A História Sem Começo, Meio e Fim (Irmão do Jorel)

A História Sem Começo, Meio e Fim (li. The Story Without a Beggining, Middle and End) is the eighth episode of the first season of Irmão do Jorel. In this episode, Jorel's brother get's upset for being the only of his brothers without any pictures or videos of his childhood, as his older brothers Jorel and Nico have several pictures and videos of when they were younger. He gets so sad about this, he decides to run away from home along with his dog Tosh.

Why It's Worse Than Danuza's Mortadella Sandwich Vitamin

 * 1) It's a complete Jorel's brother torture episode, as the poor boy is abused throughout the entire episode. First, his parents don't show him any pictures of him, and neither does Granny Gigi have a video of his childhood. After he runs away from home, he ends up getting strangled by Samantha just for stepping on her hopscotch.
 * 2) Awful ending: After Jorel's brother comes back to his family, Granny Juju says she found a VHS tape of him. However, Granny Gigi claims that she knew his videos/pictures were there, but used the tape to record a movie over it anyways, and now everything is gone. The family photo is then taken with Jorel's brother looking disappointed.
 * 3) The family not only is mostly oblivious to the fact Jorel's brother wants to see a picture of him for most of the episode, there's a scene where they bully and humiliate him, which makes him want even more to run away from home. Said scene was so bad it even got censored later.
 * 4) Lara is portrayed as an idiot and a terrible friend to Jorel's brother. She sees him being strangled by Samantha and simply asks why he's alone at the street. Later, Mr. Edson asks her if she saw Jorel's brother, and she lies that she did not, just so she can play with Tosh. Lara from the later episodes would never do this, since she's very smart and really cares about Jorel's brother, so she would defend him from Samantha and tell Mr. Edson the truth instead.
 * 5) The animation of this episode is inconsistent, weird, and sloppy. The previous episodes are much better animated than this one, despite airing before.
 * 6) Besides the bad animation, the episode appears to have been rushed as well since both its ending card and the credits are reused from previous episodes.
 * 7) Almost every character is unlikeable in the episode, except Jorel's brother and Granny Juju. Jorel's brother's family overlook or make fun of him during the entire episode. Débora is also annoying as she keeps showing up to ask if Jorel's okay.
 * 8) Slow pacing.
 * 9) Semi-misleading advertising: A few hours before the episode first aired, the official Facebook page of the show posted an image of the episode showing Jorel's brother seeing his mother make a mortadella sandwich vitamin. That is actually just a recreation of the scene, since in the actual episode, it looks more poorly drawn and is very different.
 * 10) The title of the episode was removed for unknown reasons in reruns and streaming, which makes it confusing.
 * 11) It ended the original Season 1 batch on a sour note, as it's easily the worst out of them.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) At least Edson and Danuza do care about Jorel's brother after all, as they notice he's gone and immediately go looking for him.
 * 2) Granny Juju is still likeable in the episode (besides unintentionally upsetting Jorel's brother by showing him an album he does not appear in). In the end, she's the one who shows up with a video tape exclusively of Jorel's brother, before Gigi reveals she recorded over that one.
 * 3) The live-action pictures of Jorel's brother's family (actually from the creator Juliano Enrico's family, since they inspired the characters) are nice to see.
 * 4) Jorel finally speaks in this episode, as he says his own name in a video of when he was a baby.

Trivia

 * In the beggining of the episode, Jorel's brother plays with toys of characters of two other Brazilian animated series: Haunted Tales for Wicked Kids and Trunk Train.