Hello Tomorrow! is a show all about door to door salespeople in the retrofuturistic world and creators Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen clearly put lots of love into this series. The show takes inspiration from the obvious things such as The Jetsons and Back to the Future but also inspiration from the media we least expect. When we asked about which fictional character would be a good door-to-door salesman, here’s what creators Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen had to say.

I love The Simpsons and Hank Azaria being in [Hello Tomorrow!] has a lot to do with that. He’s a genius. I think Homer would be the most obvious character. I don’t know if he’d be the greatest salesman. I am interested in Homer as a customer for the BrightSide. What does him getting sold on it look like? Maybe there’s free beer up there. He’d say ‘Come on Marge, we can get away from the kids!’. I do think that there’s way more resonance now.

Amit Bhalla

Read the synopsis for Hello Tomorrow!

In a retrofuturistic world, a huckster named Jack Billings runs a small business of traveling salesmen who go door to door (on Earth) selling timeshares on the moon. Jack pays his staff with the payments, pockets the rest, and then moves on from town to town, with the fictional rocket launch for his customers to be brought to their fictional new homes being delayed further and further. In one of the towns Jack realizes he’s found his son Joey, who doesn’t know that Jack is his father. Jack hires Joey as a salesperson, decides to stay in this town for a while, and tries to find a way to tell Joey that they are father and son without driving him away, while also trying to keep the fraudulent business from crashing down around him.

Hello Tomorrow! is now streaming on Apple TV+!