List of pop culture references to Jonny Quest

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Films

The Incredibles 2

Keeping the Faith

  • A young Anna is described as a "magical cross between Jonny Quest and Tatum O'Neal in Foxes.

Songs

"Mope" by the Bloodhound Gang

  • The two singers talk about sending a letter in Braille to Jonny Quest, demanding he gives them back their Etch-a-Sketch.

TV series

Animaniacs (1993 TV series)

Main article: Animaniacs
  • "The Taming of the Screwy:" Slappy Squirrel compares actor Luke Perry to "a very young Jonny Quest."

Boy Meets World

  • "Sixteen Candles and Four-Hundred-Pound Men:" When Cory has to be at Topanga's birthday party and help Frankie at his dad's wrestling match at the same time, Shawn uses The Flintstones episode "Pebbles' Birthday Party" as an example of how it is doable; despite Cory's objections of being a cartoon. Shawn also mentions a failed backup plan from Jonny Quest because he doesn't have Hadji and a hovercraft.

Drawn Together

Main article: Drawn Together
  • "Spelling Applebee's:" Upon removing his turban and jacket, Foxxy's nemesis is revealed to be an adult version of Hadji, with a new Mister T-like haircut.

Evil Con Carne

  • "Max Courage!:" Major Dr. Ghastly requests a visit from her old mentor, Dr. Courage, to Bunny Island, which is a ploy to trap him and force him to help finish her build Hector Con Carne's Doomsday Machine. Dr. Courage, is a pastiche between Dr. Quest and Race, who has two biological sons, Rick and Max, the latter being a spoof on Jonny, and whom Dr. Courage prefers over to Rick. They also have a helpful pet weasel named Rascal, as an allusion to Bandit. In the Courages' boat ride to and escape from Bunny Island, and Rascal's fight with the guard, the music is inspired by the Jonny Quest theme song. During the escape, they are also chased by frogmen based on what happened in "The Mystery of the Lizard Men." Max and Rick are voiced by Scott Menville and Quinton Flynn, respectively, both of whom had previously played an incarnation of Jonny; Menville in the second season of the original series, and Flynn in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

The Fairly OddParents

Main article: The Fairly OddParents
  • Channel Chasers: Timmy zaps himself into a parody of Jonny Quest called Jonny Hunt. Jonny and his family ride a riverboat in the jungle trying to escape a giant scorpion-looking robot. Timmy, who is dressed like Jonny, saves them from certain doom by using his magic TV remote to get rid of it. The team thanks him and invites him on dangerous missions in which he'll get to use deathly weapons. Timmy takes back a bazooka as a parting gift, which blows up half his house by accident as Jonny Hunt plays on his TV. At the end of the movie, Timmy uses a Jonny Hunt lunchbox as a time capsule, which his kids dig up 20 years later.

Family Guy

Main article: Family Guy
  • Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (in syndication, it is the second part known as "Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure"): Stewie talks to his older self about the job he once had as an airline check, where he accepts entry for Jonny and his father, but not for Hadji, who he retains for a security inspection because of his race. Hadji tries to get his way by saying "Sim sim sala bim," but Stewie is unfazed and tells him to cut back on saying that.

Freakazoid!

  • "Doomsday Bet:" For a one-off Toby Danger backup segment, which was a comedic spin on the Jonny Quest property, it featured the Danger team in the role of the Quest team stopping a robot in Las Vegas. There are several allusions in personalities and dynamics, along with Don Messick, Scott Menville, and Granville Van Dusen playing their doppelgangers Doctor Danger (Doctor Quest), Toby (Jonny), and Dash (Race), respectively. Hadji is replaced with Sandra, who may also be a doppelganger of Jessie Bannon. They have a cat called Jules, substituting for Bandit, and Doctor Zin is now Doctor Sin. Dash refers to the casino players as "heathen monkeys," which is a reference to the racially infamous line Race made to some tribesman in the episode "Pursuit of the Po-Ho," but the joke may be lost to some viewers who only started watching it from when Turner Entertainment got the rights to the Hanna-Barbera library in the 1980s, where the "heathen monkeys" line was among one of the scenes cut to make the series more politically correct.

Birdman

Main article: Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • October 4, 2019: The cold opening segment is a fake cartoon titled The Adventures of Mike Pence: "Ukraine, not Me-Kraine," in which Pence (as portrayed by footage of Race) attempts to distance himself from then-US President Donald Trump, following backlash over his demands for the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden.
  • January 5, 2021: In The Adventures of Mike Pence: "The Uncertain Certification," Pence tries not to follow through with Trump’s demands to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
    • Scenes are used from "The Mystery of the Lizard Men," "Dragons of Ashida," "Arctic Splashdown," and "Double Danger."
  • September 15, 2021: In The Adventures of Mike Pence: "To Coup or Not to Coup," Pence contacts former Vice President Dan Quayle to get advice on overturning an election, but gets rejected when Quayle refuses his offer.

Mike Tyson Mysteries

Main article: Mike Tyson Mysteries
  • "My Favorite Mystery:" The episode is a parody. Season three also occasionally used an opening sequence with scenes from "My Favorite Mystery."

