Picking my Top 5 Brandy & Mr. Whiskers cartoon episodes

It's not my point of this blog to mention which episodes are better than others, but by be very late of my ninteen anniversary of the first time I've been a fan (February 4th 2005), and based of the Jerry Beck's own favorite picks of the 1940s Columbia animated shorts, it's a good opportunity to reveal you my own personal favorites of the B&MW series.

On my own subsconcious, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers have a very timeless appeal. Unlike others shows of this era, it was mostly devoid of any dated pop-culture references, by letting the characters on their own world without any regard or commentary to working on such of a corny kids cartoon show. The one only time they'll do this is Whiskers become a Star Wars soldier from One of a Kind. I have done a review of this one weeks ago by clicking it.

But sadly, it's one of those numerous Disney TV shows that became very obscure for the 2024s era of Tiktok and over-the-top narcissic culture. The show only lasted two seasons, but considering how Dave the Barbarian, Teamo Supremo or the very dismal The Buzz On Maggie been pulled off quickly after a barrage of oft-negative reviews online, it was mostly by chance if a Season 2 of Brandy and Whiskers may existed. Otherwise, it would be axed already.

But man, this show looks better drawn than most of the current Disney TV output. Have you seen many of these? Besides to be very stiff, ugly and talkier since those horrendous 2013s Mickey Mouse series of shorts (Much like the John K.'s way to handle that mouse!), they came pretty preachy and pretentious, featuring characters with such as big lifeless eyes and wacky nonsenses. How fans would react five-ten years later if they seen how misfires stuffs like Big City Greens, Amphibia, The Ghost and Molly McGee,(Like a Fibber McGee and Molly influence without knew where the title comes from) the revisionnists versions of Ducktales and Chp 'n' Dale, Kiff or even so, The Owl House really were?

Enough ranting, here's my own five picks of the Brandy & Mr. Whiskers series:

Lame Boy - Easily a must-see for any videogames fans, old and new. John Behnke and Rob Humphrey provide a simple, but very effective story about Whiskers getting addicted to a Game Boy-like videogame portable console and after it, anything turns to chaos until to the Temple. It's one of those very rare cartoons which feature mostly the duo alone. The main Jungle cast (Except a random string of monkeys) are nowhere to be found. Kevin Quinn make a very top job to replictate the 8-bits music style on the background without to be distracting. One classic that made me proud to be a show's fan!

Pedigree, Shmedigree - On the surface, it looks funny. But then, it become a real game-changer of the way fans seen the character of Brandy Harrington like a much "sexy" pooch than we give credits to it. In the vein of past theatrical shorts like Chuck Jones' To Beep or Not to Beep that would be a perfect departure for the Road Runners series unlike what it was planned already, Brandy realized that she weren't the breed doggie she pretenting, by be a "mixed" kind of dog. It results her to be a very muddy (no pun intented) mutt and Mr. Whiskers does his greatest to help her to own self-confidence like Brandy would do the same to him. Sure, Brandy wins the competition against Gaspard's girlfriend and the "actual" price isn't intented what she may think of, but that would be eventually a perfect end for the series if it weren't intented as a quota to make 21 half-hours. It was just in the thirteen half-hour ever produced. Entertaining modern classic and one of its only true masterpieces the show would offered.

The Monkey's Paw - Probably the most dark story ever on the show, but one is thankfully very hilarious. Brandy, Whiskers and Ed finding a monkey paw from the cartoon's title which grant them wishes. Eventually, the feud is on and Brandy would use it only for go back to Florida, but nothing happened like she want to! The scene which Ed been turning to a brain and then, killed by piranhas is one of the most gore moments from any Disney production. The crew took its occasional risks here and there, but The Monkey's Paw proven to be the most scarier of the series all around, even more so than the blander Curse of the Vampire Bat. If only that weren't just a dream...

Trouble In Store - Timothy Björklund directed and storyboarded this particular episode when a depressing Whiskers turns around to a perfectly hilarious comedy plot: The use of a local shopping center for heal of depression. This one works by be a very bitter satire of the over-consumption society from humankind without it turns out too cloying, when Whiskers makes tons of expenses by a Credit Card Gaspard offered him. The gang have to refund (In rocks naturally!) to the nasty Gecko all of Mr. Whiskers' expenses before the Treehouse will be gone! This is a cartoon that need to be shown on any schools for teaching students about indebtness, and even so today in the era of online shopping and MarketPlace.

Itty Bitty Kitty - Björklund and John McIntyre are both credited directors of this cartoon. It's easily one of the sole Season 2's greatests. It's fun and funny without to be too convoluted or forced like most McIntyre cartoons episodes have missing. There was an ingredient of why the Season 1 of the series were so intriguing is it looks and felt different to others animated productions, especially to everything seen on Disney Channel proper! Brandy were always describe at a normal, Down-to-Earth protagonist and her match with Whiskers is a fair change of pace to what most Disney comedy plots are related to. But things really bogged down when Season 2 came out with a Temple mall-shop as the cornerstone of what made most of the cartoons' season as less appealing. This one works! The talkiness is pitch-perfect and the "Brandy tap-dancing" gag while the gang talked about Brandy's missing doll been a conceit on itself. It should be regarded as a unique challenge for a show that started to been pretty antiquated while High School Musical and Hannah Montana became what the 2006s kids would watched instead of this.