Bravo 13

Bravo 13
Season	2
Episode	5c
Date Aired	August 20th, 1999
Written By	Gene Grillo Jed Spingarn
Storyboarded By	Lynell H. Forestall
Directed By	Kirk Tingblad
Title Reference	Apollo 13
Previous	Jailbird Johnny
Next	Doomates

"Bravo 13" is a Season 2 episode of Johnny Bravo.

Synopsis

Johnny and Carl's trip to an amusement park takes a detour when they mistakenly arrive at NASA. Oblivious, Johnny soon finds himself in space with a chimpanzee.

Plot Summary

Johnny and the chimp.

The episode begins with Johnny and Carl on a road trip to Hurl World Amusement Park. Carl annoys Johnny and soon gives him the map in order to "boot-scoot", sending the car off a cliff, landing near a NASA center. Johnny is allowed into the area, mistaken for an astronaut. Carl soon recognizes where they are and gets distracted, but Johnny ignores him and steals an astronaut's suit, wanting to be the first on The Regurgitator 9000 rocket "ride". Johnny meets the rocket's chimp, seeming to mistake it for a human child, and then initiates the ship's launch into space.

Back at a NASA mission control room, Colonel Gus Grizzle and the operators realize Johnny is their new astronaut and try to convince him to bring the rocket back to Earth. The chimp attempts to redirect their course, but accidentally gets sucked into space when Johnny pulls the wrong lever. After Johnny proves to be incompetent, Carl arrives, armed with sci-fi knowledge and his own technical manuals. He then instructs Johnny to make an object using the only materials within the cockpit. This goes awry as Johnny is soon attacked by the returning chimp, cutting out their signal. The colonel nearly loses hope before the chimp reappears on-screen, having tied Johnny up. It safely guides them back to base, and the operators celebrate its return. Meanwhile, now untied, Johnny crashes a NASA helicopter into a nearby structure, falling to the ground.

Goofs

• On the title card, Gene Grillo and Jed Spingarn are both incorrectly credited as "Co-Producer" in the place of "Written By".
• During the beginning scene, there is a moment where the gap between Carl's hair and his head is skin-colored.

Trivia

• Johnny reveals Carl does not know how to drive. He later learned how, as evidenced by "Days Of Blunder".
  • Likewise, the duo's dynamic slightly changes over time, as Johnny seems much more capable of driving here, and Carl seems more carefree and oblivious than some episodes.
• The car Johnny drives was borrowed from Carl's mother, hence him coming along. Although, Johnny is implied to have taken Carl somewhere with a car of his own in "Thunder God Johnny".
• Caricatures of crew members Russell Calabrese, Dave Schwartz, and Kirk Tingblad appear in the NASA mission control room. Their characters were designed by Dexter Smith.
• Carl claims he has watched every episode of Trip McCoy: Galaxy Boy 26 times. Here, the series is inconsistently referred to as "Biff McCoy: Galaxy Boy".
• Johnny destroys the rocket's oxygen scrubbers, similarly to what he does in "Biosphere Johnny", albeit by accident.
• In the Latin Spanish dub of the episode, before the car drives off the cliff, Carl instead sings a portion of "La Culebra" (The Snake) by Banda Machos.

Gallery

Carl and Johnny in his mother's car.