The Best (?) & Partially Lost Season of Johnny Test

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Published 2023-12-30
“So, it’s a good thing he watches too much TV?”

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SOURCES.
My Press Kit Scan:
archive.org/details/JT-press-kit-scan
Lost Media Wiki:
shorturl.at/kwxPZ
Cula4 HD Intro:
   • Johnny Test - Intro/Theme Song (Irish...  
Cropped Promos:
   • KidsWB Sept 10, 2005 Saturday Unleash...  
   • KidsWB September 10, 2005 Johnny Test...  

Cookie Jar Season 2 pickup
web.archive.org/web/20130923073336/http://www.thec…
Ron Doucet Interview:
docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1gTUaZiTvEXAoSn38Iz…
James Arnold Taylor On Johnny:
web.archive.org/web/20091031055714/http://jamesarn…
Chris Savno:
www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/loud-house-creat…
Da Wizard:
pixels.com/featured/wizards-final-judgement-louis-…
Early Theme Song by Kevin Manthei:
   • Johnny Test - Main Titles  
The Sisters’ Revenge Flash Game:
   • Flashpoint Obscurities: Johnny Test: ...  
James Arnold Taylor Live:
   • The voice of Johnny Test doing it Live!  
Flash Animation Breakdowns:
   • Flash Animation Process - Boards to A...  
   • Flash Animation Process - Boards to A...  
Kids WB Promos:
   • Kids WB Promo: Johnny Test (2005)  
   • KidsWB Sept 10, 2005 Saturday Unleash...  
   • KidsWB September 10, 2005 Johnny Test...  
Cartoon Network Promos and Bumpers:
   • Cartoon Network - Johnny Test S4 Ep 4...  
   • Cartoon Network Nood Era Next Bumper ...  
   • CN - CHECK it 1.0 - NEXT - Johnny Tes...  

All Comments (21)
  • Idk if there's a term for it but there's something about how cartoons would have the first season that felt slower, more personal and a tinge of melancholy in a way. Observed this in this show, Spongebob, Family Guy, Simpsons and even the Boondocks.
  • @sketchycat6223
    I will always admire this man’s dedication to being Johnny Test historian
  • @EmployeeAMillion
    The first season happens to be the only one I ever caught any episodes of as a kid, so I was really confused by the vitriol and whipcrack jokes its online presence was defined by a few years later. Since I’ve still barely seen anything after Season 1, I’m ecstatic now knowing there’s more of that one out there for me to lo…li…toler…Johnny Test.
  • @chiitopia
    the Barbie bit at the beginning has me dead 😭
  • Given how WB originally made the show with Cookie Jar Entertainment, I do wonder how differently the show would’ve gone if they had continued producing the show rather than Cookie Jar.
  • Here’s something else interesting worth noting: Kids’ WB! always used the original intro for Johnny Test, even during seasons 2 and 3 despite the show’s more well-known second theme song having already been introduced in Canada by then. We wouldn’t hear about how Johnny was the epic kid with a head of firey hair and a turbocharged backpack until January 2008, when the series began airing on Cartoon Network (Kids’ WB! continued broadcasting the show in the way they always did until its demise in May 2008).
  • I remember honestly being shocked to learn the internet hates Johnny Trst. Looking back, yeah it's no Adventure Time or Regular Show sure. But I enjoy a lot of the show as a kid and I definitely think these earlier episodes are up there. I actually remember noticing the theme song change and slowly remembering which episodes used which intro. It was a bit of a fun thing as a kid
  • @TheJacksontoy
    Ahh yes. The season where Johnny Test was actually traditionally animated and watchable. Also the one that aired on Kids WB, if I recall.
  • @pjthemaster1
    Watching Johnny test while my house smells like a pool, don’t ask, is weirdly nostalgic for a childhood vacation where my family stayed at a water park hotel
  • @PaintraSeaPea
    Your recap of the miniscule universe made me realize... why did this show have so many Alternate Universe episodes??? Even in that weird cancelled youtube series, they did an Alternate Universe episode right out of the gate
  • @JeskidoYT
    It's extremely extremely sad to think that no one in current Warner Bros (discovery) has any recollection of Johnny test, their first original IP cartoon post 2010
  • Season 1 Johnny Test and season 2 onward Johnny Test honesty feel like different shows half the time. Season 1's humor feels less forced and of course theres no annoying whip crack
  • I love how that milisecond of Johnny turning to a woman is probably the only reason people remember that show.
  • @rhodrage
    The female johnny test, johnny bravo episode where hes a woman, and female timmy turner made me feel a lot of things I didnt understand till I became an adult, even then im not fully sure what it is
  • @JamStan1978
    The reboot was great. Probably the highest quality season. It doesnt do whipcracks and does way less potty humor.
  • @FanSeitz
    When it comes to Johnny Test and looking back on cartoons while I get older, I get Thanos "perhaps I judged you to harshly," vibes. Probably because there was a period where CN aired it nonstop like TTG.