Comments on: Gweekly goodness: Jonny Quest (1964)

By: Historybuff

Historybuff — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:44:00 +0000

Check out the Stop Motion version of the opening credits made by Roger Evans

By: Culturedropout

Culturedropout — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:48:00 +0000

My favorite memory of Jonny Quest was when Race Bannon was voted Mother of the Year by fans of the Cartoon Network. And of course the episode where Jonny and Hadji discover the world’s greatest lubricant…

By: NoneofYourPenguins

NoneofYourPenguins — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:08:00 +0000

Dayum! Nobody’s mentioned JADE!!! What about Jade, Race’s “friend”? She suddenly shows up the day Dr. Zin installs an impostor for Race (even bitch-slapped him for not holding his fork and knife like an American!). Jonny and Hadji have to piece together clues that Race left behind, but Jade knows in an instant that something is wrong.

Later, when Jade states she knew all along, the boys ask how. All she says is something like, “It’s just one of those things that women know.” I was somewhere between 5 and 9 yrs/old at the time. To this day, I still wonder if that episode might have prematurely kickstarted my hormones.

By: Quiche de Resistance

Quiche de Resistance — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:48:00 +0000

Plus, I heard it wasn’t anything actually racist, just that he had recently had occasion to meet Hadji’s mom, and he described her as “down for anything, a real freak. Prime “Race”-bait!”

By: Shanghai

Shanghai — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:37:00 +0000

Very true about Hadji!

JQ had to be the first kids’ cartoon to attempt to realistically depict such a wide range of international characters – Arabs, Chinese, Japanese, Latinos, Indians, Pacific Islanders, natives of the Americas, etc. A Norwegian dwarf.

And yes, the jazzy score and incidental music were fantastic!

By: Quiche de Resistance

Quiche de Resistance — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:26:00 +0000

But even if it is, I think it is wrong to put a Bann on such language.

By: Quiche de Resistance

Quiche de Resistance — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:25:00 +0000

Are you claiming that the unedited show was “Race”-ist?

By: Quiche de Resistance

Quiche de Resistance — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:03:00 +0000

Goldblum for Hadji, but Walken as Johnny.

By: Dennis Putnam

Dennis Putnam — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:20:00 +0000

I’d like to add a recommendation for the 1980′s comic book series from Comico, if you can find it in some obscure corner of the internet. Great art and stories, very true to the spirit of the TV show.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:55:00 +0000

Same principle as Thunderbirds, most people imagine it as this huge thing, but there were only a handful of episodes, and another handful of feature length ones.

By: Mitchell Glaser

Mitchell Glaser — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:33:00 +0000

My favorite episode is the one with the spider robot, part of which was in the opening credits.

By: Joel Emmett

Joel Emmett — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:30:00 +0000

THEME SONG FACE-OFF!

Jonny Quest (toy-mation version): http://youtu.be/AYoXWZaArHI

Cowboy Bebop’s “Tank!” (live version): http://youtu.be/v-TAxm00jOg

By: JustAdComics

JustAdComics — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:04:00 +0000

I absolutely LOVE that episode! I still break out into sweat at the scene where Johnny’s jet pack malfunctions as the invisible monster “chuffs” closer and closer…

By: JIMWICh

JIMWICh — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:55:00 +0000

Dr. Quest and Race Bannon with jetpacks, flying around and fighting a shrieking giant pterodactyl with a bazooka represents to me the absolute pinnacle of awesomeness during my boyhood.

It’s still the most amount of WIN ever accumulated in a single scene in any media.

By: NoneofYourPenguins

NoneofYourPenguins — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:35:00 +0000

Is true! Probably not equalled until Cowboy Bebop’s theme song, “Tank.”

By: NoneofYourPenguins

NoneofYourPenguins — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:31:00 +0000

Amen!

By: JustAdComics

JustAdComics — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:50:00 +0000

Yeah … Loved how it attacked that military base and took out the one guard by putting the sucker-foot on his forehead. Creepy!

By: AviSolomon

AviSolomon — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:30:00 +0000

The original “Three Investigators” series by Robert Arthur was also an inspiration to budding tinkerers throughout the globe:http://threeinvestigatorsbooks.homestead.com/Talking_Skull_Manuscript.html

By: xkot

xkot — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:08:00 +0000

Not only are there a couple of bowdlerized moments on this DVD set, but for some unknown reason, they used the same end credits at the end of every episode on the set, despite each episode having distinct credits; also unfortunately, they used the only version that didn’t have creator Doug Wildey’s stylized signature. That said, the episodes are brilliant in their own special way. I’m shocked that Hollywood hasn’t already made a horrible live action adaptation of this property. Not that I want them to; just surprised they haven’t.

By: sdnative1958

sdnative1958 — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:51:00 +0000

WOW! Thank you for that link – I’ll NEVER buy this now. I’ll remain happy with my childhood memories of this great cartoon intact.

By: bobkat

bobkat — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:06:00 +0000

I did the same thing!

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:25:00 +0000

Hadji, an extremely rare non-white, non-Western character, was essentially just a cool kid. No different, just another one of the gang. Very good lesson at an early age.

This. I'm sure that there must have been a few non-white characters that were part of a popular cartoon series' main cast between Jonny Quest and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, but I can't think of any off the top of my head.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:22:00 +0000

Having seen that short bit in Pulp Fiction where Butch is watching it before getting the gold watch, I have absolutely no desire to see any more of it.

By: Seriously

Seriously — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:10:00 +0000

It was actually from the sixties. I am in my forties and we watched it as reruns in the seventies. Its an awesome show. My favorite is the gargoyle episode.

By: Jay Wherley

Jay Wherley — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:54:00 +0000

Regarding the political correctness – note the edits made to episodes on this DVD in that regard. See this review:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1U6RNO234CJPN/ref=cm_cd_pg_next?ie=UTF8&asin=B0001MZ7J6&cdForum=Fx2P8Q8VH21T0KX&cdPage=4&cdThread=Tx393IMVGBPKMIU&store=movies-tv#wasThisHelpful
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“All the while Race’s mouth is moving but no words come out!”

By: beepbeep

beepbeep — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:26:00 +0000

Uh-uh. Sorry. Justin Bieber IS fucking Johnny Quest!!!!!!!!!! [But putting Jeff Goldblum next to him would be hysterically funny]

By: beepbeep

beepbeep — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:23:00 +0000

Good God! Clutch Cargo was totally creepy. I think that was its main and only appeal for me. I liked watching those disturbing mouths move all around the faces. But that is the ONLY thing I can remember about it.

By: beepbeep

beepbeep — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:15:00 +0000

I was totally in lust with Johnny. And I hadn’t even quite hit puberty. One season? Really?? And it was a prime time show too, as I recall, something like 6:30 pm central, back before “family time” or whatever the fuck it was that completely killed early prime time.

By: Juanita Huffman

Juanita Huffman — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 09:49:00 +0000

I watched Johnny faithfully, I was his girlfriend in my mind. I was only a little girl too. I watched The Venture Brothers just for the memories of Johnny & Hadji..

By: Mark Neumayer

Mark Neumayer — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 09:12:00 +0000

Good memories from the old days when cartoons could not be watched at the drop of a hat. And the music is phenomenal. If I hadn’t lost my hearing I would go buy it right now. (Mentally starting up the brass section in my head – buh-bup-bup-bah-buh-bah!)
When I reached high school age my friends and I used to wonder why Johny looks more like Race than his own “father.”