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Pinky and the Brain
1995 - 1998 7.6 (702 votes) 4 Seasons
Genres
Animation Comedy Family Sci-Fi & Fantasy Kids
Networks
The WB
Created By
Tom Ruegger
Steven Spielberg

Pinky and the Brain

Overview

Pinky and Brain are genetically enhanced laboratory mice who reside in a cage in the Acme Labs research facility. Brain is self-centered and scheming; Pinky is good-natured but feebleminded. In each episode, Brain devises a new plan to take over the world, which ultimately ends in failure, usually due to Pinky's idiocy, the impossibility of Brain's plan, Brain's own arrogance, or just circumstances beyond their control.

Key Crew

Producer: Charles M. Howell IV, Peter Hastings, Rusty Mills, Liz Holzman

Top Cast

Rob Paulsen
Rob Paulsen

Pinky (voice)

Maurice LaMarche
Maurice LaMarche

The Brain (voice)

Seasons

Season 0 poster
Season 0 ()

No overview available.

9 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Start of All Things Wacky

A featurette with Senior Producer Tom Ruegger, Writer Peter Hastings, the voices of Pinky and the Brain stars, Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche, and voice director Andrea Romano as they discuss antidotes and antics about Steven Spielberg and why they had so much fun at work.

Runtime: 15 min
Episode 2: Win Big

Pinky and the Brain Short Brain competes on a trivia game show entitled ""Gyp-Parody"" to win money to buy a device to take over the world.

Runtime: 15 min
Episode 3: Where Rodents Dare

Pinky and the Brain Double Length Short With one of his new inventions, Brain plans to freeze all the leaders of the world when they are at an international peace conference in the Alps. Pinky and the Brain have a hard time getting to the peace conference, but when they finally do Brain's plans are foiled when someone traps them while they stand on a plate of cheese. The two mice only succeed in freezing themselves.

Runtime: 15 min
Episode 4: Battle for the Planet

Pinky and the Brain Short Brain wants to take over the world by tricking people into thinking that an aliens are invading. Brain arranges a pirate broadcast with himself as a reporter and Pinky as an alien. Brain says that aliens have landed and that people should flee from the cities. Pinky, however, has trouble with his costume. They complete their fake broadcast and wait for people to flee the cities. The next day, however, they look at the newspaper and see that everyone thought that the broadcast was a hilarious fake.

Runtime: 15 min
Episode 5: Pavlov's Mice

Pinky and the Brain Short In turn of the century Russia, Pinky and the Brain are conditioned to respond in strange ways to the sound of bells. Brain plans to take over the world by stealing the crown jewels of Russia. Unfortunately, his conditioning prevents him from successfully getting the jewels.

Runtime: 15 min
Episode 6: Opportunity Knox

Pinky and the Brain Short Brain wants to steal all of the gold out of Fort Knox. He develops a chemical that causes sneezing fits in people. Pinky and the Brain get to Fort Knox and use the chemical on the guards. They break into the safe and realize that they can't steal the gold because the gold bars are too heavy for the mice to lift.

Runtime: 15 min
Episode 7: Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?

Featurette with the voices of Pinky & the Brain stars Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche, and voice director Andrea Romano as they discuss anecdotes and antics about Steven Spielberg, Tom Ruegger and why they all had so much fun at work!

Runtime: 15 min
Episode 8: It's All About The Fans

Runtime: 15 min
Episode 9: The Audition

Mark Hamill (Star Wars) and Wayne Knight (Seinfeld) answer a casting call to do the voices of Pinky and The Brain for a future movie - and get a surprise coaching session from original Pinky and The Brain voices Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche.

Runtime: 15 min
Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1995)

No overview available.

19 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Das Mouse
1995-09-09

Brain hatches a plot to hypnotize people, but he needs white crab meat to succeed. In order to get the crab meat, he takes a submarine to the wreck of the Titanic. Unfortunately, the CIA spots his sub and orders its destruction.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 2: Of Mouse and Man
1995-09-17

Brain plans to take over the world by creating a voice mail system that will tie up everyone on the planet long enough for him to take over. In order to do this he needs money. He decides to get it by getting a job and then staging an accident in order to sue the company.

