They made new episodes of Johnny Test? How?

[DudeistBelieve]

Look, I hold no hate for the show. I've watched it, it's alright, but I'm sitting here eating my dinner watching Cartoon Network and I see they're advertising new episodes?

How? Is there some sort of huge Johnny Test fanbase out there? Are the episodes just cheap as hell to make?

 

[Fappy]

My little brother watches it occasionally. It blows ass.

Perfect example of how bad cartoons got before Adventure Time made them good again.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

My little brother watches it occasionally. It blows ass.

Perfect example of how bad cartoons got before Adventure Time made them good again.

Hows it any different than Dexter's Laboratory?

 

[Fappy]

My little brother watches it occasionally. It blows ass.

Perfect example of how bad cartoons got before Adventure Time made them good again.

Hows it any different than Dexter's Laboratory?

Premise-wise it isn't all the different. However, Dexter's Lab was actually clever and funny. Johnny Test is just a loud, obnoxious mess.

 

[Leemaster777]

What Fappy said. At its best, the show is mearly tolerable.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Look, I hold no hate for the show. I've watched it, it's alright, but I'm sitting here eating my dinner watching Cartoon Network and I see they're advertising new episodes?

How? Is there some sort of huge Johnny Test fanbase out there? Are the episodes just cheap as hell to make?

Simple.

It is very popular compared to it's tiny production costs. The first season had decent cast and done in traditional cel animation, but since then they dropped anyone with even a tiny amount of talent and found children still ate it up even when everything was done cheaply in Flash.

The animation and writing costs for the show are tiny, since they don't worry about quality of either in the slightest, yet it continues to pull in ratings and sell lots of toys.

That is why it continues to endure.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

I still find it especially hard to fathom how Johnny Test has lasted as long as it has.

Oh well, I guess I can just completely ignore it...and a lot of other cartoons.

 

[Muspelheim]

My little brother watches it occasionally. It blows ass.

Perfect example of how bad cartoons got before Adventure Time made them good again.

I imagined a titanic set of buttocks protruding out of the TV-set, blowing soap bubbles into the room from the stygian depths of its trench...

I would complain, but... I really like Ed, Edd n' Eddy. I know what I'm like. Had I been the age, I'd have probably eaten my Johnny Testicle prolefeed with the rest of them.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I've yet to meet many people who know it. I suppose the biggest watchers of it are the youngin's - which figures why it has pretty early screenings, when most people are out at school or work. And it probably is the most played show on Cartoon Network behind the immensely popular Adventure Time and Regular Show.

I don't know, man. People say it's creative (not anymore) and people like how the show plays out (though we all think it's obnoxious).

It's a big recycled show anyway, which means it doesn't need much money backing it. I don't even think they have a new sounds to them besides the same five or so voice actors.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

I've seen my little brother watching it, although I'm not sure if he legitimately enjoys it or if he's just watching it to pass the time for something else. He loves Adventure Time and Regular Show, though.

From what I've seen of the show, it looks like garbage. I know I'm not the audience, but I can still tell the difference between a good kids show and a bad one. Sure, I've seen crap as a kid, but nothing I've had fond memories of or even remember, and this seems like one of those shows I doubt most kids will acknowledge or remember years from now.

But the show itself just irritates me. The premise is that the boy's sisters use him as a lab rat, but he just steals their stuff and uses it for his own wants. Not to mention Johnny is just an unlikable, stupid little prick, even for a kid. The rest of the cast isn't any better, either. That, and I hate the animation. It's a prime example as to why I can't stand flash animation in TV series. It just looks ugly to me. Also, a lot of the voices sound vaguely similar.

 

[Lionsfan]

Look, I hold no hate for the show. I've watched it, it's alright, but I'm sitting here eating my dinner watching Cartoon Network and I see they're advertising new episodes?

How? Is there some sort of huge Johnny Test fanbase out there? Are the episodes just cheap as hell to make?

Because people are watching it? This is like asking "How does Justin Bieber sell so many records?"

Just because you don't like it, or think it's garbage, doesn't mean that everyone thinks it's garbage. It's obvious that enough people are watching the show that Cartoon Network wants more content

 

[NightmareExpress]

The hows and whys are both answerable by money.
How? There was money to spend on it. Why? The show managed to make a nice sum of money to make up for production costs and then some. The real question here is "should they have?" to which I have to say no.

It just isn't a good show.
There is no deeper meaning, there is no intellectual stuff hidden away and there isn't any real purpose for it to exist at this point. It's merely a thoughtless, sugar-high show aimed at an audience that they evidently think is likewise. None of the characters are note-worthy and a vast majority of them could be described as "annoying".

A Batman TAS, Gargoyles or Animaniacs this show is not.
It skirts by on how cheap and relatively time-efficient it is to make the episodes using Flash.

 

[Clinky]

Honestly? I don't know. In my college apartment if that show came on me and my roommates made it a point to change the channel or turn it off. That carries on even when I'm home. Rather not contribute to the viewership.

But I think it's safe to say that it has it's audience, just not us. It's like others have said, production cost is low and apparently enough of the younger audience eat it up. It just pains me that something with writing and art that poor can get that popular... Then I again I suppose this has happened before.

(At least it ain't Incredible Crew, Almost Naked Animals, or Problem Solverz. God... Think I just died a bit inside mentioning them.)

 

[Terminate421]

My little brother watches it occasionally. It blows ass.

Perfect example of how bad cartoons got before Adventure Time made them good again.

Hows it any different than Dexter's Laboratory?

Premise wise is similar

It is however far more different and just down right cheap for a cartoon.

Its fucking awful, yet it gets more episodes because it is cheap.

 

[Kopikatsu]

(At least it ain't Incredible Crew, Almost Naked Animals, or Problem Solverz. God... Think I just died a bit inside mentioning them.)

Almost Naked Animals is about two levels more tolerable than Johnny Test is. Not great, but I wouldn't put Test above ANA's level.

 

[xplosive59]

I didn't even know it waas still going. The shows budget is so low that it basically acts like a filler in the time schedule, it is at the same level as most other Cartoon Network shows though, only Adventure Time is tolerable sometimes and Regular Show can be funny at points. Gravity Falls and Dan Vs, now those are fucking great cartoons!

 

[ninjaRiv]

It does have the guy who played Ratchet in it, that's not a bad thing.

I read that it's made using Canadian Tax money, though.

 

[xplosive59]

[quote="[Kira Must Die]It's a prime example as to why I can't stand flash animation in TV series. It just looks ugly to me. Also, a lot of the voices sound vaguely similar.[/quote]

Implying that Motor City didn't have god tier flash animation, also MLP:FiM looked really polished to a degree but they recycled alot of animations due to limitations.

 

[Fijiman]

I've been watching Johnny Test since it first aired years ago and it's definitely gone pretty downhill over the years. I personally think it would have been better if they had just stuck with re-runs or let it die instead of actually making new episodes, but I'm not in charge of it so whatever.

 

[Gatx]

Johnny Test to me is a show that feels like it belongs in the early 2000s (with other shows like Molly O, Detention, etc.) but was created using modern test audiences (they had a Pokemon parody episode, for god's sake, a decade after every other show already got it out of their system).

I heard it's actually all animated by one person and seeing as how it's just Flash animation, I can believe that. I saw a rerun of a really old episode once that actually used traditional animation, which really threw me for a loop.