The Howler Bunny

The Howler Bunny (1-26)

Written by: Steve Freeman

Storyboard by: Chuck Klein

Directed by: Timothy Björklund

Date of airdate: January 18th 2005 (According to the epguides.com from the TV show, althought it was already aired overseas.)

Synopsis: Whiskers found a couple of howler monkeys to be fostering after be kicked off the house.

One of the most interesting thing ever done for this TV episode is there's none fade-out after the title-card end, and instead, comes to this:

But after that, it's just a very routine cartoon, with all the formulaic and wacky shenanigans that thrown in. But at least, it provide "a" good reason "to" hate Mr. Whiskers for his bad manners and annoying yellings.

The cartoon start with Brandy doing her cleaning on the Treehouse by do everything spick and span. Even her precious vase with the Harrington name lettered in CAPS needed to get rid of dust. After finishing all her chores, Brandy can just sit and relax by read her typical Hearthrob Magazine in peace. I just hope this is not the same issue than in the introductory of the series and characters.

  

(Sadly, this is among the only copy ever found for this cartoon by be low-quality 4:3 with lots of interlacings in the animating. But this is what we earned by the long era of the mid-00s where bad cartoons were quickly popular by get all a fandom on its own.)

 

The next scene is Mr. Whiskers singing loudly by ate lots of papaye by thrown the mess in all the Brandy's hard work to cleaning the house. Before changing the topic, here's what the characters of Brandy and Whiskers having to be for me by 2005; Brandy having to be the optimistic and bossy pooch by expect to be free of that silly rabbit, while Mr. Whiskers have to be a sort of Chuck Jones-ian character clone by monologuing, wordplays and breaking the 4th wall lots of times. This is exactly what it through on mind by reading lots of old Dupa's issues of Cubitus, because it made me tons of laugh and they moved and talked funny. Dupa have left the world in 2000, probably due to overwork. That is what I dealt in current times with art, if things have changed a lot by the AI-generated arts craze that sour all the rights to made arts the old way today.

Often ignoring his mistake, Whiskers been kicking out by Brandy's broom of the house while the latter expect him to never return again. It's exactly what you got in countless others comedies duos--Ren & Stimpy, Catdog, the workload of Spongebob, Cow & Chicken and others. It feels more late-90s than something actually came from the mid-00s by have none internet or MySpace, the Facebook's ancestor and one we regret its demise now.

Double Whiskers take! That tell you they didn't scare to make us says that they are in an animated cartoon. Something that went to be gross or just wacky if it's come on a serious cartoon like lots of Anime. (Even that, most Anime have fallen to crappy cartoons cliches that even them will never touch it for save their job!)

When Whiskers searched a family for be adopted, he fall over to a couple of howling monkeys who do, well, howling loudly! Whiskers wishing so much to be a part of this family while Brandy start to soon regret Whiskers' absence in her life by have bats flying around the treehouse a night and strange noises and howling came around, anything for frightened the Harrington of the Floirda Harringtons and finding a new roomate for replaced the rabbit. But seems that Whiskers enjoy his new family in spite of the couple think it otherwise, especially the male one.

Meanwhile, in the Treehouse, Brandy gets a met with a female Ant-eater for be part of a roomate. Not sure if she is the same one from Season 2's Aunti-Dote, but things went full circle while Brandy found the perfect mate for be in company, but soon realize also that the reversed-roles (The Ant-eater doing cleaning, Brandy eat papaye juice) have only worsen their case.

I have know that Brandy have a Braceface vibe in her, but this is just rampant and gross!

In Mr. Whiskers' side, the rabbit tried to study his ways to howl while the monkeys plan to get rid of him by be rather annoying and obnoxious (Not my words!) to them. But all their plans fails. When Brandy chit-chat with the toucan twins sisters that the rabbit miss her so much. But sadly, it's not that novel or funny. That end with another fight between Cherryl and Merryl by make us says why they never appeared in all the segments for get that same erratic result of feuds and mishaps nonsenses.

"Times for Drastic Measures", the Male Howler Monkey says. Unfortunately, it's a steal from Brandy's line in Dear Diary. See how formulaic the show start to become?

Speaking of formula, the rest of the cartoon going in auto-pilot when Brandy with Lola Boa searched for Mr. Whiskers while in same time and by happenstance, they see the rabbit with the Monkeys do a bad scheme. Brandy tent anything to stop it and save him another time his life, but this is the "latter" that need help, by be stuck perched by a stick on the waterfall cliff. Whiskers using strategy by take the female boa for save Brandy. Less than 10 minutes earlier, Brandy hoped to rid of him and now, she feel sorry by even claims Whiskers as her brother! Though the subject of family was heavily imposed in this particular episode, this is just too generic to watch, even for an animated series that have proven more times than it fails to how funny and unique-looking it was at that time where only crappy cartoons/comics leaded the whole artform industry...

...And another thing for paraphrased a famous lieutnant-sleuth: Are you getting annoyed of Whiskers says "Sorry!"? Because it's something it didn't grating me before I seen the whole cartoons with their original voice-cast for the need of this blog. (When I saw it in 2008 for the first time, it was a Spanish-dubbing version of the episode. This... is a poor substitute to understood the mechanics of why this cartoon works by their former cast)

Critique:

Complaining Brandy & Mr. Whiskers to be too formulaic or gross-out for a Disney production is bad criticism. But what pains this show more is they have everything to make it at a very timeless and appealing experience, but never do it by be struck on its comfort zone. After the Brandy's arm showed up on the title-card instead of a fade-out, the whole thing been predictable: Whiskers eat papaye and doing a mess in the house was just too routine even for this show, as if the writers tried so hard to make it more edgier than it ever need. The Howler Monkeys couple are interesting foils for Whiskers, but they wasted the dimensions and fearsome instinct that Lester has to the rabbit in Lack of Brains Vs. Brawns. The whole episode feels more Catdog by look of Brandy's excitement to be free of Mr. Whiskers by be unable to found a perfect roomate for replaced him. The episode also burried lots of tiring lines like "Times for Drastic Measures" from the Monkey male or Whiskers says another time "Sorry!" to Brandy before fade-out. It's just too ordinary for something we have to investing our times in, but is their hardcore fans really cares? In spite of these flaws, the voice-cast and overseas animators does their usual excellent job, like a double-take of Mr. Whiskers while searching who yellings or Brandy do the same kind of intensive smile that went make the Braceface TV series' lead at shame. This is just a footnote effort to what will be otherwise the greatest batch of the TV series by be producing in the same half-hour than Pedigree, Shmedigree. There was a long rush to its family theme (Brandy tells Whiskers as "her" brother and vive-versa) or that Whiskers saving Brandy's life for a change of the yet familiar trope, but there's too much fillers that cushionning them for get to this payoff.