Johnny Zest has the saddest backstory :(

"Starfree;c-17003174" wrote:
In my save Johnny's career just took a HUGE upturn. He got a career chance card that one option would let him go straight to the top of the comedian career the other he'd just go on as usual; guess which one he/I chose lol :smiley:. So Johnny went from level 5 to level 10 comedian in a click & is also now a two star celebrity. Take THAT Nancy hehehehe.

No way! He got the same chance card in my save (or at least one with the same outcome). I thought it was perfectly fitting. He’s worked so hard for this, he deserves a break!

This happened to one of my sims except it was his loving wife who trashed him.
They really need to fix these little messages so only strangers or those with negative relationships with the sim send them.

I played the homeless teen challenge with Johnny Zest aged down as the teen. It fits in nicely with his backstory. I imagined he bought the trailer as his first home - so he lived "homeless" until he had earnt enough to buy it. (During the challenge I made him "buy" items from his trailer like the dinosaur clock and the rocket girl poster as well as his guitar. He also had to earn a certain amount before I awarded him an item of his signature clothes. I really enjoyed palying out the story of how the Johnny Zest personna came to be.

He is a lovely sim to play and @Michelei - everytime he got a notice that his grades had fallen he cried, especially when it became an F ( from not attending school) - so it fits with your lovely backstory. I love the idea of using MCCC to fix family relationships. He is now a young adult and has just started talking to Geoffrey so I might use your idea @Starfree. I am kind of sad I removed get famous as I would like him to succeed and rub it in Nancy's face. I have made a young rich female Sim who lives in the Oakenstead mansion (with her business manager mother and tech guru father)- she has just started dating Johnny and accepts him for who he is and respects that he has earnt all he owns - so things are looking up for him.

I posted this before @duhboy2u2 I really enjoyed this save and lately have come back to it. Johnny got engaged to his girlfriend who is a three star celebrity from achieving the artist aspiration and now becoming a good actress - and Johnny is almost at 3 stars and quite famous too (after some patches from EA I reloaded Get Famous ). Here he is receiving an award at the starlight accolades:

https://i.imgur.com/m5gTxZ5.png?1

Yes take that Nancy (I agree @Starfree )

@Kwazie_kitty2015 he is such a handsome sim is't he and so sweet and kind. My simself is a nasty paparazzi in this game so she can only be jealous of Johnnies beautiful fiance. A screenshot just for you :)

https://i.imgur.com/OtmnGkn.png?1

"takenbysheep;d-957140" wrote:
sooo now that I have GF I finally decided to play The Legend johnny z so he can fulfill his dream of becoming a famous comedian. I'm having some struggles, but overall it's been fun. I've always had a soft spot in my heart for this guy. He got the public number quirk and today I got this text from the evil witch herself, nancy.

https://i.imgur.com/SxqsAkC.png?1

It made me so sad :'( the poor guy is just trying to live his best life. you've already disowned him... just butt out already! Has anyone else tried making him famous in their game? I really just wanna see him succeed :s

one of the most annoying features in get famous, public phone number :#

"fiercephoenix91;c-16999330" wrote:
Many seem to dislike Johnny Zest. At least I come across several who do. I personally haven't played him much, but have been tempted to marry a Sim to him. It's nice seeing some like playing him.

How is that even possible? How can anyone dislike Johnny Zest? I have yet to play him but have had sims of mine date him.

For some reason MCCC loves to break up Don and Katrina in my games and In my legacy game she and Johnny hooked up and eventually married. My head canon is that while he was never the superstar he had hoped to become, just a moderately successful comedian and lounge singer, they lived happily together until Katrina's death, when he became a ladies man. Johnny makes a great silver fox.

The Laandgraab family spectacularly imploded in that game and no longer existed by the time of Katrina's death. So he had the last laugh there. I was tempted to move Johnny into the mansion, but never got around to it.

Look out ladies! Heeere's Johnny!

https://i.imgur.com/HWsRcrh.jpg

I was taking headshots for the legacy family tree and noticed Johnny looking suave so I changed out that ridiculous chinstrap for a mustache more suitable to and elderly ladies man.

Yes, he became the hero who solved the Strangerville Mystery made by the very evil Landgraab Enterprises. He inherited a lot of money, got back at his family for disowning him and began dating his friend Alice Martin.

Now they have a daughter named Jenny and has a beautiful house on top of Shady Acres.

@WaytoomanyUIDs I love elderly ladies man Johnny. Swoon. He has won my heart.

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Aww no Johnny is lovely! In one of my saves, he fell in love with the scientist single mum next door, and dotes on her son, he moved in and they tried for a baby (in the rocket ship no less) and succeeded and on the same evening Johnny was abducted by aliens, came back with his own on board passenger, they both went in to labour on the same day and now he has an alien toddler and twin human toddlers running round the house. That escalated quickly :sweat_smile: