Dear Diary

Dear Diary (1-17)

Written by: Scott Peterson

Storyboard by: Rossen Varbanov

Directed by: Timothy Björklund

Date of release: September 25th 2004

Synopsis: Brandy realized that you could never trust anyone else reading its diary... even not Mr. Whiskers who came obsessive to these!

Dear Diary is strangely in this point which the series fallen onto a mere formula, and where the crew that working there was more busy to add any sadistic humor they could to than actually care to the quality of their work. It's more Daffy-Speedy or 40s Screen Gems than a Disney work! The duo been more-to-less menacing, unlikable and conniving and it's never a good thing where the people who working on such shows hate kids. Fortunately, you couldn't make these things on a kids show anymore.

It's very easy (and even lazy) to make comparison with the better cheater Tom and Jerry short Jerry's Diary in which had clips from past 40s works: Tee For Two, Mouse Trouble, Solid Serenade and The Yankee Doodle Mouse (with its blackface gag!) were included with much tight measures without it makes the actual newer footage dull to watch like others cheater of sorts doing at this point. Unlike this, you can barely read what Brandy have wrote in her diary because the long dialogues makes the heavier lifting. As if make characters pantomime is too hard or boring.

By the point to learn to read (By shown her a dictionnary), Mr. Whiskers gets a feeling that it's better to read books when it was... Brandy's diary which make the next scene in some of the most predictable outings. Then, we seen Whiskers reading it and Brandy came outwardled by that. Even if this cartoon teach audience about respect of privacy, there is a sign of uglyness and weirdness onto its writing, which the revolving door of writers is this time, Scott Peterson. He's clearly not sure for which characters he working on.

Here, Whiskers gets harmed and injured with tons of pains and thuds which it make the segment harder to watch. Brandy's motives to hold the diary away of the rabbit make it at a very conniving streak and Whiskers been neither, stupid or dumb, but an unlikable asshole in which rudeness and arrogance make the worst for this character. The rabbit is better when he's indifferent or don't see any regard of anything at a threat to fight against. This character trait really tarnish what make the animated series so fun to watch.

Eventually, one of the (If not the only one) most fun parts of this episode is Brandy attracted by a very elegant deer by be constantly in love struck. One have to known how much the girl dog's lovely face was using on various Disney Channel items on the show's main website back twenty years ago. I would like to comment more about this episode, but it was a rather distracting one to watch from begin to end. A plot that teach people about privacy have to be better if it weren't an alien concept (Or even so, notn wrote by ten peoples!), or something that you're sure it's based of the creator's experience. It's tragic that even the Melissa Clark writing of Braceface's "5 Things That Really Bug Me About You" does a better job to invoking this. In this one, you have 11 minutes unless 22 minutes to make the writing work and it's a waste already after one mere minute of animating!

Back to the Treehouse after a Mr.Whiskers' horrific fall in the ravine, Brandy decide to teach him a lesson by rewrote some parts of her own diary about sacrifice to be eaten by a spider. The next morning, Whiskers trusted it by be completely neurotic. The plan works but soon, realized that Whiskers have took it a tad too literally and her and the jungle friends as Lola, Chery, Meryl and also Ed are in his search, until... Brandy soon discovered a Whiskers stuck to a giant cobweb. Pretending to be a sacrifice in which Whiskers can't carry anything, Brandy tried her best to help her friend and in expectations that he learned the lesson. But soon, the giant spider with a big nose (Sounds like Milton Knight's Dr. Robotnik design in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog which it was more famous for some YouTube Poop about a "funny" word that weren't exactly what the writers tried to meant...) arrived and the chase is on... again!

It's only a shame that even the ending came at rather unlikable where Whiskers argued about what he reading from the giant female spider's diary, which makes it at one of the most bogged down parts of what I have seen of the show as now. It would be more great that the rabbit knows his lesson sooner, but it was too little, too late to fix that. Such a very crummy cartoon that end by Brandy and the spider wrote their own diary and Whiskers... well... stuck again in a giant cobweb perched between two trees near of the Treehouse. It only teach you that in comedy, there's a good and bad way to make it work. This episode did the bad way and we get any payback for our trouble.

Critique:

A tedious Brandy & Mr. Whiskers cartoon from Björkland, but this one appearing more frustrating due to a very sadistic streak behind it. Who in charge of the writing or supervision is at the mercy of bland and static characters posing and an inconsistent pacing that don't know the difference between comedy and sadistic pains. Brandy tried to tell Mr. Whiskers to not read her diary but the latter is obsessed to it by trying ways to learn reading. Whiskers get tons of thuds, but he doesn’t care. All of that is unfunny and painful to watch. While Whiskers is much menacing and mentally crazy to make disbelief to the Jungle residents for the diary he just read, Brandy has been a conniving sneak by plays to his own game. The chase is on to the illogical duo. The jungle cast goes to save Whiskers of a sort of sacrifice from a giant female spider. Brandy saved the bunny of his fate. (Can't she just leave this creep dying?) But Whiskers never learned the lesson by reading the giant spider's diary. When a very frightening and sinister spider and the attractive deer are the only bests bits of what will be another ten minutes of time wasting, you have a problem. With such dismal entries like Dear Diary, the Disney's TV Animation still not learning its “lessons” of the supposed demise of hand-drawn animation by the box-office failure of Home of the Range and by its fair assortment of TV animated shows like 2003s Lilo & Stitch (from the Chris Sanders’ feature of the same name), that will be eventually a hit, but 17 cartoons already and that's another lame Proud Family or Kim Possible shtick where the dialogues carry all the heavier lifting to the actual animation that ordering from. A cynical and hateful ending will eventually make in comparison the equally illogical Daffy-Speedy pairing or the 40s Screen Gems/Columbia shorts at “saints”.