Pinky & The Brain

An episode of three parts. Pinky and Brain were in the midst of preparing a plan, involving a trachiomatic control chip on celebrity Tom Bodett. However, things hit a snag and largely because of the Schmëerskåhøvên (parody of the Macarena), a new craze dance that’s sweeping the nation. Everyone who danced those steps got progressively dumber and dumber. Meanwhile, the President and First Lady planned a conference on “The Brain”. To combat the dumbing down of America, a White House conference is called to find solutions to this problem. The mice are attended after Brain is mistakenly invited, and he and Pinky headed off to Washington, thinking the conference is in Brain’s honor. When he soon realized that the real reason for an affair is his error, they’re ejected from the White House, but not before refusing to participate in the Schmëerskåhøvên. Suddenly, a sinister clown, hired to make balloon animals for the event, stole the speech the Brain was giving. As the mice are leaving, they pursued him into the Washington Monument where they’re led into a trap, sedated, and captured. Then, they are strapped into a machine which caused one to lose their memory. After erasing their minds (well, Brain’s mind is already erased, Pinky’s mind caused the mind erasing machine to malfunction), they’re imprisoned in a strange and mysterious place called the Land of Hats, ruled by the Top Hat, where everyone is forced to identify only by the hat they wear, and participate in the Schmëerskåhøvên.

Weirdness in the “Land of Hats” continued for Pinky and an amnesic Brain. They eventually got lucky, as real memories, a little truth about the Schmëerskåhøvên. With Pinky’s help, Brain is able to outwit the Top Hat (a computer that controls the Land of Hats), and they managed to escape. By examining files taken from the Top Hat, Brain learned that the Schmëerskåhøvên is a dance created so that its motions caused those who dance it to dumb down. It’s all someone’s plan for world domination by reducing brain function and mental capacity, and that he and Pinky were imprisoned in the Land of Hats for refusing to dance it. The disc he downloaded with the information caused a self-destruct sequence in the laboratory. The ultimate mastermind, however, is still a mystery. Brain head out in search of the one person (besides him of course) who could be behind such a scheme to conquer the world, Snowball. Suspecting him, Brain set off for Microsponge, Inc. (a parody of Microsoft), which is owned by Snowball himself. However, Brain just found him locked away as a culprit in his own mental institution of his creation, and that he too was for coming too close to discovering who’s behind the Schmëerskåhøvên scheme, and security is tight. Brain reluctantly agreed to get Snowball out if he’ll help them, but ended up in the next cell to him as an inmate. To save the world, though, the mice had little choice but to team up with their worst foe.

After escaping from the mental institution (with Pinky’s help), the trio had no time to relax. They seek down which mastermind set up this trap for them and save the world from the Schmëerskåhøvên. They traveled to a distant destination – to the deserted island of Dr. Mordeau. He’s the geneticist who created the gene splicer which made them super intelligent. They discovered that though the answer was there, he too was a victim of the Schmëerskåhøvên. After they’re captured, they found the true mastermind: Mordeau’s mistakenly transformed cat, Precious. She’s about to fulfill the final part of her plan. Worse, she left all three of them on a conveyor belt leading to the gene splicer, but only Snowball is left to the trap when he ran from his lawyers directly into it. They must stop her and her planned world-wide group, before the great anthem for world peace in Washington D.C. took place, making the Earth’s population permanently stupefied. Finally, Brain created a new verse to the Schmëerskåhøvên which reversed the effect, and Acme Labs is gladly rebuilt.

Pinky and Brain are shipped to Russia as part of a toy testing project, and meet a Russian female spy mouse (Mousey Galore) that has a part critical to Brain’s plan.

Sung to Hickory Dickory Dock, Brain attempts to make every clock in the world chime simultaneously.

Brain concocts a reunion special between himself and Pinky in order to attract numerous viewers which he can brainwash with his latest device.

Brain attempts to create a tall tale around himself to earn world renown.

This episode tells the story of how Pinky and the Brain first met, and Brain’s first plan for world domination.

The final Pinky and the Brain episode, which includes many of the Animaniacs cast, is a parody of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. Pinky and the Brain (as 3-PinkEO and Brain2-Me2) plan to use the Mega Star for their world domination plans. A running gag involves Brain2 being mistaken for a refrigerator and other household appliances.