Pinky and the Brain is an American animated television series. It was
the first animated television series to be presented in Dolby Surround
and the fourth collaboration of Steven Spielberg with his production
company, Amblin Entertainment, and produced by Warner Bros. Animation.
The characters first appeared in 1993 as a recurring skit on
Animaniacs. It was later spun off as a series due to its popularity,
with 66 episodes produced. The characters later appeared in the series
Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain.Pinky and Brain are genetically enhanced
laboratory mice who reside in a cage in the Acme Labs research
facility. Brain is self-centered and scheming, while Pinky is
good-natured but feeble-minded. In each episode, Brain devises a new
plan to take over the world which ultimately ends in failure: usually
due to the impossibility of Brain's plan, Brain's own arrogance or
overconfidence, Pinky's bumbling, or just circumstances beyond their
control. In common with many other Animaniacs shorts, many episodes
are in some way a parody of something else, usually a film or
novel.Many of the Pinky and the Brain episodes occur in the 1990s at
Acme Labs, located in some large American city underneath a suspension
bridge. Several episodes take place in historical times, with Pinky
and the Brain in the laboratory of some scientifically-minded person,
including Merlin, H.G. Wells, Ivan Pavlov, and Johannes Gutenberg.
There is very little continuity between episodes outside of the common
fixtures of the two mice, though some plans for world domination from
early episodes are subsequently referred to in later seasons for
example, Brain's mechanical human suit that was first used in "Win
Big" reappears when Brain faces his rival Snowball in "Snowball".The
bulk of every episode involves one of Brain's plans for world
domination with Pinky's assistance and the ultimate failure of that
plan, with some exceptions. One centers on Snowball's plan to take
over the world using Microsponge (a parody of Microsoft). Another
episode features Brain's single day where he tries to do anything but
take over the world: in the end, a group of people votes that he
should take over the world on the one day that he does not want to.
the first animated television series to be presented in Dolby Surround
and the fourth collaboration of Steven Spielberg with his production
company, Amblin Entertainment, and produced by Warner Bros. Animation.
The characters first appeared in 1993 as a recurring skit on
Animaniacs. It was later spun off as a series due to its popularity,
with 66 episodes produced. The characters later appeared in the series
Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain.Pinky and Brain are genetically enhanced
laboratory mice who reside in a cage in the Acme Labs research
facility. Brain is self-centered and scheming, while Pinky is
good-natured but feeble-minded. In each episode, Brain devises a new
plan to take over the world which ultimately ends in failure: usually
due to the impossibility of Brain's plan, Brain's own arrogance or
overconfidence, Pinky's bumbling, or just circumstances beyond their
control. In common with many other Animaniacs shorts, many episodes
are in some way a parody of something else, usually a film or
novel.Many of the Pinky and the Brain episodes occur in the 1990s at
Acme Labs, located in some large American city underneath a suspension
bridge. Several episodes take place in historical times, with Pinky
and the Brain in the laboratory of some scientifically-minded person,
including Merlin, H.G. Wells, Ivan Pavlov, and Johannes Gutenberg.
There is very little continuity between episodes outside of the common
fixtures of the two mice, though some plans for world domination from
early episodes are subsequently referred to in later seasons for
example, Brain's mechanical human suit that was first used in "Win
Big" reappears when Brain faces his rival Snowball in "Snowball".The
bulk of every episode involves one of Brain's plans for world
domination with Pinky's assistance and the ultimate failure of that
plan, with some exceptions. One centers on Snowball's plan to take
over the world using Microsponge (a parody of Microsoft). Another
episode features Brain's single day where he tries to do anything but
take over the world: in the end, a group of people votes that he
should take over the world on the one day that he does not want to.
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