A pair of Whiskers

The John McIntyre directed episodes of Brandy & Mr. Whiskers have made many attempts in order to keep the series relevant and with a different twist. However, I am not totally fond of anything he directed from season 2. The inclusion of a Mall-shop in the jungle is just incidental, Brandy gets a naughty addiction to shopping and also, the cartoons suffered themselves of a real lack of continuity.

Even by its loud flaws, Timothy Björklund have known for which characters he ever worked. The central focus of the show is an unpredictable duo stranding in the Amazon Rainforest by a Mr. Whiskers' accident once the duo met each other for the first time on a cargo plane. Things have changed a lot on its premise, and instead, it became like another typical Disney Channel kidcom that was shown at that time.

The begin of Con Hare defy logic by also purposely stealing a gag that was taken from the Garfield and Friends segment "The Lasagna Zone", when the lazy orange cat, stuck inside of the TV's home, is switching to any channels after messed lasagna to the new satellite his owner Jon just purchased. There was a western-style picture sequence when the cat at a cowboy and a unnamed cowboy guy playing poker and challenges went on between the two. (Including the obligatory Klopman Diamond gag. Where that its came from?)

In this, it's Mr. Whiskers vs... himself in both sides of the table. The rabbit start his own poker game by pull all his bananas collection, raisins (We don't seen raisins) and even a stinky boot to the table.

Whiskers is getting confident here, but there was a trap that the Season 2's cartoons sadly embodying.

In the other side, Whiskers says a mumbling word that looks to says "Gullible!" Can't he just guess an actual living opponent to plays poker with him?

Out of nowhere, Whiskers says to his other himself "It's gonna cost you a Taj Mahal made of toothpicks to find out." But who ever wrote this script? Poker gags had stop to be fun or original about over a half-century ago. Is it was a thing too?

Him, realize that it was his last chance to win.

The other him waiting patiently...

Whiskers finally pull (by a relief) a miniature toothpicks Taj Mahal sculpture on the table in order to won this game. Sounds more like anything from Screen Gems cartoons done in the 1940s. Finally, the prior line wasn't non-sequitur as we though of.

He challenged his "adversary" to shown him his cards.

The door knocked and it's by that the Whiskers' silly poker game was interrupted. He would like so much to figure if the other one has bluffing.

Sadly for the audience, there wasn't a call-back of this gag. The actual ending is about Brandy complained that the cereals she eating were terrible and that there was 236 more boxes to eat. But really, this was a wasted opportunity.

Nick Stanton and Devid Bunje are credited for the episode's writing while Katie Rice does for the storyboard. At a point that the animated series have lose everything of what made fans like me at invested to the pair. Such of a dismal decline in quality will have repercussions towards the production until the series' finale been airing somewhere in 2006 and after it, be forgotten. The pair will don't longer suffering again.