When George was a child, he had to fly through ten miles of asteroid storms to go to Orbit High School, where he was the star pitcher of its Spaceball team.

George complains of his heavy work load: pushing a button on and off as many as five times[22] for three hours,[23] three days a week.

Physically, George is a rather slim man of average height with short red hair and a cartoonishly large nose.

Morey Amsterdam was originally hired to voice the character but was fired due to sponsor conflicts between his numerous other projects, including The Dick Van Dyke Show.

In the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Back to the Present", George was voiced by Wally Wingert.

In the episode, the Jetsons return to the past to sue the planet for causing global warming, hiring Harvey Birdman (an ancestor of George's) as their attorney.