The Fashion Fascist

The Fashion Fascist (1-5)

Written by: Bill Motz & Bob Roth

Storyboard by: Celia Kendrick

Directed by: Timothy Björklund

Date of airing: August 21th 2024

Synopsis: While teaching to the jungle denizens about fashion, Brandy falling to a Mr. Whiskers in which any causing mishaps of him leads to a new clothing fad to all the jungle.

Unlike the segments we've previously watched on late times, this one is marginally more funnier by add none cynicism to the writing. Mr. Whiskers and Ed tried to organize a sky-diving jump by a series of plans sheets while Brandy in her side, just bend her own clothes for a lesson of fashion to all her jungle friends, without known that her "lessons" made them bored. The fact these girls enjoy more the Whiskers' lunatics to her instructions is the same why in Teen Titans Go!, Robin is the one who gets the most painful thuds, despite be the superhero lead of the group. So, that made Brandy at a somewhat "wannabe" expert? We'll see that later...

Is what means "fashion" to her? Just wearing lousy cargo pants and one typical T-shirt you could pay for less at your nearest SheIn local store?

That would be also a very interesting episode about how the fashion industry is terribly nonchalant and destructive, with guys like Tim Gunn who tell us what wear this or that when it's not his wife who teach him how to dress correctly in his daily routines. To think cargo pants have made a return in clothing stores since a few times, but they're just that finally: Typical sports leggings that have not the sophistication, either the comfort of what we used to wear on our adolescent years. And when fashion consummers weren't that stupid or grating. As a fashion fan myself, the newer waves seems to ran out of ideas by recycling old stuffs from the 80s/90s/00s, but with more cheaper fabric and less solid (And made all of them in countries that exploit workers like in Bangladesh or China instead to hired local people for drawn them) for be sells to any Walmart, Old Navy or other expensive clothing stores. Well, a few of them still works like Levi's or Jean Bleu which besides to be local, have some of the much fair prices if one decide to pick a fashion outfit without ruin your own wallet.

Despite its central theme, Mr. Whiskers is not that interested first to make a fashion outfit, but just having fun along with Ed and do his usual sky-diving jump. At first, he was dress with lots of flowers and grass, at a sort of Carmen Miranda would be dress by the 1940s. (Yeah, she was caricatured lots of time in the Warners shorts of that time, but I have no doubts that the real-life Carmen Miranda, besides of her accent, was a very charming person) The girls were all savvy by his "accidental" allure by made confusing Brandy which she suppose to know better these things than him! Or it is?

The next sequence follows Mr. Whiskers and Brandy in the Treehouse, when the latter make suggestions for teached better all the jungle denizens to the real nature of fashion. Except that the rabbit is not that investing to it. Because of it, the very appealing sky-diving jump plot was wasted and you'll see an annoying bunny who being the target for any newer fads by his numerous mishaps and a not-so tyrannic Brandy who do all her best to stop it. (We even see in cutaways the four girls' heads on a toilet to be flush. Someone was "stoned" by this gag, though!) Another mishap ensure for Whiskers to a new fad, by seen him with lots of leaves in him. Like in the first one, Lola, Margo, Cheryl and Meryl gets all obsessed to this, in detriment to Brandy of course!

THAT would made a better Anthropomorphic cast than that dull movie The Bad Guys! Although the genre tried desperately to be relevant and "hip" to audience, all these talking-animals movies since the Post-Shrek days been more dreary Saturday Morning-cartoons type in its context.

We'll see an elegant Mr. Whiskers in tuxedo along with his three monkeys servants marching along, in a pride quest to be the "Fashion Fascist" like was says in the title of this cartoon. The rest of it is all obvious, Charlie Adler was in fine form between make Whiskers gullible and a tyrannic braggart. His passion for fashion came out by accident and not by artistic choice. After arguing to others about some doubtful clothing choices, the rabbit glimpse to a tree trunk in the ground and does invented a new fad again (Again?): This time, a bee-hive to his head. All of the jungle does crazy to that, except Brandy which she want absolutely to stop this foolish madness.

Mr. Whiskers have transformed his Treehouse into an office by ran his fashion business. One start to dread what would be like if all the future episodes will come this way. The Chuck Jones-ian attitude of pretentiouseness are obvious in this one and to each lines Adler says for the rabbit. Kaley Cuoko start to understand the basics of what made Brandy Harrington likable without lose her fursona "good" side. She soon notice that her true girlfriends start to be itched by this bee-hive hat, by even start to rambling against Brandy and her superficial attitude to vaunted something that wouldn't work in her newer environment. (See how different and much powerful the show looks like when you have a strong, enough supporting cast?)

Brandy scowl to realize that all her attempts to teaching to the jungle about fashion are compromised by a Mr. Whiskers in a Tim Gunn-esque mogul of fast-fashion are a failure. Or maybe not. She met a sloth anywhere in her way by seen him at naked and comfortable. The girl dog got a bright idea to made an end of all of this wacky Fashion Show nonsense that kills what made the Amazon Rainforest locale at genuine and peaceful.

Still hampered by his Fashionista Diva attitude, Whiskers defying all the denizens to his Fashion Show, by plays the authority figure of clothing, which make him a little more uncomfortable to watch, but thankfully does with hilarious results. When Brandy came out to the scene with a sloth in the pagant stage, she declared the famous magical line "BE YOURSELF!". Just that. That means make the Amazon animals back to naked, clothes-free. And that end the fancy allure of Whiskers' at a fashionista fascist that would came out by his own mishaps at first place.

A very pretentious and braggart Mr. Whiskers who hop to Brandy in a blue moon end up this cartoon with Brandy yelled loudly his name to him. If one have seen many times the theme song, it's this shot that was featuring in the long montage of clips from the TV show theme.

Critique:

Another solid entry in the earlier half-hours that will soon, becoming the norm for future productions. The two plots that featuring in the first few minutes of the cartoon-- Ed and Whiskers' sky-diving jump plan and Brandy trying to teach her new girlfriends about fashion bang up when the former act combined perfectly the latter without it being defanged. Mr. Whiskers is unaware of his nature of fashionista by be based off a series of mishaps, and the nods to real-life fashion gossip are done perfectly and without it comes off as self-satire. Adler provided a serviceable job to voicing the rabbit between be a gullible being and a tyrannic braggart, and all that is true to the character. You would think this is exactly what Mr. Whiskers will be if he was the outright vilain. Motz and Roth wrote a few episodes out of this, and they provide another excellent entry, along with Lack of Brains Vs. Brawns in the batch of half-hours that were already ready to be made and playing. Despite the very cloying message (Brandy's "Be Yourself"!) that was hear thousand times before and the aftermaths of clothing fads the Jungle animals have adopted, the crew have fun to playing with these characters without dreaded it to another depressing Anthro-ish rip-off, but it's only if they known that the Internet popularity of the characters has given much publicity to the show than in the real-life. If there was one major criticism towards this adventure or by all the Fashion Show overlap and conventions, that will be a much hard episode to watch if Brandy or Gaspard have took the Mr. Whiskers' "bossy" place.