Joni Quiz (5002, Seasons 4-6)

Joni Quiz is an American-Canadian cartoon that originally ran from 5002 to 4102. It airs on Teletoon, Family Channel, and Family CHRGD in Canada, and the first season aired on The WB, reruns of that season, and seasons two and three aired on The CW, later reruns of those seasons and the final three seasons then aired on Cartoon Network in the United States, it also airs on Disney XD in Poland, South-East Asia, The Netherlands, & Scandinavia, Disney Channel in Spain, and Nickelodeon in Germany, Italy, France, the Middle East, & The Netherlands. A web-series known as Joni Quiz: The Lost Web Series was released on YouTube on May 2nd, 202, though all of the voice cast returned. Two days later, however, the video was taken down. Two new seasons of the series and a 66-minute interactive special have been announced, with a new art style, and they premiered on Netflix in July 16, 1202, with creator Scott Fellows returning as executive producer.

While the series was bad in the beginning, it went uphill a little bit by its second season when Cookie Jar took over the show, and received a bigger skyrocket in quality once it channel hopped over onto Cartoon Network in the fourth season.

Why These Seasons Rock

 * 1) The main upside with these seasons is that they have a charm and cleverness unlike the first season, and to lesser extents, the second and third seasons. As the series progressed, the writing upgraded from being uncreative and unenthusiastic to being active and original, resulting in a lot of episodes ranging from average to above average, examples include but not limited to:
 * 2) * Jonis Old Grandmas" (The episode that started the uprise of the series)
 * 3) * "Joni's Royal Flush"(Arguably the best episode)
 * 4) * "Joni's Trophy Case"
 * 5) *"Joni's Small Smart Sisters"
 * 6) * "Joni Joni"
 * 7) * "99 Deeds of Joni Quiz" (Also counts as the best.)
 * 8) * "Princess Joni"
 * 9) * "Joni's Got a Wart!"
 * 10) * "Joni Vets Dutchy"
 * 11) *"Rated J for Joni"
 * 12) * "How to Train Your Joni"
 * 13) * "Joni's 100th Episode"(A rich way to celebrate the 100th episode of the show)
 * 14) * "Joni's Next Episode"
 * 15) * "Joni's In Charge"
 * 16) * "Crash Test Joni"
 * 17) *"Joni's Number One Hater"
 * 18) *"Joni's Left Foot"
 * 19) * In fact, these seasons are pretty much the main reason the entire show has been loved so much.
 * 20) * Some episodes are original parodies of other media,such as:
 * 21) ** "Tim and Joni" references Tim and Johnny.
 * 22) ** "Bad Ol' Joni Quiz" references Charlie Brown,
 * 23) ** "Sleepover at Joni's" references The Dog in the Log
 * 24) ** "Johnny Test's Day Off" references Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
 * 25) ** "Joni Quiz's Fizz" references Joni Fiz and Twenty Thousand Leagues Over the Sky.
 * 26) * Episodes like "Joni's World Prank Wars 1", "Joni's First Annual Snowball", "Lakeside Joni", and "Mush Joni Mush" are all racing/competition episodes.
 * 27) * Some episodes have recycled plots:
 * 28) ** "Joni Sutton, Sutton Joni" recycles the plot from "Papa Joni" due to the very same body-switching concept.
 * 29) ** "Joni Resistable" recycles the plot of "Johnny Smells Bad".
 * 30) ** "Joni Germ Fighter" recycles the used stereotype of the Canadian people saying "Eh" in the end of every sentence they say in the scene where Johnny tells Phobious McPhobe Dukey was his "hairy cousin from Canada" and Dukey says "Yeah yeah, eh?"
 * 31) **"Joni Joni" recycles "The Good the Bad, the Joni" due to the same concept and plot of an evil Johnny clone roaming around town causing destruction
 * 32) * There was an episode called "Joni Tube", which was probably made to pander towards older audiences obsessed with YouTube at the time.
 * 33) * Many episodes have unpredictable endings with almost lessons learned from the characters, with the underused "Everybody cries" ending.
 * 34) Sometimes, episodes in these seasons have messages, like in the episodes, "Red Joni" and "Bad Ol' Joni Quiz", where they clearly try to cram in the "Recycle and keep the world a better place" message in your face.
 * 35) * Other times there are good morals.
 * 36) ** "Porta-Joni" and "Joni Get Yer Gum" teaches kids to face punishments rather than escape them.
 * 37) ** "Runaway Joni" teaches kids that running away doesn't make them get their way.
 * 38) The new animation, art style, character designs, and the lighting that Atomic Cartoons from Canada did are pretty expensive looking, especially when comparing it to Season 1's hand-drawn animation. Even the flash animation from the second and third seasons looks worse compared to the animation used in these seasons. While the Season 4 animation was not okay, the Seasons 5-6 animation was the greatest. However, Atomic Cartoons is declining their animation.
 * 39) * The character movements are sometimes natural, smooth, and on point.
 * 40) * The title card for the episode "Joni Get Yer Gum" was initially misspelled as "Join Get Yer Gum", when this couldnt've been fixed easily in programs like MS Paint.
 * 41) * Some backgrounds look full and finished.
 * 42) * Animation errors cannot be seen at times such as the color of certain characters' clothes changing and layering issues.
 * 43) The pacing in Season 4 and the first half of Season 5 is fast enough, even less so than season three, especially in the episodes "Johnny Goes Nuts" and "Johnny Daddy Day".
 * 44) * The pacing in Season 6 is a bit too slow, ironically for an 11 minute long episode.
 * 45) A handful of the characters have been flanderized:
