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 1998-1999 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.
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| # | Segment | Title | Original airdate | Produced at |
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| 01 | "Das Mouse" | September 9, 1995 | Wang Film Productions | |
| 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 | AKOM | |
| 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. This episode managed to get away with saying the word "sexual". | ||||
| 03 | 1 | "Tokyo Grows" | September 17, 1995 | Wang Film Productions |
| 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 | Wang Film Productions |
| 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 | Wang Film Productions |
| 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 | Wang Film Productions |
| Brain becomes a serial radio voice actor similar to the Shadow as 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 | Wang Film Productions |
| 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 | Wang Film Productions |
| Pinky sings about the world of cheeses. | ||||
| 05 | "Brainania" | November 12, 1995 | Wang Film Productions | |
| 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 | AKOM | |
| 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 | Wang Film Productions | |
| After inventing exploding crepes, Brain is mistaken for Napoleon Bonaparte and rises to the seat of power. | ||||
| 08 | "A Pinky and the Brain Christmas" | December 13, 1995 | Tokyo Movie Shinsha | |
| Brain builds a toy based on him called a "Noodle-Noggin Doll", which has 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 bursts 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 | AKOM | |
| Brain conducts a chain letter scheme that will make him the ruler of the world by simply spelling "you will bow before the Brain" backwards. But unknown to the pair that Brain's childhood friend (now his worst enemy), Snowball (a genetically altered hamster), has been spying on them and stole Brain's plan. Brain becomes frustrated and creates a new holiday (Wink Martindale Day) and closes the post office. Snowball then tries to convince Pinky that Brain is only using him (and offered him fudge), but Pinky refuses to believe him. Later, Snowball buys out the world with his incredible wealth, and builds a Pinky themed amusement park. Pinky begins to consider Snowball's offer, to which Brain replies, unbeknownst to Pinky's talk with Snowball,"Oh, go ahead, Pinky; I don't need you. What, do you think I just have you around so I can steal your brilliant ideas and claim them as my own? That I'm just using you? Oh, yes,I'm using you for your brilliance." Pinky, unable to distinguish that he was being sarcastic, accepts Snowball's offer, but misses Brain terribly. The episode ends when Brain snaps and challenges Snowball to a fight. | ||||
| 10 | "Around the World in 80 Narfs" | February 3, 1996 | AKOM | |
| 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 | AKOM | |
| 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 | AKOM |
| 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 | AKOM |
| 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 | AKOM |
| In a parody of The Third Man, Pinky searches for Brain in post-World War II Vienna, despite constant attempts to convince him that Brain is dead. | ||||
| 13 | 2 | "The Visit" | May 12, 1996 | AKOM |
| 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, but his parents drive him off the deep end and he sends them to Florida, fooling them into thinking the trip is only a vacation. | ||||
| # | Segment | Title | Original airdate | Produced at |
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| 14 | "It's Only a Paper World" | September 7, 1996 | Rough Draft Studios | |
| 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 | AKOM |
| 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 | Wang Film Productions |
| 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 | Wang Film Productions | |
| Brain goes to the Area 5.1,a parody of 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 26, 1996 | Rough Draft Studios |
| 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 | Rough Draft Studios |
| A parody of Robin Hood, Brain collects a group of his own Mallard Men in a parody of the Merry Men to steal from the rich to fund his own plans for world domination. | ||||
| 18 | "The Pink Candidate" | November 2, 1996 | Wang Film Productions | |
| 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 | AKOM | |
| 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, but the vibrating machine that allowed the other football players (little figurines) to move has had an effect on Brain, causing him to vibrate uncontrollably at random times, making him the worlds biggest joke. | ||||
