The Best (?) & Partially Lost Season of Johnny Test 

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The first season happens to be the only one I ever caught any episodes of as a kid, so I was really confused by the vitriol and whipcrack jokes its online presence was defined by a few years later. Since I’ve still barely seen anything after Season 1, I’m ecstatic now knowing there’s more of that one out there for me to lo…li…toler…Johnny Test.

I will always admire this man’s dedication to being Johnny Test historian

Idk if there's a term for it but there's something about how cartoons would have the first season that felt slower, more personal and a tinge of melancholy in a way. Observed this in this show, Spongebob, Family Guy, Simpsons and even the Boondocks.

Man, I’ve always loved Johnathan Assessment.

the Barbie bit at the beginning has me dead 😭

Given how WB originally made the show with Cookie Jar Entertainment, I do wonder how differently the show would’ve gone if they had continued producing the show rather than Cookie Jar.

Always great to see Nick his title as the number 1 Johnny Test Enthusiast.

I remember honestly being shocked to learn the internet hates Johnny Trst. Looking back, yeah it's no Adventure Time or Regular Show sure. But I enjoy a lot of the show as a kid and I definitely think these earlier episodes are up there. I actually remember noticing the theme song change and slowly remembering which episodes used which intro. It was a bit of a fun thing as a kid

Ahh yes. The season where Johnny Test was actually traditionally animated and watchable. Also the one that aired on Kids WB, if I recall.

Watching Johnny test while my house smells like a pool, don’t ask, is weirdly nostalgic for a childhood vacation where my family stayed at a water park hotel

god Tom Kenny Dookie sounds so smug its unreal

Here’s something else interesting worth noting: Kids’ WB! always used the original intro for Johnny Test, even during seasons 2 and 3 despite the show’s more well-known second theme song having already been introduced in Canada by then. We wouldn’t hear about how Johnny was the epic kid with a head of firey hair and a turbocharged backpack until January 2008, when the series began airing on Cartoon Network (Kids’ WB! continued broadcasting the show in the way they always did until its demise in May 2008).

Your recap of the miniscule universe made me realize... why did this show have so many Alternate Universe episodes??? Even in that weird cancelled youtube series, they did an Alternate Universe episode right out of the gate

The female johnny test, johnny bravo episode where hes a woman, and female timmy turner made me feel a lot of things I didnt understand till I became an adult, even then im not fully sure what it is

Season 1 Johnny Test and season 2 onward Johnny Test honesty feel like different shows half the time. Season 1's humor feels less forced and of course theres no annoying whip crack

I love how that milisecond of Johnny turning to a woman is probably the only reason people remember that show.

It's extremely extremely sad to think that no one in current Warner Bros (discovery) has any recollection of Johnny test, their first original IP cartoon post 2010

The reboot was great. Probably the highest quality season. It doesnt do whipcracks and does way less potty humor.

When it comes to Johnny Test and looking back on cartoons while I get older, I get Thanos "perhaps I judged you to harshly," vibes. Probably because there was a period where CN aired it nonstop like TTG.

Watching this knowing about the recent passing of Bling Bling's original Latin Spanish VA earlier this month makes this a bit of a bittersweet experience, considering how much I watched that dub back in the day (he was strangely renamed "Rorro Pirroro" there though, but otherwise everyone else's named the same). But overall, I did remember plenty of the early episodes showcased here despite remembering seasons 2 and 3 the most. And regardless of the show's decline in animation quality when moving to Flash, at least it has decent to great/memorable main character designs from the get-go. As a kid I was quite fond of Mary and Sissy iirc. And the existence of 16:9 season 1 episodes is intriguing and yet kinda expected given that WBA was already starting to future proof widescreen HD versions of their shows since the early 2000s (and CN did the same thing with select shows like OG Ben 10). Maybe it didn't get fully released out of the whole rights shakeups once Cookie Jar took over before HD fully became the standard; though hopefully it does see the light of day later.

I've always loved this season. I was sad when it stopped airing on Teletoon. However, I remember one time they brought it back and labelled them as "lost episodes". They even made small promos to hype it up! My favorite episode is probably "Johnny's House of Horrors", all the weird and creepy modifications they did to the house were just fascinating to me, shame you didn't mention it at all.

i never once thought a cartoon could make me down bad for something real bad oh god i was wrong

SO GLAD YOURE COVERING THIS. I always have to explain to people that the Johnny Test I LOVED was before it got ruined by Canadians!

I never got over Dukey's voice change

Season 1 Jonny not only looked better and cooler but his characters did not not feel one note.

14:49 Hey, I recognize that Flash game after it was originally a Mucha Lucha game (themed after the "The Collector" episode), but before it got reskinned again into a Tom and Jerry Tales flash game that The CW4Kids website kept up long after that show left the schedule.

This is indeed a true Johnny Test moment.

I have this whole season on DVD. So glad to have it

I love Johnny Test, even though it becomes more crazy the further through. But it's got so much charm lmao.

