List of Pinky and the Brain episodes

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The following is an episode list for the Warner Brothers animated television series Pinky and the Brain, which ran from 1995 to 1998. The series was a spin-off from another Warner Brothers animated series, Animaniacs, and includes some of the Pinky and the Brain shorts that were created as part of that show.

Pinky and the Brain was later retooled as the short-lived Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain, which ran in the 1998 season for only 13 episodes.

Outside of the original Animaniacs shorts, there were 65 Pinky and the Brain episodes produced.

The lists below are ordered by Season, and then by Episode Number. Several episodes included two or more skits; these are identified by the Segment number. The episode list reflect the show as aired in repeats and syndication and presented on the series DVDs; some initial Season One episodes had two or more programming variations on their first run.

Contents 1 Season 1 (1995-1996) 2 Season 2 (1996-1997) 3 Season 3 (1997-1998) 4 Season 4 (1998) 5 Related Cartoon Series 5.1 Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain 5.2 Animaniacs Shorts Compilations 6 References

[edit] Season 1 (1995-1996)

#	Segment	Title	Original airdate	Production code
01		"Das Mouse"	September 9, 1995
Brain must recover crab meat from those that only live in the sunken wreckage of the Titanic to implement a hypnotic food additive for world domination.
02		"Of Mouse and Man"	September 10, 1995
Brain, in his human suit, gets a job and then stages an accident, suing the company as to obtain enough money to set up an automated answering system that will keep people busy while he takes over the world.
03	1	"Tokyo Grows"	September 17, 1995
Brain plans to use a "growing ray" to grow Pinky into super-size while dressed up as Gollyzilla (a parody of Godzilla), whilst Brain would stop him in exchange for world domination. However, the real Gollyzilla emerges from the ocean and starts to rampage, making Brain think that the lizard is Pinky. The episode ends with the ray making everything on Earth grow, including the Earth itself, to the point that Pinky, the Brain, and even Gollyzilla are mouse-sized by comparison again.
03	2	"That Smarts"	September 17, 1995
Brain uses a machine that can increase or decrease intelligence, and uses it so that Pinky can become smart enough to understand that he is the cause of Brain's failures, due to research Brain conducted. Pinky, depressed over the fact that Brain doesn't like him when he is smart, uses the machine to make himself stupid, so Brain will like him again. However, Brain, discovering that he himself is the cause of his failures and believing both of them to be better off with Pinky as the genius and Brain as a moron, uses the machine on himself as well. In the end, both of them are idiots and are too dumb to operate the machine and restore either of them to their intelligent selves.[1]
03	3	"Brainstem"	September 17, 1995
Pinky and Brain sing about the parts of the human brain, to the tune of "Camptown Races"
04	1	"Pinky & The Fog"	September 24, 1995
Brain becomes a serial radio voice actor similar to the Shadowas a means to use a special voice modulation device in order to control the minds of the listeners.
04	2	"Where No Mouse Has Gone Before"	October 1, 1995
Brain changes a message on a deep space probe about to be launched that he is the ruler of the world instead of the humans; the probe is found by aliens who come to Earth to show their respect for Brain.
04	3	"Cheese Roll Call"	October 1, 1995
Pinky sings about the world of cheeses.
05		"Brainania"	November 12, 1995
Brain creates a fictional island nation in attempt to exploit the United States for billions of dollars in foreign aid.
06		"TV or Not TV"	November 19, 1995
Brain invents dentures that gives him a smile which can hypnotize anyone that sees them without sunglasses. He goes on to attempt to become a celebrity (a stand-up comic specifically) in order to achieve mass population control. When starting out on his first show, he uses the jokes used by other comics, which gets him instant boos. But when he starts insulting the audience, everyone bursts out laughing, showing the benefits of his friendship with Pinky (also a subtle reference to the snide comments Groucho Marx made at a show, launching the Marx Brothers' career as comics).
07		"Napoleon Brainaparte"	November 26, 1995
After attempting to invent exploding crepes during the French Revolution, Brain is mistaken for Napoleon Bonaparte and rises to the seat of power.
08		"A Pinky and the Brain Christmas"	November 13, 1995	Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Brain builds a toy based on him called a "Noodle-Noggin Doll", which had the power to hypnotize people so he can order the world to obey him. Taking a job as one of Santa's elves, he puts the doll on every Christmas list in the world, so that every household receives a doll. But upon reading Pinky's letter to Santa (which praises Brain despite the fact he can't succeed, and asks Santa to give all of Pinky's presents to Brain), Brain burst into tears and orders the world to have a merry Christmas, after which he smashes the machine.[2] This episode won a Primetime Emmy award in 1996.
09		"Snowball"	January 20, 1996
Brain meets his arch-rival for world domination, Snowball the hamster. Snowball not only is sucessful in taking over the world, but also takes Pinky out of the Brain.
10		"Around the World in 80 Narfs"	February 3, 1996
In a parody of Around the World in Eighty Days, Brain attempts to circumnavigate the globe in 79 days in order to become the president of the Pompous Explorers Club, a position that typically leads to becoming the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Pinky and the Brain travel east around the world and reach New York, and only need to take an already scheduled ship to Britain to secure Brain's position as Prime Minister. But upon catching a cab to the pier, the driver only speaks 'New York Cabbie', the one language that Pinky's guidebook does not contain, so Brain loses the challenge.[3]
11		"Fly"	February 11, 1996
Brain buys out all real estate above the 39th floor, and then he and Pinky travel to the Hubble telescope in an attempt to melt the ice caps and flood the Earth.
12	1	"Ambulatory Abe"	February 25, 1996
Brain converts the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial into a robot to make people believe that Lincoln has returned and that he will be returned to power immediately.
12	2	"Mouse of La Mancha"	February 25, 1996
Brain tells the story of "Don Cerebro", a mouse with plans to take over the world in a parody of Don Quixote.
13	1	"The Third Mouse"	May 12, 1996
In a parody of The Third Man, Pinky searches for Brain in post-World War II Vienna, fully believing that Brain is dead.
13	2	"The Visit"	May 12, 1996
While attempting to lure white mice into the Labs for his latest plan, Brain discovers two that are his parents and immediately creates devices to give them intelligence.

