48 Fun Facts About Johnny Bravo

Who created Johnny Bravo?

Van Partible. His animation professor showed his student film to a friend at Hanna-Barbera, and the studio asked him to pitch it as a seven-minute cartoon.

Which former Batman star appears as himself on Johnny Bravo?

Adam West. When Johnny's mother goes missing, he enlists the 1960s TV Batman to track her down, and West played himself again in the show's final season.

Who voices Johnny Bravo?

Jeff Bennett. He gives Johnny an Elvis Presley-style voice, a world away from his fatherly Man with the Yellow Hat in Curious George.

Johnny Bravo was the second Cartoon Cartoon; which show was the first?

Dexter's Laboratory. The Cartoon Cartoons banner only arrived in 1997, when Dexter was already a year into its run, so it was named the first after the fact.

What is the name of the town where Johnny lives?

Aron City. It nods to Elvis Presley's middle name, which his birth certificate spells with one A, though his Graceland gravestone reads Aaron.

Which Charlie's Angels star turns up at a birthday party as the cousin of Johnny's young neighbour?

Farrah Fawcett. Johnny flatly refuses the party invitation, then changes his mind the moment he hears she will be there.

In the final episode of Johnny Bravo, which NBA star finds that Johnny brings him good luck?

Shaquille O'Neal. He makes Johnny his lucky charm until a showdown with actor Seth Green, who has brought a charm of his own: Huckleberry Hound.

What is the name of the talkative neighbourhood girl whose name Johnny rarely remembers?

Little Suzy. For all his chasing, she is the one girl with a crush on Johnny, and at eight years old she isn't what he's looking for.

Which SpongeBob SquarePants voice actor plays Johnny's geeky admirer Carl?

Tom Kenny. Carl Chryniszzswics joined when the show was retooled, just as Kenny was first voicing SpongeBob, and Johnny bullies and bosses his admirer around anyway.

What business does Pops, who gives Johnny advice, run?

The local diner. Pops arrived when the show was retooled for its second season, and the unscrupulous owner cooks his dishes from some very odd ingredients.

Master Hamma teaches Johnny what?

Martial arts. Master Hamma refuses to count Johnny as a real student, rating the muscleman the weakest and most pathetic pupil in his dojo.

Which teen idol recurs as a cheery character who irritates Johnny, voiced by himself?

Donny Osmond. Johnny's mother hires him as a nanny for her grown-up son, and his relentless good cheer drives Johnny crazy.

Which power does Jungle Boy have in Johnny Bravo?

Superhuman strength. The jungle-dwelling child had a pilot short of his own, in which the jealous King Raymond tries to frame him to win back the animals' praise.

The stars of which Hanna-Barbera cartoon help Johnny search for his missing aunt Jebedissa?

Scooby-Doo. In the crossover 'Bravo Dooby-Doo', Johnny teams up with Shaggy, Daphne, Velma and the rest of the gang to find his aunt and catch a ghost.

Which Hanna-Barbera star rescues Johnny's namesake ancestor in a final-season episode?

Fred Flintstone. The story is set in Bedrock in the distant past, where a caveman also named Johnny repays the rescue by doing Fred's chores.

What was the title of the creator's college thesis film that became Johnny Bravo?

Mess O' Blues. The title riffs on Elvis Presley's 1960 song 'A Mess of Blues', and the film's hero was an ageing rocker who thinks he is Elvis.

One first-season episode of Johnny Bravo is made up of three parodies of which classic anthology series?

The Twilight Zone. Johnny enters 'The Zone Where Normal Things Don't Happen Very Often' and spots a clown on the wing of his plane, a nod to 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet'.

In 'Cookie Crisis', a girl scout hounds Johnny Bravo all over town in a spoof of which children's author?

Dr. Seuss. The scout plays Sam-I-Am to a dieting Johnny, pressing her cookies on him at every turn as if they were green eggs and ham.

Which pop star inspired the whip-cracks when Johnny Bravo poses?

Michael Jackson. The creator kept photos of him to hand while drawing Johnny, admiring the strong silhouettes he made whenever he hit a pose.

On which cartoon showcase did the first Johnny Bravo short air in 1995?

World Premiere Toons. The showcase, later renamed What a Cartoon!, tried out new shorts as pilots, and Johnny's proved popular enough to earn him a full series.

In the first short, Johnny tries to impress a zookeeper by catching what?

A runaway gorilla. The 900-pound ape has escaped from the zoo, so Johnny plays superhero in the hope of winning over the keeper he fancies.

Where does the name Johnny Bravo partly come from?

The creator's middle names. They are Giovanni Bravo, and Giovanni is the Italian form of John, so the hero's name was half his own already.

In The Brady Bunch episode "Adios, Johnny Bravo", which Brady takes that stage name?

Greg. A talent scout wants to remake him as a solo star called Johnny Bravo, but he walks out on learning he was picked only because he fit the suit.

Which Beverly Hills, 90210 star coaches Johnny through a date by whispering into a hidden earpiece?

Luke Perry. He agrees to it only reluctantly, and for one date only, after Johnny saves his life.

The Sensitive Male, a first-season character who sings his advice to Johnny, parodies which educational TV series?