I'm pretty sure thats Brad Swaile as Johnny's original voice. It sounds just like him

Johnny Test was my childhood, And guess what? No whiplashes

9:37 "John K. Johnn" LMAO I couldn't've describe that more perfectly then that!

Really cool finds!

11:26 TV Captions always said "Monkey face" and "Sonic boom, messy room" where I was from. Also I will NOT hear any slander on the Animaniacs reboot. Inferior? Yes. Funny? Also yes.

Great video! I was first exposed to the show on WB as a kid. So I was very confused when it came to Cartoon Network and it was so bad.

Where’s the eerie music and spooky filter in the Lost Media section?

I always remember enjoying the first season as a kid. Then I Remember coming home from school and noticing the animation had changed. That’s when I dropped the show except for minor curiosity rewatches. Glad to see that what I remember was true!

You probably already know this but Lila Test (Johnny's mother) is completely absent for the last four half hours of Season 1 that aired in 2006; its at its weirdest in Lil' Johnny where we see opposite versions of everyone in the Test family except for her. Her boss must NOT be very kind to her...

The WB Era of Johnny Test is a real classic. The characters were more fun, the music was more dope, the stories were more entertaining, and more importantly, "No Whip Crack." I've also come to really appreciate the hand-drawn animation of the show after years of experience the janky 2000s flash animation.

I have a piece of recoverd lost media that might be relevant to this. There was a rare KidsWB promo that promoted Johnny Test along with Coconut Fred and Loonitics Unleashed. In the video, Johnny's voice was portrayed by a woman. Not sure if the audio used was from the pilot or not. (Link in the replies)

Johnny Test has always been one of my absolute childhood favorites EVER, Cartoon Network (& WB) would never be the same without it!!! Also happy new year to ya, I guess lol

When I first saw Season 2 airing on Kids' WB, I was weirded out by the major change of animation. It all felt weird to me, and I didn't like it back then, but I'm kinda used to it now.

Fantastic job with the video on discussion johnny test season 1

The writing was so much better in the first season, and I preferred the original theme song. When Dukey's voice actor changed, it was the beginning of the end

Man I remember seeing 3 season 1 episodes on TV as a kid. Just 3. And one was GO SMOOTHIE, GO SMOOTHIE, that one. And I genuinely remember loving how funny it was, but then literally like… a Year later I get my first glimpse of Canadian Johnny Test on Teletoon… Our equivalent to CN (around as of 1997 to January 2023 or 2022 I believe but CN bought them and they merged, turns out Canada didn’t want to see mostly trash, sad how that turned out seeing the state of American animation these days.). They also aired season 1 as they had got the rights to air it prior to the green lighting of s2. I took one look at that flash animation and… I just can’t tell you how upset we were. MULTIPLE KIDS in my school were like “Johnny Test changed and it SUCKS”. It wasn’t just Americans who noticed this. Canadians had season 1 air over here too and I remember as a kid desperately trying to find those episodes and them being nowhere to be seen until years later. Lol and then ALL the rest of Johnny Test was trash. Leave it to this country to mess up something good, almost all of our in-house tv here S U C K S we barely have any good franchises or tv shows to our names. Funniest part is it just got worse and worse before the reboot. Handled by WB, then Cookie Jar AKA the remains of Dic entertainment (Canadian company, bad from the offset) and then later on they just gave up and Teletoon just started doing it in house, which made it WORSE, and WORSE. I remember checking in to see just how bad it got and to count the whipcracking noises at like 14 lmfao. Look ok, Teletoon stopped being good when I was like 7 and that was prior to the premiere of season 1 in Canada. So to see something refreshingly funny on the channel at a time when it had lost its true identity and was really trash was quite refreshing… And then season 2 happened and it went downhill from there. The point I’m trying to get at here is n e v e r entrust us with a good property we will fuck it into the ground the show runners here are all out of touch senile 80 somethings in suits

Hand-drawn Johnny Test is freaking cool

Wow now we’re left with zero Johnny Test content in 2024!

I actually think seasons 2 and 3 of Johnny Test are on par with season 1 of the show. Especially season 3.

This is unrelated but I love your Cartman plushie in the background 😂

Whoa! I'm so happy, that more lost JT stuff being found, while also learning more and more infos about the show! And yes, Season 1 is the superior season. I just wish, the series would evolve its full potential, so it could shoot for the stars. Maybe to another galaxy, perhaps? *wink wink*

That's mostly what I remember the show from when I was a kid and it was on Kids WB. I had no idea it went on for so long well after that besides suddenly seeing this show plastered on Cartoon Network for a long while.

I hope you're aware that Loonatics isn't really a reboot because it follows a cast of new characters who are not the same as their ancestors who were the original Looney Tunes. Loonatics is more of a spin off if anything, not a reboot.

Man that hand drawn animation is such a sight for sore eyes compared to the later seasons. And there's so much R34 of that female johnny, my god.