[edit] Season 2 (1996-1997)

#	Segment	Title	Original airdate	Production code
14		"It's Only A Paper World"	September 7, 1996
Brain creates a Papier-mâché copy of the Earth, and lures the entire population to it with free t-shirts in order to take over the real Earth. However, a meteor crashes with the real Earth, forcing the mice to flee to "Chia Earth" to narrowly avoid its completely destruction.
15	1	"Collect 'Em All"	September 14, 1996
Brain uses the Gutenberg printing press to create a series of collectible card that will convert children to his control when they collect the whole set.
15	2	"Pinkasso"	September 14, 1996
Brain uses Pinky's new fame as an abstract art painter called Pinkasso as a means to finance his latest plan for world domination.
16		"Plan Brain From Outer Space"	September 28, 1996
Brain goes to the Area 51 and makes contact with the alien Zalgar in hopes that he will help him take over the world, but Zalgar has other plans in mind, specifically devouring Brain's brain.
17	1	"The Mummy"	October 19, 1996
Pinky and the Brain get trapped inside an Egyptian pyramid and try to avoid the Mummy's curse.
17	2	"Robin Brain"	October 19, 1996
A parody of Robin Hood, Brain collects a group of his own Merry Men to steal from the rich to fund his own plans for world domination.
18		"The Pink Candidate"	November 2, 1996
After Pinky writes a misunderstood letter to the newspaper complaining about The Family Circus he is elected as President of the United States and Brain uses Pinky's position to try to take over.
19		"Brain's Song"	November 9, 1996
Brain attempts to make the ultimate emotional movie, "Brain's Song" (a parody of Brian's Song) and to take over while the world is in tears.
20		"Welcome To The Jungle"	November 16, 1996
Pinky and the Brain are mistaken for monkeys by animal activists and are released into the jungle, and while trying to return back to Acme Labs, encounter Snowball, who is leading a tribe of misbegotten tourists. Brain manages to defeat Snowball's plan, and just as he gets used to the natural setting, both mice are recaptured as laboratory specimens for Acme Labs.
21	1	"A Little Off The Top"	November 23, 1996
Brain attempts to use the miraculous strength properties of Samson's hair for his own benefit.
21	2	"Megalomaniacs Anonymous"	November 23, 1996
Brain determines that he's tired of trying to take over the world, and joins a support group for others that have done the same.
22	1	"Two Mice And A Baby"	February 1, 1997
Pinky and Brain try to raise a super baby that they found in a rocket launched from a doomed alien world.
22	2	"The Maze"	February 1, 1997
The mice must navigate a difficult and dangerous maze in Acme Labs to retrieve a microchip critical for Brain's latest plan.
23		"Brain Of The Future"	February 8, 1997
Pinky and Brain are visited by their future selves, who give them a kit for world domination from a future where intelligent cockroaches take over the world.
24		"Brinky"	February 22, 1997
Brain attempts to create an army of Brain clones, but when Pinky's DNA gets mixed up, the two discover a mouse that is the genetic child of both mice, which Brain names "Roman Numeral One", or Romy for short. Brain tries to education Romy in the ways of world domination, while Pinky overly mothers him, causing Romy to leave the two to become a ventriloquist.
25		"Hoop Schemes"	May 17, 1997
Pinky helps Brain assemble a celebrity basketball team as part of Brain's latest plan.

