Johnny Test
Johnny Test is a TV show that aired from 2005 to 2014, as well as the name of its star – a cartoon kid with hair that made him look like his head was on fire. The show was highly controversial due to its unoriginal premise, ripping off Scooby Doo, Family Guy, The Fairly OddParents, Jimmy Neutron, Dexter's Laboratory, Men in Black, Star Wars, Wacky Races, and even Garfield. Johnny Test, however, managed to stand on its own, creating a unique blend of pop culture references.
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jack Hoffman, and I have hated this prick ever since my eyes were cursed with having ever seen his face, and I better not see a single person defending this show after reading this whole article. I MEAN IT!!!!
History[edit | edit source]
Zerex on YouTube said in his Johnny Test videos that we needed to do our research, and acknowledge how "good" the show was at one point. Well, we did our research, and ... the history of the show is even more morbid than we thought. Maybe our lives would've been so much better if we didn't do any research on Johnny Test. We should've only remembered Johnny Test more as a Canadian show that first aired on Teletoon before being imported by Cartoon Network, or even Cartoon Network wanting to collaborate with Teletoon to rip off Dexter's Laboratory; but nope. The more we actually learn about the show, the worse things get. And if you're expecting us to find something "good" about this show, then you seriously have PTSD, and really should see a therapist, because there's literally nothing redeemable about this horrid show. Seriously, you have no right to defend this show!! There's no defending Johnny Test at all!!
You see what happens when you listen to Zerex on YouTube?? You start to lose brain cells, and defend the worst in animation, like The Problem Solverz and The Nutshack, yet slam Hazbin Hotel!!
Origin and development[edit | edit source]
Johnny Test was conceived by a very sad man that went by the name of Scott Fellows. Scott probably had an awful childhood, with an abusive mother and a father that thought getting milk was more important than taking care of his own son. That's the only reason I can come up why someone would want to ruin so many children by injecting them this garbage through their eyes. He deliberately wanted to kill the animation industry by creating this abomination of a show. Sure, his work on The Fairly OddParents and Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide was good, but Johnny Test was by far his most toxic creation yet.
Scott had tried to pitch this bootleg to Nickelodeon in 1995, but the higher ups at Nickelodeon were smart enough to say no, as even they knew no one in their right mind would let their children see this, and it would've outright made the company lose a lot of money; so much, that they would've shut down had they picked this show up as an original series. A very rare instance of a disastrous company like Viacom doing something smart for once. Unfortunately, rather than letting the idea die in peace, which would have not stalled humanity's progress, Scott would sadly end up having his way by pitching it to Kids' WB instead. They would later regret their decision, choosing to give the show to the Canadians instead of just suing Scott for violating the Constitution. How? Scott Fellows was actually super happy that he killed off the WB Network!
This is because Mike Lazzo, who ran Toonami and Adult Swim during that time, uttered that infamous quote of how shows for adults should've have good animation (or any at all), and kids shows should only be bright, colorful, and loud. And just when you thought we'd be safe from Johnny Test, the broadcasting rights would move from the CW to Cartoon Network in 2008. And Cartoon Network began to treat this damn show like their golden boy until Teen Titans Go! came – which is just as bad, honestly. Oh, and yes, they constantly use the whip crack sound effect in every episode. Scott Fellows wanted to use the whip crack constantly. Gee. I wonder why?
Production[edit | edit source]
What Scott Fellows wanted to do was take a show that went through seasonal rot in its last two seasons, and rehash it. How? You wanna know why people don't wanna acknowledge how good this show "was"? The first sign that Johnny Test was the spawn of the devil was when they decided that it was a good idea to let Chris Savino produce it. Let me repeat myself. Chris Savino was the producer of this show. Chris Savino produced it! Chris Savino ... was the producer, ... and the director, ... OF THIS FUCKING SHOW!
You know who Chris Savino is, don't you? He's the guy who RUINED Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls in their last two seasons. He also fucked up The Flintstones with The Flintstones: On the Rocks, so much that it even made Seth MacFarlane's cancelled reboot look good by comparison! He's also the guy who later made that annoying kids show about a kid with ten sisters, The Noisy Family? Yes, The Loud House. It's trash, anyways. This guy is also a huge creep who sexually harassed his workers and got away with it. He also made a furry comic about a cat that wants to fuck his own mother, called The Complex Adventures of Eddie Puss, which explains why his later work, The Loud House, always seems to be borderline glorifying incest.
Scott Fellows praised his horrid works at Cartoon Network, that he allowed him to produce the show's first season, and because of that, along with Coconut Fred, Warner Bros. Animation would do less and less creator driven cartoons anymore. Scott Fellows clearly said "Hey, let's take a cartoon that Chris Savino ruined, and rehash it by having him as producer AND director!" In this case, it's Dexter's Laboratory. Yeah, Scott Fellows couldn't come up with a better way to rip off Dexter's Laboratory than to hire someone who RUINED Dexter's Laboratory! You can tell that with Chris Savino as producer and director for its first season that there was a massive drop in animation quality with Johnny Test. Chris Savino's contributions to stuff like Foe Paws, The Flintstones: On the Rocks, the last two seasons of Dexter's Laboratory and the Powerpuff Girls, and the first season of Johnny Test are all why people see him as the main reason why the 2000s were viewed as a very rough decade for cartoons.
