Trivia / Johnny Test

• Acting for Two:
  • James Arnold Taylor voices Johnny, Hank Anchorman, Principal Jules Harm, Dog Catcher, The Beekeeper, Mr. Mittens, Dark Vegan, Larius Nefarius, Dawg, Warty, Truant Officer, and Willy Keller.
  • In Seasons 1–4, Louis Chirillo voices Dukey and Mr. Teacherman.
  • In Seasons 5-onwards, Trevor Devall voices Dukey, Mr. Teacherman, Mark West, Phobious McPhobe.
  • In Seasons 1 & 5, Brittney Wilson voices Mary, Sissy, Missy, Betty Crumper, Miss X and Miss Z.
  • In Seasons 2-4 & 6, Ashleigh Ball voices Mary, Sissy, Lolo, Missy, Mrs. Vegan, Princess Maribel, Wendell and Jeffy.
  • Maryke Hendrikse voices Susan, Jillian Vegan, Miss X and Miss Z in season 2, Mrs. Majekowski, Mrs. Crabapple, Xeandra, and Dutchy.
  • Lee Tockar voices Bling-Bling Boy and both his mother and female counterpart Glam-Glam Girl, The General, Mayor Howard, Speed McCool, Montague, Fillmore, Albert, and Branson Ridgeway.
  • Ian James Corlett voices Hugh, Simon and Monty Butterworth.
  • Susan and Mary Test share the same voice actress in Polish dub.
• Adored by the Network: This show, along with Adventure Time and Regular Show were Cartoon Network's flagship series as the show was constantly getting new episodes, reruns and promotions despite the mostly negative reception it was receiving compared to the other two shows CN fell in love with (in fact, some people hate the show solely for this trope). Eventually the network got sick of it as well, as both Teen Titans Go! and The Amazing World of Gumball were capturing more of the network's attention and both shows got viewership numbers higher than Johnny Test late in its run.
  • Christmas Day 2014 was "Johnny Test-Mas" — a marathon of Johnny Test, including episodes that weren't aired before the show was cancelled. And this was just before CN latched onto another divisive show.
  • It was just as bad, if not even worse, in Canada, since Season 2 and beyond are produced there. However, Teletoon aired Season 6 over and over again, but enjoyed the show as much as the American broadcaster. Season 1 only aired on the channel for a very short time before Season 2 was produced, likely because Teletoon no longer owned the broadcasting rights to the American-produced Season 1.
  • Its current broadcaster, Family Channel isn't much better, as during 2019-mid 2020, Johnny Test, alongside with Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese, Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty, Grizzy and the Lemmings, and Miraculous Ladybug filled up most of the network's schedule, pretty much making them the channel's main darlings. However, as of 2022, the show mostly airs on Family CHRGD, with the main channel only airing it occasionally. They even air episodes of the Netflix revival on CHRGD.
• Ashcan Copy: Canadian content laws require that television networks broadcast at least one show produced in their country (not to mass-produce cartoons as is frequently claimed; the same laws also apply to live-action shows like Corner Gas and Murdoch Mysteries). This likely explains why Johnny Test continued as long as it did despite its massive hatedom and increasingly minuscule budget, being a quick and cheap way Teletoon could get around the law and maintain a cable channel in the nation (not to mention that its ratings were good enough to recoup its budget with ease). Also whoever was in charge of the producers at Cookie Jar Entertainment must have really loved funding new episodes of the series, because it ended up being Teletoon's longest-running show alongside Totally Spies! and Total Drama, while the vast majority of other shows made for Teletoon (including many much more well-received series) only run for about 13-26 episodes.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: Somewhat, but in the Japanese dub, Mary is voiced by former AKB48 member turned voice actress named Amina Sato.
• Channel Hop:
  • From The CW4Kids (formerly Kids WB!) to Cartoon Network, made official with the fourth season, with season 6 (the final season of the show’s original run) having all of its episodes aired on CN’s sister channel Boomerang ahead of their telecasts on Cartoon Network. The revival was released on Netflix.
  • In Canada, the series went from Teletoon to the Family Channel and Family CHRGD^note Both these channels and Johnny Test are currently owned by WildBrain, which explains the move. (though reruns still air on Teletoon from time to time).
  • Production company example: From Warner Bros. Animation to Cookie Jar Entertainment to DHX Media (now WildBrain). Cookie Jar also bought the rights to the first season from Warner Bros. as the latter company had no interest in keeping the rights to the show.
• Completely Different Title: The Middle Eastern dubs, specifically the Arabic and Persian dubs are called جوني وعائلة العباقرة (English: Johnny and His Family of Geniuses) and جانی آزمایشی (English: Experimental Life), which are very different than the original title, the Arabic dub however later averted this by changing the show back to its' original title.
  • The Taiwanese Mandarin dub starting from season 7 and onwards is called 实验小达人强尼 (English: Experimental Little Master Johnny).
• Crossdressing Voices:
  • Mrs. Hamilton, Bling-Bling Boy's mother, is played by Lee Tockar.
