Pedigree, Shmedigree

Pedigree, Shmedigree (1-25)

Written by: Christopher Simmons

Storyboard: Zac Moncrief

Directed by: Timothy Björklund

Date of airing: January 18th 2005 (According to epguides.com, but it may be playing anywhere before that date)

Synopsis: Brandy discovered that she wasn't a part of the Harrington family as she tought so, but a pure mixed-breed mutt.

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!

Here we are! The one that went to describe Brandy Harrington onto a Rule 34 female one from rampage online fans. Or it is still the case now? And when that begins by this: (Why a close-up of her butt have to be seen on a Disney show?)

The episode begins strangely like the way Funky Bunny has begins, where all the Amazon Rainforest jungle animals practicing their numbers for the Pageant show. We'll see Cheryl and Meryl argued (again!) about who will win, just for getting them stuck each other until Lola cut the wire that stucked them. In the next scene, we'll see Gaspard and his supposed girlfriend Gabriella, with an distinctive vocal tone that took all the contestants at pure sober and embarassment. It seems that the reason why a Pageant contest is organized is for given to Gabriella a crown. When in the next second, Brandy came in to join the gang with her "iconic" walking.

Why is Gaspard needs to have a girlfriend?

Despite all the hoopla of the fact that "Brandy is a hot dog" (No pun intented) by many Furry fans, Pedigree, Shmedigree looked out rather problematic while looking of it in the 2025s age. It make its impact on Pop-Culture all the less charismatic, if it's possible. The whole idea that Brandy is a messy mutt will be looking good on paper, but boasted onto ten minutes of gaps at gags, the whole structure of the episode is a pretty perfect example of NOT to doing where a female main character is describe at a Rule 34s part. When your creations became more popular to the internet than to the real world, it's never a good thing.

While Brandy and Gabriella met each other, the canine dog argued that these kinds of contests serve to nothing usual, while the female lizzard proclaims that she is a bit of a messy bug, but Brandy is more thrilled to win the contest to turning back home than actually challenging Gabriella at her own feet.

In the next scene, Brandy prepare her luggages for quit with the Amazon forever. Whiskers was with her and they'll looked to the Harrington tree picture with figures and names that for some reason, are never been that revelaed in the actual show. This is barely educational or family-centered and its reason why Brandy & Mr. Whiskers never be seen on ABC Kids on Saturday Mornings.

When the rabbit wanted to look of the Brandy's family tree frame, the two started to fight each other until the whole framework fall apart and an enveloppe declared the whole reason of why the episode is made:

What Brandy actually thought...

           ... to what she is actually!

That came the conclusion that Brandy is supposedly not so a part of the Harrington family after all. She's just... a mixed mutt from the Happy Strays Puppy Pound (with an approved certificate of rescue) where her supposed owners adopted her. That laid to a new dimension of the blonde canine character, for what she really are, but it's more so some directors having none idea to worked with such lifeless characters like these. This is the biggest problem of 00s Disney at that time, especially in their TV animated offerings. Its an Anti-Disney program, but appear to be an actual Disney prodcution by default.

While she finally know the truth about her origins, Brandy start to act like a real dog, by drinking her water in a bowl (With a funny moustache on her mouth), playing fetch, having gross teeths, howling to the moon, chasing her tail like does real-life dogs or be covered of fleas. It would be a fun character-study, but it's just another generic Brandy & Whiskers-vs.-Gaspard plot -- a kind-of trope that worn its welcome already in the later entries where Timothy Björklund having the very difficult task to directed all these things.

She really need a veterinarian for fix these!

Sadly one of the TOO fewer good moments featuring in this episode.

One good example of how silhouettes in characters are made. A much sensical moment than the useless silhouette gag in Lame Boy.

The next day, the Pageant contest is all mostly done. For some reason, the twin Toucan sisters are hosts of the event. Whiskers came with Brandy ON the leash to the scene. Brandy seen this at a pure embarassment. Whiskers is getting sick of her willings that she's a dog and all that crap, by even made-up himself some past moments of his lifetime. (Like the way Bugs Bunny recalled the American history to his nephew in his own words in the fun blackout short Yankee Doodle Bugs.) The rabbit soon is to be forced to shown his guts by pull all his earworms to the place where Brandy sit in (With a pretty hilarious and rare scene of her getting close to vomit!) for gets restored the Brandy Harrington of the Floirda Harringtons of old, but there was one thing to square all off and winning that damn contest -- Gabriella!

I suppose she's worked too hard to restored her fursona back!

Now the Pageant show is on and Gabriella is close to win the contest for no reason, (Because of Gaspard?) but Brandy took the stage at a surprise, by a simple, but effective red dress and doing her usual funny dance to the crowd, (By even shown a rare sequence of her dreaming to be on a magazine cover) Whiskers sit to the audience with a popcorn bag in his hands and then, the canine dog finally win the context when Gabriella getting a little pain in her ankle. It's such ironic that Brandy won on a context when in the first minute or so, she judged it at utterly pointless and moronic.

Now Brandy is ready to took her luggages for going in another place than in the Amazon... or its what she's thinking!

                                               

The final climax of the sequence is a mere area on the Amazon Rainforest that calls something like Palm Beach unless a real-life place on Florida. We have for once a pretty cute ending of the two main characters having fun each other, but for such of a game-changer on the series, and for all the hoopla on the internet that Brandy is a sexy canine character, the whole episode suffers of sense of structure. Sure, the idea that Brandy is describe like a mere Mixed-Breed dog is a fun touch, but is saddled to the fact that this is just a routine episode. That would be only great if that was the definitive series' last, but that will took another long 18 months before Disney Channel airing a brand-new episode of this for its final time before they went to oblivion in the land of obscure shows that went forgotten forever.

Critique:

An episode that is becoming more known for its Rule 34 theme than to its amount of actual artistic merits. Björklund and writer Christopher Simmons have make an effective character-study that Brandy is maybe not part of the Harrington Family Tree after all, but all that were spoiled by a very bothersome camera view of her butt (With very awkward Techno-Pop music in the background which that don't help) and clearly ruined her perfect Fursona part for a mere, muddy mutt, like the way she treated Mr. Whiskers at trash when they first met. The Pageant show sequence offers a pretty effective and fun way to served some non-Brandy-&-Mr.-Whiskers materials in there, but that went more like a plot device for the canine dog to win than a natural touch of the Amazon Rainforest elements. No mention that Gabriella is not that likable (Why is Gaspard needs a girlfriend?) by just threatening Brandy like a sore loser. If one paid close attention, the title-card is sadly a repeat of Dear Diary. For all the praise in the internet that Brandy is a sexy canine dog and to every fan-groups featuring her as-is, it's such a shame that this wasn't the final episode ever made, where the Palm Beach that went described on was actually an area of the Amazon and not the real-life Florida beach. One may assume that Brandy will returning back to Florida forever would quit to be a pipe dream for fans of the series, but it never was executed greatly. A fan-extended "Director's Cut"-vibe with Brandy and Whiskers doing their rather "sexual" games (Like speculated a fanfiction that served at a perfect companion after the whole mess with Pedigree, Shmedgiree) after the Pageant show was over will be easily more inspiring and entertaining than of what this lazy production has delivered.