"Rashomoron" is a Season 2 episode of Johnny Bravo.
Synopsis[]
After a disastrous day at the park, Johnny, Carl, and Suzy each tell Bunny their own different take on the origin of their injuries.
Plot Summary[]
The episode begins with Mama Bravo gardening outside, only to be greeted by an injured and unkempt Johnny alongside Carl and Suzy. She notices the three blaming each other for ruining their day at the park, and convinces them to take turns telling their sides of the story.
Suzy's story begins with her having a picnic with her doll, Mrs. Kensington. She witnesses Johnny flirt with a woman, who rejects him in favor of just being friends. Johnny throws a tantrum, threatening to drown himself in a nearby lake by holding his breath until she promises to go out with him. Johnny clumsily stumbles out of the water covered in some algae. Nearby, Carl is playing with a small robot he invented, whom he later states is named Sparkly. As he notices Johnny, he directs the robot over to him and wraps its arms around Johnny's leg in what Suzy claims to be a hug, causing him to tumble over and slam against a tree. A bee hive falls and the bees swarm towards Suzy's picnic and she tries to flee. Suddenly, a unicorn descends to the ground on a rainbow and Suzy rides it. Johnny then tries to rip off its horn with the intent to sell it on the black market, getting trampled by it as a result. Johnny argues that isn't what happened, and Bunny lets Carl go next.
In Carl's take, he is playing jump rope with Johnny and Sparkly. They are interrupted by the woman Johnny was trying to flirt with in Suzy's story, who Carl refers to as a "hussy lady" who wants to steal Johnny away from him. When the uncharacteristically loyal Johnny refuses to leave his best friend's side, she lassos him and hurls him into a lake. As Johnny stumbles out, covered in algae, Carl claims he's an algae monster, and Johnny is shown ruining Suzy's picnic. Sparkly appears, larger and more technologically impressive than in Suzy's story, and Carl uses him to attack Johnny. A stray laser beam from Sparkly's eyes hits a hanging bee hive, causing them to pour out. The bees find a nearby cop on the scene riding a horse. They swarm into the shape of the word 'HELP!' and an arrow pointing in Johnny's direction. The cop leads the horse to jump on Johnny's back, ending Carl's story.
Johnny claims to have spent his day at the park fighting ninjas, when all of the sudden a supermodel threw her arms around him. She wishes to marry him, and Johnny dives into the lake in search of an engagement ring within an oyster. Suddenly, Carl's (now giant) robot attacks. Johnny tries to protect the woman, getting the idea to throw a bee hive at the robot. This succeeds, and the supermodel kisses Johnny's face. He then has a realization and reveals his true nature as a womanizer, saying he is "too pretty to be tied down to just one woman." The woman is disgusted by this and orders a rabid donkey to trample Johnny's back.
Bunny wakes up from a dream about Raoul Montoya and comes to the conclusion that she believes all their stories. After she offers the three milk and cookies, they excitedly run inside the house. Once the group is out of sight, the unicorn and small-sized Sparkly are seen rising out of a nearby bush and laughing.
Goofs[]
- After Johnny finishes his side of the story, his pants and shoes appear normally for a shot or two before his bandaged foot returns.
Trivia[]
- The episode title is a reference to Japanese jidaigeki movie Rashomon. The episode's premise in likewise a parody of the plot of Rashomon, wherein several characters describe a fight that had taken place between a Samurai, his wife and a bandit. Each version portray each of the characters in a vastly different light and are contradictory to one another. Rashomon ends on the conclusion that regardless of the story's outcome witnesses will interpret events to suit their own frame of mind.
- Several other animated shows have also made reference to Rashomon in a similar vain.
- In the episode's title card, Johnny, Carl, and Suzy are seen gesturing to the person behind them. Johnny is making the gesture incorrectly, as there is only empty space behind him.
- The German philosopher Ernst Heidegger was a real person, but the quote Bunny recites ("Das dis wie trocher liechtenstein eben nacht micht was stubenhaus," according to closed captioning) is partially nonsense when translated.
- The closed captioning misspells Heidegger's last name as Heidegard.
- During a scene where Johnny, Carl, and Suzy are arguing over eachother, if listening closely (or slowed down), Carl can be heard saying that the algae monster "makes the whole story" and calling Johnny's version weak, while Suzy agrees with Carl ("Yeah,") and mentions her dolls being excluded, saying "it's like [Johnny was] ignoring the most important element to the story."
- Most of what Carl says during this scene is either improvised gibberish or otherwise hard to make out, but he seems to be bringing up the cop and the bees from his version of the tale and how they were also excluded.
Episode Connections[]
- When Bunny wakes up after listening to Johnny's story, she suggests she was having a romantic dream about Raoul Montoya from "Mama's New Boyfriend", despite the two being no longer together.
Gallery[]
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