Pinky and The Brain Episode Guide

Spellbound
Broadcast Date - September 16, 1995 Writer - John P. McCann Director - Dave Marshall, Rusty Mills	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
Summary After Brain picks the lock with his tail, he finds a "Take Over The World" spell in Merlin's spellbook. Since he needs a red dragon's toenail to complete the spell, he and "Minstrel Mouse Pinky" are off to find a red dragon. Merlin's first incantation: Sonny Tufts, Sonny Bono, Lorna Luft, Yoko Ono; Paula Abdul, Chip 'n' Dale, Hillary Clinton, Quinton McHale. Merlin's second incantation: I win, you win, Edwin Newman, Lee of Kathie, Regis Philbin. Merlin's recipe for pie: Sift one pinch powdered spider nostril, 1 maggot's armpit, 1 smoked tapeworm. Set aside. Blend grumph from a troll's belly button, 2 goat's hoof-jam. Add powdered mixture. Puree until creamy. Add fruit to taste. Table of contents page from Merlin's spellbook: Tabby Cat turned into dog; Tabby Cat turned into duck; Tadpoles, magic uses of; Tahoe, how to win at Blackjack; Take over the World spell; Vultures turned into frogs; Wombat powder, uses of; Zebra gizzard soup. Found on Merlin's reagent shelf: Squid Brain; Powdered Spider Legs; Eye of Newt; Bat Wings; Toad lips; Generic Bile; Ishtar Box Office Receipts (empty, of course); Schmaltz; Sugar; Freeze-Dried Flea Brains, Aqua Vitae (L., "Water of Life"), "Hampster" bits.
The World Domination Plan “Merlin's spellbook contains the power of the universe. ... With the help of the spellbook, we will use Merlin's magic to control of the world! “
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Sure, Brain, but how are we going to find chaps our size?
Brain's New Word Gharnao - a raft made of inverted ceramic pots

Meet John Brain
Broadcast Date - November 5, 1995 Writer - Peter Hastings Director - Greg Reyna	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Reporter (Laurie Frasier)
Summary Brain's plan is to run for President as John Brain with Admiral Pinky as his running mate.
The World Domination Plan "Tonight, we will play the world's game. The world's game is politics and I plan to win this game by running for President. Once I'm ensconced in the White House, I will take over the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but this time you put the trousers on the chimp.
Brain's New Word Groaking - staring at someone eating in hopes they'll give you something

The World Can Wait
Broadcast Date - November 5, 1995 Writer - Peter Hastings Director - Alfred Gimeno	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Billie (Tress MacNeille)
Summary Brain sets aside planning world domination for a night to court Billie, a female mouse from another cage.
The World Domination Plan none
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but this time you wear the tutu.
Brain's New Word none

The Helpinki Formula
Broadcast Date - November 5, 1995 Writer - Gordon Bressack Director - Audu Paden, Dave Marshall	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
Summary Brain, as the President of the Small Club for Men, uses an infomercial to market his Smallerizer System Plus, a people-shrinking formula.
The World Domination Plan "The formula is complete! With this formula, our relative smallness will no longer be an obstacle to our domination of the Earth. Behold! I will use the formula to make every single person on Earth shorter than I. Problem is, how can I convince everyone in the world to use something they don't need in any conceivable way? (Brain observes Pinky order an item from an infomercial.) Yes, of course! We'll do our own infomercial!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but me and Pipi Longstocking, I mean, what would the children look like?
Brain's New Word Groaking - staring at someone eating in hopes they'll give you something

Battle for the Planet
Broadcast Date - October 28, 1995 Writer - Peter Hastings Director - Alfred Gimeno	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Ralph (Frank Welker)
Summary The mice adapt the famous War of the Worlds radio hoax for television.
The World Domination Plan "Halloween 1938. The Mercury Radio Theater presented an adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds that was so realistic, people actually fled the cities believing that creatures from Mars were attacking the Earth. It proved that radio was a powerful tool and now the advance of technology has brought us an even more powerful tool. Television is our new tool. We will pirate the airwaves and stage a hoax like The War of the Worlds. We will scare the people of the cities, leaving no resistance behind. We will have taken over the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Well, I think so Brain, but if we didn't have ears, we'd look like weasels.
Brain's New Word Oobar - a dry fog of the upper Nile

Jockey for Position
Broadcast Date - October 28, 1995 Writer - Peter Hastings Director - Leonard Robinson, Dave Marshall	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Announcer (Neill Ross)
Summary At the Kentucky Derby, Brain becomes a jockey to win the race and finance his plan to build a Reverse Geotropic Arrestor which will cause people to fly off the earth. In the meantime, Pinky and a horse have fallen in love.
The World Domination Plan "When I build my Reverse Geotropic Arrestor, and throw it from the North Pole, in a matter of seconds, the cable will become taut, gravity will cease, and everyone will fly off the face of the Earth. Leaving us alone to assume control!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Wuh, I think so Brain, but isn't Regis Philbin already married?
Brain's New Word none

Pavlov’s Mice
Broadcast Date - October 28, 1995 Writer - John P. McCann Director - Michael Gerard	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Czar (Barry Dennen)
Summary Brain uses the tip of a pen to pick the lock of the cage. Then, by using Brain's Vacuumilator, they attempt to steal Russia's crown jewels during a lunar eclipse.
The World Domination Plan "Behold my latest invention, the Vacuumilator! It uses reverse air pressure to vacuum everything toward it. We are going to use the Vacuumilator to steal Russia's crown jewels!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Uh ... yeah, Brain, but where are we going to find rubber pants our size?
Brain's New Word none

Where Rodents Dare
Broadcast Date - October 22, 1995 Writer - Peter Hastings, Tom Ruegger Director - Greg Reyna, Dave Marshall	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Mr. President (Frank Welker)
Summary To get out of their cage, Brain freezes the janitor, takes an icicle from him and uses it to pick the lock. Then the mice travel to the Swiss Alps to freeze world leaders attending a peace summit by using a Catalystic Immobilizer which freezes its victim for 24 hours.
The World Domination Plan (Reporter) "Tommorrow in the Swiss Alps, the international peace summit will bring present and former world leaders together in one room. (Brain) He who controls that room controls the world! And we shall control that room with my Catalystic Immobilizer! It will freeze the world's leaders for 24 hours and we'll take over. Supreme rule will be mine!
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so, but where will we find an open tattoo parlor at this time of night?
Brain's New Word Hircismus - stinky armpits

When Mice Ruled The Earth
Broadcast Date - October 22, 1995 Writer - Gordon Bressack Director - Greg Reyna	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
Summary Brain picks the lock of their cage with his tail, so that they can borrow H.G. Wells' time machine to alter history so that mice will be the dominant species instead of humans.
The World Domination Plan "By utilizing the invisible forces of nature, we shall make this time machine work, with this. This paper clip will serve as an antenna grabbing neutrinos from the cosmos and providing ignition for this craft. But first, we shall travel back to the primordial era, alter the course of evolution, and then return to the present world not dominated by humans, but by mice, and they shall choose me as their leader."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but culottes have a tendency to ride up so.
Brain's New Word none

Puppet Rulers
Broadcast Date - October 29, 1995 Writer - Tom Minton Director - Barry Caldwell, Dave Marshall	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Uncle Albert (Paul Rugg) Niece (Lisa Bradley) Nephew (Chasen Greig) Station Manager (Jess Harnell) Kid #1 (Luke Ruegger) Kid #2 (Tress MacNeille)
Summary Pinky and Brain become stars, Noodle Noggin and Big Ears on a children's puppet show, then use a cryogenic chamber to freeze themselves. By defrosting themselves 40 years later, the children will have grown up and will want to make Brain their leader.
The World Domination Plan "With this cryogenic capsule, we shall freeze ourselves and reawaken 40 years in the future. We shall become characters on that insipid puppet show, Meany and Treacle. I will endear myself in the hearts of the children, then we shall freeze ourselves for 40 years. And when we thaw out, those children will be the leaders of the world, and they will adore me! Making it simple to take over the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Wuh, I think so, but we'll never get a monkey to use dental floss.
Brain's New Word Cynanthropy - disorder where the sufferer imagines he's a dog
Goofs  Brain tells Pinky that as part of his plan they will reawaken 40 years later, but the caption says "30 years later" just before the clock wakes them.

Brain Meets Brawn
Broadcast Date - October 29, 1995 Writer - Peter Hastings, Tom Minton Director - Michael Gerard	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Dr. Jekyl (Jeff Glen Bennett) Billy (Frank Welker)
Summary After escaping the cage by picking the lock with a needle, Brain plans to drink the strength-inducing Dr. Jekyl formula to disable Big Ben at tea time so tea time never ends and he can take over the British Empire.
The World Domination Plan "British are fanatical about tea time, everything stops when Big Ben strikes four. Therefore, if I can stop that clock at precisely 4 P.M., it will cause infinite tea time, allowing us to take over the British Empire, and then the world! Once we enter Big Ben, I'll use my physical prowess to stop the center wheel while you dislodge the pallet and disrupt the intrinsic mechanism."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but if they called them "sad meals", kids wouldn't buy them.
Goofs  After they fall out of the tower, Brain is shrunk 4 times but is grown only 3 times.

Cranial Crusader
Broadcast Date December 10, 1995 Writer Tom Minton Director Dave Marshall, Rusty Mills	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
Summary This time Brain uses his tail to pick the lock, then begins his plan to become the caped crimefighters, The Cranial Crusader and The Pink Wonder to show up The Caped Opposum by defeating his archvillian, Johnny Badnote.
The World Domination Plan "I shall become a costumed crimefighting hero and thwart Johnny Badnote, overshadowing The Caped Opossum, then I will use the superhero's fame and fortune to rule the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Well, I think so Brain, but I can't memorize a whole opera in Yiddish.
Brain's New Word Spheropygian - having full and rounded buttocks

Opportunity Knox
Broadcast Date December 10, 1995 Writer Tom Minton Director Michael Gerard	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
Summary Pinky and Brain attempt to steal the gold at Fort Knox and to control the money supply of the United States.
The World Domination Plan "Do you realize what we will do with this pollen? We shall do no less than go to Fort Knox, Kentucky, keeper of the nation's gold supply. There, we will expose the guards to our pollen. And while they're sneezing uncontrollably, we'll move into the vault and take the gold. For he who controls this nation's capital, controls the nation."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Aww, I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... ooh, it's all too much for me.
Brain's New Word none

Yes, Always
Broadcast Date December 10, 1995 Writer Peter Hastings Director Michael Gerard, Dave Marshall	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Producer (Tom Ruegger) Writer (Peter Hastings) Director (Andrea Romano) Engineer (Harry Andronis)
Summary Brain must replace some dialog at the Warner Brothers recording studio.
The World Domination Plan none
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word none

Don't Tread On Us
Broadcast Date December 3, 1995 Writer Gordon Bressack, Gordon M. Howell IV Director Al Zegler	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Benjamin Franklin (Frank Welker)
Summary While Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration Of Independence, Brain writes an alternate declaration that would make him leader, if he can switch it with the real declaration. But when Brain's declaration ends up instead at the end of Ben Franklin's kite, the mice must get it back before the delegates sign the real declaration.
The World Domination Plan "We shall surreptitiously replace their 'Declaration of Independence' with the 'Declaration of Obedience'. We hold these truths to be self-evident that a mouse named Brain shall be our leader."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but where do you stick the feather and call it macaroni?
Brain's New Word Exophagy - cannibalism outside the tribe

Hercules Unwound
Broadcast Date December 3, 1995 Writer John Ludlin, Nick Dubois Director Audu Paden	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
Summary In ancient Greece, Pinky and Brain go to the Aegean stables to hitch a ride to Mount Olympus on the winged horse Pegasus. Once there, Brain plots to take over the world by stealing the magic lightning bolt of Zeus.
The World Domination Plan "And we shall steal Zeus's lightning bolt, overthrow his kingdom, and then take over the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word none
Goofs  Since they are in Greece, the gods and heroes should be referred to by their Greek names, but Roman names are used.