Music[edit | edit source]
Out of all the people they got to compose the music for Johnny Test, they hired Kevin Manthei. Oh, Kevin! What happened, man? You were great creating music for Invader Zim! Why did you create music for Johnny Test? Oh, wait – because Scott Fellows forced you? The first season's theme song totally ripped off "Bastille Day" by Rush. Not only that, but seasons 2 to 6 had a theme song that seriously ripped off "American Idiot" by Green Day!
Animation[edit | edit source]
You thought this was only a Canadian show created by Cookie Jar. We would've left it that way, if we didn't find out that the show was originally a production of Warner Bros. Animation. That's when we found out that Johnny Test literally destroyed the WB Network on purpose. Warner Bros. Animation animated the first season, and even its use of hand drawn animation looked awful. Considering the fact that Chris Savino was involved with the first season, it seriously looked a lot like the last two seasons of Dexter's Laboratory and the Powerpuff Girls, with these really thick outlines, and cheap hand drawn animation that's more on par with those lousy cartoons of Filmation, Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, and DiC. The use of hand drawn animation in season one really made the show feel like a Canadian show disguised as an American cartoon. Oh, and it looks a lot like the dark age Looney Tunes cartoons of the 1960s as well! Not to mention, they had Paul Stec as art director for the first season, and his backgrounds for Dexter's Laboratory and the Powerpuff Girls are even worse than David P. Smith's.
Warner Bros. Animation was the animation studio behind such shows as Animaniacs, Teen Titans, and Batman: The Animated Series, and they later gave us this!! And people thought season one was the best season of the show, when really, it's just as bad. When Johnny Test debuted on Kids' WB! back in 2005, it was met with heavy backlash, that even Warner Bros. themselves weren't happy about having involvement with Johnny Test. Nobody wanted to work on Johnny Test during season one with the exceptions of Scott Fellows and Chris Savino, so Warner Bros. had to fire Chris from the show, and everyone left, because they didn't wanna be anywhere near that guy. Warner Bros. would later give the show to Cookie Jar Entertainment in season two, and nothing has changed, except for the animation. For those who love the UPA/Hanna-Barbera fusion style of the 2000s, you can thank Johnny Test, AND Chris Savino, for killing off that era of animation. Oh, and for ruining comedy too. This show, and Teen Titans Go!, are the reasons why most modern cartoons have thin outlines, and have to be story driven now!
When Cookie Jar took over after season one, Johnny Test turned into what it ACTUALLY is in disguise as an American hand drawn cartoon – a Canadian cartoon. You can tell based on the cheap use of flash animation. Oh, and get this. Scott Fellows claimed that it was because of the merger between the WB and UPN into the CW that "caused the show to suffer budget cuts". Uh ... no, Scott, YOU caused the show to suffer budget cuts. NOBODY wanted to work on Johnny Test, but you forced them to work on it, because you allowed a sexual predator involved with this abomination. Really, think about it. Scott Fellows hired Chris Savino to assault those who didn't wanna work on the show. This just shows that Scott Fellows literally made a hostile work environment similar to John Kricfalusi.
Premise[edit | edit source]
Johnny Test has the unique premise of having no premise at all. Instead, they just copied whatever's hip and trendy with the kids and throw it into a blender. The episodes were the result of the writers' smoking crack and taking the first concept they could work with, and then see if they could fool their viewers by making them think there was actually some sort of plot.
Characters[edit | edit source]
These characters barely feel like characters at all; they're just machines. Unfunny joke machines! Not like me, though! I know what you're gonna say. "Oh, but there are moments where they have a heart!" No. There are ZERO heartfelt moments in all of this shitshow!!
Johnny Test[edit | edit source]
Johnny Test (not Johnny Depp or the banker Johnny), as described above, is the main protagonist and titular character of the show. He's a bratty asshole with funny hair whose best friend is a dog, because even the show acknowledges this guy would never have a single friend in real life. He also can speak with this dog, which makes it very obvious that this kid is on something.
Dukey[edit | edit source]
The poor soul who had to be the offspring of Scooby Doo and Brian Griffin.
Susan and Mary Test[edit | edit source]
Susan and Mary are Johnny's "genius" sisters, although their experiments always end up blowing up in their face, which puts in question their supposed intelligence. They also treat their brother like shit. (The guy really deserves it, so they're my favorite characters.) On top of that, they're both in love with the same guy, a poor dude named Gil who has to suffer their constant stalking.
Bling Bling Boy[edit | edit source]
Eugene Hamilton is a pretentious snob that thinks he's hip enough to nickname himself "Bling Bling Boy". He's the main villain of the series, who for some reason is in love with Susan Test, and Johnny has to avoid that his brother-in-law ends up being some posh brat. His constant stalking of Susan is seen as disgusting and malevolent, yet the Test sisters' constant stalking of Gil is seen as quirky and funny. Talk about hypocrisy. Oh, and he's basically Mandark, because he's an evil genius who has a crush on a main character.
