wait remember Johnny Test it's not like they'd ever let us forget it Johnny Test follows the
day-to-day life of a young 11 year old boy named Johnny Test who lives in a town called
pork belly with his genius older sisters Mary and Susan and his best friend a dog named dookie each
episode follows a wild ride of crime fighting adventure and human scientific experimentation
wait what was that last one with an original run of 117 episodes six seasons two networks a
Netflix reboot of two seasons with 40 episodes so far and a 20 minute interactive short the
series is massive and indestructible it seems with lots of love and lots of hate surrounding
the show both positive and negative reviews won award in many nominations this Series has all
of what's good about cartoons and also very much what is bad about cartoons if you enjoy
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original series to the cancellation to the reboot and everything in between wanna go for a walk
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Johnny Test is about a young fiery-headed 11 year old boy who is treated as an experimental
subject in the various scientific inventions of his two genius twin sisters Susan and Mary Test
in each episode both sides clearly want different things and often can reach an
agreement Johnny typically seeks to make his life more awesome as a typical young boy would
throughout the show he's constantly looking to make himself cooler change the annoying habits
of his meatloaf obsessed father avoid school and homework or just in general to have a super
awesome fun time whereas Susan and Mary are constantly looking to further their scientific
knowledge and will often make deals with Johnny in which they give him what he wants so they can
get what they want the sibling relationship itself is nicely written representation and it also helps
that their Alliance is often really fun to see and sometimes just sometimes Johnny will go out
of his way to help his sisters because his wands often don't include them being made fun of doesn't
happen often but it sure is refreshing when it does because most of the time he's extremely
self-centered but at that age you know what kid isn't and I guess he's not that selfish because
a lot of his actions equally include dookie dookie is a dog and Johnny's best friend who
was given human intelligence after he was adopted from the pound he's much more mature than Johnny
and honestly he kind of babysits him a lot of the time talking him down from his more wild ideas in
the end however he's always won over by his doggy instincts and will do just about anything for a
steak as explained in the intro song Johnny's mom doesn't make a ton of appearances due to
her busy work schedule as a girl boss but his dad is a stay-at-home dad who frequently makes
appearances he's a source of annoyance for the test siblings and often serves as a unifying
factor for the three of them bling bling boy is another character he's about Johnny's age
and sports a white outfit with gold and sparkly accents he's characterized mostly in his advances
towards one of the test sisters Susan serving as a villain for a lot of the series we get to know
Eugene on a personal level when he's actually a favorite character for a lot of viewers we under
understand where his priorities lie and he'll often team up with the tests to defeat greater
evil but usually only by striking a deal where he would either get a date or a kiss from Susan
in return how very Neville peppermint of him the writers though never let Eugene have his cake let
alone eat it Susan makes it clear that she is not to be traded around like an object Johnny
Test credits only one person as the creator of the series Scott fellows he has also worked on various
episodes of The Fairly Odd Parents and created both Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
and Big Time Rush I was only able to find about two interviews with fellows which is strange for
a series that was produced in the mid to late 2000s and Rose to prominence with a whopping
117 episode run each interview was either only a few minutes long or not about Johnny Test at
all in my search to find out where the idea of the show came from I found something much more
interesting you're just gonna spend the rest of your lives here in the lab that's the plan
as it turns out I found a legal document in which David straighten known for his live-action
directing had brought a civil lawsuit to the Court's attention he claims that he and Scott
thought of the idea together in 1995 and they were unsuccessful in pitching the project to
Nickelodeon court documents confirmed that they never disbanded or terminated their joint venture
of the Johnny Test concept he then said years went by and he only stumbled upon the series when his
daughter became old enough to watch television and he immediately recognized the word he was
looking to sue fellows for about 50 percent of his earnings court costs punitive damages and a
co-creator credit the case was filed in September of 2013 and was eventually dismissed now I'm no
