Hugh Test (2005, seasons 4-6)

 Hubert "Hugh" Test is the uptight, stay-at-home father of Johnny, Susan, and Mary, and is also the husband of Lila. He is known for his obsession with meatloaf and for being the housekeeper of the Test home as well as being a bit of an overbearing parent.

Why He Sucks Now

 * 1) Originally, he was a bit of a firm but fair parent for the first three seasons. In fact, according to the Johnny Test Wiki, Hugh was based off of Scott Fellows' mother (which could be implied she did all the housework and might have been the disciplinarian of the household). However, by season 4, he was flanderized to become a complete overbearing, high-strung, and hotheaded control freak.
 * 2) He acts more abusive than strict to Johnny, and it is implied that he secretly hates Johnny in a messed up way:
 * 3) *He didn't apologize to Johnny for accusing and punishing him for things he didn't do in "Johnny Johnny".
 * 4) *In "Johnny's Amazing Cookie Company", Hugh snatches the cookies from Johnny's hands, drains them all in the freaking sink and gives him his "Meatloaf Cookies".
 * 5) *In "99 Deeds of Johnny Test", Johnny had 98 detentions, so Hugh said one more detention and he'll ship him off to military academy at 4:00, so he had 99 deeds to make up for his detentions, and if so, his permanent record will be cleared. Before it was time to go, he had 98 deeds made up, but the Principal dropped his pen, and Johnny picked it up, making 99, and as a result, his PR was cleared, and Hugh was UPSET.
 * 6) *In "Spotless Johnny", if Johnny missed his curfew, he will take his video game and television privileges and pants for an entire week, which is public nudity and would lead Johnny to juvenile hall. And according to the wiki, it pointed out that this would have been an ideal set up by Hugh in order to get rid of Johnny since Johnny would get arrested for public nudity prior to not wearing pants because Hugh confiscated them.
 * 7) *In "My Dinner With Johnny", he bet Johnny Test in which if he didn't use good manners for today's dinner, he will have to clean his room for A YEAR.
 * 8) *In the beginning of "Johnny Test in 3D" where he asks what was the good news Lila had to bring to him and the kids, he asked if any of them were things that happened to Johnny.
 * 9) *In the Netflix reboot episode "Johnny's Baby Brother" when the baby started to cause so much trouble, he kept on thinking that Johnny was the one who was causing the trouble and even thought of sending his son to military school like in the above-mentioned episode "99 Deeds of Johnny Test".
 * 10) While characters like Johnny have recovered from flanderization in the 2021 reboot, Hugh is still the same as he was since the fourth season of the original (but only in the second and sixth episodes).

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) It turns out that Hugh may mean well at times since he's the one more likely to scold, correct, punish, and discipline his children while Lila does it only when it's necessary although she doesn't always deal with the Test kids because of not only the first reason but she is always busy.
 * 2) * This is helped by the fact that his family still loves and cares about him despite his behavior and actions.
 * 3) His design is still good, especially his current design for the Netflix reboot.
 * 4) He finally asked his son the truth about his punishments in "Papa Johnny" where he lives as being a helpless janitor from the building and marries his rich wife and might be the reason why he punished Johnny very badly is that he is a tragic father who suffered the hardest day for what he does. And thanks to him that he finally apologizes to his son in the end for having abusive things for what he was done.
 * 5) While he wasn't a good character in episodes 2 & 6, he has improved a bit to become more tolerable in his other appearances, like getting mad at Johnny for buying a lot of packages by using Alicia in "Johnny Unboxed" and his understandable refusal to take Johnny to a concert that is very far away from Porkbelly.
 * 6) * And the best part is!: He did a great job destroying a Smart Car in "Johnny's Super Smart House" in a clever way.