!YMMV tropes for the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' series
!!Tropes with their own pages:
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* [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation/JohnnyBravo Alternative Character Interpretation]]
* [[HilariousInHindsight/JohnnyBravo Hilarious In Hindsight]]
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* 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:
*** 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.
* {{Adorkable}}: Carl is a nerd who has weird hobbies and has built some strange inventions, but he's a NiceGuy who's very enthusiastic and outgoing that it can be difficult to not like him regardless.
* AlternativeJokeInterpretation: One episode has a primitive tribe sacrifice Johnny to their volcano goddess, who wants virgins. Johnny is rejected almost immediately. Whether this is another joke about how obnoxious he is or an indicator that he's not actually a virgin is debated.
* 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).
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** All the songs from "The Sensitive Male!".
** "The Happy Haunted Sunshine House" is considered one of the show's best moments and has even become a fan-favorite chase song among ''Scooby-Doo!'' fans.
** In one episode, where a little Mexican village enlists Johnny to save them from terror, we get a little musical interlude as Johnny is brought into the village on the back of a donkey, while a harmonica and guitar rendition of ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'' plays.
** "That's All You Need to Know," a warm and fuzzy love song from "It's Valentine's Day, Johnny Bravo!" It's an original song written by the show's creator, Van Partible, and performed by [[Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock Joey McIntyre]] and Rachael Lampa.
* BadassDecay: At 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.
* BaseBreakingCharacter:
** Little Suzy. Some fans think her interactions with Johnny where she either annoys him with her cuteness or works off of his stupidity with her intelligence are hilarious, while others think they're boring and don't really give the show that much mileage for jokes and episode plots.
** Carl. He's either liked for being a great {{Foil}} to Johnny and thinks 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.
** Pops. Most fans like him for his [[ParentalSubstitute relationship with Johnny]], the amusing injuries he puts Johnny through, and his LargeHam moments. Others found him a boring character whose moments of taking advantage of Johnny and serving unsanitary food to his customers at his diner makes him come off as unlikable.
* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The episode "Witch-ay Woman" is one of the more remembered episodes for [[GenderBender obvious]] [[MsFanservice reasons]].
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In the episode "Double Vision", Johnny prepares to do a dive into a swimming pool. Immediately after he jumps off the diving board, an enormous pink elephant pops up on screen, shouts "CANNONBALL!", runs to the pool, and jumps in, just in time to empty all of the water and give Johnny some AmusingInjuries. The elephant then screams, "DUUUDE, THAT WAS EXTREMEEEEE!' and leaves. There's absolutely no build-up to the moment, and it's never mentioned again.
* BizarroEpisode: The episode "I, Fly" has Johnny having his head swapped with a fly after stepping inside one of Carl's teleportation pods, causing Johnny to spend the entire episode being a fly. And the episode ends with him, the fly, and Carl all swapping bodies and then they casually eat lunch at Pop's Diner, which [[IrisOut irises out]] on the fly as it [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how strange the episode was.
-->'''Fly:''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall This was a strange and disturbing episode.]]
* BrokenBase:
** Season 2 and Season 3, which were the seasons made without 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''.
** The celebrity appearances can be this as well. They're either welcome cameos with funny moments, or painfully unfunny and in the case of certain celebrities like Vendela, Farrah Fawcett, and Donny Osmond, severely dated.
* CantUnHearIt: The voice Creator/TomKenny uses for Carl is very similar to his [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob]] voice (particularly his [[VocalEvolution pre]]-[[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie movie]] [=SpongeBob=] voice) resulting in a lot of fans thinking of [=SpongeBob=] when they hear Carl's voice.
* CargoShip: In the episode "Candidate Johnny", it's revealed that Carl took a rubber ducky as his date to his high school prom.
* CharacterRerailment: Seasons 2 and 3 amped up Johnny's stupidity significantly. When Partible returned for Season 4, Johnny was rewritten to be closer to his Season 1 personality.
* CrossoverShip:
** Johnny is frequently shipped with WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack, mostly from their appearance on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOeo_zHTWB4 this Commercial Bumper.]]
** He's also shipped with [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Velma Dinkley]], largely thanks to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3la82bYtcPg these]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyIPtyN7sdw bumpers]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbjNE0SXTKc this episode]]. In the end of ''[[TheMovie Johnny Bravo Goes To]]'' ''UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}'', he briefly flirts with Velma, too.
--->'''Johnny:''' ''(after the BigBad is unmasked and he gives a YouMeddlingKids speech)'' Man, do all the supervillains just sit around watching Franchise/ScoobyDoo? ''(AsideGlance; flirty tone)'' Hi, Velma.
* DiagnosedByTheAudience: While never confirmed outright on-screen, Carl may have signs of Asperger's Syndrome; limited amount of "[[InsistentTerminology special interests]]", [[NoSocialSkills limited social skills]] (which improve depending on CharacterDevelopment and DependingOnTheWriter) and a voice that's either monotone or too high, and also less awareness of social conventions at times.