Other characters who don't really matter at all[edit | edit source]
- Hugh and Lila Test are just Dexter's parents with roles reversed.
- Lolo doesn't do anything interesting. Why is she a character in the show the first place?
- Janet Nelson Jr. is discount Trixie Tang, and serves no purpose.
- Sissy is the actual crush for Johnny Test, and it's creepy.
- Mr. Black and Mr. White are literally men in black.
- The Moonsies are aliens from the moon with ... WHY THE [REDACTED] DO THEY HAVE BUTTS FOR HEADS? Why does Hollywood love butts for heads? Even worse, there's a show about them!
- Brain Feezer is basically Chris Chan if he was the Snow Miser.
- Bumper is literally Francis from fairly odd parents.
- Gil Nexdor is your generic pretty boy.
- Zizrar is a totally NOTHING character! Just a rat wearing a crown.
- The Extreme Teen Team is just Rocket Power rejects.
- Mr. Teacherman is totally useless.
- Hank Anchorman is just discount Chet Ubetcha.
- Dark Vegan is just Darth Vader, but ... he's vegan?
- Jillian (his daughter) has a thick valley girl accent, and no personality at all.
- The General is another nothing character.
- Wacko is just insane.
- The Tickler (Wacko's twin brother) is Dan Schneider.
- Mr. Mittens is just retarded.
- Albert (his butler) is Batman's Alfred.
Revivals[edit | edit source]
For years after this bane of humanity ended, my life was improving. I was freed from house arrest, I got a girlfriend, moved to the city, and got a higher-paying job. But then, in 2021, that show HAD to be revived! Huh? Nobody asked for Johnny Test to return at all! Besides Cuties (although, it is a good thing that movie was removed permanently), the 2021 Johnny Test reboot is another reason why people are unsubscribing to Netflix anymore. Now, they did episodes on Pokémon Go!, Daft Punk, Amazon, Orange is the New Black, emojis (as if The Emoji Movie wasn't enough to fuel your hatred towards emojis), Friday the 13th, Beverly Hills 90210, and Evil Knievel. This reboot was literally a clear attempt to bring back a show that nobody asked for, a show that killed off the WB network, a show that was always the least good show out of everything it had on Cartoon Network, a show that was creatively bankrupt from the beginning!!
Plus, how did Scott get Guy Moon and Stephen Silver to work on this horrid reboot with him? And do you know what happened – my girlfriend left me because apparently doing this review "was mentally disturbing to her", and the police reinstated my house arrest sentence. They may say that I'm a butthurt loser who can't ignore the fact that a kids show gets revived, but I know it's the revival's fault! The only actually good thing about this reboot is that they got rid of the whip cracking sound effect, but even that's not enough to be worth all the things that happened to me! The good news is that the 2021 reboot FINALLY ended, and it should STAY that way, or else! But it's also worth noting that this horrid reboot, along with Teen Titans Go! AND Powerpuff Girls 2016, all brought the entertainment industry as low as it could go. All of Johnny Test, Teen Titans Go!, and Powerpuff Girls 2016 are why NFTs and AI are popular now!
Out-of-nowhere and unnecessary critical reevaluation[edit | edit source]
Seriously, why are people being nice to this show now? I can't believe anyone actually liked this show at all! Are the fans blind and high? Johnny Test was the result of the WB network's demise, given Chris Savino's involvement with the first season! Do I have to remind you that the first season was handled by the man who ruined Dexter's Laboratory? So, no. Johnny Test does not deserve a critical reevaluation at all! It deserves more and more hate. Especially for how it ruined Kids' WB!, by premiering alongside Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island and Loonatics Unleashed in 2005. As explained before, so many people hated working on Johnny Test's first season because, like John Kricfalusi, Scott Fellows and Chris Savino wanted to make a hostile work environment, but also wanted to rip off other shows. Scott Fellows claimed that it was the merger between the WB and UPN into the CW that caused Johnny Test to suffer budget cuts after season one. Uh ... no it wasn't, Scott. YOU wanted to kill the WB network. The REAL reason why Johnny Test became a Canadian cartoon is that the crew members HATED working on Johnny Test. Scott Fellows intended to blackmail the co-workers if they refuse to work on Johnny Test. What kind of blackmailing? Scott Fellows was okay with Chris Savino being a sexual predator towards his co-workers.
You know what? Just talking about this show is bringing me yet again the urge to punch that prick's face. That's it, I'm leaving. I can't do it. I can't do it! Fuck Scott Fellows. Fuck Chris Savino. But most importantly, fuck you, Johnny Test.
- Several days after the person who made this review ended it in anger, countless factories producing Johnny Test toys were mysteriously sabotaged by an intruder. Many police officers have also not seen the dude they placed on house arrest, stating that he's escaped.
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