Internet archivists have finally found and uploaded a long-lost section of Cartoon Network in which ’90s toon star Johnny Bravo provided color commentary on a sped-up episode of the formative Shonen anime Dragon Ball Z, and it is now available for your viewing pleasure on the Internet Archive. Check it out and be amazed that Bravo’s anime reaction is pretty much everything you could hope for.
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On Sunday, LSuperSonicQa YouTuber who specializes in finding and analyzing previously lost episodes of cartoons tweeted an internet archive link to the previously lost episode of JBVO: Your all-request cartoon showw, also known as JBVO.
What was JBVO on Cartoon Network?
JBVO was a talk show spin-off of the animated film that broke the fourth wall Johnny bravo, in which the pompadoured dude posed as a talking head and acted out cartoon episode requests from real callers. Recommendations typically include Bravo airing episodes in which he appears as a special guest in other animated films, e.g Scooby Doo
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This is exactly what happened on the May 5, 2000 episode which began with Scooby Doo. But about halfway through, a caller named Jennifer from Sterling, Colorado calls and asks the Shlockjockey to play her favorite episode of Dragon Ball Z. The only problem with their request was that an entire episode of DBZ had the same 24-minute running time as JBVO, and the broadcast was 14 minutes into its airing when Johnny read her request. A consummate pro, Bravo made a deal for Jennifer, his “penpal mom” by airing an extremely fast-forwarded episode of DBZ while doing some color commentary on the Super Saiyan spectacle.
You can view the recovered files now JBVO The full episode is here.
“Here we go. Kind of gets lost when you fast-forward, isn’t it, Jennifer,” Bravo said. “Well, I’m sorry, little lady. I love this show and I love you so I wanted to play it to you because that’s how it is Your all-request cartoon show
bless his heart
Looking back, Bravo’s decision to get through quickly DBZ Episode 103 was the right choice as “Pathos of Frieza” served as the end piece of Goku and the infamous 20 episode battle “that Frieza guy” –Anime’s second longest fight scene in terms of number of episodes. I bet a lot JBVO Viewers were grateful for Johnny Bravo’s director-cut commentary DBZis famous”five minutesThe fight scene only lasted 30 seconds. Quality over quantity and all that jazz.
The rest of JBVO it’s his also recovered
in a (n LSuperSonicQ video from before the new discoverythey notice that JBVOBravo’s reputation as a lost medium stems from the show’s weekly tapings, in which Bravo’s voice actor, Jeff Bennett, referenced things like the date that didn’t lend itself to re-airing. This means that if you didn’t have a VHS tape handy to record the show, you wouldn’t be able to watch the show again. According to The Lost Media Wiki
In conversation with my city, LSuperSonicQ revealed that a viewer of his original 2017 video named Sanders came forward to say he owned all the episodes JBVO about her mother, who worked on the series at Cartoon Network (hopefully Sanders got her a great Mother’s Day gift). LSuperSonicQ says that with the help of another lost media hunter named Jericho, the trio plans to recover and upload all 28 episodes JBVO to the internet for people to enjoy.
“This was one of my favorite pieces of lost media, so I’m really excited to see it resurface,” said LSuperSonicQ my city. “It shows that there’s always a chance that a lost medium, no matter how long it’s been lost, will one day turn up.”
Updated 05/15/2023 6:20pm ET: Added new details on the efforts to restore the entire series.
