. Reaching their destination, they fly over a giant shopping mall before entering the orbiting “Intergalactic Garden Estates.” Their new apartment is empty until Rosie activates the furniture, which folds out of the walls and ceilings. A cake pops out of the oven with “Welcome Jetsons” written on the icing. Lucy 2, robot wife of Rudy 2, welcomes the Jetsons to their new home. She says her husband is presently at the sprocket plant. Elroy, who has been exploring the building, returns with a cuddly, turquoise creature named Fergie Furbelow, and asks if he can keep her. However, Fergie’s turquoise parents, Bertie and Gertie Furbelow, stop to introduce themselves as the Jetsons’ neighbors and take their little girl home with them. That night, the sprocket plant shuts down again. In the morning, Rosie pushes a button that whisks George into “Mac,” his new car, which talks to him as it flies him to the factory asteroid. There, George discovers that Rudy 2 is his only employee, because the plant is automated and George’s only job is to push the “start” button. With a nudge of his finger, George starts a giant drilling bore turning and sending up ore from the mine to the factory floor, where stampers flatten rocks into sprockets. However, as soon as George puts everything in motion, the plant malfunctions. Meanwhile, as Judy Jetson rides an air scooter through the “Galaxy Galleria,” she meets a young singer-guitarist named Apollo Blue, but cannot talk long because she has to be at the sprocket factory at noon for her father’s button-pushing ceremony. Likewise, Elroy and Teddy 2 take a break from playing spaceball for the big event. On Earth, watching everything on his giant television screens, Mr. Spacely tells George he is expecting the company’s one-millionth sprocket that day. With everyone watching, George pushes the button. A large numbers board counts the sprockets being stamped, but as it reaches 999,999, dark figures disconnect cables and the operation malfunctions. As sprockets fly, Teddy 2 saves Elroy from being struck. Mr. Spacely orders George to shut down the factory. The following day, George restarts the bore, but the system malfunctions again and George gets pulled into the packing machine, which packages him in box. Mr. Spacely tells Gertrude to book him on the next cheap flight to the asteroid. Judy returns to the mall, where she meets Apollo Blue inside a large hologram. Together they sing his new song, “You and Me.” Rudy 2 suggests that since glitches have been occurring since the plant opened, they are probably a warning to shut the plant completely. George refuses to quit. In fact, he plans to spend the night at the plant to see what happens. Rudy 2 refuses to accompany him, so George goes alone. Elroy and Teddy 2 decide to sneak into the plant with Elroy’s “Detecto-kit” to solve the mystery. Little Fergie Furbelow joins them. That night, as George sleeps at the factory, little creatures carry him into the cave below. Feeling guilty for not accompanying his boss, Rudy 2 hurries to the plant, but finds only George’s flashlight. He returns home to inform Jane Jetson her husband is missing. When Jane discovers her children are missing, too, Astro woofs that they went to the plant. Teddy 2 uses his robotic arm extensions to get himself and Elroy into the factory through vents, and Fergie follows. Inside, they capture “Squeak,” a tiny creature. Fergie and Squeak happen to be old friends, and chatter together. Using his built-in translator, Teddy 2 learns that Squeak is a Grungee, whose large family lives underground, and sabotages the plant to prevent the factory bore from ripping through their subterranean town. Judy and Apollo Blue arrive, and all six take an elevator down into the mine. The Grungees come out of their tiny caves. Up on the factory floor, Jetson, Rudy 2, and Astro arrive and search for the others. Following his nose, Astro locates everyone, but nobody knows where George is. Suddenly, George hops toward them, bound by ropes and muzzled with tape. Everyone informs him that the Grungees are sabotaging Spacely Sprockets to save their home, but George claims his job is more important. Jane refuses to untie him, because no job is worth destroying someone’s home. Above, Mr. Spacely arrives and tells Rudy 2 to start the mining bore. When Rudy 2 balks, Mr. Spacely hits the button. As the bore chews through ore, it starts a rockslide that traps Elroy. The Grungees save the boy, and the Jetsons thank them profusely. George returns to the factory above to stop the operation, but Spacely stands between him and the button. George gums up the gears, and stops the bore from turning. He shows Mr. Spacely the Grungees and accuses him of being greedy. Finally, he convinces Mr. Spacely to let the Grungees run the plant. The little creatures double production and recycle old sprockets, making further mining unnecessary. The large sign tallies 1,000,000 sprockets. Mr. Spacely gives George his old job back, and as the family says goodbye, Elroy and Teddy 2, and Judy and Apollo Blue vow to be friends forever. As the Jetson craft rises above the asteroid for the trip back to Earth, hundreds of Grungees gather to form the words “Thanks George.”