Johnny Bravo

Johnny Bravo
"Man, I'm pretty!"
Genre: Comedy Slapstick Running Time: 23 minutes Country: United States Release Date: July 14, 1997 - August 27, 2004 Network(s): Cartoon Network Created by: Van Partible Distributed by: Warner Bros. Television Distribution Starring: Jeff Bennett Brenda Vaccaro Tom Kenny Mae Whitman Maurice LaMarche Butch Hartman Steve Marmel Michael Ryan Seth MacFarlane Van Partible Robert Ramirez Larry Drake Seasons: 4 Episodes: 89 (219 segments)

Johnny Bravo is an American animated television series created by Van Partible for Cartoon Network. It was the second of the network's Cartoon Cartoons, and aired from July 14, 1997 to August 27, 2004. The series centers on the title character, who is loosely based on Elvis Presley and Duke Nukem.

Why It's Pretty

1. Wacky gags and jokes that has lots of cleverly hidden adult humor, it helps that this is the second show Seth MacFarlane is involved in (season 1), first being Dexter's Laboratory, he also went on to become the creator of Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show.
   • Butch Hartman is also behind this show (season 1), since he was first also involved in Dexter's Laboratory, and later on became the creator of Danny Phantom and The Fairly OddParents.
2. Johnny Bravo is a muscular, flirty, funny, manly, handsome, marginally intelligent, and likable protagonist. He serves as a stereotype of the big bulky womanizing moron without being obnoxious or unlikable, while at the same time having a heart of gold, it helps that he's inspired by Duke Nukem and Elvis Presley.
   • Other memorable characters such as Johnny's mother Bunny, the little neighbor girl Suzy, Johnny’s neighbor and friend Carl, and the owner of a local diner Pops.
3. Most of the plots are interesting to look at as Johnny’s antics usually leads him on an adventure where he does something good to either make up for his mistakes or help someone.
4. Fluently smooth, colorful, detailed animation and art style, that improves with each season, with season 4 having the best animation out of all, thanks to Sunwoo Entertainment and Rough Draft Studios (season 1), Koko Enterprises (seasons 2 & 3) and Saerom Animation (season 4).
   • The intro is smoothly animated, especially season 4's new animated one.
5. It had a crossover with Scooby-Doo titled "Bravo Dooby-Doo," which was great as the Scooby gang were still in their wonderful old animation styles since both Hanna and Barbera were still alive and doing the show’s animation, as with some other old Cartoon Network shows at the time like Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls (1998)
6. Lots of memorable celebrity guest star appearances such as: Adam West, The Playhouse Disney (now Disney Junior) announcer Allyce Beasleyand, Danny Osmond, etc
7. Great voice acting such as Jeff Bennett, Brenda Vaccaro, Mae Whitman, Tom Kenny (the titular character from SpongeBob SquarePants), and Larry Drake.
8. Hundreds of memorable quotes, mostly notable by Johnny Bravo himself.
   • Other quotes are also memorable such as: "JOHNNY, YOU FORGOT YOUR PANTS".
9. Memorable soundtrack, especially the theme song.
10. The episode "The Time of My Life" explains how Johnny got his muscles.
11. Johnny Bravo is so popular that it also had a Sunday night talk show type series, called JBVO: Your All Request Cartoon Show.
12. It had a TV movie called Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood, released in 2011 is great, and an amazing way to end the series.

Not Pretty Qualities

1. Johnny started becoming dumber in season 3, luckily, he went back to his old marginally intelligent self in season 4.
2. The creative title cards were removed and replaced it with episode text at the beginning of each episode in season 4.
3. There are some bad episodes such as:
   • "The Man Who Cried Clown!"/"Johnny Real Good"/"Little Talky Tabitha"
   • "The Unsinkable Johnny"
   • "Home Alone" (not to be confused with the movie series of the same name)
   • "Back On Shaq" (which ended season 4 and the TV series sourly)

Episodes With Their Own Pages

• "Bravo Dooby-Doo"
• "The Time of My Life"

Trivia

• Van Partible was not involved with production of seasons 2 and 3, which were done by Gary Hartle and Kirk Tingblad, although he was involved with the production of seasons 1 and 4.
• Johnny Bravo's design has a big resemblance to 3D Realms' Duke Nukem. Both characters wearing sunglasses and both of them have memorable quotes.
• Johnny Bravo is based on, and similar to Elvis Presley.
• Johnny Bravo is not only popular in the United States of America, but it was also popular in Asia and in Europe, especially in Italy, too.
• The older wiki Terrible TV Shows & Episodes stated that the fourth season was bad, this has now been fixed.
• The third season is the last season to be animated by Hanna-Barbera, before switching to Cartoon Network Studios in the final season in 2004.
• Van Partible is the first Filipino animator who created the Cartoon Network show.

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