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{{quote|''Just another day in the life of a boy.''|'''First Season [[Theme Song]]'''}}

 

 

* [[Absurd Altitude]]: An amusement park ride meant to deter Johnny from having an amusement park at his house.

* [[Accidental Public Confession]]: The Moonsies do a Type 2 when Johnny and Dukey see their plans to invade the Earth. It's a Type 2, because although Johnny and Dukey ''see'' the plans, they don't understand them because they can't read Moonsie.

* [[Actor Allusion]]:

** [[James Arnold Taylor|Johnny]] wants to be a [[YouTube|SnoobTube]] [http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesArnoldTaylor sensation.]

** Later happens to Johnny's new smartphone in "iJohnny".

** Pretty much ''anything'' that the girls make with A.I. will turn evil save for something that Johnny's supposed to immediately break.

** More so Gil. In one episode, Johnny dresses as a girl and Gil doesn't notice him. He stated once how he didn't like cookies but ''loved'' Johnny. He only really pays attention to Johnny and not really anything else.

*** Actually he seems to be bi. In the sleepover episode he chases after Jilian, the "hot green haired girl", much to Susan's dismay.

** The Mole People.

* [[And Zoidberg]]

* [[Animal Superheroes]]: Super Dukey.

* [[Animal Talk]]: Dukey can speak to animals regardless of what species they are.

** Which is due to switching from traditional animation to Flash. The first season was animated at Warner Bros. But budget cuts from the merger of the CW and the WB forced the animators to a new studio ([[Cookie Jar Entertainment]]) and format for the second season.

* [[Aside Glance]]: After Dukey shouts [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|"I LET YOU RIDE ME LIKE A HORSE!"]], Johnny gives the audience one of these.

* [[Author Appeal]]: Gender-bending and crossdressing (usually of the male-to-female kind) play ''huge'' roles in many episodes.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: A trap set by Dukey to capture Johnny's [[Evil Twin]] requires that the Good Twin reveal the trap to the evil one and the [[Evil Twin]] step contemptuously over the trigger.

* [[Blackmail]]: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|No, not Mr. White]]. Johnny does this to his sisters if they don't need a favor, but he wants something from them.

* [[Blah Blah Blah]]: Johnny does this quite a lot.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Between Johnny and Sissy.

* [[Be the Ball]]: Happens to Johnny in the Turbo Time Rewinder episodes. The person doing it evens says the trope's name.

* [[Bizarro Universe]]: Johnny and Dukey shrunk down beyond the atomic level and arrived in a reversed Porkbelly.

** In a later episode they end up in Leadbelly, a genderbent version of Porkbelly where Johnny naturally falls for his female counterpart.

* [[A Boy and His X]]: Johnny and Dukey, natch.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Susan, at times.

** Poor, poor Dukey gets it the worst of all of them.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|Shapeshifting]] Powers Go!

** Susan and Mary: "We are such geniuses."

** Everyone in the Test household at one time or another: "To the lab!"

** Johnny: Incinerator! Coooooool. Can we burn something?

** Dukey: Maybe later.

* [[City of Adventure]]: Porkbelly.

* [[Clone Degeneration]]: The reason why robotic clones of Johnny do not obey commands.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: In the episode 'Who's Johnny?', before the final sequence returning Johnny to his original personality, Johnny changes personalities contained in his genetic code every time he gets hit. One personality he gets is of a dog, with the same design when the girls altered his DNA to make him a dog in an early episode.

* [[Cowardly Lion]]: Dukey.

** Gil also buys a box of cookies because: "I hate those cookies, but I love you Bro-man!".

*** Not that kind of love. He asks Johnny earlier in the scene what's different about him. Johnny deadpans "I'm a ''girl''.", and Gil goes "[[Completely Missing the Point|Nooo, that's not it]]."

** He also does it in "Take Your Johnny to Work Day" and does so again in "Johnny Dodgeball", albeit that time it was reluctantly.

** Also in the episode where Mr. Mittens was introduced and Johnny and Dukey were tricked into it.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Dukey, Jillian.

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Janet Nelson Junior was Johnny's supposed [[Love Interests]] in the first season until Sissy Blakely came along. Last seen as a background character.

* [[Didn't See That Coming]]: Parodied in the form of a [[Running Gag]]. You can hear the line in almost every toon, usually after some form of "plot twist."

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Not once has Bling Bling's dad been mentioned.

** This could be because Chris Savino, who was the main director for seasons 3 and 4 of ''Dexter's Laboratory'', worked on ''Johnny Test''.

* [[The Ditz]]: Johnny.

* [[The Drag Along]]: Dukey.

* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Johnny and Gil.

* [[Episode Title Card]]

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: When Zizrar plots to steal the Porkbelly Library, he send the authorities a letter warning them about what he's doing after the setup is complete because although he wants to make the humans stupid, he doesn't want to hurt anybody.

