I was talking about Venture Brothers, one of the few shows I actually keep up with, when this series came to mind. It aired in 1996-97, back when I was seven years of age. Still, I had high standards for such a young kid, and I remember adoring it. It also had remarkably good CGI for the era. Unfortunately, the only way I could find the episode are on those single-episode VHSs they used to make. 
Anyone else have fond memories of RJQ to share? 
http://www.classicjq.com/TRA/JQTRA.shtml
Never seen them myself, tho I have the original series on DVD.
Brian
You watched it when you were seven? Man… I’m only 22 and you’re making me feel old.
I liked it well enough and enjoyed it despite never liking the original '70s cartoon. The villain that quoted from his own personal holy book was my favorite.
Missed that series. And I loved Jonny Quest cartoons as a kid, I would have checked it out.
Now I really feel old – JQ came out in '64, I probably watched it in reruns as a young’n of 6 or 8 circa '68 or '70. And someone who’s 22 in this thread feels old?!? :smack:
And how old is the OPer? I’m guessing 15 from your hints…? I’m envious – you have your whole life of trash media culture ahead of you! 
Yes, I’m fifteen- one of the last children of the 1980’s. I don’t mean to make you feel bad, but if it’s any consolation, think about all the great cultural trends I missed out on. :o
Aesiron touched upon what I believe to be one of the series’ strongest points. The villians were always interesting, instead of the same old 2-dimensional “destroy everybody” archenemies. Some people criticized the writers for overusing the villains, but I think it only makes sense. I mean, they’re scientists, not superheroes.
Thanks.
Google ‘spindrift island’ ot ‘Rick Brant’ sometimes. Jonny Quest was liberally ripped of from a hardyboys type juvie series. Way better than the cartoons.
Heck -
I was never a really big Johnny Quest watcher—not that I didn’t like any of the series’, just that they never seemed to be airing with any reliability.
I do remember—
Little bits and scraps of the original 60s series. (Reruns, of course.) Actually, I don’t think I remember anything about it except who the characters were. (And seeing an episode where Race impersonates some river god, and calls a bunch of amazonian indians “heathen monkeys!” Yie.)
By the way—does anyone know what episode (if any) had the big robot eyeball on spiderlegs that showed up in the opening credits? (They use it in Venture Bros, too.) What the hell was that thing?
The JQ series they did back in the 80s. I think I remember even less about this one—aside from the fact they had a Golem sidekick, or something. (The guy was made of rock, right?) That, and the opening credits had a little piano solo during a shot of the gang cruising in their SST. That always seemed ultra-cool, for some reason.)
And the new series—had a cool opening sequence, mostly hinging on the musical cues over the slow-motion clips of an A-10 strafing someone, and an Apache helicopter chasing someone on horseback. (That, and the shot of Jessie throwing her wet hair back under the moonlight. [13-year old me]Yow.[/13-year old me]) Of course, the “slow motion” footage leads into the fact that the series’ animation averaged about 10 frames per second.
Otherwise, I’m afraid, it never really seemed to stand out for me—with a few brief exceptions, like that it occasionally had people actually getting killed, or using real firearms.
The character was named Hardrock.
Of course, I only know this because I happened to catch a couple of episodes a few years ago. Somehow. Don’t remember how.
The supreme irony was that at 15 I worshipped animation from the 40’s through 60’s – Warner Bros, Tex Avery, etc. Animated features truly sucked in the 70’s and 80’s. But that’s not what this thread is about. Please, carry on. [/hijack]
You take that back, squeegee. I’ll have no disparaging remarks about my thirty minute Saturday morning toy commercials.
Actually I really liked The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest. The villans were rather interesting. Some of the more small-time villans often met rather gruesome fates (getting gored by an elephant, mauled to death by mutant fish creatures, falling off a reeeeally high bridge, etc).
The guy that quoted from the book was named Rage. The interesting thing was that later in the series,
The book of Rage is totally blank, with the exception of one page containing a photograph of his daughter. So he was either a total nutball, or just being sentimental. Huh!
That was The Robot Spy.
“Tell Jonny, I love … .”
I, too, am old enough to have seen Jonny Quest in the 60’s – even though it was a "boy’s cartoon, " in my estimation at the time. That robot eyeball thing scared the living CRAP out of me. And the scary music and woo-woo sound effects!