lawyer so I don't really know who won but the case was closed I can tell you that plus David isn't
credited as a co-creator on everything I looked at so who knows to the extent in which David
was correct and entitled to compensation it could have been a payout settlement and that's about it
we do know that Scott fellows isn't exactly the talkative type about how Johnny test came to be
however we do have a partially recovered original Johnny test pilot which was produced in 2004 which
followed the same premise of the first episode in segment ever Johnny to the Center of the Earth the
show was picked up in a year later September 17 2005 to be exact the series aired on Kids WB it
was aired in Canada on teletune and later moved networks to be on Cartoon Network the series was
met with a lot of success that surprised even Scott himself in a 100th episode celebration
interview he admits that he has written every season finale for the last three seasons as if
it would be the end of the series he attributes this to Their audience growing and they just keep
going to keep up with it and that's where a lot of the controversy lies in regards to Johnny Test
and many people love the show and many very much dislike it and then some seem to love to hate it
the first thing I want to cover is the changing of voice actors the voice of Mary test is the most
changed throughout the series run originally she was voiced by Brittany Wilson but later gave up
the role to Ashley ball and Wilson later returned for season 5 and then left again leaving the role
to ball for the last season of The Original Series in the Netflix Revival Mary is voiced
by the actress Emily tanany giving Mary a total of three voice actors the voice of dookie also
changed but only one originally voiced by Louis chirillo The Voice needed to switch to Trevor
Dahl after Lewis decided to move to Brazil and leave behind his Canadian citizenship the changes
in dookie's voice garnered a lot more attention than Mary's considering her voice actresses didn't
talk as much letting the lines between her and her sister in the show in my opinion I didn't find the
shift in dookie's voice all that jarring it has a similar sharpness to it that fits the character so
I'm not complaining but you can kinda tell that it's not exactly the same but while I'm on the
topic though I might as well go over the rest of the cast voicing Johnny Test is James Arnold
Taylor Marika Hendricks voices Susan Test and Lee takar voices both bling bling boy and the general
the dad Hugh is voiced by Ian James corlett and the mom Leela is voiced by Kathleen Barr
back to the criticism regarding the series though a Target toward young audiences with a toilet in
low brow humor drives a lot of the slightly older demographic away that being said the first season
is regarded as the best that the series ever got and many fans have noticed and voiced their
concerns about the decline in quality over the years as fellows said earlier they wrote a lot
of the season finales assuming it would be the last but they just kept going this most likely
resulted in writer burnout and trying to come up with new and fresh ideas for the series in turn
a lot of episodes were written that very obviously followed the same plot lines of other episodes but
just with slight visual variations the writing would feel pretty lackluster at times and they
would slap the fourth wall it's a cartoon Just Go With It Button as an excuse for quick ways
to move the story along to tag on with the writer exhaustion artist burnout was also very prominent
many fans have criticized how the quality of the animation has changed and declined since
season one a lot of character designs were reused copy and pasted or just overly repeat needed and
kind of boring speaking of which the most famous criticism of the show comes with the sound design
there's a drinking game somewhere with that sound and I don't want to play it in the first
few seasons the various sound effects were definitely there just a bit more subtle and
less noticeable doing their job and emphasizing movement for the characters and making it more
engaging and palatable to a younger audience but as the series went on they seemed to embrace the
effects a bit too much especially the whip crack sound effect perhaps they were trying
to force a signature sound and got carried away or perhaps they were trying to smooth over some
of the unfortunate results of writer and animator burnout by covering up less smooth animation and
uninteresting or unfunny character lines either way it became too much and everyone started to
criticize them for it in their 100th episode they used the sound effect almost 200 times
may I remind you that this is an 11 minute segment and if the math is math in here
that's a whip crack every 3.4 seconds the series inevitably was not renewed for a
seventh season and aired its last episode on December 25th 2014 but as far as a last
Christmas present that was not the last we'd hear from Johnny oh this is gonna be good
Johnny Test was resurrected by Netflix when they announced in August of 2020 that they
would revive the series almost exactly 15 years after the series originally premiered a lot of
