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I used to watch this when I was 8, and I loved it for some reason. Now when I look back at it, I don't know how and why it lasted that long. I would give it 1 star, but since it gives me good memories when I was younger, I will be generous and give it 4 more stars.

This show isnt all bad, some people hate it, personally i like it. sometimes the jokes are too repetitive, but ill still laugh though. to all the johnny test haters out there, go jump off a bridge.

The show Johnny Test started out OK. It wasn't good, but if I watched it I wouldn't get angry. Then the animation style changed. After that you couldn't put a gun to my head to make me watch it. Many shows have gone through an animation change. Usually it is just better animation that still follows the same style. So the same style of comedy can be used to match the feel of the animation, but not for Johnny Test. When the animation style changed everything changed. More focus was on people's heads then their bodies. This results in people not moving like normal people. Their movements seem more like puppets than 2-D animated people. The first season animation was much more smooth, and realistic. This animation just feels flat. Due to the animation style changing the writing changed to. Now the show is much less about doing things, and more about the really corny and unfunny jokes. Characters move much quicker than they did in the first season here. Instead of talking to each other they usually have conversations that are way too rushed, or they just yell a lot. That results in the characters being very unlikeable. The fact that such a terrible show is on Cartoon Network the channel that had classics like "Courage", "Ed, Edd, and Eddy", and "Samurai Jack" further shows how Cartoon Network is now dead. Although CN isn't to really blame for the show. That blame goes to "Kids WB" for starting it, but still CN should be ashamed of showing this on their channel. This is one of the worst cartoons I have ever watched.

Certainly not a GREAT cartoon, or even a good one. But....I can't say I hated this one. I really enjoyed it as a kid. Sure the characters were stupid, the plots were unoriginal, and the animation was very mediocre. But, there was something charming about it. It's stupidity and absurdness was what made me enjoy it as a kid. It doesn't hold up too well, but there are certain moments of this show I genuinely liked. One such episode was when a beekeeper villain tried to get rid of all candy for his healthier candy bar, and at the end of the episode Johnny and his pals stopped trying to defeat him. Instead they talked it out and came to an agreement that I thought was a very satisfying conclusion to the episode. Other episodes weren't so great, but I tend to remember the better ones. The Johnny X episodes are so ridiculously dumb, highlighted by "Power Poots" and such. But BOOOYYY did I like them as a kid, and I don't really remember why exactly. It was like a crossover with all the goofy villains of the show and I genuinely liked that. The 5th episode of this saga had a pretty sad ending that choked me up as a kid, I definitely recommend seeing it for yourself as it was one of the best in the series (by best, I mean an objective 8/10. Still a dumb episode, but charming).

My review is just here to balance out the overly negative and positive ones that make up the majority. I genuinely though this show was ok. Not good, but not bad. Just ok. I can think of shows that were much MUCH worse than this one for many reasons......

This is simply a bad example of animation. To sum it up, the stories are unoriginal, the characters are obnoxious and unsympathetic, and the entire affair is an unpleasant insult to the intelligence of the viewers. Even the musical score is annoying and an ear sore. If they had any brains, they would finally cancel this abomination of animation. In short, don't bother. Worse yet, Cartoon Network has somehow deluded themselves into thinking that this is their biggest hit. They therefore over-broadcast this crap to levels that we wish Disney would take Phineas and Ferb to. In fact, this is the anti-Christ of cartoons - the anti Phineas and Ferb, if you will. Long story short: don't even think of giving this crap a chance.

Just found this show this month. I've gone through the first 4 seasons and am enjoying it a lot more than I would have expected for a show with a cartoon dog in it.

To those who are bashing it in long paragraphs I assume you are trolls with no life. I mean really. Who writes several pages on how they hate a kids show?

Don't get me wrong here but Johnny Test is not that bad. Yeah yeah, the character designs might me ugly and unappealing, especially the background characters, Johnny might so irritating, and the rest of the characters may be annoying and unlikable, they're just so lousy that it makes them likable especially Johnny. I actually like how much of Johnny can be because it just winds up being funny to me. I like how whenever someone denies his demands he makes really silly points of what might happen if his demands aren't met. I like how his dad constant grounds his children constantly, i find it so funny everytime i see him appear. I like his dog, he's always there for Johnny regardless. I like his sisters, yeah sometimes their inventions might be abstract but you gotta admit, it is pretty cool. Everybody else is just so annoying that it makes it funny. I pretty much got a guilty pleasure from this show. i like it. its actually one of my favorites. the show its not that good, it could of been better i'll admit, everything seems fine to me. the show could of had higher ratings if everything in the show wasn't executed poorly. otherwise, i like this show.

