Funky Bunny

Funky Bunny (1-9)

Written by: John Behnke & Rob Humphrey

Storyboard by: Mrs. Tina Kugler

Directed by: Timothy Björklund

Date of airdate: August 28th 2004

Synopsis: While preparing the Harrington Ball, Brandy have to seek someone for be her date, but Mr. Whiskers passed to be her date with such predictable outings. The one "infamously" cartoon episode that feature the Mr. Whiskers' booty-shake funky dance.

Ugh! This one with that ugly butt-funky dance!

After four successful firsts half-hour on the series, we start to seen the dreadful aftermath of what the Disney cartoons show may delivers. Brandy is once again too bossy and pushy. And Whiskers is too dumb and stupid for be likable in this one. If it's the fault of Behnke or Humphrey, who knows. But we'll know how the characters been fully hated in recent times by such wrecks.

The cartoon start with a decent shot of the jungle crew preparing the trimmings for the Harrington Ball, planned by Brandy herself. Whiskers ordering Ed to open the valve for more water, until the canine girl arrived on the scene. This is perhaps the first scene that have introducing me to the true nature of the show, while sneaking up on a store that don't exists anymore for watch TVs there. (That is one thing I miss of those days--to go up on a store just for watch shows we didn't carry on at home. Brandy & Mr. Whiskers was part of what I missed here at that time.)

Despite these flaws, some shots were rather inventive, if a little too unfocused. Unfortunately, it looks to be by this episode, Disney just want the whole thing to fails and dying!

This perspective shot deserve more credits than it ever owned!

By the earlier half-hours, I asked myself why that Gaspard is nowhere in this show. Oh sure, he featured twice in this cartoon but it's not before The Going Bananas Republic that he started to became a major part of the cast. Cherryl and Merryl always pitted each other. It weren't funny the first time they does appear. It's not better there! Are the writers does high on drugs while wrote this?

Brandy having to seek her date for the Harrington Ball. She trying any males animals and no one agreed. The wascally wabbit, err... wrong cartoon! We mean, off-beat bunny only beg her to be his, but one major problem consists of how badly behaved and gross he is! Brandy even asked Ed to plays as mate for the ball, but the otter's talkiness only worsen her situation.

You know by this sequence, there is a long way before that travesty going to end!

Unfortunately for the audience, the rest of the cartoon is padded with hacky jokes that says "Whiskers is a stupid rabbit!" by seen him farting,(Really? On a Disney show?) burping away and smells bad. All that is NOT funny and I don't comprehend sometimes that it can be existed. That explains why the series is possibly one of the studios' worst but this is given them too much credits if the same orgy of slapstick violence have soured all the whole Proud Family scripted-series by seen Penny's father be part of any abuses. It's racist. Unfunny. And there's no wits with that. This is part why the only Afro-American cartoon that was done right was Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids producing over at Filmation at a very dreary era for American animation: The 1970s. 

Is that means Bill Cosby is a savior for the black community by years of lawsuits against him for sexual harassment or these claims are due to his race color? I don't think so.

Looking of the whole result of this thing tells me just one thing: The Whiskers' Funky Bunny dance encapsulate all the things wrong with these cartoons. Too erratic and gross for any kind of bright audience. Too explicit for young viewers. An undecisive mess to figure what kind of punchline they would be and not help by out-of-nowhere writers who have no idea how comedy is made. 

This part is much extreme fanservice than anything I've read from their fanfics! Here's what blogger Bloody Marquis from the yet defunct Animation Revelation blog says of how the demonstration of humor can betrayed the audience's reception by reviewing a forgettable Japanese Anime comedy by 2013:

I don’t think I’ll ever get most Japanese comedy. I’ll always enjoy the odder works like Cromartie, Oh! Mikey and Happiness of the Katakuris, but they’re the exceptions to the rule. Even aside from the pun jokes, humor mostly comes from pure absurdity not according to the anarchy of Monty Python but the formulaic kookiness of an average Disney Channel Sitcom. And as always, this show didn’t do a single thing to dispel that idea. Almost every joke is basically “Here’s a goat! Isn’t this weird?!~” While humor is subjective, there always lies into how well-constructed humor is. You can’t just fling a dress on a scarecrow and call that comedy. Good humor actually utilizes such an absurdity and sees how the demonstration would betray the audience’s expectations or make them so confused that the act goes straight into hilarity. Instead, everything’s just so mundanely silly.

Which says nothing about the actual plot, for those expecting actual detectives and getting hijinks from the average Studio DEEN drivel. Whatever approach the show goes for becomes drowned by the nonsense of the usual Garfield comic. The writers probably just scribbled nothing but bullshit on twenty pages of paper and called that the script, except that would probably be too much credit for them. But of course, bastards will probably think this is a better detective show than Sherlock, or Poirot, or even Prime Suspect. And to that, I say, “Fuck you.”

At night, the Harrington Ball is done. Brandy still found no mates, unless Mr. Whiskers came along in a pink tuxedo, talking to the "dames" like a real gentleman. An approach that can explain the talented vocal skills of Charlie Adler, even if it remains so unecessary. Sadly, Whiskers' yells when he stumbles the whole ball delivering also what went wrong with the cartoon. And it's just the 5th half-hour? There's sixteen others to be made and they can't make it right? The inclusion of Whiskers' brain, however, is just lazy writing. This is not humor to me, unless you're getting too much doze of the kind of Ren & Stimpy/Family Guy drivel of jokes and says it at good! Finally, the very godawful Road Runners from Format Films weren't at bad compared to that!

And once again! The "very" embarassing Funky dance came along as a resolution to all the misteps the audience have endearing for 10 minutes! Such weird that this shot was utilized later in some Season 2 half-hour credits. Apparently, someone thought it has a caliber of fun moment to be patched there...

Sadly, like seen in Taking Paws, there was a fake-out ending for an earlier idea. We get the point, though. Ed is too slow for be usual and even Tom Kenny's skilled talents can't help it, as he tried to mimick the Mr. Jinks/Sam Cat voice. This one is not very good! Skip it if you can!

And now, the usual critique of this episode:

Critique:

After be showing at a 2-hours World Premiere in mid-August 2004, this is the first segment to be included on Disney Channel for a weekly timeslot, resulting so far as how much half-hours were already prepared for general Television release. But there is one key difference between the first four half-hour segments, Funky Bunny and anything that would follow that-- the cartoon's script appear at more juvenile for a cookie-cutter Disney Channel animated series and instead, sharing the same mold of "Smart-Girl-vs.-Dumb-Guy" that weren't fun at all to begin. This is more Ren & Stimpy on the blender and that bogged down any trusts to seen all potential for any kind of merchandising featuring the leads. Cuoko and Adler do their usual excellent jobs voicing the characters (especially Adler). There is also a pointless "cheater" sequence of the duo's falling from Mr. Whiskers' First Friend and all the usual spot-gags exists only at a racier gag to says "Mr. Whiskers is stupid!". Meanwhile, the Mr. Whiskers' (Again him!) Funky Dance represent all went wrong with the says characters' and series, from a standpoint that this was made by writers who have never known how good humor have to work, especially for a 2004s animated show. It's visually ugly, gross, painful and have no sense of style or finesse. It's such weird that the shot of Whiskers and Brandy do this Funky Dance was included in some Season 2's end credits two years later. If the only thing made right on this title are the fun POV shots, well, we're on a long ride!