Line #8 Trivia/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures


1	* ActingForTwo: Quite a few of the principal voice actors acted for two -- or in some cases, three or four -- at various times. For example, Creator/FrankWelker voiced Dr. Jeremiah Surd and Bandit, as well as several background characters and varying creatures.
2	* AllStarCast: In addition to J.D. Roth and Creator/QuintonFlynn voicing Jonny for the first and second seasons, respectively, ''The Real Adventures'' used some of the best actors and voice actors throughout, including Creator/MichaelBell, Creator/RobertPatrick, Creator/GeorgeSegal, Creator/JenniferHale, Creator/RobPaulsen, Creator/JohnDeLancie, Creator/RobertFoxworth, Creator/BJWard, [[Creator/JimCummings1952 Jim Cummings]], Creator/ClydeKusatsu and Creator/FrankWelker. Michael Benyaer even qualifies having previously voiced Bob in ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''.
3	* CastTheRunnerUp: Robert Foxworth initially auditioned for Dr. Benton Quest for the second season. He would eventually replace Granville van Dusen as Race Bannon for the rest of the season.
4	* CreatorBacklash:
5	** Lance Falk ''hated'' the Questworld stuff and the Maine compound (hence its destruction in the final episode "The Robot Spies"). As he described seeing how bad the production was early on (see below): "Being at [[Creator/HannaBarbera HB]] and seeing the disintegration of ''Quest'' was akin to watching a beloved childhood friend on crack...and I was powerless to help." He also heard "nightmare/disaster" stories from said early production while working elsewhere. And as part of the salvage attempt later on: "it was truly hellish to see it happen."
6	** Even Hanna-Barbera's then-president Fred Seibert [[https://www.awn.com/animationworld/fred-seibert-interview-part-1 said of it in a 2003 interview]] that it almost derailed the October 1996 merger between Turner and Time Warner, and was not willing to go into detail on how many times he'd screwed up in his judgements regarding the project.
7	* CreatorChosenCasting: During production of the first season, story editor Peter Lawrence requested an Indian-descended voice actor to play Hadji and Michael Benyaer was eventually cast in the role.
8	* CreatorsFavorite: Writer Lance Falk named Dr. Quest as one of his favorite characters in the series.
9	* FakeNationality: The Indian Hadji Singh, as voiced by Canadian-American Michael Benyaer and American Creator/RobPaulsen.
10	* FollowTheLeader: Continuing on from what ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfJonnyQuest'' did to [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest the 60s version]], the first season did to the 80s version. While still being an action show, Jonny and friends were made more into a realistic 1990s mold. However, the second season deliberately preferred to follow back some elements from the 1960s version. ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' would of course also follow on both of those leads as the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries'' began.
11	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The show had a few single-episode VHS tapes and laserdisc releases during its run, but was all but forgotten after that, especially after the Time Warner merger. Most of the episodes can be found online, though, thanks to the shows' faithful fanbase. ''Finally'' in 2009, Turner released a DVD set of the first 13 episodes of season 1, including director/producer commentary and "making of" mini-features. The second half of the first season was released in 2012. The second season followed in November of 2015.
12	** As of 2013, the full series is now available for download on iTunes and Google Play.
13	* KidsMealToy: The series got a set of Pizza Hut action figures to promote its 1996 premiere.
14	* MissingTrailerScene: The teasers for "To Bardo and Back" featured Jonny and Jessie fighting some kind of mechanized bull creature. Nothing remotely like this appears in the episode.
15	* NoDubForYou: Unlike the 1960s TV series, ''The Real Adventures'' wasn't dubbed into Japanese.
16	* TheOriginalDarrin: After being replaced by Creator/RobPaulsen for the second season, Michael Benyaer returned to voice Hadji for the ''Cover-up at Roswell'' video game.
17	* TheOtherDarrin: Due to the different seasons of the show originally being intended to be separate series, as well as the overhaul in production, most of the main cast changed between seasons 1 and 2.