In The Garden Of Mindy
Broadcast Date December 3, 1995 Writer John P. McCann Director Greg Reyna	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Mindy (Nancy Cartwright)
Summary Brain uses telekinesis to open the cage lock with a trowel. While building a stink bomb to take over the world, he is forced to watch over Mindy.
The World Domination Plan "Using the gardener's weed killer, some manure, and a little Zoysia grass, I will contruct a powerful stink bomb. We'll use the lawn mower engine to construct a rocket and fill it with the gas. When precisely launched, the prevailing winds will spread the gas across the world's capitals. As the stench drives government officials out into the streets, we will rush in and seize power!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word none

Das Mouse
Broadcast Date 09-Sep-1995 Writer Peter Hastings Director Liz Holzman & Al Zegler	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) McGuire (Jim Belushi) Admiral (Jim Cummings)
Summary By filling a bottle with water, Brain turns it into a rocket, which bounces around the lab until it finally flips the handle of a spoon into the cage lock and opens the cage. Brain plans to make hypnotic pancakes by using the secretions of a Peruvian frog, enhanced with the meat of a rare white crab. To get the crabmeat, Captain Brain and Mr. Pinky take a submarine to the Titanic, where massive numbers of the crabs are located.
The World Domination Plan “We shall receive the aid of legions of unassuming humans because they will be hypnotized by the secretions of a rare Peruvian Gaokin. It's skin gives off a powerful fluid full of active peptides. After we collect the frog's fluid, we must devise a plan to draw thousands of people here to ingest it and become hypnotized. We shall mix the hypnotic fluid into a floury batter and have a gigantic pancake jamboree! To be fully powerful we need one more ingredient: the meat of the rare deep water white crab. Massive numbers of white crabs have gathered in the hull of the Titanic. We must travel to the depths of the ocean and raise the hull of that sorrowful ship!”
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but there's still a bug stuck in here from last time.
Brain's New Word Spizzerinctum - the will to succeed
Goofs  The radar transponder that Pinky uses has two knobs in the scene when he scrambles it, and three knobs later on.  The Jason Jr. changes color from orange to blue during the episode.

Of Mouse and Man
Broadcast Date 10-Sep-1995 Writer Peter Hastings Director Audu Paden	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Gina (Gail Matthius) Punk (Jim Cummings) Beetle Fiero (Jeffrey Tambor) Locke (Jeff Glen Bennett)
Summary Brain uses a bone to pick the lock, and then gets a job at Fiero and Company to fund his latest plan. He stages a horrible accident at work using the microwave and non-dairy powdered creamer, and then sues the corporation for $1,614,000 in Worker's Compensation money to finance his plan to create an endless voice mail system.
The World Domination Plan "Utilizing satellite technology and these alligator clips, we will redirect all global telephone communication into an endless voice mail system. Once a person is on the line, the array and the amount of choices will render them occupied, busy, and unable to defend the Earth for a full 72 hours. More than enough time for a well prepared mouse to sieze control of the planet!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but I get all clammy inside the tent.
Brain's New Word Ultracrepidarianism - giving opinions outside of one's knowledge
Goofs  The kitchen sign at Brain's office changes in different scenes.  The attorney's suitcoat changes from 2 to 4 buttons.

Tokyo Grows
Broadcast Date 17-Sep-1995 Writer Gordon Bressack & Charles M. Howell, IV Director Al Zegler	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Gollyzilla (Frank Welker) Japanese Girl (Tress MacNeille)
Summary Brain converts a miniaturization ray into an enlarging ray to make himself and Pinky 400 feet tall. Brainodo stages a fight with Pinkzilla to make himself look like the hero, but the real Gollyzilla shows up to upset Brain's plan.
The World Domination Plan "This scientific equipment will be invaluable for my plan to take over the world. It's big things that strike fear into the hearts of humans, like that ridiculous legend of Gollyzilla, mythical folly that directionless humans hang on to. I will alter this equipment and enlarge myself to become a 400 foot tall mouse who'll save the world from Gollyzilla."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but I don't think Kay Ballard is in the union.
Brain's New Word Palinoia - compulsive repetition of an act until perfect

That Smarts
Broadcast Date 17-Sep-1995 Writer Peter Hastings Director Audu Paden	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
Summary When Brain realizes that his plans always fail because of Pinky's stupidity, he makes Pinky smart to help solve the problem. They plan to use the Forced Vertoconvector, a device designed to create millions of steaming geysers lifting people off the ground, immobilizing them.
The World Domination Plan "I will pose as Jimmy Hoffa, back from vacation. All labor leaders will bow before me, and help me utilize the giant industrial complex to build this: The Forced Vertoconvector. It will create millions of steaming tiny geysers that will actually lift people several inches off the ground, immobilizing them." "We will program a computer to generate a fantastically popular romance novel. It will contain a hypnophonetic sentence so long and so confusing, the reader will be forced to re-read it endlessly out loud, and the frequencies of those sounds will hypnotize all around them, primed for my suggestion that I rule the world." "By converting our cage into a nuclear reactor, we can produce enough energy....."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Yes, I am!
Brain's New Word Palinoia - compulsive repetition of an act until perfect
Goofs  When we first see the machine's keypad it has the numbers 1-13. Later in the episode, it only has 1-12.

Brainstem
Broadcast Date 17-Sep-1995 Writer Tom Minton Director Al Zegler	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
Summary Pinky and Brain perform a song about the brain. Lyrics to Brainstem
The World Domination Plan none
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Palinoia - compulsive repetition of an act until perfect

Pinky and The Fog
Broadcast Date 24-Sep-1995 Writer Gordon Bressack & Charles M. Howell, IV Director Audu Paden	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Woman (Tress MacNeille) The Mist (Jim Cummings)
Summary To escape their cage, Brain picks the lock with a paper clip he bent into the shape of a key. After developing the ability to befog men's minds with his voice, Brain plans to appear on a radio show as "The Fog" and befog everyone's minds.
The World Domination Plan "I have almost completed honing my rapier keen mental abilities. For now I have the power, for I am The Fog! By altering the frequencies of my voice, I am able to befog men's minds. With these (uses two fingers to draw down the corners of his mouth). In a moment, you will no longer be able to see me, for I am The Fog. Now if only I could conceive of a method of how to use this power on millions of people at once. The radio, of course! We will sneak into the radio station, taking the place of The Mist, so I can broadcast my genuine mental powers to millions of listeners, befogging their minds, until they make me their leader."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but the Rockettes? I mean, it's mostly girls, isn't it?
Brain's New Word Psaphonic - planning one's rise to fame

Bubba Bo Bob Brain
Broadcast Date 24-Sep-1995 Writer Sherri Stoner Director Audu Paden, Gary Hartle & Dave Marshall	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Yee Haw Girl (Gail Matthius)
Summary Brain becomes a successful country music singer named Bubba Bo Bob Brain, managed by Colonel Pinky. Thanks to a subliminal message in his music he will control the world. This episode is a re-broadcast of an episode originally shown on Animaniacs.
The World Domination Plan "I shall use subliminal mind control to take over the world. A subliminal message is a recorded message perceived only by the subconscious human mind. I have recorded such a message. The message is: Citizens of the world. You are under my control. You will do whatever I say! If people heard this message enough times, they would succumb to my control and we could take over the world. The only problem: how to get this message repeated worldwide? Airplay. Country music! I will go to Nashville and become the biggest country music star of all time. Everyone will hear my record and my subliminal message and I will take over the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so, Brain, but burlap chafes me so.
Brain's New Word Yerk - to beat someone vigorously
Goofs  In the shot of the audience at the awards show, the armrest between Pinky and Brain is missing.

Where No Mouse Has Gone Before
Broadcast Date 01-Oct-1995 Writer Gordon Bressack & Charles M. Howell, IV Director Al Zegler	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) The President (Frank Welker) Alien Singer (Jess Harnell)
Summary When Brain discovers a probe is about to be sent containing evidence that man is the supreme race on the planet, he and Pinky pretend to be Werner Von Brain from the Braun Institute in Bonn and Werner Von Pinky from the Mink Institute in Pink, so that they can alter the evidence to make it look like Brain is the supreme being on Earth. Aliens from Frenobulax receive the probe, and take Brain, Emperor of the Earth and Pinky back to their home planet to be honored, just like they are on Earth.
The World Domination Plan "Did you see that plaque, Pinky? That plaque displays representations of man, woman, and the rudiments of earth's most sophisticated science. It's being sent on a probe to the outermost extremities of the galaxy, along with a disc showing earth's art and music. If aliens look upon it, they will learn everything they need to know about the dominant species on earth. If I put myself on that plaque, the aliens will recognize me as Earth's leader!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but pants with horizontal stripes make me look chubby.
Brain's New Word Formication - the feeling that ants are crawling on you

Win Big
Broadcast Date 01-Oct-1995 Writer Peter Hastings Director Dave Marshall & Rusty Mills	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
Summary Brain uses a paperclip to unlock their cage and then manages to get on the game show Gyp-Parody to get money for his latest plan. He plans to create The Infindibulator, which will make every person who has change in their pockets magnetically drawn to the ground. This is a re-broadcast of an episode originally shown on Animaniacs.
The World Domination Plan "Once we construct a superconductive magnetic Infindibulator, the world will be ours! By using the Infindibulator to deplete hydrogen and promote gravitational collapse, we will produce a magnetic charge from the center of the Earth so strong that every person who has loose change in their pockets will be magnetically drawn to the ground and stuck there!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so, Brain, but where are we going to find a duck and a hose at this hour?
Brain's New Word Phronemophobia – fear of thinking
Goofs  In the first shot of the outdoor area just before Brain ties the shoes on his mechanical suit, the Acme Labs sign is on. However, when Brain goes outdoors to hail a taxi, the sign is flashing on and off. And then as Brain is hails a taxi, the sign is off.

Cheese Roll Call
Broadcast Date 01-Oct-1995 Writer Paul Rugg Director Audu Paden	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Wensleydale (Jeff Glen Bennett) Brie (Tress MacNeille)
Summary Pinky sings about cheese. Lyrics to Cheese Role Call
The World Domination Plan none
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Psaphonic - planning one's rise to fame

Brainania
Broadcast Date 12-Nov-1995 Writer John P. McCann Director Jon McClenahan	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) The President (Frank Welker) Allan Fontain Bisque (Jeff Glen Bennett) Fred Floppel (Jim Cummings) Mrs. Applebee (Tress MacNeille)
Summary Brain folds a piece of paper into the shape of a key, and then uses it to open the cage. For tonight's plan Brain needs $14,000,000,000.59 to build the Titanocycle 4000, a gigantic clothes-dryer with three speeds and an automatic lint guard a half a mile long. He will use it to create "global static cling" and conquer the world. To get the money, Pinky and Brain pretend to be The Most Exalted Ned Limpopo, Prime Minister of Brainania and Hassan Limbeck, the Brainanian Minister of Finance. They apply for a gigantic foreign aid loan from the U.S. State Department for their fake country on Island X, and sail on the SS Fatty Lumpkin to Brainania.
The World Domination Plan "Tonight, we shall use the power of static electricity to conquer the world. Observe. (Brain generates some static electricity, then touches Pinky shocking them both.) To generate global static cling, we shall construct a massive clothes dryer, the Titanocycle 4000. Unfortunately, it will cost $14 billion and 59 cents."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Well, I think so Brain, but pantyhose are so uncomfortable in the summertime.
Brain's New Word Myomancy - divination by movements of mice
Goofs  At their "Punchline" appearance, the mice switch seats between their introduction and when they climb up on to the desk.

TV or Not TV
Broadcast Date 19-Nov-1995 Writer Peter Hastings Director Al Zegler	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Janet (Tress MacNeille) Kilmer (Jeff Glen Bennett) Marlon (David Alan Grier) Shawn (Sam McMurray) David L (Roger Rose)
Summary By using the Great Capitulator, Brain creates a denture that gives him a smile that will mesmerize people into submission. To get the necessary exposure, they pretend to be Jamal Spelling and Jonathan Michael Charles and get on their own sitcom.
The World Domination Plan "The key to the power of attraction, a winning smile. I am taking this idea to a new level. The Great Capitulator! By manipulating adhesive qualities of polymer based alkalines and calciumetric bases, we can synthesize a resinous cladding for the foremost bone-like structures rooted in my jaw socket. Yes, dentures! The reflective vibrations of my smile stimulate the medulla oblongata, causing the viewer to adore me for no good reason. Ergo, instant celebrity. Once the world views my happy grin, they will be our willing followers. But first, we need mass exposure. We shall use a weapon of great stealth, power, and corruption: our own sitcom!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but it's a miracle that this one grew back.
Brain's New Word Hamartia - the classic tragic flaw
Goofs  Those mouse-size dentures Brain discards somehow becomes big enough to fit into the other guy's mouth.