I would love to see more of Tom Kenny voicing Dukey 😂 super weird but interesting

BB in latin Spanish was Roro Pirrorro, I just can't 🤣

Season 1 episodes barely aired here in Canada. I don't remember seeing any after 2007

I remember watching all of these episodes on cartoon network in my country (Africa), so i was suprised by the title of this video. I even recorded some of those episodes which was a thing i liked to do when i was younger, like the one where they shrunk and saw another version of themselves.

I like Mary Test for she's the more normal one of the family except the whole loving gil thing but whatever.

Nicktendo love your videos

yeah and season 1 is the only season that dosen.t have the whip sound effect that will always play in a matter of 20 seconds that will be used in the later 5 seasons

The chemistry between James Arnold Taylor and louis chillio really makes the show for me they both bounce of each other amazingly

Sometimes I wonder what Johnny Test would be like if it was still owned by Warner Bros. They still own the Trademark but Wildbrain has full control over the IP. I think a co production between the two studios and a new approach to the writing could help the series reach its full potential

“SpongeBob at home” I’m laughing so hard I’m flooding the building 💀

The early Johnny voice sounds a lot like Ryan Drummond's Sonic, so that's my theory on who the VA's identity could be.

Finally, more nicktendo Johnny Test lore

The Barbie skit was funny at the beginning and Johnny test season 1 was traditionally animated and watchable to be owned by Warner Bros.

I always prefer Janet over Sissy. Don't get me wrong I really like Sissy but I think Janet was better overall for Johnny you can actually see a romance hinted at the end of the episode "Johnny's Super Smarty Pants"

Figures you would end the year with Johnny Test.

@NICKtendo 11:37 I like the interesting fact that you mentioned that even though the first season was only released in 4:3 full screen 📺 with the left and rights cropped out (because some North American households at the time in 2005-2006 still had standard definition full screen TVs), it was animated and edited in 16:9 widescreen.

While watching this, I called Loonatics "Looney Tunes Xeriouxly Forxe"

Season 1 is fully hand drawn while season 2 and the reboot is in flash

I love me some Johnny Test lore awesome video.

but the real question is how many whip cracks are in season one?

I completely forgot TG4 did an Irish dub of Johnny Test. It really is a shame most Irish dubs are lost media, like Fosters Home, ATLA, Sponge Bob and the first 3 seasons of Adventure Time. I hope somewhere in Ireland these dubs are persevered. Since I grew up with TG4, it's odd hearing it pronounced in English instead of "TG ceathair (ca-her)"

huh. I honestly didn't realize season 1 of Johnny Test was considered lost media. I think mostly becasue I watched it when it originally aired on Kids WB back in the the day. i remember enjoying and liking it, but never having as much of a chance to rewatch it since.

3:35 - 3:52 this had me rolling in laughter! I love Season 1 of Johnny Test!

I remember this season and I enjoyed it lol

Johnny Test is my favorite cookie jar entertainment show right next to the Doodlebops

2005 honestly wasn't bad year for animation, there were a lot of good shows airing around that tiime such as Ed, Edd n Eddy Kim Possible Jimmy Neutron, Xiaolin Showdown The Batman Jackie Chan Adventures TMNT (2003) Codename Kids Next Door Foster's Home American Dragon ATLA

I could be wrong, but I think the proto-Johnny voice might be Ryan Drummond. The clip at 12:31 in particular sounds like a higher pitched Adventure-era Sonic.

Anyone notice how different characters are drawn in most season 1 episodes?

i love johnny test i always feel like im the only person on the planet who casually has jt as there 2nd fav tv show of all time its always beenmy fav and everywhere i look people hate on it

Maybe it’s just me, but the first voice for Johnny, at least from what little we hear, almost sounds like Ryan Drummond

The first time I saw a season 1 episode was during a marathon in 2012. The different intro and BGM had me hella confused.

I loved this show growing up

Unironically my favorite cartoon when i was a kid

I think replacement Johnny voice might be Greg Cipes. Sounds pretty close at least.

I never watched WB, only caught the show on Cartoon Network and only saw the bad episodes. I don't remember even cracking a smile while watching the show... but that leather biker joke made me genuinely cackle.

Coukd have predicted when this show first aired that it would be worthy of a video in 2023.

johnny johnny yes papa

There is a mistake with the LMW link in the description, the mistake specifically is that the last quotation mark for the article name is separate from the link so the redirect is not the article itself, and is an error. Great video though

I was skeptical of widescreen season 1 since it was just the intro and thought maybe the episodes itself were 4:3 but that WB Promo really suprised me Also, I have Quicktime

8:57 "I'm Richard Stone!" (as in the composer for Animaniacs, that WB Family Entertainment logo, and all the WB cartoons that Richard Stone did music for)

“John K Johnny” 😭

I know that voice for Beta Johnny. That's BRAD SWAILE!!

7:50 was reaaally afraid of a pickle nick jumpscare here, he may actually be gone for good

When was the last time america produced any 2D cartoon in house?

Johhny Test is almost 20 years old 👁👄👁

THIS ! THIS IS THE REAL JOHNNY TEST WE KNOW AND LOVE !