Classic Jonny Quest Animated Series Goofs and Trivia Facts

[@markramsey4640]

One of the best theme songs ever written for a TV show!

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

Trombone solos played by the great Frank Rosolino

[@jimhardy-p3i]

I actually have it as my ring tone on my Iphone

[@mirandarights9635]

I was a little girl in the 60s and I loved Jonny Quest! The one about the mummy scared the crap out of me! 😅😅😅

[@JimmieCates-d5r]

The One That Scared Me , Was The Invisable Electricial Creature They Throwed Paint On It And It Had One Big Eye! The Mummy One Was Good Also .

[@snapmalloy5556]

This was cant miss TV on Saturday mornings when I was a kid in the early 70's

[@nicksmith5374]

The best cartoon ever made

[@cadeevans4623]

I remember this classic show man great facts and trivia they don't make it like this anymore

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks, yeah, this was one of those shows I used to watch on Saturday mornings back in the day.

[@garylockhart7112]

No other HB series matched the quality of Jonny Quest.

[@bdg77]

Johnny Quest - such wonderful memories!

[@jonathanphillips3112]

I remember watching Johnny Quest as a kid . Good memory....

[@nicholasklangos9704]

Always loved the robot spider, and drew it as a kid!

[@tvcrazyman]

I hope you all enjoy this look back at goofs and fun facts from Jonny Quest. Hanna Barbera had some great action animated series.

[@Goodtobetheking2024]

Great video. More JQ, please!

[@HooDatDonDar]

Thanks. Fascinating stuff. I only noticed one of them, back in the day. That door with the block - that opened on the inside, making the block useless. We all had a good laugh about that.

[@MichaelDzikowski-ms9iz]

I grew up watching Jonny Quest when it first came out on ABC on Friday night and later on Saturday morning as reruns.Remember at this time 90% of households didn't have color TV.This was also the first animated series in which people were killed or inferred dying (off camera of course).

[@jimhardy-p3i]

Space Ghost also had inferred deaths of bad guys.

[@ronsmac]

That’s why I liked Speed Racer. You knew that bad guys and random drivers were going to die.

[@jimhardy-p3i]

@@ronsmac Could not get into Speed Racer but as far a Japanese programs...you could not beat the original Ultraman.

[@ronsmac]

@@jimhardy-p3i I’m glad they were forward thinking and filming in color even though the vast majority of people in 1964 had black and white tvs so that by the time I started watching quest on Saturday and sometimes Sunday mornings in the late 70s, the show looked modern and better than some of the cartoons made in the 70s.

[@bigguy1960]

The sound effects from the invisible monster episode creeped me out!

[@Bargle5]

Watched it from its prime time premier. Remains one of my favorites.

[@dpw181]

I was born in 1958 and have watched what was best on TV since. Jonny Quest is one of the best TV shows of all time. Period. It's as electric to watch now as then. That opening. The mummy. Action, sci-fi, espionage, comedy. An exotic and dangerous world with unforeseeable perils, calculating villains with foreign accents and cool vehicles, cooler weapons and deadly animals. Great post.

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks

[@KennonSmith-do8os]

Such an awesome show. Didn’t realize any of these goofs until you pointed them out

[@beatleman69]

I loved Johnny Quest!

[@ThomasDickensheets]

Miss this cartoon!

[@maureencora1]

Good Show, Thanks. Love 1964 J.Q. & 1967 Herculoids.

[@jimhardy-p3i]

Space Ghost, Marvel Super Heroes and orginal Spiderman....

[@jefferypease3920]

You absolutely couldn’t get away with a cartoon like this today🤣

[@ralphjohnson340]

This was a really great video win I was a little boy Johnny Quest was one of my favorite shows I never missed it.

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it

[@Maldoror200]

@ralphjohnson..Same here !! 😉👌

[@DRATproductions1]

I have the series on DVD and it is funny, as much as I have seen this show I knew about a third of what you showed. Thank you!!

[@tvcrazyman]

Appreciate it.