  • In the Hindi and Persian dubs, Johnny is played by girls.
• Dueling Dubs: There are three Bulgarian dubs, the 1st of which being a voice-over for Super 7, the second being a full on dub for the local feed of Cartoon Network, and the last and more recent being a redub that is currently airing on SuperToons.
• Hey, It's That Sound!: The same exact woman shrieking sound originally used on Atomic Betty and Captain Flamingo was used on a couple of episodes, one example being in "Here Johnny, Here Boy!", after Johnny throws Dukey to his swimming pool to test out how cold the water it is, and turns into a Human Popsicle claiming that it is too cold.
• In Memoriam: Seasons 7 and 8, as well as the Ultimate Meatloaf Quest interactive special, are dedicated to the memory of Adam Schlesinger, who composed the theme song and died one year before the seventh season premiered. He was the bassist of Fountains of Wayne and worked on other kids' shows such as Big Time Rush T.U.F.F. Puppy, Good Luck Charlie and Sesame Street.
• International Co Production: The show's original run was produced between the American Warner Bros. Animation and the Canadian Cookie Jar Entertainment (now owned by WildBrain) in association with Kids' WB! (and then Cartoon Network) and Teletoon. Averted with the revival, which is produced solely by WildBrain in association with Netflix.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • Season 6 never saw an official DVD release, unlike the other 5 seasons which have all been released on DVD, even when Mill Creek Entertainment got the rights to release the whole series on DVD, they only released seasons 1-5 on DVD. Thankfully, it still airs in reruns on Family CHRGD on a daily basis, as well on Teletoon every once in a while, and all of the episodes are available online on places such as Netflix, iTunes and Amazon Instant Video as well.
  • The first episode of the webseries was set to private very soon after its release, leaving the only way to see it through mirrors of it.
  • The episodes in Season 1 has the Seasons 2-4 opening, and not the Season 1 opening, meaning that the episodes that have them, and the opening itself, are both hard to find, causing them to be found mostly through recordings.
  • On topic of the first season, Season 1 was produced in widescreen like the other seasons, like all other shows from Warner Bros Animation at the time since Baby Looney Tunes, yet there primarily seen in standard def. With the only current remains of the widescreen version being through Kids WB promos having the widescreen versions compressed to standard and an Irish dub of the intro.
• Late Export for You: Japan didn't get the series until 2015, when the series' Japanese dub was released.
• Missing Episode:
  • The original versions of the first six episodes of the series with Johnny's original voice actor cannot be found anywhere.
  • The webseries in general is this, with the rest of the series not being officially released due to it's negative reputation. So far only the first episode and another episode that was leaked through a 4Chan thread being available online.
• Money, Dear Boy: Supposedly, this was why the series lasted so long despite the negative reception it was getting. Compared to other shows, Johnny Test (mostly when the show switched to Flash) was incredibly cheap to make, so much so that even with the bare minimum of people watching it, Cartoon Network and Teletoon could still turn a profit on it. Considering it primarily aired when Cartoon Network was going through hard times, it's believed this fact was what caused it to become Adored by the Network despite the hate thrown towards it, simply because no matter what time-slot they put it in, they could always profit off of it, and use it to fill airspace when they couldn't afford to do so with other shows. In essence, Johnny Test filling airtime while still turning a profit was what allowed other, more expensive shows like Adventure Time, Regular Show, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Steven Universe to see the light of day. And, notably, once the channel was able to handle itself again, Johnny Test was canned not long afterwards though not before going at least six seasons, more or less a full run for a series.
• Network to the Rescue: After the show was horribly screwed over by Cartoon Network in the US by the end of its initial run and reruns were removed from Boomerang in mid-2016, in 2020, Netflix decided to revive the series for 2 new seasons.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Louis Chirillo was replaced with Trevor Devall as Dukey for Seasons 5-6. It's very noticeable, with the voice pitch changed completely and Trevor struggling to keep the same inflections with obvious throat pain (going by the rough, scratchy noises). And for all his effort, he just ends up sounding like Hugh Test.
  • Mary and Sissy were voiced by Brittney Wilson in Season 1 before Ashleigh Ball took over. For whatever reason, Brittney returned for Season 5 (it was generally assumed Ashleigh was busy with My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic when Season 5 was recorded) before Ashleigh resumed the roles again for Season 6. Both Brittney Wilson and Ashleigh Ball would then be replaced by Emily Tennant as Mary for season 7. Despite this, Ashleigh still returns as Jeffy for the Netflix seasons.
  • The original pilot used to pitch the show used American voice actors (with James Arnold Taylor as Johnny Test) before switching to Canadian voice actors for the series proper. Despite this, James kept his role since the Canadian voice actor that replaced him didn't sound close enough to his voice, and so he redubbed the dialogue and kept his role for the rest of the series.
  • One Kids' WB! promo had Dukey being played by Tom Kenny instead of his voice actor at the time Louis Chirillo.
