"Lone Star Bravo" is a Season 3 episode of Johnny Bravo.
Synopsis[]
While looking at the family scrapbook, Mama tells Johnny the tale of Lone Star Bravo and how he became the sheriff of Moist Rock to impress frontier chicks.
Plot[]
Johnny is playing Battle Leprechauns in his living room. Bunny suddenly unplugs the game console, and tells Johnny that its time for their weekly bonding time. Johnny begrudgingly agrees, but gets further annoyed when Bunny wants to look at Bravo family photo albums again. Bunny tells short anecdotes about Bravo ancestors, but pauses when a silver Sheriff star is seen between the pages. Johnny asks about it, and Bunny says it belongs to Johnny's great-grandfather, Johnny "Lone Star" Bravo. She then tells him the story about Lone Star.
Long ago, in the town of Moist Rock, a single deputy (Carl's ancestor) pleads with the townsfolk to choose a sheriff. The previous 54 sheriffs had been "girly-slapped" and run out of town by Salad Fork Dan, a notorious outlaw. The townsfolk ignore Deputy Carl, and he despairs at the fate of their town. Suddenly, Lone Star and his mother (resembling Bunny) pull into town with their ox cart. Mama goes to a general store for supplies, while Lone Star checks out the "frontier honeys." He sees a lady and flirts with her, but she kicks him into a watering trough. Deputy Carl walks up to Lone Star and asks if he'd like to be sheriff. Lone Star refuses until Deputy Carl says that chicks dig sheriffs.
Later, Lone Star starts his sheriff duties, ignoring a bank robbery in favor of removing tumbleweeds from the streets. He heads to Pops' Saloon for a drink. After losing a game of chance, Lone Star suddenly gets a fork shot through his hat. Salad Fork Dan has arrived, wanting to face the new sheriff. Lone Star cowers under a table, and Salad Fork Dan fumes over his hate for lawmen. But, he then starts ranting about poached eggs and gets sidetracked. Lone Star convinces him that he was on his way to the train station to go to Chicago. Salad Fork Dan makes it to Chicago, but realizes he was tricked, and returns to Moist Rock. He challenges Lone Star to a duel at high noon.
At 11:55, Salad Fork Dan is waiting in the center of town for the duel. Lone Star is doing everything except preparing for the duel. When noon strikes, the two of them meet face to face, but Lone Star holds up a sandwich, stating its time for lunch. Salad Fork Dan gets ready to strike, but Mama Bravo arrives with a cavalry of soldiers to stop the duel. Salad Fork Dan surrenders and is taken to jail. Deputy Carl asks Mama to be the new sheriff, and proposes Lone Star can be spittoon boy at the saloon. Lone Star refuses, but accepts when Deputy Carl says that he will be able to meet chicks.
Bunny concludes her story, saying that Bravo family settled the West by doing menial tasks. But, Johnny was not paying attention. At some point during the story, he got his game console back and started playing again. Bunny makes a comment on the family's gene pool shallowing out.
Trivia[]
- This episode is set on a Thursday as Bunny Bravo points out to Johnny that "Thursday night is [their] time", after she pulls the plug on Battle Leprechauns, an in-universe video game her son was playing at the start of the episode.
- According to the family album that Bunny pulls out, many of Johnny's ancestors were just as stupid and pathetic as he was:
- Benedict Bravo betrayed the Americans to the British during the American Revolution.
- Vasco D. Bravo went in search of the Fountain of Youth, but ultimately ended up old, poor and friendless.
- Johnny "Lone Star" Bravo proved to be incompetent as a sheriff (ultimately being replaced by his mother) and was basically forced to become the "spittoon boy" at the saloon of Pops's ancestor.
- Bunny's ancestor mentions that she was part of "Hooker's Regiment." This is a reference to Joseph Hooker, a Civil War general who fought for the union.
- This may be a an adult oriented joke, as "Hooker's Regiment" or "Hooker's Brigade" refers to prostitutes. Joseph Hooker and his men would frequent brothels on their travels.
References[]
- This title of the episode is a spoof on the western "Lone Star", as well as the restaurant of the same name. It's also a reference to how Texas is known as the "Lone Star State."
- When Lone Star Bravo's flashback appearance starts, his mother chides him by asking to stop singing the "annoying song".