* [[Evil Laugh]] - Both Johnny and Susan used one at certain times. A person whom the SSGA is monitoring has one as well.

* [[Expository Theme Tune]]

* [[Face Palm]]: Dukey does this. A lot.

* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]: In the episode "Johnny Daddy Day", it is shown that Johnny's [[Workaholic|super-busy working mom]] Lila and [[Teen Genius|genius inventor sisters]] Mary and Susan have no experience in cooking whatsoever. They aren't even sure what a spatula is or does. Under the guidance of Johnny (who took a cooking class to get an easy A grade), they manage to make a meatloaf for Hugh for Father's Day, only for it to [[Lethal Chef|come alive and attack him]].

* [[Flamboyant Gay]]: Nobeard and his pirate group, as well as the Mole-People.

* [[Forgotten Birthday]]: In the episode "Bath Time for Johnny", Dukey thinks that Johnny forgot his birthday.

* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: Hugh and Johnny complain that the other has an easier life. To prove it, they switch bodies with Mary and Susan's help. At the end of the episode, after they've learned how hard each others' lives are and switch back, Susan and Lila get into the same fight and switch places as well.

* [[Freudian Trio]]:

** Dukey: Superego (the sane one)

** Susan & Mary: Ego (the experimenters)

* [[General Ripper]]: Played for comedy. The General ''really'' likes missiles.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: But often too late for Johnny.

** In "Johnny Get Your Gum", The unnamed (Ambiguously Asian?) female member of [[Meaningful Name|Mr. Wacko]]'s (also unnamed) board has apparently read the [[Evil Overlord List]]:

{{spoiler|[[Captain Obvious|They do escape]].}} }}

** When did we land in a bad [decade] [genre] [medium]?

** Johnny in a recent episode. When he wins a cruise in a contest he never entered, he instantly realizes it's probably a trap and comes [[Crazy Prepared]] (and, without them knowing, makes sure ''everyone else'' was as well). Naturally he was right.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The monster truck episode where Dukey explains male dominance as "hopping on each other".

** In the Johnny applesauce song, something along the lines of: The lunch lady tried all her tricks and it made her look like a total * fool*" They obviously meant dick or prick.

** Or bitch. [[Captain Obvious|There's always the obvious one]].

** Dukey has a few of these which is appropriate since his name means something else in slang

'''Dukey:''' I LET YOU RIDE ME LIKE A HORSE! }}

** In the Tinymon episode, there's an extremely powerful Tinymon named Badias (or however you spell it). While it could be reasonably claimed that it was meant to be a parody of the Pokemon Latias, it could be that it was also supposed to stand for "bad-ass," considering how intimidated the other characters were of it. It also helps that it was actually pronounced bad-ee-ass.

** In Johnny Dukey Doo, Johnny's dad said he and Johnny's mom's first date was at an inn that was scheduled for demolition.

** In "Hoist the Johnny Roger", the following exchange occurs between Johnny, his dad along with his sisters:

'''Johnny:''' Well, for starters I have a- }}

** In the early episode "Johnny Test: Party Monster", there's this exchange:

'''Dad:''' But the lights stay on at all times! }}

** Heck, how many parents have overheard the show and wondered why the family dog was named {{spoiler|Dookie}}?

* [[Guinea Pig Family]]

* [[Harmless Villain]]: Bling-Bling Boy.

** Also Bling-Bling Boy whenever Susan is in danger.

** Brain Freezer seems to have dropped his evil ways since taking a level in handsomeness.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Mr. Black and Mr. White.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Lila Test.

** Nevermind that Johnny X and Super Dukey's outfits have similar colour schemes to Blue Falcon and Dynomutt.

** Johnny Cart Racing is a homage to ''[[Wacky Races]]'', complete with the villain team (Brain Freezer and Mr. Mittens in place of Dick Dastardly and Muttley) stopping when in the lead to try and keep the others from finishing with nefarious schemes. This was also lampshaded by an increasingly frustrated Mr. Mittens.

** As well as the old Wile E. Coyote cartoons, with Johnny and Dukey as the Roadrunner(s) and Bling Bling as the Coyote.

* [[Humiliation Conga]]: Bling Bling gets one in ''Johnny Cruise''. After his plan to get Susan [[Goes Horribly Wrong]] and nearly gets everyone killed (which was pretty unhinged to begin with, even for him), Johnny forces him to personally perform every job on the entire cruise for his family in a rather humiliating manner. However, in this case, it was well deserved.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: While using a machine that turns base metals into gold, Hugh Test yells at the girls for inventing such a device.

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: The reason {{spoiler|Princess Mirabelle}} goes missing.

