Lost 'Dragon Ball Z' Episode Narrated By Johnny Bravo Found After 23 Years
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A rather odd blast from the past emerges as a lost episode of JBVO that featured an episode of Dragon Ball Z has been uploaded to the Internet Archive. As noted by lost media YouTuber ‘LSuperSonicQ’ in a tweet, the episode has been lost for 23 years.
Running for almost two years from April 2000, JBVO: Your All Request Cartoon Show was a viewer-request show hosted by Johnny Bravo – the self-centred Elvis-alike whose own cartoon show started in 1997. With this viewer-request show, people could request an episode from Cartoon Network’s vast library with the exception that it wasn’t from a series that used a half-hour runtime.
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But a request for an episode that lasted half an hour did come in. Rather than skip ahead to another request, JBVO created a rather unique and weird segment by showing the time in Dragon Ball Z when Goku killed Frieza. Fast forwarding through it, Bravo gives some commentary on what’s happening in the thirty seconds it is shown, apologising both before and after the clip that the full thing couldn’t be shown.
Owing to its structure, the series was light on reruns, which made the episode – which also featured Bravo Dooby-Doo and an episode of Bugs Bunny – impossible to find. This episode, along with the entire series, has been found by one of LSuperSonicQ’s viewers of their 2017 video on the series. All 28 episodes are currently being uploaded to the Internet Archive by Sanders, who says their mom had worked on the show at Cartoon Network.
Speaking with Kotaku, LSuperSonicQ says that JBVO “was one of my favourite pieces of lost media, so I’m very glad to see it resurface.” As they note, this reappearance shows “that no matter how long a piece of media has been lost for, there’s always a chance for it to reappear someday.”
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Source: Kotaku
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