The Other Jonny Quest

I'm happy to report that Jack is now hooked on Jonny Quest. I Tivo'd the show after his positive reaction to the Jonny Quest mash up/short that was tacked onto the end of a recent Power Puff Girls episode.

Jack calls the original show, "the other Jonny Quest" since he saw the stop motion short first. He loves all the characters, especially Hadji and bulldog Bandit. For me, it's been great reacquainting myself with this show, which I liked as a kid but don't remember actually seeing a lot of the episodes. My attractive wife thinks the show is a little weird what with four guys living on a mysterious, government-owned island in the Florida Keys. I had to explain that Dr. Benton Quest is a highly prized scientist working for the U.S. government and that Roger "Race" Bannon is his full time government bodyguard. She thinks there's something else going on.

Jack watching the end credits of Jonny Quest

The show is wonderfully Cold War but a bit heavy on the xenophobia. A Russian/Soviet submarine crew is the unnamed collective villain in a episode called "Arctic Splashdown" whose plot is taken straight from the movie "Ice Station Zebra." Then there is the reoccurring Asian evil scientist, Dr. Zin, who is best remembered for constructing a giant spider robot that infiltrates Dr. Quest's government laboratory in a flying saucer. Jack particularly likes this episode. Via the robot spider, Dr. Zin taunts Dr. Quest as he tries to discover the secrets of Dr. Quest's experimental para-power ray gun. I'm pretty sure Jack doesn't yet appreciate the Cold War intrigue but he likes the monsters and robots.