Johnny Bravo (TV series)


 * This article is about the TV series. For the title character, see Johnny Bravo.

Johnny Bravo is an American animated comedy TV series produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons (seasons 1-3) and Cartoon Network Studios (season 4) for Cartoon Network. It ran from 1997 to 2004, airing 65 episodes.

In Aron City, lives a young man called Johnny Bravo, who seems to have the full package on the service, being tall, muscular, wears rather cool sunglasses, an Elvis Presley-esque voice, and has a unique yellow pompadour, but underneath he is a dimwitted, self-absorbed, chauvinistic manchild, who's attempt to get a date leads him into bizarre and almost always violent situations.

Segments

 * Johnny Bravo
 * Jungleboy (1997)

Music
Throughout the series, Louis Fagenson's opening theme song was kept, but his ending theme was only used for the first and fourth season. He was also the composer for the first and fourth seasons. For the second and third seasons, Fagenson had been replaced with Christopher Neal Nelson, who performed the music and the ending theme. For the first season, Bodie Chandler was the director of music production.

Cast

 * Jeff Bennett as Johnny Bravo
 * Mae Whitman as Little Suzy
 * Brenda Vaccaro as Bunny Bravo
 * Tom Kenny as Carl Chryniszzswics
 * Larry Drake as Pops

Celebrity guests

 * David Lander
 * Brock Peters
 * Mark Hamill
 * Jack Sheldon
 * Gabrielle Carteris
 * Tom Bosley
 * Farrah Fawcett
 * Vendela Thommessen
 * Chuck D
 * Anne Bloom
 * Alison La Placa
 * Adam West
 * Donny Osmond
 * Dionne Warwick
 * Luke Perry
 * Mr. T
 * Allyce Beasley
 * Curtis Armstrong
 * Don Knotts
 * Weird Al Yankovic
 * Gary Owens
 * Shaquille O'Neil
 * Seth Green

Legacy
In the fall of 2002, it was announced that Warner Bros. Pictures had purchased the rights to produce a live-action film and intended to have Dwayne "The Rock Johnson play the character after he revealed that he was a fan of the series. Neal Moritz and Marty Adelstein would produce through their production banner, Original Film. Series creator Van Partible was also to be executive producer.

Johnny Bravo is highly popular in India, so popular that in 2008, Van Partible wrote and produced a short called Johnny Goes to Bollywood, which was produced by Snap Toons. It was not recorded in English, although the opening title card and end credits are in English. Partible then wrote an English-language feature-length version in 2011 called Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood.

In popular culture

 * In the 2022 Disney+ film Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, there is a billboard advertising Johnny Bravo Fitness, with Johnny's left arm visible.