  • Deven Mack replaced Scott McNeil as Mr. White for Season 7 in a recasting decision clearly brought on by the 2020 George Floyd protests that caused many in the animation industry to rethink how they cast the roles of minority characters. Despite that, Scott continues to voice other characters on the show like Zizrar.
  • Is confirmed that the Latin American Spanish dub for the revival, while a few voice actors reprise their roles from the original series (Georgina Sánchez as Susan for the first two seasons before getting Darrin'd by Romina Marroquín Payró for the rest of the sries, Dafnis Fernández as Hubert and Adriana Moreno as Lila), other voice actores are replaced, with Carlos Hernández taking over the role of Johnny Test in the lieu of the now retired Ernesto Lezama, Luis Fernando Orozco now voicing Dukey instead of Luis Daniel Ramírez, and Eduardo Garza now voicing Bling-Bling Boy instead of Gabriel Ortiz.
    • Curiously enough, both are the dub directors of the series (Ortiz in the original after taking duties from the late Vicky Burgoa, and Garza in the revival).
  • For season 7, the European Spanish dub moved from Galicia to Madrid. The French dub moved from Quebec to Paris. As such, all of the voice actors were replaced.
• The Other Marty: Originally, Johnny was going to be played by a different, currently unknown Canadian voice actor for the final show, with a few episodes featuring this actor even being recorded. However, James Arnold Taylor ended up staying as the final voice for Johnny since the producers felt like the replacement voice didn't sound as good and the episodes were rerecorded with Taylor doing the voice. While the actor has never been properly identified, some believe it's Brad Swaile doing the voice.
• Role Reprise: Curiously enough, the Japanese dub of the 2021 series brought back almost all the original cast from the previous series.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: One of the possible factors in the show's deterioration and (brief) cancellation. Apparently, Scott Fellows created the show along with TV producer David Straiton in 1996, but couldn't score a TV deal for it. Years later, Fellows got the show on TV anyway without crediting or paying Straiton, which led to Straiton suing him for fraud and accounting malfeasance. However, a revival of the show is being planned on Netflix with two seasons and Scott Fellows is heading the revival, which means that the lawsuit was apparently settled.
• Screwed by the Network: The show ended up getting this treatment in the US. In May 2014, the show was banished to 6:30AM on weekdays before moving to 7:00AM the following month. In September, its spot was replaced with the network's new darling and it was pushed to 1:00 PM, which is when its target demographic is at school or just coming home. Two weeks later, its last spot was paved over with reruns of The Amazing World of Gumball, but it still had several unaired episodes, which were burned off with a marathon on Christmas Day.^note It's worth noting that several episodes of the sixth season already aired unannounced during the wee-hours of the morning on the Boomerang network.
  • Reruns of the series on Boomerang only ran for a year until being removed in mid-2016, after that, it hasn't been seen on US airwaves ever since, and it's unknown if it will ever return to Boomerang or at the very least the main Cartoon Network channel nor if any other channel will pick the show up for syndicated reruns.
• Tyop on the Cover:
  • The title card of the episode "Johnny Get Yer Gum" actually says "Johhny Get Yer Gum."
  • A possibly intentional in-universe example is "Game Galaxie".
• Un-Canceled: Twice, actually.
  • Originally ended after its third season, due to the cancellation of Kids' WB!, but was revived when Cartoon Network began ordering new seasons.
  • Then, after posting surprisingly good numbers on Netflix, the series was revived by the service for two more seasons, both premiering in 2021.
• Unfinished Dub:
  • The series' Japanese dub only covers the first and seventh season and onwards, skipping seasons 2-6.
  • The Arabic dub only covers the first 2 seasons and season 7 and onwards.
  • The Hebrew dub initially only covered season 4 and onwards until Kid Z went and dubbed the first three seasons alongside redubbing season 4.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The show was initially gonna be a Nickelodeon show and was originally pitched to Nickelodeon in 1995, but it was rejected and didn't get picked up until a decade later when Warner Bros. picked it up for the Kids' WB! and later Cartoon Network, the same thing happened with fellow Cartoon Network show Adventure Time when it was also initially pitched to Nickeldeon in 2008. Ironically Nick actually aired both shows in Germany and they also aired Johnny Test in other places such as Italy, France, the Netherlands and Israel.
  • In the early pilot/promo Dukey was named Poochie, Bling Bling Boy was much younger and was named Golden Boy, and Zizrar the Mole King and his Mole People looked more realistic compared to the final.
  • As mentioned in The Other Marty, Johnny almost wasn't going to played by James Arnold Taylor and was going to be replaced with a Canadian actor who even recorded the first six episodes before Taylor took over.
  • A seventh season was originally in the works by DHX Media, and would've included 13 episodes and a three-part special. As of June 25, 2015, however, Taylor confirmed via his Twitter that he was unaware of the plans for a seventh season; Scott Fellows would move on to create Supernoobs.
  • A full-length movie was considered at one point.

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