Runtime: 20 min
Episode 3: Tokyo Grows
1995-09-24

Brain uses an enlarging ray to make himself and Pinky four hundred feet tall. With Pinky dressed as a Gollyzilla, Brain stages a fight to make himself look like hero. But then the real Gollyzilla shows up.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 4: That Smarts
1995-09-24

Brain makes Pinky smarter so his stupidity won't ruin anymore plans.

Runtime: 9 min
Episode 5: Brainstem
1995-09-24

Pinky and Brain perform a song about the brain.

Runtime: 1 min
Episode 6: Pinky & The Fog
1995-10-01

Brain gains the ability to cloud the minds of men with his voice. He tries to get on the radio by adapting the persona of "The Fog". Unfortunately his plan falls apart when he gets to the studio.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 7: Where No Mouse Has Gone Before
1995-10-08

Brain hears that a space probe is about to be launched. On the probe is a plaque with a representation of man and woman. Brain changes the plaque to make it appear that he rules the world. Aliens discover the probe and take Pinky and the Brain to their planet where they honor them just like they are "honored" on Earth.

Runtime: 8 min
Episode 8: Cheese Roll Call
1995-10-08

Pinky sings about cheese.

Runtime: 2 min
Episode 9: Brainania
1995-11-12

The Brain hatches a plan to take over the world by using static electricity to shock the world into submission. Unfortunately he needs several billion dollars to build a giant clothes dryer. Pinky and the Brain head to Island X where they set up a fake country and hope to get a giant foreign aid loan from the United States.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 10: TV or Not TV
1995-11-19

Brain develops a special pair of dentures that can produce a smile that can hypnotize anyone who is not wearing a special pair of sunglasses. In order to take over the world, he needs people to see the mesmerizing smile. He figures that he needs to get on TV and in order to do that he has to become a celebrity.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 11: Napoleon Brainaparte
1995-11-26

While France awaits Napoleon's triumphant return from Austria, Brain develops a recipe for exploding crepe-suzettes in an effort to conquer France. He uses the recipe in a cooking class and when the crepes explode, he is arrested. When he is taken to prison, however, his luck begins to change when people mistake him for Napoleon Bonaparte.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 12: A Pinky and the Brain Christmas
1995-12-13

Pinky and the Brain head to the North Pole. Pinky just wants to see Santa, but the Brain has a more sinister plan. He wants pretend to be an elf so that he can mass produce a hypnotic doll named "Noddle Noggin" in Santa's workshop. He then hopes that Santa will distribute the toy all over world so he can take over.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 13: Snowball
1996-01-21

Brain comes face to face with his former friend and now enemy, Snowball. And it seems Snowball has his own plans to take over the world.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 14: Around the World in 80 Narfs
1996-02-04

In Victorian England, the Brain realizes that he can take over the world by becoming president of the "Pompous Explorers Club". since the position usually leads to the Prime Ministership of England. In order to become president of the club, he must make it around the world in seventy-nine days.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 15: Fly
1996-02-11

Brain plans to melt the ice caps with the Hubble Space Telescope once he buys everything higher than the 39th floor.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 16: Ambulatory Abe
1996-02-25

Brain hopes to take over the world by convincing everyone that Abraham Lincoln has been reincarnated. He takes up ventriloquism and plans on using a statue.

Runtime: 9 min
Episode 17: Mouse of La Mancha
1996-02-25

Brain tells a group of mice the story of "Don Cerebro" a mouse driven by his dream to take over the world.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 18: The Third Mouse
1996-05-12

Pinky searches for the Brain in post-World War II Vienna. He misunderstands people when they try to tell him the Brain is dead and his misunderstandings lead to a series of misadventures.

Runtime: 14 min
Episode 19: The Visit
1996-05-12

The Brain captures two mice for an experiment to aid in a plan for world domination. He discovers however that the two mice are his parents.