[@woodyforest2100]

Thanks for your work on this! My all time favorite cartoon.

[@Victor-gi3dy]

Probably the most violent cartoon of the 60's I LOVE IT. !!!!!!!!! 😊😊😊 it's time for a LIVE ACTION MOVIE !!!!!!!

[@tvcrazyman]

I think that would be awesome, if they followed the same kind of scripts and didn't try to modernize it.

[@clementjohnson2666]

​@@tvcrazymanMy thoughts exactly 👌 .

[@stevenhall9349]

Loved it grew up watching,couldn’t wait until Saturdays

[@earlleeruhf3130]

The big goof I remember was when Dr Benton called Jonny on a radio Jonny had on his belt. He was tied standing up against a beam by the bad guys and the radio hung down to his knee. I don't know how his capters could have missed it. I watched a couple episodes a few yrs ago and it still holds up.

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

Thanks, the one that freaked me out was the GARGOYLE....that one creeped me out even after the reveal. 😂

[@jimhardy-p3i]

haha me too! and the mummy episode also gave me nightmares

[@oluhamilton2121]

'....you'll regret this, YOU'LL REGRET THIS'! For some reason that line resonates......

[@Pratman]

More great goofs ftom anothet brilliant show I wish they would bring programmes like this back 😀

[@huskerjpg]

An awesome series. I watched this series as a kid and some of those episodes scared the heck out of me! Little boys absolutely loved this stuff. My favorites are Invisible Monster, Monster in the Monastery, The Sea Haunt, and The Curse of Anubis. Curse of Anubis gave me nightmares and the mummy monster probably only appeared for less than two minutes.

[@ronmcgee6090]

At 0:20 in they show a couple of jet powered flying machines. Those existed. In the Wright Patterson A.F. Museum in Dayton, Ohio when you're going up the hall between the 1st and 2nd building there is a room to the left that has kids info stuff and it is hanging off the floor. It flew quite well so of course it got scrapped. Had a jet engine and all. As of June 9, 2024, the series is available on blue ray and DVD.

[@MikeKelly9786]

I recently purchased the complete series on Blu Ray. I highly recommend it !!!

[@Maldoror200]

@Mike Kelly.., but, dontcha need special equipment 4 "Blu Ray"..?

[@MikeKelly9786]

​@Maldoror200 just a blu ray player.

[@jimhardy-p3i]

We would not have the Venture Brothers without Johnny Quest.

[@Nomed38]

Go Team Venture!

[@alanquintus2069]

I still want to be Race Bannon when I grow up

[@lindaebert789]

Awesome once again 😂🥰 Thanks

[@jons.6216]

You also showed a goof within a goof, Tvcrazyman! When Race and Dr Quest are playing chess, part of Quest's beard changes shape a couple of times! Haha! Tim Matheson was also on Leave it to Beaver a couple of times in its later seasons!

[@johnshelton6434]

Mike Road also was the voice of Zandor on The Herculoids.

[@alfredodoardi2717]

Thanks, for "Doing it for Johnny!"

[@musicman201047]

All that made you feel you were there actually seeing it happen.

[@robertsprings3591]

On the episode Double Danger. On the mountain that you are talking about there is no bandit in Johnnys lap. That I can see. Great video Mr tvcrazyman. Have a good Thursday and ✌️ to you.

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks

[@scottandrews9453]

Apparently Hanna-Barbera originally wanted to do an animated version of a popular juvenile radio show from the 1930s-1940s "Jack Armstrong the All-American Boy", in which a high schooler went on adventures all over the world with his two friends and their scientist Uncle Jim. It was sponsored by Wheaties, so the character was owned by General Mills, who refused Hanna-Barbara the rights. So they created their own character and made it more creative than Jack Armstrong. You can find surviving episodes of the radio show online to get an idea.

[@13thwho]

@scottandrews9453 The 15-chapter “Jack Armstrong” movie serial from 1947 is available here on KZbin.

