| The Adventures of Johnny Quasar | |
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| Episode | 0 |
| Season | 0 |
| Airdate (US) | 1995 |
| Invention(s) | Goddard |
| Next | Runaway Rocketboy |
The Adventures of Johnny Quasar is a short of Jimmy Neutron's prototype, produced in 1995.
Information[]
This early short was produced in 1995 and was pitched at SIGRAPH 1995. Franchise creator John A. Davis produced a test of the Johnny Quasar character in 1995. A few screenshots and even a 7-second clip on YouTube has been uploaded by various users. The clip can be found on DNA Productions website using Internet Archive (Wayback Machine). Some more concept art can be found in the book "Not Just Cartoons, We're Nicktoons". At SIGRAPH 1995, Davis met Steve Oedekerk, who expressed interest in the project. Around in 1997, DNAhelix.com (formerly, the "DNOY Productions" website) updated their website, renaming the Johnny Quasar page to "Johnny Quasar: Boy Genius".
These tests of the 1995 Johnny Quasar animations remained lost for a long time, with only 11 seconds of a 40-second demo were available, until Johnny's voice actor, Hilal Hourani (channel now named "wizknocker"), uploaded the original tests on his YouTube channel on August 14, 2017.
Trivia[]
- The few-minute cartoon initially going to be in part of Nickelodeon's "KaBlam!", but ended up unaired.
- The full series initially going to be picked up by CBS, but never came to fruition.
- The first Johnny Quesar demo was produced 7 years prior to the television series, while the second one in 1997 was produced 5 years prior.
- A screenshot of Johnny Quasar's original family can be found in the Nicktoons book.
- The rocket that Johnny rides is similar to the Strato XL rocket that Jimmy Neutron rides in both of the film and the TV series.
- Out of all the versions of Jimmy, Johnny has the biggest forehead, but similar to MTV's teen character duo.
- The 7-second clip features Johnny Quasar introducing himself and his robotic pet dog Goddard.
- The website featuring the page in 1996 was called Johnny Quasar: Boy Genius.
- At the "Happy Happy Joy Joy" exhibit, a maquette of Johnny Quasar is seen.
- On August 14, 2017, Johnny Quasar's voice actor uploaded both of the full 1995 and 1997 demos on his YouTube channel wizknocker.
- The music used in the background is stock music from the FirstCom music library album FC-S32 Retro TV Tracks. The song is titled "The Goofy Alien" and was composed by Chris Many and Geoff Levin.