History YMMV / JohnnyBravo

* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: Part of the divisive reaction to Seasons 2 and 3, until when Van 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 Season 2 and Season 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 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 Creator/ShaquilleONeal 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.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: See BrokenBase above. Despite critical acclaim for seasons 2 and 3, purists were unhappy with Johnny suddenly [[TookALevelInDumbass dipping in intelligence]]. Can be played straight with the also different last season, which 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. (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 give them good roles to make them funny and useful to the episodes' plots. But 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.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: While the last season flopped miserably and caused [[FranchiseKiller Cartoon Network to pull the plug on the show]], it did have several improvements to it due to Van Partible's return.
** A very common criticism of Season 2 and Season 3 was Johnny's {{Flanderization}} due to his stupidity being {{exaggerated|Trope}}, making him more annoying than funny to many fans. Season 4 reverted Johnny back to his original characterization from Season 1 where he was only marginally stupid.
** 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 seemed to split the character design difference while also making it translate well to digital animation.

* 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.
** 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.

** All the songs from "The Sensitive Male".

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* 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.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: See "BrokenBase" above. Despite critical acclaim for seasons 2 and 3, purists were unhappy with Johnny suddenly [[TookALevelInDumbass dipping in intelligence]]. Can be played straight with the also different last season, which flopped ''miserably'' and ended up [[FranchiseKiller killing the series.]]

** The image of the ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' 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 [[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]]

** Some people remember Chronos, '''Master of All Time!''' *DramaticThunder* to this day (despite him only really having two appearances).

* 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 [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Jean Pierre Polnareff]].
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:

** All the songs from "The Sensitive Male!".

** 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.

** Johnny's song about his high school crush in "The Time of My Life" sounds an awful lot like it's copying "Da-Doo" from ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''.

** 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 de-aged]] version of Luke Skywalker in ''Series/TheMandalorian'' and ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'.

** Johnny getting replaced by a CGI Mark Hamill in "Johnny Bravo Goes to Hollywood" becomes this in light of the infamous CGI Luke Skywalker in ''Series/TheMandalorian''.

** Johnny's one-off line, "I'm sickened, but curious...", in the context of seeing Pops bathe Carl in corn chwoder in the episode "Cover Boy", which [[Website/{{Tumblr}} has been described as "the Internet in a nutshell."]]

* 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 [[''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Jean Pierre Polnareff]].

* 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''.

** 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.

** Mitzi, the [[ClassyCatBurglar jewel thief]] from "The Johnny Bravo Affair" has quite alot of fan art.

** 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 much mileage for jokes and episode plots.

** Johnny is frequently shipped with WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack, mostly from their appearance on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOeo_zHTWB4 this Commercial Bumper]].

** A very common criticism of Season 2 and Season 3 was Johnny's {{Flanderization}} due to his stupidity being turned UpToEleven, making him more annoying than funny to many fans. Season 4 reverted Johnny back to his original characterization from Season 1 where he was only marginally stupid.

* UncannyValley: 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]].

** Johnny's one-off line, "I'm sickened, but curious..." which [[Website/{{Tumblr}} has been described as "the Internet in a nutshell."]]

** 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 ideas for great jokes and episode plots.