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Bravo may refer to:

• Rio Grande, a river that flows through Mexico and the United States, also known as "Río Bravo"

In media:

• Bravo (Canada), a specialty arts channel in Canada
• Bravo (magazine), a youth magazine in Germany and Russia
  • Bravo Otto, awards presented by the magazine
• Bravo (Belgian magazine), a Belgian comics magazine
• Bravo TV (TV series), a German television programme
• Bravo (UK TV channel), a British digital television channel that ceased broadcasting on 1 January 2011
• Bravo (US TV channel), an American cable television network

In music:

• Bravo (band), a Russian pop-rock band
  • Bravo (Bravo album)
• Bravo (5566 album)
• Bravo (Spanish group) a Spanish musical group at the Eurovision Song Contest 1984
• Bravo!, an album by rock band Friska Viljor
• Bravo Band, a Macedonian music group

In aviation:

• FFA AS-202 Bravo training aircraft
• Mooney Bravo, an aircraft produced by the Mooney Aircraft Company
• Cessna Citation Bravo, a business jet
• Bravo Airlines, an airline based in Madrid, Spain

In other usage:

• The letter "B" in the NATO phonetic alphabet
• Bravo (software), the first WYSIWYG word processor, developed at Xerox PARC
• Bravo, Cuba, a community in the municipality of Santiago de Cuba
• BRAVO Volunteer Ambulance, a free volunteer ambulance service in New York City
• Fiat Bravo/Brava, a compact car
• Bravo Awards, former name of the ALMA Awards
• Bravo Telecom, a Saudi wireless operator
• Bravo class submarine, a design of military submarines built in the then-Soviet Union
• Bravo or chlorothalonil, a fungicide
• Bravo (armed retainer) (plural Bravi), one of the armed retinue of, typically, a petty Italian lord during the 16th and 17th centuries
• Bravo (supermarket), a chain of grocery stores in the northeast US
• Bravo, Bravo, Bravo, a vessel emergency code
• Bravo Award, annually presented by the Italian magazine Guerin Sportivo to the most outstanding young European footballer
• Bravo or Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first U.S. test of a dry fuel thermonuclear hydrogen bomb

People with the surname[link]

• Alfredo Bravo (1925-2003), Argentine activist and politician
• Ángel Bravo (born 1942), Venezuelan baseball player
• Arturo Bravo (born 1958), Mexican racewalker
• Charles Bravo (1845-1876), British lawyer and poisoning victim
• Claudio Bravo (born 1983), Chilean footballer
• Daniel Bravo (born 1963), French international footballer
• Danny Bravo (born 1948), Indian-American child actor
• Darren Bravo (born 1989), West Indian cricketer
• Dino Bravo (1949–1993), professional wrestler
• Dwayne Bravo (born 1983), West Indian cricketer
• Fabiana Bravo (born 1969), Argentine soprano
• Guillermina Bravo (born 1923), Mexican ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet director
• Leopoldo Bravo (1919-2006), Argentine politician
• Marcelo Bravo (born 1985), Argentine footballer
• Mario Bravo (1882-1944), Argentine politician and writer
• Martín Bravo (born 1986), Argentine footballer
• Nicolás Bravo (born 1786), Mexican politician
• Nino Bravo (1944-1973), Spanish singer
• Omar Bravo (born 1980), Mexican footballer
• Raúl Bravo (born 1981), Spanish footballer
• Rose Marie Bravo (born 1951), American businesswoman

See also[link]

• Castle Bravo, code name of the first U.S. test of a "dry" thermonuclear device
• Operation Bravo, a military operation during the Vietnam War
• Johnny Bravo, Cartoon Network TV series
• Girls Bravo, Japanese Anime series

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Johnny Bravo is an American animated television series created by Van Partible for Cartoon Network. The series stars a muscular beefcake young man named Johnny Bravo who dons a pompadour hairstyle and an Elvis Presley-like voice and has a forward, woman-chasing personality. Plots typically revolve around him trying to get a woman that he has targeted throughout the episode to fall in love with him. He is often beaten up or stunned by his target or companions, or is ditched by them in the end.

The series was originally part of a series of shorts on Cartoon Network's animation showcase series World Premiere Toons (also known as the The What a Cartoon! Show.) The popularity of the shorts led to the network commissioning a full series for the show, which premiered on July 14, 1997. The series was renewed for multiple following seasons and finally ended its official run on August 27, 2004.

The series was the second series to be spun from World Premiere Toons, and is the second series under Cartoon Cartoons (a collective name for early Cartoon Network original series). A spin-off of the series, JBVO, was unsuccessful and ran for one season. Many of the writers and directors on the series went on to become famous for their own projects (writer Seth MacFarlane for Family Guy and writer/director Butch Hartman for The Fairly OddParents). Johnny Bravo is today considered a classic Cartoon Network series, the title character is labeled as "iconic", and his catchphrases (including "Oohh, Mama!") are relatively common in popular culture.^[2] Reruns of the show are played on Boomerang.

An 11-minute short titled Johnny Bravo Goes To Bollywood was made and aired in India in 2009, and in August 2010 in the United Kingdom. A 70-minute movie with the same title aired in Australia on November 20, 2011.^[3][4]

As of March 20, 2012, this series has returned to Cartoon Network in re-runs on the revived block, Cartoon Planet.^[5]

History[link]

The series takes its roots from a senior thesis project creator Van Partible did for Loyola Marymount University, about an Elvis Presley impersonator.^[2] Mess O' Blues (1993) was shown by Partible's animation professor at the college to a friend working for Hanna-Barbera Cartoons at the time. The studio loved the film and asked him to develop it into a pitch for a seven-minute short. Partible sold the project to Hanna-Barbera shortly afterward.^[6] The short would be aired on Cartoon Network's new animation showcase, World Premiere Toons.^[2] Also known as the What a Cartoon! Show, the series' short cartoons (three per half-hour episode) mirrored the structure of a theatrical cartoon, with each film being based on an original storyboard drawn and written by its artist/creator.

Partible initially roomed with Craig McCracken (creator of The Powerpuff Girls), Paul Rudish (a designer on that series) and Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of Dexter's Laboratory.)^[2] The only two cartoonists fresh out of college were Partible and Seth MacFarlane.^[2] Partible changed his character from Mess O' Blues around so that "he would be more of this '50s iconic James Dean-looking character that talked like Elvis". Partible picked voice actor Jeff Bennett to play Johnny Bravo solely based on his young, hyped Elvis impression.^[2]