Napoleon Brainaparte
Broadcast Date 26-Nov-1995 Writer John Loy & Peter Hastings Director Audu Paden	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Napoleon (Frank Welker) Talleyrand (Richard Libertini) Madame De Jambom (Tress MacNeille) Francois (Joe Lala) Jacques (Larry Cedar) Head Gendarm (John Mariano)
Summary Brain catapaults a paper ball which lands on one end of a loaf of bread, causing a knife stuck in the other end to be thrown into the lock. The force of the knife's impact then causes the lock and the cage door to open. Disguised as Monsieur Jean Jacques Jean-Jean Jean, Brain tries to conquer France using exploding crepe-suzettes, but his plan is foiled when he gets arrested.
The World Domination Plan "When Napoleon returns to Paris, all of France will celebrate with rich heavy meals, topped off with the country's most popular desert: crepe suzettes. And as part of tonight's plan, I have altered the recipe for crepe suzette to make it highly explosive by adding one more ingredient. The secret ingredient is nutmeg! As crepes are lit all over the country the resultant fiery chaos will provide us with ample time to seize control!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Well, I think so Brain but first you'd have to take that whole bridge apart wouldn't you?
Brain's New Word Honorificabilitudinitatibus - with honorablenesses

A Pinky And The Brain Christmas
Broadcast Date 13-Dec-1995 Writer Peter Hastings Director Rusty Mills	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Dave Burl (Tress MacNeille) The President (Frank Welker) Schotzie (Jeff Glen Bennett) Santa Claus (Earl Boen)
Summary Disguised as elves, Pinky and Brain are on their way to the North Pole. Pinky hopes to see Santa, but Brain wants to see his hypnotic doll, Noodle Noggin, placed under every Christmas tree in the world. This episode won an Emmy.
The World Domination Plan "Behold, Noodle Noggin! Capable of hypnotizing humans, it shall bring us the world! My plan is to get a Noodle Noggin doll into every home on the planet. Then on Christmas Day, we broadcast my hypnotic suggestion to the world. My message of world domination, that I shall be their ruler! Our only problem is we need one billion Noodle Noggin dolls. Santa's workshop is the most productive manufacturing facility in the world. We'll get jobs at the North Pole and have the unwitting elves make our dolls for us and then Santa himself will distribute our doll to every house, hovel, and hut in the land!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Well, I think so Brain, but "apply North Pole" to what?
Brain's New Word Omphaloskepsis - contemplating one's navel
Goofs  When the mice shatter The Brain's broadcasting machine on their landing to Acme Labs through the roof, the colors on the box/lever Pinky was supposed to push ("when it turns red...") are reversed from what they are in the next scene.

Snowball
Broadcast Date 20-Jan-1996 Writer Wendell Morris , Tom Sheppard & Peter Hastings Director Audu Paden	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Snowball (Roddy McDowall) Board Member (Frank Welker)
Summary While working on his latest plan to use a chain letter to take over the world, 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.
The World Domination Plan "In tonight's plan we delve head first into the superstitous nature of mankind. We shall use a device that plays on the fears of even the most skeptical souls, behold! (Brain holds up a chain letter with a message at the botton written in reverse: "You will bow before the Brain.") The right side of the brain will subconsciously register this message, thus planting the seed for my ultimate conquest, world domination! After the initial mailing, the superstitious humans will quickly spread the chain and my message across the globe!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so, Brain, but "Snowball for Windows"?
Brain's New Word Sinciput - the forehead

Around The World In 80 Narfs
Broadcast Date 03-Feb-1996 Writer Gordon Bressack & Charles M. Howell, IV Director Liz Holzman & Al Zegler	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Phineas Fogg (Richard Doyle) Sir Niles (Brian George) Passerby (Tress MacNeille) Gummy Gibberish (John Rubinow)
Summary In Victorian England's "Pompous Explorers Club," anyone who can travel around the world in 80 days or less will become club president, a position that invariably leads to becoming Prime Minister of the British Empire. Disguised as Lord Brain of Lumfordchestershire and Pinky, they offer to circumnavigate the globe in 79 days, armed only with Pinky's trusty foreign phrasebook.
The World Domination Plan "Fact: With the ever increasing global domination of the British Empire, the surest way to rule the world is to become Prime Minister. Fact: Every Prime Minister for the last 200 years has first been president of the Pompous Explorers Club. Fact: The Pompous Explorers Club will give its presidency to anyone who can circle the globe 80 days. We must circle the globe in less than 80 days, claim the club presidency, and then the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but, snort, no, no, it's too stupid.
Brain's New Word Anophelosis - morbid state due to extreme frustration
Goofs  The size of Pinky's phrase book keeps changing throughout the episode.

Fly
Broadcast Date 11-Feb-1996 Writer Peter Hastings & John Loy Director Liz Holzman & Al Zegler	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Floyd Nesbit (Alex Rocco) Newt (Larry Cedar) Janine (Tress MacNeille) Drake (Brian George)
Summary Disguised as Dr. Ingmar Hostwax and his assistant, Dr. Nikki Jigallililililopen, Brain executes his plan to buy every piece of real estate above the 39th floor and alter the Hubble Space Telescope to melt the polar ice caps, potentially leaving him in control of the only usable real estate on Earth.
The World Domination Plan "Using my own patented Jimmy Brain technique, I've already succeeded in purchasing, with no money down, every apartment, condo, and office space on the planet above the 39th floor." "In tonight's plan of global domination, Pinky, we shall melt the polar icecaps, flooding the entire planet up to the 39th floor, thereby leaving me in control of the only usable real estate on Earth."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Unasinous - equally stupid
Goofs  When we see the European scientists flying the "Ziggy", it has a Norwegian flag on the side of it; it should be an Icelandic flag.  When the scientists crash at the space center, their plane has no flag on the side of it.

Ambulatory Abe
Broadcast Date 25-Feb-1996 Writer Tom Minton Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Tourist (Jess Harnell) Grandfather (Frank Welker)
Summary Brain takes up ventriloquism, using the Abraham Lincoln statue as his puppet.
The World Domination Plan "Abe Lincoln was perhaps the most respected President of all time. Once we arrange his comeback, the mere sight of him will compel the populace to follow his lead. Not the real Lincoln, but an icon beyond reproach: this huge and granite statue of Mr. Lincoln. I shall borrow a page from the immortal Edgar Bergen, retrofitting the statue's jaw for ventriloquilism to my voice."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Empleomania - obsession with holding public office
Goofs  The inscription behind the Lincoln statue is not the Gettysburg Address. The Gettysburg Address is located in a different part of the memorial.

Mouse of La Mancha
Broadcast Date 25-Feb-1996 Writer Gordon Bressack & Charles M. Howell, IV Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Tourist (Jess Harnell) Grandfather (Frank Welker) Innkeeper (Jim Cummings) Rags (Larry Cedar) Wench (Tress MacNeille)
Summary After a group of rodents break a hole in one of the cage walls to get away from Brain, he tells a story of Don Cerebro de la Mancha and Sancho Pinky and their plan to use windmills to take over the world. Lyrics to Don Cerebro Lyrics to To Scheme the Improbable Scheme
The World Domination Plan "If we stop the windmills from making flour for bread, we'll bring the humans to their knees. Then as they grovel for food and power, we will take over the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Umm, I think so Don Cerebro, but umm, why would Sophia Loren do a musical?
Brain's New Word Empleomania - obsession with holding public office

The Third Mouse
Broadcast Date 12-May-1996 Writer Gordon Bressack & Charles M. Howell, IV Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) The Major (Larry Cedar) Cribbage (Charlie Howarton)
Summary When Pinky arrives at The Brain's address in post-World War II Vienna, he is told by several people that The Brain is dead. Misinterpreting what he's been told, Pinky keeps looking for his friend, eventually leading him to mystery and adventure involving Vienna's sewer system. "The Third Mouse" is based on the 1949 film The Third Man, in which the dead friend was played by Orson Welles, the actor on whom Brain's personality is largely based.
The World Domination Plan "If we drain the Blue Danube, it will bring shipping to a standstill and I could rise to power in the ensuing chaos!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Umm, I think so Brain, but what if the chicken won't wear the nylons?
Brain's New Word Floccinaucinihilipilification - categorizing something as worthless trivia

The Visit
Broadcast Date 12-May-1996 Writer Peter Hastings Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Mother (Tress MacNeille) Father (Ernest Borgnine)
Summary After Brain captures two field mice for an experiment, he discovers they are his parents. He then uses Pensamplivox to give them the ability to speak.
The World Domination Plan "The normal field mice that we capture will bring a special talent to our plan of global domination. Field mice are instinctual experts in nighttime navigation. Once captured, we will unlock and clone their DNA code of night vision and give ourselves a super ability to see in the dark. Then, we will cause a worldwide power outage and seize control in the darkness!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Floccinaucinihilipilification - categorizing something as worthless trivia

It's Only a Paper World
Broadcast Date 07-Sep-1996 Writer Brett Baer & David Finkel Director Liz Holzman	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Marna Strutt (Tress MacNeille) The President (Frank Welker) David L (Roger Rose)
Summary Brain creates "Chia Earth", an alternate Earth made from paper mache. After luring everyone over to "Chia Earth", a comet headed toward Earth complicates his plans.
The World Domination Plan "We shall construct an exact replica of Mother Earth out of paper mache, then lure all of civilization to this new terra-not-so-firma, rendering us the sole inhabitants of the real Earth!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but isn't that why they invented tube socks?
Brain's New Word Peritoneum - The membrane that lines the abdominal cavity

Collect 'Em All
Broadcast Date 14-Sep-1996 Writer Charles M. Howell, IV & Rich Fogel Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Johannes Guttenburg (Larry Cedar
Summary Brain uses Guttenberg’s newly-invented printing press to make some trading cards.
The World Domination Plan "Trading Cards! I will print cards with my image, Pinky. Soon, children all over Eurpoe will be collecting them. I'll become so famous that I'll be elected ruler by acclimation."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but what if we stick to the seat covers?
Brain's New Word Aerophobia - Fear of air

Pinkasso
Broadcast Date 14-Sep-1996 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Genevieve (Tress MacNeille) Critic #1 (Brian George)
Summary A successful modern artist of Nasalism is born and it's Pablo Pinkasso (Pinky), trying to help fund Brain's new plan, with the help of Toulouse Le Brain and Bob Del Monte, Chairman of the House Un-American Artistic Activity Committee. They only need $23,998,693.96 to buy the supplies they need from Mad Molotov's Warhead Warehouse.
The World Domination Plan "We shall fire a rocket carrying billions of tiny self-adhesive mirrors at the moon. Upon detonation, the mirrors will cover the entire surface of the orb, thus creating a gigantic disco mirror ball. As humanity spends its every waking moment 'dancing the night away', we shall seize the planet!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but if you replace the 'P' with an 'O', my name would be Oinky, wouldn't it?
Brain's New Word Aerophobia - Fear of air

Plan Brain From Outer Space
Broadcast Date 28-Sep-1996 Writer Nick Dubois, Earl Kress & Tom Sheppard Director Al Zegler	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Sully (Tress MacNeille) General Odin (Frank Welker) Zalgar (Jeff Glen Bennett)
Summary 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.
The World Domination Plan "Months of interstellar e-mail has finally brought me to this historic moment of interplanetary accord. My new intergalactic penpal Zalgar is coming to earth tonight to help me take over the world."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Ewww, I think so Brain, but I think I'd rather eat the Macarena.
Brain's New Word Sagittal Suture - jagged line on the top of your skull
Goofs  When Zalgar is pursuing the mice in the eyeball spacecraft, at one point he drops the monitor and as he picks it up, sees that he is about to crash directly into the Devil's Doughnut. But the sky on the monitor is the same shade of green as the walls of his spacecraft, rather than the shade of blue used for the sky.   At the beginning, Pinky turns the TV off, but a few seconds later the TV is on again.

The Pink Candidate
Broadcast Date 02-Nov-1996 Writer Reid Harrison Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Sweaty Pete (Richard Karron) Old Woman (Tress MacNeille) Mr. President (Frank Welker) Bob D (Jim Meskimen) Bernard S (Kevin Michael Richardson) Reporter (Steve McGowan) Bob C (Phil Snyder)
Summary When Pinky writes a letter to a newspaper complaining "The Family Circus" isn't funny anymore, it gets mistaken as a political statement, causing a series of events that end in Ulysses Delano Fitzgerald Milhouse Pinky becoming President of the United States. But then scandal erupts when Chief of Staff Brain uses PromptoSpecs to display responses he types in on a keyboard, and his plans for world domination are uncovered, forcing President Pinky to choose between his job or his friend.
The World Domination Plan "You Pinky, heaven help us, will be the next President of the United States! Behind the smoke screen of your presidency, I, as your Chief of Staff, will implement world domination plan 433B. With our new access to military satellite uplinks, we will jam the frequencies of every radio station with nothing but Kenny G, Yanni, and the soulful spasms of John Tesh. Exposure to these flaccid tonalities will soften the cerebral tissue rendering the entire population our personal slaves!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Well, I think so Brain, but do I really need two tongues?
Brain's New Word Morology - The study of foolish and nonsensical talking.

Brain's Song
Broadcast Date 09-Nov-1996 Writer Brett Baer & David Finkel Director Liz Holzman	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Katie C (Tress MacNeille) Mr. President (Frank Welker) Voiceover #1 (Jim Cummings) Tom H (Dave Coulier)
Summary Brain makes a tearjerker movie starring Brain Picadilly and Pinky van Patten, to make the world sad enough to make him leader.
The World Domination Plan "We shall produce the saddest tearjearker ever, broadcast the movie worldwide, and leave the planet steeped in such depression, they'll be putty in our hands! Now that the world is all weepy, I will call the world's leaders. They will be so despondent from my tearjerker, they will hand us the world on a silver platter!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Well, I think so Brain, but we're already naked.
Brain's New Word Caruncle - A small piece of bulging flesh.