| 20 | "Welcome to the Jungle" | November 16, 1996 | Wang Film Productions | |
| 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, 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 | Wang Film Productions |
| Brain attempts to use the miraculous strength properties of Samson's hair for his own benefit. | ||||
| 21 | 2 | "Megalomaniacs Anonymous" | November 23, 1996 | Wang Film Productions |
| 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, but convinces himself that his megalomaniacal attempts aren't an obsession. | ||||
| 22 | 1 | "Two Mice and a Baby" | February 1, 1997 | AKOM |
| 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 | AKOM |
| 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 | Rough Draft Studios | |
| 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 | AKOM | |
| 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 educate 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 | Rough Draft Studios | |
| Pinky helps Brain assemble a celebrity basketball team as part of Brain's latest plan, but fires every single one of them (including Pinky), causing the once adoring fans to bitterly despise them after he ends up injuring most of the other team. | ||||
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| 26 | 1 | "Leave It to Beavers" | September 8, 1997 | AKOM |
| 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 | "Cinebrainia" | September 8, 1997 | AKOM |
| The mice become silent film comedy stars in a parody of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, but when he switches from comedy to drama people get tired of his movies. | ||||
| 27 | "Brain Noir" | September 12, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios | |
| In a film noir spoof, Pinky and Brain run into Billie, who uses her charm to fool them into thinking she needs help when she's really working for Snowball. At the end she tossed Snowball and Brain over the edge of the waterslide she built for Pinky, Brain because he loves the world too much to care about her, and Snowball for making her take voice lessons in an effort to make her lose her squawky,"Pinky-like" tone. | ||||
| 28 | 1 | "Pinky and the Brain... and Larry" | September 13, 1997 | Wang Film Productions |
| Pinky and the Brain (and Larry, a parody of Larry Fine of the Three Stooges whose presence is never explained but may have something to do with voice actor Maurice LaMarche's nickname "Moe", is awkwardly 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 & Yang but no Larry. Larry leaves in a huff at the end of the episode to become a singer and performs the hit The Smells of Loudness, a direct shout out to The Sound of Silence, 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 | AKOM |
| Brain and Pinky pose as the endangered species, the Mousealope, to take over a large amount of land near Pittsburgh for their own. | ||||
| 29 | 1 | "Brain's Bogie" | September 15, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios |
| Brain joins a golf tournament dressed as Cher to steal a special golf club from a competitor as to use in his world domination plan. | ||||
| 29 | 2 | "Say What, Earth?" | September 15, 1997 | AKOM |
| Brain manages to communicate with the Earth directly with a new device, and attempts to use that ability to take over the world, but the earth turns on him and tries to destroy him. Pinky convinces him not to and sends the machine into outer space, bringing the moon to life. | ||||
| 30 | "My Feldmans, My Friends" | September 16, 1997 | Wang Film Productions | |
| 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, Pinky and Brain must pose as a married couple, resulting in 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. | ||||
| 31 | 1 | "All You Need is Narf" | September 17, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios |
| 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. | ||||
| 31 | 2 | "Pinky's Plan" | September 17, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios |
| 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, thinking that Pinky is plotting against him, when,in fact, it is only a surprise birthday party..[4] | ||||
| 32 | "This Old Mouse" | September 18, 1997 | Wang Film Productions | |
| 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. | ||||
| 33 | "Brain Storm" | September 19, 1997 | AKOM | |
| Brain tries to take control of tornadoes as part of his plan. The episode contains many references of The Wizard of Oz. | ||||
| 34 | 1 | "A Meticulous Analysis of History" | September 20, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios |
