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Johnny Bravo: Season One (Cartoon Network Hall of Fame)

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These past few years have been amazing for fans of animated television series from the eighties and nineties. To think that back at the start of this decade, when the millenium had just arrived, we were first introduced to DVD boxed sets and they were reserved mostly for top property shows like The Simpsons, South Park or Family Guy, or else new properties like 24. Now only as this decade comes to a close have animation fans started seeing some major releases as far as past animated series on DVD. Amazing shows such as GI Joe, Transformers, X-men: The Animated Series, and Daria (to be released this May) finally became available on DVD.

Now fans of the classic Cartoon Network shows, from back in the Toonami days, can own th complete first season fo Johnny Bravo, a show that was worked on by Family Guy's own Seth Macfarlane. The first season contains the following 13 episodes on 2-discs,

Disc 1
1. Super Duped:Bungled in the Jungle:Bearly Enough Time
2. The Sensitive Male: Bravo-Dooby-Doo
3. Date with an Antelope: Did You See a Bull Run by Here?: Cookie Crisis
4. I Used to Be Funny: My Fair Dork: 'Twas the Night
5. Blarney Buddies: Over the Hump: Johnny Bravo Meets Farrah Fawcett
6. Hip Hop Flop!: Talk to Me, Baby: Spaced Out Cat
7. Beach Blanket Bravo: The Day the Earth Didn't Move Around Anymore: The Aisle of Mixed Up Toys

Disc 2
8. Substitute Teacher: A Wolf in Chicks Clothing: Intensive Care
9. Jumbo Johnny: The Perfect Gift: Bravo, James Bravo
10. Going Batty: Berry the Butler: Red Faced in the White House
11. The Man Who Cried Clown: Johnny Real Good: Talky Tabitha
12. Johnny Bravo Meets Adam West: Johnny Bravo Meets Donny Osmond: Under the Big Flop
13. Johnny Bravo: Jungle Boy: Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women

Special Features
-Bringing Up Bravo: Series documentary allowing viewers to explore the beginnings, middle, endings and everything in between that is Johnny Bravo.
-Audio Commentary by Van Partible, Jeff Bennett and Seth Macfarlane
-Johnny Bravo Original Pencil Tests: Introduction by Van Partible, some of the original pencil tests used in production process
-Seth Macfarlane Audio Track: Listen to Seth Macfarlane lay down an entire temp track on his own, well before he would become known for his Family Guy


Hopefully this release will sell well and lead to the release of further seasons and the release of other Cartoon Network properties in season sets or complete series set form. I grew up watching Deter's Laboratory and would love to own it on DVD. Johnny Bravo was a lesser favorite of mine in comparison so I give the series a 4/5 but certainly feel safe giving this set 5/5 on account of all the special features sure to please fans who are happy enough just to own the episodes in a proper set.Thanks for your time.

Johnny Bravo Season 1
13 Episodes on 2 Discs, being released June 15, 2010

"Johnny Bravo" is a show on the Cartoon Network about a dim-witted, girl-chasing, muscle-flexing, sunglasses-wearing, clown-hating, mama-loving pretty boy karate chopping his way through action packed antics. This is a "Hall of Fame" Cartoon Network set consisting of all thirteen episodes from the very first season and includes episodes of "Jungle Boy" and Johnny Bravo meeting all sorts of different characters including the Scooby Gang, Donny Osmond, Adam West, and Farrah Fawcett.

It is a pretty silly show without any real lessons to learn and just a lot of fun watching Johnny try to be a ladies' man and always getting beaten up by them eventually. A great find for fans of Hanna Barbara animation.

Bonus Features:

A featurette called "Bringing Up Johnny Bravo" covers Van Partible's creating of the character in college and Jeff Bennett voicing the character and the impact it made for the Cartoon Network. They talk about the animation style being a blend of several classic shows from Hanna Barbara and their goals for the mash-up of Johnny Bravo being Elvis with a bit of James Dean thrown in. There is commentary on three episodes by creator Van Partible and various other creators (like Seth MacFarlane) in which they mostly eventually talk about Seth MacFarlane, their former co-worker and his success creating "Family Guy" and how they all wish they had been able to do the same. They found a temp track by Seth MacFarlane to include testing out two songs for the episode "Sensitive Male!" and there are also Johnny Bravo Pencil Tests for two episodes showing the bare bones animation before color and sound effects were added.

