History Series / JohnnyBago

* [[PsychoExGirlfriend Psycho Ex-Wife]]

* JimmyBuffett: Wrote and performed the ThemeSong (a rare post-1984 Zemeckis effort where Creator/AlanSilvestri didn't do any music).
---> Life's too complicated, it's too complex/Bounced from town to town like rubber checks/Didn't know at the time I'd pay double for the crime/Not to mention a serious problem with the opposite sex...

* YouLookFamiliar: Tim Stack appears several times as unrelated local TV newsmen covering the places & events Johnny just happens to be.

!!Provides Examples Of:

* JimmyBuffett: Wrote and performed the ThemeSong.

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''Johnny Bago'' was a short-lived TV series airing on Creator/{{CBS}} in the summer of 1993, created by Creator/RobertZemeckis and starring Peter Dobson.

* FridayNightDeathSlot: According to IMDB, the show debuted in this slot.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Episodes of the show still have yet to make it onto Website/YouTube, though.

* YouLookFamiliar: Tim Stack appears several times as unrelated local TV newsmen covering the places & events Johnny just happens to be.

''Johnny Bago'' was a short-lived TV series airing on Creator/{{CBS}} in the summer of 1993, created by RobertZemeckis and starring Peter Dobson.

''Johnny Bago'' was a short-lived TV series airing on {{CBS}} in the summer of 1993, created by RobertZemeckis and starring Peter Dobson.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Episodes of the show still have yet to make it onto YouTube, though.

''Johnny Bago'' was a short-lived TV series airing on {{CBS}} in the summer of 1993, starring Peter Dobson.

!!Tropes appearing in ''Johnny Bago'' include:

* WalkingTheEarth: Well, riding in a Winnebago RV, but it's the same principle.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:

''Johnny Bago'' was a short-lived TV series airing on {{CBS}} in the summer of 1993 starring Peter Dobson.

Small time hood Johnny Tenuti has just been released from prison after a five year sentence for a crime he claims not to have committed. His cousin, a midlevel Mafioso, asks Johnny to cover for him on a date [[TwoTimerDate which is on the same day as his wedding anniversary]]. Johnny does so, only to find himself framed for murdering the Mafia Don's son and goes on the lam. He hooks up with an old man named Hick in a Winnabago RV. After Hick dies, Johnny repurposes Hick's RV and hides out in the RV community, travelling the highways and byways of America using the alias "Johnny Bago."

* {{Blackmail}}: the Ringmaster of a circus Johnny briefly joins. He has info on everybody in the circus, making them work for him for free or else he'll turn them in. He also feeds them on garbage leftover from the previous days' crowds.
* TheDon: the father of the man Johnny didn't kill.
* ElvisLives: in a trailer park, natch.

* FishOutOfWater: city boy Johnny is unprepared for life on the road and in the rural areas he's travelling through.
* GirlOfTheWeek: from a doctor to an environmentalist to a circus Fat Lady, every girl tends to fall for Johnny eventually.

* GotMeDoingIt: while at the circus Johnny picks up the foreign ringmaster's VerbalTic.
* InspectorJavert: his ex-wife who is also his parole officer, trying to bring him in for murder.
* JimmyBuffett: wrote & performed the ThemeSong.

* TheMafia: they want to kill him for killing the Don's son, if his ex wife doesn't get him first.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: see series description.
* [[PsychoExGirlfriend Psycho Ex Wife]]
* ShootTheTelevision: When Johnny goes over to complain about the noise from the TV Elvis shoots it. Johnny decides not to say anything about the barking dog.
* TooGoodToLast

* WalkingTheEarth: well, riding in a Winnabago RV, but it's the same principle.