Welcome To The Jungle
Broadcast Date 16-Nov-1996 Writer Gene Laufenberg Director Rusty Mills	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Snowball (Roddy McDowall) Phyllis (Tress MacNeille) Hippie (Jeff Glen Bennett)
Summary Pinky and Brain try to find their way back home after being released in the jungle by animal rights activists from the Simian Liberation Army. During their journey, however, they encounter an old enemy.
The World Domination Plan Brain's plan, revealed in his film World Domination Plan MCVIII, involves creating mind-control birthday candles that when extinguished, turn people into Brain's zombified servants.
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? We eat the box?
Brain's New Word Panphobia - fear of everything
Goofs  In the first close up of Pinky and the Brain tied up at the top of the water slide, Pinky's legs are brown.  Snowball's crown disappears between when he and Brain fall through the hole at the bottom of the slide and when they land.

A Little Off The Top
Broadcast Date 23-Nov-1996 Writer Gordon Bressack & Charles M. Howell, IV Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Samson (Jeff Glen Bennett) Saran (Jim Cummings) Delilah (Julia Duffy)
Summary Brain first slingshots a rock off a mortar and pestle which then hits a goat. Then, the angry goat kicks the cage, causing the cage door to open. Brain's plan is to to discover what makes the legendary Sampson so strong, and use that to take over the world.
The World Domination Plan (Pinky notes how strong Sampson is) He is, Pinky. Imagine if a mouse were that strong. Don't you see? If I had Sampson's strength, nothing would stop my quest to take over the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Well, I think so Brain, but if Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why does he keep doing it?
Brain's New Word Trichotillomania - Abnormal urge to pull out one's hair

Megalomaniacs Anonymous
Broadcast Date 23-Nov-1996 Writer Charles M. Howell, IV & Bill Matheny Director Nelson Recinos	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Female Rock Star (Tress MacNeille) Ross P (Frank Welker) Dr. Edward Belvedere (Paul Rugg)
Summary When Brain comes to the conclusion he no longer wants to take over the world, he decides to help others who have his problem and the first one to be helped is Pinky.
The World Domination Plan "...interrupt the flow of electricity. No, no, no! Wait! I'll use electronic oscillations to create a molecular change in liquid hand soap causing everyone's hands to stick together. No, a bandwith of 37 isobars would never penetrate rooms lined with ceramic tile. It's no good. I've got to find a plan. Cooking! That's it! The beginning of man's inexorable advancement toward civilization! I'll use thosands of tiny christmas tree lights to cook all the cans of soda in the world, causing them to explode all at once and then what?!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but don't camels spit a lot?
Brain's New Word Trichotillomania - Abnormal urge to pull out one's hair
Goofs  On Brain's notebook, the drop shadow for the slashed zero appears prematurely as Brain writes the period on the previous line.

The Mummy
Broadcast Date 28-Dec-1996 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Cushing (Corey Burton) Egyptian Priest (Tony Jay)
Summary Pinky and Brain wrap themselves up in toilet paper, to pretend to be King Khufu and George, King Khufu's long forgotten brother, but they end up getting sealed in an Egyptian pyramid where a mummy is lurking.
The World Domination Plan "Tonight a terrible curse is set to befall mankind. We are journeying to Egypt to the great pyramids at Giza where ancient mummies will soon walk the Earth. In the pyramid deep within an air shaft, a hidden doorway was recently discovered. Archaelogists have built a tiny robotic probe that will travel up the air shaft and open the secret door revealing its mysteries to the world. Those archaelogists will discover behind that door angry pharoahs, disturbed from their eternal slumber. We shall disguise ourselved as the Great King Khufu and his previously unknown brother, George. Once awakened, our wrath will only be appeased by one thing: absolute control of the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but don't we need a swimming pool to play Marco Polo?
Brain's New Word Caseation - dead tissue that looks like crumbly cheese
Goofs  In one scene, Egypt is spelled Egyt.

Robin Brain
Broadcast Date 28-Dec-1996 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Old Woman (Tress MacNeille) Toll Collector (Michael McKean) Tax Man #1 (Sam McMurray) Friar Chuck (Jim Cummings)
Summary Brain gets them out of the cage by shooting a threaded needle from a bow to obtain a set of keys, and then uses one of the keys to unlock the cage door. Then, in Robin Hood era England, Robin Brain needs money for a massive hot water heater so the populace can take baths and improve their body odor. To get the money, he recruits men to take from the rich and give to him.
The World Domination Plan "The average Englishman bathes only once every six years. But soon the malodorous masses will have what they crave most, bath water. We shall construct a massive water heater to deliver hot water throughout the land. No longer plagued by persistant body odor, the populous will show their thanks by giving me the keys to the kingdom!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Well, I think so, but Kevin Costner with an English accent?
Brain's New Word Caseation - dead tissue that looks like crumbly cheese

Two Mice and a Baby
Broadcast Date 01-Feb-1997 Writer Shaun McLaughlin & Charles M. Howell, IV Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Baby (Tress MacNeille) Baloney (Jeff Glen Bennett)
Summary Pinky and Brain stumble upon a super powered baby, who arrived from an exploding alien world.
The World Domination Plan "Imagine what we can do with a child with those powers? This baby is our ticket to global domination. We'll stop for supplies and head back to the lab to train him."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Post-Prandial - Following a meal

The Maze
Broadcast Date 01-Feb-1997 Writer Charles M. Howell, IV, Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard & Earl Kress Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Scientist #2 (Pat Musick)
Summary Pinky and Brain have to brave a virtual reality maze to find a microchip crucial to Brain's new plot.
The World Domination Plan "The moment we've been waiting for is nearly upon us. A harmonic convergence of every celestial body in our galaxy. The harmonic convergence is a precise alignment of planets and stars which occurs but once every 5 billion, 352 thousand, 99.7 years. Now, the convergence will cause a gravitational flux throughout the entire Earth which will in turn trigger an inner ear imbalance in mankind. This will render them susceptible to the power of suggestion for precisely 15 seconds. Fortunately, I am poised to take advantage of this once in a millennium moment of vunerability. I have obtained this rare prototype dilithium matrix chip. It goes with this. The first subsonic transmitter which will broadcast my message of total subjugation to the disoriented masses."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but how do we get a pair of Abe Vigoda's pants?
Brain's New Word Post-Prandial - Following a meal

Brain of the Future
Broadcast Date 08-Feb-1997 Writer Brian Swenlin Director Nelson Recinos	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Queen of the Cochroaches (Tress MacNeille) The President (Frank Welker)
Summary The mice's future selves arrive in the lab, sending them on a roller coaster ride through time in a time-travel ship to 2 billion AD to find a world domination kit - Master the Globe in 3 Easy Steps.
The World Domination Plan "Tonight we will sneak into the printing plant of Cosmos-politan magazine and replace their 'Who is your perfect mate?' quiz with this: 'Who is your perfect world leader?' quiz. From split atoms to split ends, the readers will be convinced that my global rule is the answer to their every problem."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Azygous - Appearing as one single being or part

Brinky
Broadcast Date 22-Feb-1997 Writer David Fury & Elin Hampton Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Rikki L (Tress MacNeille) Bartender (Frank Welker) Bunny (Cree Summer)
Summary The mice become "parents" to Roman Numeral One (Romy) after being created from the accidental merging of Brain's DNA sample and Pinky's toenail clipping in Brain's cloning chamber as he tries to create his master race. Romy calls Brain, DAD(Derivation of Applied DNA) and calls Pinky, Mommy. Romy's first words are Narf, Zort and Fiddley Posh, and he wants to be a ventriloquist. A sign on Brain's machine says, "You must be taller than this sign to assist in World Domination."
The World Domination Plan "With these multiphasic transrepliclonator pods, I shall create a single clone in my own image. After a modicum of study, I will take a new sample from the prototype and make two more clones, then they'll make two clones, and they'll make two clones, and so on, and so on. Thousands of me, all working toward the same goal, taking over the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but Pete Rose? I mean, can we trust him?
Brain's New Word Barophobia - Fear of gravity
Goofs  When Pinky opens the letter from Romy, the envelope is addressed to Pinky and the Brain, c/o AEME LABS in one shot.

Hoop Schemes
Broadcast Date 17-May-1997 Writer Brett Baer & David Finkel Director Nelson Recinos	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Rue McClanahy (Tress MacNeille) Jelly-Head (Kevin Michael Richardson) Marv A (Billy West) Man #1 (Roger Rose) Bobby Nacht (Peter Jason) Referee (Jan Rabson)
Summary Pinky and Brain travel to Bloomington, IN to talk to the greatest college basketball coach of all time, Bobby Nacht, to put together a basketball team called the CobbleCloggers as part of their next plan. Brian uses the name, Muhammed Al Ba Brain and endorses a line of Air Brain shoes, while Pinky goes by the name of Spud Pinky. Team members include: Jamie Furr, Flop Wilson, Dudley Bore, Rue McClanahy, Maury Smovich, and Chuck Follery
The World Domination Plan "We shall join the National Basketball Association and become B-ball legends. Once we have endeared ourselved to the masses, people will follow our every command, allowing us to take over the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but why would Peter Bogdanovich?
Brain's New Word Genu - Any body structure that's shaped like a knee.

Leave It to Beavers
Broadcast Date 08-Sep-1997 Writer Wayne Kaatz & Charles M. Howell, IV, Wendell Morris Director Liz Holzman & Russell Calabrese	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Beaver (Frank Welker)
Summary Brain enlists the aid of beavers to gain control over the flow of rivers by building a dam in La Vista del Arroyo OdioSo. The beavers want: gum, shiny things, and big shoes.
The World Domination Plan "As I activate this remote control, the cathode ray gun of the picture tube will fire photons at the television screen, exciting the radium particles in the watch dial, causing a mutating effect on your gene pool. You are evolving into a new species, destined to help me take over the world! With your new skill, the entire beaver population can be at my command. We'll dam the rivers, control the waterways, and flood the cities!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but isn't a cucumber that small called a gherkin?
Brain's New Word Ideophobia - Fear of ideas

Cinebrania
Broadcast Date 08-Sep-1997 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Liz Holzman & Russell Calabrese	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Woman (Tress MacNeille) Hal Slug (Townsend Coleman)
Summary The mice make a series of comedy films and hit the big time with Hal Slug Studios. Film names: Penny Pinchers, Gone Fishin', Get Squished, Meet Bigfoot, Get Squished Again, Explode, The Day the Clowns Cried, The Emperor Brain
The World Domination Plan "We shall make motion pictures that tell of courage, of heroism, of a certain rodent destined to rule the world. Because human beings are incapable of distinguishing between reality and the filmed image, they will embrace me as a great leader."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Ideophobia - Fear of ideas

Pinky & The Brain and... Larry
Broadcast Date 13-Sep-1997 Writer Gordon Bressack & Charles M. Howell, IV Director Russell Calabrese & Liz Holzman	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Larry (Billy West)
Summary Pinky and Brain have a new companion, Larry, but their newest plan just doesn't seem to work out. The theme song is different in this episode. Every time after they sing "They're Pinky and the Brain" a voice chimes in with "and Larry." To get the Sychronoclastic Remote Controller to work, Brain needs a Gyroscopic Transducer Chip, available only with a White House Security Code, so the mice disguise themselves as wallpaper hangers to get into the White House.
The World Domination Plan With this device, The Synchronoclastic Remote Controller, I shall be able to control every remote controller in the country. (Pinky wonders if it will be able to control all of the garage door openers too. Brain replies...) With just a few modifications, it could! With everyone's cars locked in their garages, they'll be forced to use bicycles, crippling the petroleum industry and bringing the world to its knees.
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Larry and Brain, but how can we get seven dwarves to shave their legs?
Brain's New Word Introjection - Building someone else's qualities into your ego
Goofs  When Brain is writing on the chalkboard early in the episode he ends his equation with " = PLAN " but, from the side angle that we see the equal sign is on top of the word "PLAN" making the "L" look like an "E" so that the word looks more like "PEAN." Later in the episode, we see Brain with the chalkboard behind him and it says "PALN."

Where The Deer and The Mousealopes Play
Broadcast Date 13-Sep-1997 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Russell Calabrese & Liz Holzman	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Mousealope Calf (Tress MacNeille) Fred Floppel (Frank Welker) Chris (Jeff Glen Bennett) Robert (John Mariano) Senator Del Monte (Jim Meskimen)
Summary Pinky and Brain try to take over the steel mills in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to get the steel needed for their latest plan by pretending to be a part of an endangered species called the Mousealopes. Lyrics to Pittsburg is My Land
The World Domination Plan "With tonight's plan, we shall confuse humanity into submission, by stranding them in hopeless mental and physical gridlock through the use of 3-D 'magic eye' technology. The cryptic genius of my plan is that hidden in this poster is no secret message of any kind whatsoever. We shall construct a series of magic eye billboards, 3 miles high and 11 miles wide over the nation's freeways. As the confounded commuters struggle in vain to decipher the nonexistant messages, they will become stranded in a neverending rush hour. Thus, giving us an opportunity to seize power."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Introjection - Building someone else's qualities into your ego
Goofs  Right after Brain announces that all the citizens of Pittsburgh must move, in the next scene, the banner 'Welcome Back Mousaloupes' is spelled 'Mousealipes'.