Runtime: 8 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1996)

No overview available.

16 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: It's Only a Paper World
1996-09-07

Brain tries to get all the people off Earth onto his paper mache creation, Chia Earth.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 2: Collect 'em All
1996-09-14

Using Johannes Gutenberg printing press, the Brain make a series of collectible trading cards.

Runtime: 9 min
Episode 3: Pinkasso
1996-09-14

A successful modern artist is born and it's Pinky, trying to help fund Brain's new plan.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 4: Plan Brain From Outer Space
1996-09-28

Brain hopes his inter-galactic pen pal, Zalgar, will help him take over the world. But it turns out Zalgar likes to snack on brains.

Runtime: 20 min
Episode 5: The Pink Candidate
1996-11-02

Pinky writes a letter to the newspaper criticizing the comic strip "The Family Circus". His letter, however, is misunderstood as a political statement that thrusts him to a spotlight that leads him to the Presidency of the United States. Pinky's administration, however, must deal with a scandal when the Brain's plans to take over the world are made public.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 6: Brain's Song
1996-11-09

Brain makes a tearjerker movie to make the world sad enough to make him leader.

Runtime: 20 min
Episode 7: Welcome to the Jungle
1996-11-16

Animal rights activist think Pink and the Brain are monkeys and release them into the jungle after taking them out of Acme Labs. The pair try to make it back home, but run into the Brain's old enemy Snowball.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: A Little Off the Top
1996-11-23

Brain tries to discover what makes the legendary Samson so strong.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 9: Megalomaniacs Anonymous
1996-11-23

When Brain comes to the conclusion he no longer wants to take over the world, he decides to help others who had his problem and the first one to be helped is Pinky.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 10: The Mummy
1996-12-28

Pinky and Brain get sealed in an Egyptian pyramid where a mummy is lurking about.

Runtime: 9 min
Episode 11: Robin Brain
1996-12-28

Brain gets a group of men to steal money from the rich (ala Robin Hood) to pay for his new plot.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 12: Two Mice and a Baby
1997-02-01

Pinky and Brain stumble upon a super powered baby, who happened to arrive from an exploding alien world.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 13: The Maze
1997-02-01

Pinky and Brain have to brave a virtual reality maze to find a microchip crucial to Brain's new plot.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 14: Brain of the Future
1997-02-08

The mice's future selves arrive in the lab, sending them on a roller coaster ride through time to find a world domination kit.

Runtime: 20 min
Episode 15: Brinky
1997-02-22

Pinky and Brain's DNA get merged during a cloning experiment, creating a new mouse.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 16: Hoop Schemes
1997-05-17

Pinky and Brain put together a basketball team as part of their next plan, but the fame may be swelling Brain's head.

Runtime: 21 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1997)

No overview available.

51 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Leave It to Beavers
1997-09-08

Brain enlists the aid of beavers to gain control over the flow of rivers.

Runtime: 8 min
Episode 2: Cinebrania
1997-09-08

The mice make a series of comedy films and hit the big time.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 3: Pinky & The Brain ...and Larry
1997-09-13

Pinky and Brain have a new companion, Larry, but their newest plan just doesn't seem to pan out.

Runtime: 6 min
Episode 4: Where the Deer and The Mousealopes Play
1997-09-13

In their latest plan, Pinky and Brain try to take over the steel mills in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by pretending to be a part of an endangered species called the Mousealopes.

Runtime: 15 min
Episode 5: Brain Noir
1997-09-13

It's 1946 and Brain's new plan gets interrupted when he and Pinky encounter Billie and Snowball.

Runtime: 20 min
Episode 6: Brain's Bogie
1997-09-15

Brain gets caught up in winning a golf tournament, even though it interferes with his new plan.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 7: Say What, Earth
1997-09-15

After the Earth gets the power of speech from his Silitronlinguifactor device, Brain comes up with a new plan.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 8: My Feldmans, My Friends
1997-09-16

Brain tries to get a package meant for him back from his neighbor.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 9: All You Need Is Narf
1997-09-17

Pinky becomes a guru during the 1960s.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 10: Pinky's Plan
1997-09-17

It's Brain's birthday and Pinky plans a surprise party.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 11: This Old Mouse
1997-09-18

After getting a glimpse of his future, Brain abandons his attempts to take over the world and gets a job as a ski instructor.

