Brandy & Mr. Whiskers | |
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Genre |
Animated sitcom Slice of life Surrealism |
Created by | Russell Marcus |
Directed by |
Timothy Björklund John McIntyre Steve Loter |
Starring |
Kaley Cuoco Charlie Adler Sherri Shepherd Tom Kenny Alanna Ubach Jennifer Hale Andre Sogliuzzo |
Composer(s) | Kevin Riepl |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 39 (77 segments) (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Russell Marcus Timothy Björklund Bill Motz Bob Roth |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Walt Disney Television Animation Toon City Animation, Inc. Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. |
Distributor | Buena Vista Television |
Release | |
Original network |
Disney Channel Toon Disney |
Picture format | 1080i (16:9) (HDTV) |
Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
Original release | August 21, 2004 | – August 25, 2006
Brandy & Mr. Whiskers is an American animated television series about a pampered yet spunky dog and a hyperactive rabbit who get stuck in the Amazon Rainforest together. The show originally aired from August 21, 2004 to August 25, 2006. It was televised in the United States by Disney Channel. After the series ended, reruns continued to air until June 21, 2010. Reruns had aired on Toon Disney until June 2008.
Brandy and Mr. Whiskers start getting acquainted as they begin their new lives in the Amazon Rainforest. They build a tree house to live in, using debris that fell out the plane's cargo compartment. A big part of the series is Brandy's desperation to getting back to her home in Palm Beach, Florida. In the meantime, both she and Mr. Whiskers work together and build an unlikely but genuine friendship despite having a lot of differences, adapt by exploring the environment, and making friends with the native animals. Brandy makes attempts to get the jungle to become a civilized society by introducing elements such as fashion, hygiene, and shiny rocks, their type of currency. Mr. Whiskers prefers to mix things up by using the powers of invention and imagination to occupy his time, but it usually causes havoc in the jungle and affects his popularity.
As Brandy and Mr. Whiskers get more settled in the jungle, a lot of changes are put in order. They redecorate the tree house by giving the interior a more "homey environment", which includes flowery wallpaper, tasteful decor and an indoor bathroom (this was after Mr. Whiskers' new "dream house" was destroyed). The native animals also become more anthropomorphic as they have now established a new market economy in the Amazon. Brandy and Mr. Whiskers discover the mall in the first episode of season 2, "Get a Job". They develop clothing, consumer products, restaurants, theme parks, TV commercials, a boy band called "Sugartoad" and a shopping mall. The adaptation has also lowered Brandy's desire to getting back home as she resigns herself to life in the Amazon.