Reddit threads expressed audience concern that Netflix would do what Netflix typically does and
do something like I don't know cut the show they just brought back too early into its life but the
Netflix Revival was actually really good as good as Johnny Test can be that is it was certainly
much better than the last few seasons of the original series The Animation is beautifully
done League's more expressive and felt true to what the original show looked like but adding in
a lot more movement for the characters it didn't feel as stiff as the original did each episode is
different enough to feel original and engaging in there's less sound effects thank God in fact
in the fifth episode The Silence of the Johnny they actually make fun of the sound design in
the old series by zapping away his voice then the sound effects that waving his arms create
in this episode the use of sound and lack of it is refreshing and feels like an apology
for all we had to sit through in the original series especially that 100th episode we see old
characters and meet new ones that are actually interesting and fit really well into the tone of
the show annoyingly on Netflix they've listed it as a separate show but with the exact same
name I can see a young kid getting confused and watching the newer series first being
lost immediately because it jumps right into the series without any explanation as to who
the characters are or what they're doing which sure this show really doesn't have a narrative
that you need to follow along with other than Johnny getting into some Wacky Adventures from
his sister's scientific Shenanigans but hey I'm an adult and I got confused and I don't like that so
Netflix should change it just for me specifically thankfully the Netflix original series has an n
on their thumbnail and when you play an episode it says Netflix original series so there you go
another main concern a lot of people seem to have is how most of the episodes have clearly
dated the content by making spoofs of real life events and technological developments the series
kicks off with a bang using a fortnight inspired Battle Royale game with all the main villains and
protagonists fighting against each other on Bling Bling Island there's an episode that focuses on
Pokemon go or in the Johnny Test Universe honeymon go and there's also this older episode of Johnny
Test that does a similar Pokemon spoof and you're telling me that this isn't a Shadow Lugia yeah
okay there's an episode in which Johnny and dookie sneak into a knockoff Amazon warehouse and have to
fight off a three-in-one Jeff Bezos Elon Musk Mark Zuckerberg billionaire appropriately named
jorf muskerberg well I hated saying that and there's just so much more to this but I will
say all these spoofs and parodies is something that they also did in the original series with
episodes like I Johnny someone stopped this boy he's gonna put Carly out of business man
how many iCarly references am I putting in this episode huh although these things should feel
unoriginal the spin-off of these real-life pop culture events is actually pretty interesting
they don't just stop at these parodies they insert Johnny and his character in a way that feels like
it contributes to the overall story they're telling not to mention it does feel fairly
balanced out by episodes that are just generic and semi-timeless speaking of technology and
gaming the series also had a video game released on the Nintendo DS in 2011 as well as a comic book
in July of that same year following the Netflix Revival the streaming service also produced an
interactive 20-minute special title Johnny Test ultimate meatloaf quest which I guess
could count as a game a little bit maybe like 10 game 90 TV episode at the end of the day I
don't dislike Johnny Test I think for any show to last this long it's a testament to that and
how a good portion of people feel about the show with that being said I also don't really love it
either I'd say I very much had a decent amount of fun especially with the Netflix Revival but
a large chunk of the original series just wasn't that fun or interesting on a re-watch really I
attribute that to the repetitive nature of the show itself and the lack of innovation in coming
up with new Concepts for the characters to be in I feel there was a nice special little place for
this show in my heart as the theme song since the show originally came Mount has been burned
into my brain and I do have some Nostalgia for its original season specifically but the series
as a whole really feels like it went on for a bit too long with the people working on it not
really having a clear direction or fresh ideas to keep the original six seasons feeling fresh
and that's why I was so surprised in how the new Netflix version feels the complete opposite and
I am saying that yeah I'd recommend checking the two seasons of it out but what about you
are you a big Johnny Test fan are you not let me know your thoughts on the series as well as the
Netflix Revival in the comments below thanks so much for watching like And subscribe later