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* AmbiguouslyGay: The plumbers convention.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: The plumbers convention.convention in "Back on Shaq".



** Carl likewise only has his mouth visible when he's using it.

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** Carl likewise only has his mouth visible when he's using it.it, at least prior to his redesign in the fourth and final season.

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* TheChewToy: Carl became this during the show's last season.

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* TheChewToy: Carl became this during the show's last season. Not one of his appearances there had him avoiding getting hurt.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Jungle Boy was a recurring character in the first season, but was dropped from the show when Kirk Tingblad became showrunner during the second and third seasons and didn't even resurface when Van Partible regained control of the show in season four.
** Bobo, the Prospector and Master Hamma were all recurring characters during the Kirk Tingblad era that came after Van Partible was removed from the show following its first season, but none of them appear at all during Van Partible's return as showrunner in the fourth and final season.



* DemotedToExtra: In the last season, Pops only had one appearance as a non-speaking cameo in "Johnny Makeover" which parodied TotallyRadical show retools. Carl fared slightly better with actual dialogue, but he only got seven appearances, and the last two were non-speaking cameos.

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* DemotedToExtra: DemotedToExtra:
** Bobo, the head chef at Pops' diner, went from an occasionally appearing character in the second season to only appearing in one episode of the third season without any lines.
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In the last season, Pops only had one appearance as a non-speaking cameo in "Johnny Makeover" which parodied TotallyRadical show retools. Carl fared slightly better with actual dialogue, but he only got seven appearances, and the last two were non-speaking cameos.
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* AsHimself: Several celebrities have appeared on the show voicing animated versions of themselves, two of the most notable ones being Creator/AdamWest and Donny Osmond.


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* DontEatAndSwim: "Adam West's Date-O-Rama" ends with Adam West giving advice while fighting Black Widow's henchmen. The first advice he gives is to wait 30 minutes to swim after eating.
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* OverprotectiveDad: "A Page Right Out of History" ends with Fred Flintstone siccing Dino on Johnny all because he flirted with his daughter Pebbles (portrayed as a young woman).
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** "Gray Matters" has Johnny thinking he's become old after discovering his first gray hair. At one point, he is handed a pair of dentures and puts the in his mouth over his still-intact teeth. The beginning of the episode also has Johnny suffer a nightmare where he becomes elderly and loses his false teeth.

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** "Gray Matters" has Johnny thinking he's become old after discovering his first gray hair. At one point, he is handed a pair of dentures and puts the them in his mouth over his still-intact teeth. The beginning of the episode also has Johnny suffer a nightmare where he becomes elderly and loses his false teeth.
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* OddballDoppelganger: In "Double Vision", Johnny mistakenly follows a woman home because she looks like a younger and more attractive version of his mother.
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* BankruptcyBarrel: In the half-hour episode "Home Alone", one of the mishaps Johnny endures is his home being raided by the Clothes Horse Thief, whom Johnny catches wearing his mother's clothes. The Clothes Horse Thief then decides to instead take Johnny's clothes, leaving him wearing a barrel.

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* BankruptcyBarrel: In the half-hour episode "Home Alone", one of the mishaps Johnny endures is his home being raided by the Clothes Horse Thief, Crook, whom Johnny catches wearing his mother's clothes. The Clothes Horse Thief Crook then decides to instead take Johnny's clothes, leaving him wearing a barrel.
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** "Gray Matters" has Johnny thinking he's become old after discovering his first gray hair. At one point, he is handed a pair of dentures and puts the in his mouth over his still-intact teeth.

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** "Gray Matters" has Johnny thinking he's become old after discovering his first gray hair. At one point, he is handed a pair of dentures and puts the in his mouth over his still-intact teeth. The beginning of the episode also has Johnny suffer a nightmare where he becomes elderly and loses his false teeth.
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* FrenchJerk: The teacher of Johnny and his mother's French class in "Non, Oui, Oui Pour Johnny" is an irate Frenchman obsessed with stinky cheese who ends up [[MamaBear setting Johnny's mom off]] by messing up Johnny's hair after he destroyed Johnny's passport and tickets to France in response to [[SoreLoser Johnny correctly answering the final quiz question]].
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* BankruptcyBarrel: In the half-hour episode "Home Alone", one of the mishaps Johnny endures is his home being raided by the Clothes Horse Thief, whom Johnny catches wearing his mother's clothes. The Clothes Horse Thief then decides to instead take Johnny's clothes, leaving him wearing a barrel.


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* FairyTaleFreeForAll: "Home Alone" has several fairy tail characters deciding to throw a party at Johnny's house, including Little Red Riding Hood, Humpty Dumpty, the giant from ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', Rapunzel and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

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* KickMePrank: Johnny once found himself at the mercy of two clowns who used their own variations of this prank: The older clown used the regular version while the younger clown stuck an "I Hate Rhinos" sign on his back, which caused a talking rhino to beat him up.

