A Johnny Bravo Christmas

<p>It’s time to catch a last-minute flight to the North Pole and do the monkey with me back to 2001 for an out-of-order dive into “A Johnny Bravo Christmas,” a well-deserved punch in the face that’s a little bit rock ’n’ roll.</p><hr /><h4>On This Episode:</h4><ol><li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), former blond pompadour-haver until my wife said she liked my hair better short.</li><li><strong>James Riley</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/yourbuddyspooky">@yourbuddyspooky</a>), flying through the skies above the Arctic with his magic umbrella.</li></ol><hr /><h4>Topics and Tangents:</h4><ol><li>“<a href="https://christmas-specials.fandom.com/wiki/Twas_the_Night_(Johnny_Bravo)">’Twas the Night</a>,” a 1997 segment of “Johnny Bravo” which this special accounts for in the show’s continuity… sort of.</li><li>“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caR_5BgEgv8">Larry & Steve</a>,” Seth MacFarlane’s short film for the “What a Cartoon!” show which would become a rough template for “Family Guy.” After this short, Seth worked as a staff writer for “Johnny Bravo.”</li><li>The Bravos appear to be of a dying breed of people who wait till Christmas Eve or a few days before to start decorating.</li><li>This special first aired less than 3 months after 9/11, on Pearl Harbor Day, and opens with Johnny unnecessarily calling the fire department to tell them he’s “the bomb.”</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkFr2Sw_hEg">Homer Simpson’s sandwich</a>.</li><li>The worst things we’ve found in our couches.</li><li>The latest you can mail something to guarantee arrival before Christmas, according to the <a href="https://www.usps.com/holiday/holiday-shipping-dates.htm">U.S. Postal Service’s Holiday Shipping Deadlines</a>.</li><li>A rare “true meaning of Christmas” monologue in a cartoon that begins with baby Jesus.</li><li>The voice of the truck driver is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Marshall">Vanessa Marshall</a>, who may or m