To the Moon, Whiskers

To the Moon, Whiskers (1-8)

Written by: Russel Marcus

Storyboard by: Rossen Varbanov

Directed by: Timothy Björklund

Date of airing: August 21th 2004 (On a 2-hour series' premiere)

Synopsis: When a spaceship land to the Amazon Rainforest by Whiskers' granted wish, Brandy take the ship to its advantage in order to escape.

Man, it's a very odd one to watch!

Looking of how hyped the series was from its original airings, back two decades on, Brandy and Mr. Whiskers never gotten any lucks for an official Home Video release. It looks like one of its only inclusion on any video support are on a dated MGBA Video Play portable, and that the video itself was rather glitchy. Even for a 2006s Home Video release. Remember these days?

There's many things to says about this cartoon, period. Russel Marcus wrote this. (The out-of-place Honeymooners reference seems to be specified by its titlecard) It's one of the segments that have kick off the series to the world on its 2-hours night premiere. The cartoon owned a rare chance to be nominated for an Annie award, no mention the only one episode to getting a proper Home Video release, albeit with its alternate end credits. But looking of it two decades later, is the cartoon still live to its hype? Not from my own pointview.

Man! These 4K scans of the show are so hard to watch! No wonder why people prefered better the series while seen on Standard Television format. It's look fan-made here!

Anyway, the short begins when all the main Amazon friends looked up to the sky in a hope to make a wish and seen it happen. Whiskers was just intrigued to this by wished up many things, by include a spaceman. Lola would like to got arms and Brandy, well, you known it, to be back home to Florida. Suddenly, a meteorite start to fallen hardly to the jungle when a over-exciting Whiskers run away to seen his wish granted and the others run for their lives. The spaceship crashed to a crater when the off-beat rabbit exploded with it. The boa and girl pooch were fully concerned of such incidents would not happen at a mistake. Then, the spaceship door oppened and a cosmonaut came arrive.

As usual, Brandy introducing at her own herself when the strange monkey face make his own introduction, by the name of Boris. Besides to be Russian, the monkey's Boris name seems to took the reference of one of the Rocky & Bullwinkle nemesis voiced by the legendary Paul Frees. But thankfully, he didn't mimics the top Frees faux-Russian accent, by have one at its own.

The fun thing about this episode is how Whiskers is muchly dedicated on this cartoon, proving his recognition to the newcomming of Boris as a welcome guest. The monkey aware him and also the gang to not push the red button. Brandy would using the spaceship at its advantage to get back home, but the rabbit would stop any steps on her.

Strangely, it's one of the cartoons that have the most incidental Amazon animals appearences on all the earliest of the show. The quirky tone of the series is probably something it would never repeated on anything from Season 2. But anyone working in the ToonCity Animation, Inc, make a very awkward job to clean-up the rough sketches featuring in all the episode. Looking on a big screen, the visuals are sometimes very ugly, by make us ask why they didn't bother to give it a much softer (and better) animated look.

Brandy would do anything to use the spaceship but Whiskers is litteraly determinate to complete his dream to be a astronaut. The cartoon drag between be too funny and too crass, at a point it's as if anyone from Disney Channel care of what they producing for.

By took control of Boris' spaceship, Mr. Whiskers finally fly in the sky on a speed rate by even pointing an airplane in the air (Is it the same from the first segment?). A rare instance to seen human characters on the background in the plane. The look of them are much hideous while the animals ones are more tolerable. It's a much awkward cartoon series than it ever looks, and that ninteen-years later, I figure now the reason why I started to become a serious fan of these by having nothing at plan.

Brandy and Boris came in a hurry to catch the red button after the rabbit crashed the spaceship in many pieces. A off-screen fight occurs the canine girl and the Russian monkey. Brandy finally got it, hoped to go at home but... it was nothing, but, a MERE PEANUT!!

Seriously, what is that?

Towards a old filmprint, two corny professors holded the idea to make a peanut on the rescue button if a "silly monkey" put in. Kind of weird and pointless by removing the suspense part that we waiting for. Sadly, it's another failure to the Harrington girl of the Florida Harrington by stays stuck on the Amazon Rainforest again. The cartoon is just weird for weirdness sake. If it promises for a much better show in the near future, this is less so the concerns of lots of raged fans from online forums. A lot of old Toonzone fans hated the show for that. And despite that the cartoon needed to clean-up again throughout the rough sketchings, the overseas animation team will do just better for the remaining of the series. But how aged the cartoon episode is on!

Critique:

Creatively fast-paced and funny cartoon, but very lazy in execution. The cartoon does famous for be part of the only half-hour nominated for an Annie Award and to be probably the only stand-alone episode getting a proper Home Video release from a rather "pixelixated" look on a old Game Boy Video portable. But when looking of the core of the episode, it's strinkingly beautiful with a night visual that makes the contrasts very effective. It's on the writing and gags however, where things bogged down. Boris is a very interesting mammal spaceman, but he don't give such of a first and fine impression by be more grouchy than enjoyed his presence on the Jungle. When the Mr. Whiskers' wish is granted, the rest of the cartoon is padded with him be a hyperactive maniac for no reason and Brandy is just on a upsetting mood to get back home and without Boris do supervised them. Despite the overall Russia/Cold War theme, this is a rather harmless cartoon to watch--and by the late topical issues like its war with Ukraine, it's an episode that is wrote by itself, by use a stock Russian-accent character out of context, the Honeymooners reference to the title-card (Really?) make it questionnable and notably, the very "fan-made" look of the rough animations from ToonCity Animation, Inc. make clear that the producers don't care to made well-crafting work; One start to sorely miss the fluid animation on Disney productions like on the '90s animated features and the Disney Afternoon shows era. This is perhaps the most well-known and celebrated animated episode of the series by some animation elites, but such things like this one would only made the show better.