Brain Noir
Broadcast Date 13-Sep-1997 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Snowball (Roddy McDowall) Billie (Tress MacNeille) Farmer (Jan Rabson)
Summary It's 1946 and Brain's new plan gets interrupted when he and Pinky encounter Billie and Snowball.
The World Domination Plan "Behold the instrument of our conquest: The Fedor-A-Matic. We shall divert the flow of the Los Angeles municipal water supply into a gigantic version of this mockup. The more likely reaction will be panic and utter chaos. With the populace trapped in their hats, we shall seize Los Angeles and then Pamona!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but if we get Sam spayed, he'll never have any puppies.
Brain's New Word Helmintgusasus - Disease caused by worms invading the body

Brain's Bogie
Broadcast Date 15-Sep-1997 Writer Reid Harrison Director Nelson Recinos	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Cher (Tress MacNeille) Fred Floppel (Frank Welker) Video Teacher (Sam McMurray) Castro-type (Jeff Glen Bennett) Earth (Earl Boen)
Summary Brain gets caught up in winning a golf tournament, even though it interferes with his new plan.
The World Domination Plan "I shall simply tattoo the words 'Property Of Brain' on a discreet area of the Earth. Thus shall it be forever mine."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Bolus - Chewed up bunch of food

Say What, Earth?
Broadcast Date 15-Sep-1997 Writer Gene Laufenberg Director Nelson Recinos	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Cher (Tress MacNeille) Fred Floppel (Frank Welker) Castro-type (Jeff Glen Bennett) Earth (Earl Boen)
Summary After the Earth gets the power of speech from his Silitronlinguifactor device, Overlord Brain comes up with a new plan.
The World Domination Plan "With The Silitronlinguifactor, I can rule the Earth. Forgive the following New Age babble, but every inanimate object contains its own unique energy, its very own aura. The Silitronlinguifactor will interpret this energy for us, and bring said objects to life."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so, Brain, but calling it Pu-Pu platter? What were they thinking?
Brain's New Word Bolus - Chewed up lump of food

My Feldmans, My Friends
Broadcast Date 16-Sep-1997 Writer Brett Baer, David Finkel Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Mr. Sultana (Paul Rugg)
Summary While trying to build a radio tower for his latest plan, Brain tries to get a package meant for him back from his neighbor.
The World Domination Plan "Once we complete this tower, every radio will be forcibly tuned to one radio station, KBRAIN. Tonight, I shall deliver a fireside chat so chock full of persuasive propaganda, the cradle of humanity will hail me as the 'greater communicator'."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but how will we get the Spice Girls into the paella?
Brain's New Word Sparganosis - Infection from the larvae of the fish tapeworm
Goofs  In the first shot with Brain's computer screen, the storm moves from left to right across the display. But in all later shots where the display is visible, the storm is back at the left of the screen and still moving right.

All You Need Is Narf
Broadcast Date 17-Sep-1997 Writer Bill Matheny, Charles M. Howell, IV & Earl Kress Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Jim (Jeff Glen Bennett) Indian Man (Billy West)
Summary Pinky becomes Guru Mous-arishi during the 1960s.
The World Domination Plan "I call my new invention: the lava lamp. People will be infatuated by the colorful lava-like matter it spews. As they look on in stupified awe, every room will fill with our ersatz lava which will then harden and trap the public. With the masses unable to move, I will step in and take over the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but if we give peas a chance, won't the lima beans feel left out?
Brain's New Word Ototoxic - having a bad effect on hearing organs

Pinky's Plan
Broadcast Date 17-Sep-1997 Writer Earl Kress & Cathy Shambley Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Fred (Jess Harnell) First Lady (Tress MacNeille) The President (Frank Welker)
Summary It's Brain's 2nd birthday and Pinky tries to plan a surprise party.
The World Domination Plan none
Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? What did you say, Pinky?
Brain's New Word Ototoxic - having a bad effect on hearing organs

This Old Mouse
Broadcast Date 18-Sep-1997 Writer Bill Canterbury Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Mr. Sultana (Paul Rugg) Cheerleader (Tress MacNeille) Game Announcer (Jeff Glen Bennett)
Summary By using a Virtual Reality Transynchlotron, capable of not only simulating games, but simulating the future, Brain looks into his future. After getting a glimpse of it, Brain abandons his attempts to take over the world and gets a job as a ski instructor, Jean-Claude Brain.
The World Domination Plan "These headsets will allow us to visit the virtual future where one of my plans have succeeded and I am ruling the world. Once we broadcast a tape of the future, the world will see how perfect life will be under my rule and gladly surrender now."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but if we had a snowmobile, wouldn't it melt before summer?
Brain's New Word Bleb - Small gathering of fluid under the skin

Brain Storm
Broadcast Date 19-Sep-1997 Writer John P. McCann Director Russell Calabrese	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Kale Mumphausen (Jeff Glen Bennett) Agnes (Dani Douthette)
Summary The mice are looking to control tornados using a Verkimer suit, but a pest keeps getting in their way.
The World Domination Plan "We will hijack a tornado scientifically, creating an ambulatory weather system of unstoppable might. People will bow before us in awe and we shall rule the world! We then travel to tornado alley. There we shall find a cyclone and ride it to our destiny!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Blue Nevus - A steel blue skin lump
Goofs  In one shot, the word 'Hail' on Pinky's Tornado Conditions checklist is spelled 'Hain'.

A Meticulous Analysis Of History
Broadcast Date 20-Sep-1997 Writer Earl Kress , Charles M. Howell, IV, Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
Summary Brain sings about past and present world leaders' failures. During this episode, Brain pops up with two signs. The first says "You see, you are already under my control." The second says "I have forced you to use the still-frame feature on your VCR." Lyrics to A Meticulous Analysis of History
The World Domination Plan none
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Buccal - The inside of your cheek

Funny, You Don't Look Rhennish
Broadcast Date 20-Sep-1997 Writer Jed Spingarn Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Sarah (Tress MacNeille) Jakob (Jeff Glen Bennett)
Summary The mice pretend to be Brother Brain and Brother Pinky, members of a group of people wary of technology, to gain access to a mine containing large amounts of a mineral called Sinusite, that gives people a sneezing fit.
The World Domination Plan "We're off to Minnesota. According to this geological survey, one of the richest untapped mines of sinusite in the known world is located there. Sinusite is a rock crystal which, in pulverized form, is purveyed in gag stores around the world under the name of sneezing powder. We shall unearth huge quantities of sinusite and disperse it throughout the globe using the world's most powerful fan. While the populace is racked by a massive sneezing fit, I'll have more than enough time to take over the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so, Brain, but what kind of ?? do they have in Fabio-land?
Brain's New Word Buccal - The inside of your cheek

The Pinky Protocol
Broadcast Date 22-Sep-1997 Writer Rich Fogel Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Mary Hartless (Tress MacNeille) Fred Floppel (Frank Welker) Christopher (Jeff Glen Bennett) FBI Agent (Townsend Coleman) Anthony (Billy West)
Summary Under the alias of Harold Foster Brain, Brain executes his latest plan - a conspiracy theory about why he is not ruling the world.
The World Domination Plan "I will create my own conspiracy theory. I shall fabricate a wild and improbable story in order to convice the public that I am the victim of an hidden plot whose sole purpose is to prevent me from taking my rightful place as ruler of the world."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but can the Gummi Worms really live in peace with the Marshmallow Chicks?
Brain's New Word Epistaxis - A nose bleed

Mice Don't Dance
Broadcast Date 26-Sep-1997 Writer Tom Minton Director Russell Calabrese	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Old Woman (Tress MacNeille) Grover Whalen (John Astin) Bojangles (Dorian Harewood)
Summary Using steam-powered tap shoes, Brain plans to becomes a tap dancer to spread a subliminal message.
The World Domination Plan "I will tap out a subliminal world domination message in Morse code, using a pair of steam-powered tap dancing legs of my own creation. Our venue, the 1939 New York World's Fair. Where the world will come to see the future, and the future will be yours truly!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Well, I think so Brain, but wouldn't anything lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
Brain's New Word Quercetin - a yellow dye found in lemons

Brain Drained
Broadcast Date 26-Sep-1997 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Russell Calabrese	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Wendy (Gail Matthius) Ponytail (Michael McKean) Weird Guy (Peter Scolari)
Summary Brain is out of ideas for taking over the world, so he tries to get some from screenwriters.
The World Domination Plan "Lemon Meringue Pie, a tangy tantalizing confection which is the perfect shield for my hypnotic sugar substitute Nutra Brain, patent pending. Once ingested, it will render humans incapable of coherent thought, and I..." "We shall infiltrate the Publisher's Cleaninghouse Sweepstakes offices by posing as Ed MacMahon and his sidekick Dick Clark. Once inside the offices, we shall reprogram the computer systems to place a backward subliminal message in every mail that goes out across the..." "We shall hire would-be screenwriters to formulate dozens of original plans which we shall then claim as our own and use as we see fit."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but three round meals a day wouldn't be as hard to swallow.
Brain's New Word Quercetin - a yellow dye found in lemons

Brain Acres
Broadcast Date 27-Sep-1997 Writer Charles M. Howell, IV , Earl Kress, Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Nelson Recinos	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Jimmy Jo Jr. (Mark Hamill) Maurice (Frank Welker) Shopper (Lauren Tom)
Summary Farmer Brain tries to grow an army of monster vegetables. Lyrics to Brain Acres
The World Domination Plan "Tonight, we shall unlock the mystery of life. The storm is at its peak. We shall harness its energy to breathe life into yon insentient form. For as you awake, so shall the sun dawn on a new age. An age in which I shall rule the world! Give me the spark of life!" "By adapting my machinery from the lab, I have constructed the Vegatron. With this new improved version, I can create fierce threatening vegetables, unlike Maurice, to frighten the unsuspecting populace into submission so I can take over the world. This time, I have selected the common eggplant." "Our problem is solved! I have developed a fertilizer which will grow our vegetables to gargantuan proportions. Never again will my herbacius helpers be ignored. I call my concoction Braindini. A select blend of chloraphyll, performance enhancing steroids, cattle droppings, and a pudding snack. Now we must buy a humble plot of bottom land, where we shall sow the seeds of victory. We shall travel to middle America, where we will purchase a repossessed farm with this 2 million dollar government subsidy check."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but if the plural of mouse is mice, wouldn't the plural of spouse be spice?
Brain's New Word Epulis - A tumor or growth on the gums
Goofs  Maurice gets his green top bit off by a sheep, but later in the episode, his green top is back.

Pinky And The Brainmaker
Broadcast Date 29-Sep-1997 Writer Norm McCabe Director Russell Calabrese	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
Summary First Brain plans to use a gemination machine to make clones from a photograph. Then Brain plans to use those clones to create the world's most beloved Celtic dance group.
The World Domination Plan "Do you realize what this gemination will bring us? It will give us enough clones to take over the world! Now observe while I use this photograph of myself to create the first clone. He moves just like me. You make the clones while I teach them to dance. I will create the world's most beloved Celtic dance group."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Fasciculus - Small bundle of muscles, tendons, or nerve fibers

Calvin Brain
Broadcast Date 29-Sep-1997 Writer Rich Fogel, Earl Kress & Charles M. Howell, IV Director Russell Calabrese	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Elsa Kitsch (Tress MacNeille) Fabrizio Ditzio (Jeff Glen Bennett) Giselle (Laraine Newman)
Summary When Brain achieves fame as a fashion designer, Calvin Brain, he uses his fame and Supermodel Sensation Pinky, to push his new perfume, Subjugation.
The World Domination Plan "My skillful application of the latest in subtle advertising techniques. A commercial designed to convince an unsophisticated public that my new perfume will give them what they most desire. That exotic, mystical, alluring thing that everyone seeks from a perfume. What they will actually divine is a secret mind control formula. I have isolated a precise combination of pheromones that stimulate certain subperital receptor cells rendering the human brain submissive to the exact frequencies of my voice. This perfume will make its wearers obey my every command, allowing me to take over the world."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so, Brain, but three men in a tub? That's unsanitary!
Brain's New Word Fasciculus - Small bundle of muscles, tendons, or nerve fibers
Goofs  When the mice are guests on "House of Fads", they come out of the floor on top of a lava lamp. Between the mice is a bottle of Subjugation, which disappears and then reappears.