Runtime: 20 min
Episode 12: Brain Storm
1997-09-19

The mice are looking to control tornados, but a pest keeps getting in their way.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 13: A Meticulous Analysis Of History
1997-09-20

Brain sings about past and present world leaders' failures.

Runtime: 6 min
Episode 14: Funny, You Don't Look Rhennish
1997-09-20

The mice need to get into a mine, but have to pretend to join a Amish-type society.

Runtime: 15 min
Episode 15: The Pinky Protocol
1997-09-22

Brain's latest plan is a conspiracy theory about why he is not ruling the world.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 16: Mice Don't Dance
1997-09-26

Brain becomes a tap dancer with steam-powered legs in order to spread a subliminal morse code at the World's Fair.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 17: Brain Drained
1997-09-26

Brain is out of ideas for taking over the world, so he tries to get some from writers.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 18: Brain Acres
1997-09-27

Farmer Brain tries to grow an army of monster vegetables.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 19: Pinky And The Brainmaker
1997-09-29

Brain creates a cloning machine and plans to clone himself in order to create the best Celtic dance troupe the world has ever seen.

Runtime: 9 min
Episode 20: Calvin Brain
1997-09-29

Brain masquerades as a fashion designer.

Runtime: 13 min
Episode 21: Pinky Suavo
1997-10-04

Brain plans to use the Personalitron to give him irresistible charisma, but it winds up going to Pinky.

Runtime: 9 min
Episode 22: T.H.E.Y.
1997-10-04

The mice learn of a secret organization, T.H.E.Y. (comprised of world leaders), and try to get in.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 23: The Real Life
1997-10-10

A house needed for Brain's latest plot becomes the set of a reality series about the people living there. So the mice become participants to get in.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 24: Brain's Way
1997-10-11

To save his Las Vegas casino, Brain works as a lounge singer.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 25: A Pinky And The Brain Halloween
1997-10-19

Mr. Itch offers Brain control of the world in exchange for his soul, but Brain refuses. In a shocking twist, Pinky sells his soul to make it happen and Brain soon decides to get his friend back.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 26: Brainy Jack
1997-11-02

Brain assumes the identity of Briany Jack, a hippie leader, and tries to create a peace chain to send a subliminal message.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 27: Leggo My Ego
1997-11-07

Brain's attempt to control Emperor Franz Josef get side tracked when he talks about his problems with psychiatrist Dr. Sigmund Freud.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 28: Big In Japan
1997-11-07

Brain enters the world of a sumo wrestling to acquire a paralyzing fish.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 29: But That's Not All, Folks!
1997-11-08

Brain takes control of a satellite to air his infomercial around the world, but the satellite belongs to the military and they want to capture whoever hacked into their systems.

Runtime: 20 min
Episode 30: Operation Sea Lion
1997-11-14

Brain takes control over aquatic mammals for his latest plan and Pinky falls for a female sea lion.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 31: You Said a Mouseful
1997-11-14

Brain tries to change the Earth's weather patterns.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 32: The Tailor and The Mice
1997-11-15

A well-meaning tailor makes Pinky and Brain's lives miserable.

Runtime: 4 min
Episode 33: Bah, Wilderness
1997-11-15

At a sleep away camp for world leaders' children, Brain tries to trick the children into placing listening devices in their parents' offices.

Runtime: 17 min
Episode 34: Pinky At The Bat
1997-11-22

To release Brain's leather repellant, the mice become baseball players.

Runtime: 14 min
Episode 35: Schpiel-Borg 2000
1997-11-22

Brain's latest plan for world domination is the Schpiel-Borg 2000, which hosts a retrospective of past episodes.

