History YMMV / JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures

** Jonny's voice actor Creator/QuintonFlynn would go on to voice Raiden in the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, and mentions in [[http://www.thegamingliberty.com/2011/05/raiden-speaks-an-interview-with-quinton-flynn-part-1/ this interview]] that he was told by the voice director (who also worked on both series) to imagine Raiden as an older Jonny Quest. Considering all the {{Narm}} [[ButtMonkey and]] [[GroinAttack other]] [[FullFrontalAssault things]] involving Raiden in that game alone (not to mention [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots later]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance ones]]), a lot of scenes from the show (plus the implications for poor Jonny) become beyond hilarious in this context.
** Season Two's voice actress for Jessie was Creator/JenniferHale. Unfortunately, that was the season where the character had serious BadassDecay, but just look at that red hair and the flashes of GoodIsNotNice without picturing a teenage [[Franchise/MassEffect Jane Shepherd]].

** The Questworld Avatars that the characters used wore black formfitting FutureSpandex with fingerless gloves that, if you added in some TronLines, wouldn't look out of place in ''Film/TronLegacy'' or [[VideoGame/TronEvolution its]] [[WesternAnimation/TronUprising tie-ins]]. While ''Film/{{Tron}}'' did indeed set the standard for being InsideAComputerSystem in pop culture, maybe the visual designers of ''Legacy'' were fans of the show as well?

** Jonny's voice actor Creator/QuintonFlynn would go on to voice Raiden in the ''Franchise/MetalGear'' series, and mentions in [[http://www.thegamingliberty.com/2011/05/raiden-speaks-an-interview-with-quinton-flynn-part-1/ this interview]] that he was told by the voice director (who also worked on both series) to imagine Raiden as an older Jonny Quest. Considering all the {{Narm}} [[ButtMonkey and]] [[GroinAttack other]] [[FullFrontalAssault things]] involving Raiden in that game alone (not to mention [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots later]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance ones]]), a lot of scenes from the show (plus the implications for poor Jonny) become beyond hilarious in this context.

** The [[{{Cyberspace}} Questworld]] gimmick in general. At the time, notably, at least one of the second-season showrunners hated it, which helps explain why that season often saw less MediumBlending. Today, stripping away the NostalgiaFilter, even its apologists will admit it has aged poorly, but opinions among them range from [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny arguing it was impressive by the standards of its time and helped sell the show at a time when it had novelty value]] to feeling it's regrettable to have to put a mid-90's CGI asterisk next to any recommendation towards modern fans. Its ''haters'' on the other hand don't always agree on whether it's just a bad execution of a neat concept or whether it was a bad idea from the start that undermined multiple stories it was attached to by having to clumsily write-in excuses to use it.

* BadassDecay: Jessie goes from kicking ass and taking names in the first season, to [[DistressedDamsel depending on Jonny to save her every time]] in the second season.

* BrokenBase: The fanbase is more or less split between those who preferred the more "realistic" takes on the characters of the first season of the show and the more adventure-oriented second season (which was intended to bring more of a "Classic ''JQ''" flavor to the show and reintroduced characters like Pacha the Peddler, Jade, and perennial ''JQ'' villain [[YellowPeril Dr. Zin]]). It doesn't help that despite the changes to the show that modernized the original series's jaunts all over the world, it also reintroduced problematic elements like Jessie's {{Chickification}}, Hadji's MysticalIndia tendencies, and the YellowPeril-inspired Dr. Zin, whom even Doug Wildey didn't like.

** In "Digital Doublecross", a sleeper virus that Surd had planted in a Questworld VR game that both Jonny and Jessie were taking part in warns the two of them (and by extension, Hadji) that if they either die in the game or try to shut off the game itself from the outside, they will instantly and immediately die in real life. [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Sound familiar]]?

** The fact that Jonny's [[YourWorstNightmare worst nightmare]] is being considered a failure and a disappointment to his father. And this isn't because of Jonny's mistakes either; apparently, deep down, Jonny wonders if his father thinks [[BookDumb he's stupid]]. Poor kid...