Pinky Suavo
Broadcast Date 04-Oct-1997 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Mike Milo	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Regis (Billy West) First Lady (Tress MacNeille) The President (Frank Welker)
Summary Brain plans to use the Personalitron to give him irresistible charisma, but it winds up going to Pinky.
The World Domination Plan "By feeding pictures and bios of charasmatic celebrities into the Personalitron, I shall extract the traits that made these people so magnetic. The undiluted machismo of John Wayne, the dynamic sensuality of Valentino, the sensitivity of actors' actor Tony Randall. After I transfer these winning personality traits to me, the entire world will beg to bow before me, their charismatic despot." (When Pinky gets 'personified' instead.) "We shall use your magnetic qualities to entrance the populace. Once they're under your spell, you can tell them to elect me world leader."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Yes, but why does the chicken cross the road, huh, if not for love? Oh, I don't know.
Brain's New Word Hypesthesia - Abnormally low sense of feeling

T.H.E.Y.
Broadcast Date 04-Oct-1997 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Mike Milo	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Regis (Billy West) First Lady (Tress MacNeille) The President (Frank Welker)
Summary The mice learn of an ultra secret organization, T.H.E.Y., comprised of world leaders. Disguised as Ned Limpopo, Ruler of Brainania (Brain) and Hassan Limbeck, Minister of Finance of Brainania (Pinky), they try to get accepted into the organization.
The World Domination Plan T.H.E.Y. - The Horde of Ecumenical Yodelers. Their name is but an innocent sounding smokescreen to divert attention from the group's true purpose, to rule the Earth. T.H.E.Y. are actually an ultra secret clandestine society of world leaders. Their membership roster is a virtual who's who of Earth's most powerful people. Tonight, two new names will be added to this elite list. Us. Once we are members of T.H.E.Y., we shall gain entrance to their secret vault, where they keep everything you need to know to rule the world.
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but I prefer space jelly.
Brain's New Word Hypesthesia - Abnormally low sense of feeling
Goofs  When Brain is showing Pinky the list of T.H.E.Y. members in a book, in one shot a member's name is "Sonrise Sorise," in the next shot that same member's name is "Soirise Sorse," then in the next shot the name is back to "Sonrise Sorise." In that same book, the spacing between the 'n' in Queen and the first 'e' in Elizabeth disappears between the first and last shot.

The Real Life
Broadcast Date 10-Oct-1997 Writer Jed Spingarn Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Eisenhower (Tress MacNeille) Dawn (Pamela Hayden) Murray (LeVar Burton) Spike (Scott Valentine)
Summary 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.
The World Domination Plan "I hold in my hands the only remaining evidence of radio host Rush Limbaugh's failed singing career in the 1970s. The contents of this record are extremely dangerous. I'll experience it's full impact only when we arrive in Cleveland. The heart of residential Cleveland is where, according to my research, the optimal electromagnetic field in the world currently hovers. There, I will construct a giant FM antenna, to broadcast Rush Limbaugh's acapella version of "Dream Weaver" throughout the planet 24 hours a day. I'll be driving them to the brink of insanity, thereby providing myself with the time I need to take over the world! (After arriving in Cleveland...) Now we shall join the cast of 'The Real Life' blending in amongst an artificially assembled household of testy misfits and wannabees. We'll be using them as stepping stones in my ruthless quest to satisfy my bloodlust for power."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Yes Brain, but if our knees bent the other way, how would we ride a bicycle?
Brain's New Word Entropion - An eyelid turned in towards the eye
Goofs  In the scene where they are at the club where Murray is playing, when Spike says Brain is diving into the mosh pit, he has four rings on his left ear. But when Heidi says, "The people are liking Brain so much," Spike has two rings on his left ear.

Brain's Way
Broadcast Date 11-Oct-1997 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Nelson Recinos	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Tom Caljones (Jeff Glen Bennett) Bernie (Tress MacNeille) Fred Spinatra (Jess Harnell) Dean (Billy West)
Summary To obtain the $83 billion needed for his latest scheme, Pinky and Brain go to Las Vegas and open Brain's Palace, where Brain works as a lounge singer named Brainatra.
The World Domination Plan "My little impromptu concert was a test of my latest invention: Brainophonic sound. We shall place a pair of gigantic stereo speakers on the North and South poles of the Earth. Once our speakers are in place, we shall broadcast the incessant sound of a dripping faucet across the globe. Unable to comprehend the source of the sound, the populace will be driven temporarily mad and we shall seize the planet."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so, Brain, but how will we get three pink flamingos into one pair of capri pants?
Brain's New Word Calor - Body heat

A Pinky And The Brain Halloween
Broadcast Date 19-Oct-1997 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) John Tesh (John Tesh) Mr. Itch - The Devil (Garry Marshall) Snowball (Roddy McDowall) Greta (Tress MacNeille) Baloney (Jeff Glen Bennett) Receptionist (Billy West)
Summary Brain plans to use a Jackolantronic Broadcasting System via pumpkins to broadcast his message of subjugation to trick-or-treaters. When Brain asks, "What do I have to do to take over the world?", Mr. Itch appears and 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.
The World Domination Plan "This is a message from the Jackolantronic Broadcasting System. Children of Earth, you are now my unwitting puppets in an intricate scheme of world domination. For I am The Brain. You will do whatever I say."
Snowball, Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering? Oh Brain, I certainly hope so.
Brain's New Word Ghost Teeth - Lack of the Teeth's Outer Layers
Goofs  After Brain loses the gymnastic competition, his gymnastic attire disappears and reappears.

Brainy Jack
Broadcast Date 02-Nov-1997 Writer Brett Baer, David Finkel & Earl Kress Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Sticky (Tress MacNeille) Hippie (Roger Rose) Howie (Jeff Glen Bennett) Crowfeather (Darren E. Burrows)
Summary Pinky and Brain assume the identities of Pinky Steve and Brainy Jack, a pair of hippies, so that Brain can try to create a peace chain to send a subliminal message.
The World Domination Plan "I shall become Brainy Jack, defender of hippies, gaining the trust and admiration of young people everywhere. Thus earning the opportunity to use them, like so many hygenically challenged hand tools, in my greatest plan yet. Here it is, plan 462B, the amazing chain of electric teeth. Modern dentistry has provided a boon to subliminal broadcasters everywhere. Under the proper electrostatic conditions, the metal alloys in dental work can receive radio signals. My plan is to get all of America's young people to link hands at a specific time while my transponder is broadcasting a low frequency message of world domination. Then, by rubbing my feet on a small square of Herculon carpet while simultaneously holding a door knob, I will send a static electric charge through this motley human chain, causing them to receive my secret message on their dental work so that they absorb it subliminaly."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so, Brain, but Tuesday Weld isn't a complete sentence.
Brain's New Word Pternophobia - Fear of feathers

Leggo My Ego
Broadcast Date 07-Nov-1997 Writer Jed Spingarn Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Freud (Steve Landesberg) Woman (Miriam Flynn)
Summary In 1912 Vienna, Brain makes an appointment with the famed psychiatrist Dr. Sigmund Freud so he can hypnotize him and use him to gain control over Emperor Franz Josef, who Dr. Freud is treating for depression. Instead, Brain ends up talking about his childhood and why he really wants to take over the world.
The World Domination Plan “We've come to Vienna to see the great hypnotizing psychiatrist Dr. Sigmund Freud. My appointment with Dr. Freud is only a ruse. When he tries to hypnotize me, I will use a pair of mirrored glasses to reverse the process thereby hypnotizing Freud himself. All Vienna knows that the Emperor Franz Josef is being treated by Freud for depression. When Freud is under my spell, I will order him to hypnotize the Emperor into giving me, the Brain, his right to the Imperial throne. Allowing me to take over the world!”
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Linonophobia - fear of string

Big In Japan
Broadcast Date 07-Nov-1997 Writer Jed Spingarn Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Hama (Clyde Kusatsu)
Summary In Japan, Brain poses as a sumo wrestler in an attempt to gain access to the rare fish, Mugu, which is only available to elite sumo wrestlers, whose tail causes temporary paralysis when eaten.
The World Domination Plan "This is the Phineas Gipponicus commonly known in Japan as Mugu. One bite of its tail renders anyone who eats it unable to move for 24 hours. I will capture a pair of Mugu, breed them, and market the tails throughout the world as 'Cappy Brain's Frozen Fish Sticks'. While the populace is immobilized, I shall implement my plan of world domination! There's only one catch. The gipponicus is so rare that the only known specimens are those bred in captivity for the dining pleasure of Japan's most elite sumo wrestlers. I plan to become one of Japan's most elite sumo wrestlers. I have modified my suit to fit the precise specifications of a champion sumo wrestler. With the adjustments I've made, I'll be able to flip a 600 pound man."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but who wants to see Snow White and the Seven Samurai?
Brain's New Word Linonophobia - fear of string
Goofs  During the entire time Brain is wearing a purple robe over his sumo suit, many of the sumo suit closeups incorrectly show a robeless sumo suit.

But, That's Not All Folks!
Broadcast Date 08-Nov-1997 Writer John Ludin Director Nelson Recinos	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Housewife (Laraine Newman) General (Frank Welker) Technician (Corey Burton) SWAT Leader (John Rubinow) Sportscaster (Roger Rose)
Summary Brain takes control of an abandoned military 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. Brain plans to use the information gathered from people who answer his infomercial to overload the postal system with the world's most complete mailing list.
The World Domination Plan "Our plan will unfold in less than one-half hour. If you'll notice, those wires I've hooked up to the lab's surveilance camera run to a powerful 40 megawatt uplink, which I have built from common household tin foil, a standard wire coat hanger, a #3 salad fork and that big pie plate from last Thanksgiving. With which I've located and stealthily tapped into an abandoned CM2000 satellite orbiting our globe. This idle transmitter was yesterday but a floating piece of space flotsam. But now it is a workhorse, broadcasting my infomercial to every man, woman, and child, reaching the Earth's entire population as we speak. I've compiled the ultimate list of advertising phrases. No one viewing this infomercial will be able to resist making a purchase. Using my own modification of Caller-Id technology, I have set up this massive computer to automatically answer the phone and store each caller's personal specifics. The important puzzle piece of this plan is to get everyone's address. The world's most complete mailing list. Then we shall overload the global postal system, choking every single PO box and mail slot with gross amounts of unwanted junk mail. The useless of it all will surely drive everyone mad. But I shall be the savior. Put me in charge of your world, and I promise to remove each and everyone's name from all junk mail lists. Jumping at the opportunity, people will only realize, too late, that I'm their new, ever powerful, and unimpeachable ruler."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Persiflage - insignificant babble

Operation Sea Lion
Broadcast Date 14-Nov-1997 Writer John P. McCann Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Commander (Frank Welker) Winny (Jennifer Hale)
Summary Brain takes control over aquatic mammals for his latest plan and Pinky falls for a female sea lion.
The World Domination Plan “I must finish this sea lion dictionary. It's our key to world domination. Using Winny and my command of the sea lion language, we shall recruit a vast army of aquatic mammals. Since most of the world's oil travels by sea, we shall blockade all harbors and ports and disable oil tankers by tangling their propellers with seaweed. No one will be able to attack our sea army because they look so darn cute. Energy supplies will be disrupted and I shall be absolute ruler. My first act will be to free all aquatic mammal prisoners.“
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Mythophobia - fear of stories
Goofs  The title and spacing on the cover of Brain's Sea Lion to English Dictionary changes at the beginning of the episode.

You Said a Mouseful
Broadcast Date 14-Nov-1997 Writer Gordon Bressack Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Singer #2 (Steve Bernstein) Sammy (Tress MacNeille) Announcer (Michael Villani) Mr. Sacket (John Moschitta Jr.)
Summary Disguised as Japanese industrialists, Mr. TurkeyLurkeyand Mr. Kawasaki, Pinky and Brain study the operation of a factory that makes a popular brand of inflatable shoes so Brain can replace the air with helium, allowing him to implement his plan to shift the tilt of the Earth one millionth of a percent, using the Axis Shiftatron. When the shift upsets the production of coffee and everyone switches to drinking tea, he will destroy every tea bag in the world except his own.
The World Domination Plan "We will sneak into the Socko Kicky Sack Sack-Kicker factory and alter their assembly line so that the air being pumped into the Kicky Sack Sack-Kickers will be replaced by helium gas, causing millions of Kicky Sack Sack-Kickers to rise into the air, thus lifting thousands of people of the earth, and then...." “This is the Axis Shiftatron, a device that will alter the Earth's axis by one millionth of a percent causing a shift in weather patterns resulting in one less day of rain eveywhere in the world except for Los Angeles. Even that tiny change in weather patterns will have a catastrophic effect on coffee bean crops. This will force everyone to switch to tea drinking. And this ray will destroy every tea bag in the world except mine. As the owner of the world's only tea bag world, I will rise to prominence. The only way the Axis Shiftatron can successfully change the Earth's axis is if the Earth suddenly loses weight.”
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but then my name would be "thumby".
Brain's New Word Mythopia - fear of stories
Goofs  Among the words written on the wall, the word "picnic" is misspelled.