| Brain and Pinky sing about famous history leaders and their downfall, and how Brain will learn from their failures. | ||||
| 34 | 2 | "Funny, You Don't Look Rhennish" | September 20, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios |
| 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. | ||||
| 35 | "The Pinky Protocol" | September 22, 1997 | AKOM | |
| Brain creates a conspiracy to make people think that the government is hiding a document declaring him ruler of the world (which he calls the Pinky Protocol), and when a nutjob from northern Virginia tries to rescue him only makes matters worse by keeping him in his cabin with nothing but "enough spam to last the turn of the century" to eat. It is soon discovered that a picture Brain pasted his own photo over is really of Joyce DeWitt,who then becomes the ruler of the world. | ||||
| 36 | 1 | "Mice Don't Dance" | September 26, 1997 | Wang Film Productions |
| Brain develops mechanical tap-dancing legs to tap out a subliminal morse code message while he dances at the 1939 New York World's Fair. | ||||
| 36 | 2 | "Brain Drained" | September 26, 1997 | Wang Film Productions |
| Brain runs out of his own ideas for world domination and seeks input from screenwriters for inspiration. | ||||
| 37 | "Brain Acres" | September 27, 1997 | Wang Film Productions | |
| Brain grows an army of giant, animated vegetables to take over the world. This episode contains a reference to Green Acres and Born Free. | ||||
| 38 | 1 | "Pinky and the Brainmaker" | September 29, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios |
| Brain creates a clone machine to create an army that will take over the world through celtic dance. Pinky puts in a picture of only himself by mistake and creates his own cloned dance troop. The dancing Brains and Pinkys have a dance-off, ultimately requiring Brain to abandon that plan altogether, but his clone turn on him, revealing that this plan was only a dream. | ||||
| 38 | 2 | "Calvin Brain" | September 29, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios |
| Brain becomes a fashion designer in order to get everyone to wear his perfume, "Subjugation," which has hypnotic properties. Note* This episode's name is a parody of Calvin Klein. | ||||
| 39 | 1 | "Pinky Suavo" | October 4, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios |
| Brain uses the Personalitron to inherit the world's most attractive personas (i.e., John Wayne 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 finds out that bopping him on the head will deplete the effects and actually "breaks" him to the point that he only says "Narf,poit,egad,troz,zort". 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] | ||||
| 39 | 2 | "T.H.E.Y." | October 4, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios |
| 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 because Brain can't take any more of their shenanagins (including tipping Buckingham Palace Guards, presenting Saddam Hussein with the A.B.C. gum award, and T.P.-ing the White House). | ||||
| 40 | "The Real Life" | October 10, 1997 | Wang Film Productions | |
| 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 house guests find Brain obnoxious and that he was taking money from the house funds, so sell off all of his gear in a garage sale. He intends to broadcast to the world the last remaining copy of the Rush Limbaugh singing album which is so horrible that the world will submit to get him to turn it off, but Rush himself buys it and smashes it into millions of tiny little pieces. | ||||
| 41 | "Brain's Way" | October 11, 1997 | Wang Film Productions | |
| In 1962, 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. The loaner he borrowed from turns out to be a loan shark and takes Acme Labs into custody until, turning it into a lounge, Brain can repay her. | ||||
| 42 | "A Pinky and the Brain Halloween" | October 19, 1997 | Wang Film Productions | |
| 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. Snowball appears as his court jester, attempting to make Brain miss Pinky so much that he would look for him, leaving him in charge. Brain enters a rhythmic gymnastics competition with Mr. Itch and loses, when Pinky points out that Mr. Itch never held his part of the deal, making the whole deal null and void. | ||||
| 43 | "Brainy Jack" | November 1, 1997 | AKOM | |
| Brain becomes a hippie leader and encourages people to form a human chain across America in order to send a subliminal message. | ||||
| 44 | 1 | "Leggo My Ego" | November 7, 1997 | Wang Film Productions |
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Brain tries to hypnotize Sigmund Freud, but Pinky accidentally leaves Brain's mirrored glasses behind. During the hypnosis we learn to understand the root for his want of world domination, and why Pinky's such an idiot. |
