Some of you out there may not recognize the name, Johnny Bravo. No, no, its okay. I fail to grasp any reason as to WHY you would not be familiar with ma’ boy, Johnny, but I am a gracious host, and I can forgive much.
For some of you, however, the name Johnny Bravo brings up visions of a glorious time in Cartoon Network history. A time when other amazing names stood alongside Johnny. The Powerpuff Girls. Samurai Jack. Dexter. Space Ghost. Ah, yes, those were the halcyon days of animation, a time when new stories were being made, and new heroes were becoming legend.
Johnny is one of those heroes.
For the uninitiated, allow me to explain.
Johnny Bravo is a mans-man. He loves karate. He loves his mom. He loves his hair. But most of all, he loves THE LADIES.
Far from being strictly a children’s cartoon, Johnny Bravo was a delight for adults as well, with plenty of mildly spicy innuendo and enough silliness that a parent wouldn’t mind sitting and watching a couple of episodes with the kids.
Featuring our titular hero, Johnny, and plenty of pleasantly drawn ladies, this episodic cartoon followed the woman-hunting antics of its title character, often ending in his getting physically assaulted, but ALWAYS with his getting rejected, and this, my dear readers, is the point of my post.
I found this video a week or so ago and I found it interesting, although somewhat ignorant in its breakdown of the point of Johnny. Its not that long, so please watch it before continuing:
First I have to say something about the animation of JB: I absolutely love it. It definitely is a throwback to those earlier style of cartoons, just like the video points out, and the thick lines and color palette are a joy to someone who grew up on Scooby-doo, the Flintstones and plenty of other Hannah-Barbara cartoons.
The fact that the cartoon couldn’t have been made in the modern era is a moot point, because, well, pretty much anything made before the year 2000….maybe 2010, couldn’t be made today. Forget the fact that the characters creator looks to be Asian, the fact that the title character “mistreats women” or pursues them only because they look “purdy” is enough to raise the hackles and back hair of feminists everywhere, and would get the show cancelled ASAP, which is a shame because Johnny is a great and loveable guy!
The videos creator is right that Johnny is a narcissist and a bit of a loser, that’s part of his charm, but my issue lies with the commentary around the 6:07 mark:
The real message of the show is to make a constant fool of Johnny. The audience should learn from his mistakes and ultimately reject him like the women in his world.
This tells me that the videos creator is a bit ignorant of the facts of life and is likely a bit of a blue pill-er. The fact of the matter is that men like Johnny exist in the real world, and, though people SAY their actions should be rejected, women FLOCK to them like bees to a flower. Women LOVE men like Johnny. Strong. Good looking. Forward. Up for fun. They meet them at clubs, at parties, on vacations! Pretty much anywhere. Sure the story of the cartoon is that Johnny can never get a girl because that ruins the joke, but the real joke is that men know women fall for men like Johnny all the time!
Men absolutely SHOULD aspire to be someone like Johnny Bravo! He’s witty, even if he is a bit on the corny side. He’s bold, often taking aim a women who the cartoon tells you are above his pay grade, and they kind of are since he doesn’t come off as very bright. He’s kind hearted, but still kind of rascally. He stays strong and cares about his body!
The second running joke in the show is that the “intelligent, driven and goal-oriented” women Johnny pursues would NEVER go for a guy like him! Well, sure, maybe not as marriage material, but PLENTY of “intelligent, driven and goal-oriented” women in high, corporate or government positions would HAPPILY go for a FLING with a Johnny type man. As if a “glass ceiling shattering career” was ever evidence that women don’t love a young, strong, confident man pursuing them for a night of fun?! The list the narrator goes over at the 7:48 mark is yawn inducing. Why? Because scientist, doctor, computer programmer, sea captain or spy…THEY ARE ALL WOMEN!
The show was a commentary on how not to treat women.
Really? Maybe, but I’d be willing to bet that the women watching knew they would go for Johnny in a heartbeat, even if they said they wouldn’t, and the men knew they could get women if only they could be like him.
To further prove this out just take a look at the video starting at 8:09, with the episode titled, “The Sensitive Male”. The episode essentially worships blue pilled behavior as the “proper” way to get women’s attention while villainizing straight forward men who pursue women they find attractive. The narrator says the episode is “making fun of guys who act like Johnny”, but people the majority of humanity knows that these “proper” actions put you into the dreaded friend-zone! Everyone knows the jerks get the girls! The ladies love him and the nice guys scratch their heads trying to figure out why, the entire time refusing to face the truth: Ladies just love forward, jerky guys!
Of course, the caveat is that Johnny has the physique to back up his mild jerkiness, but money works just as well.
Mileage may vary, some women are really just harpies who hate men and are looking for slave labor in a relationship.
The truth of the matter is that men like Johnny don’t need to hunt women, all they have to do is show up at the right spot, and wait.
I started watching the video and stopped shortly after he said the show would not be aired today.
Ha! If you don’t watch it all then you don’t really get my point, do you?
It’s a funny show and I thoroughly enjoy it every time I see it. I might see if I can find the episodes online, because Johnny really is a great and fun character.
Well the character looks like fun. The video about the show was a slog.
Find a few episodes on YouTube. The ladies are drawn simplistically, but pleasantly, and Johnny is a funny guy.
”Maybe, but I’d be willing to bet that the women watching knew they would go for Johnny in a heartbeat, even if they said they wouldn’t, and the men knew they could get women if only they could be like him.”
It sounds like you’re describing another GREATER-than- johnny bravo guy here SNAPPER!I left SPAWNYS a month&ahalf ago because a certain new noob guy, could’nt handle that he did’nt have my ”overwelming” personality nor style!
”The truth of the matter is that men like Johnny don’t need to hunt women, all they have to do is show up at the right spot, and wait.”
Almost SAME here SNAPPER,actualy I just show up almost anywhere &women will start asking me ”just how tall are you”?BUT it realy started at age 7,I’ve always been a sort of ”eccentric”-type loner&thats when a little 6yo girl noticed I usualy just stood alone on the playground at recess everyday&only talked or played with others rarely&you know most of what happened later if you read a certain BLENDINGAME post a while back bro!
Height,GREAT-hair(That I still got all of!),good looks&standing out-from-the-crowd works at any age&any place is the point dude!
The truth is right there in peoples faces, if only they can look at it and accept it! Don’t get me wrong, Johnny Bravo being a loveable loser is a good schtick. It works for the show, but the real joke is lost on those still swallowing the blue pill!
SNAPPER,
I messed up again on the first version of this comment SNAPPER!Life has been changing-for-the-better-for-me over the last nearly 2 months&its harder-than-usual for me to keep my focus on some details like e-mail accounts!
”Maybe, but I’d be willing to bet that the women watching knew they would go for Johnny in a heartbeat, even if they said they wouldn’t, and the men knew they could get women if only they could be like him.”
It sounds like you’re describing another GREATER-than- johnny bravo guy here SNAPPER!I left SPAWNYS a month&ahalf ago because a certain new noob guy, could’nt handle that he did’nt have my ”overwelming” personality nor style!
”The truth of the matter is that men like Johnny don’t need to hunt women, all they have to do is show up at the right spot, and wait.”
Almost SAME here SNAPPER,actualy I just show up almost anywhere &women will start asking me ”just how tall are you”?BUT it realy started at age 7,I’ve always been a sort of ”eccentric”-type loner&thats when a little 6yo girl noticed I usualy just stood alone on the playground at
recess everyday&only talked or played with others rarely&you know most of what happened later if you read a certain BLENDINGAME post a while back bro!
Height,GREAT-hair(That I still got all of!),good looks&standing out-from-the-crowd works at any age&any place is the point dude!
P.S.The comment under the right e-mail!
I think that the gyno-groveling aspect of the narrative in the video is reflective of the blue pill conditioning of the “Nerd Class” that creates so much of this kind or art. “Be nice to women, treat them as not just your equals, but your superiors and they’ll love you and lay you for it.” It never works, of course, but the deeper the conditioning, the more resistant to the red pill the man becomes. This explains the adherence of so much of the “Nerd Class” to woke movements. “Most women are woke, so if I’m woke, too, they’ll be attracted to me.”
And yet, as I said, the nerds will acknowledge that women LOVE jerks and sit, for all their book knowledge, and wonder WHY? It will never cross their mind that its how women are wired! The power of cognitive dissonance!
No, I would not have responded well to the approaches of a guy like Johnny Bravo who is desperate for a date and still lives with his mother (I wonder which one would have driven me away faster – probably the desperation). And it’s not because I have an earth-shattering career, because I don’t.
This youtuber really tries to squeeze some boring feminist meaning into the show – so why then does he think Johnny Bravo could not have been made today when women empowerment and metoo are trending? My guess is that this cartoon has no further message at all but simply wants to entertain.
(I don’t know this cartoon btw but your post has just triggered some memories of the days when I went out on the weekends and boys would hit on me. Funny to remember and still I’m happy those days are over.)
The fact that Johnny exists means the show could not be made today. Even though it shows “empowered, high class women”, Johnny hearkens back to the masculine. He is virile. He pays attention to how he looks. He is physically active. He likes to eat. Yes, in the end he is a goofball, but at his core he is masculine and the fact that he would approach any sacred woman strictly because he found them visually pleasing means he should not see the light of day. Most “masculine” characters in movies and TV are either submissive to women or have been replaced. Look at the entire Marvel movie universe: Iron Man, replaced by a woman. Thor, replaced by a woman, Ant-Man, a side character in his own last movie. Hawkeye, replaced by a woman. The Hulk and even Doctor Strange, replaced by women. They served their purpose to be masculine when it was needed, but now they are to be tossed by the wayside as we have “progressed” to the point that we no longer need them, until we do.
Yeah, the cartoon really did just want to entertain, but unfortunately the internet has given everyone out there a voice, even those who should really keep their mouths shut if they have nothing interesting to say. Heck, even I have a blog, if that’s any indication. 😂
“Heck, even I have a blog, if that’s any indication. 😂”
Ha, lol! 😀 Though I find many opinions interesting, especially those I don’t fully agree with.
“but I’d be willing to bet that the women watching knew they would go for Johnny in a heartbeat, even if they said they wouldn’t”
^^ No really, I would not have responded well to a guy like Johnny Bravo. You also added that he doesn’t come off as very bright … so: no. He’s also too hectic (though that might be the style of the comic). Apart from that I agree with your list however: confident, up for fun, witty, strong, handsome, bold. I would add deep voice, warm hands, or warmth in general … just nice to lean on. Masculine men who are nice to lean on are such a treat (needless to say that with “nice to lean on” I mean both physically and emotionally).
Let us take a moment to remember Johnny’s greatest romance…