Mr. Disney, what's my birthday?

Like the past year in the same day, the blog has no choice to remembered that August 21th 2004 is the day where Brandy & Mr. Whiskers premiered worldwide on Disney Channel on a 2-Hours Marathon Premiere.

Reviews from it at that time were pretty bad. Even from the most ressourceful animated sources. It was also a perfect example of what may be at that time the Golden Age of "Crap".

But instead to celebrated an animated show that make no sense anymore, let bring you a little on the throwback by a 2013s blog that recall the origins of Brandy and Mr. Whiskers from the very ressourceful Steve Moore and Alex William's blog FLIP, The Brandy and Mr. Whiskers that Wasn't.

It's hard to think that the origins of the show looked completely different with "better" characters designs than from the actual body of the cartoon. The show started production in 2002, by be a victim of the 9/11 New York City attacks and that some creators wanted simply a job.

Brandy didn't been a blonde Breed kind-of dog first, but a poodle. The rabbit however, was muchly an android thing which it was unique and appealing even for 2002s standards, but instead, they were all replaced by a comedy travesty that looked like a bad cocktail of Garfield and those murky 1940s Screen Gems-era shorts.

It don't help that I am in the point of the series where the segments looked so interchangeable with lots of bad comedy actings and a visual that remains all the more ugly. If the earlier episodes were pretty good thus far, it didn't took long before fans started to complain in the Internet that the show's been terrible. I am been a fan of the characters for 15 years, from February 4th 2005 until in 2020 when the fandom has completely vanished of the Internet forever.

Even if the characters were been popular online, (Due to Brandy's Rule 34 themes!) it's never a good thing if your production is much known by the Internet than in the real-life. The same part why I have pull a hate for Totally Spies! on a time where Artificial Intelligence step backwards the issues and logical purposes between fantasy and real.

It is still impressive that the Disney show gotten two seasons. Timothy Björklund directed every of the first season and John McIntyre directed most of the Season 2. McIntyre makes a big disservice to the show where the Ren & Stimpy Show influence and the ones from 1940s Screen Gems remains more all obvious than in the first earlier episodes.

And sadly, it's as if even by a great A-list voice-acting cast, it can't save of that orgy of crass, sadistic and painful violence, and a fine example that a "cartoon" that tried to copy another "cartoon" don't work. Let me repeated this question if some don't: Are they true survivalists or actors in this?

We could ask the same question, but on a different angle: Why that they does exists?

If all this was made today by Artificial Intelligence, the show itself would be rather impressive with the biggest execution comes to life. But Disney thesedays, is broken artistically like that was in 2005. The unnecessary remakes of Snow White or Lilo & Stitch, that equally unnecessary sequel of 2003s Freaky Friday and then, the sequel of film no one asked about (Except the Pedo-Freaks), Zootopia 2 meant a corporative production that is lacking in bold ideas in order to merged more profits to its platform. While lots of young university students took a painful time to seek a job and getting a home, where the price of foods has exploded in years or that just owning sense of respect or civility is abandonned by social media, Reality TV, diversity or inclusion, the Disney corporation is litterally ultra-unconnected with what working-class people ask for from them.

The mere existence of all this stays to me a mystery. A show I wanted to like first but can't watched it at that time by be nowhere to be found, but knowing that the show looked crap, it pull me on a series of angsts due to my own childlike naivety. Now, everyone known it by YouTube is like giving too much credits to the platform than the people who worked in there for two years. It having potential to be a better show than this, but the producers themselves seems to never trust it.