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** The Sensitive Male is one of the more popular characters due to his ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' parodies voiced by Jack Sheldon, and for coming off as a great {{Foil}} to Johnny.
** Sergeant Trixie from "Full Metal Johnny" has a good following according to Website/{{YouTube}}.
** Some people remember Chronos, '''Master of All Time!''' ''(DramaticThunder)'' to this day (despite him only really having two appearances).
** [[CuteMonsterGirl Fluffy the Werewolf]].
** [[BirdsOfAFeather Heather Asplund]].
** Mitzy, the [[ClassyCatBurglar jewel thief]] from "The Johnny Bravo Affair" has quite alot of fan art.
** Madame Voila from "Witch-Ay Woman" for teaching Johnny to respect women more via KarmicTransformation and having a [[BigBeautifulWoman pretty attractive]] design.
* EstrogenBrigade: Ironically, in spite of Johnny's womanizing habits, the show has a rather devoted female fanbase who love it for its {{deconstruct|ed trope}}ion of the ChivalrousPervert trope, and find Johnny an overall amusing character due to his womanizing habits making him a ButtMonkey.
* FriendlyFandoms: Johnny's love of striking ridiculous poses and off-the-wall stories ended up endearing the character to quite a number of fans of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. Johnny is often compared, both due to appearance and personality, to [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Jean-Pierre Polnareff]].
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:
** ''Johnny Bravo'' became ''extremely'' popular in India, to the point of becoming what essentially amounts to a cultural icon and his name being used a slang term for anything that's considered cool/hip/trendy. Cartoon Network Asia took notice and eventually made ''[[MadeForTVMovie Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood]]'' [[NoExportForYou exclusively for India]].
** The TV movie also aired in Australia and New Zealand, which hints that the show may have quite a following over there too. It's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFo1RRCRFDo#t=13m8s one of the favorite Cartoon Network shows]] of an Australian [=YouTuber=] named WebVideo/PhantomStrider, who has frequently referenced the show in his videos (particularly his [=LiveStrider=] videos).
** 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 the title character also has a one off blink it, you'll miss it, cameo in the CN Latin American series ''WesternAnimation/{{Villainous|CartoonNetwork}}''.
* HarsherInHindsight: A harsh one regarding the Hungarian dub of the show. The voice actor for Johnny Bravo (who, if you haven't heard, is an Music/ElvisPresley-esque sexist trying to score with women) got arrested in 2012 for sexual violence charges.
* JustHereForGodzilla: Fans of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' or ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' tend to check out this show to see one of Creator/MaeWhitman's early roles as Little Suzy.
* LGBTFanbase: Johnny's actually pretty popular among the BaraGenre crowd.
* MemeticMutation:
** Johnny's one-off line, "I'm sickened, but curious...", in the context of seeing Pops bathe Carl in corn chowder in the episode "Cover Boy", which [[Website/{{Tumblr}} has been described as "the Internet in a nutshell."]]
** The image of the ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' character handing a woman the letter D -- as in, [[DoubleEntendre give her the "D"]].[[labelnote:Explanation]]In context, he was singing a song about courtesy with the lyric "Show that girl that you really give a D" (as in "darn").[[/labelnote]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=917Ckqrbk6M "Johnny Punches"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixFqdKIcogg [Insert character's name here]]] also seems to be working its way.
** [[https://fumu.tumblr.com/post/625908721763139584/this-is-the-funniest-intro-to-any-johnny-bravo This clip]] has also been going viral.
** "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 ''Franchise/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]]
* MisaimedFandom: Johnny Bravo himself gets this a lot in regard to how he's meant to be portrayed as a character. There are viewers who think he's played off as a [[MenAreTough alpha male]] character who [[TheCasanova gets all the ladies]]. But in reality, Johnny is meant to be a LoserProtagonist and a loveable {{Narcissist}} who thinks he's cool and that girls are into him, but he's actually an [[IdiotHero idiot]] and a dork who [[DidNotGetTheGirl never succeeds at getting girls to like him and instead gets beaten up and rejected by them]].
* {{Moe}}: Little Suzy, especially in Season 1.
* MoralEventHorizon: The Ghostly Gardener from the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' crossover, aka Aunt Jebedissa, crossed it when she tried to kill Johnny with a weed whacker [[EvilIsPetty simply because she found him to be an embarrassment to the family name]].
* MyRealDaddy: Despite Van Partible being the creator (and showrunner in the first and fourth seasons), many have credited writers Creator/ButchHartman, Creator/SethMacFarlane, and [[Series/SonnyWithAChance Steve Marmel]], as well as Gary Hartle and Kirk Tingblad (showrunners in the second and third seasons) for the series' success over Partible. This is especially true with the fourth (and final) season, which involved Partible's return, but not the aforementioned writers or producers and was [[SeasonalRot poorly received]].
* NauseaFuel: Pop's Moon Palace is this in terms of the food and the kitchen.