The short and skinny, don't watch this show, and if your kids like this show, go and buy a DVD of either Dexter's Laboratory or Jimmy Neutron and show it to them that there's better programing because you don't want to set your children's standards low at such a young age. There is nothing like having your child become 'that kid' who ends up making the same paper mache volcano every science fair.

Now for the nitty gritty. Johnny Test is a pale, cheaply made imitation of "Jimmy Neutron" from Nick. Heck, just compare the main character's for starters. Johnny has tall wild hair, Jimmy has tall wild hair. Johnny is short statured and bullied by the dim witted gruff bully, Jimmy is short statured and bullied by the dim witted gruff bully. I can go on but I only have a 1,000 word maximum to write this review.

Character wise though, Johnny is not entertaining at all, kind of playing the 'lowest common denominator' of characters. Basically a brat who begs his sisters to make him cool stuff that he ruins and points out the obvious and then at his sisters so that they can clean up Johnny's mess. Jimmy on the other hand was the genius and was made fun of it. He also messed up but that's because of trial and error or maybe something someone 'else' did. Not to mention he cleaned up his own mess, and in a fun and unique way too, showing what he was going to use and for a few seconds you would sit there puzzled wondering how he was going to Mac Guiver it together.

The animation is appalling, basically Adobe Flash drivel. In one episode I even saw a part of a character vanish because it was the same color as the background. Flash isn't 'bad' (I suggest you watch "My Little Poney: Friendship Is Magic" to see some true Flash artwork), it's just that it was made lazily.

Story wise, it's pretty much the same every single episode, with no deviation what so ever. Johnny gets in trouble/wants something/is too lazy to do something, begs his sister's, abuse their invention, states the obvious, cries to his sisters to fix it, sister's fix it and Johnny is declared a hero with something funny at the end. Wash, rinse, and repeat. Though, I must admit there has been a funny moment here and there, it's overall boring and predictable to the point that new episodes are hard to distinguish from the old episodes.

I suggest that you stay away from this horrific show and produce some quality television.

Does anyone really hate this show just because it's from Canada? Would this show be any better if it didn't seem like a rip-off of Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo/Quest, or The Powerpuff Girls if those shows didn't exist? Some people like it because this show reminds them of those shows and I have to give these people credit if they wanted to reinvent them for a new generation. I think Johnny Test is a very funny character and he's not that different from Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy's Eddy or FHFIF's Bloo so there's no reason to hate him if you don't hate them. Dukey is also cool and my mom's most favorite characters are those 2 girl scientists, Susan and Mary, who even have the same voice actors as Gilda and Rainbow Dash. Even if you think this show is bad, there are plenty of cartoons produced even worse, like Problem Solverz or Breadwinners or Newborn Cuties. This is Teletoon's wonderful combination of the crazy inventions from Dexter's Laboratory, the egotistical dumb blond male protagonist from Johnny Bravo, and the variety of supervillains to fight from The Powerpuff Girls, so it's no wonder Cartoon Network actually wanted to air this show. If you weren't around for those shows back in the 1990s, you can get what's great about them for this show! Tell me one reason why I shouldn't like this show that makes it any worse, and be specific enough about it for me to understand.

The first time I watched an episode of Johnny Test I thought ''Now, why does this seem so familiar?''. Then I watched Fairly OddParents and remembered.

Now, some people are saying that it rips off Dexter's Lab. I don't think so, the premise of the show is that this kid who's dealing with problems decides to ask his genius sisters to invent something that will help him solve everything. The premise of Fairly OddParents is that this kid who's dealing with problems decides to ask his magical fairy godparents to poof up something that will help him solve everything. See? Dexter, on the other hand, has a completely different premise. Also, kookier here, the head writer of Fairly OddParents is the creator of Johnny Test.

Anyway, about the show itself, I think I like it better than Fairly OddParents (which wouldn't have been the case if Fairly OddParents hadn't turned into the definition of loud and obnoxious). The jokes are funny and I actually laughed a couple of times (that's rare, I don't do that very often).

Overall, a fun show.

Don't take this the wrong way, I love animation, but I just don't like this show. And I will try to give good enough reasons to why I don't like it.

