History YMMV / JohnnyBravo

** Little Suzy. Some fans think her interactions with Johnny where she either annoys him with her [[TastesLikeDiabetes 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 many accessible ideas for jokes and episode plots.

** Little Suzy. Some fans think her interactions with Johnny where she either annoys him with her [[TastesLikeDiabetes cuteness]] or works off of his stupidity with her intelligence are hilarious, while others think they're boring and don't give her strong dynamic with Johnny compared to Carl.

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

** Johnny himself. He's either a lovable idiot whose womanizing is always rightfully punished or a creep whose antics are unpleasant now matter how much they're PlayedForLaughs.

* CantUnHearIt: The voice Creator/TomKenny uses for Carl is very similar to his [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob]] voice that a lot of fans think of [=SpongeBob=] when they hear Carl's voice.

** 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 stupid 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.)

* 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]].

* 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 Season 2 and Season 3 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 more frequent compared to the first season that the episodes focus more on them instead of Johnny like in the series finale with Shaquille O'Neal that was a very poorly received finale by fans since it was barely about Johnny Bravo. 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 the creators. This show's seasonal rot involved the return of the show's creator Van Partible, meanwhile the previous two seasons without him were more well received.

* 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.

* 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 LoserProtagonist and loveable {{Narcissist}} who thinks he's cool and that girls are into him, but he's actually an [[IdiotHero idiot]] who [[DidNotGetTheGirl never succeeds at getting girls to like him and instead gets beaten up and rejected by them]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** 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.
** In "Endless Bummer," the reflection of Johnny's tanning mirror blinds a captain of an oil tanker which crashed into a rock, spilling oil into the ocean. Not so funny thanks to that BP oil spill in April 2010.

* FanPreferredCouple: Rather hilariously, [[HoYay Johnny and Carl]].

* 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]].

** He's also shipped with [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Velma Dinkley]], largely thanks to [[https://youtu.be/3la82bYtcPg these]] [[https://youtu.be/SyIPtyN7sdw bumpers]] and [[https://youtu.be/WbjNE0SXTKc this]] episode. In the end of ''[[TheMovie Johnny Bravo Goes To]]'' ''UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}'', he briefly flirts with Velma too.

** Sergeant Trixie from "Full Metal Johnny" has a good following according to {{YouTube}}.

** A harsh one regarding the Hungarian dub of the show. The voice actor for Johnny Bravo (who, if you haven't heard, is an Elvis Presley-esque sexist trying to score with women) got arrested in 2012 for sexual violence charges.

* 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 one of the [[https://youtu.be/YFo1RRCRFDo?t=788 favorite Cartoon Network shows]] of an Australian YouTuber named WebVideo/PhantomStrider and has frequently referenced the show in his videos particularly his LiveStrider videos.

** 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 defitively '''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 image of the ''Schoolhouse Rock'' character handing a woman the letter D -- as in, [[DoubleEntendre give her the "D"]][[note]]In context, he was singing a song about courtesy with the lyric "Show that girl that you really give a D" (as in "darn")[[/note]].
** [[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.

** "BUY OUR TOYS!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]The episode "20,000 Leagues Over My Head" has a scene of Johnny watching ''Clam League 9000'', a ShowWithinAShow consisting of a mash-up parody of ''Manga/DragonBall'' and ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''. The Goten/Ash Ketchum expy notably yelled "Buy our toys" at the end of the scene. This is frequently used to make fun of MerchandiseDriven works.[[/labelnote]]

* MoralEventHorizon: The Ghostly Gardener from the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' crossover, aka, Aunt Jebedissa, crossed it when she tried to kill Johnny with a weed whacker simply because she found him to be an embarrassment to the family name.

** "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."

* 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.

** "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 (or even worse) as their macho meathead counterparts.

* 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 Season 2 and Season 3 became DemotedToExtra, characters like Little Suzy became [[FlatCharacter very generic]], the comedy such as the SelfDeprecation and slapstick very underwhelming, episode plots were dull and dragged on because of the longer running time, and celebrity guest stars became more frequent compared to the first season that the episodes focus more on them instead of Johnny like in the series finale with Shaquille O'Neal that was a very poorly received finale by fans since it was barely about Johnny Bravo. 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 the creators. This show's seasonal rot involved the return of the show's creator Van Partible, meanwhile the previous two seasons without him were more well received.

* CargoShip: In the episode "Candidate Johnny", it's revealed that Carl took a rubber ducky to his high school prom.

* CantUnHearIt: The voice Creator/TomKenny uses for Carl is kind of similar to his [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob]] voice that a lot of fans think of [=SpongeBob=] when they hear Carl's voice.

** "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.

** One thing that most fans agree with the Season 2 and Season 3 was the Little Suzy's redesign was terrible. (Well, at least before the show switched to digital animation) Season 4 along with the holiday specials used Suzy's original character design from Season 1 while also making it translate well to digital animation.

* BadassDecay: In the beginning of the series, Johnny was able to ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome successfully wrestle a crocodile]]''.

* {{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 friendly that it can be difficult to not like him regardless.

* 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 lampshades how strange the episode was.

* 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]].

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Johnny Bravo became ''extremely'' popular in India--to the point of becoming a cultural icon and his name being used as an Indian slang term for anything that's considered cool, hip and/or trendy. Cartoon Network Asia took notice and eventually produced the TV movie, ''Johnny Bravo Goes Bollywood'', [[NoExportForYou exclusively for India]].

* ValuesDissonance: A kids show centered around a self absorbed womanizer constantly going after girls, even if its PlayedForLaughs at Johnny's expense? Its safe to say that with today's attitudes, this show would have never gotten the greenlight if it was pitched today.
* ValuesResonance: Then again, Johnny's womanizing 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.