[@scottandrews9453]

@@13thwho Yes, I've seen it, pretty good for a low budget serial. The radio characters were supposed to be younger than the actors in the serial, but otherwise not too different from the radio show. Incidentally you can find episodes of the radio show also here on KZbin. Jonny Quest allowed them to be more imaginative than Jack Armstrong.

[@33Donner77]

Thanks for all the details.

[@musicman201047]

And those ultra excellent sound effects.

[@naturalobserver1322]

Man, I watched this show as a kid and never saw any of these bloopers. Keep up the good work. 👍

[@whatsamattayu3257]

Today, the Johnny Quest Show would probably be a hard "cel".

[@ahhamartin]

Before "Raiders", this show made me talk my grandad into teaching me how to pop a bullwhip (they use one to explode a scorpion that's meanacing Bandit). One episode had a closeup of a mummy looking on in the moonlight that STILL creeps me out.

[@oluhamilton2121]

TURU THE TERRIBLE for me!

[@JeffreyWLaRue]

Tim also stared in National Lampoon's Animal House!!!!!!

[@musicman201047]

The one thing that set the 60s HB cartoons apart from the later year cartoons was that excellent background theme music,used in Jonny Quest, Space Ghost,the Herculoids, Fantastic Four 1960s, the Flintstones, Frankenstein Jr., Mightor, Moby Dick, The Arabian Knights, Shazzan, especially when there was a huge fight, extreme danger, a chase scene, an investigation being done in extreme peril,a horrifying monster is revealed,one of the heroes are in life threatening danger fighting for their lives, in intense combat, like Space Ghost in The Heat Thing, Jonny Quest The Invisible Monster, Treasure of the Temple, Terror Island, Turu the Terrible, Dragons of Ashida, The Sea Haunt, Werewolf of the Timberland, The Robot Spy, Shadow of the Condor. And such details, you can see skin lines, the puplis of eyes, the sound effects of real gunfire, explosions, crashes, falling objects, impacts, real looking objects being used, the weapons, aircraft were drawn precisely to the last details, very realistic looking.

[@Skaramine]

Valley of the Dinosaurs would be a welcome episode too.

[@JeffFrmJoisey]

I was 7 when Jonny Quest premiered. Watched it on our Black & White TV, either a 12” RCA portable or the huge old Crosley piece of furniture. Thought it was the best cartoon ever back then.

[@jacktribble5253]

I always thought this series had a Doc Savage feel to it. Which is fine.

[@masudashizue777]

I watched this on a B&W TV so I didn't notice any of this. Still, I loved that this show looked like no other animated series at the time.

[@NoahSpurrier]

I used to watch this as a kid.

[@phillipmarlowe0525]

I loved Bandit.

[@ztomas1]

At 1:09 - I think it was intentional, they were just showing us what was happening inside the van

[@gregwasserman2635]

I always loved those old Johnny Quest cartoons and then became a big Star Wars fan. However, I always wondered how Luke Skywalker stole Race Bannon's girlfriend in the novels...

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

Thank you!😊

[@zaq55]

This was originally a prime-time series when it aired from 1964-65

[@Irisheddy]

Tim Matterson was Otter in Animal House. I think Otter would be like Jonny Quest in college.

[@ChaplainBobWalkerBTh]

Yes Tim voiced Johnny Quest

[@fjccommish]

TvCrazyMan is actually Johnny Quest's brother.

[@bodontknowsuperbowl]

This is excellent. I missed all of those things. But I picked up on something that other people missed. A documentary on Johnny Quest talked about how details, like the shadow under the plane in “Arctic Splashdown” made the show more realistic. The problem is that the shadow was directly underneath the plane. Up in the arctic, the shadow would not be underneath the plane. The shadow would be very long, like we see in the early morning or late evening, because of the angle of the sun.

[@PhillipHolt-f9r]

The art work, animation, and story lines beatable.

[@favoritemustard3542]

I know what you mean 👍

[@paulreynolds8245]

I have the series and soundtrack. My over 25 kids love it too.

