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This is one of the newer half-hours episodes to be lately remastered to HD. It's looks better and more beautiful than it ever was before, when ironically, that was the final original episode that playing on the American's Disney Channel... in 2004! (The production order says it was in the 16th half-hour in most International feeds.)

Despite to be written by Russel Marcus, this is still a very weak adventure, by feels a little too long to characters that you going to standing them not more than over ten minutes.

On Whiskers, On Lola, On Cheryl and Meryl appears to be like the most special and one-off Brandy & Mr. Whiskers full episode. That obligated the crew to paint a pretty attractive Christmas-y visual than they ever usually do in the show. And that shows! The city's snow setttings in some quick shots are effective and Santa is more-to-less a background character for some reason. Sure, he listed Brandy on its "Naughty List" while for the latter, it was a last opportunity to prepare her luggages and get back home, to Florida. In spite of that, it never was fully developped when the ending seen Brandy is still stuck to the jungle and never went back until the series ended definitely its run without any resolution.

By the time the series was new, we didn't gotten the chance to look of the cartoon by ourselves by have to be relying... to the many online synopsis. The full episode was reran for a couple of years until Disney Channel pulled off the show in 2010 for good. Despite nostalgia, this is still one of the most weak outings in the history of Disney Channel and reason why no one from modern-day Disney would get them back again.

The episode would be more fun and tolerable if it was like, you know, any actual TV Christmas specials, from the Rankin-Bass specials to Charlie Brown to Chuck Jones' The Grinch or also, A Garfield Christmas (Possibly the TV Christmas special I have seen many times at youth for years.). For an one-off special episode, it's pretty decent. But that was done at the era when most Christmas specials focused more to materialism and leads characters been greedy assholes than cheering the Holidays spirit or have empathy or kindness for the much poorer people than them.

If only the cartoon episode embody the theme of Christmas with much love and sincerity like this:

And let's get the review of this episode like was says last year:

Perhaps the most well-known and seen episode of the entire series due to its inclusion at Christmas-time and by be the one most people remembered with probably Mr. Whiskers First Friend and Pedigree, Shmedigree, this unique half-hour cartoon adventure is high on visual designs but still inept in substance. The main conceit to make discovering Christmas to the Amazon Rainforest animals is fun at its own right, but is sadly marred to the fact this is a very stunningly average effort. There are a couple of punches that works right: The Christmas music in background are pretty effective. Whiskers says "FEE-FI-FO!" is one of the most hystericals one-liners as of late. The Santa Claus and toddler kid designs are a nice fit to it, thought someone came close to says that they share the same kind of universe than the cult classic series Teacher's Pet in which Timothy Björkland was also involved at producer. But all these good moments are burried by the fact Brandy just don't care of Christmas at all and that she only wanna get home while Mr. Whiskers shows his own hate to Santa by wrote a letter to him. The fact that Whiskers was in the part of Santa's good list and Brandy the bad one makes one merely suspect, as if Santa have a sixth sense to detected the kids that are part of his annual good/naughty list. Brandy's long message to Santa of what she learning through her experience to take the big man's job with her own squad of reindeers (That are just Ed, Lola, Cheryl and Meryl at reindeers) for delivering gifts to kids is too forced and listless by exists only for ran more times before this ordeal is done. This was the one and only half-hour episode that is not separated by two 11-minutes shorts in the series, and one would wish the crew doing it more. There was lots of potential to make the jungle adventures more interesting than 11 minutes of gross and sadistic slapstick, but for that, that was it. On Whiskers, On Lola, On Cheryl and Meryl is clearly a modern classic for anyone who goes crazy with Christmas productions where they may ran it every year in Holidays time, but for an one-off half-hour, it's doubtful that it could own the same kind of timeless prestige and yuletide like A Charlie Brown Christmas, Chuck Jones' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! or anything from Rankin-Bass. It's only typical of what the series had to offers. After it, it will be business as usual until we hit the very abysmal series finale Rip Van Whiskers almost 18 months after this episode will be originally airing.