Behind the 'Toon

Easily the most oddest and out-of-nowhere part that had happening in the Brandy & Mr. Whiskers' second season is a sort of "Quickie", or a "Bridging Sequence" from the likes of Garfield and Friends, the older Cartoon Network original shows or The Bugs Bunny Show of old. 

One of them has appearing in "Loathing Triangle". (2-10, Released March 3rd 2006) Directed by ex-Ren & Stimpy director Steve Loter and John McIntyre, this is mostly by this episode that the cartoon started to deteriorated in each segment, by trying newer ways for the show to stays relevant, but failed in it, like every "fake cartoons" have failed, from the likes of The Wacky World of Tex Avery, Bonkers or the 1940s Screen Gems shorts.

The small vignette that ran like a few seconds only feature Brandy and Mr. Whiskers behind a cardboard background showing what's set when the two leads are not annoyed each other. This is there they'll reach a point of no-return, as they're actually "stars" as opposed to Amazon Rainforest survivalists. We felt cheated by now. A kind of concept that lose what made the early nature of the show so special when it has beginning.

Seeing them "talking" directly to the camera looks so derivative because we have already seen these tropes before. From Tom & Jerry Kids to Tiny Toon Adventures or anything from Animaniacs. Even the Marx Brothers or Wayne's Brothers weren't so obvious when they shaking the audience for a 4th wall-breaking gag.

Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and also Garfield worked well if they were actually concerned that they have a core of logic between their fantasy universe and the reality. In the older days, Inspector Gadget and Penny from the classic show of the same name used to speak directly to the audience, but not litterally for lecturing them like in others 1980s bad cartoons, but just safety tips. These are the way it have to work. McIntyre sounds to have just seen these and saying "Hey, if it's worked out for Bugs Bunny, why not them?".

The vignette is mostly about Brandy mentionning the name of the 22th United States President or that a A40 Gazillion Dollar bill never existed is there the whole concept start to be wrecked. Aside of the Jungle Mall center, the pair never felt that comfortable in these unless when Timothy Björklund directed for them, because you can figure for what characters he worked.

Ugh! Those poor encoded glitchs from a YouTuber account that date of over a decade old! It need a good clean-up and upgrade!

This is like those badly-dubbed foreign vignettes when a very awfully-drawed Brandy & Mr. Whiskers speaking to the audience about things that don't merely make a lick of sense. That would be fun to paid mention to this, but this is for another blogpost.

The whole vignette finish when Whiskers asked to Brandy about if dogs and rabbits can't talk. Seriously, THIS is what he have to says so?

A smile that went out of sincerity.

Poof! They turned on real-life animals! Get It?

Even the fun TV Spots parodies or bridging of The Ren & Stimpy Show didn't betraying its absurd concept like this show started to became. Because there is no wits or reason to add that at the end of this episode. Another episode, Rain Delay have did the same thing, by appearing in probably one of the worst episodes IMO of the show ever.

Even the likes of Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw or Yogi Bear interacted with others characters on in-between sequences between the core shorts. But that pretty makes sense to me, unless in the later years when characters mash-up in crossovers metaverses (Yogi's Gang or Jellystone, anyone?) without any context.

For many years and times now, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers was very much compared in the internet to the John Krickfalusi and Bob Camp iconic creations that made Nickelodeon to the map. The first season of episodes having their own flaws, but its influence in the second season became much devious and listless, by hired past-Ren & Stimpy producers like Steve Loter or Johnny Bravo producer John McIntyre directed all them instead of Björklund. Considering the lack of opportunity Disney TV Animation employed at that time, the show was already doom to be cancelled before it's been announced.

This is by there the newer episodes taking a bridge too far to its original premise. Because Brandy and Whiskers have to never meant to be actors, but Amazon Rainforest survivalists. McIntryre seems to not comprehend the message by make these cartoons like lukewarm Walter Lantz and Screen Gems shorts that were showed back in the 1940s.

(And for the record, I have no intention to review the Season 2! Stick with the Season 1s ones instead.)