This series (along with other former CTN greats such as Dexter's Lab)should have come out a long time ago. Johnny Bravo was part of the golden age of CTN (back when they still had toonami and showed things like reboot). A very good cartoon that ecompasses modern and old school style humor. Like a lot of good cartoons though it went south towards the end of its time. For the most part though it's all around good fun for the kids with some jokes adults can apperciate too.

i loved this show when i was a kid. i absolutely love the slip cover how its all shinny platinum look. i give it 5/5 and there some commentaries and some extras. if you buy this you wont be disappointed. hopefully there a season 2, 3, 4

Whoa, Momma ! It's finally here !

The first season of Johnny Bravo has finally flexed his way onto a terrific 2-disc DVD set ! Join your favorite muscle-brained, lady-lovin', Elvis-talkin' macho man as he scours the globe - or at least his hometown of Aron City - as he searches for the girl of his fantasies in the first 13 episodes of this swingin' series including:

"Super Duped" - Little Suzy takes Johnny to school as a Show-and-Tell project claiming that he's a superhero. Now Johnny must defeat a villain in order to impress Suzy's teacher.

"Bravo-Dooby-Doo" - In this cool crossover, Johnny enlists the help of the Scooby-Doo gang to help him find his missing aunt.

"Date with an Antelope" - Johnny's date that he met online turns out to be a talking antelope !

"Cookie Crisis" - Suzy continuously tries to tempt Johnny into buying her girl scout cookies in this whimsical rhyming adventure.

"I Used to Be Funny" - Learn why Johnny hates clowns as two of them go against each other.

"Talk to Me, Baby" - Johnny gets cast in a beautiful model's talk show.

"Beach Blanket Bravo" - It's nothing but a day at the beach for Johnny as he takes part in a surfing contest.

"The Perfect Gift" - Johnny desperately looks for a great Mother's Day gift for his mama, Bunny, by getting a job. Only thing is, he doesn't like working.

"Red Faced in the White House" - Johnny dates the President's daughter.

Other episodes include guest appearances by famous people like Farrah Fawcett, Adam West, and Donny Osmond (who later appeared in the Christmas and Valentine's Day specials). And with some great episodes on this set, there are some greater special features like commentaries on 3 key episodes with folks like Van Partible, the creator of Bravo and Jeff Bennett, the voice of Bravo; pencil tests for the two pilot episodes; a temp track for "The Sensitive Male" (the one where Johnny gets musically schooled on how to treat women better); and "Bringing Up Bravo" where Van, Jeff and few other people who worked on the first season look back on how this amazing series took off.

Even though the series has a few innuendos spouting from Bravo's mouth, he never seems to get the girl in the end. But he's still a good guy and his mama says so at that. As for me, I'll be enjoying this, until the rest of the series gets underway. But look for the next 2-disc set to premiere in the new "Cartoon Network Hall of Fame" series: "Courage the Cowardly Dog - Season 1" coming next month !

Johnny Bravo an incredibly dim-witted mama's boy, narcissistic. A 20yr old blond, buff romancer you'd think he's quite the lady's man, he thinks so too. So confident even when women reject him for being a jerk, he still ends up saying "she wants me". Every bit of him I love!!

I wish they would bring up a complete series. His animation in season 1 isn't as great as in seasons 2 and 4. Back when cartoon network had it's magic with cartoons like Johnny Bravo, Courage the Cowardly dog, PPGs, Cow and Chicken etc. that shamefully have been taken out of cartoon network. I'm anxiously waiting for them to send out the rest of the seasons.

I just bought this DVD box set and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. I grew up watching Johnny Bravo as a 7 year old girl and watching all these episodes again brings back wonderful childhood memories and fun. I love Johnny's catch phrase "Woah mama!" and his hilarious women chasing ways. If you loved this cartoon as a child and still do today I highly recommend buying this. I am a very satisfied customer!

Have been waiting for this for years, can't wait to see more Cartoon Network: Hall of Fame releases soon!

Johnny Bravo is so far out that he's in.My entire family loves Johnny.It would have been nice if Cartoon Network had
made a movie of Johnny,too.

Awesome cartoon finally released on DVD. Now all we need is Cow & Chicken/I am Weasel on DVD. Lots of adult humor in this Johnny Bravo set. Great laughs for all ages.