[edit] Season 3 (1997-1998)

#	Segment	Title	Original airdate	Production code
26	1	"Leave It to Beavers"	September 8, 1997
Brain attempts to communicate with a pack of beavers in order to control the flow of a river and threaten the humans under his control.
26	2	"Cinebrania"	September 8, 1997
The mice become silent film comedy stars, but when he change from comedy to drama people get tired of his movies.
27		"This Old Mouse"	September 18, 1997
Brain develops a machine that can see into the future and sees that he will never rule the world. He gives up trying to take over the world and becomes a ski instructor, but Pinky foresees Brain's death in an avalanche and then tries to save Brain and change the future.
28	1	"Pinky and the Brain... and Larry"	September 13, 1997
Pinky and the Brain (and Larry, a parody of Larry Fine of the Three Stooges whose presence is never explained, is akwardly worked into the show's routines and dialogue, and doesn't actually contribute to the plan) develop a formula for the Synchrono Plastic Remote Controller, which was intended to control garage door openers so that people will be forced to use bikes and the petroleum industry will be ruined. Unfortunately, a gyroscopic transducer chip is needed to complete the device, so Pinky, Brain, and Larry pose as wallpaper hangers in the White House in order for Brain to get close to the President. Things quickly descend into Stooge madness until a butler throws them out due to the presence of three wallpaper hangers. Back at the lab, Brain works out the problem with their teamwork, seeing that there's a Yin and a Yang but no Larry. Larry leaves in a huff at the end of the episode, only to have another mouse named Zeppo come in again at the very end.
28	2	"Where the Deer and the Mousealopes Play"	September 13, 1997
Brain and Pinky pose as the endangered species, the Mousealope, to take over a large amount of land near Pittsburgh for their own.
29		"My Feldmans, My Friends"	September 16, 1997
Brain must recover a critical part for his plan from his packrat neighbor, Mr. Sultana Sultana, to whom the part was accidentally delivered to, in order to prevent a lightning strike from destroying the earth. To do so, they must poise themselves as a married couple, with which Mr. Sultana becomes romantically attracted to Pinky as the housewife. Brain eventually is able to recover the part and save the world, but destroying his device as a result.
30		"Brain Noir"	September 13, 1997
Brain and Pinky deal with Billie and Snowball in a 1946 film noir spoof while trying to create a waterpark.
31	1	"A Meticulous Analysis of History"	September 20, 1997
Brain and Pinky sing about famous history leaders and their downfall, and how Brain will learn from their failures.
31	2	"Funny, You Don't Look Rhennish"	September 20, 1997
Brain and Pinky must pose as Rhennish (a parody of the Amish people) farmers and assist with the barn raising activities in order to gain access to a key mineral for Brain's latest plan. However, Brain finds out that there's only the "fool's" version of the mineral in the region.
32	1	"Mice Don't Dance"	September 26, 1997
Brain develops mechanical tap-dancing legs to tap out a subliminal morse code message while he dances.
32	2	"Brain Drained"	September 26, 1997
Brain runs out of his own ideas for world domination and seeks input from screenwriters for inspiration.
33	1	"Brain's Bogie"	September 15, 1997
Brain joins a golf tournament to steal a special golf club from a competitor as to use in his world domination plan.
33	2	"Say What, Earth?"	September 15, 1997
Brain manages to communicate with the Earth directly with a new device, and attempts to use that ability to take over the world.
34	1	"All You Need is Narf"	September 17, 1997
Pinky becomes a guru in 1960s, which Brain tries to exploit in his latest plan. Parody of The Beatles and their encounter with the Maharishi.
34	2	"Pinky's Plan"	September 17, 1997
Pinky actually succeeds in talking certain powerful world leaders (including then-President Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat) into handing over control of the world, but when Pinky hands over the "key to the world" to Brain, Brain botches it up by repulsing the leaders with his anger and rudeness.[4]
35		"Brain Acres"	September 27, 1997
Brain grows an army of giant, animated vegetables to take over the world. This episode contains a reference to Green Acres
36		"The Pinky Protocol"	September 22, 1997
