Pinky & The Brain

Brain attempts to communicate with a pack of beavers in order to control the flow of a river and threaten the humans under his control.

The mice become silent film comedy stars in a parody of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, but when he switches from comedy to drama people get tired of his movies.

In a film noir spoof, Pinky and Brain run into Billie, who uses her charm to fool them into thinking she needs help when she’s really working for Snowball. At the end she tossed Snowball and Brain over the edge of the waterslide she built for Pinky, Brain because he loves the world too much to care about her, and Snowball for making her take voice lessons in an effort to make her lose her squawky,"Pinky-like" tone.

Pinky and the Brain (and Larry, a parody of Larry Fine of the Three Stooges whose presence is never explained but may have something to do with voice actor Maurice LaMarche’s nickname "Moe", is awkwardly worked into the show’s routines and dialogue, and doesn’t actually contribute to the plan) develop a formula for the Synchrono Plastic Remote Controller, which was intended to control garage door openers so that people will be forced to use bikes and the petroleum industry will be ruined. Unfortunately, a gyroscopic transducer chip is needed to complete the device, so Pinky, Brain, and Larry pose as wallpaper hangers in the White House in order for Brain to get close to the President.

Brain and Pinky pose as the endangered species, the Mousealope, to take over a large amount of land near Pittsburgh for their own.

Brain joins a golf tournament dressed as Cher to steal a special golf club from a competitor as to use in his world domination plan.

Brain manages to communicate with the Earth directly with a new device, and attempts to use that ability to take over the world, but the earth turns on him and tries to destroy him. Pinky convinces him not to and sends the machine into outer space, bringing the moon to life.

Brain must recover a critical part for his plan from his packrat neighbor, Mr. Sultana Sultana, to whom the part was accidentally delivered to, in order to prevent a lightning strike from destroying the earth. To do so, Pinky and Brain must pose as a married couple, resulting in Mr. Sultana becomes romantically attracted to Pinky as the housewife. Brain eventually is able to recover the part and save the world, but destroying his device as a result.

Pinky becomes a guru in 1960s, which Brain tries to exploit in his latest plan. Parody of The Beatles and their encounter with the Maharishi.

Pinky actually succeeds in talking certain powerful world leaders (including then-President Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat) into handing over control of the world, but when Pinky hands over the "key to the world" to Brain, Brain botches it up by repulsing the leaders with his anger and rudeness, thinking that Pinky is plotting against him, when,in fact, it is only a surprise birthday party.

Brain develops a machine that can see into the future and sees that he will never rule the world. He gives up trying to take over the world and becomes a ski instructor, but Pinky foresees Brain’s death in an avalanche and then tries to save Brain and change the future.

Brain tries to take control of tornadoes as part of his plan. The episode contains many references of The Wizard of Oz.

Brain and Pinky sing about famous history leaders and their downfall, and how Brain will learn from their failures.

Brain and Pinky must pose as Rhennish (a parody of the Amish people) farmers and assist with the barn raising activities in order to gain access to a key mineral for Brain’s latest plan. However, Brain finds out that there’s only the "fool’s" version of the mineral in the region.

Brain creates a conspiracy to make people think that the government is hiding a document declaring him ruler of the world (which he calls the Pinky Protocol), and when a nutjob from northern Virginia tries to rescue him only makes matters worse by keeping him in his cabin with nothing but "enough spam to last the turn of the century" to eat. It is soon discovered that a picture Brain pasted his own photo over is really of Joyce DeWitt,who then becomes the ruler of the world.

Brain develops mechanical tap-dancing legs to tap out a subliminal morse code message while he dances at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.

Brain runs out of his own ideas for world domination and seeks input from screenwriters for inspiration.

Brain grows an army of giant, animated vegetables to take over the world. This episode contains a reference to Green Acres and Born Free.

Brain creates a clone machine to create an army that will take over the world through celtic dance. Pinky puts in a picture of only himself by mistake and creates his own cloned dance troop. The dancing Brains and Pinkys have a dance-off, ultimately requiring Brain to abandon that plan altogether, but his clone turn on him, revealing that this plan was only a dream.

Brain becomes a fashion designer in order to get everyone to wear his perfume, "Subjugation," which has hypnotic properties. Note* This episode’s name is a parody of Calvin Klein.

Brain uses the Personalitron to inherit the world’s most attractive personas (i.e., John Wayne and Adam West), simply by scanning their photos into the machine and then stepping inside it, but Pinky ends up going into the machine instead. He is then transformed into "Pinky Suavo", a more suave version of Pinky, as the name implies. Pinky gains control of people’s attention instantaneously, and the Brain finds a way to use it to his advantage and puts Pinky on a talk show.

Pinky and Brain attempt to gain membership into a secret, world-controlling organization called "T.H.E.Y.". The mice manage to complete the hazing rituals but only Pinky is accepted into the group because Brain can’t take any more of their shenanagins (including tipping Buckingham Palace Guards, presenting Saddam Hussein with the A.B.C. gum award, and T.P.-ing the White House).

Brain must take part along with Pinky in a reality television program based on The Real World in order to be able to set up a radio tower near Cleveland at the precise spot needed for his plan to work. While Pinky fits in perfectly, the rest of the house guests find Brain obnoxious and that he was taking money from the house funds, so sell off all of his gear in a garage sale. He intends to broadcast to the world the last remaining copy of the Rush Limbaugh singing album which is so horrible that the world will submit to get him to turn it off, but Rush himself buys it and smashes it into millions of tiny little pieces.