[@favoritemustard3542]

I read "over" as _other_ & did a literal double-take lol That's awesome! 👍📺👍

[@nunyabizness6595]

Metv is supposed to be having their own cartoon channel on June 25. Im hopeing they have more than just funny animals on there and dip into superhero and adventure cartoons. But i guess it depends on how expensive it is for Metv ti acquire them.

[@gabrieldjatienza6971]

The low resolution televisions of the 1960's does blur those goofs...and videocassette recorders that can pause those flaws have not yet been invented!

[@Tracy81258]

This was a can’t miss Saturday morning half hour for me as a kid. The stories more than made up for the crappy animation (the Jonny Quest slide comes to mind) and made Saturday morning magical.

[@larrym5120]

I've watched a lot of these cartoon bloopers from my 70s childhood days. Maybe i wasn't that smart back then but i didn't see them. I might not see them even today because they happen so fast or maybe i was focused on something else.

[@AnimeJason2011]

What an awesome cartoon. Jonny Quest was the first of many action cartoons done by Hanna-Barbera. And speaking of which, you should do more of Quest in the future, such as the 80s revival, the 2 made-for-TV movies and The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest. BTW, I know it sounds silly but, every time I look at Duke from G.I. Joe, I think of Race Bannon, cause Race inspired Duke's existence, believe it or not. Other than that, keep up the good work and to quote Race himself: Nice work, TVcrazyman! Three with one blow! 😉

[@ho2zoo]

Well done! My favorite was "The Invisible Monster". Scared the crap out of me! 2 more goofs there were that the monster stopped leaving tracks after it was painted! Another fan pointed that out to me. I noticed that the flying backpacks they used had a setting for "off", "on", and "reverse"! Why would you need "reverse"? In case you wanted to burrow into the ground?

[@tvcrazyman]

Yeah, I'm trying to imagine how reverse might work on a jet pack. 😀 That would be funny.

[@jimhardy-p3i]

This was on my 'murderer's row' of Saturday morning cartoon shows

[@sonomabob9043]

You were right in regard to the #1 torpedo. The button controls the #1 torpedo tube. In order to fire it a second time, the tube would have to be reloaded, which would take several minutes. The villan should have fired the #2 tube for a second torpedo right away.

[@mrkitty1367]

good one !

[@mlongpre100]

the biggest goof is when jonny , a 12 year old , judo flips 200 lbs thugs 10 feet in the air

[@THE-HammerMan]

That's not a goof, Johnny was holding back!

[@zengreen7]

We are PAST DUE for a J.Q. live action.....

[@oluhamilton2121]

They'll MUCK IT UP, somehow...

[@zengreen7]

@@oluhamilton2121 They might.

[@jacktribble5253]

You wold think the people doing the color would have noticed the fingernails.

[@favoritemustard3542]

...& it's not like they were using a paint bucket tool to do it; it was all by hand.

[@jacktribble5253]

@@favoritemustard3542 Yes. Frames were all over the place.

[@lancecampbell4323]

How about a body count episode. This a different show where there were a lot of people killed. Best animated show ever

[@scottlowell493]

One error you overlooked: The robot spy was black. The title sequence has it kind of a violet color.

[@musicman201047]

Kid version of James Bond

[@mikereid1195]

If you liked Johnny Quest, make sure to check out its sequel The Venture Brothers 😂

[@oluhamilton2121]

Well drawn, shabbily animated. Wildey' s art carried the series as HB cut corners. As good as it was, it could have been so much BETTER.😊

[@leonardvicari2857]

The best cartoon next to Scooby doo

[@lisazampino2131]

I watch this show.

[@lisazampino2131]

I watched it.

[@moviesgalore9947]

Mike Road and Don Messick did multiple voices in numerous episodes maybe one of them wasn't' there when a certain line had to be recorded or they got mixed up when recording.