Brain believes that a conspiracy is preventing him from taking over the world.
37		"Brain Storm"	September 19, 1997
Brain tries to take control of tornadoes as part of his plan. The episode contains references of The Wizard of Oz.
38		"The Real Life"	October 10, 1997
Brain must take part along with Pinky in a reality television program based on The Real World in order to be able to set up a radio tower near Cleveland at the precise spot needed for his plan to work. While Pinky fits in perfectly, the rest of the houseguests find Brain obnoxious and that he was taking money from the house funds, so sell off all of his gear in a garage sale.
39	1	"Pinky and the Brainmaker"	September 29, 1997
Brain creates a clone machine to create an army that will take over the world through celtic dance. Pinky sees it otherwise, and creates his own cloned dance troop. The dancing Brains and Pinkys have a dance-off, ultimately requiring Brain to abandon that plan altogether.
39	2	"Calvin Brain"	September 29, 1997
Brain becomes a fashion designer in order to get everyone to wear his perfume, "Subjugation," which has hypnotic properties.
40	1	"Pinky Suavo"	October 4, 1997
Brain uses the Personalitron to inherit the world's most attractive personas (i.e., Orson Welles and Adam West), simply by scanning their photos into the machine and then stepping inside it, but Pinky ends up going into the machine instead. He is then transformed into "Pinky Suavo", a more suave version of Pinky, as the name implies. Pinky gains control of people's attention instantaneously, and the Brain finds a way to use it to his advantage and puts Pinky on a talk show. But he discovers that the effects don't last long and Pinky is transformed into his old self again. Brain asks for a break and takes Pinky back to the Personalitron. Pinky looks changed but, at the end, it is discovered that the Brain put in a picture of The Unknown Comic instead of the celebrities.[5]
40	2	"T.H.E.Y."	October 4, 1997
Pinky and Brain attempt to gain membership into a secret, world-controlling organization called "T.H.E.Y.". The mice manage to complete the hazing rituals but only Pinky is accepted into the group, angering Brain.
41		"Brain's Way"	October 11, 1997
Brain opens a casino, and becomes a lounge singer to attract people to it. However, he only offers the game of baccarat, and runs into financial and mortal danger from his funding source.
42		"Brainy Jack"	November 2, 1997
Brain becomes a hippie leader and encourages people to form a human chain across America in order to send a subliminal message.
43		"A Pinky and the Brain Halloween"	October 19, 1997
Mr. Itch (the Devil himself) offers to give Brain the world in exchange for his soul; Brain refuses, but finds out later that Pinky has taken the deal, and now Brain must rescue his friend by besting Mr. Itch in dance competition.
44		"Broadway Malady"	January 3, 1998
Brain attempts to get a musical on Broadway, but is surprised to find that Pinky's musical is much more popular.
45		"But That's Not All, Folks!"	November 8, 1997
Pinky and Brain sell a fictitious product via infomercials to gain a large database of addresses to be used in Brain's latest plan.
46	1	"Leggo My Ego"	November 7, 1997
Brain takes a psychiatric session with Sigmund Freud to understand the root for his want of world domination.
46	2	"Big In Japan"	November 7, 1997
Brain becomes a sumo wrestler as to obtain a rare Japanese fish as part of his latest plan.
47	1	"The Tailor and the Mice"	November 15, 1997	Rough Draft Studios
The mice are unfortunate recipients of a tailor's well-meaning ways based on the sing-song narration to Hickory Dickory Dock.
47	2	"Bah, Wilderness"	November 15, 1997
Brain attempts to become the top camp councilor at "Camp Davey", a summer camp for world leader's children by taking out all the other camp councilors. However, as soon as he is able to become the top councilor, the children of the world leaders have completed their camp, and now the children of the world vice-presidents are now attending, much to Brain's dismay.
48	1	"Operation Sea Lion"	November 14, 1997
Brain learns to communicate with sea lions in order to create an aquatic army.
48	2	"You Said a Mouseful"	November 14, 1997
Brain attempts to put helium in hacky-sack sack-kicker shoes in a Hackensack factory. The episode contains numerous tongue twisters, and Brain's plan fails because he cannot enunciate what he wants Pinky to do.
