Johnny Test

Certainly not a GREAT cartoon, or even a good one. But....I can't say I hated this one. I really enjoyed it as a kid. Sure the characters were stupid, the plots were unoriginal, and the animation was very mediocre. But, there was something charming about it. It's stupidity and absurdness was what made me enjoy it as a kid. It doesn't hold up too well, but there are certain moments of this show I genuinely liked. One such episode was when a beekeeper villain tried to get rid of all candy for his healthier candy bar, and at the end of the episode Johnny and his pals stopped trying to defeat him. Instead they talked it out and came to an agreement that I thought was a very satisfying conclusion to the episode. Other episodes weren't so great, but I tend to remember the better ones. The Johnny X episodes are so ridiculously dumb, highlighted by "Power Poots" and such. But BOOOYYY did I like them as a kid, and I don't really remember why exactly. It was like a crossover with all the goofy villains of the show and I genuinely liked that. The 5th episode of this saga had a pretty sad ending that choked me up as a kid, I definitely recommend seeing it for yourself as it was one of the best in the series (by best, I mean an objective 8/10. Still a dumb episode, but charming).

My review is just here to balance out the overly negative and positive ones that make up the majority. I genuinely though this show was ok. Not good, but not bad. Just ok. I can think of shows that were much MUCH worse than this one for many reasons......

The first time I watched an episode of Johnny Test I thought ''Now, why does this seem so familiar?''. Then I watched Fairly OddParents and remembered.

Now, some people are saying that it rips off Dexter's Lab. I don't think so, the premise of the show is that this kid who's dealing with problems decides to ask his genius sisters to invent something that will help him solve everything. The premise of Fairly OddParents is that this kid who's dealing with problems decides to ask his magical fairy godparents to poof up something that will help him solve everything. See? Dexter, on the other hand, has a completely different premise. Also, kookier here, the head writer of Fairly OddParents is the creator of Johnny Test.

Anyway, about the show itself, I think I like it better than Fairly OddParents (which wouldn't have been the case if Fairly OddParents hadn't turned into the definition of loud and obnoxious). The jokes are funny and I actually laughed a couple of times (that's rare, I don't do that very often).

Overall, a fun show.

Johnny Test is a Show I liked as A Kid but as a I got older I Started not like it. I Even wrote a Very Negative Review of Johnny Test back in 2016 but looking back it's not as Bad it I thought it was. Johnny Test is an okay show looking back but it's not as great as other Cartoon Network shows from late's 2000's & early 2010's. The Show was Originally on Kids WB from 2005-2008 but came to Cartoon Network in January 2008. Anyway Johnny Test is a show about an 11 year boy named Johnny Test who has A talking Dog & two Genius Sisters. The show is mostly deals with Johnny wanting some thing but he can't have it so he goes to his sister's lab & Sometimes Blackmail them to get what he wants. I will say Johnny Test is ok in retrospective it's not great but it's better than some of the shows that came out around that time on Cartoon Network. 5/10.

Does anyone really hate this show just because it's from Canada? Would this show be any better if it didn't seem like a rip-off of Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo/Quest, or The Powerpuff Girls if those shows didn't exist? Some people like it because this show reminds them of those shows and I have to give these people credit if they wanted to reinvent them for a new generation. I think Johnny Test is a very funny character and he's not that different from Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy's Eddy or FHFIF's Bloo so there's no reason to hate him if you don't hate them. Dukey is also cool and my mom's most favorite characters are those 2 girl scientists, Susan and Mary, who even have the same voice actors as Gilda and Rainbow Dash. Even if you think this show is bad, there are plenty of cartoons produced even worse, like Problem Solverz or Breadwinners or Newborn Cuties. This is Teletoon's wonderful combination of the crazy inventions from Dexter's Laboratory, the egotistical dumb blond male protagonist from Johnny Bravo, and the variety of supervillains to fight from The Powerpuff Girls, so it's no wonder Cartoon Network actually wanted to air this show. If you weren't around for those shows back in the 1990s, you can get what's great about them for this show! Tell me one reason why I shouldn't like this show that makes it any worse, and be specific enough about it for me to understand.

This is like plenty of cheap shows from the 2000s and 2010s, "Teen Titans Go, Powerpuff Girls," something to entertain kids, but can become boring and infuriating, but unlike those shows, this holds up very well. There is plenty of stuff in it that's easy to hate, but there's a charm within that's so great, it just overpowers everything.