The essential episodes of Pinky and the Brain
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Pinky and the Brain — each pick states its reason.
- 01
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.
- 02
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.
- 03
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.
- 04
Brain makes Pinky smarter so his stupidity won't ruin anymore plans.
- 05
Pinky and Brain perform a song about the brain.
- 06
Where No Mouse Has Gone Before
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.
- 07
Pinky sings about cheese.
- 08
A Pinky and the Brain Christmas
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.
- 09
Brain tells a group of mice the story of "Don Cerebro" a mouse driven by his dream to take over the world.
- 10
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.
- 11
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.
- 12
The mice are looking to control tornados, but a pest keeps getting in their way.
- 13
To release Brain's leather repellant, the mice become baseball players.
- 14
Brain plots to make every clock on Earth chime repeatedly.
- 15
In the series finale of Pinky and the Brain, the Brain, and the characters from Animaniacs develop a Star Wars spoof.
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