49	1	"Pinky At The Bat"	November 22, 1997
The mice become baseball players and lead their team to victory so that Brain can release a special perfume on the pitcher's mound at the right time. Unfortunately, the victory celebration prevents Brain from completing his plan, and while leading a losing team to a winning season, both mice are kicked off the team.
49	2	"Schpiel-borg 2000"	November 22, 1997
Brain creates a robotic replica of Steven Spielberg as part of his world domination plans. The episode starts out as a clip show hosted by Steven Spielberg himself, which covers such aspects of the series such as the writing, the characters, and how much Steven himself loves his creation. Steven gets up and walks through a brick wall out into a grassy field, and is revealed to have actually been a robotic creation of Brain's called "Steven Spielborg" which he was to use to take over the world. Brain decides he'll try again with the "Ted Turnerator"[6].
50		"You'll Never Eat Food Pellets In This Town, Again!"	April 25, 1998
Frustrated with constant changes in their show, Pinky and Brain quit and try to find their own success. Their agent gets them other gigs but ends up ditching the pair, while two human actors take over for their roles and making the show into a traditional sit-com. Brain wakes up, revealing that the whole episode was a dream.
51	1	"The Megalomaniacal Adventures of Brainie the Poo"	February 7, 1998
A spoof of Winnie the Pooh, Brainie and Pinklet attempt to steal honey from a beehive so they can secretly replace the world's artificial sweeteners with it and render everyone fat, slow, and toothless. Brain as Brainie The Poo (Winnie-the-Pooh), Pinky as Pinklet (Piglet), Al Gore as Algore (Eeyore), Christopher Walken as Christopher (Christopher Robin), and an unnamed lion-like creature as Mick Jagger (Tigger).
51	2	"Melancholy Brain"	February 7, 1998
Brain attempts to take over the royal family of Denmark by causing havoc with Hamlet.
52	1	"Brain's Night Off"	February 21, 1998
Brain decides not to try to take over the world for one night, and enjoys a night out with Pinky. Brain's inadvertent actions in complaining about the service he gets ends up with people wanting him to become their leader, but their desires fail to register with Brain.
52	2	"Beach Blanket Brain"	February 21, 1998
Brain becomes a surfer to get other surfers to wear his hypnotic suntan lotion.
53		"The Family that Poits Together, Narfs Together"	February 21, 1998
Brain helps to reunite Pinky's family in order to win a television show's cash prize. Tracking down his family, and then using the intelligence machine that gave the two mice their smarts, Brain finds Pinky's family (father, mother, and a spool of thread they call "sister") are as inane as Pinky is. Brain is barely able to control Pinky's family, and is very disappointed to find the prize is not what he expected.
54		"Inherit the Wheeze"	February 14, 1998
Brain attempts to use a tobacco company to take over the world by selling cigarettes to children. However, Pinky becomes disgusted at the sight of children smoking and convinces Brain to double cross the tobacco company.[7] The episode later won a PRISM Award for Best Children's Animated Television Episode, for its anti-smoking message.[8]
56	1	"The Pinky P.O.V."	May 16, 1998
Brain's latest plan for world domination is shown from Pinky's perspective.
56	2	"The Really Great Dictator"	May 16, 1998
The mice sing about world domination.
56	3	"Brain Food"	May 16, 1998
Brain attempts to increase the intelligence of the population in order to make the population understand why he should be their leader by opening a restaurant to feed them an intelligence-increasing drug.
57	1	"Pinky's Turn"	February 28, 1998
Frustrated with his failures, Brain lets Pinky try to take over the world with surprising success.
57	2	"Your Friend: World Domination"	February 28, 1998
Brain attempts to sway schoolchildren by creating an educational video.
58		"Dangerous Brains"	May 2, 1998
Brain takes a job as a teacher at a troubled school in order to earn money for his latest plan and Pinky, disguised as one of the students, convince the other classmates to take the studies seriously.
60	1	"What Ever Happened to Baby Brain"	May 9, 1998
Brain poses as a child actress (as a parody of Shirley Temple) to gain public admiration.
60	2	"Just Say Narf"	May 9, 1998
Pinky sings a song in the style of "Make 'Em Laugh" to try to cheer Brain up.