18	** Jonny went from being voiced by [[Series/FunHouse1988 J.D. Roth]] to Creator/QuintonFlynn, while Hadji went from being voiced by [[WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}} Michael Benyaer]] to Creator/RobPaulsen (who had previously voiced the character in the '80s telefilms). Jessie was voiced by Jesse Douglas in season 1, but then by Creator/JenniferHale afterwards.
19	** Creator/GeorgeSegal voiced Dr. Quest during the first season, but was replaced by Creator/JohnDeLancie afterwards. Creator/DonMessick actually was going to [[RoleReprise reprise his role of Dr. Quest]], but sadly suffered a stroke during the early voice sessions, necessitating the replacement.
20	** Race Bannon was first voiced by Creator/RobertPatrick, but then by Granville van Dusen (his '80s series voice actor) for the first two episodes of the second season. Van Dusen was then replaced by Robert Foxworth.
21	** The sole exception to these changes was Frank Welker, who provided Bandit's barks and yaps in both versions.
22	* OutOfOrder: Due to the chaotic production, both styles of episodes were run in completely random fashion originally, creating a schizophrenic mess that left viewers baffled.
23	* ParodyAssistance: In a way -- when recasting for season 2, they used the ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' segment ''Toby Danger'' (an AffectionateParody of original ''JQ'', complete with Don Messick!) as a vocal reference.
24	* PlayingAgainstType: In Season 2, John de Lancie voices the straight-laced, heroic Benton Quest -- a role as far removed from [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Q]] or [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Discord]] as humanly possible.
25	* PlayingWithCharacterType: "Race Against Danger" has Creator/NickChinlund voice Greg Temple, Race’s kind mentor who died in a HeroicSacrifice, only for the episode’s twist ending to reveal that he had actually survived, but gone insane and adopted the identity of a dead arms dealer.
26	* ProductionPosse: When Davis Doi and Larry Houston took over production for season 2, they brought in several voice actors who they'd worked with before -- Rob Paulsen (from ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'') and Quinton Flynn (from ''Fantastic Four'').
27	* PromotedFanboy:
28	** Lance Falk and Davis Doi were major fans of the original ''Jonny Quest'', and when they were hired for season 2, they set about changing pretty much everything to make it closer to the original, including de-emphasizing Questworld and changing the voice actors.
29	** Jonny's respective voice actors, J.D. Roth and Quinton Flynn, were also fans of the original series.
30	* PropRecycling: Some of the vehicles from the Creator/{{Galoob}} toyline were later recycled in the ''Franchise/GIJoe'' toyline in the early 2000s (Creator/{{Hasbro}} having bought Galoob in 1998).
31	* RecastAsARegular: Creator/QuintonFlynn voiced some minor first season roles before replacing J.D. Roth as Jonny Quest for the next season.
32	* RecycledScript: The season 2 ep "Eclipse" was cannibalized from an unfinished episode of ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'', "The Curse of Kataluna" (which would've had a [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]]). Not surprising, since Davis Doi, co-producer of season 2 was also a producer of ''SK''; Glenn Leopold, who wrote the ep and a majority of ''SK'' eps, also recycled elements for ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland''.
33	* ReleaseDateChange: ''The Real Adventures'' was originally slated for a 1995 premiere, but was pushed back to August 26, 1996 due to the troubled pre-production.
34	* RoleReprise:
35	** Creator/DonMessick ''attempted'' to do this, reprising his role as Dr. Benton Quest. This would have made him the only actor from [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest the original 1964 series]] to return for this one. He recorded lines for at least four episodes, but unfortunately suffered a stroke that forced him into retirement, and passed away soon after. In the final product, he was [[TheOtherDarrin Darrined]] by Creator/GeorgeSegal and Creator/JohnDeLancie (in Season 1 and Season 2 respectively). He did technically reprise the role in an extremely minor sense: In the Season 2 episode "Rock of Rages", when Dr. Quest says "And not a moment too soon!", his voice is Messick's. This line might have been left in as a tribute to the veteran actor.
