mercredi 4 février 2026

Season 2 gets twenty!

A much tongue-in-check title-card of the 2026s 2006s depressing visual of the modern-day world on the first season 2's Brandy & Mr. Whiskers segment is where a newer era of the series emerged, for the best and the worse. Get A Job is no match with the very first episode of that show, when the central focus of the episode (and the complete season) is a Temple where our "heroes" discovering it for the first time via a mere map.

Unfortunately, when they known (and the audience) that this is an urban mall, (In a Jungle!) the series merely became like another Disney Channel-type of show, with a key difference that the Ren & Stimpy Show influence is been more obvious than in the first season there, if it's possible. Past Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network alumnis were involved, and that John McIntyre would take the Timothy Björklund seat at director of almost every of the cartoons segments.

Though this is fair that the new season went in a different direction and that the bonds between the female pooch and the rabbit is been improved, (But still not the best chums either) the cartoon series started to act strangely as the writers wanted it to be like one of those bizarre and out-of-nowhere 1940s Screen Gems cartoons. The production were been inconsistent at best. The only plus is the voice-actors and overseas animation studio (ToonCity?) still do their fine job to playing with, but it results of why the modern-day conglomerate seems to never including it in their own Disney+ platform.

Get A Job is also the title of a 1985s National Film Board of Canada (aka NFB) quasi-pantomime film about a Droopy-like loser character who having to not be late on his interview appointment for a job. The Tex Avery/Bob Clampett humor style was a novel approach for a mid-1980s animated short, from a time where the admiration for classic animation and its pionneers were still peripheral. There, it's just time-wasting. Brandy and Whiskers finally own a job on a fast-food restaurant. The jungle animals paid anything by "rocks", (See in Trouble in Store or Blind Ambition at earlier examples of providing the issues of commerce in a jungle right) but that would make the doubtful question of how such of a Temple mall could be build in no-time, in a wildlife zone that is otherwise one of the most threatened areas to Earth by wildforest fires or trees to be cut by dozen for suburbs.

Indeed, the new season's opening clearly lacks the spirit of what make Mr. Whiskers' First Friend at one of the more memorable Series Premiere in TV history. The "quirky" humor is still here, but there is nothing new from what we already known on the older episodes. And with McIntyre's lack of trust to these characters, it didn't took long for Disney Channel to cancel the whole thing, and without any resolution that fans waiting for.

We have no heart to reviewing this episode and the whole season as well. Stick with the first season or for its title, the NFB's short film.

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