Paw and Order

Paw and Order (1-28)

Written by: John Behnke and Rob Humphrey

Storyboard by: Fred Gonzales

Directed by: Timothy Björklund

Date of airdate: February 4th 2005 (According to epguides.com, but it may be playing anywhere before that date)

Synopsis: Mr. Whiskers became a Sherlock Holmes-esque detective in order to innocented Brandy to be accused of stealing her friends.

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!

Finally! An episode that don't sucks by provide a decent call-back without gratuitious thuds for once.

The episode start where Lola Boa screaming that she's been losing her skin, that Ed seen his clams stolen as well and the rest of the jungle did it too. That start by a long briefing with the denizens in order to figure WHO could be the cultprit of all this. But somehow, the lady boa have found huge steps that looked like Brandy's shoes, and one may appear that she is perhaps the thief of everything, or perhaps it's Mr. Whiskers who do it, but without any tangible proofs right there, it's hard for the jungle and the audience to knows without any clarity.

It's the magic of the PRT SCR button touch. Lola looked like "stoned" in this one.

Easily one of the funniest moments of all the whole segment is seen Whiskers juggling pins on a monocycle, where that irritated Brandy where she just wish him to stop that. Sadly, the action appear too fast for capture a screen of this funnier moment.

After a bowling ball crashed the rabbit's juggling to the wall, the door knocked to the Treehouse and everyone gets pissed to seen their own personal items be stolen. First, it's at the Brandy's face, then it's Mr. Whiskers... Until, that they discovered a big back that called "Brandy's Stolen Loot" with all the stolen things that went came.

Despite the predictable premise, this is a very enjoyable episode to watch for once. In this, the characters are not distracting, neither the voice-actors yell their lines and the crew have also cooled down the amount of visually gross gags. Brandy have to defend herself by proving herself that she is innocent. By lured the jungle about make a trial or a justice court. For wildlife creatures, it sounds like gibberish, but already, you seen a fun part with Gaspard saying "GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!", even without that Whiskers with a lawyer outfit (With some pretty converse shoes. That helps!) can claims anything to defend his friend.

Because orders in the court are like a shit-show in the jungle, Brandy is now stuck on a prisoner suit and getting in prison (Actually, it's a mere cave) with two Gaspard's monkey servants who guard the cave.

Mr. Whiskers assure her that she will be free in no time, but Brandy is not that convincing that it's a great idea to let him doing this duty. Whiskers became then, a Super Sleuth detective, or a fac-similiee of this, it depends.

That gives several good moments though. Whiskers trying to do his "job" by participate a wild and sinister warthog until the big animal crashed him down. The monkeys getting a talk about the stereotype about monkey eating bananas is easily one of the more clever jokes, but that was likely it saying the same thing in another episode. And sure, Whiskers lured Ed to confess his crime until the otter tell him a long story-- With a pyjama, teddy bear and a glass of milk -- All this is rather inventive, fun and without any pretention. This is what makes several segments of the show worth to watch, and that we wish that such quality presisted in this depressingly tedious two-seasons animated cartoon.

Next scene, it's about the prisoner start to disguise herself at a monkey in order to get it out, but it didn't worked. Brandy makes the move to dig a hole in order to escape... and that is until Mr. Whiskers is on the case and that he notice something start to grumble, by even pull a big rock to it, without known that was Brandy who trying to be evicted of the jungle jail. Despite his awkwardness, Mr. Whiskers at a sincere, but inept sleuth respect the conventions on the likes of Jacques Clouseau, Inspector Gadget or any goofy police officers from Leslie Nielsen. (To say nothing that a Naked Gun revival featuring Liam Neeson will hit theaters the next weekend. This is weird to seen that in 2025 where the "Clumsy Detective" schtik have stop to be original or funny by the earlier of the long 00s decade.)

Return to the Treehouse, Whiskers have call all the Jungle in order to figure WHO is the real thief who have stolen all these things by have took Brandy behind bars. He's made the Anti-Crimeulator 9 500, which its simply a cardboard box and him, doing stranger noises with his mouth. The name appear to be.... Abe Linken! (With a pretty hilarious and In-Your-Face drawing of Abe at a stick-figure character) Sure, no one have believed in until... one unkown people have made admitting that he is the thief of all this, by revealed how he helped Mr. Whiskers, by wearing Brandy's shoes for stolen the past night, at a revenge to anytime Brandy is been very bad to the rabbit and also him, Murray, Mr. Whiskers' brain. (The brain in this segment was call Mr. Brain, but for the sake of clarity, we would call him Murray, like it was says in The Brain of My Existence.)

Another trial faced the pooch, rabbit and brain together in wait to a verdict. Murray finally confessed to the audience that Brandy is been a troublemaker to his for all the times he painfully injured and hit hard the brain and also the rabbit. And that was by it that Murray will definitely took this revenge. By a long montage of clips from past actual episodes where Brandy is been oft-putting to the rabbit. No question, it's a very original step to getting its due.

A clip from Dear Dairy that are more funnier than the whole episode really is. That sells the idea that Brandy is been strictly too extreme with her plans.

That make the final verdict: Brandy was mean to others. Whiskers was part of the culprit by Murray's guidance to steal their friends in order to gets revenge to her. The threes are put back behind bars. Brandy twice, and Whiskers for the very first time, which result of him doing his funny juggling number again. That is what finishing this episode.

Critique:

It's Brandy & Mr. Whiskers in jail! Easily one of the more funnier and entertaining episodes to be delivered for a while after to seen a small deterioration on the quality featuring in the series. To seen Brandy on a prison suit is not only inventive, but help us to sells the idea that the blonde pooch is perhaps her worst enemy, even by claiming her own innocence by launch a Justice Court on the jungle. After some miserable outings in the show, writers Behnke and Humphrey do finally understood the magic touch that were lacked from them by this episode, while seeing Mr. Whiskers at a sincere, but inept Sleuth Detective was charming without re-invented the trope. Despite some familiarity from the series, the segment offering a newer dimension to the bonds of the unpredictable duo by the presence of Murray, Whiskers' brain. Though he does appeared in Funky Bunny or Lucky Rabbit's Feet at a cameo appearence (And showing his biggest importance in The Brain of My Existence, where he collapsed to Mr. Whiskers' life), this is easily the very first major role for such of a tiny and strange character. (Who ever wanna have a brain wearing a top hat and talk?) Where he plotted the whole heist in order to blamed Brandy for all the injuries and pains towards him and especially, the rabbit. A resolution that the twos (Or threes, it depends.) gets back to the cave is all the more obvious, especially if the Amazon animals blamed them in the beginning for such of a coup. Cute moments like the monkeys guards arguing about the stereotype of monkeys ating bananas, Ed lecturing a story to Whiskers on HIS job, him pulling a huge boulder to the ground where Brandy trying to escape, Brandy act herself like a monkey (With a "tough" male voice too, which help to increase Cuoko's sense of actings off-screen) to the guards, the hysterical Anti-Crimeulator 9 500 gag and especially, Whiskers' juggling number (Which its repeated twice) are cherries on top by makes it all at one of the rarest great, but familiar episodes of the series from start to finish.