- It was the age where overatted movies like Mean Girls was made by drive tabloids gossips crazy.
- Newcommers cartoonists with the name of Delaf and Dubuc made alive the now-cringeworthy comics series from Quebec, Les Nombrils, a series that torn down all my illusions of what I enjoyed of this medium for the worse. (To think these overlaps are more grating now, even if the series has stopped by 2018.)
- A live-action Garfield movie was released on the summer by be the first movie I've seen in theaters that wanted me to quit the theater screen. (Why remade it to CGI 20 years later is another question.)
- A short-lived, but vague attempt to make Looney Tunes hip again: A newer series of theatrical cartoons from Larry Doyle that lasts only... six shorts! Looney Tunes: Back in Action was a Box-Office flop. The franchise has strived hard to survived when all the critics perceived these characters at old, or unmarketable to children (The same fate does happening to The Flintstones four years before this) and Cartoon Network pulled off the airs the reran of the classic shorts in October 2004! The end of a glorious era for cartoons lovers, at least for that time anyway.
And now, comes this!
By be a journey that have ran two years, (Look at prior posts for see why) this was the story of professionnal producers who just wanted a job, and the Brandy & Mr. Whiskers project came apart to be in progress. If you compare the original and more faithful designs to the final one, you'll see how bossy and pushy the WDAT studio's corporation were in this drastic time from Post-9/11.
The blog was intented first at a memoir for honor the 20th anniversary of this particular series, that has survived by a solid range of fans, but Brandy and Whiskers are not Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry or a Ren and Stimpy or Rocko to this point. What lacking of with these cartoons is one simple thing: Characters!
Because they're barely one as long I follow the series by reviewed and given tough, but honest critiques of each cartoons for the need of this blog. Brandy is too much the look-a-like wannabe rich teen girl, in the same vein as Braceface's Sharon rival, Nina Harper and others countless teens cartoons and movies that are set on high-school. (That was one thing with this show: They have none of these generic high-school hi-jinks that were overexposed in this time!) Mr. Whiskers is such of a goofy bug-eyed thing that is not entirely funny or original to start with. All that becomes like getting a high doze of Woody Woodpeckers or anything from 40s Screen Gems. You think really that they've quit their work days with pride if the animated series was so depressing and grating to look at?
It's a shame that lots of great people were obliged to working on such hacky writing. This is part why fans have quit with these things a longtime ago, back the reruns were gone. I have do my part in 2020 when it started to getting dated to mentionning anything to this. It's perhaps a good thing to never figured a comic project with these characters. I have need to watched the cartoons firsts, but they having none YouTube or social medias in 2005. I having to riddled these by the episodes' synopsis and examples of lines featuring in the old TV.com website. Yeah, that was a rather pedestrian era for anyone care to animation at a serious artform. The artstyle and final designs are even much flat and awkward than what I can looking for of drecks like New Looney Tunes.
The show and anything says above have cemented a "Golden Age" for crap, which newer creations became more unlikable each other, by be determined to be in-line with the edgiest teenage crowd that never seems to existed. There was a Pre-2004 and Post-2004 in these. Before 2004, things were not that terrible as such. Sure, it weren't perfect in the industry. But that was less gruesome than what that following these.
That was also there that Teletoon shows started to be so interchangeable, predictable and most of all, pointlesstly flat and lousy! Is there is still a point to be a fan of Atomic Betty, Wayside, Spliced, the very erratic My Life Me, equally-gross and sadistically out-of-nowhere Rocket Monkeys, the epic, but non-descript Detentionaire until the bitter end with equally forgettable cartoons like the CGI Inspector Gadget series and dead entries like Dave Cooper's Bagel and Becky (Much like a follow-up of his equally crude TV show ordered for Nickelodeon) or even worst of all, Toon Marty? That said, it's strange that the Canadian-english Teletoon is nowadays nowhere to be found, but to give it credits, it represented the evil side of animation at art by even ordered Pilots to pretending given creators a favor. And by be a Disney production, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers would be made from any studio you could think on and results will be the same.
It also bugs me that most 2024s productions become more fanfictions come to life, that many shows and episodes are dedicated to fans instead to the general audience. And where metaverses and crossovers have stop to be memorable or fresh to this point. Back in the days of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it was a very ambitious move to negotiate with others corporate owners for the use of the "actual" cartoons characters that were supposed to set in the fictitious 1947s Hollywood of this movie. Though some of these cameos looks rather suspect (Like the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote where in the real-life, they just existed on model-sheets, Marvin the Martian's short introduction became in production and for add insult to injury about anachronism, Speedy Gonzales, Sam Sheepdog or even Marc Anthony didn't came up before years like... 1952!). There was no Internet, YouTubers or any angry fans who rambling on every newer animated fad! An animated movie like this where they given respect to both, the classic cartoons and mainstream movies fans, will never be back again without to be just a mere corporated stunt. (*coughSpaceJamANewLegacycough*)
It would be only great if the 2000s Disney animation standards knows these from that time they were just producing bland and mediocre cartoons and kidcoms, but that was the long mid-to-late-00s for us. The fan of me grew older by paid no more attention to comic series that never went publishing or are simply too fanservice for seek any potential interest to consumers. If shows like the very horrific Mickey Mouse animated shorts, Gravity Falls, Phineas and Ferb, Amphibia, The Owl House or The Ghost and Molly McGee existed in the mid-00s, not sure they would own the same cult status than they have nowadays. Disney animated production in current times are mostly the greatest on the batch. Because one need to look of Dreamworks, WBA, Nickelodeon or any other studios factory for noticing how few seems to "learning" lessons from these dark days...
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