36	** Starting with Season 2, a number of actors reprise their previous roles, although none from the original series. Creator/RobPaulsen reprises Hadji, and Sonny van Dusen returns as Race Bannon for six episodes. They had first voiced these characters in the [[WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfJonnyQuest 80s series]].
37	** With the exception of Dr. Quest, the second season voice actors as well as Hadji's first season voice actor Michael Benyaer reprised their roles for the ''Cover-up at Roswell'' game.
38	* RunningTheAsylum: The show's second "season" (in reality an ''entirely different show'' that was pitched and then subjected to CanonWelding with the previously established lore) was intended to be a throwback to the original style of classic ''JQ'' and written by a group of noted superfans. Lance Falk is even noted in interviews as saying (paraphrased) "Had we gotten a third season, it would have been ''even more'' like classic Jonny Quest". Whether this is for the better or not [[BrokenBase depends on your preferences.]]
39	* TroubledProduction: The show's pre-production was... ''[[http://questfan.com/Page/Lance_Falk_Dialogue.html turbulent]]'', to say the least. The project started way back in the early 90s, and Lance Falk approached the showrunners, Peter Lawrence and Takashi Masunaga, to work on the show, but left when he realized that [[CreativeDifferences the duo was bent on making their own, "reimagined" version as opposed to a closer-to-the-original project]], and went to work on another H-B show, ''SWAT Kats''. While there, he heard rumors that the Lawrence/Takashi project was in trouble, and recruited a bunch of other classic ''JQ'' fans to assist him in making a pitch to H-B exec Buzz Potamkin, promising that they could get the show done. But [[ExecutiveMeddling Potamkin promptly stonewalled them for some reason]], with then studio head Fred Siebert never hearing of Falk's pitch; he and the others were then laid off, with Lance heading to Creator/WarnerBros to work on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. Fast forward a while, and the Lawrence/Takashi team had sunk ''$11 million over 2-and-a-half years'' and there ''weren't any episodes ready to air yet''. Compound that with [[MerchandiseDriven the Galoob toys {based around Questworld} being ready to go]] and Cartoon Network setting airdates, it was clear that the show was sinking fast. Davis Doi (another veteran of ''SWAT Kats'') was recruited to help bring the project back in line and hopefully make something airable out of the chaos. As a result, ''four'' different crews were going to work on the show; Cosmo "Cos" Anzilotti and John Eng would handle the task of trying to make sense of the scraps that Lawrence and Takashi made and turn those into episodes (huge amounts of stuff had to be trashed, re-written and animated ''just to make some kind of sense''). Meanwhile, Doi and Larry Houston would be in charge of a new batch of 26 episodes far closer to the 1960s show, with the Questworld gimmick largely phased out, all the voice-actors replaced, and characterization and designs closer to the original. But both batches of episodes were mixed and matched at random when aired, created a disjointed, confusing show. (Both batches were retroactively labeled as "Season 1" and "Season 2" thereafter, though H-B technically saw them as one season.) As a result of the chaos, 13 episodes were cut from the original order and the financial state resulted in the show not getting a third season.
40	* TwoVoicesOneCharacter: In the episode "In the Realm of the Condor", the native boy's screams and cries are done by Frank Welker, but his speaking lines are done by an actual young boy.
41	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
42	** Lance Falk's team had pledged to explore the history of Jonny's mother Rachel in a third season, but the show was cancelled so they never got the chance. Their third season also would've seen a further return to the 1960s version, including the complete removal of Questworld.
43	** The first season's bible revealed Ezekiel Rage was originally going to be called Argus Grimm.
44	** The character of Belle Bonnet was originally going to be the ghost of Belle Starr. Whether or not this would have been a new version of the real outlaw or the 1980s version Hanna-Barbera made for live action wasn't specified in the bible.
45	* WordOfSaintPaul: Jonny's first voice actor, J.D. Roth, [[http://questfan.com/Page/J.D._Roth_Dialogue.html definitely supported]] the Jonny/Jessie relationship.
46	* WorkingTitle: Despite the many titles given to this show, the most notable is this one ''Jonny Quest's Extraordinary Adventures''.

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