The No Sleep Over

The No Sleep Over (1-4 in production order)

Written by: Russel Marcus 

Storyboard by: Zac Moncrief

Directed by: Timothy Björklund

Date of airdate: August 21th 2004 through a 2-hours premiere of the series

Synopsis: Whiskers and Ed made pranks to Brandy's sleepover girls night.

This one is very oddball to watch, or to think of.

Brandy plans to organized a sleepover night which only girls could be invited. Whiskers heard "Lumber party?" instead of slumber party and then, we got a sequence of lumbers with party hats. It do took me years to get this joke as something I have complained to not only this show, but lots of commercials: You need to be clever for make the wordplay work, or you end up to confuse viewers by be strangely lazy writing.

The first or two minutes of so clearly embody the problem with these cartoons-- so dialogues makes the heavy-lifting instead of actual animation,(Thought they were pretty good) cutaways jokes were made by wondered me what looks to be if Brandy & Mr. Whiskers were publishing to an licenced Disney comic adaptation and then, some jokes feels a tad brutal for a Disney production, like seen Whiskers with a girl swimsuit. That make us thinking why our society point values to mens on Drag-Queens in 2022, at something true and renowned feminists will be pissed to seen sexist pedos (Seems that pedophiles enjoy someone in drag) speaking of inclusion to children when it's best that you known what EDI means in any real context. Because be in Drag is not like on a Bugs Bunny cartoon in the real-life!

A very uptight Brandy expect that the rabbit to not be invited on her party, while the latter imagined decorated the Treehouse to an Hawaiian party, then on a cold igloo like eskimos and then back to Hawaiian dancing. Mr. Whiskers is so convincing that he will made the party experience fun that he even put a magic hat out of nowhere by says "I'm a rabbit.". He even passed on a vase while his ears plays like an "Ok" in there. Thought the show is funny and characters are emblematic for what destined to be unsympathetic each other, it's miles better than what we got in 2024 with shows made only for streaming followers. The show originally started when Disney Channel being a basic Cable specialty channel. There was no Disney+ there. This is there the problem in our modern world, to made stuffs too niche to be watched and seen for a mainstream audience.

After falling of the Treehouse for a hundreth time, Whiskers search friends to be part of the slumber party, but everyone feared him (We even seen lemurs playing craps with dices! Is it was such a thing too?), which means that the Amazon Rainforest animals are already related to this unfocusing duo on their area. There is also a very tiring joke of a turtle screaming "RUNNNNN!!" by walked out slowly. Nobody was interested until Ed makes his welcomed presence and helped his rabbit friend as he could.

Another sorta joke that would be too scary for little kids to watch. Even the works of Spum¢ö weren't that scrupulously ugly for made it as a joke.

But thankfully, the second part of the cartoon does finely when the two boys planned to made pranks after Whiskers reading Brandy's Teen Hearthtrob magazine. In same time, in the Treehouse, the girls... weren't so interested to be in Brandy's sleepover while Lola is not amusing to have a pyjama in her by have no arms and legs. Margo makes a much acceptable appearence in this than it was in her introduction in Lack of Brains Vs. Brawns. In there, the grassopher girl is more likable than the Toucan twin sisters that any longtime cartoon fan would have the U.S. Acres' Lanolin and Bo sheep feud in mind.

While the boys knock the door, the other girls were more than excited to see Whiskers and Ed be part of Brandy's very monotonous party, which prove us that Brandy have no sense of coordination, either of how a party have to work. (What she have learning about party plans while in Florida then?) After a brutal mishap to Brandy's face and the other girls laughed at, the canine girl decide to fight back against Ed and Whiskers with lots of pranks, more sadistical than the other one, but one that seems to dread like a very wordy Tex Avery one-shot with the white chili pepper prank sequence.

After the boys eating the pie loaded with Amazonian White Chili Pepper, they run for water, but other pranks does here and there until Mr. Whiskers warned Brandy that a plane is near of the Treehouse. Brandy wouldn't believe of this gag but ironically, it's really happening... Brandy fails once again to quit this stupid jungle and get back to her hometown. This is a trope that would soon wore its welcome by the end of Season 1 and something that we would miss much when Season 2 was much focusing of a unlogical urban jungle mall.

The final trick is there we see the limitations of what such characters could ever doing for existed. The boys disguise themselves in a very wonky Puma costume to prank the girls, but when they approached from the bushes, they seen a real one!! Frightned for their lives, they ask help to the rabbit and his otter friend to rescue them, by be still in disguise. The fearsome Puma seen this and trust it to a female one by gets a love in first sight with her... errr, we mean them. The ending sadly leave us with a non-ending conclusion. How Brandy and gang succeed to be away of the Puma and how Whiskers and Ed could be free of this stick-lover?

Nevertheless, it's a chance that the puma weren't designed at crap like it was for Lorenzo in the very boring Taking Paws. And it shows that it's an earlier cartoon of the series too with ideas and elements that would grew better and more comfortable when the season was matured.

Critique:

A very early cartoon in the series, by be wrote by Russel Marcus, but thankfully, not as rough and fan-made than it was in To the Moon, Whiskers. It's easily the most memorable in which Marcus would be billed at writer with probably the entire first half-hour, but it's still genuinely great for quick laughs. Some gags were too elaborated to be memorable (Lumber Party, Whiskers removing a whale out of his ear, etc.), but it was saved with a very off-beat montage of supposed parties in the Treehouse like Whiskers doing his Hula-Hula dance and Whiskers' ears makes a "Ok" sign is definitely one of the most iconic touches the early series would offered. While Whiskers meet Ed for help, the bangs with the twos vs. the girls in Brandy's "boring" sleepover clash to a very crazy pacing on a series of pranks like probably the most funniest Tex Avery-ian one: The Amazonian White Chili Pepper gag. In the other spectrum, we get another trade of an airplane that goes to resuced Brandy but the latter admantently refused it by thought it was another of the rabbit's prank... when the plane is really there to her, so why is Brandy didn't left the Jungle then? The Puma sequence is clearly reminiscience of the horrific and talkier Lorenzo jaguar from Taking Paws. It have a rather fearsome edge that the latter never attempted, but the climax needed a much stronger ending which the cartoon end up with the Puma keep stuck in love with the cheap Puma clothing with Ed and Whiskers in there hoping to be saved of their fate. It's not perfect as episode, but it's by these things that was makes the earliest of the series so magical and special to audiences on a time very trite and ugly (No mention, very cheap!) Canadian cartoons animated by Flash leaded the scene.