[@Maldoror200]

💀✨️..Really excellent vid, man.., Great job.., and I LOOVED Jonny Quest when I was a kid.., Did you ?? ..(..& I "subbed"..!! 😉👌✨️..~Peace, K🥀)

[@moviesgalore9947]

So sad we only got one season of this amazing fantastic show we were robbed of so many great episodes it should have been kept on the air for 5 years we lost 100 great episodes.

[@aidanhever3369]

Speaking of the Flintstones, in the episode: Monster in the Monastery, you forgot to mention that the Yetis were drawn as coming out of the Flintstones during the chase.

[@cbennett6093]

I noticed when it came out, that The Incredibles had blatant influence from the Robot Spy episode. Brad Bird said in an interview that he was a big Jonny Quest fan. As a JQ fan when I was a kid, that was too obvious.

[@danweckerly4204]

How I loved this show as a kid. From the incredible Hoyt Curtain theme song (he also did the stellar theme song to "The Jetsons") to the stylized art direction to the unabashed presentation of violence, I thought it was one of the best animated television series of all time. Too bad it wasn't sustainable ... the later iterations of JQ were terrible (Jonny's voice, for example, sounded like a girl!). I also thought it might do well as a live-action remake, given the tone of the Indiana Jones franchise. But it would need to be in the right hands....

[@DavidSmith-xs3or]

The mistakes in continuity can be understood when you consider how many productions were going on at Hanna-Barbera at the same time back then. They had to have farmed out a lot of work to meet schedules.

[@wb3381]

Tvcrazyman, was Jonny Quest originally aired as an adult cartoon or a Saturday morning cartoon?

[@tvcrazyman]

It first ran in prime time before going to Saturday mornings so I would say it wasn't just for kids, and I heard that the creator didn't want it to be considered just a cartoon. I think the goal was for it to feel like a animated action movie every week.

[@wb3381]

@tvcrazyman Thank you, sir

[@dpw181]

The opening of Mike Tyson Mysteries seems to be inspired by Jonny Quest's opening.

[@jamesyoung4508]

Kane's Parents and Kane remember them 😊 Saturday morning Cartoon

[@mikec63136]

Additionally when it was broadcast there was static and other transmission issues so people didn't see the poor details.

[@leonardvicari2857]

Maybe there was a washing machine in the area

[@chrismayer3919]

I’ve got the DVD episode collection

[@rony41165]

Mike road did the voice of Zandor in the herculoids.

[@moviesgalore9947]

Also not many people had color TV's in 1964 and 1965 at least half the viewers still had black and white sets it wasn't until 1966 that all shows had to be broadcast in color which is why shows like Adams Family and Munsters ended in 1966 the color film they would have been forced to use was considered to be too expensive by the studio and the network.

[@deirdrebaker3124]

ok why does johnny look like race bannon? what exactly is hadji about? loved the artwork . .

[@Fairford2001]

If you’re able to look at the “lost episodes,” you’ll find plenty of bloopers.

[@HooDatDonDar]

How about this: the Quest plane looks like the wings are set too far back for the craft to be airworthy. Is this so?

[@CatsClaw44]

1:02 I think that was purposely done.

[@WilAdams]

I grew up watching Jonny Quest occasionally. I liked the artwork of the credits but noticed that MOST of the artwork within the series was of a lesser quality--there were a few episodes where the artwork matched the credit artwork. As I grew up I was back watching Jonny, and it was then I noticed that Dr. Quest is really a dick. I mean in one episode (I forget which one) he and some non-character are racing to meet up with Race and the boys, and as he passes the 'bad guy' the dickish look he casts to the villain made me re-watch the entire to series just to see other examples. Also, among the trivia it should have mentioned Mike Roads' live action film Destination Innerspace. Hearing Race's voice was so cool. The plot of the his character in the film is that while on a sinking sub he managed to escape while keeping other men trapped. When the film starts we find that he has been in denial of this (since it makes him look like a coward) but then the sub's commander (who also escaped the sinking) shows up at his new posting where the two men have a battle for the Alpha male role. It is the most compelling part of the movie, and Mike's acting in those scenes is splendided.