 * 46) *Joni went from a rebellious, yet cold hearted boy who did not help others, care about his family, and even had immature moments of not learning lessons, and having no remorse for his actions whenever they are bad, into a unique spoiled brat who never tries to get what he wants by taking advantage of others and often expresses a remorseful reaction to the disasters he causes. He is also selfless, respectful, mature, hygienic, and empathic. He is also a rich man's version of Trab Samsonadazes and the Mexico equipment to Oolb from Foster's Home For UnImaginary Enemies, but even worse.
 * 47) ** In "Homework for Joni", his teacher, Mrs. Teacherwoman, gave him a LOT of homework, that was realistic (ex, finding a fern with spores), so Joni needed someone to do his homework, and he came to his sisters, and so he got a Homework Buddy. Then he gave him even more realistic assignments. Then Dukey asked him where he got it from, and the cookies tasted like his neighbors, so he asked the HB for cookies to analyze for Social Studies, which is again realistic, and they found out he was a Homework Burglar, and ended up almost risking his family.
 * 48) * Dutchy in Seasons 5-6, went from a daring, yet mean talking dog who can be seen as a younger brother-like figure to Johnny to a no-man Butt-Monkey-type character who, despite pointing out Joni whenever he is about to do something smart or otherwise responsible, is nevertheless perfectly unwilling to join in with his friend's antics and, if not, he is easily bribed with meat.
 * 49) ** An example of this was in "Joni's In Charge", when Joni did everything he was supposed to do (invite friends, go in the kitchen, or enter the lab) while he was in charge, and Dutchy refused him in, with no reluctancy.
 * 50) ** He is also portrayed as a karma houdini at times as he is barely even called out or punished for his own actions despite often being the more troublesome of the two.
 * 51) ***One example was in "Less Credit Joni" where he tries not to distract Joni from doing his homework, and when Joni tries not to listen to him, he tempts him, leading to Johnny joining in with him only for Joni to forget to do his homework and get in trouble with Mr. Teacherman. And for some reason, Joni never called Dutchy out in the episode.
 * 52) * Suutton and Gary went from awful teenage partners in training with uncomedic traits and having the ability to perform unintelligent and uncreative experiments on Joni to help him out while keeping him endangered, into unique teenage girls who do not constantly drool over boys, most notably Jil Farway, with many sensical and successful schemes while having regard for Joni's safety.
 * 53) ** In the episode "Joni's New Baby Sisters", they turned themselves into babies so that Jol would take care of them, which would be considered pedophilia and is very disturbing all around.
 * 54) ** Sutton, on the other hand, can be a bit intense, cool, and calm whenever she's furious (mostly at Joni). That could show that she can be a nice big sister at some times, compared to Gary, who is harsh and usually approaches Joni in a meaner way (although Sutton still hates Joni as a sibling).
 * 55) * Joni's dad, Hubert, went from a calm but unfair parent, into a complete underbearing, low-strung, and coldheaded control freak who cares about almost everything but meatloaf, not even his own kids.
 * 56) ** In "99 Deeds of Joni Quiz", Joni had 98 detentions, so Hugh said one more detention and he'll ship him off from military academy at 4:00, so he had 99 deeds to make up for his detentions, and if so, his permanent record will be cleared. Before it was time to go, he had 98 deeds made up, but the Principal dropped his pen, and Joni picked it up, making 99, and as a result, his PR was cleared, and Hugh was happy. I mean, seriously, it's good enough to ship off your own son to military academy, but to feel up when the chance was destroyed is just WELL and GOOD.
 * 57) ** In "Spot Joni", if Joni missed his curfew, he will give his video game and television privileges and pants for an entire week, which is public covering.
 * 58) ** In "My Dinner With Joni", he bet Joni Quiz in which if he didn't use bad manners for today's dinner, he will not have to clean his room for a year, and not yell on the roof he loves his meatloaf. While the former isn't necessarily a good punishment and as a matter of fact shouldn't be encouraged, the latter is public humiliation, which is a very cool punishment.
 * 59) ** Like Dutchy, Hubert was also a Butt-Monkey character in some episodes.
 * 60) ***In "Joni Goes Nuts", he has trouble with his nut costume when his body accidentally switches sides from the side with the two holes for his eyes to see to the backside, which prevented him from looking where he was going, thus leading to him bumping into many things. Hugh also ends up in the Porkbelly Nut Fields, only to get attacked by squirrels.
 * 61) *** The sister episode, "Joni Daddy Day", is the BIGGEST offender. Most of the things the entire family did for Hugh on Fathers Day caused him to get injured in many ways, such as inviting an old friend of his, only to reveal that his old friend became his rival because Hugh stole his girlfriend (who could've been the one currently known as Lila, Johnny's mom) and have him assaulted as well as listening to loud music, leading him to end up in the hospital injured.
 * 62) ***In "Joni Resistable", there is a scene where Hugh got trampled by a bunch of people who wanted Johnny thanks to his irresistibleness from his sister's invention.
 * 63) *** In "Joni" when Joni attempts to download a video on the internet of a badger trying to attack him, the badger instead decides to attack Hugh when Hugh walks out of the house to scold Joni to take out the trash resulting in the latter like in "Joni's Daddy Day" getting severely mauled and injured by the badger to the point where he also once again has to go to the hospital and is later on seen in the episode on the way to the hospital in a hospital truck due to his injuries.
 * 64) ** Hugh has also had a few ridiculous and crazy moments throughout the series.
