History NightmareFuel / BrandyAndMrWhiskers

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[[caption-width-right:350:When cartoon animals meet real life predators]]

* In "A Bunny On My Back", Brandy goes on a date with a jaguar who Whiskers has warned her about the whole episode. She blows him off, but when they’re alone at night, the jaguar turns out to be EvilAllAlong and summons a gang of fellow male jaguars to eat her with. Even without the pretty creepy real-life connotations, Brandy certainly would’ve been eaten if not for Whiskers helping save her.

* In “Less Than Hero”, it’s Whiskers comes across a gator who has become [[BalloonBelly extremely fat from its last meal]], and finishes picking its teeth with a bone before taking a nap. Considering the SapientEatSapient nature of the show, it’s brief, but it’s still not pleasant to think about too much.

* In ''Monkey's Paw'', the Nightmare Fuel is put UpToEleven when Whiskers, Brandy, and Ed find a malevolent monkey's paw that grants wishes with a sadistic twist. Brandy wishes she never knew Whiskers and gets amnesia, and after Whiskers explains their friendship and how much grief he's caused her, she decides to use the monkey's paw to try and wish Whiskers out of existence. Whiskers also accidentally turns Ed into a human brain which gets eaten by piranhas, with Brandy uncaring in her pursuit to actually kill Whiskers. Only Whiskers wishing that he never found the paw in the first place managed to fix everything, but it was jarring see Brandy become that sociopathic in her attempt to get rid of Whiskers.

* In ''Cyranosaurus Rex'', Whiskers tries to woo a blatantly dangerous Isabelle the Komodo Dragon and gets eaten whole for his trouble, but the terror is downplayed by the fact that Whiskers never really worries too much about being eaten because his poor personal hygiene eventually makes all his predators sick enough to spit him out. Unfortunately, this doesn't apply to Brandy, whom Isabelle was drawn to try to kill and eat during the episode.

* In one episode, Brandy goes on a date with a jaguar who Whiskers has warned her about the whole episode. She blows him off, but when they’re alone at night, the jaguar turns out to be EvilAllAlong and summons a gang of fellow male jaguars to eat her with. Even without the pretty creepy real-life connotations, Brandy certainly would’ve been eaten if not for Whiskers helping save her.

* In ''The Fashion Fascist'', when Whiskers becomes a fashion trendsetter, he tries to rip off a ring-tailed lemur's tail because he was angry at how much the tail stripes were against his sense of fashion. This is not treated with slapstick and the lemur flees in terror as a deranged Whisker gives chase. Imagine if someone tried to tear off your arm because they saw it as unfashionable?

[[caption-width-right:350:When cartoon animals meet real life predators.]]

* In ''The Fashion Fascist'', when Whiskers becomes a fashion trendsetter, he tries to rip off a ring-tailed lemur's tail because he was angry at how much the tail. stripes were against his sense of fashion. This is not treated with slapstick and the lemur flees in terror as a deranged Whisker gives chase. Imagine if someone tried to tear off your arm because they saw it as unfashionable?

** Whiskers also nearly gets killed a second time by Gaspar Le Gecko by being cooked alive, which is jarring considering this isn't the only time this would happen in the show and he suffers little to no punishment for it. He also tries to eat Brandy as well which is even more disturbing considering Gaspar also tries to romantically woo her in future episodes as well as try to eat her.

* In ''Lack of Brains Vs. Brawn'', Brandy becomes terrifying when she tries to rescue Mr. Whiskers from Lester the brutish monkey bully and gives off a feral look with a guttural growl of threatening Lester not to touch Whiskers. You've never heard Penny from the Big Bang Theory sound so ferocious.
* In ''The Fashion Fascist'', when Whiskers becomes a fashion trendsetter, he tries to rip off a ring-tailed lemur's tailed because he was angry at how much the stripes were against his sense of fashion. This is not treated with slapstick and the lemur flees in terror as Whisker gives chase. Imagine if someone tried to tear off your arm because they see it as unfashionable?

* In ''Monkey's Paw'', the Nightmare Fuel is put UpToEleven when Whiskers, Brandy, and Ed find a malevolent monkey's paw that grants wishes with a sadistic twist. Brandy wishes she never knew Whiskers and gets amnesia, and after Whiskers explains their friendship and how much grief he's caused her, she decides to use the Monkey's Paw to try and wish Whiskers out of existence. Whiskers also accidentally turns Ed into a human brain which gets eaten by piranhas, with Brandy uncaring in her pursuit to actually kill Whiskers. Only Whiskers wishing that he never found the Monkey's Paw managed to fix everything, but it was jarring see Brandy become that sociopathic in her attempt to get rid of Whiskers.

* In ''Pickled Tink'', Brandy hypnotizes Whiskers into being her personal brainwashed maid using the word "Pickle" as a trigger word but the word is said too many times and the conditioning ends up mentally breaking Whiskers. It's not played for laughs and leaves Whiskers in a catatonic trance so bad that doesn't even blink.
* In ''I Am Rainfo'', the true nightmarish implications of living unprotected in the Amazon Rainforest is brought in full when Whiskers reads a book he found that he believes is a fictional horror novel detailing all sorts of dangerous and lethal animals dubbed "I Am Rainfo" but he freaks out when the book is actually called "In the Amazon Rainforest", the very place he's been living in.

* The first episode, ''Mr. Whisker's First Friend'', features Mr. Whiskers meeting Brandy on a cargo plane and thinking he's going to a fun summer camp. Brandy corrects him by saying he's actually being sold to a zoo in Paraguay for 39 cents. Cue the shot of a terrified Mr. Whiskers having to share a habitat with a hungry-looking realistic leopard. He sadly mentions this isn't time this has happened to him.

* In ''The Fashion Fascist'', when Whiskers becomes a fashion trendsetter, he tries to rip off a ring-tailed lemur's tailed because he was angry at how much the stripes were against his sense of fashion. This is not treated with slapstick and the lemur flees in terror as Whisker gives chase. Imagine if someone tried to tear off your arm because they say it as unfashionable?

Despite the jocularity and slapstick humor of the show, there are moments that reek of terror when you realize the setting features anthropomorphic animals living in fear of the very real threat of being killed and eaten alive by other animals in the Amazon Rainforest.

* In ''Taking Paws'', the AndroclesLion trope with dangerous creatures is thoroughly deconstructed when Whiskers befriends the carnivorous jaguar Lorenzo and he ends up being obnoxiously annoying but try to maintain the friendship because Lorenzo will eat Whiskers and Brandy as a predator if he feels they're not friends anymore. When Brandy and Whiskers become fed up with him and tell him off, Lorenzo immediately tries to kill them both.

* In ''To the Moon, Whiskers'', Boris the Cosmonaut Chimpanzee,

** Whiskers also nearly gets killed a second time by Gaspar Le Gecko by being cooked alive, which is jarring considering this isn't the only time this would happen in the show and he suffers little to no punishment for it.
* In ''Cyranosaurus Rex''