In the first episode he appears in (20 Years to Midnight) he's in the credits as Johnny Quest. I'm betting that Doc and Jackson changed it later for their own reasons.
Honestly Im glad they didnt make it revolve around Johnny, it let them create their own foundation before they dug themselves deeper into pure parody. Also, when Johnny showed up as a genuine relic of the material it sort of hammered it all home. Like "Just in case you didnt realize, THIS IS REALLY WHAT THOSE SHOWS AND THOSE CHARACTERS TAUGHT US, SEE? It wasn't all just an irreverent nostalgic goof!"
Man, moment like this you realize how relatively stable Rusty is despite his parentage. I can't imagine Dr. Quest was any worse than Jonas but Johnny certainly came out worse.
True looking at what he went through and that he masked his pain with drugs for years its really understandable how he got to that point. Love this show so much it really knows how to talk about real shit and mirrors the real world perfectly. I had a lil jonney quest level problem and I can tell ya that's exactly how it goes
"In the platonic sense, I mean. Not literally. Not even platonically, really, since Plato was all about showing naked young boys a good time. You know, classical Greece. I... It was totally cool back then..." You might not know it, but Venture Brothers was totally an educational program.
I really like the ending with dr z and Johnny in season 7, the two have so much history they treat each other like family and they laugh at when they were rivals it’s wholesome
Well, Z was a big influence on Johnny's life, mostly from a terrorizing perspective. But it was all just the arching business, and probably personally Dr. Z eventually felt some responsibility for how Johnny ended up, and in the end wanted to really, finally let him have a safe and good home.
@@paulrippcord506 It was about failure, but people started repeating that like it was Gospel so they turned the show around to show the characters being successful
@@ianfinrir8724 I guess the show will end when Rusty is successful. Even in the last season, where Brock gets a good woman at last, Monarch gets to arch Venture again, becomes a level 10 villain and his friendship with 21 and marriage with Dr. Ms The Monarch go well, where the Guild is rebuild, the original team Venture members settle down, Billy and White are happy with their arch and get a job they seem to like, Hatred gets to keep working for the Venture family and to look over Hank and Dean along with Brock, the captain gets off those tranquilizer darts and becomes quite a decent businessman, Dermott becomes an O.S.I rookie, Hank and Dean... Fucked up their relationship but surely will get better in the hypothetical 8th season, Jared is still a good parody of Peter Parker and the Order of the Triad will probably keep doing well in their new place, it seems like the only one who didn't get anything is Rusty and I'm sure they were or are aiming to give him a success with the discovery that Malcolm is his brother.
I think there's a certain cadence in the voices of people who have blown half their brain faculties on hardcore drugs tend to have and Johnny's voice actor really nails it It really seems like the characters are talking to a person that's lost so much of who they are when they talk to Johnny
Jonny Quest, one of the greatest boy adventurer along with Rusty Venture now a drug addict. Quote by Batman for Action Johnny and Dr. Venture "We both looked into the abyss, but when it looked back at us, you blinked" and Johnny blinked.
Love Brendon Small, he's always great, but him as Action Johnny was always a highlight, especially since he's more or less using a more strung out Pickles voice. XD
-“Everyone whose got a Dad raise your hand!” *sees a kid without his hand raised* - “Hey Man why your hand not Raised?! You don’t look like Jesus Man!” -“My Daddy died in a Fire, while I was sleeping” -“Well whatever, come on I wanna see those hands up!!” “Wait, how come Action Johnny’s hand isn’t up? Does he not have a Father” *”N O O O O O ! ! ! !”*
i love when they dip into their world building with segments like the Therapy session. We learned a lot about the lives of has been cartoon characters in their world in that single episode. The Hale Bros crack me up with all the little giveaways to the fact that they murdered their father like The Ramirez Bros. Action Johnny is too damned funny though. The drugs, the herpes, the hair. All of it. I love every second Johnny is on screen. The fact that they couldnt call him Johnny quest after season 2 bums me out.
It's all supposed to be an extended parody of 50's cartoons. Even Doc Hammer's name is a gag on old cartoons. "How did those kids turn out?". Badly, as it turns out!
you know, if I had to live through three different cartoon series, (including a "gritty and extreme reboot from the 90s" that had a hench's face melt off from snake venom) I'd probably be a junkie as well. those memories, man...
Tons of characters could qualify as total wet cats, but I think Action Jonny takes quite a bit of the cake. You know you've failed as a parent when your archenemy is considered a better father figure to your son than you are.
Yeah Steve already listed the other references but they're basically the first major boy adventurers from different mediums Johnny- t.v. Astroboy- Japanese animation Robin- comics Hardy boys- novels
5:48 i love how for legal reasons the producers couldn't say the name johnny quest in the venture bros but somehow Jonas did it completely without any problem
My favorite line in the entire show "after I put herpy in there" Side note: yes ik spelt "herpy* wrong, I'm just to lazy to look it up and retype this. So all the spellaholics can buzz off
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