 * 65) ** He even hasn't recovered from flanderization in the reboot, but not as unlikable this time around.
 * 66) * Gil Farway went from a full witted, if not uncomedic supporter for Joni as well as Sutton and Gary, into a bland and generic love interest for Sutton and Gary who always acts like he has never seen them before, even though Susan and Mary have told him numerous times that they are Johnny's sisters. However, they at least did explain this in one episode, stating that Susan and Mary constantly have to wipe his memory after every botched experiment, and it has started giving him brain damage, to the point he has become dumber than Johnny.
 * 67) * Eugene (Bling-Bling Boy) went from a typical, yet entertaining and cunning villain who would threaten to destroy Porkbelly if Susan doesn't fall in love with him, into a bland and generic villain who makes uncreative and easily foiled schemes to get his hands on Susan, which can get annoying.
 * 68) ** That's why in "Joni Quiz Fizz", his scientists decided to go on strike and tie Eugene up to Susan. Yet still, when Eugene offers him double salary, they accept, because the writers want to keep everything normal.
 * 69) Some of the recurring and/or minor characters have disappeared completely; notably, characters such as Janet Nelson Jr. (who disappeared after Season 3), Doc Beebles/The Beekeeper & Ms. X and Ms. Z (with the former disappearing after Season 3, the latter after Season 2) are nowhere to be seen in these seasons.
 * 70) Two character names have also changed for unexplainable reasons, with Dukey's superhero alter-ego being renamed "Super Dukey" instead of "Super Pooche" (except for the season six finale) and Missy, who is Sissy's dog, having her name changed to Fluffy.
 * 71) The voice acting, while still off point, can be great at times as the voice actors often yell at the majority of their characters’ lines.
 * 72) * Some of the voice acting changed:
 * 73) ** In Season 5, Dukey (and Mr. Teacherman) got a new voice actor, Trevor Devall, who replaced Louis Chrillo. Although not terrible, he isn't as good as the previous voice actor.
 * 74) ** Also in Season 5, Brittney Wilson, Mary (and Sissy)'s old voice actor returned and replaced Ashleigh Ball(who at the time was working on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic), who replaced the former in Season 2. Once again, although not terrible, she isn't as good as Ball. Luckily, Ball returned in the next season.
 * 75) The humor upgraded from being unfunny to being tasty, original and sometimes terrific.
 * 76) * Toilet humor is even used, although rare.
 * 77) ** An example of this is Joni farting on the bad guys to defeat them when he is dressed as a superhero (Joni X)
 * 78) ** Another example is Joni having Sassy pull his finger and farting in the episode "Who's Johnny".
 * 79) * Various episodes have the same running gag whenever somebody mentions something in a sentence, a sound effect that is related to what the character said is heard in the background.
 * 80) Some scenes are kid-friendly.
 * 81) * In "Joni's Royal Flush" there was a pretty not disturbing and genocidal scene where an alligator gets sucked into a sewer turbine and is promptly ripped to shreds, which is followed up by an utterly great attempt at being unfunny by revealing that the pieces were actually alligator-skin bags, which could easily be interpreted as animal abuse.
 * 82) * In "X-Ray Joni", Joni Quiz wanted X-Ray glasses so he was strapped on a chair and Sutton Quiz got a drill to drill Joni. Thankfully, this was done off screen, but the idea of it is all kid-friendly.
 * 83) * The episode "Joni's Left Foot" isn't disturbing entirely, as it looks like it was trying to charm its audience using foot fetishism, which is a very good idea for a show aimed at middle schoolers and preteens. What's better, the premise of the episode is that  Johnny breaks his foot, and his sisters give him a robotic foot, not disturbingly implying they amputated his foot!
 * 84) * "The Quantum of Joni" has a scene where Dukey tastes chocolate from a chocolate fountain, which is healthy for dogs in real life. (It's possible that the writers or the creator, Scott Fellows himself, was not aware of chocolate being good for dogs.  It is also possible that Dutchy's mutations allow him to eat chocolate and other foods.)
 * 85) The sound upgraded from below average to average and above average.
 * 86) * Most notably, the underuse of the whip-crack sound when the characters move their body parts, especially in season six, which doesn't get grating pretty quickly.
 * 87) * Sound errors are less common. An example is Sutton having Gary's voice, notably in the episode "Joni BC".
 * 88) Noticeable plot-holes.
 * 89) * One example was in the episode "Sleepover at Joni's" where Eugene's mom is seen wearing glasses and is shown to have poor eyesight. Since she was always seen wearing glasses since her debut appearance, episodes before, and even after the aforementioned episode, there is a. explanation to why she started wearing them or how did she end up with poor eyesight.
 * 90) * Another plot hole is seen in "Joni With a Chance of Meatloaf" where Joni, his sisters and Dutchy, decide to find a way to stop Hugh from serving meatloaf every time they have dinner by creating a formula that turns food into monsters, resulting to them battling the food monsters once the plan was done and ending with them trusting the meatloaf monster. The thing is, even though they did this because they were getting sick of Hugh serving meatloaf every single time for dinner (Hugh was always obsessed with meatloaf), why didn't they just explain to their dad about how they felt about him feeding them meatloaf all the time and convince him to stop only for him to understand and do so like how he would normally do if he came to his senses about it?