This has been picked up by several reviewers I know, but I don't find the concept of this show particularly original. It was a nice idea at the time, but when I tuned in and watched enough episodes to form an opinion there is a little too much of a Dexter's Laboratory influence here. I am not sure whether to call it a rip-off or just a show that suffers from being unoriginal, either way that's one reason for me disliking the show.

Another reason is the animation style. I have seen worse, especially in Shaggy and Scooby Doo:Get a Clue, which seriously makes me want to gag thinking about it, but is it just me or isn't the animation really crude here? Not just in the colours which are very flat, but also in the character designs which are very ugly. I don't think much of the backgrounds either, some of them are very static.

Words cannot describe how much I detest the music. Sorry, I just dislike it, I find it incredibly repetitive and generic. The incidental music is forgettable, and although I am more a classical music enthusiast, even I can tell there is a bit of American Idiot in the theme song. Great song, but if they are using it for inspiration or whatever isn't it a little irrelevant.

I haven't even got to the worst parts yet. Where Johnny Test fails epically is in the writing, story lines and characters in my opinion. The writing is juvenile and unfunny and the jokes make me groan rather than laugh. The story lines are childish, predictable and simplistic, with a lack of invention and further suffer from bad pacing as every episode is rushed giving little time to breathe.

The characters? Where to start, they are all so annoying. The title character? Right. Johnny Test is for me one of the most obnoxious and irritating protagonists you will ever find on an animated show. If you hate Eliza Thornberry(I don't, others do, don't know why though)or Timmy Turner(I do) or Elmyra from Tiny Toon Adventures or Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain(she can be annoying when she is given lacklustre material) or even Dee Dee from Dexter's Laboratory(don't mind her, but she does have her annoying moments) I think you will hate Johnny Test more. His dog companion is no better either the less said about that accent the better, while the parents are uninteresting stereotypes.

Any redeeming qualities? Not really, unless you want to bear in mind the voice cast are very talented, that is when they have something decent to work with. If you want a good show on Cartoon Network, Dexter's Laboratory, Courage the Cowardly Dog, PowerPuff Girls and Samurai Jack are your best options. My advice for this, skip it, watch it if you want, but for me it is not great... at all. In fact it is pretty darn bad. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Johnny Test is a show is completely a 100% blatant rip-off of dexter's laboratory. i had these johnny test images stuck in my head for like 67 days and 23 weeks. i 100% do not find anything funny, but dee dee, mee mee, and lee lee are being offended by this rip-off show. i agree with the people who rated this a 1/10 or a 2/10 ratings. remember action 52 used to be a bad game on the NES, or superman 64 on the Nintendo 64? johnny test's ratings belong to action 52 and superman 64. i'm sorry, but cartoon network really needs to can it with the horrible cartoons, and make some excellent new spin off shows like the dee dee, mee mee, and lee lee show, or the panini super show, a spin off of chowder.

I used to watch this a lot as a kid cause it was always on. The characters are decent and the writing is okay. I have to agree that the show has its bad moments, but it's not unbearable like Teen Titans Go!

I'm surprised it lasted 6 seasons. I thought it was going to end after 3.

Johnny Test is a Show I liked as A Kid but as a I got older I Started not like it. I Even wrote a Very Negative Review of Johnny Test back in 2016 but looking back it's not as Bad it I thought it was. Johnny Test is an okay show looking back but it's not as great as other Cartoon Network shows from late's 2000's & early 2010's. The Show was Originally on Kids WB from 2005-2008 but came to Cartoon Network in January 2008. Anyway Johnny Test is a show about an 11 year boy named Johnny Test who has A talking Dog & two Genius Sisters. The show is mostly deals with Johnny wanting some thing but he can't have it so he goes to his sister's lab & Sometimes Blackmail them to get what he wants. I will say Johnny Test is ok in retrospective it's not great but it's better than some of the shows that came out around that time on Cartoon Network. 5/10.

This is like plenty of cheap shows from the 2000s and 2010s, "Teen Titans Go, Powerpuff Girls," something to entertain kids, but can become boring and infuriating, but unlike those shows, this holds up very well. There is plenty of stuff in it that's easy to hate, but there's a charm within that's so great, it just overpowers everything.

This show is awful. There's absolutely nothing to like about it and you'd have to be bored or mindless to enjoy spending your time watching it.