Runtime: 6 min
Episode 36: Broadway Malady
1998-01-03

Pinky and Brain stage their own seperate musicals, which have varying degrees of success.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 37: The Megalomaniacal Adventures of Brainie The Poo
1998-02-07

Spoofing Winnie the Pooh, Brainie and Pinklet try to steal honey from a bee hive.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 38: The Melancholy Brain
1998-02-07

Brain tries to create chaos in Hamlet's family and take over.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 39: Inherit The Wheeze
1998-02-14

Brain tries to become a national hero by taking down a tobacco company.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 40: Brain's Night Off
1998-02-21

Taking the night off from trying to take over the world, Pinky and Brain try other things.

Runtime: 8 min
Episode 41: Beach Blanket Brain
1998-02-21

Brain tries to get surfers to put on his suntan lotion, Brain de Soleil, which creates a hypnotic effect.

Runtime: 13 min
Episode 42: The Family That Poits Together, Narfs Together
1998-02-21

Brain enters Pinky's family in a contest to win $25,000.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 43: Pinky's Turn
1998-02-28

Pinky has his own plan for world domination and Brain goes along with it.

Runtime: 14 min
Episode 44: Your Friend: Global Domination
1998-02-28

Brain explains why he should be leader in a mock educational film.

Runtime: 6 min
Episode 45: You'll Never Eat Food Pellets In This Town Again
1998-04-25

As network executives keep repeatedly changing their show, Pinky and Brain decide to quit.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 46: Dangerous Brains
1998-05-02

As he prepares his plan for world domination, Brain goes to work teaching rebellious students.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 47: Whatever Happened To Baby Brain
1998-05-09

Pinky and Brain masquerade as a mother and child star respectively to get money needed for the next plan.

Runtime: 16 min
Episode 48: Just Say Narf
1998-05-09

Pinky sings a song about saying "narf".

Runtime: 4 min
Episode 49: The Pinky P.O.V.
1998-05-16

It's another usual night where Brain plans to take over the world, only it's seen from Pinky's point of view.

Runtime: 9 min
Episode 50: The Really Great Dictator
1998-05-16

The mice sing about world domination.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 51: Brain Food
1998-05-16

Brain opens a restaurant and feeds the customers a drug to make them smarter.

Runtime: 9 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1998)

No overview available.

9 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Brainwashed Pt. 1: Brain, Brain, Go Away
1998-09-14

Pinky and Brain are kidnapped in Washington, DC by an unknown force. Brain loses his memory and the mice are then imprisoned in a town where everyone is forced to perform the Schëerskåhøvên, which is dumbing down the entire country.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 2: Brainwashed Pt. 2: I Am Not a Hat
1998-09-15

Brain regains his memory and the mice escape. They believe Snowball is responsible for the Schmëerskåhøvên, but him imprisoned in a mental institution.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 3: Brainwashed Pt. 3: Wash Harder
1998-09-16

The mice and Snowball search for the one who spliced their DNA, Dr. Mordough, thinking he's responsible for all this. But it turns out to be his cat, Precious, and time is running out.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 4: To Russia With Lab Mice
1998-09-21

Pinky and Brain's plan to alter caviar with a mutating capsule is complicated by a Russian lab mouse.

Runtime: 9 min
Episode 5: Hickory Dickory Bonk
1998-09-21

Brain plots to make every clock on Earth chime repeatedly.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 6: The Pinky And The Brain Reunion Special
1998-09-21

A special of highlights of their career is on the air, but it's really all a ruse so Pinky and Brain can hypnotize the viewers.

Runtime: 21 min
Episode 7: A Legendary Tail
1998-09-28

Inspired by legends of the past, Brain tries to create a legend about himself to gain world acclaim.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 8: Project B.R.A.I.N.
1998-09-28

How Acme Labs became home to Pinky and Brain.

Runtime: 8 min
Episode 9: Star Warners
1998-11-04

In the series finale of Pinky and the Brain, the Brain, and the characters from Animaniacs develop a Star Wars spoof.

Runtime: 22 min

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