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| 44 | 2 | "Big in Japan" | November 7, 1997 | Wang Film Productions |
| Brain becomes a sumo wrestler as to obtain a rare Japanese fish as part of his latest plan. | ||||
| 45 | "But That's Not All, Folks!" | November 8, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios | |
| 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 | "Operation Sea Lion" | November 14, 1997 | Wang Film Productions |
| Brain learns to communicate with sea lions in order to create an aquatic army. | ||||
| 46 | 2 | "You Said a Mouseful" | November 14, 1997 | Wang Film Productions |
| 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. | ||||
| 47 | 1 | "The Tailor and the Mice" | November 15, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios |
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The mice are unfortunate recipients of a tailor's well-meaning ways based on the folk song The Tailor and the Mouse popularized by Burl Ives. (Note:This is the shortest Pinky and The Brain episode ever.) |
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| 47 | 2 | "Bah, Wilderness" | November 15, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios |
| 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 | "Pinky at the Bat" | November 22, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios |
| 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. | ||||
| 48 | 2 | "Schpiel-borg 2000" | November 22, 1997 | Rough Draft Studios |
| 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. It is revealed when that it is only a robot when it exclaims "...I'm getting goose-bumps just thinking bout it.Naf!Poit!Zort!" and Brain comes to tell Pinky off. Pinky accidentally presses a button, and the robot goes into "schpiel mode",where it recreates scenes from various films, including one from Jurassic Park during which Steven gets up and walks through a brick wall out into a bridge and explodes. Brain decides he'll try again with the "Ted Turnerator"[6]. | ||||
| 49 | "Broadway Malady" | January 3, 1998 | AKOM | |
| Brain attempts to get a musical on Broadway, but is surprised to find that Pinky's musical is much more popular. | ||||
| 50 | 1 | "The Megalomaniacal Adventures of Brainie the Poo" | February 7, 1998 | Rough Draft Studios |
| 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 Mick Jagger as Jagger (Tigger). | ||||
| 50 | 2 | "Melancholy Brain" | February 7, 1998 | Rough Draft Studios |
| Brain attempts to take over the royal family of Denmark by causing havoc with Hamlet. | ||||
| 51 | "Inherit the Wheeze" | February 14, 1998 | Rough Draft Studios | |
| 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] | ||||
| 52 | 1 | "Brain's Night Off" | February 21, 1998 | Wang Film Productions |
| 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 | Wang Film Productions |
| 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 | Rough Draft Studios | |
| 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 "Sis") are as insane 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 | 1 | "Pinky's Turn" | February 28, 1998 | Rough Draft Studios |
| Frustrated with his failures, Brain lets Pinky try to take over the world with surprising success until Brain takes control and ruins everything. | ||||
| 54 | 2 | "Your Friend: Global Domination" | February 28, 1998 | Rough Draft Studios |
| Brain attempts to sway schoolchildren by creating an educational video. | ||||
| 55 | "You'll Never Eat Food Pellets in This Town, Again!" | April 25, 1998 | Wang Film Productions | |
| The show is changed and Pinky and Brain become frustrated with this and quit the show. When Brain falls back onto Pinky's attempts to get some work, he is given a job blowing up balloons at a children's birthday party, where he becomes angry at the birthday boy for insulting him and is kicked out. It is revealed that Brain is married to Billie (who in real life is Sheila, and hates playing Billie), who pretty much only agreed because he's famous, and eventually kicks him out and makes Brain live in his restaurant (which is bought by Yurkle, a parody of Steve Urkle from Family Matters). In the end, Brain wakes up and realizes it's all a bad dream, but Pinky still has his puppet Margaret and the still live next door to Dick Clark. | ||||
| 56 | "Dangerous Brains" | May 2, 1998 | Rough Draft Studios | |
| 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. | ||||
| 57 | 1 | "What Ever Happened to Baby Brain" | May 9, 1998 | Wang Film Productions |
| Brain poses as a child actress (as a parody of Baby Jane) to gain public admiration. | ||||
