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 that makes Frank Heffley, Mr. Herriman, and Hippolyte/Ignatius look like saints in comparison, who cares about almost nothing but meatloaf, not even his own kids.
 * 2) He has had a few ridiculous moments in the show. One example is in "Johnny Unplugged" where he tries to get the kids to enjoy the great outdoors, only for neither of them going as he expected.
 * 3) He acts more abusive than strict to Johnny, and it is implied that he secretly hates Johnny in a messed up way:
 * 4) *He didn't apologize to Johnny for accusing and punishing him for things he didn't do in "Johnny Johnny".
 * 5) *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", which is EXTREMELY mean-spirited and downright cruel.
 * 6) *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. Seriously, it's bad enough to ship off your own son to the military academy, but to feel down when the chance was destroyed is just wrongdoing to do to your child.
 * 7) *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. It also stated that it would be a possibility that Hugh would also get arrested for either being an "accessory to public nudity" or for masterminding the whole plot.
 * 8) *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, and yell on the roof he loves his meatloaf, which is a very CRUEL punishment.
 * 9) *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, with one of them being about him going to boarding school.
 * 10) *According to the trivia about the episode "Lakeside Johnny" in the wiki, it pointed out that Hugh sending Johnny to Camp UnaWunaWakkaWakka ACTUALLY seems to be a way to get him out of his hair for the summer.
 * 11) *In the Netflix reboot episode, Johnny's Baby Brother, when the baby started to cause so many trouble he keeps on thinking that Johnny is the one who's causing the trouble and even thought of sending his son to military school like in the infamous episode "99 Deeds of Johnny Test".
 * 12) * Because of all of these actions, it makes you question as to why Johnny never berates Hugh for his actions against him.
 * 13) Speaking of him constantly feeding his family meatloaf everyday, why should he do this? He is obsessed with it, but he should have realized his entire family was getting SICK and TIRED of him doing this, since he has done it every time in the series, which is overused. He should have given other foods a chance/move on to other things or if he was still obsessed with meatloaf, he could have the meatloaf himself while his family gets other things. He even does it to the point there was a part in Johnny's nightmare where Hugh stuffs him in a meatloaf and sings a song about having meatloaf for breakfast, lunch, and even dinner (though the last two options of when to have meatloaf makes sense) in "Johnny Test's Day Off".
 * 14) He isn't apparently smart, as revealed in "Johnny on The Job" according to Dark Vegan thanks to the mind trick he played on Hugh.
 * 15) * Another thing that shows he lacks intelligence was when in "Saturday Night's Alright for Johnny", he didn't realize Sissy actually barged into the Test household without a proper invitation or permission. He didn't even question why or how she managed to enter, nor get the idea for lecturing Sissy for barging in or calling her mom.
 * 16) He also seems to get touchy and stingy over small things that may not seem to be a big of a deal, especially ones that might seem terrible, but not a harmful threat.
 * 17) He is also shown to be domineering at times, as seen in episodes where he forces the entire family (meaning he did the same to Lila, his wife) to attend dinner and go out on vacations he planned, especially when he made Lila give away all her phones because they were vacationing at a dude ranch which forbid phones prior to keeping the place based off of a period where electronic devices of any sort wasn't invented, which turns out to be the Wild West of course.
 * 18) 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 love and care about him despite his behaviour and actions.
 * 3) His design is still good, especially his current design for the Netflix reboot.
 * 4) Most of the time Hugh does get some compresses for his actions, usually when he's at his Butt-Monkey status.
 * 5) 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.
 * 6) While he wasn't a good character in episode 2 & 6, he has improved a bit to become to 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.