* NightmareFuel:
** "Damien's Day Out", where Johnny Bravo has to take care of essentially a demonic baby, with supernatural powers and all. Johnny does everything he can to get rid of Damien, but fails every time. The scene where Damien raises zombies to seemingly attack Johnny is a significant [[NightmareFuel Nightmare Fuelish]] moment, though it ends up being hysterical since [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments all the zombies do is kindly drop Johnny and Damien back at Johnny's house]]. When Damien's mother comes back to retrieve him, Johnny insults her for her son's shenanigans. [[DoNotTauntCthulhu As a comeback, Damien's mother turns Johnny into a lizard.]] [[DownerEnding The End]]. Luckily, [[PlayedForLaughs this too is made humorous]] by Johnny appearing as such through a SmashCut [[WeirdnessCensor with him and his mama apparently not being bothered by it]], and of course, [[ResetButton everything returns to normal by the next episode]].
** "I, Fly" is an obvious parody of ''Film/TheFly1958'', but still has its share of unsettling moments. The fly Johnny ended up switching bodies with [[ItMakesSenseInContext even says at the end]] "This was a strange and disturbing episode."
* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: Part of the divisive reaction to seasons 2 and 3, until Partible came back on board for season 4 as that season wound up killing the series.
* PeripheryDemographic: While the entire show has plenty of adult fans, the first season in particular grew quite a following among adult fans for its ParentalBonus jokes and tons of [[ReferenceOverdosed pop-culture references]]. So much so that some of those adults fans weren't happy when seasons 2 and 3 were made more child oriented and had the pop-culture references removed.
* 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 [[Series/SonnyWithAChance Steve Marmel]] had moved on to [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents other]] [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy projects]].
* SignatureScene:
** The scene from "Date with an Antelope" where Johnny checks himself in the mirror and then calls the police to report a "handsome guy in his house" is one of the show's most remembered scenes.
** The "Happy Haunted Sunshine House" chase scene from "Bravo Dooby-Doo."
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
** "T is for Trouble" has Johnny's training montage accompanied by a soundalike to "Eye of the Tiger" by Music/{{Survivor|Band}}.
** Johnny's song about his high school crush Sandy Baker in "The Time of My Life" sounds an awful lot like it's copying "Da-Doo" from ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''.
** "The Johnny Bravo Affair" is a parody of ''Film/TheThomasCrownAffair1968''. 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]]".
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: 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]].
* 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 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.
* 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 unfortunately Johnny doesn't really end up learning anything from the experience except "women are smart and men are dumb."
* UnintentionalUncannyValley: Several of the celebrity guest characters in Season 4 were given rather questionable designs, particularly [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/weird_al_johnny_bravo.png "Weird Al" Yankovic]] and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/seth_green_johnny_bravo.png Seth Green]].
* ValuesResonance:
** Johnny's womanizing may be PlayedForLaughs, but it's at Johnny's expense as it almost always ended with him on the receiving end of some physical pain (usually from the woman herself), making the message quite clear that that kind of attitude is no way to earn someone's affections.
** 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 behavior due to not knowing any better, Johnny does legitimately love women and wants the best for all of them.
** "The Sensitive Male!" shows how the titular character the episode is named after is actually a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] {{Jerkass}}, who is using fake sensitivity in order to win over women. At the end of the episode when his true nature is revealed (and Johnny rats him out to other women, while also calling him a jerk), he is tied up and carried away by them to be given further punishment. Thus giving us a relevant message to this day about how faux nice guys can be just as bad as (or even worse than) their macho meathead counterparts.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: It did get toned down in later seasons, but the fact remains that it's a Creator/CartoonNetwork show that got away with a lot of innuendo and ParentalBonus jokes. Justified, as Creator/SethMacFarlane worked on the show.
* TheWoobie: Johnny is this at the end of "It's Valentine's Day, Johnny Bravo!", where he finally manages to win the heart of a girl who actually likes him and has a lot in common with him named Heather Asplund, to which ends with Heather turning out to be a [[spoiler:spy who had to cover her tracks by erasing Johnny's memory]] and thus preventing Johnny from making her a part of his life. While Johnny receiving some of physical punishment for his womanizing ways or losing to hang onto a girl altogether is usually very funny, this is the one where it was the exception and came off as one of the show's biggest [[TearJerker tear jerkers]] and probably the biggest loss for Johnny.
* WriterCopOut: The Valentine's Day special "It's Valentine's Day, Johnny Bravo!" has Johnny finally managing to find a girl who not only likes him, but has a lot in common with him named Heather Asplund. The ending has Heather revealed to be a [[spoiler:spy who had to erase Johnny's memory to cover her tracks, thus they cannot be together]]. This came off to fans not only as a StatusQuoIsGod, but a very cruel one at that since Johnny and Heather seemed very happy together that having it end with Johnny once again failing to hold onto a girl came off as way too mean-spirited towards Johnny, especially when it was on his own birthday.
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