Mess O' Blues (Unreleased 1993 Johnny Bravo Prototype Short)

Mess O' Blues was the original thesis short for Johnny Bravo created by Van Partible in 1993. While working at Loyola Marymount University, Van Partible decided to pursue a career in animation and so he started working on a senor thesis project called Mess O' Blues. This short was about an Elvis Presley impersonater, originally three before it was shortened to one due to time constraints, would later become Johnny Bravo. Dan McLaughin (Van Partible's animation professor) showed the short to a friend working at Hanna-Barbera Productions and the studio loved the short so much that they asked Partible if he could do a pitch for a seven-minute short cartoon based on it which became the original Johnny Bravo short, in which the character was changed so, as Partible put it: "he would be more of this '50's iconic James Dean-looking character that talked like Elvis." (other changes include his hairstyle, name, physical appearance and personality), and aired on "World Premiere Toons" (also known as "What a Cartoon!").

Despite the sucess it spawned, Mess O' Blues has never been seen publicy, unlike similarly made "What a Cartoon" predecessor "The Whoopass Girls", and not even on any DVD set of the show.