[edit] Season 4 (1998)

#	Segment	Title	Original airdate	Watch Online
55	1	"To Russia With Lab Mice"	September 21, 1998
Pinky and Brain are shipped to Russia as part of a toy testing project, and meet a Russian female spy mouse (Mousey Galore) that has a part critical to Brain's plan.
55	2	"Hickory Dickory Bonk"	September 21, 1998
Sung to Hickory Dickory Dock, Brain attempts to make every clock in the world chime simultaneously.
59	1	"A Legendary Tail"	September 28, 1998
Brain attempts to create a tall tale around himself to earn world renown.
59	2	"Project B.R.A.I.N."	September 28, 1998
This episode tells the story of how Pinky and the Brain first met, and Brain's first plan for world domination.
61		"The Pinky and the Brain Reunion Special"	September 21, 1998
Brain concocts a reunion special between himself and Pinky in order to attract numerous viewers which he can brainwash with his latest device.
62		"Brainwashed Part 1: Brain, Brain Go Away"	September 14, 1998
An episode of three parts. Thinking that a benefit in Washington D.C. is for his benefit, Brain, along with Pinky, is kidnapped and made to lose his memories, resulting in the mice being trapped in a strange village where everyone is forced to wear hats. Meanwhile, all over the world a mysterious dance is being used by someone to control the mind of the world population.
63		"Brainwashed Part 2: I Am Not A Hat"	September 15, 1998
Brain recovers his memory and escapes with Pinky. After the Acme Labs is exploded, Pinky and the Brain go looking for Snowball believing him to be behind the plot, but end up caught in a mental institution, where Snowball himself is being held.
64		"Brainwashed Part 3: Wash Harder"	September 16, 1998
Fleeing the mental institution along with Snowball, the mice seek down which mastermind set up this trap for them and save the world from the mind-controlling dance.
65		"Star Warners"	November 14, 1998
In the final Pinky and the Brain episode, which includes many of the Animaniacs cast. A parody of Star Wars IV: A New Hope with Pinky and the Brain (as 3-PinkEO and Brain2-Me2) plan to use the Mega Star for their world domination plans. A running gag involves Brain2 being mistaken for a refrigerator.[9][10]

[edit] Related Cartoon Series

[edit] Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain

Main article: List of Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain episodes

There are thirteen episodes in this short-lived series.

[edit] Animaniacs Shorts Compilations

Pinky and the Brain shorts that were originally part of the Animaniacs series were repackages as their own 30 minute shows, intermingled with other Season One episodes. The airdates in the following table are the first airings of these repackaged shows, as opposed to the original Animaniacs showing.

