It's a riddle within a secret wrapped in an enigma. Perhaps the parody is in fact parodying itself while it makes a parody of itself.

Also, Buttercup is hot.

The only way to parody a parody is to play the concept straight. It's like parody payback or something.

Therefore, Johnny Quest is a reverse-time parody of The Venture Brothers.

I love this video because it's fucking stuffed full of callbacks to the original show (most of which never made it into the anime, I'm sure.)

goddammit shut the fuck up you aspergers pedophile

Stay out of threads that don't invole you, in the future, thanks.

Volve. @ Whitewater.

My guess is that whitewater5 prefers Bubbles.

I dunno, his aggressive indicates he'd be more of a Buttercup person. Jealously, perhaps.

We don't get a close look at HIM there. I wonder if he's actually disturbingly bishi?

Also, is that Puffy AmiYumi singing the theme song?

What the fuck language are you guys speaking?

Weeabooneese.

Him is brilliant, the voice actor does a dead perfect impression of the Blue Meanie. Where's the Mayor and his secretary?

Sarah Bellum?

It is nothing like the original show.

Nothing at all.

Really? Did you watch that intro? Do you really have to ask?

5 stars for the fact it takes less than a second for it to start getting skeevy. And for the schadenfreude in that it'll probably last longer than the original.

I watched the first episode when it first came out, because I was wondering the same thing. The answer is no.

To give you a rough idea of the horrible trainwreck it is:

- They are not sisters, or related in any way, they were no created by the professor, they were just normal middle school girls who got some power belt things as a result of one of his experiments.

- They're powers are not natural, but rather they transform into "Hyper Blossom", "Rolling Bubbles" and "Something-or-other Buttercup", like Sailor Moon transformations.

- The Professor has a son.

- Nearly all the enemies transform too, and are just normal people otherwise, with the exception of Mojo, who puts on some power suit. I never saw Him, Gang Green Gang, or Fuzzy Limpkins in the show so I don't know about them.

- There is no humor, as the show takes itself 100% seriously, even though it keeps some of the running gags from the original show, such as never being able to see Ms. Bellum's face. But it's not meant to be funny in this show.

I got all that from the first episode and had no desire to see anything further than that. And this intro, complete with megazord mechs and lazers shooting from Buttercup's armpits don't make me regret it.

Oh, and in response to IrishWhiskey, it already ended. There were only 52 episodes.

Bubbles still talks to squirrels.

It lasted 52 episode.

Damn you Japan.

52 episodes is actually pretty good for a Japanese show. Even popular ones typically last half that long.

Also, my biggest disapointment with this show is that the Mayor is now a respected and wise authority figure, whose only failing seems to be that he's slightly forgetful.

Oops. That was meant as a reply to ProfessorChaos.

The original PPG had a giant robot, too. In fact, this is basically the same one.

I don't believe he had to change anything to market PPG in Japan.