Cyranosaurus Rex

Cyranosaurus Rex (1-7)

Written by Brandon Sawyer

Storyboard by Carson Kugler

Directed by Timothy Björklund

Date of airing: August 21th 2024 (The third segment be actually airing, but we known it better: It's actually the seventh one in production order)

Synopsis: Brandy helps Mr. Whiskers to seek love for a bully lizard named Gabriella.

For such of a very murky animated production, this one remains probably one of the most beautiful ever. The scene seen at right may be the reason why it owned an Annie Award Nomination, but by paired with the very monotonous To the Moon, Whiskers. Springtime is in the air in the Jungle and the pair just admired that each animals have found their match, well except Brandy and Whiskers of course. This one established everything that I enjoy from the series but that very often, in other cartoons, it missed the mark. We need more like this on our lives, notably now.

It also proven to be a work of art. Examples? The beautiful painting sequence of Cupid and then, a big fat guy with a Baseball bat! Easily one of the most memorables parts of the series and thankfully, the random cutaway jokes were only limited to this.

Even the blackout and callback gags do work, when a monkey tried many times to wooing Brandy on her way.

But the meat of the story is while the big lizard Gabriella approach to the scene by become an hindrance to all the Jungle denizens. Whiskers seen a revelation that he is falling in love to her. The Cupid bonk the poor rabbit with a helmet and he became invested to its love, even in the most weirder of cases. Brandy tried hardly to told him to don't but at least, she help him on his quest.

Even by that time, the show looked and feels fresh on a era where "bad" movies and shows were what it getting bigger ratings and fans. The uniqueness of this bond made them much tolerable to experienced the show unless thesedays where it's getting more cool to shown it hate. I know the show was heavily criticized for its gross-out humor, but compared to the inane trash most TV Disney's cartoons made today, this is looks a masterpiece in its own.

Brandy agreed to help Whiskers while first, be disguised on a poet for wooing Gabriella while she lays alone in the waterfall. First plan fails by his awkward sense of poetry!

Then, become a "tough" man in the Hercules way. Where's that Mighty Hercules when you need him?

And then, goes the monkey again!

The third attempt is Mr. Whiskers on a Hip-Hop suit, along with a gold teeth with a dollar sign, but for some reason I couldn't explain, his limbs fall apart and Gabriella find out the cultprit.

And then, the final attempt is him wrote a love letter to the lizard, but he made it wrong! But it given a hilarious way to spread love that most romantic movies have a problem to made it good without it turns too saccharine or predictable.

Badly injured, the rabbit decided to give up with his newer mate. Brandy told him outrageously to don't and you have a chemistry that actually work despite its central focus problem. Brandy is not always the one rich girl dog who only wanna evict/eliminate/rid Mr. Whiskers and the rabbit is not stupid for the sake to be like a certain starfish sidekick from another cartoon show who gets his spin-off a few years ago. Who ever wanted it first?

Another attempt that almost tent to fail is Brandy is on a tree with a can like telephone and a wire when Whiskers is underneath to her until Gabriella came back.

For once, the rabbit is more than determinate (With Brandy's help) to confess his feelings to the bully lizard by shown us that she weren't mean at all, but only someone who is alone in her life.

But the darn monkey who wooing Brandy in the first minutes of the episode is back again in the tree and the creepy lizard started to realize that it's Brandy who do all the job to the rabbit. She have to save her life again but then, start to feel sorry for the poor monkey that remains unconscious until she apologize the monkey to ignore him.

But then, WHAT THE...?

The rest of the cartoon is filled with the pair going in opposite directions. Whiskers trying this time, by himself, to express his love to Gabriella by even proving with a pair of socks in his hands. But poor him! She eat him up and he soon discovered a ferret in which the bond start to collapse together. It would be only great if the series developped more with this improbable pair than just shenanigans with the snooty rich pooch-girl and that the silly rabbit put all the crap on her.

Even by some gross-out details, the new loving bond made more sense than it was to Gabriella in the begin of this adventure. If only, Whiskers and the female ferret washed themselves before to courtship each other. But how that the ferret been ate by Gabriella was never explained. And surely, we never would own an answer.

That conclude what will be probably the most beautiful episode of all the series, by ended it with all animals be mortified by the Whiskers/Ferret horrific smell and Brandy getting grating by the wooing monkey. It never would have others and better romantic cartoons from the show like this.

Critique:

"It's Springtime!" like says Brandy to what may be otherwise the most beautiful episode of all the series and one that giving it a rare chance to the show to own an Annie Award Nomination. Unlike in the two very first segments, the improbable bond been already established in this episode, while Mr. Whiskers have no trust to love or romance when the blonde canine girl is spurred to all the love mates the jungle animals met. The presence of Cupid is all the most remarkable: Him bonking Whiskers with a helmet instead of bows and arrows. We even have a rare example of what the artists could do with this cartoon by a rare beautiful painting of Cupid and then, a big fat guy with a baseball bat that looks Cupid! The appearence of Gabriella is anything that make the earlier series so good. Her introduction is at times, fearsome and inspired, thanks to the overseas animators who may have the difficult task to animate her in many three-dimensional ways. The blackout and callback gags however, are decent and don't overstay its welcome. The monkey who trying to express love to Brandy is a cute little gimmick which his presence given it much importance in the ending; him speaking like a sort of Pepe' le Pew/Charles Boyer cloning voice. And like it weren't enough, Mr. Whiskers gets another soulmate by the appearence of a female ferret who was ate by Gabriella before him. (And where we seen some soul-crushingly visuals of her inside body with lots of disgusting green water to the lizard.) The new bond is made and it's only a shame it weren't explored more in the show, while Brandy being the "loser" of all the whole thing. It's the first one that themed about love in the series and it's arguably the most funnier all around. Essential cartoon for the pair. Essential Björklund direction. Essential viewing for the series.