#	Segment	Title	Original airdate	Production code
02A		"Spell-Bound"	September 16, 1995
Brain must use a magic spell to retrieve a dragon's toe-nail as a final ingredient for his world domination plan.
03A	1	"Win Big"	January 7, 1996
Brain goes on the gameshow "Gyp-parody" to win enough money to buy a "super-conductive magnetic infindibulator" to take over the world. At Final Gyp-parody, Brain can win the money he needs if he bets all his winnings and gets the Final Gyp-parody answer correct. The final question requires Brain to identify a quote that Pinky was constantly using that episode. But because he paid no attention to Pinky, Brain loses everything.[11]
03A	2	"Bubba Bo Bob Brain"	January 7, 1996
Brain becomes a country singer who plays a hypnotic message in his video. His stage name is "Bubba Bo Bob Brain", which Pinky cannot pronounce. Brain becomes the country's most popular singer (since he hypnotises his audiences to buy all his records), and on the night he does a nation-wide show, he plans to give the hypnotic command to obey him as the country's leader. But when set to give the command, Pinky once again calls Brain by the wrong name. A frustrated Brain snaps "Just forget my name. And while you're at it, forget you ever knew me!". The crowd obeys the command and forgets about Brain altogether, foiling his plan once again. This episode was the only one written by Animaniacs producer Sherri Stoner.[12]
04A	1	"Meet John Brain"	November 5, 1995	StarToons
Brain runs for President of the United States. His running mate is Admiral Pinky (parodying Admiral Stockdale), who, in his only television appearance, states, "Zort, what am I doin' here?" Appearing to be charismatic and lovable, Brain rises in the polls, but never makes a public appearance. When he finally does the night before the election, the public is shocked to discover that Brain resembles a mouse because he is a mouse. Brain promptly loses the election.[13]
04A	2	"The World Can Wait"	November 5, 1995
Brain puts aside world domination for the night in an attempt to woo Billie.
04A	3	"The Helpinki Formula"	November 5, 1995
Brain attempts to sell a product via infomercials that will make everyone smaller than him.
05A	1	"Battle for the Planet"	October 28, 1995
Brain records a television program similar to Welles' radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds", hoping that, as happened in the radio broadcast, the country will panic, and the ensuing chaos would give Brain control over the world. The plan backfires because Brain's attempt to stage a televised alien invasion is incredibly cheesy, and the country is amused rather than scared.[14]
05A	2	"Jockey for Position"	October 28, 1995
Brain becomes a horse jockey to win money for his prize, but Pinky seems to have other plans.
05A	3	"Pavlov's Mice"	October 28, 1995	Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Brain attempts to steal the crown jewels of Russia, but must manage to overcome classical conditioning that the mice have been subject to.
06A	1	"Where Rodents Dare"	October 22, 1995
Pinky and Brain attempt to infiltrate a meeting of world leaders high in the Alps, so that Brain can use his new quick-freezing formula on them and take control.
06A	2	"When Mice Ruled the Earth"	October 22, 1995	Tokyo Movie Shinsha
The mice use a time machine to return to prehistoric Earth to try to make mice the dominate species over humans. They ultimately succeed, but once they return to the present, Brain is horrified to discover that the newly-dominant mouse race is composed of individuals similar to Pinky rather than himself. When Brain prepares to return to the past to undo his work, Pinky notes how simple it would be to rule such a timeline, to which Brain replies "Yes, but who would want to?"[15]
07A	1	"Puppet Rulers"	October 29, 1995
Brain and Pinky go on a children’s show to become extremely popular with children. Pinky and the Brain then cryogenically freeze themselves until the point when the children who loved them were old enough to hand the world over to Brain. However when they froze themselves and woke up in the future to appear on TV again, the now adult fans go to the studio in order to fight them for leaving them alone as children.[16]
07A	2	"Brain Meets Brawn"	October 29, 1995	Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Brain, infused with a Jekyll-and-Hyde drink, attempts to use his strength to stop Big Ben and bring London to a standstill.
08A	1	"Cranial Crusader"	December 10, 1995
Pinky and the Brain become superheroes to upstage the Caped Opposum and gain world renown.
08A	2	"Opportunity Knox"	December 10, 1995
Brain attempts to steal all the gold in Fort Knox with the help of a special sneezing powder to keep the guards busy.
08A	3	"Yes, Always"	December 10, 1995
Brain provides some voice work for Warner Bros. Studios
09A	1	"Don't Tread on Us"	December 3, 1995
The mice attempt to try to replace the just-written Declaration of Independence with Brain's Declaration of Obedience.
09A	2	"Hercules Unbound"	December 3, 1995
In order to steal Zeus' magic thunderbolts, Pinky and Brain must first hitch a ride on Pegasus.
09A	3	"In the Garden of Mindy"	December 3, 1995
Brain attempts to try to take over the world with Mindy's help. Another short follows starring Pinky with Rita, without Runt (Runt appears with Pesto in another short). Pinky asks Rita what they're going to do tonight, and Rita replies that she'll eat him for supper (she actually swallows him whole).

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