In 1962, Brain opens a casino, and becomes a lounge singer to attract people to it. However, he only offers the game of baccarat, and runs into financial and mortal danger from his funding source. The loaner he borrowed from turns out to be a loan shark and takes Acme Labs into custody until, turning it into a lounge, Brain can repay her.

Mr. Itch (the devil himself) offers to give Brain the world in exchange for his soul; Brain refuses, but finds out later that Pinky has taken the deal. Snowball appears as his court jester, attempting to make Brain miss Pinky so much that he would look for him, leaving him in charge. Brain enters a rhythmic gymnastics competition with Mr. Itch and loses, when Pinky points out that Mr. Itch was actually unable to fulfill his part of the deal, making the whole deal null and void.

Brain becomes a hippie leader and encourages people to form a human chain across America in order to send a subliminal message.

Brain tries to hypnotize Sigmund Freud, but Pinky accidentally leaves Brain’s mirrored glasses behind. During the hypnosis we learn to understand the root for his want of world domination, and why Pinky’s such an idiot.

Brain becomes a sumo wrestler as to obtain a rare Japanese fish as part of his latest plan.

Pinky and Brain sell a fictitious product via infomercials to gain a large database of addresses to be used in Brain’s latest plan.

Brain learns to communicate with sea lions in order to create an aquatic army.

Brain attempts to put helium in hacky-sack sack-kicker shoes in a Hackensack factory. The episode contains numerous tongue twisters, and Brain’s plan fails because he cannot enunciate what he wants Pinky to do.

The mice are unfortunate recipients of a tailor’s well-meaning ways based on the folk song The Tailor and the Mouse popularized by Burl Ives.

Brain attempts to become the top camp councilor at "Camp Davey", a summer camp for world leader’s children by taking out all the other camp councilors. However, as soon as he is able to become the top councilor, the children of the world leaders have completed their camp, and now the children of the world vice-presidents are now attending, much to Brain’s dismay.

The mice become baseball players and lead their team to victory so that Brain can release a special perfume on the pitcher’s mound at the right time. Unfortunately, the victory celebration prevents Brain from completing his plan, and while leading a losing team to a winning season, both mice are kicked off the team.

Brain creates a robotic replica of Steven Spielberg as part of his world domination plans. The episode starts out as a clip show hosted by Steven Spielberg himself, which covers such aspects of the series such as the writing, the characters, and how much Steven himself loves his creation.

Brain attempts to get a musical on Broadway, but is surprised to find that Pinky’s musical is much more popular.

A spoof of Winnie the Pooh, Brainie and Pinklet attempt to steal honey from a beehive so they can secretly replace the world’s artificial sweeteners with it and render everyone fat, slow, and toothless. Brain as Brainie The Poo (Winnie-the-Pooh), Pinky as Pinklet (Piglet), Al Gore as Algore (Eeyore), Christopher Walken as Christopher (Christopher Robin), and Mick Jagger as Jagger (Tigger).

Brain attempts to take over the royal family of Denmark by causing havoc with Hamlet.

Brain attempts to use a tobacco company to take over the world by selling cigarettes to children. However, Pinky becomes disgusted at the sight of children smoking and convinces Brain to double cross the tobacco company.[7] The episode later won a PRISM Award for Best Children’s Animated Television Episode, for its anti-smoking message.

Brain decides not to try to take over the world for one night, and enjoys a night out with Pinky. Brain’s inadvertent actions in complaining about the service he gets ends up with people wanting him to become their leader, but their desires fail to register with Brain.

Brain becomes a surfer to get other surfers to wear his hypnotic suntan lotion.

Brain helps to reunite Pinky’s family in order to win a television show’s cash prize. Tracking down his family, and then using the intelligence machine that gave the two mice their smarts, Brain finds Pinky’s family (father, mother, and a spool of thread they call "Sis") are as insane as Pinky is. Brain is barely able to control Pinky’s family, and is very disappointed to find the prize is not what he expected.

Frustrated with his failures, Brain lets Pinky try to take over the world with surprising success until Brain takes control and ruins everything.

Brain attempts to sway schoolchildren by creating an educational video.

The show is changed and Pinky and Brain become frustrated with this and quit the show. When Brain falls back onto Pinky’s attempts to get some work, he is given a job blowing up balloons at a children’s birthday party, where he becomes angry at the birthday boy for insulting him and is kicked out. It is revealed that Brain is married to Billie (who in real life is Sheila, and hates playing Billie), who pretty much only agreed because he’s famous, and eventually kicks him out and makes Brain live in his restaurant (which is bought by Yurkle, a parody of Steve Urkle from Family Matters). In the end, Brain wakes up and realizes it’s all a bad dream, but Pinky still has his puppet Margaret and they still live next door to Dick Clark.

Brain takes a job as a teacher at a troubled school in order to earn money for his latest plan and Pinky, disguised as one of the students, convince the other classmates to take the studies seriously.

Brain poses as a child actress (as a parody of Baby Jane) to gain public admiration.

Pinky sings a song in the style of "Make ’Em Laugh" to try to cheer Brain up.

Brain’s latest plan for world domination is shown from Pinky’s perspective.

The mice sing about world domination to the tune of the Can-can.

Brain attempts to increase the intelligence of the population in order to make the population understand why he should be their leader by opening a restaurant to feed them an intelligence-increasing drug.