The Show Must Go Wrong

The Show Must Go Wrong (1-32)

Written by: Nina Bargiel and Jeremy Bargiel

Storyboard by: Carson Kugler

Directed by: Timothy Björyklund

Date of airdate: Jule 22th 2025 (Thought it was playing already elsewhere)

Synopsis: Brandy and Mr. Whiskers decide to shoot a rescue film by re-capturing how and where they've met for the first time until Brandy's hench for fame sour the whole film's production by do all the picture by herself.

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! A new era emerged in the core of the animated series until its eventual ending run.

The segment started when Brandy pull tons of bottles with a paper that sign "Help!", as her despair to be saved for went back home to Florida. The next scene is about Mr. Whiskers who crawl lots of garbage things in his way, by even do a weird music with what that called out, well, something.

The aftermath of Whiskers' failure make opened by accident a suitcase with something that were new in the series; A video camera. Brandy caught the rabbit's awkwardness to make a video of herself, claiming her to reutrning in her own land. That would be done already if the girl pooch didn't get harassed by Mr. Whiskers' antics and also, her own obliviouseness to everything. (Like a flight spread from nowhere in The No Sleep Over)

The rabbit's reponse to this first effort was that no one would took her seriously with such of a generic video of her. He added to the mix that it need action, adventure and suspense, by litterally pushed the status of movie stars. So, they figured them become stars of their own rescue film.

Whiskers goes to the jungle denizens for explain them about a "movie", which no one known what it is. But once we are in the film shooting, the scopes of the unpredictable pair between to be "survivalists" and "actors" started to become interchangeable, which make rehearsal of the scene where everything has started, from Mr. Whiskers' First Friend, before they been ejected out of the cargo plane.

Gaspard is been the film's director, helped by his Monkey servants, Cheryl and Meryl and Lola Boa for the special effects, backgrounds and sounds-effects for that matter, but everything is riddled to the point of tedium. The first episode, written by Russel Marcus, is been the most important one of the whole show. Because in this, we do felt like to ask what kind of ride we've going on.

 Despite all these good intentions, this is just an okay episode. Not the greatest of all, but not the worse either. That kind of familiarity of the series' tropes start even to be more crual than anything, like Brandy crawl doggies' ears to the rabbit and been constantly injured by piranhas, and in another scene, one of the Toucan hit hardly Brandy's hand, which it's more painful than funny. The showbiz settings in this don't generally work well, unless says, the Garfield and Friends segment "Star-Struck" where Garfield even claims Jon and Odie as "supporting casts", instead of be part of the lazy cat's family, or more famously, the funniest mistaken outtakes on everything, Greg Ford/Terry Lennon (Blooper) Bunny! at a self-made satire of the way Warner Bros. advertized agressively the Looney Tunes property, back in the 1990s.

But we are no longer in the '90s anymore! Imitated Tex Avery or Chuck Jones' humor and traits has evicted of all the public space since over 30 years. Meanwhile, French's studio Xilam crawl with an unusual feast of "gross" and "crass" slapstick violence by the likes of Space Goofs or Oggy and the Cockroaches, thought it do also delievered such decent action shows for good measures. But the Oggy's craze in France was in North America a bomb, letting us known that this is actually, the real-life "Itchy and Scratchy" from The Simpsons. What we could says more to this?

The second act is about Brandy bragging herself to be a movie star, by been also oft-putting to the whole film's crew and expecting big fame just in order to returning to Florida. But Whiskers, Cheryl and Meryl disagreed with her movie-star status. It results of her, firing everyone of the crew, by producing the whole rescue picture all by herself, in usual Disney-Channel style.

Now that she in charge of everything, she have to juggled in the filmmaking, by even using a watermelon for the rabbit's face, which it is also funnier than distracting, (By also crushed the fruit's face which it is a funnier visual) but the failure of her impulses make her resigned to apologized Mr. Whiskers, if that weren't done already in their past adventures, but what she have learned since she is missing by accident?

 While the crew's back, they re-watched the original shooting of the film, until to created another one, but with a much bigger attention to the sense of adventure and survival the jungle has to offered. We even seen the pair repeated their lines, which it's a sticking point of the transitions between been actors and survivalists in the series. We don't even know why such episodes have to be made, but it let with a weird resolution to them, ship by river the tape of the film (wrapped also) until an unnnamed castaway man from a desert island make use of the tape's ribbon for the dress of his Coconut fiancée. (Or it was his sister, it was never explained)

That would make us ask if they've concerned that the rescued tape has never took the wildlife team. That seems to looked like a great way to finish with an animated show that has no way to exists, or be made in the bests of case.

Critique:

 On the surface, it has no right to be that good. It's the sub-par "Brandy find a plot to went back home" trope that has worn its welcome already. The gags went sometimes from hideous (The piranha scene) to corny (Whiskers' self-inflated ego on the airplane scene shoot), but that works by be ultimately, one of the final episodes where the Brandy's expectations to returning on Florida would be made in the series, by be abandonned completely in Season 2. The rehearsal scene of the plane eviction from Mr. Whiskers' First Friend was added by lots of funny mishaps of Whiskers be impressed to be on camera to Cheryl and Meryl doing the wind effects when the cargo started to originally ejected them in the air. It's a funny Cinematic 101 class which past animated efforts like Garfield's Star-Struck or more famously, Greg Ford/Terry Lennon (Blooper) Bunny! has encapsulated to the audience of how films have to be created and made. Unfortunately, it's on this sticking point in which the scopes between seen Brandy Harrington and Mr. Whiskers to be actors, and not survivalists started to rear its ugly head, which it is losing completely when Season 2 came out and also, in such later Björklund's segments like Mini Whiskers (Where the rabbit reading from out-of-nowhere the show's script about a line -- IN the jungle?) or Payback (When Brandy responed to the audience on a rather pedestrian 4th-wall breaking way). The reversed R featuring in the title-card and credits is a little too out-of-place as if the writers wanted to make an intentional (!) gag with and the climax with the unnamed castaway man who removing the tape's ribbon for his coconut mate make us ask if the real-life show would be ended this way if the rescued tape was standed where they have to belong at first place. Easily one of the most above-than-average episodes in the series, and one of the lasts brilliant entries before the appeal of the Amazon Rainforest environment will be battered by the Jungle Mall a little later after this production was airing and made.