Nostalgia Critic review

Roger's brain drain was only in Doug's imagination during a Quailman fantasy.

You're right, Doug was, on Nickelodeon, set in a world just like ours, only with a slight twist (mostly with the semi-anthropomorphic animals, who had the intelligence and mindsets of humans, only they couldn't talk). They established those parameters from the very beginning, and it made sense in a cartoon world. Why bother to animate animals if they're not going to do some funny things? I also think it was cool how they treated them as such, as it was a sign of respect and a statement towards those who mistreat/belittle them and their needs. Animal lovers see their pets and other animals as having their own personalities and believe they should be entitled to some sensitivity.

Now, all of a sudden throwing in the monster crap on Disney violated the parameters of the show's alternate-United States setting, and it is yet another sign of how the folks at Jumbo/Disney destroyed the show.

The show went from going, "there's no such thing as a nematode" (at least, not the way Roger described it) to, "there's a monster living in a lake!"

I saw it in the theater, it was crappy.