Princess Johnny (Johnny Test, 2005)

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"Princess Johnny"
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Series: Johnny Test Part of Season: 4 Episode Number: 29 (15a) Air Date: May 24, 2010 Writer: Scott Fellows Director: Paul Riley Previous episode: "Who's Johnny?" Next episode: "99 Deeds of Johnny Test"

Princess Johnny is the 15th episode of Season 4 of Johnny Test.

Plot

Johnny has to pretend that he's a princess to make peace and justice with the neighboring country or it will be a war for both.

Why It's Not a Princess

1. Misleading title-card: the dress Johnny is wearing, looks nothing like any of the dresses he wears in the actual episode.
2. The entire premise is nonsensical and it shows.
3. It's pretty much a Johnny torture episode, as he's forced to play dolls with Sissy just to get some money, forced to be a princess because he looks a lot like one that has gone missing, and King Fufassel literally tries to assassinate him.
4. The whole episode feels too out of place for the show's target demographic, which is boys aged 5-12, as most boys will probably hate seeing an episode about a mostly female-oriented subject matter, which is princesses.
5. There are a handful of the characters are terrible in this episode:
   • Mr. Black & Mr. White are very terrible in this episode, as they pretty much persuade Johnny into being a Princess just so they can just relax by using the castle's luxury, and so they don't have to deal with finding the princess.
   • King Fufassel is horribly unlikable, as he literally tries to assassinate Johnny just because he said a sentence wrong (Keep in mind, Johnny's only 11).
6. Sissy is somewhat out of character here, as she's supposed to be a tomboy, but if she is, then why is she playing with mostly girly girl toys, better yet, if she wants to play dolls with somebody, why can't she just play with another girl, or a boy that enjoys that kind of stuff?
7. Princess Maribel has a very ugly and lazy design, it's just Johnny's design but with the red fades removed from his hair and with makeup slapped on (Though this was probably intentional).
   • Ditto with Johnny in the princess outfit and makeup, Johnny with makeup looks pretty questionable.
8. Lazy jokes such as the opening scene" and the "Princess Flakes cereal".
9. The royal-style music is used way too much. We get that it's meant to be this way, but it's too much.
10. Unnecessary subplot of Susan and Mary trying to design a normal dress
11. Nonsensical names such as Fufassel, Maribel, Muldavia, & Schmuldavia.
    • Speaking of which, the countries Muldavia and Schmuldavia don't even exist in the real world!!
12. The ending is pretty much just re-hashed from "Johnny Dodgeball", as both feature Johnny saving the day in a dress.
    • Princess Maribel smacking Johnny with a staff is also stupid.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Dukey, Princess Maribel, and to an extent, Johnny, are good in this episode.
2. Despite being pointless, Susan and Mary's subplot is decent.

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