| 57 | 2 | "Just Say Narf" | May 9, 1998 | Wang Film Productions |
| Pinky sings a song in the style of "Make 'Em Laugh" to try to cheer Brain up. | ||||
| 58 | 1 | "The Pinky P.O.V." | May 16, 1998 | Rough Draft Studios |
| Brain's latest plan for world domination is shown from Pinky's perspective. | ||||
| 58 | 2 | "The Really Great Dictator" | May 16, 1998 | Rough Draft Studios |
| The mice sing about world domination to the tune of the Can-can. | ||||
| 58 | 3 | "Brain Food" | May 16, 1998 | Rough Draft Studios |
| 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. | ||||
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| 59 | "Brainwashed Part 1: Brain, Brain Go Away" | September 14, 1998 | Rough Draft Studios | |
| An episode of three parts. Pinky and Brain were in the midst of preparing a plan, involving a trachiomatic control chip on celebrity Tom Bodett. However, things hit a snag and largely because of the Schmëerskåhøvên (parody of the Macarena), a new craze dance that’s sweeping the nation. Everyone who danced those steps got progressively dumber and dumber. Meanwhile, the President and First Lady planned a conference on “The Brain”. To combat the dumbing down of America, a White House conference is called to find solutions to this problem. The mice are attended after Brain is mistakenly invited, and he and Pinky headed off to Washington, thinking the conference is in Brain’s honor. When he soon realized that the real reason for an affair is his error, they’re ejected from the White House, but not before refusing to participate in the Schmëerskåhøvên. Suddenly, a sinister clown, hired to make balloon animals for the event, stole the speech the Brain was giving. As the mice are leaving, they pursued him into the Washington Monument where they’re led into a trap, sedated, and captured. Then, they are strapped into a machine which caused one to lose their memory. After erasing their minds (well, Brain’s mind is already erased, Pinky’s mind caused the mind erasing machine to malfunction), they’re imprisoned in a strange and mysterious place called the Land of Hats, ruled by the Top Hat, where everyone is forced to identify only by the hat they wear, and participate in the Schmëerskåhøvên. | ||||
| 60 | "Brainwashed Part 2: I Am Not a Hat" | September 15, 1998 | Rough Draft Studios | |
| Weirdness in the “Land of Hats” continued for Pinky and an amnesic Brain. They eventually got lucky, as real memories, a little truth about the Schmëerskåhøvên. With Pinky’s help, Brain is able to outwit the Top Hat (a computer that controls the Land of Hats), and they managed to escape. By examining files taken from the Top Hat, Brain learned that the Schmëerskåhøvên is a dance created so that its motions caused those who dance it to dumb down. It’s all someone’s plan for world domination by reducing brain function and mental capacity, and that he and Pinky were imprisoned in the Land of Hats for refusing to dance it. The disc he downloaded with the information caused a self-destruct sequence in the laboratory. The ultimate mastermind, however, is still a mystery. Brain head out in search of the one person (besides him of course) who could be behind such a scheme to conquer the world, Snowball. Suspecting him, Brain set off for Microsponge, Inc. (a parody of Microsoft), which is owned by Snowball himself. However, Brain just found him locked away as a culprit in his own mental institution of his creation, and that he too was for coming too close to discovering who’s behind the Schmëerskåhøvên scheme, and security is tight. Brain reluctantly agreed to get Snowball out if he’ll help them, but ended up in the next cell to him as an inmate. To save the world, though, the mice had little choice but to team up with their worst foe. | ||||
| 61 | "Brainwashed Part 3: Wash Harder" | September 16, 1998 | Rough Draft Studios | |
| After escaping from the mental institution (with Pinky’s help), the trio had no time to relax. They seek down which mastermind set up this trap for them and save the world from the Schmëerskåhøvên. They traveled to a distant destination -- to the deserted island of Dr. Mordeau. He’s the geneticist who created the gene splicer which made them super intelligent. They discovered that though the answer was there, he too was a victim of the Schmëerskåhøvên. After they’re captured, they found the true mastermind: Mordeau’s mistakenly transformed cat, Precious. She’s about to fulfill the final part of her plan. Worse, she left all three of them on a conveyor belt leading to the gene splicer, but only Snowball is left to the trap when he ran from his lawyers directly into it. They must stop her and her planned world-wide group, before the great anthem for world peace in Washington D.C. took place, making the Earth’s population permanently stupefied. Finally, Brain created a new verse to the Schmëerskåhøvên which reversed the effect, and Acme Labs is gladly rebuilt. | ||||
