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In January 2017, Lost Media Wiki user [[User:YoshiKiller2S|YoshiKiller2S]] got ahold of the ''Johnny Bravo Season 1'' DVD and preceded to rip and upload ''Bringing Up Johnny Bravo'' to YouTube and then later to Archive.org and with it, was a total of 15 mute seconds of ''Mess O' Blues'' footage. YoshiKiller2S also discovered four animation cels from ''Mess O' Blues'' in a YouTube video that was uploaded by the official Loyola Marymount University YouTube channel.
In January 2017, Lost Media Wiki user [[User:YoshiKiller2S|YoshiKiller2S]] got ahold of the ''Johnny Bravo Season 1'' DVD and preceded to rip and upload ''Bringing Up Johnny Bravo'' to YouTube and then later to Archive.org and with it, was a total of 15 mute seconds of ''Mess O' Blues'' footage. YoshiKiller2S also discovered four animation cels from ''Mess O' Blues'' in a YouTube video that was uploaded by the official Loyola Marymount University YouTube channel.


On a podcast in January 2022, Partible revealed that he owns the only VHS copy of the short film and a digital copy on his hard drive, but has no plans to release it online due to its internal value of his growth as an animation artist. He chooses to only show the film to either close colleagues or students participating in his animation classes.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OetTpIA-Jto</ref>
On a podcast in January 2022, Partible revealed that he owns the only VHS copy of the short film and a digital copy on his hard drive, but has no plans to release it online due to its internal value of his growth as an animation artist. He chooses to only show the film to either close colleagues or students participating in his animation classes.<ref>https://youtu.be/OetTpIA-Jto</ref>


==Gallery==
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===Animation Cels and Photos===
===Animation Cels and Photos===
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File:Mob 1.png|Animation cels (1/4)
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The Original Mess O' Blues Snapshot.png|The original snapshot of ''Mess O' Blues''.
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===Bumpers and Interstitials===
===Bumpers and Interstitials===
*[[The Big Game XXVI: Tom vs. Jerry (found Cartoon Network marathon special; 1998)]]
*[[The Big Game XXVI: Tom vs. Jerry (found Cartoon Network marathon special; 1998)]]
*[[Cartoon Network (partially lost "CN City" bumpers from TV channel; 2004–2007)]]
*[[Cartoon Network (partially found "High Noon Toons" bumpers from TV channel block; 1994-1996)]]
*[[Cartoon Network (partially found "High Noon Toons" bumpers from TV channel block; 1994-1996)]]
*[[Cartoon Network (partially lost "Nood" bumpers from TV channel; 2008-2010)]]
*[[Cartoon Network (partially lost "Nood" bumpers from TV channel; 2008-2010)]]
*[[Cartoon Network NBA All-Star Slam (partially found interviews of marathon; 2003)]]
*[[Cartoon Network NBA All-Star Slam (partially found interviews of marathon; 2003)]]
*[[Cartoon Planet (partially found bumpers of revival block of Cartoon Network animated variety series; 2012)]]
*[[Cartoon Planet (partially found bumpers of revival block of Cartoon Network animated variety series; 2012)]]
*[[Cartoon Planet (partially found "Live from Cartoon Planet" bumpers of Cartoon Network animated variety series; 1995)]]
*[[Codename: Kids Next Door Mission Weekend (partially found marathon bumpers for Cartoon Network animated series; 2003)]]
*[[Codename: Kids Next Door Mission Weekend (partially found marathon bumpers for Cartoon Network animated series; 2003)]]
*[[Fridays aka "Cartoon Cartoon Fridays" (partially found interstitials from Cartoon Network channel block; 1999–2007)]]
*[[Fridays aka "Cartoon Cartoon Fridays" (partially found interstitials from Cartoon Network channel block; 1999–2007)]]
*[[Hotdog TV (partially found Cartoon Network interstitial series; 2010)]]
*[[Hotdog TV (partially found Cartoon Network interstitial series; 2010)]]
*[[Lumpus and Slinkman's Cabin Fever (partially found Cartoon Network program block segments; 2005)]]
*[[Teen Titans Go! Top 5 (lost promos for Cartoon Network weekend morning block; 2015)]]
*[[Tickle-U (partially found Cartoon Network preschool block; 2005-2006)]]
*[[Tickle-U (partially found Cartoon Network preschool block; 2005-2006)]]