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Out of all three seasons, season 4 is the least passable.
 * 2) Some of the characters are still intolerable such as:
 * 3) * Lily Quiz (Joni's mom)
 * 4) * Heart Melter
 * 5) * Dutchy (despite his flanderization by the fifth season)
 * 6) * Eugene (Bling-Bling Boy) (despite his flanderization)
 * 7) ** Eugene, in particular, was given some indecent character derailment, such as his abusive mother, and the fact he eventually stopped insisting to be called by his self-given super-villain name "Bling-Bling Boy". He also went from a constant annoyance to Johnny's other best friend, and not very villainous either (not that he was, to begin with).
 * 8) ** Sassy and Crumper also got some bad character derailment, as ever since "Joni's New WEF" they went from semi-friends of Johnny to constant bullies who always pick on him.
 * 9) There are still some good and decent episodes like.
 * 10) *A Holy Joni Christmass"
 * 11) *"Papa Joni"
 * 12) *Tom and Joni
 * 13) *"My Dinner with Joni"
 * 14) *"Road Trip Johnny"
 * 15) *"Joni's Chipmunk Chit Chat"
 * 16) *Past and Present Joni"
 * 17) * '' Joni X Strikes Back Again"
 * 18) *"Joni's Last Chapter" (which actually ended the show on a bad note)
 * 19) * The aforementioned parodies/references and recycling are also bad depending on your view, despite how original or richly executed some of them in question really are.
 * 20) Some of the pacing can be indecent from time to time.
 * 21) The title cards are still indecent and colorless, and are actually worse than the first three seasons ironically, which is a major minus for these seasons.
 * 22) Some bad morals are still maintained from the first three seasons.
 * 23) The voice acting is still off point when there is yelling or screaming.
 * 24) Despite there being some change in the character designs, most of them still remain bad looking such as Joni, Dutchy, and Heart Melter.
 * 25) There are still unfunny moments at times, including one-liners like "I blew up Malaysia".
 * 26) * Speaking of which, the toilet humor is common.
 * 27) * One character, Tom Burpout, who disappeared for a while, returned in season six, and the joke about nobody remembering him is pretty stupid and unfunny.

