Freaky Tuesday (1-38)
Written by: Bill Motz & Bob Roth
Storyboard by: Ms. Tina Kugler
Directed by: Timothy Björklund
Date of airing: August 12th 2005 (According to epguides.com, but it may be playing anywhere before that date)
Synopsis: Brandy and Mr. Whiskers have to switching their personalities by orders of Dr. Phillips, with predictable chaos and outings involving them.
P.S.: In the moment you tent to read this article, let me remind you a thing-- I haven't known anything about the "Brandy & Mr. Whiskers" 11-minutes segments before I tent to reviewing these. I haven't fully watched the show in years, but instead of the original english voice-cast, all I do remembered from the series was from the 2008s YouTube featuring the Spanish-dubbing cast version of the show. And albeit the series was finally remastered in HD and that did looked out better than before, the presentation was another victim of the rampant "Photoshopped" titles, those that are typical from most foreign newer prints of past shows like the way in 2020, a Post-production house has remastered the remaining of the Warner Bros. cartoons library with such dreaded results like this. For the need of this blog, we're fully compelling the show with the older, Standard version of the series, like the way it was originally created and made by what we have to do. Thank you!
Ugh, this one we would like to not talking about.
2005 was a rather odd year for Disney, and also animation in general. It encompassing to what went to be otherwise a true Golden Age of "crap". The mid-00s were especially a hard labor to dealt by, and thankfully, we're (Almost!) free of that tedious, corporate-thinking and gratuitious kind of humor that most animated productions have all suffered by the time this segment was producing, and then, airing in the America in late summer-2005. It's by there I started to think that perhaps, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers weren't that of a good show.
The first scene showing Brandy doing manucure of her feets by showing to the camera a close-up of her nails. So, she is a human girl or a dog in this?
Lola looked like a bit unsure of her manucure skills while Whiskers playing like crazy with a barrage of odd and ends instruments to him, making it a harsh and loud noise, and it's there the whole ordeal going to start...
What Lola would thinking is exactly the same reaction than the audience about that cartoon episode.
Brandy getting one of its big nerves, besides to be a nasty streak to her roomate.
Lola calmed down the twos by asking help to Dr. Phillips, a renowned psychiatrist that for some reason, is a hippopotamus. I don't know if there's a reference to the famous Dr. Phil. On a deep and calm tone, the doctress asked them several questions about the way they feel each other and how their bond may improved. It's all watered down to the fact that this is not a funny segment, by poorly fail to make fun of the split personality trope like in the cult Disney's own-Freaky Friday movie, either the 1960s, 2003s and also, the 2018s remake.
The kind of cartoon that is not suitable to kids, but to those who are strong enough to dealt with. That was a challenge for me since two decades.
The odds and ends about that cartoon episode are more dysfunctional than entertaining. Because Garfield did it tons of times in the 1988-1994 Garfield & Friends series, an episode of Fairly Oddparents where the Timmy's godparents were switched each other, no mention the many times Hanna-Barbera thrown that "switch personality" trope. But in this, it's a wasted opportunity if all these actually happening because they can't even interact each other, even not with a ten-foot pole!
Dr. Phillips suggests them to switch their personalities in order to be able to communicated and improved their relationship, as that was easy enough to change that. What working well in The Simpsons is even for a depiction of the trope of dysfuctional family, they loved and helped each other. In them, it's just oft-putting, by make them at unlikable and mean-spirited at times. Brandy gets rabbits ears in her head and Whiskers became the snooty spoiled-brat that Brandy figuring on. You would think this was funnier at that time? Looking of the way the Transgender people have many problems to be accepted and gets all the support and security they need, that not make a faithful answer to cheer them up, that it was all a mistake to producing these.
