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"Brave New Johnny" is a Season 2 episode of Johnny Bravo.


Synopsis[]

Johnny falls into a tub of hair gel that preserves his body until he is finally freed five hundred years into the future.

Plot Summary[]

One day, Johnny's on the factory tour for his favorite hair care company, Mr. Kevin's Inc. Having gone on it many times before, Johnny becomes overzealous and spoils most of the tour for the other visitors. After ignoring a warning from the tour guide, he slips and falls into an industrial tub of hair gel. Unable to be saved, he's encased within it for five hundred years.

Thawed out in 2499 by an identical descendant of his nerdy friend, Carl Chryniszzswics, this descendant (who refers to himself as Carl #97324) explains the situation to Johnny after unfreezing using futuristic technology. Realizing that he's trapped in the future with what essentially amounts to another Carl, #97324 acts as Johnny's guide and shows him the odd dystopian state of the 25th-century. Getting something to eat at the now partially decrepit diner, it's revealed Pops is still alive (albeit as a floating head due to a grim accident he had all the way back in 2007). Matters are made worse for Johnny when he meets a woman who's interested in him, only to find out kissing is now forbidden and replaced with a painful alternative. Suddenly, their "kissing" is cut short when a loud siren plays, alerting everyone.

Carl then leads Johnny to a live recording of the 25th century's favorite TV show... Big Brother Comedy Hour. Big Brother, now the world's evil dictator, performs a stand-up routine until he is criticized by Johnny. Furious, he orders his guards to seize him and Carl, who grabs Johnny and uses a jetpack rocket to fly back home. 97324 then decides Johnny can hide out with him for the rest of his life, saying he will set up a cot next to his time machine. Johnny, perturbed by this, rushes into the machine to escape. This brings him back to the factory in present day and, after becoming annoyed by the tour guide's "nagging", Johnny slips once again, dooming him back into the future. The episode ends with a reappearance of Big Brother, yelling "Seize them!"

Trivia[]

  • This episode's plot parodies both Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. However, it takes the most elements from the latter novel, such as the concept of the character Big Brother.
  • Johnny claims that this is his 397th tour of the Mr. Kevin's factory and he will earn a prize if he reaches 400.
  • This episode confirms that the show's second season takes place in 1999 (when the episode was set to air), because when Johnny's unthawed from his prison of hair gel, the year he's freed in is 2499 (at least five hundred years into the future).
    • Similarly, an "easter egg" in the episode "Freudian Dip" reveals the third season takes place in the year 2000.
  • 97324 claims that, during the five centuries that Johnny was frozen in time, the Earth had through six world wars and two global plagues.
  • As Johnny points out, despite the other advancements of the future, there's a lack of talking robots or "hovering stuff". #97324 defends this, saying that is being worked on.
    • Johnny is referring to the future as seen in most fiction, such as The Jetsons.
    • A few talking robots already exist in Johnny's world, though none are seen in the future.
  • In the future, cars are formally referred to as "fossil-fuel-powered ground transport", at least by Carl # 97324.
  • When 97324 introduces himself, the hologram of Carl the First in the background can be seen making an OK gesture with his right hand.
    • This is likely either Carl showing his approval that Johnny was saved, or a reference to the "I'm okay!" running gag introduced in "Mama's New Boyfriend", where characters yell the phrase so they cannot be presumed dead (sometimes despite the writers' intentions), usually to please Standards & Practices. Regardless, it seems that Carl died centuries ago and can only be reached this way.
  • Neither Bunny Bravo nor Little Suzy appear in the future in any form, nor are they mentioned.
  • In the Latin Spanish dub, when Carl goes through the transportation tube and later crashes his jetpack rocket, he can be heard yelling. In the original episode, he stays silent.
  • This is one of few episodes to include its own distinct future timeline, two others being "The Unsinkable Johnny Bravo" and "Frankenbravo".
  • In the closed captions for this episode, as it pre-dates the third season, Carl's last name is incorrectly spelled (phonetically) as "Corncisowits".

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