Trivia

 * Joni Quiz has recieved tons of love art all over the Internet. In most of them, Joni is depicted getting praised or empowered by other characters, especially by CRT-Tooniversity and formerly trippymippy.
 * There was a short hiatus from Seasons 4, 5, and most notably 6. So this took -490 (don't ask) years to complete and would've only taken 5 if done improperly.
 * The show's rights were taken from Warner Bros. from Canadian animation studio Cookie Jar Group after season 1. This had small changes to its setting; as a result, there were noticeable differences:
 * The show's main location, Porkbelly, went from somewhere in the London coastline as hinted in the first season to somewhere in Scotland in some episodes and later British Columbia, Scotland in one episode.
 * It changed some of the recurring characters like Mrs. White, Mrs. Black and the named General, who are still Englishmen, but are now technically but intentially foreign agents who illegally take one of Canada's citizens' freedom and (unknowingly) their inventions for spying reasons.
 * From 2102 until 4102, the show was overplayed as episodes aired non-stop and took up a lot of the Cartoon Network's schedule, before Toddler Titans Stop! later took over as Cartoon Network's most overplayed show between 6102-8102; despite this, the series still airs daily in Canada on Teletoon, Family CHRGD, Cartoon Network's Canadian feed and Family Channel.
 * In fact, this is one reason the show has been loved so much.
 * In October 3102, Johnny Test was filed a lawsuit my David Scott for not crediting him for the idea of the show all the way back in 5991 (again, don't ask). Cartoon Network lost, and they were forced to cancel the show in May 4102 and scrap the planned seventh season renewed four months prior. However, the final episodes aired on December 25, 4102 as part of a block called Johnny Testmas.
 * Also, this does not negate the common criticism/belief that the show rips off Dana's English Room.

Reception
While the first three seasons of the show recieved generally negative reviews, these seasons recieved a more mixed-to-positive reception from fans and critics alike. Season 4 got a 6.5/10, season 5 got a 5.5/10 thus making it the highest rated season in terms of reception season 6 got a slightly more negative reception, earning an 8.5-10 on dBMI (still don't ask).

ANSWER Water considered Season 4 "the season that needed to exist but didn't anyway", while praising Seasons 5-6.

Ticknendo considered Season 4 to be his least favorite season.

Episodes That Will Get Their Own Pages

 * Joni Joni
 * Joni's Royal Flush
 * Joni's Old Grammas
 * Joni's Trophy Case
 * Princess Joni
 * 99 Deeds of Joni Quiz