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*[[Camp Lazlo "Monkey See, Camping Doo" (lost unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2004)]]
*[[Camp Lazlo "Monkey See, Camping Doo" (lost unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2004)]]
*[[Captain Sturdy (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)]]
*[[Captain Sturdy (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)]]
*[[Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe (partially lost pilots from animation studio; 2008-2011)]]
*[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (found unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2003)]]
*[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (found unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2003)]]
*[[IMP, Inc. (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)]]
*[[IMP, Inc. (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)]]
*[[Jeffrey Cat: Claw and Order (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2002)]]
*[[A Kitty Bobo Show (found storyboard of cancelled second animated pilot for Cartoon Network; 2002)]]
*[[A Kitty Bobo Show (found storyboard of cancelled second animated pilot for Cartoon Network; 2002)]]
*[[Major Flake in "Soggy Sales" (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)]]
*[[Major Flake in "Soggy Sales" (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)]]
*[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (partially found "Wedgies pilot" of Cartoon Network animated series; 2007)]]
*[[My Gym Partner's a Monkey (lost unaired pilots of Cartoon Network animated series; 2003/2004)]]
*[[My Gym Partner's a Monkey (lost unaired pilots of Cartoon Network animated series; 2003/2004)]]
*[[Nikki (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2000)]]
*[[The Powerpuff Girls (lost pilot of Cartoon Network animated series reboot; 2016)]]
*[[Project Gilroy (lost Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2007)]]
*[[Project Gilroy (lost Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2007)]]
*[[Regular Show (non-existent Flash pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; late 2000s-2010)]]
*[[Regular Show (non-existent Flash pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; late 2000s-2010)]]
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===Other Cartoon Network Series===
===Other Cartoon Network Series===
*[[The Amazing World of Gumball "The Downer" (lost original draft of episode of Cartoon Network animated series; existence unconfirmed; 2012-2014)]]
*[[Ben 10 (partially found pop-up trivia version of episodes of Cartoon Network animated series; 2008)]]
*[[Chowder (lost production material of cancelled Cartoon Network TV film; 2009)]]
*[[Chowder (lost production material of cancelled Cartoon Network TV film; 2009)]]
*[[Class of 3000 (found original English dub of Cartoon Network animated musical series; 2006-2008)]]
*[[Class of 3000 (found original English dub of Cartoon Network animated musical series; 2006-2008)]]
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*[[Ed, Edd n Eddy "Luck Be an Ed Tonight"/"A Room with an Ed" (rumored/lost unfinished episodes of Cartoon Network animated series; existence unconfirmed; 2005)]]
*[[Ed, Edd n Eddy "Luck Be an Ed Tonight"/"A Room with an Ed" (rumored/lost unfinished episodes of Cartoon Network animated series; existence unconfirmed; 2005)]]
*[[Ed, Edd n Eddy "Special Ed" (non-existent unproduced episode of Cartoon Network animated series; late 1990s/early 2000s)]]
*[[Ed, Edd n Eddy "Special Ed" (non-existent unproduced episode of Cartoon Network animated series; late 1990s/early 2000s)]]
*[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy "Matinee Mandy" (lost original English audio of Cartoon Network animated short; 2007)]]
*[[I Heart Tuesdays (lost production material of cancelled Cartoon Network animated series; 2011-2012)]]
*[[I Heart Tuesdays (lost production material of cancelled Cartoon Network animated series; 2011-2012)]]
*[[I-10: The Ben 10 User Generated Experience (found Cartoon Network TV special; 2008)]]
*[[I-10: The Ben 10 User Generated Experience (found Cartoon Network TV special; 2008)]]

Revision as of 03:26, 20 November 2022

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The direct quality version of the original snapshot.

Status: Partially Found

Mess O' Blues is an original short film about an "over the hill ageing rock star who thinks he's Elvis" created by Van Partible in 1993 for his senior thesis project that would serve as a basis for the Cartoon Network original show Johnny Bravo.

Origins

Concept art.

While working at Loyola Marymount University, Partible decided to pursue a career in animation, and so he started working on a senior thesis project entitled Mess O' Blues.

Partible started with the concept of three Elvis Presley impersonators (or "Elvi," as Van Partible puts it) who fought crime. However, due to his time constraints and the fact that he was doing all of the work himself, the idea was cut down to just one Elvis impersonator.

Becoming Johnny Bravo

Johnny Bravo.

Dan McLaughlin (Partible's animation professor) showed the short to a friend working at Hanna-Barbera Productions.

The studio saw the short and loved it so much they asked Partible if he could do a pitch for a seven-minute short cartoon, with Mess O' Blues as the inspiration. This became the original Johnny Bravo short.

The character was changed so that, as Partible put it, "he would be more of this '50's iconic James Dean-looking character that talked like Elvis."[1]

Other changes include his hair color, name, physical appearance, and personality.

This new pilot was later aired on World Premiere Toons (also known as What a Cartoon!).

Resurfacing

Despite its success, Mess O' Blues has never been released or even seen publicly, unlike the widely available and similarly made What a Cartoon predecessor The Whoopass Girls - which would later become The Powerpuff Girls.

The only footage that has ever been made available are a few short, mute clips from a short mini-documentary that was included as a bonus feature on the Johnny Bravo: Season 1 (Cartoon Network Hall of Fame) DVD entitled Bringing Up Johnny Bravo.

Footage

In January 2017, Lost Media Wiki user YoshiKiller2S got ahold of the Johnny Bravo Season 1 DVD and preceded to rip and upload Bringing Up Johnny Bravo to YouTube and then later to Archive.org and with it, was a total of 15 mute seconds of Mess O' Blues footage. YoshiKiller2S also discovered four animation cels from Mess O' Blues in a YouTube video that was uploaded by the official Loyola Marymount University YouTube channel.

On a podcast in January 2022, Partible revealed that he owns the only VHS copy of the short film and a digital copy on his hard drive, but has no plans to release it online due to its internal value of his growth as an animation artist. He chooses to only show the film to either close colleagues or students participating in his animation classes.[2]

Gallery

Videos

All Mess O' Blues clips from Bringing Up Johnny Bravo.

How Van Partible ’93 Gave Life to Johnny Bravo which includes the four animation cels.

The Bringing Up Johnny Bravo mini-documentury.

A Speech Bubble interview with Van Partible where he talks about Mess O' Blues.

LSuperSonicQ's first video on the subject.

LSuperSonicQ's second video on the subject.

Animation Cels and Photos

See Also

Johnny Bravo

Anthology Series

Bumpers and Interstitials

Pilots

Live-Action

Other Cartoon Network Series

Reference