They gets twenty

Today's the day! The animated series that was the reason why this blog exists has finally reach its twentieth anniversary by its original 2-Hours Premiere (August 21th 2004). It's very amazing that times flies so fast! In 2024, the newer HD masters of the show reveal something very strange about the way the cartoon was originally created.

Apart of its now-irritating fandom, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers never been at popular and loved by the animations community and critics. There is a ordeal about watching the TV theme in 4K masters to so crudely drawn (See the pic above right) they'll looks like once watching it on a TV flatscreen or your mere computer-screen. So, why Disney have accepted of such of a very amateurish and murky work at result?

The 00s era of Disney animation weren't that solid. Even by looking of it in perspective, Kim Possible never would be rebooted today to how jerky and rude all the characters looks to be. The 2019s live-action movie was somehow a very disaster experience by make it literally like a "cartoon" (The settings and movie's theme song remains unchanged compared to its original outings) on a live-action film. Brandy and Whiskers never gotten a chance on an actual, licenced Disney movie and anyway, I think it's for the best.

The origins of my passion for this show was actually a turn of events. In 2004, I started to took a break of anything from Looney Tunes after witnessed that most of the cartoons aren't that "funny" once I grew older. The "teenaging" way to enjoy the Warner Bros. cartoons started to be dead, while I was still limited to the old Post-48 TVs package. Naturally, looking of the Pre-48s films for the first time by the DVD sets were such of a revelation. For many years, the Canadian market didn't shown much of the better, creative-driven era of the Looney Tunes for instead, those that were almost in auto-pilot. Not to mention that even if the Road Runners, Tweetys, Pepes or Foghorns are still pretty good by shows strenght and maturity on an industry of changes, (Radios gone by TV, budgets increases on shorts production, etc.) it's hard to not feel the fatigue to working on such shorts for a living. The rites of the original Duck Dodgers, the Hunting trilogy, Duck Amuck, One Froggy Evening, Show Biz Bugs and of course, What's Opera, Doc? would never happening ten-fifteen years earlier and neither, later. It was occasional efforts done by people who have known and worked for years on the mechanics of their craft.

Brandy & Mr. Whiskers made me a fan for the first time a February 4th 2005 - looking it at the "new" fully-potential TV stars, destined to a bright future. But all that was just an illusion.

Because I was fully engaged to wondered what would be like if I adapted them, legally or otherwise, on such comics one-page strips like the series of old. Actually, we never getting the show at home. I was obligated to looking it by the episodes' synopsis online and figuring it on my mind what they looks to be. But such catalyst was inevitable. It's also the reason why Kim Possible never went adadpted on comics series, from its incoherent pacing to excessively-talkier characters who been like jerks.

The biggest drawback of the show while reviewing these is how uneven and umipressive most of the writing came about. The jokes are all over the place in several titles, that you have to ask yourself if they'll tried to be an homage to classic rubber hose animation or a fan-made shit-show. Even the great voice casting by the likes of Tom Kenny and Charlie Adler can't save this to be forgettable pieces of crap in the future, which it's actually happening.

Looking of Disney in 2024 unlike in 2004 seen how there is a real de-evolution of the corporation that now, faced with tons of lawsuits, the hatred of average-class people, the amount of weird subliminal messages in most of their productions or that Disney+ offers tons of shows the month that were never be seen anywhere, but in their own platform. If anyone in the community praise X-Men '97, why it's not even ran on Cable TV then?

It's like that, producing shows and movies for the elites. Thankfully, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers didn't get saddled to be exclusive to their subscribers by been a Disney Channel production back in the day, but such things will never be made the same way anymore. Streaming platforms weren't made yet and since Netflix make history, everything have changed. By Cable cord-cutters and moviegoers who grew sick to going in a movie theater by movietickets that never went at expensive, the streaming platforms is the much affordable and less costly outlet to watching tons of movies and TV shows in the comfort of our living-room, and to say nothing that movie theaters have fully abandonned to be an experience on itself. Like when Television became the newer kid in town.

In this post, there is no bells neither whistles to celebrate the famous show's twentieth year. Just thought to how I have evolved since this little series came part of my life. I think this is the utmost reason why this cartoon was made. It forced me to grow up and accepting changes, like the way by the DVD era, I didn't longer seen Warner Bros. cartoons like fun cartoon comedy, but at joyful works of art that known how to entertain audience of all ages. I have to thanks Russel Marcus, Timothy Björklund and all the show's cast for the creation of Brandy and Whiskers (Despite its long two years of production before that) and carry me great memories on my earliest artistic period of time. Sadly, it's all wasted by be another 40s Screen Gems wreck or a Garfield clone. It's shame if the show to me, deserved better.