Though it's as subtle as the first, thee recently released sequel to The Incredibles has a 1960s aesthetic, and in-line with that, the film features a moment in which the Parr kids are watching an episode of Jonny Quest.
Quest debuted in 1964, though only aired for a single season. A follow-up series, titled The New Adventures of Jonny Quest, came decades later in 1986 and another in 1996, titled The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest in 1996.
Writer-director of both Incredibles films Brad Bird declared, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, that the cancellation of the first Johnny Quest series is "one of the tragedies of the world."
Evidently, though the show didn't become as renowned as its Hanna-Barbara siblings like Scooby Doo, the show clearly meant a lot to Bird - hence the Incredibles 2 cameo. Bird cited that his childhood fondness of the Quest shows is one of the reasons he wanted to make The Incredibles to begin with.
When I was a kid, just seeing the opening titles of Jonny Quest had every single thing a young boy could want in entertainment. All represented in the opening titles, it has jet packs, it has mummies, it has robots, it has spies, it has lizard men and komodo dragons and Yetis and guns and bodyguards. It's just insane! Judo and karate and levitation! It's just, like, this salad bar of craziness.
Bird pondered the idea of writing/directing a Jonny Quest movie, stating that if he did it would have to be animated, Jonny would have to remain a kid, and the time-period it is set in would remain as the 60's - rather than convert it to modern day.
What do you think about Bird's comments? Were you a fan of the Jonny Quest cartoons? Had you even heard of them? Would you like to see Bird helm a film based on the series?
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