How Screen Gems has influenced "Brandy & Mr. Whiskers"

Not to be outdone, I started to losing any interest to review the Brandy & Mr. Whiskers TV series in this blog lately for says... anything but this! Then, today's Cartoon Research post from Jerry Beck about the final released shorts of the Screen Gems cartoons, by the UPA transition, took me back in the days where I watched both simultaneously.

The internet fan-favorite series never getting any respect or love from Disney or the Animation-elite itself. The influential 1930s rubber-hose animation and oversized cartoon eyes sounds likely pretty novel at that time, but the writing is so nondescript that its worthless to care about "new" cartoon stars that tried their best to catters a very irritating fanbase.

Though Columbia's Screen Gems closed their doors in November 1946, the backlog of cartoons shorts was ready to be released on a long two-seasons period, when the studio itself has suffocated, both visually and in storytelling. This is also why the Russel Marcus Disney's characters have for me, took a large inspiration to this era of a cartoon studio in very rough shape.

What makes worse with the final Screen Gems released films is not about incompetence or beginners' errors. They having the WB/Lantz/Disney personel at their own disposal. Bob Clampett worked there at a "uncredited" director in several of them. But results were that they were literally forgotten because of that. They took the malicious envy to ripped-off lots of the WB characters stars, such as Sylvester, Egghead and a very oft-putting crossover between Yosemite Sam and Sergent Claghorn's that used at a driving-force of the creation of Foghorn Leghorn. The cartoons writing went anywhere, to how many weird gags you'll going to get and if all these made sense. Even the Darrell Claker scores (Also hear in the Lantz cartoons of that era) looked so interchangeable by clashes in every scenes that it's not worth to revisiting it. Well, except for one of their utmost greatest ones, Flora.

I owned personally a soft spot for this series for a obvious reason -- This came from a time when I suddenly started to realize that not every animated shorts from the theatrical shorts era went at wonderful or great. I Binge-watched them too much of them by year 2004 (Long before it came that popular by streamings) until saturation tell me that the very late-1960s era of WB cartoons at poor or weak. Thinking that it was the right time to get a break from it, I started to be interested to the Brandy & Mr. Whiskers by felt different and original for once by not be an action show, neither an wannabe Western Anime.

There was a huge problem though -- I can't watched any of them, yet!

But looking of it today? Yeah, this is miles better than the modern-day crap that Disney and others use to made today, but that don't says much. It was the mid-00s after all. A rough year for Disney on anything. And when quality control were inconsistant at best. Despite the talented involved voice-cast, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers makes the usual up-roar from Toonzone and the likes, thought the Furries community seems to enjoyed it for the Brandy character alone. But who ever started it?

This is been over 15 years that Disney Channel has quit with the reruns of the show. Today's fans love to make hate to this without ever watching it like I did for make my anxiety nerves away. Season 1 was saved because Timothy Björklund has proved to be the guy of the situation by directed every of the 41 segments. When Season 2, John McIntyre and a somewhat jungle mall came there, the Screen Gems influence went muchly more grating than entertaining. And the reason why we loved the Amazon Rainforest environment first is been wasted that what makes the series so unique first, was because... it didn't come from a random American urban town!

With fans who are been more pushy and potent by pull all their prejudices that never leave the basement of an abandonned house to the public (The same reason why music radios in stores has give up to attract the average-class consumers), this is perhaps a good thing that this series never getting any renewing or reboot after it. The new Phineas and Ferb episodes looks exactly as they never left the 2010s to how ugly and stiff the designs always came. But it didn't stop these to be resurrected in newer locations and designs, such as T.U.F.F. Puppy (With Kitty Katswell is typically Brandy at an outlandish secret-spy feline) or The Bagel & Becky Show that went made when the '10s powerhouse of animation started to be in red.

But these two shows don't deserve any recognition unlike what made the snooty pooch/silly rabbit existence to me the begin of a new era -- until to what I am 21 years later.