Bad Hare Day

Bad Hare Day (1-27)

Written By: Pamela Eells

Storyboard By: Celia Kendrick

Directed By: Timothy Björklund

Synopsis: In order to not be groan for have steal Brandy's scarf for her date, Whiskers faken an illness that cause him more troubles than it save him.

It is one of the fewer firsts episodes I do watching before to launch this blog. This one was just... weird for weirdness sake but that's not meant that I would laugh. There is a good reason why some areas in the world had refuse to shown the animated series back it was originally made.

The cartoon start where Brandy impressed Margo and Lola with her newer scarf, just in time for a date... with a monkey! Lola complained that she had no arms to wear these. But then, Mr. Whiskers hop and hop by brush his teeths with... Brandy's tooth brush! You know this is going to sucks for its randomness like the way a lot of '40s Screen Gems shorts cringe the today's classic animation elite.

But truly, the most embarassing part ever made on this episode is the format itself --Whiskers says lots of times to Brandy "I'm sorry!", Brandy screams him by says "I couldn't believe you!", lots of wacky shenanigans (A term that is so popular by modern-day animation bloggers), etc. Nothing we haven't seen yet before, but they tried a new gimmick for save money to any actually animated Brandy's groanings by... a still-life picture of female lion who growl.

Is it suppose to be funny? The revolving door of writers continue with Pamela Eells, and it's as if she wrote like twenty pages of random cracks and call it a SCRIPT!!

This suppose to be funny, but repeated it five times in few minutes prove only that the people don't care of the cartoon they working!

The cartoon is about to teaching Whiskers took his own responsibilities, but it's as if it didn't give us any favors. Because even the very shitty animated shows like Caillou does a better job to make the lead character more responsible than anything seen in this episode. Here, it's as if the writers thought that the gags are the most hilarious thing ever made in Earth. This is not comedy. It's more a boring Walter Lantz cartoon whose every gag comes more tedious and labored than the last. The one with Whiskers and his loot of red germs on his fur or the "Whiskers Fawrote Stuff" box is kinda like the weirdness you'll can seen from a generic Lantz short.

Here We Go Again! It's the fourth time in less than.. one minute! It's getting more than else a throwaway joke that went gone when theatrical cartoons shorts passed away in theaters.

And where things can't be more weirder and awkward, Ed come in the Treehouse, Ed and Whiskers took the scarf and playing it with a ferocious warthog until the pig and the scarf fallen to a lava. That would be made the cartoon over, but no-- We have six long minutes before the ordeal is done! Now, the neurotic rabbit have to save his life before Brandy knew that her scarf was stolen. Ed offers some fur-eaters insects on a jar to the rabbit and the latter ran away (See at left) by make it literally almost naked! The cartoon lacks substance and of course, sense of timing because timing seems so non-existant in this world where the dialogues makes the heaviest lifting.

Back to Treehouse, Whiskers made himself a disguise in order to hide his ugly fur-less skin while Brandy was in search of her "fetish" obect after have shopped for some flowers. While Whiskers show her what it hide to his costume, Brandy makes a very insane laugh to see Whiskers rather naked. But he succeed to faken her an illness for not be punish and having compassion to his canine friend. Such touching, isn't it?

In this part, it's good to see Whiskers and Brandy chatted normally, without any yells like in past episodes. But let's be strict, shall we? They're not ennemies here. But they're not the best pals either. But they had to live in the same home just because of Whiskers' clumsiness on the cargo from the first airing episode Mr. Whiskers' First Friend while Brandy needed some light and instead, the silly rabbit opened the door gate. That would be only great if it was honest and sincere, but that was a plan for Whiskers to not get in trouble by her. (And such weird to see Whiskers drinking a coffee. Is he's a kid or an adult in this?)

Another purrfect Whiskers' face, in which it could be a Meme if one desire so!

It's still incredible how much wild takes it featuring in this episode, as if Björklund and company were more concerned of the throwaway jokes than the efficiency of the episode's writing. The cartoon feels like another cartoon who tried to copy Avery's fast-and-furious takes and chasing gags except, that despite Tex Avery is a genial filmmaker and one of the most valuable and respected of the artform, he using his craft mostly for testing the audience in which place to laugh, instead to make his characters (Like the Wolf, Droopy, Spike, etc.) just does silly faces for over seven minutes! This is the difference between makes comedy and a string of out-of-nowhere jokes filling all the place. (See Lantz and Columbia for such examples of this behavior)

Enough rambling, let's go to the episode! Whiskers is really eaging to search Brandy's scarf and also, his own fur. Margo and Lola noticed that the rabbit faken Brandy of such of an illness. For one time, Lola decide to helped the rabbit with a similar potion like Ed did prior, which the female boa says that it's her father who doing it until the flashback shows her father... with a mustache. See how the Lantz-Columbia and also, Garfield influence been more apparent in this show?

Whiskers goes back to the Treehouse by sleeping and now is wobbled with lots of fur in him. But the potion just works out perfectly that his fur growth too fast by cause him more troubles than it save him. Brandy knew finally the conspiracy and you'll end to see Lola and Margo with her scarf. The canine girl, by her narcissic nature, wanna get it back but the two others girls refuse it. And you end up with not so, a random lion groan, but a compromise between Whiskers and Brandy by, well, we'll see that!

It results this! Brandy finally get her date with the monkey, except... Whiskers is her scarf. A cute and touching ending can't sadly save what is arguably some of the ten most lame minutes of the show ever.

If you look of the title and also, the title-card itself, it's not only refered to the title-card of two Looney Tunes' Bugs Bunny shorts: The Hare-Brained Hypnotist, and much famously, Hair-Raising Hare, but it's also the same title from one R.L. Stine's Goosebumps book. This episode deserve better.

And now, the usual critique of this cartoon!

Critique:

Despite the cartoon's title and a sort of homage of the "spooky" title cards to both WB's The Hare-Brained Hypnotist and more famously, Hair-Raising Hare, (To say nothing that it's the exact same name than one of the R.L. Stine's Goosebumps children horror stories) this one is such another wasting opportunity which Björkland and the revolving door of writers that goes this time, Pamela Eells, seems to be again more busy of which number of painful jokes you going to get in 10 minutes than caring to its audience's intelligence. The whole real-life "Growl" frame (Which Brandy aware Whiskers anytime he steal her personal things) appeared more times than needed, and it's just lazy thinking for saving money for actual animated howling. The episode at least starts to get things right by make Mr. Whiskers further than the one-dimensional idiotic thing that was often populated. Brandy, by her wishes to go on a date with her favorite scarf (You know who going to rob it!) shows a rare moment of kindness and caring to an ill-Whiskers trying to "fake" his mistake and lack of fur. In all of these cute moments, the pair is not ennemies, but they aren't the best pals either. While Brandy discovering the conspiracy beyond it, it's another generic chase that came out between the two (What they ever learning since the classic theatrical animation era ended to be just the old "chasing" thing?)-- and there's instances that these people having a hell lot of fun to drawn, animated, lay out and delivering gags (Sadly, there's still sadistical humor that Whiskers unsurprisingly suffering by be almost "naked") without known the audience will not reacted the same way. The many wild takes featuring in this episode may found echoes to the geniuses of Tex Avery and the likes, but it's just plastered from another cartoon that does the same thing without ever applicate any sense of pacing. The ending is one of the most nicest ever featuring in this show, but it's hard to save it after ten minutes of wacky shenanigans and crazy scary faces. Can't we just saying to Kaley Cuoko and Charlie Adler to stop yelling all their lines while performing the leads? An actual horror spoof of R.L. Stine's Bad Hare Day would been ten times more watchable!