History YMMV / JohnnyBravo

* AssPull: In "A Date With An Antelope", the antelope's overly attached ex-boyfriend turning out to be the crab that Johnny was just served at a fancy restaurant. Even with RuleOfFunny applied, it still happens with no foreshadowing whatsoever. From that same episode, the head waiter at the restaurant just so happening to be a college friend of the antelope's father (allowing her in when the restaurant has a strict "no animals" policy.

** The scene from "Date with an Antelope" where Johnny checks himself in the mirror and then calls the police to a report a "handsome guy in his house" is one of the show's most remembered scenes.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: See BrokenBase above. Despite critical acclaim for seasons 2 and 3, purists were unhappy with Johnny suddenly [[TookALevelInDumbass dipping in intelligence]]. This is also true with the (also different) fourth season which, despite Partible returning, flopped ''miserably'' and ended up [[FranchiseKiller killing the series]].

** If you want to get a date, seek out people who share your interests rather than hitting on random strangers.
** Don't turn down a blind date out of pride. Your mom might know what she's doing.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The episode concept of "[[GenderBender Witch-ay Woman]]" where Johnny is turned into a woman to put him in the shoes of all the women that he is always harassing is not only a great way to give him a cathartic reality check how uncomfortable women get when men like him bothers them, it would also come off as a great aesop about treating women with respect like respecting their boundaries and treating them like human beings. But sadly, it comes off as another one of those {{Anvilicious}} episodes with a misguided portrayal of feminism by making women portrayed as smart and mature while men are portrayed as dumb and immature, which ends up as Johnny not being able to understand how much of a jerk he is to women since his behavior towards them is not touched upon at all in the episode, and the only thing he seems to learn from it in the end is just that "women are smart and men are dumb."

** Even disregarding that, Johnny ended up the way he is due to a (horribly misguided) attempt to give his then-girlfriend the man he thought she deserved, rather than who he was back then. He also has nothing but respect for women, treating them all equally and accepting rejection rather than getting upset or blaming the woman. He also loves his mom to death and is willing to help others not for a chance at a date, but because it's the right thing to do. Despite his bad behaviour due to not knowing any better, Johnny does legitimately love women and wants the best for all of them.

* AccidentalAesop: In "It's Valentine's Day, Johnny Bravo!", Johnny is set up on a blind date by his mom. While he scoffs at this, Johnny meets the woman and they hit it off because they share many interests. Although it ends [[BittersweetEnding semi-tragically]], there are two takeaways:

** "The Johnny Bravo Affair" is a parody of ''Film/TheThomasCrownAffair''. Fittingly, the music that plays over the title card is a soundlike of "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windmills_of_Your_Mind The Windmills of Your Mind]]".

* AssPull: In "A Date With An Antelope", the antelope's overly attached ex-boyfriend turning out to be the crab that Johnny was just served at a fancy restaurant. Even with RuleOfFunny applied, it still happens with no foreshadowing whatsoever.

** The show is very popular in Latin America, almost as much as India, much like in Australia and New Zealand, the TV movie even aired in Latin America, and also has a blink it, you'll miss it, cameo in the CN Latin American series ''WesternAnimation/{{Villainous|CartoonNetwork}}''.

** The show is very popular in Latin America, almost as much as India.

** "BUY OUR TOYS!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]The episode "20,000 Leagues Over My Head" has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNVCnO1D0HU a scene]] of Johnny watching ''Clam League 9000'', a ShowWithinAShow consisting of a mash-up parody of ''Manga/DragonBall'' and ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Pokémon]]''. The Goten/Ash Ketchum {{Expy}} notably yells "Buy our toys" [[RuleOfThree three times]] at the end of the scene, each shout more manic than the last. This is frequently used to make fun of MerchandiseDriven works.[[/labelnote]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation.JohnnyBravo Click here]].

* HilariousInHindsight: [[HilariousInHindsight.JohnnyBravo Now has its own page]].