The characters aren't likable. I'm not sure why they exist. The animation IS bad, and hard to look at. Other, older shows DID look better. This doesn't remind me of anything from my childhood it just makes me feel bad that someone might relate it to something that was fun to watch and "original." I never saw it before last year. I thought it was something Cartoon Network made up to fill in for the things that are missing now that were better. It isn't filling in much.

Johnny's a cheesy, obnoxious character who's nose goes up to the top of his forehead. That much is annoying. It doesn't seem like there are many variations in the episodes, how are there more than a few episodes? Jimmy Neutron, Dexter's Laboratory, the Fairly Oddparents, Spongebob, sure they were all good shows but even Spongebob is getting bad, and Nickelodean still hasn't come up with any other cartoons that are good enough substitutes for what's gone from there.

As Told By Ginger was also good, and different. People need to start coming up with better ideas for a television series because this is extremely disappointing.

I do not understand how anyone could not love this show! A boy with flamed blond hair with 2 genius sisters, a stay at home dad and a smart mom.

The genius sisters love to experiment, and Johnny is the favorite subject. Often this leads to adventures and things to fix -- like a ray gun that gets rid of zits invented by the twins because a failed experiment has everyone in the town pizza faced, alas a giant zit monster forms from the 'residue' and threatens the town, ala 'the blob' -- Whatever happens, the kids always manage to 'pop' their way our of every pimple in pretty well adjusted ways and still manage to get home in time for dinner.

Some of the episodes are a little childish, but this is a children's show. I always try to catch it just for the wildly imaginative situations.

I see brilliance in it, and in how it teaches children.

This show is EXTREME!!!!! What I like. I don't know why people don't like IT, but in my opinion, this show is VERY good.

As you can guess by my rating and my title of this review that I don't like Johnny Test. Now I think I know what people are going to say, " How do you know how bad it is? Have you ever watched it?", I did watch this show a couple times because I am studying film and animation and this just doesn't hold a candle to my standards.

I want to first talk about the animation because it is one of the most confusing things I have ever seen. Like the first two seasons or only first season had hand drawn animation. I thought it was a nice show to look at when it was hand drawn but then it switched to flash animation and the quality went down by a huge amount.

So that is one strike in my eyes but lets look at the story of the show. It tries way too hard to be like Dexter's lab but there are differences because instead of one red headed scientist there is two and they are both female. There is a talking dog(why?), and the parents attitudes are switched somewhat. I have others but I don't think I can write them here ( I don't mean cursing but I mean I don't know if there is a limit for words.). Everything else though is spot on, even a DeeDee character Johnny himself. It just tries so hard to be Dexter but it just seems to me like a heartless knockoff.

Lastly I want to talk about the jokes. Remember in Dexters lab some of the jokes involved yelling? Yes, yelling can be good for a joke or two but Dexter's lab also had sly remarks that made me have to go back and check to get the joke. Johnny Test just forgets all that and just yells 50% of the time and stops the music whenever a stupid joke or one liner appears. That isn't comedy, thats stupid comedy (I know what some people are thinking. Isn't three stooges stupid comedy? Watch that and Johnny Test back to back and you laugh more at the first option.). Sometimes the jokes are based on bizarre situations which, like Chowder, makes me mad. I have a rule for cartoons and comedies all together: To much bizarre doesn't equal comedy, it makes you just think "what am I watching?".

So it strikes out on all accounts. Don't watch this show if you have any respect for comedy in anyway, shape, or form.

I had recently been watching Johnny Test in an attempt to find humor in it. I failed, horribly. Cartoon Network usually has a tendency to make their shows enjoyable by all audiences, but Johnny Test is "entertainment" in it's lowest form. The writing is incredibly predictable, and the running gags aren't much gags at all. Kids will love it, and that's about it.

Now, this isn't to say that it's all bad. The original opening theme was actually pretty catchy, but for some reason they took the skeleton of it and figuratively smashed it with a figurative aluminum bat. It's a shame, because that was really one of the best things it had going for it.

Some of the characters could be very interesting, in theory. With a little work, the characters could work well together, but they're too one-dimensional. Then again, this makes it easy for the kids to follow.

The pace is a bit too fast as well. The episodes are too busy, leaving little time for clever writing. This is a real shame, because there are so many interesting concepts that the show brings forth. On the upside, however, the fast pace will stop the kids from losing interest, and that's really the entirety of the target audience.

Overall, the show looks very good on paper, but just doesn't succeed in being funny or interesting. This is a show I want to like, but I'm incapable of it. There's just so much potential that isn't realized. Kids will enjoy it, but that's about it.