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* KickMePrank: KickMePrank:
** In "I Used to Be Funny",
Johnny once found himself at the mercy of two clowns who used their own variations of this prank: The older clown used the regular version while the younger clown stuck an "I Hate Rhinos" sign on his back, which caused a talking rhino to beat him up.up.
** "Get Stinky" has Johnny attempt to get a Kick Me sign on the back of Stinky Brownstein in retribution for when she picked on him when they were kids. He instead gets the sign on his own back.


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* PantsPullingPrank: The slide show shown at the beginning of "Get Stinky" shows that one of the pranks Stinky Brownstein played on Johnny when they were children consisted of pulling Johnny's pants down to reveal his underwear. Stinky later does it to Johnny again at the end of the episode after [[spoiler:she reveals she was pretending to be in love with Johnny as yet another prank]].


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* TongueOnTheFlagpole: A slide seen in the beginning of "Get Stinky" shows that when Stinky Brownstein and Johnny Bravo were kids, Stinky pranked Johnny by telling him a flagpole was made of candy, resulting in young Johnny getting his tongue frozen to it.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: As much of a CasanovaWannabe as Johnny is, he never lies about who he is or tricks women into liking him. This puts him at odds with a few antagonists that are more sleazy than he is, such as a KavorkaMan who tricks women into going on dates by faking being polite; when Johnny hears this, he's outright disgusted.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: EveryoneHasStandards:
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As much of a CasanovaWannabe as Johnny is, he never lies about who he is or tricks women into liking him. This puts him at odds with a few antagonists that are more sleazy than he is, such as a KavorkaMan who tricks women into going on dates by faking being polite; when Johnny hears this, he's outright disgusted.disgusted.
** Johnny has a tendency to cause problems or make already existing problems worse because of his stubborn idiocy, but when he's on an intergalactic gameshow in "Third Dork from the Sun", he is disturbed upon learning that the gameshow punishes losing contestants by destroying their homeworlds.
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Revising Christmas Episode entry to give the actual titles of the episode and list them in the proper order they aired.


** There was one in 2003 or 2004, in which Johnny, Susie, and the others all went to the North Pole.
** There was another one that Creator/AdamWest narrates in the style of "The Night Before Christmas," in which Johnny accidentally knocks out Santa Claus and has to deliver gifts for him. [[spoiler:The latter is mentioned in the former.]]

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** There was one in 2003 or 2004, in which Johnny, Susie, and The first season had a seven-minute segment titled "Twas the others all went to the North Pole.
** There was another one that
Night", featuring Creator/AdamWest narrates narrating in the style of "The Night Before Christmas," in which Johnny accidentally knocks out Santa Claus and has to deliver gifts for him. [[spoiler:The latter is mentioned in the former.]]him.
** The half-hour special "A Johnny Bravo Christmas", where Johnny and Suzy try to do what they can to deliver Johnny and his mother's letters to Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.
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* DontTouchItYouIdiot: In "Bootman", the Astounding League of Super-People's leader Mr. Elastic pleads Johnny not to push a button. This only makes Johnny push it anyway and results in the superheroes being ThrownOutTheAirlock.


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* LethallyStupid: Johnny often puts people's lives in danger because of his idiocy, with the episode "Bootman" even having his antics causing the apparent deaths of the Green Swoosh and the rest of the Astounding League of Super-People.


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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: The fate of the Astounding League of Super-People in "Bootman", who get shot into space from their headquarters because Johnny was too stupid to heed [[DontTouchItYouIdiot Mr. Elastic's pleas that he not push a certain button]].
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* IsTheAnswerToThisQuestionYes: In "A Johnny Bravo Christmas", Johnny asks a man if he can fly him and Suzy to the North Pole and the man answers "Do birds go poo on cars?"

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* NoodleIncident: In "Johnny-O and Juliet", Johnny responds to Little Suzy teasing him over his crush on the new neighbor's daughter by threatening to bury the rest of her doll collection, which implies that Johnny had previously buried at least one of Suzy's dolls as retribution for some unknown slight.

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* NoodleIncident: NoodleIncident:
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In "Johnny-O and Juliet", Johnny responds to Little Suzy teasing him over his crush on the new neighbor's daughter by threatening to bury the rest of her doll collection, which implies that Johnny had previously buried at least one of Suzy's dolls as retribution for some unknown slight.slight.
** In "A Johnny Bravo Christmas", Suzy agrees to help Johnny mail his letters to the North Pole if he does a favor for her. Johnny replies by asking if he's going to have to eat larvae again.