Pointless

  • In "Episode 18" (series 7): The first round of questions that fell into the "Cartoon" category is Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters, with host Alexander Armstrong showing an image of several of them together, which includes Jonny. The contestants have to be able to pick out all the obscure characters that 100 anonymous public people had been able to guess. None of the contestants picked Jonny, with only one of the anonymous public choosing Jonny.

Pop Culture Jeopardy!

Main article: Jeopardy!
  • "Knockout Game 1:" the question in the category of "It's Time for Cartoon!," the question for $1000 is, "Kids can fight villains and travel the world like cartoon boy Jonny, who had this last name," with the answer being, "Who is Quest," which contestant Anthony of Team Oops! We Guessed It Again got right. For this question, host Colin Jost announced the question over a photo of the series, instead of the question being written on a panel.

Recess

  • "The Coolest Heatwave Ever:" Gus revealed that he and his lieutenant father saved the world's economy after they captured DeSilvo while skiing in the Alps. DeSilvo's henchmen also chased them referred to as frogmen and Gus owned a Bandit-esque dog called Hoodlum. After DeSilvo was captured, Hoodlum barked, causing Gus and his father to laugh.

Saturday Night Live

Main article: Saturday Night Live
  • "Miranda Richardson/Soul Asylum:" In the Weekend Update, Rob Schneider contests the FFC's ruling that cartoons aren't educational because a cartoon such as Jonny Quest has pro-social values in positively showing gay men, with a picture beside him of Doctor Quest and Race.

The Simpsons

Main article: The Simpsons
  • "Deep Space Homer:" An astronaut is named Race Banyon, a play on Race Bannon.

South Park

Main article: South Park
  • "Imaginationland, Episode III:" In the final battle, Jonny takes the side of the good imaginary characters fighting the evil imaginary characters.
  • Jonny fights the imaginary bad guys.
    Jonny fights the imaginary bad guys.

The Venture Bros.

Main article: The Venture Bros.
  • "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay:" Brock fights a mummy at the Venture compound after it gets caught on the Ventures' jet and brought home in the last mission. The boys find out that Scamp (Dean and Hank's Bandit)'s skin has been removed and used for cosmetic testing by Dr. Venture.
  • "Ice Station Impossible:" A dying Race lands on the Ventures' doorstep to deliver his old teammate Brock a vial of the lethal Goliath serum. Race's final words is to ask Brock to tell Johnny he loves him, but dies before he can finish the sentence.
  • "Powerless in the Face of Death:" On one of Team Venture's adventures, Venture Sr. was saved by Hector Molina, a Mexican child, in the same way as Hadji saved Dr. Quest in "Calcutta Adventure." After this, Hector was adopted and became Rusty's best friend and fellow Boy Adventurer. In the 20 intervening years, Venture Sr. had hired Hector as an employee in the west manufacturing wing of the compound, and eventually forgotten. When Rusty came across him, he had no memory of their adventures together, and fired him.
  • "Escape to the House of Mummies Part II:" There's a Jonny Quest-esque lunch box; Brock looks like Race wearing a red shirt.
  • "Twenty Years to Midnight:"
  • "Fallen Arches:" Dr. Venture has a robot spy from the government.
  • "Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny:"
  • "The Doctor is Sin:" Jonny and Hadji (called Rajni) cameo. Raj is an office worker for Jonas Venture, Jr.
  • "The Invisible Hand of Fate:"
  • "The Buddy System:" Jonny (now called Action Jonny) guest stars. Bandit and Dr. Quest are referred to.
  • "Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman:" The "Q" insignia on Dr. Qymn's jet is in the same style as the original Jonny Quest logo.
  • "Now Museum, Now You Don't:"
  • "Orb:" Billy watches the cartoon which was based on the original adventures of Team Venture and made a pop icon of Rusty as a Boy Adventurer, which also starred his father, Hector, and an a large Asian bodyguard named Kano. The Rusty Venture cartoon has a Jonny Quest style intro, with mimicking scenes and typeface. Hank also digs up the dead body of an unidentified Scamp.
  • "The Revenge Society:"
  • "Venture Libre:" The pteradon is named Turu.
  • "Bot Seeks Bot:"
  • All This and Gargantua-2:
  • "Hostile Makeover:"
  • "Faking Miracles:"
  • "Tanks for Nuthin':"
  • "It Happening One Night:"
  • "A Party for Tarzan:"
  • "Red Means Stop:" Young Rusty jumps on a fake grenade to save Scamp 3.
  • "The Venture Bros. & the Curse of the Haunted Problem:" Scamp 1 was a member of the original Team Venture, and the first dog to die on the moon. In the present, his ghost was accidentally summoned by Dr. Orpheus.
  • "The Rorqual Affair:"
  • "The Rorqual Affair:"
  • "Arrears in Science:"
  • "The High Cost of Loathing:"
  • "The Bellicose Proxy:"
  • "The Terminus Mandate:"
  • "The Forecast Manufacturer:"
  • "The Saphrax Protocol:"
  • The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart: Dr. Z appears as a member of the Guild.
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