* HilariousInHindsight:
** Creator/AdamWest appears in one episode voicing himself as an unhinged man disconnected from reality. Clearly Creator/SethMacFarlane liked the idea because on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Adam West voices himself as an unhinged man disconnected from reality. Creator/ButchHartman did, too; Adam West on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' clearly isn't quite right in the head, and Creator/JeffBennett, the voice of Johnny Bravo, would eventually replace Adam West as the voice of Catman in the last two seasons of the latter show.
** In Season 4 among the celebrity guest appearances, Music/WeirdAlYankovic appears in an episode as himself called "Johnny Makeover," Creator/SethGreen appears as himself in the finale "Back on Shaq," and Donny Osmond returns in "That's Entertainment!" Both Seth Green and Donny Osmond would later make an appearance in "Weird Al's" White & Nerdy music video with Seth Green acting as an action figure collector, and Donny Osmond is the guy who dances behind "Weird Al" in front of a green screen with the Schrödinger equation.
** In one episode, Johnny's girlfriend while watching a movie on a date comments that she is a fan of "Swedish Karate movies". As ridiculous as that sounded, years later a movie featuring several martial arts fights, Film/KungFury, was made by Swedish director David Sandberg was made and released in 2015.
** In "Wilderness Protection Program", the elk boss' puzzle is a koala bear, which resembles another character on [[WesternAnimation/NiHaoKaiLan another kids' show]] animated by Creator/{{Saerom}}.
** Johnny getting replaced by a CGI Creator/MarkHamill in "Johnny Bravo Goes to Hollywood" becomes this in light of the him playing a [[DigitalDeaging digitally deaged]] version of Luke Skywalker in ''Series/TheMandalorian'' and ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'.
** For both Japanese viewers and {{Anime}} fans alike, the whole premise of the show, starting with 2020, became [[ValuesDissonance awkwardly]] funny, if you take into consideration Creator/KenNarita, Johnny Bravo's dub voice actor, is also the Japanese voice of [[Manga/InuYasha Sesshoumaru]]. In this show, Johnny is a pretty handsome-looking guy who wants to date girls, but he is almost rejected by them, outside of a little girl, Little Suzy, which is, for obvious reasons, off-limits for Johnny. In ''Manga/{{InuYasha}}'', Sesshoumaru is also a pretty-looking guy, but unlike Johnny, he is definitely '''NOT''' interested on searching girls to date with, [[FantasticRacism since he is a dog youkai]] (unless you're either [[spoiler:Kagura or Rin]]). Also, [[spoiler:just like Johnny, Sesshoumaru is hanging around with a little girl as well, in this case, Rin]]. In the sequel series, ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon'', it's later revealed that Sesshoumaru, unlike Johnny, [[spoiler:not only he ends with the little girl, Rin, he also had ''twins'', Towa and Setsuna]].
** The episode "Bootman" features an {{Expy}} of ComicBook/PlasticMan called Mr. Elastic as the leader of the Astounding League of Super-People, who happens to be voiced by Creator/TomKenny. Tom Kenny would later voice the actual Plastic Man in a 2006 animated pilot that never took off, ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' and a series of ''WesternAnimation/DCNation'' shorts based off the aforementioned pilot.
** The 2011 MadeForTVMovie ''Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood'' has Jiggy depicted as an arrogant and narcissistic celebrity who is eventually humbled and becomes Johnny's friend, which appears prescient of Jiggy's voice actor Sunil Malhotra's role as Prince Wu in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', who starts out as a spoiled and childish heir to the Earth Kingdom's throne before CharacterDevelopment matures him to the point that he becomes willing to give up the throne and allow the Earth Kingdom to become a democracy.