Schoolhouse Rock! The show cast Jack Sheldon, the jazz trumpeter who sang the original's 'I'm Just a Bill', to send up his own songs.

Which future adult-cartoon creator wrote for Johnny Bravo's first season?

Seth MacFarlane. While at Hanna-Barbera he also made a short of his own, Larry & Steve, about a dim-witted man and his clever dog, which grew into Family Guy.

Which animation legend mentored the Johnny Bravo crew as creative consultant on season one?

Joseph Barbera. Then in his eighties, he sat in on creative sessions, answering the young creator's questions and helping him come up with gags.

Which musician joins Don Knotts and the Blue Falcon to give Johnny Bravo a reality-show makeover?

"Weird Al" Yankovic. On their show Cartoon Makeover the trio try to revamp Johnny for a new young generation, and every change only makes things worse.

Why did Johnny Bravo's creator miss its second and third seasons?

He was fired. A new crew retooled the show for two seasons, until the same network offered him the fourth and last and he restored its original style.

In one episode Johnny Bravo inherits the super boots of the Green Swoosh, a spoof of which DC hero?

Green Lantern. A falling meteor injures the hero, so Johnny takes over the boots that power him, gaining super strength and speed, and tries his hand at being a superhero.

In 2005, Johnny Bravo's face appeared on the hood of a race car in which motorsport series?

NASCAR. Kyle Busch raced the No. 5 Kellogg's Chevrolet with Johnny on the hood at Bristol's Sharpie 500 in August 2005, a year after the cartoon itself had ended.

Which Johnny Bravo writer went on to create The Fairly OddParents?

Butch Hartman. After the first season he left for a Nickelodeon shorts showcase, where The Fairly OddParents began as short cartoons before winning a series of its own.

Johnny Bravo lands a film role beside Don Knotts, Jessica Biel and which future 30 Rock star?

Alec Baldwin. The film is called Lunch Lady S'urprise, and when Johnny's part is written out he scrambles to squeeze a few more seconds from his fifteen minutes of fame.

What was JBVO, the Sunday show Johnny Bravo began hosting on Cartoon Network in 2000?

A viewer-request cartoon block. Viewers wrote, phoned or went online to ask for cartoons from the channel's library, and Johnny took their calls as host.

On JBVO, Johnny once had to fast-forward through an entire episode of which anime series?

Dragon Ball Z. JBVO had no room for half-hour shows, so he skimmed the episode in about 30 seconds of running commentary, footage that was thought lost until 2023.

Johnny's European spin-off Toon FM once broadcast 'live from Tokyo'; who presented its weather forecast?

Godzilla. In the European show Johnny spoke with the voice of Britain's Marc Silk rather than his American actor, with Brak from Space Ghost as his co-host.

Which actor was attached to star in a planned live-action Johnny Bravo film in 2002?

Dwayne Johnson. He told the producers he was a big fan of the cartoon and thought it would make a great movie, so Warner Bros. went after the film rights.

What is the title of Johnny Bravo's Nintendo DS video game?

The Hukka Mega Mighty Ultra Extreme Date-O-Rama! The title is the game show Johnny enters to win a dream date, and only the DS version reached North America.

What is Johnny Bravo's best-known catchphrase?

Whoa, Mama! Johnny goes into every encounter brimming with confidence, yet his advances usually earn him a rejection or a face full of pepper spray.

In a first-season Christmas story, why does Johnny Bravo end up delivering the presents himself?

He knocks out Santa Claus. Johnny mistakes him for a burglar, and has to put on the red cap himself to save Christmas.

In which Asian country was the creator of Johnny Bravo born?

The Philippines. He was born in Manila, grew up in Salinas, California, and later returned to the region's television as executive producer of Cartoon Network Asia's original shows.

Which singer makes a timely appearance after Johnny rips up a chain letter and suffers a run of bad luck?

Dionne Warwick. Johnny had ignored his mother's advice to pass the letter on, and Warwick was then famous as host of the Psychic Friends Network infomercials.

Johnny Bravo's creator went on to direct which Amazon children's series?

Pete the Cat. The man behind a cartoon known for its adult humour moved on to preschool television, directing the series for Phineas and Ferb co-creator Swampy Marsh.

Johnny's voice actor won a 2012 Annie Award for playing which Madagascar penguin?

Kowalski. He took over the team's brainy strategist from the films' Chris Miller for the TV series The Penguins of Madagascar, and the performance won him the award.

In 'A Johnny Bravo Christmas', Johnny treks to the North Pole to deliver what?

His letter to Santa. Johnny forgets to post it, and when the post office can't get it to the North Pole before Christmas, he sets off to hand it over himself.

Who kidnaps Johnny as the perfect human specimen in the season-two opener?

Two beautiful aliens. They take him for the ideal human male, and for once Johnny seems to have found women who actually want him.

Which 1980s TV tough guy pays Johnny Bravo a visit in the final season?

Mr. T. He turns up in an episode called 'T Is for Trouble' to train Johnny in self-defence.

Which future Avatar: The Last Airbender star voiced Johnny Bravo's young neighbour as a child?

Mae Whitman. She was barely older than the character when she started and kept the part to the end, so by the final season a teenager was voicing the little girl.