12 Times Johnny Bravo Was an Absolutely Inappropriate Bro
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Upon reflection, Johnny Bravo is just a buff dude who spends all of his time hitting on women and being the equivalent of a catcall in cartoon character form. So, it only makes sense that the jokes on Johnny Bravo are often dirty and geared towards the adults that might be watching along with their kids.
Cartoon characters are often simple, but Johnny Bravo is willfully and delightfully two-dimensional. If he were a real person, however, he'd be horrifying. Let’s take a look at the times Mr. Bravo was totally fit the cliché of the inappropriate bro, obsessed with himself and with sex above all else.- 12,207 VOTES
Bravo Asks a Teenager What She’s Wearing
Photo: Cartoon Network StudiosIn need of a job, Johnny briefly works at Troubled Teen Hotline. When Bravo answers a phone, he says, “Hello, teen hotline. You’re boyfriend left you? Why? What are you wearing?” He's instantly swarmed by higher-ups who toss him out of the building. - 22,230 VOTES
Johnny Tells a Child to Call Him When She’s of Legal Age
Photo: Cartoon Network StudiosIn “Johnny Meets Farrah Fawcett,” Little Suzy calls Johnny and invites him to her birthday party. He declines, saying “I’m busy. Call me back in 15 years when you’re a coed.” He does wind up going to the party, but only when he finds out her cousin, who happens to be Farrah Fawcett, is attending. - 31,664 VOTES
Johnny Hits on Daphne, Then She and Fred Go Hook Up
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Even when the Scooby Doo crew are trying to solve a mystery in a crossover episode, Bravo can't turn off his libido. He offers Daphne a “Scooby snack.” She declines by stomping on his foot, then splits the group up to go check upstairs and in the basement. Fred, however, suggests that he and Daphne go to the basement, and based on his eyes and the music you can tell they’re not going down there to investigate, they’re going to get frisky. - 41,804 VOTES
Bravo's Bravado Paid Off at Some Point
Photo: Cartoon Network StudiosIn the very first episode “Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women,” Johnny is offered as a virgin sacrifice to a village of amazon women. They throw him into a volcano but it still erupts, rejecting him and suggesting that Johnny has, against all odds, been intimate with a woman. - 51,486 VOTES
Johnny Uses Precious Time to Look at Scantily Clad Women
Photo: Cartoon Network StudiosJohnny is told that he has a mere six seconds of consciousness left, and it’s recommended that he use them wisely. Bravo pulls out a magazine that contains photos of women, because of course he does. - 61,294 VOTES
Johnny’s Stinky Pickup Line
Photo: Cartoon Network StudiosIn an attempt to hit on a woman, Johnny actually speaks the sentence, “Hey, Foxy Mama. You smell kinda pretty, wanna smell me?” - 71,306 VOTES
Johnny Goes to an Island of Beautiful Men
Photo: Cartoon Network StudiosIn the episode "Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women," Johnny is rocketed into the sky and lands on the Island of Beautiful men. When they offer Johnny an extra swimsuit if he's interested in joining them on their swim, Johnny raises his eyebrow, ending the episode on an insinuation that the men are gay and Bravo's not entirely comfortable with that. - 81,287 VOTES
Johnny Is Self-Conscious About His Fitness Magazines
Photo: Cartoon Network StudiosJohnny is looking at a magazine when a little girl shouts, “Look, Mommy! That guy’s looking at pictures of almost naked men!” A bunch of heads turn his way, and with all eyes on him, Bravo defensively gets in the girl’s face to declare, “This is a men’s fitness magazine, I want to look like this, not at this. I’ve got nothing to be ashamed of!" Someone’s slightly insecure about his reading material. - 91,106 VOTES
The Arithmetic of Attraction
Photo: Cartoon Network StudiosExuding the confidence possessed only by the truly deluded, Bravo hits on a woman with the line, “I’m pretty. You’re pretty. What do you say we go home and stare at each other?” - 101,086 VOTES
Johnny Tries to Hit on Himself
Photo: Cartoon Network StudiosIn “Send in the Clones,” Johnny is cloned, and at one point he tries to speak to a woman who turns out to be a his clone in a dress. Of course he would hit on himself. - 111,192 VOTES
The Time Johnny Bravo Called Authorities on Himself
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An alarmed Johnny looks into the mirror and says, “Who’s this handsome guy?” Then, he grabs his phone and states, “Hello, 911 Emergency? There’s a handsome guy in my bathroom!... Hey, wait a second. Cancel that, it’s only me!” If there were a single line and situation to sum up Johnny Bravo, it’d be him idiotically occupying an emergency phone line to sing his own praises. - 121,049 VOTES
Bravo Uses a Pop Lyric as an Atrocious Pickup Line
Photo: Cartoon Network StudiosJohnny says to a lady, “I bet your name’s Mickey, cause you’re so fine. You’re so fine you…” This is a reference to the 1982 classic song “Mickey,” which contains the lyrics, “Oh Mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickey! Hey Mickey!”