* HoYay:
** Johnny landing on The Island of Beautiful Men after getting rejected from an island of angry Amazons.
** Also much of it from Carl to Johnny. Carl pounces Johnny constantly (as in "Johnny Goes to Camp"), is very clingy despite Johnny shoving him away, all-too into playing Johnny's pretend date ("Charm School Johnny") or wife ("Chain Gang Johnny"), is impervious to the wiles of chicks, often thinking they're evil ("Forest Chump"), and even said he loved Johnny while standing up for him against an angry mob in "Lodge Brother Johnny". Heck, the episode "Carl Be Not Proud" is practically nothing BUT Ho Yay. Great lines like "If I can't make direct eye contact with Johnny, I'll die!" help too.
** Occasionally Johnny will even do something Ho Yay-ish, like in "El Bravo Magnifico" he disguised himself as a woman and a Mexican man named "Caliente" hit on him, saying, "Surely a girl as pretty as you has kissed a man before..." Johnny's response? To break character completely and shout, "What? I was young! I-It was New Year's Eve, the cherry cola made me giddy!" He also will say things that probably aren't meant to sound weird, but do, like "Well, eatin' Carl ''did'' give me a hungry man's appetite." The episode "Endless Bummer" also includes lip contact between him and Carl (though this one was unintentional on Johnny's part). Not to mention the instances concerning background characters; so yeah, surprisingly a ''lot'' of Ho Yay for a show about a guy trying to score with women.
** There's a surprising amount of romantic tension between Johnny and WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOeo_zHTWB4 this Cartoon Network commercial bumper]], which led to many people [[CrossoverShip shipping them together]].

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** Based on his dates with a werewolf and an antelope, both of whom he actually treated with respect, it's possible Johnny may just be acting sexist because [[http://lookatthewords.tumblr.com/post/66531381432/thempress-bbones-ryulongd-m0rdin he thinks that's how to impress most women]] (and is too dense to notice how rarely it works), and is a great guy apart from that. (According to this interpretation, he wasn't sexist toward the werewolf or antelope because the usual "rules" of romance didn't seem to apply.)
** There's also the interpretation that most of the women he hits on are ''[[HypocriticalHumor just as shallow]]'' and don't want to bother getting to know the real guy under the bravado. Though it must be said that no one is ''obligated'' to get to know someone who walks up and sniffs them. Actually putting your hands on someone you don't know also tends not to be very endearing.
** When his character is viewed as a whole, Johnny isn't a bad person. He's vain and shallow, yes, but he also has admirable personality qualities when it doesn't involve trying to pick up women. But a shallow person generally is terrible at first impressions. Plus as the creators have said, Johnny ''does'' get girls, but they purposely don't show his successes because that would ruin the joke.
** There's also the fact that, at least after {{Flanderization}} kicked in, Johnny genuinely doesn't know how to actually ''romance'' a woman, presumably because he's never gotten that far. In one instance, a woman on a cruise who was genuinely interested in him (or rather, the ring he was wearing) offered to take him to the captain's cabin for a little fun. Once they got there, Johnny was a lot more interested in playing around with the ship's wheel and control panel than the beautiful woman who was quite literally throwing herself at him. So as mentioned above, he may genuinely believe that cheesy pick-up lines and acting like a selfish stud are simply how men are supposed to find girlfriends, and even then, he doesn't even know what romantic partners do with one another.
** In the episode "Charm School Johnny" where Pops makes a bet with Carl that he can turn Johnny into a gentleman in seven days in which the loser would have to perform a Mexican hat dance for twenty-four hours straight, Pops ends up losing the bet after Johnny mistaken the Royal Duchess for Carl and tosses her into the punch bowl and then Carl shows up afterwards apologizing for being late. Given Carl's not surprised reaction when he sees that Johnny failed at becoming a gentleman, it's possible that Carl showed up late on purpose knowing that Johnny is stupid enough to mistaken the Royal Duchess for him so that he could win the bet against Pops, or he just simply showed up late by accident and just wasn't surprised as he knew that Johnny would not become a gentleman and he was also happy that he won the bet against Pops.

* BadassDecay: In the beginning of the series, Johnny was able to ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome successfully wrestle a crocodile]]''. By the time the third season rolled around, even ''children'' could beat him in a fight.

** Carl. He's either liked for being a great {{Foil}} to Johnny and think his relationship with Johnny is a better gateway for jokes and plot ideas than Johnny's relationship with Little Suzy, or he's disliked for his annoying voice and for his moments of upstaging Johnny.