* [[In the Future We Still Have Roombas]]: The many varieties of robots Susan and Mary create.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: Johnny makes a speech to guilt Dukey into going on a field trip because Johnny needs parental supervision to go. Dukey then uses almost the exact same speech to get Johnny to help free some animals later in the episode.

* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: Inverted.

'''Susan:''' Hey! We have... strong white teeth! }}

* [[An Ice Person]]: Brain Freezer.

* [[It Tastes Like Feet]]: [[Lethal Chef|Johnny's dad]] was experimenting with healthy cookies and had Johnny try one. Johnny proclaims that the cookies taste like dirt. Johnny's Dad then produces a plate of dirt and [[Abusive Parents|insists that Johnny eat some for comparison]]. Johnny does and [[Insult to Rocks|apologizes for saying the cookies taste like dirt, because the dirt tastes *better*.]]

* [[Kent Brockman News]]: Hank Anchorman.

* [[Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films]]: Johnny and Dukey, after several attempts, get an M-rated game. They get nightmares after they play it.

* [[Labcoat of Science and Medicine]] Johnny's sisters wear lab coats

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Consistently applied. Particularly in the episodes that spoof various Hanna-Barbera toons.

* [[Large Ham]]: So many. Johnny, Dukey, Bling Bling Boy, Brain Freezer just to name a few.

** [[World of Ham|Easier just to say everyone in the whole show]].

* [[Law of Disproportionate Response]]: Dukey dumps large amounts of water onto a neighbor's cats because one of them scratched him the other day. Of course, Dukey's [[Animal Jingoism|a dog so he feels disliking cats is part of his job.]]

* [[Lethal Chef]]: Hugh Test.

** If nobody likes his cooking then why is he the only one who does so?

* [[Long Title]]: The Say-Goodbye-To-Johnny-Blow-Out Bye-Bye-A-Palooza-Jamfest Super-Send-Off Party Jam.

* [[Loophole Abuse]]: In the first episode Dukey points out to Johnny that Hugh told him "touch [his camera] and die", after which Johnny states he's not ''physically'' touching it, since he's operating it using a stick.

* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Mary and Susan, when it comes to Gil. Smartpants when it comes to Johnny.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Mary and Susan, Bling-Bling Boy, Brain Freezer

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Hank Anchorman.

* [[The Men in Black]]: Mr. Black & Mr. White.

* [[Negative Continuity]]: Averted, as the characters do call back to previous episodes. In fact the third season finale uses this as a plot point.

** The actual word "die" - not to mention the word "kill" - is averted, however. Johnny's enemies always wants to "destroy" him.

** What about in "Deep Sea Johnny" when {{spoiler|it was implied that the octopus was killed and served as sushi}}?

** King Rummytumtumtum Sounds like [[Christopher Walken]]

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Seriously. In later seasons, the characters yell ''frequently.'' [[Justified Trope|To be fair]], would you calm down if the Earth's rotation stopped or a villain tries to turn every creature into cats?

* [[Noodle Incident]]: Several. Occasionally used as [[Blackmail]] by Johnny or a reason they can't do an experiment without getting in trouble with Dad. For example, experiments somehow resulted in a gigantic Johnny bursting out of the roof of the Test house and shooting lasers from its eyes...''twice''.

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Gil in regards to Mary and Susan.

* [[Obviously Evil]]: One shot character Larius Nefarious. Hell, it's the whole reason the SSGA decide to investigate him. {{spoiler|As it turns out, ''his daughter'' was the evil one.}}

* [[Once an Episode]]: "Whoa. Didn't see that coming." Dukey lampshaded this at least once.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Dukey.

* [[Overused Running Gag]]: "Whooooa, [[Didn't See That Coming|didn't see that coming.]]"

* [[Packed Hero]]: Subverted. Johnny and his friends visit an ice cream factory, and Johnny's dog is thought to have fallen into the vat and been packed into a tin. After Johnny eats his way through the entire batch, the dog walks up to him and asks Johnny what he's doing.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Hugh Test.

* [[Parking Problems]]: The sisters' van is towed for parking in front of a fire hydrant.

** Apparently Mary and Susan realized this, because in another episode they changed the password(s). Yet Johnny, and even Lila, were able to figure it out, and it still involves Gil.

* [[Plot Parallel]]: ''Dawg & Bone''.

** "Teleporting is FUN!"

* [[Professor Guinea Pig]]: Johnny, a rare ''voluntary'' example, and Dukey, rather less so.

* [[Punny Name]]: [[Mary Sue|Mary and Susan]]... Johnny TEST?

* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: Used by Johnny on his family to go to a ski resort. Used by a whole bunch of kids including Johnny on a ski captain but it is subverted when "The Look" doesn't work.

* [[Refugee From TV Land]]: Dawg and Bone from "Johnny Re-Animated".