The Tailor and The Mice
Broadcast Date 15-Nov-1997 Writer Tom Ruegger Director Mike Milo	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Singer B (Julie Bernstein) Singer C (Steve Bernstein) Singer D (Bobbie Page)
Summary A well-meaning tailor makes Pinky and Brain's lives miserable. Lyrics to The Tailor and the Mice
The World Domination Plan none
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Enucleation - removal of an organ in one piece

Bah, Wilderness
Broadcast Date 15-Nov-1997 Writer Jed Spingarn Director Mike Milo	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Secretary (Laraine Newman) Administrator (Jon Cypher) Camp Supervisor (Rebecca Gilchrist) Asian Boy (Gabrielle Carteris) Dutch Girl (Pat Musick) Wilderness Counselor (Billy West)
Summary At a sleep away camp for world leaders' children, Brain tries to trick the children into placing listening devices disguised as pencil holders in their parents' offices.
The World Domination Plan "Camp Davey, a sleep away camp for the children of the visiting world leaders. I will get us jobs as craft counselors at Camp Davey, and have each camper make a log pencil holder for each world leader parent. Each one will contain a microscopic listening device attached by yours truly. Eavesdropping on the world's leaders will provide me with the information I need to take over the world."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but I find scratching just makes it worse.
Brain's New Word Enucleation - removal of an organ in one piece

Pinky At The Bat
Broadcast Date 22-Nov-1997 Writer Bill Braunstein & Gordon Bressack Director Nelson Recinos	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) George Beanstainer (Billy West) Van Spoony (Corey Burton)
Summary To release Brain's leather repellent, the mice become Sparky La Braina, the world's keenest baseball mind, and Pinky Rodriguez, his protege, and join an expansion baseball team. Lyrics to Brain's baseball song
The World Domination Plan "This leather repellant spray is part of my most ambitious plan for world domination. Once people are exposed to the formula, they will be unable to touch their wallets rendering them incapable of spending money. Economies around the globe will fail. As chaos ensues, I will rise to power. By releasing a concentrated amount of leather repellant high into the atmosphere at the instant atmospheric conditions and wind patterns are right, the mist will be blown to the far reaches of the globe. According to my calculations, the spray must be released at exactly 10 P.M. on October 2nd from this precise point: the pitcher's mound of the New Hampshire Pineapples stadium. In order to do that, we shall become star players of this expansion team."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but shouldn't the bat boy be wearing a cape?
Brain's New Word Erythrocyte - a red blood cell

Schpiel-Borg 2000
Broadcast Date 22-Nov-1997 Writer Rob Davies Director Rusty Mills	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Steven Spielberg (Frank Welker)
Summary Brain's latest plan for world domination is the Schpiel-Borg 2000, which hosts a retrospective of past episodes.
The World Domination Plan "This is my greated technological masterpiece, the Schpiel-Borg 2000. I spared no expense. This machine is actually an extremely advanced cybernetic clone of one of Hollywood's most powerful figures. And if his box office numbers are any indication, he has the potential to become ruler of the world. After swapping places with the real Steven Spielberg, I will rise to power in the Schpiel-Borg 2000 and take over the world.
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Erythrocyte - a red blood cell

Broadway Malady
Broadcast Date 03-Jan-1998 Writer Gordon Bressack & Charles M. Howell, IV Director Russell Calabrese	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Thelma (Tress MacNeille) Schneiderlander (Michael McKean) Roger Ebert (Billy West) Female Singer (Julie Bernstein)
Summary As Brain struggles to find success with his musical "Angst", Pinky receives fame and fortune with his musical "Mice". Lyrics to songs from Mice and Angst
The World Domination Plan "I will add one simple little word to the label on every bottle of shampoo in the world. The directions will now read: repeat endlessly. Then, while everyone in the world is lathering their way to oblivion, I will rise to power."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but why would anyone want a depressed tongue?
Brain's New Word Schadenfreude - joy at the misfortune of others

The Megalomaniacal Adventures of Brainie the Poo
Broadcast Date 07-Feb-1998 Writer Patric M. Verrone Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Jagger (Jeff Glen Bennett) Narrator (John Rhys-Davies)
Summary Spoofing Winnie the Pooh, Brainie and Pinklet try to steal honey from a bee hive. Lyrics to Brainie the Poo
The World Domination Plan "People in today's body conscious society are obsessed with losing weight. My plan is to secretly replace all the artificial sweeteners in the world with real ones. Thus, rendering the world's population fat, slow moving, and completely toothless. I know the location of a veritable Fort Knox of honey, right here in Acme Woods."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Umm, I think so Brainie, but why would anyone want to Pierce Brosnan?
Brain's New Word Epimyth - the moral of a story

Melancholy Brain
Broadcast Date 07-Feb-1998 Writer Patric M. Verrone, Gordon Bressack Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Hamlet (Cary Elwes) King (Clive Revill) Queen (Olivia Hussey)
Summary Brain tries to create chaos in Hamlet's family and take over.
The World Domination Plan "First Denmark, Pinky, then all of Scandinavia! I will begin my plan for world domination by opening large stores filled with flimsy, impossible to assemble wooden furniture. Frustrated millions, their minds weakened by years of following nonsensical instructions, will automatically follow these instructions: Insert Tab B into Slot A Insert Tab A into Slot C Obey The Brain! King Hamlet, his father, is dead. And his uncle Claudius has married Queen Gertrude, his mother, and is now the king, ursuping Prince Hamlet's place. I shall set one against the other and then in the ensuing chaos, rise to power."
Pinky, Art Thou Pondering That Which I Am Pondering? Methinks so Brain, verily, but dost thou think Pete Rose by any other name would still smell as sweaty?
Brain's New Word Epimyth - the moral of a story

Inherit The Wheeze
Broadcast Date 14-Feb-1998 Writer Tom Ruegger & Earl Kress Director Nelson Recinos	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Singer (T'Keyah Keymáh) Julie Auburn (Pam Grier) Les Tarr (Townsend Coleman) Mel Anoma (Michael McKean) Nicky O'Tine (Tress MacNeille)
Summary Brain tries to become a national hero by taking down a tobacco company. He also uses a Particle Accelerated Magnetotron to align discarded satellies to spell out a message about Brain.
The World Domination Plan "Tonight's plan involves space junk. There are hundreds of discarded satellites orbiting the Earth. Tonight, as the discarded satellites pass within mere miles of each other, I will manipulate the world's largest magnet to move them into position spelling out 'Brain is your ruler'." Pinky: "and Pinky is your tape measure!". "Cigarettes are ruining lots of people's lives. That tobacco executive stole the test results that prove once and for all that cigarettes are addictive. If I could find those results, and show them to the world, I'd be proclaimed a hero."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but wouldn't his movies be more suitable for children if he was named 'Jean Claude Van Darn'?
Brain's New Word Fuliginous - smoky or sooty place

Brain's Night Off
Broadcast Date 21-Feb-1998 Writer Kirk Sheppard Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Waiter (Tony Pope) Maitre'D (Michael Donovan) Chef (Larry Cedar)
Summary Taking the night off from trying to take over the world, Pinky and Brain try to find out what Brain likes to do for fun.
The World Domination Plan none
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but will they let the Cranberry Duchess stay in the Lincoln Bedroom?
Brain's New Word Refocillate - to refresh or revive

Beach Blanket Brain
Broadcast Date 21-Feb-1998 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Dodohead (Billy West) Danette Spoonabello (Julie Brown) Claire (Candi Milo)
Summary Disguised as Brain Doggie and Pink Daddy, Pinky and Brain try to get surfers to put on Brain's suntan lotion, Brain de Soleil, which creates a hypnotic effect. Lyrics to Brain Doggy Mambo
The World Domination Plan "We must endear ourselves to those hormonally challenged teenagers. Once they think that we are the kings of cool, they'll fall at my feet to wear my hypnotic sunscreen: Brain de Soleil, for the smart set. When applied, it will render the unfortunate fools helpless to resist my will and they will do whatever I say!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Refocillate - to refresh or revive
Goofs  When Brain talks about how tape kept him from falling off his surfboard, that tape is seen on the surfboard. But the next time the surfboard is shown a few shots later, the tape is missing.  Brain puts suntan lotion on Chicky using his bare hands, but neither get stuck in place.

The Family That Poits Together, Narfs Together
Broadcast Date 21-Feb-1998 Writer Earl Kress, Charles M. Howell, IV & John Ludin Director Russell Calabrese	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Mom and Dad (Eric Idle) Mr. Perfect (Peter Scolari) Kathie Glee (Gail Matthius) Squeege (Jeff Glen Bennett) Steven S. (Frank Welker) Mrs. Perfect (Tress MacNeille)
Summary Brain uses the Acme Gene Splicer and Bagel Warmer to give Pinky's parents the ability to speak, and then enters them in a contest to win $25,000.
The World Domination Plan "This is the Sunday crossword puzzle. The most educated people all around the world spend hours each weekend deciphering its complex web of interlocking verbiage. But change just one clue, and the whole puzzle becomes impossible to solve. I will change one clue in the crossword puzzle in every newspaper around the globe, throwing the intelligentsia into a hopeless dither. While they frantically ripple through their dictionaries and thesauri, I will step into the breach, and take over the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but why does a forklift have to be so big if all it does is lift forks?
Brain's New Word Congaudence - A celebrating or rejoicing together
Goofs  The ink on Brain's hands disappears in some shots.

Pinky's Turn
Broadcast Date 28-Feb-1998 Writer Jed Spingarn Director Russell Calabrese	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) The President (Frank Welker) Mayor (Billy West) Tycoon (John Glover) First Lady (Tress MacNeille)
Summary After yet another one of Brain's plans fail, he lets Pinky come up with and execute a plan. When Pinky's plan is on the verge of succeeding, Brain steps in to finish the job, by using a satellite to disable the snooze alarms on every clock radio in the world.
The World Domination Plan (After an unsuccessful attempt to steal a valuable jewel.) "Without that jewel, I can't afford the satellite I need to switch the population's clock radios to permanent snooze while I take over the world. We will combine your luck and my genius to finish the job of taking over the world! First, you will call another press conference and tell the press you don't like satellites. Thus, lowering the price of satellites to mere pennies. Then, I will customize the satellite so we can relaunch my plan to disable the snooze alarms on every clock radio in the world."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but if it was only supposed to be a three hour tour, why did the Howells bring all their money?
Brain's New Word Contesserate - allied in friendship

Your Friend: Global Domination
Broadcast Date 28-Feb-1998 Writer Gordon Bressack Director Russell Calabrese	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) The President (Frank Welker) Mayor (Billy West) Tycoon (John Glover) First Lady (Tress MacNeille)
Summary Brain explains why he should be leader in a mock educational film.
The World Domination Plan (Brain's film is destroyed) "There goes my plan to distribute this film to every school assembly on Earth."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Contesserate - allied in friendship

You'll Never Eat Food Pellets In This Town, Again!
Broadcast Date 25-Apr-1998 Writer Charles M. Howell, IV & Jed Spingarn, Peter Hastings Director Russell Calabrese	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Sheila/Billie (Tress MacNeille) Dick Clark (Dick Clark) Sandy Dreckman (Charles Kimbrough) Bobby Fenster (Townsend Coleman) TV Mom (Pat Musick) Pollister #1 (Mark L. Taylor) Pollister #2 (Phil Hayes) Nifty Bizarre (Billy West) Jimmy S (John Rubano)
Summary In Brain's nightmare fantasy, the mice sink into obscurity after they quit their show when it is retooled by network executives looking to increase the show's ratings.
The World Domination Plan none
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Humdudgeon - imagining pain or ailment
Goofs  At the beginning when the columns fall like dominoes, the cracks in the column that crush the mice disappear when the column starts to crumble.

Dangerous Brains
Broadcast Date 02-May-1998 Writer Brett Baer, David Finkel & Tom Ruegger Director Mike Milo	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Larry Bruhn (Tom Wilson) Tyrone Spellbinder (Bumper Robinson) Hector Papadapolis (Marcelo Tubert) Girl (Tress MacNeille)
Summary To get the money he needs for his plan for world domination, Brain goes to work teaching rebellious students, as Mr. Brainslowski at Thaddeus Mumphries Memorial High School, while Pinky enrolls as Jergen Pinkhead, a transfer student from Acme Polytech. Pinky: "Remember, a mind is a terrible waste of space."
The World Domination Plan "According to the Farmer's Almanac, the Earth will experience a lunar eclipse on June 8th. During the lunar eclipse, I shall magnetically harness the moon to the Earth, giving me complete control over its rotation. I shall control the amount of sunlight the Earth receives at any given time. Once I control the Earth's sunlight, I will become the most powerful being in the Milky Way. To succeed in our plan, we must create a superconductive hydromagnetic beam inside that mechanically modified aquatic tank. To create the ultraelectromagnetic induction, I must place millions of tiny magnets at the bottom of the tank. Now each tiny magnet costs 2.5 cents. One million at 2.5 plus tax comes to a total of what? $25,963.13"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but Zero Mostel times anything will still give you Zero Mostel.
Brain's New Word Periculant - being in danger
Goofs  In the scene where the principal briefly takes away Brain's check he has five fingers, but the rest of the time he has four.  The lunchbag that Pinky hands Brain has the name "BRAN" on it.

