Johnny Bravo - "Carl Be Not Proud"

"Carl Be Not Proud" is one of my favorite episodes form the second season of Johnny Bravo. It focuses on Carl and Johnny Bravo, I think Carl is my favorite semi-regular character during seasons two and three, I don't know why they underused him in Season 4 though.

The episode begins at Pops' diner, where Carl cries over the fact that his Venus Flytrap has only twelve hours to live, while Pops thinks it's just a lousy houseplant, he decides to just go ahead and put it in the kitchen, and he wanted him to spend his final days among the flies he loved so well, and Pops states that the place is lousy with the little stinkers. As Carl mourns over the loss, Johnny Bravo comes in.

He witnesses Carl crying, but before he could wonder why, he noticed he was wearing his underwear on the outside, the spins around three times until he finally gets his clothing into better gear. Then he asks Carl "who died?" And Carl shows Johnny the medical report, and Johnny reads "Twelve hours to live, no hope for recovery, fungal infestation?!" and comes to the conclusion, "Carl, your dying!" And he decides that from now on, after being mean to him for the past two decades, he decides to be the best friend he always fantasized he was. Before Carl could clear up the fact that the report was for his plant, he overhears Johnny say "anything" and starts to take advantage of this.

At Carl's house, Johnny reluctantly plays Lieutenant Biff Proton, the funny thing is, he would be interested in the space character later on in the series. Carl orders Johnny to give him a food rub, and they fight to the death, until Johnny realizes, "What am I doing?! Carl's dying and here I am pounding his head into the carpet!" Carl, using poor acting, says he sees a bright light, and collapses. Johnny tells him to not die and he'll do whatever it takes. Carl asks him "What size uni-tar do you wear?" and Johnny says to the camera, "This won't end well."

At the Aron City skating rink, Johnny has a bit of trouble skating, until Carl tells him to pretend he's sliding across a beautiful cloud, as Johnny follows Carl's idea, he gets the hang of skating. And Johnny comes over and becomes Carl's skating buddy, spinning him and lifting him in the air as if Carl was flying. But then, all of a sudden, a fresh honey comes walking by, and as usual, Johnny drops Carl on the ice, tries to go for the lady, try to woo her, but gets coffee poured onto his shirt, and beaten up silly. Once he decides he wants to leave, Carl uses his poor acting skills once again, saying his spleen hurts and everything's getting dark and pasty, Johnny buys this and tells him not to die on him and they exit the skating rink.

On the other side of town, Johnny Bravo uses a megaphone declaring how Carl is so great and that he is his best friend why trying numerous times at other people to tell them to hide him. Johnny Bravo puts down his picked sign and megaphone, and says "I don't get it Carl, we've been doing this for hours, shouldn't you be dead by now?" Carl replies, "Any minute now in the mean time, keep declaring your devotion to me!" and that's what Johnny did. "C is for the coolest guy I know, A is for the awful way I treat him, R is for his really neat bug collection, L is for the love humanity! Somebody put me out of my misery! I can't stand it anymore, I can't stand it!"

Pops comes by with Carl's Venus Flytrap all better, saying it's gonna live after all. Johnny overhears this and Carl says "Ix-nay on the ytrap-flay!" But Pops doesn't listen. It turns out that one helping of Pops' loose meat special and the little feller was as good as new. And he guesses that fancy medical report was just a big load of bunk. Johnny grows angry after discovering that it was all just for a stupid plant and he chases Carl all the way through town to the sunset. And Pops says "I like you better than people."



So, bottom line, this episode was pretty funny. It had Johnny Bravo in his usual stupid fashion thinking his friend is dying, and cows to do anything for Carl, and Carl never acts out of character in this episode, he's just taking advantage of what Johnny offered. So, if you're a fan of Johnny Bravo, check this episode out if you haven't already.