But, seriously? This is why I am glad to not thinking to made my version of Brandy & Mr. Whiskers on BDs if that would be painful and irritating to look on for any readers, young and old. I having grabbing too much Cubitus at that time by even expected to steal their jokes and ideas, by also including a third character in the duo, a stock feline male with glasses name Alphonse (Like a Sénéchal tribute) or something like that, that would replaced Ed at Whiskers' official frenemy. Do I am so glad that it never was materialized. If that was originally made, that would be painful to looking on though.
The next morning, Brandy going to awake, but suddenly, something was changed! Brandy gotten not only the rabbit's ears stuck to her head but also Whiskers' prison suit in her. Brandy gets frustrating to that, and Whiskers... well, that's another thing! And there we assist to probably one of the most long and pointless cartoons drags in history, something that even Bugs Bunny who used to disguise on girls for strike his opponents would put himself a slow burn. (Even a Tiny Toons University episode have shown the problems of drags trope in society, at the time Drag-Queens been less peripheral than before.)
This deviant agony still keep on when even Lola don't even known who Brandy and Whiskers is... And what about the others girls and then, Ed? Is they're stupid or just low-minded?
All that are useless and pointless by be something that went dated in 2005. Drags gags have stop to be funny or original at that time, when the matters of gender-change became a topical thing.
The worst part of it it to seen Brandy been humiliated and ridiculized to all the Jungle like the way Whiskers was in A Bunny On My Back when the fancy leopard propose a date to Brandy and everyone was been jerk to the rabbit. Severe humiliation working best when the main character became otherwise a bully to others and that its peers decide to seek it revenge for payback. In this, nothing is done right. You just seen an anti-heroine been the butt for jokes when she don't gets in full control of the situation. Some writers need some consultation before to wrote these things.
No argument, this was what we've also feel by looking of this episode!
The dragged Brandy getting back to Dr. Phillips for help of this problem, but even the doctress looks clueless that she is actually the rabbit. When a psychiatrist could be ignorant that her appearence looked like not a rabbit, but a dog? Bill Motz and Bob Roth have wrote some fine episodes with the pair, but this one is a utmost failure. Despite a very competent crew for the overseas animation, nothing looked like anything we hadn't seen before in other countless medias. Unless in the marvelous Garfield segments, it's actually happening, which breaks the fact that the drag appear on an alternate universe, a Dreamland-like of world when even the most absurd things were able to be connected with the logical sense of reality.
By the last minutes or so, Brandy getting back to the treehouse by given a lesson to her roomate, by thrown pile of trashs to the house, started to acting, bragging and talking like Whiskers (Cuoko's did a pretty good work at that!) when Charlie Adler tried to given to Whiskers, err, the drag Brandy an urban-girl fursona tone. If that was executed finely, it would be funny but instead, it's just loud with tons of gratuitious horns and madcap violence that just the fact that it's a Disney animated production may explain this identity crisis all the company striving in the mid-00s before to emerging to marvel again with Wall-E. Something that turning back to nightmare in recent times.
All these wild reactions are rather out-of-characters, by make them at rather unsympathetic and appaling for the many times the pair was wandered in a conflict. Freaky Tuesday have strike hard to be a lesson about honesty and conmmunicating each other, but we don't need a flat cartoon animated by ToonCity to lecturing us about kindness and resilience. Instead, it's just preaching the audience without admiting their mistakes. Such a lifeless part why the ending was not exactly what we wanted to.
The barrage of big instruments makes its part again when wacko Brandy playing this just to annoyed and make Whiskers in pains by also sobbing to beg her to get his happy-go-lucky personality back. Brandy would be glad about, but she's yelled again (Off-screen) to the rabbit to keep off her clothes. Another instance that maybe, something need to change when Season 2 came out.
Back to that psychiatrist scene again, the pair finally learned their lesson about co-living each other and communicating in order to improve their relationships. The crew having a penchant for the word "Always" in this episode. This having large repercusions in the final sequence when the duo getting mad and mean-spirited again, but why Whiskers been upset, then?
Suffice to says, this was showing in the final half-hour of Season 1 just before the final Marcus-written story The Brain of My Existence. We would wish a better way to ending it than this.
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