Whatever Happened To Baby Brain
Broadcast Date 09-May-1998 Writer Jed Spingarn Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Trudy (Pamela Hayden) Director (Cary Elwes) Hooda Hepper (Tress MacNeille) Irving Thyroid (Jeff Glen Bennett) Orson W (Jim Cummings)
Summary Pinky and Brain masquerade as Mother Pinky and her child star, Little Baby Brain to get the $2 million needed for the next plan, by taking Little Trudy Simple's place as America's favorite child star. Some of the movie posters: A Home in the Mountains, Truly Simple vs. Captain June, The Wizard, Little Miss Not so Miserable, I'm Singing a Song for Daddy Lyrics to Nice Boat, Candy Cane
The World Domination Plan none
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but if we have nothing to fear but fear itself, then why does Eleanor Roosevelt wear that spooky mask?
Brain's New Word Enatic - related to on the mother's side
Goofs  In the scene in where Brain shows off his props, the contacts are first shown as opaque, and then become clear. After Brain takes them from their holders, in subsequent shots you can still see them.  In the closeup of Irving Thyroid's hands when he's negotiating the movie deal with Brain, Irving has five fingers. But in every other shot, he has the standard four fingers.

Just Say Narf
Broadcast Date 09-May-1998 Writer Bill Canterbury & Gordon Bressack Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
Summary Pinky sings a song about saying "Narf". Lyrics to Just Say Narf
The World Domination Plan none
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Enatic - related to on the mother's side

The Pinky P.O.V.
Broadcast Date 16-May-1998 Writer Gordon Bressack Director Mike Milo	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
Summary It's another usual night where Brain plans to take over the world using a gadget that somehow helps turn everyone's pants into gelatin when hooked up to an electric guitar and amplifier. Only it's seen from Pinky's point of view.
The World Domination Plan (From what Pinky could understand...) "We will disguise ourselves as grunge rock musicians in the band, Frog the Dry Widget, take the elevator up to the top of the Space Needle, and plug our amplifiers into the lightning rod. Once everyone's pants have turned to gelatin, the world will be mine!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but what if the hippopotamus won't wear the beach thong? A mystery worthy of Elsa Klench.
Brain's New Word Basilic - royal or kingly

The Really Great Dictator
Broadcast Date 16-May-1998 Writer Liz Holzman Director Mike Milo	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen)
Summary The mice sing about world domination. Lyrics to the World Domination song
The World Domination Plan none
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Basilic - royal or kingly

Brain Food
Broadcast Date 16-May-1998 Writer Gordon Bressack and Bill Braunstein Director Mike Milo	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Julie Green (Tress MacNeille) Bryce Wallace (Townsend Coleman)
Summary Brain opens a restaurant, Wolfgang Brain's Pizzas of the World, and feeds the customers a liquid containing the Medulla Stem Piney Nut that makes them smarter.
The World Domination Plan "We are going to make everyone on Earth smart. Smart enough to accept me as their leader! This is an extract of the Medulla Stem Piney Nut. When combined with these other ingredients and then consumed, it can quadruple one's IQ."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Whew! Oh, I'd say the odds of that are terribly slim.
Brain's New Word Basilic - royal or kingly

Brainwashed, Part 1: Brain, Brain, Go Away
Broadcast Date 14-Sep-1998 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Tom Bodett (Tom Bodett) Andrea Romano (Andrea Romano) The President (Frank Welker) First Lady (Tress MacNeille) Bobby Bob Yokel (Townsend Coleman) Fedora (Larry Cedar) Strawboater (Corey Burton) Snowball (Roddy McDowall)
Summary Pinky and Brain are kidnapped in Washington, DC by an unknown force. Brain loses his memory and the mice are then imprisoned in Hat Town, run by Top Hat, where everyone is forced to perform the Schmëerskåhøvên, which is dumbing down the entire country by reducing brain function and mental capacity. Lyrics to Schmëerskåhøvên
The World Domination Plan "I have shrunken us to molecular size. We are traveling through an artery inside the human body. That thumping is the beating of the heart which is propelling us to our destination: the larynx of folksy radio personality Tom Bodett. There I will implant my trachiomatic control chip. When middle America hears my plea for submission uttered in Tom Bodett's dulcet tones, they will be unable to resist. Allowing me to take over the world!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Flexanimous - able to change others minds
Goofs  When Brain enters the elevator on the top floor of the Washington Monument to catch the clown, the door is partially open. But in the shot of the mice looking for the clown, the door is completely open.  The First Lady hands Bobby Bob a piece of paper, and in the next shot he is holding the whole pad of paper.  The letters on the CD changes, misspelling the group's name.

Brainwashed, Part 2: I Am Not a Hat
Broadcast Date 15-Sep-1998 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Kirk Tingblad	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Tom Bodett (Tom Bodett) Andrea Romano (Andrea Romano) The President (Frank Welker) First Lady (Tress MacNeille) Bobby Bob Yokel (Townsend Coleman) Strawboater (Corey Burton) Snowball (Roddy McDowall)
Summary Brain regains his memory and the mice escape from Hat Town. They believe Snowball is responsible for the Schmëerskåhøvên, but find he is imprisoned in a mental institution.
The World Domination Plan none
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Capitose - having a large head
Goofs  In the scene where Brain recovers somewhat from his brainwashing, watch Pinky's hat as it changes positions several times before they are captured.  The spacing between the letters on the Schmëerskåhøvên tape changes as the cassette is shown from different angles.

Brainwashed, Part 3: Wash Harder
Broadcast Date 16-Sep-1998 Writer Wendell Morris & Tom Sheppard Director Russell Calabrese	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Tom Bodett (Tom Bodett) Andrea Romano (Andrea Romano) The President (Frank Welker) First Lady (Tress MacNeille) Bobby Bob Yokel (Townsend Coleman) Snowball (Roddy McDowall) Precious (Nora Dunn) Dr. Mordough (Jeff Glen Bennett) Clown (Corey Burton)
Summary The mice and Snowball search for Dr. Mordough, who spliced their DNA, thinking he's responsible for the Schmëerskåhøvên. But it turns out to be his cat, Precious, and time is running out.
The World Domination Plan none
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but "instant karma" always gets so lumpy.
Brain's New Word Viraginity - Female masculinity
Goofs  The "I" in Dr. Mordough's "I LOVE PAULY SHORE" apron is white rather than red for a few seconds as he dances the Schmëerskåhøvên.  In the group's dressing room, the name of the band is spelled wrong on the posters.

To Russia With Lab Mice
Broadcast Date 21-Sep-1998 Writer Charles M. Howell, IV , Earl Kress & John Ludin Director Nelson Recinos	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Scientist #2 (Jeff Glen Bennett) Mousey Galore (Diane Michelle)
Summary Pinky and Brain's plan to alter caviar with the addition of peanut butter is complicated by a Russian lab mouse. Lyrics to To Russia with Lab Mice
The World Domination Plan "By tapping into the computer system of the Joint Council for Economic Development, I arranged for this trip. Our actual goal, caviar! Gourmet fish eggs! Hors d'oeuvre of choice for rich and powerful people the world over. Using the techniques of the great George Washington Carver, I have found a way to create a hybrid of caviar and peanut butter. When my new hybridized peanut butter is eaten by unsuspecting world leaders at their glittering functions, it will cause their tongues to stick to roofs of their mouths, rendering them more difficult to understand than Marlon Brando. In the ensuing confusion I will step into the breach, and take over the world."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Otacust - a spy
Goofs  In the first shot of the Acmenov Labs Russia building, the sign is not on. In the second much later shot, the sign is flashing.

Hickory Dickory Bonk
Broadcast Date 21-Sep-1998 Writer Charles M. Howell, IV Director Nelson Recinos	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Singer #2 (Julie Bernstein) Singer #3 (Steve Bernstein)
Summary Brain plots to make every clock on Earth chime repeatedly. Lyrics to Hickory Dickory Bonk
The World Domination Plan "I'll make all the clocks chime from here to Japan. All over the world, clocks will all chime at once. They'll chime and they'll chime, without signs of stopping, folks will plug up their ears to keep them from popping. Then by moment, by glorious hour, I'll rise to power"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? none
Brain's New Word Otacust - a spy

The Pinky And The Brain Reunion Special
Broadcast Date 21-Sep-1998 Writer Jed Spingarn & Gordon Bressack Director Charles Visser	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Mr. Director (Paul Rugg) Leonard Shelton (Jeff Glen Bennett) Earl Wendell (Billy West) Ed McMahon (Ed McMahon) Gavin MacLeod (Gavin MacLeod) Steve Allen (Steve Allen) Dr. Joyce Brothers (Dr. Joyce Brothers) Dick Clark (Dick Clark)
Summary 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.
The World Domination Plan "Our pirate broadcast is now visible in every country in the world. Soon everyone on Earth will be watching our reunion special made up of entirely of cleverly edited home movies, computer imaging, and discarded footage from the director's cut of Kevin Branaugh's Hamlet. Then I will broadcast my hypnobeam and the world will be helpless to resist me."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so, Brain, but arrugala-flavored gelato? I think so Brain, but ..um, something about a duck.
Brain's New Word Affinal - to be related by marriage
Goofs  The letters on the keypad on Brain's control panel change during the episode.

A Legendary Tail
Broadcast Date : 28-Sep-1998 Writer Charles M. Howell, IV, Earl Kress & Jed Spingarn Director Nelson Recinos	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Big Jimmy Fruithead (Brian Stokes Mitchell) Dirt Townsmen (Frank Welker) Townswoman (Tress MacNeille) Chorus Member #3 (Steve Bernstein)
Summary Inspired by legends of the past, Brain tries to create a legend about himself to gain world acclaim. He becomes Big Johnny Brain Jones Peachpit Bill Boone Crockett, and Pinky is his sidekick, Little Piggy Flea Pie Waffle Shoe Clamhead Chris.
The World Domination Plan "In these books are all the great heroes of the American West: Johnny Appleseed, Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan. For I have entered all of these tall tales into the computer along my own vital statistics and programmed it to combine their most heroic elements into one great legend: The legend of me! We shall distribute this legend to libraries and schools all across the country. Then I shall reveal my living breathing self to universal acclaim and assume my position as leader of the world."
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Umm, I think so Big Brainy Fish Face Stove Pipe Wiggle Room Eileen. But if you get a long little doggie, wouldn't you just call it a dachshund?
Brain's New Word Appersonation - believing that one is a famous person

Project B.R.A.I.N.
Broadcast Date 28-Sep-1998 Writer Gordon Bressack Director Nelson Recinos	Characters Brain (Maurice LaMarche) Pinky (Rob Paulsen) Big Jimmy Fruithead (Brian Stokes Mitchell) Dirt Townsmen (Frank Welker) Townsowman (Tress MacNeille) Chorus Member #3 (Steve Bernstein)
Summary How Acme Labs became home to Pinky and Brain.
The World Domination Plan none
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but then I'd have to know what pondering is, wouldn't I?
Brain's New Word Appersonation - believing that one is a famous person

Star Warners
Broadcast Date November 14, 1998 Writer Liz Holzman, Charles M. Howell, IV, Tom Ruegger Director Nelson Recinos	Characters 3-Pinky-O (Rob Paulsen) Brain-2-Me-2 (Maurice LaMarche) Wakk Skylicker (Jess Harnell) Princess Dot (Tress MacNeille) Yak Soho (Rob Paulsen) Bobby (John Mariano) Pesto (Chick Vennera) Girth Plotz, Chewbooboo (Frank Welker) Slappy Wanna Nappy (Sherri Stoner) Skippoda (Nathan Ruegger) Mindy (Nancy Cartwright) Minerva Mink (Julie Brown) Pip Pumphandle (Ben Stein) Baloney (Jeff Glen Bennett) Marvin Marhan (Neil Ross)
Summary In the series finale, the mice plus the rest of the Animaniacs characters spoof the Star Wars trilogy. Chapter THX The Poit Strikes Back In a quick segue to lengthen the story, Yakk Soho, Pinky-0, and Chewbooboo have been captured by the junk-food giant, Flabby the Butt
The World Domination Plan "I have the plans to the Megastar. Once inside, we will seize control and rule the galaxy!"
Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Umm, I think so Brain-2, but a show about two talking lab mice? It'll never get on the air!
Brain's New Word Nympholepsy - To have a desire for an unattainble idea.
Goofs  When Slappy and Girth start fighting, Slappy's hat disappears in some shots.

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