| 62 | 1 | "To Russia with Lab Mice" | September 21, 1998 | Wang Film Productions |
| 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.This episode also has references from the movie Cats and Dogs,which was relesed a year later | ||||
| 62 | 2 | "Hickory Dickory Bonk" | September 21, 1998 | Wang Film Productions |
| Sung to Hickory Dickory Dock, Brain attempts to make every clock in the world chime simultaneously. | ||||
| 63 | "The Pinky and the Brain Reunion Special" | September 25, 1998 | Wang Film Productions | |
| Brain concocts a reunion special between himself and Pinky in order to attract numerous viewers which he can brainwash with his latest device. | ||||
| 64 | 1 | "A Legendary Tail" | September 28, 1998 | Rough Draft Studios |
| Brain attempts to create a tall tale around himself to earn world renown. | ||||
| 64 | 2 | "Project B.R.A.I.N." | September 28, 1998 | Rough Draft Studios |
| This episode tells the story of how Pinky and the Brain first met, and Brain's first plan for world domination. | ||||
| 65 | "Star Warners" | November 14, 1998 | Wang Film Productions | |
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The final Pinky and the Brain episode, which includes many of the Animaniacs cast, is a parody of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. 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 and other household appliances.[9][10] Note: Cameos by multiple Warner Bros. characters, including tertiary Animaniacs characters, Freakazoid! characters, Looney Tunes characters, and even the Mon-Stars from "Space Jam". |
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There are thirteen episodes in this short-lived series.
Pinky and the Brain shorts that were originally part of the Animaniacs series were repackaged 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 | Produced at |
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| 02A | "Spell-Bound" | September 16, 1995 | ||
| Brain must retrieve a dragon's toe-nail as a final ingredient for his magic spell to conquer the world. | ||||
| 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 at 4:00pm and bring London to a standstill with a perpetual tea time. | ||||
| 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, in a scene that parodies Orson Welles' well known Frozen Peas blooper audio clip. | ||||
| 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 Unwound" | 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 | |
| In a crossover episode, 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, but he gives her a nice comment about the accommodations while in her stomach). | ||||
Five VHS collections of Pinky and the Brain episodes were released from 1995 to 1998: A Pinky and the Brain Christmas, Cosmic Attractions, Mice of the Jungle and World Domination Tour, each with approximately 4 episodes that including both Pinky and the Brain shorts from Animaniacs and their own show. These collections are now out of print.
| VHS Name | Ep # | Release Date | Ep # of Episodes |
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| 1 | A Pinky and the Brain Christmas | December 15, 1995 | 3 |
| 2 | Cosmic Attractions | March 3, 1996 | 3 |
| 3 | Mice of the Jungle | May 10, 1996 | 3 |
| 4 | World Domanation Tour | August 13, 1996 |
Warner Home Video has released the entire series on DVD in Region 1 in 3 volume sets.
| DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date | Additional Information |
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| Volume 1 | 22 | July 25, 2006[17] | This four-disk box set includes the first 22 episodes from the series. Contains "Pinky and the Brain: Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?" — Featurette with Tom Ruegger, Peter Hastings, Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche, Andrea Romano as they discuss why they had so much fun working on the show. |
| Volume 2 | 21 | December 5, 2006[18] | This four-disk box set contains the next 21 episodes from the series. Contains "The Return of World Dominating Extras" – Featurette with Mark Hamill and Wayne Knight as they answer a casting call to do the voices of Pinky and The Brain and get coached by Maurice LaMarche and Rob Paulsen. |
| Volume 3 | 22 | June 19, 2007[19] | This four-disk box set contains the final 22 episodes of the series. Contains the featurette, "It's All About the Fans" – Rob Paulsen (Voice of Pinky) and Maurice LaMarche (Voice of the Brain) pay tribute to their fans. |
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