** The 2011 MadeForTVMovie ''Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood'' has Jiggy depicted as an arrogant and narcissistic celebrity who is eventually humbled and becomes Johnny's friend, which appears prescient of Jiggy's voice actor Sunil Malhotra's role as Prince Wu in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', who starts out as a spoiled and childish heir to the Earth Kingdom's throne before CharacterDevelopment matures him to the point that he gives up the throne and allows the Earth Kingdom to become a democracy.

** The 2011 MadeForTVMovie ''Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood'' has Jiggy depicted as an arrogant celebrity who is eventually humbled and becomes Johnny's friend, which appears prescient of Jiggy's voice actor Sunil Malhotra's role as Prince Wu in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', who starts out as a spoiled and childish heir to the Earth Kingdom's throne before CharacterDevelopment matures him to the point that he gives up the throne and allows the Earth Kingdom to become a democracy.

* SeasonalRot: As the final season of the series, season 4 got hit with this pretty badly as Carl and Pops (who were established cast members in the previous two seasons) became DemotedToExtra, characters like Little Suzy became [[FlatCharacter very generic]], the comedy such as the SelfDeprecation and slapstick was very underwhelming, episode plots were dull and dragged on because of the longer running time, and celebrity guest stars became so much more frequent compared to the first season, with the episodes generally focusing more on them instead of Johnny himself (including the poorly-received series finale with Creator/ShaquilleONeal). What's especially ironic about this is that other Cartoon Network shows that went through seasonal rot such as ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' involved the departure of their [[Creator/GenndyTartakovsky respective]] [[Creator/CraigMcCracken creators]]. This show's seasonal rot involved the return of creator Van Partible; meanwhile, the seasons without his involvement were well received. Part of this may be due to Partible being stuck with a different writing staff compared to the first season, as key writers such as Creator/ButchHartman, Creator/SethMacFarlane, and Steve Marmel had moved on to [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents other]] [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy projects]].

** Season 2 and Season 3, which were the seasons made without Van Partible. Some liked the larger cast of central characters, more accessible humor, and a downplayed amount of pop culture references that keep the show from being dated. Others hated Johnny's {{Flanderization}}, increased amounts of slapstick, and the ArtShift. Pretty much the only things fans agree on was that Suzy's redesign looked ''hideous''.

* CharacterRerailment: Seasons 2 and 3 amped up Johnny's stupidity significantly. When Van Partible returned for Season 4, Johnny was rewritten to be closer to his Season 1 personality.

* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: Part of the divisive reaction to seasons 2 and 3, until Van Partible came back on board for season 4 as that season wound up killing the series.

* SeasonalRot: As the final season of the series, season 4 got hit with this pretty badly as Carl and Pops (who were established cast members in the previous two seasons) became DemotedToExtra, characters like Little Suzy became [[FlatCharacter very generic]], the comedy such as the SelfDeprecation and slapstick was very underwhelming, episode plots were dull and dragged on because of the longer running time, and celebrity guest stars became so much more frequent compared to the first season, with the episodes generally focusing more on them instead of Johnny himself (including the poorly-received series finale with Creator/ShaquilleONeal). What's especially ironic about this is that other Cartoon Network shows that went through seasonal rot such as ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' involved the departure of their [[Creator/GenndyTartakovsky respective]] [[Creator/CraigMcCracken creators]]. This show's seasonal rot involved the return of the show's creator Van Partible; meanwhile, the seasons without his involvement were well received.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: See BrokenBase above. Despite critical acclaim for seasons 2 and 3, purists were unhappy with Johnny suddenly [[TookALevelInDumbass dipping in intelligence]]. This is also true with the (also different) fourth season which, despite Van Partible returning, flopped ''miserably'' and ended up [[FranchiseKiller killing the series]].
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Both Carl and Pops end up getting this treatment in the last season, where their roles were heavily reduced to them just making cameos (though Carl at least still had speaking roles). Since they were both major characters in the previous two seasons and with nothing they are and what they do feeling out of place in Van Partible's format of the show, he could have made them both work and probably even given them good roles to make them funny and useful to the episodes' plots. Unfortunately, they got reduced screen time, their character traits (particularly Carl's scientist traits) were removed, and they were hardly used at all in the last season.