* [[Reverse Polarity]]: Averted when Johnny uses a fruit revitalization ray to bring back Porkbelly's founding fathers as zombies because the ray only works on people halfway. Susan reverses the polarity on the ray to de-animate the founding fathers but it doesn't work because they're already sort of dead.

* [[Rube Goldberg Device]]: Dukey builds one of these to trap Johnny's [[Evil Twin]]. Subverted when the [[Evil Twin]] figures out the trap and steps over the trigger... into the actual trap which is a covered hole in the ground.

* [[Salt and Pepper]]: Subverted with Mr. Black (The white guy) and Mr. White (The black guy), whom seem to have little difference personality-wise.

* [[Screw Yourself]]: In the episode "Johnny Alternative", it's strongly implied that Johnny has fallen in love with what is obviously a female version of himself.

* [[Schoolgirl Rival]]: Sissy to Johnny

** Though that seems more like "you TOO can have this nightmare house, but it won't come with the SUPER FUNNY ENDING we have here!"

* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: Hugh Test clearly chooses to ignore the fact that nobody likes his cooking, regardless of horror struck faces, audible gagging, running to vomit and being told to his face that his cooking is aweful. The most he ever said about people opinion of his food is "I'm beginning to think you people don't like my meatloaf."

* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Johnny (macho) and Dukey (sensitive).

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: [[Brainless Beauty|Gil]] to Mary and Susan.

** One of the early episodes had a toy series called [[Bionicle|Roboticles]]. Coincidentally, Johnny's voice actor would later voice a character in the actual series.

** [[Phineas and Ferb|"Whatcha doooin'?"]]

** The sleepover episode turns into a [[Cat in The Hat]] homage halfway through, with Bling 1 and Bling 2 running around with kites, a talking fish, and [[Dr. Seuss]] dialogue and gadget designs.

** In Johnny of the Deep, Bling Bling loses a ring that hypnotizes Susan into falling in love with him. [[Titanic|When it falls overboard, he says "It was the rarest of gems."]]

** "[[Scooby Doo|Johnny Dukey Doo]]"

** In one episode, Johnny gets a brown, bushy mustache. When questioned about his name, what does he say it is? [[My Name Is Earl|Earl.]]

** [[Fred|Hi-Pitch Hal]]

* [[Snark Knight]]: Jillian, Darth Vegan's daughter.

* [[Snowlems]]: The Brain Freezer attacks Porkbelly with a whole bunch of them.

* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Johnny.

* [[Spot the Imposter]]: When the military builds a Johnny Cyborg, it invokes this trope to avoid being shot by Dukey.

* [[Take Over the City]]: Lampshaded when Mr. White & Mr. Black ask why the show's villains always seem to attack Porkbelly.

* [[Take That Us]]: When confronted with the cartoon "Dog and Bone" which has a near-identical premise to his life, Johnny simply asks "Who'd want to watch something like that?" before glancing at the fourth wall.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Any time ''anyone'' says "We're safe! We're all safe now!" is a cue to the universe that it's time to make them unsafe again.

* [[Time Machine]]: Susan and Mary designed a time machine in the shape of a tea house.

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Bling Bling Boy is this just as often as he is the antagonist.

** Though they seem to vary on whether they actually want to share him or not.

* [[Typo On the Cover]]: The title screen of the episode "Johnny Get Yer Gum" actually says "Johhny Get Yer Gum."

* [[Veganopia]]: Dark Vegan provides a [[Take That]] against this trope.

* [[We Could Have Avoided All This]]: Dukey wonders at the end of Johnny Test: Monster Starter why the helmet can't affect itself so that Johnny can remove it. Cue Susan and Mary [[Face Palm|facepalming]].

* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: The subject of two different episodes. In one the change is forced on Johnny by his sisters, in another Johnny's personality is changed to more easily work with a classmate.

** Three, if you count the episode where Dad was replaced with a robot duplicate.

** Between the various hockey references (including scenes of Johnny and other kids playing street hockey, and hockey apparently being Johnny's favorite sport), and its closeness to the Canadian border in "Johnny Moustache", it's possibly in Minnesota.

*** According to the flag flying above the school in "Old School Johnny"... Ontario.

*** Most of the show was done by Teletoon, a Canadian company, so they probably got lazy and put it in Ontario. Despite things like the CIA and the Area 51 knockoff, and the White House...

*** It wouldn't be the first time Teletoon moved a series from the US to Canada when they took over it's production - see ''[[Whats With Andy]]''.

* [[Wild Card Excuse]]: Dukey the speaking dog is always "a kid with a rare hair disorder".

* [[World of Ham]]

* [[Yandere]]: In one episode, Johnny asks his sisters for super-intelligence. He obtains a pair of pants, which become self-aware...and this.

** The girls create three robot boys to make Gil jealous. It works. In ''both'' directions.

 

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