Breaking the 4th wall -- Brandy & Mr. Whiskers-style

Fewer cartoons characters and stars can have the luckless task to be able to speak directly to the camera and stayed funny. Bugs Bunny did. Daffy Duck did too. The Marx Brothers levitate the trope onto effortless. And even the guys from Wayne's World do studying what is right with that. But otherwise, it's just characters lecturing to invisible people or talk on their own, which it looks distracting to do that on public, that it could be related to mental illness.

The Brandy & Mr. Whiskers crew have tried to elaborate these classic tropes for a new contemporary audience. And they failed it, because it went out-of-nowhere instead to be a "surprise" gag.

One of the later season 1 segments, Mini Whiskers, is a blatant example. In this episode, Whiskers adopted a baby warthog until it put the heck of annoyance to Brandy. When the alligators tried to menacing the baby and our heroes, the baby warthog was just hiding in the bushes and so, Brandy was in relief to known he was save.

Brandy's line "That's so sweet!" have make Mr. Whiskers' puzzling about the familiar line.

The next scene, Brandy by still hugging the baby replied, "Do you teaching so?"

Then, out-of-nowhere, Whiskers reading the cartoon's script. Are they Amazon survivors or actors in this?

Sadly, for longtime animation fans, it's nowhere at ingenious or magical like Tex Avery does for the first time by stealing the script gag from Porky's Duck Hunt, which introducing to us the "one-and-only" Daffy Duck! The short been muchly famous because of that.

Another later entry, Payback, is even more so dull. Brandy tried to explain to Lola the amount of times she saved Mr. Whiskers of a fate and that she have to get a payback by let the rabbit to save her. She commented about save lives on TV shows when the female boa told her "Brandy, we're not on a TV show. It's real life".

By doing a very grating 'Tude face, Brandy does the inevitable thing to what made the show so special first; Speaking to the camera "I don't have the heart to tell her." This may hurt the potential to seen a long establishing career for the TV series, if by season 2, several of the episodes ended with a sort of Garfield and Friends-quickies that looks the result of someone that don't know how finishing these things.

The sad problem is by the mid-00s, 4th wall-breaking jokes have stopped to be original or funny, and so for most Garfield-esque jokes pointed in the TV show that date of the golden era of Vaudeville. It's not the show's fault, but the way Disney Channel shows at that time, live-action or otherwise, had forced young actors to act and speak loudly their lines by make it at more unwatchable than anything seen on TV Prime-time. 

When we are definietly in a pretty good era for Disney TV Animation by the inclusion of Primos, (After over ten-fifteen years of utter TV trash) this let us making this hilarious question: What would happening if the Brandy & Mr. Whiskers project were NOT produced for Disney, but for the likes of Cartoon Network, WB Animation or Nickelodeon? Because Cartoon Network produce anything anymore. Warner Bros. Discovery seems to just reharsh old ideas. Nickelodeon is still stuck with wacky cartoons that never left the 00s. And even Anime became more generic and a sort of alien concept.

Sadly for those who are still fans of this show, Brandy and Mr. Whiskers have a hard time to plays their actors' roles seriously. We suppose to care them as individuals. Not actors. And the very flattened 00s characters designs shows terribly its age on a time where the 00s nostalgia linger its ugly head again by the newer Linkin Park The Emptiness Machine tune that was just made. (Can't we told them that singing loudly WITH inaudible lines are horribly dated and very irritating as hell?)