* YourMom: In the original pilot, the gorilla Johnny hangs with (unaware that he's the gorilla the female zookeeper asked him to track down) makes an insult towards Big Fat Roy's mother.

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* YourMom: YourMom:
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In the original pilot, the gorilla Johnny hangs with (unaware that he's the gorilla the female zookeeper asked him to track down) makes an insult towards Big Fat Roy's mother.


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** "A Johnny Bravo Christmas" has a cargo inspector taunted by caged animals respond by saying "You're mom's so stupid, she tried to alphabetize M and M's."
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** In "The Great Bunny Book Ban", Mr. Blowhard distracts Little Suzy by claiming to see Creator/MattDamon.
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-->'''Research Granter:''' So Farnsworth says to me "If I could that way, I wouldn't ''need'' an aesthetical tarsal bone!"

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-->'''Research Granter:''' So Farnsworth says to me "If I could walk that way, I wouldn't ''need'' an aesthetical tarsal bone!"
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* BabyMorphEpisode: The episode "Look Who's Drooling" has Johnny turn into a baby after accidentally drinking Carl's youth tonic to soothe a really bad chili burn.

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* YouWontLikeHowITaste: In "Ape is Enough", Johnny thinks the giant female ape in love with him wants to eat him (which, to be fair, is because she just swallowed Carl whole). To try and convince her not to eat him, Johnny tells her he is high in cholesterol.

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* YouWontLikeHowITaste: YouWontLikeHowITaste:
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In "Ape is Enough", Johnny thinks the giant female ape in love with him wants to eat him (which, to be fair, is because she just swallowed Carl whole). To try and convince her not to eat him, Johnny tells her he is high in cholesterol.cholesterol.
** In "20,000 Leagues Over My Head", Johnny tries to deter a pair of giant crabs from eating him by claiming he tastes terrible. He licks his elbow to demonstrate, only to find that he tastes great after all.
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* OrphanedPunchline: Occurs in "Johnny on Ice", where Dr. Richard Leaking talks to a research granter he's invited to see his thawed-out caveman (actually Johnny).
-->'''Research Granter:''' So Farnsworth says to me "If I could that way, I wouldn't ''need'' an aesthetical tarsal bone!"
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* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: In "Full Metal Johnny", the drill sergeant at one point threatens that she'll rip Johnny's head off and plant posies in his neck.

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* ButtBiter: A poodle bites Johnny on the butt in "A Boy and His Bird".

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* ButtBiter: ButtBiter:
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A poodle bites Johnny on the butt in "A Boy and His Bird".Bird".
** Johnny gets yet another bite to the behind in "Jurassic Dork", this time from his pet dinosaur Mr. Wuggles.
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* InsufferableImbecile: Johnny is often depicted as being as inconsiderate and brash as he is stupid, with the show in fact owing a lot of its humor to Johnny getting himself in trouble for being a pompous dumbass or making bad situations worse because he is hopelessly unable to understand what's going on and always refuses to listen to those who know better.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Pouch Potato", Johnny finds himself in a habitat for kangaroos and wonders whether he'll be done in first by hunger, loneliness or the lack of clean linen.


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** "Pouch Potato" begins with Johnny flirting with an Australian tour guide, who distracts him by claiming to see a dingo tap-dancing with Music/OliviaNewtonJohn.
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** When Chronos tells him the sign near his lair says "Stay Out" in "Bearly Enough Time", Johnny corrects Chronos that it really reads "Do Not Enter Without Appointment".
** In "Jumbo Johnny", Johnny asks the Uber Mass salesman if the product is government-approved.
** Johnny reprimands Pops for asking what Ingredient X is in "Panic in Jerky Town", pointing out that if Jerky Jake revealed the secret ingredient, his competitors would be able to copy the recipe.
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** "Some Like It Stupid" has Johnny distract Fish Lips Malone by telling him there's a sale on icepicks.
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* ThoughtAversionFailure: "In Your Dreams" has Johnny trapped in a dream and having no desire to wake up due to spending time with his ideal girl. His thoughts affect the dreamscape and he at one point accidentally turns the woman into a cycloptic octopus when she randomly tells him not to think of her as a one-eyed, tentacled sea monster.
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** In "The Island of Mrs. Morceau," Johnny heads to the titular island, where a HotScientist is changing people into animal-human hybrids. While some of them are shown loathing their transfigured states, others decide to make the most of it and perform a musical about their situation. ("Let's all do the HIDEOUS ANIMAL RAG!")

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** In "The Island of Mrs. Morceau," Johnny heads to the titular island, where a HotScientist scientist is changing people into animal-human hybrids. While some of them are shown loathing their transfigured states, others decide to make the most of it and perform a musical about their situation. ("Let's all do the HIDEOUS ANIMAL RAG!")
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