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* Why couldn't Brain just put his parents into the gene splicer during the events of "The Visit"? It would have been easier than putting an intelligence-giving backpack on them. Plus he did later put Pinky's family in the gene splicer in "The Family That Poits Together, Narfs Together." so why he doesn't simply do that to his own parents is a mystery.


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** [[https://twitter.com/tomruegger/status/922893866801311744/ It's not canon, therefore nobody should fret.]]


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*** These are the Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister) being talked about. With all the bizarre things they've been apart of, their nose color is the least of our problems.
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** In the WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} episode, "The Girl With The Googily Goop," the character who is a parody of BettyBoop has a red nose that shows as red even in black and white.

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** In the WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} episode, "The Girl With The Googily Goop," the character who is a parody of BettyBoop WesternAnimation/BettyBoop has a red nose that shows as red even in black and white.
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* A large number of Brain's schemes require him to make a lot of money to finance something, usually some machine. When Brain fails to make the money he needs, the entire scheme is thrown out. But the 'something' wasn't what failed, it was getting the funds to make it.
** A similar (and more specific example) is when Brain creates a mind control serum, and plans to spread it via a pancake jamboree. Except Pinky can't mask the horrible taste of the serum, and so Brain tells him to "cut it out" (meaning stop pestering me). So Pinky does cut it out (cuts the serum out of the pancakes). So naturally the serum isn't spread, but Brain just abandons it without trying to use the serum in some other way.
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** It's easily possible that she lives on the overlap between her old and new schools' jurisdictions. (and that the rest might not be convenient anymore.)
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** "[Narf] means the same thing as zort and poit, except it's different."
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** [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Poit doesn't go into narf!]]
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** Because Pinky and the Brain exist entirely within the Fourth Wall (unless you count the occasional AsideGlance), while the Warners regard the 'fourth wall' as a fun trampoline. Boingy, boingy, boingy!...
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* "Narf" is Pinky's catchphrase, but where does "poit" come into it?
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*** It's kind of the inverse actually, because he does different things every night, but the result he expects always stays the same.
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* What happened to everything else from ''TinyToonAdventures'' when they added Elmyra? Something terrible must've happened to Acme Acres between 1994 and 1998 if it meant everybody else vanished.

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* What happened to everything else from ''TinyToonAdventures'' ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' when they added Elmyra? Something terrible must've happened to Acme Acres between 1994 and 1998 if it meant everybody else vanished.
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** In the black and white PinkyAndTheBrain episode, "The Third Mouse," Pinky and Brain's red noses show up as a shade of grey, but Dot Warner's red nose appears red.
*** Shouldn't all the red-nosed WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} and PinkyAndTheBrain characters have their noses appear red even in black and white cartoons so it won't be so jarring?

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** In the black and white PinkyAndTheBrain ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode, "The Third Mouse," Pinky and Brain's red noses show up as a shade of grey, but Dot Warner's red nose appears red.
*** Shouldn't all the red-nosed WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} and PinkyAndTheBrain ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' characters have their noses appear red even in black and white cartoons so it won't be so jarring?
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** It was definitely a case of despair. Keep in mind what Brain said. He didn't say, "The future can't change." He said, "The future ''can't be changed''." His attempt to change the future into something better only made things worse, convincing him that he had no control over his future; maybe it can change, but there's nothing you can do to make what you want happen -- any such attempts will just backfire on you, so don't try. Or so he came to believe before Pinky proved you can ScrewDestiny.
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* Okay, seriously. How the ungodly ''fuck'' does nobody in this program question anything? Why is it tiny little labmice walking around demanding appointments with the President or opening businesses or whatever is apparently socially acceptable? Brain even ''admits'' on various occasions, almost [[OnceAnEpisode once an episode]] that he's a lab mouse trying to take over the world, and everyone either accepts this or (admittedly reasonably) decides he's joking. Obviously the show wouldn't work otherwise, but it bears thinking about.
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** Brain always uses different methods though, so it doesn't count as doing the same thing repeatedly.
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** The Brain is definitely insane, but the lyric "one is a genius / both are insane" wouldn't have sounded as good.
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Which one is really the genius?

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* Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Brain tries to take over the world every night, always with the same results. Is he really the insane one?
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*** Shouldn't all the red-nosed {{Animaniacs}} and PinkyAndTheBrain characters have their noses appear red even in black and white cartoons so it won't be so jarring?
** In the {{Animaniacs}} episode, "The Girl With The Googily Goop," the character who is a parody of BettyBoop has a red nose that shows as red even in black and white.

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*** Shouldn't all the red-nosed {{Animaniacs}} WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} and PinkyAndTheBrain characters have their noses appear red even in black and white cartoons so it won't be so jarring?
** In the {{Animaniacs}} WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} episode, "The Girl With The Googily Goop," the character who is a parody of BettyBoop has a red nose that shows as red even in black and white.

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* They added [[TheScrappy Elmyra]]. Why, for the love of god,WHY?
** Media execs are brainless -- no exaggeration, no comedy. Hey, they were too dense even to see that an entire episode of the old show ''and'' the new theme song were deliberately making fun of their stupid idea. The worst idea in the history of bad ideas! The Critic was way off; watching ''BatmanAndRobin'' isn't a FateWorseThanDeath, its watching an episode of this...atrocity. Even worse, after watching an episode of the excellent show they ruined. [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOO!!!!]]
*** I've seen some of it. It was funny. Claiming the executives were "too dense" to see they were being made fun of by the intro doesn't hold when the lyrics explicitly ''state'' as much. Anyway, none of this actually answers the question -- sheer stupidity alone wouldn't account for Elmyra's presence, even if it ''was'' an accurate blanket statement of media heads. My guess? Uh... someone used to getting his way put "little girl who is anathema to pets" and "super-smart megalomaniacal mice" together in his head, decided it was a good idea, and declared, "Make it happen."

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* They added [[TheScrappy Elmyra]]. Why, for the love of god,WHY?
** Media execs are brainless -- no exaggeration, no comedy. Hey, they were too dense even to see that an entire episode of the old show ''and'' the new theme song were deliberately making fun of their stupid idea. The worst idea in the history of bad ideas! The Critic was way off; watching ''BatmanAndRobin'' isn't a FateWorseThanDeath, its watching an episode of this...atrocity. Even worse, after watching an episode of the excellent show they ruined. [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOO!!!!]]
*** I've seen some of it. It was funny. Claiming the executives were "too dense" to see they were being made fun of by the intro doesn't hold when the lyrics explicitly ''state'' as much. Anyway, none of this actually answers the question -- sheer stupidity alone wouldn't account for Elmyra's presence, even if it ''was'' an accurate blanket statement of media heads. My guess? Uh... someone used to getting his way put "little girl who is anathema to pets" and "super-smart megalomaniacal mice" together in his head, decided it was a good idea, and declared, "Make it happen."
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* So, did Pinky ever have an actual sister? A mouse one? His whole family seems to easily accept that the empty spool of thread found at the petting zoo is his sister, but the pet store had records of selling a mouse to that zoo.

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** Pinky and Brain are merely cartoon mice. The Warners are... [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum Well]][[SoYeah ...]]

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** Pinky and Brain are merely cartoon mice. The Warners are... [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum Well]][[SoYeah ...]]



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** Media execs are brainless -- no exaggeration, no comedy. Hey, they were too dense even to see that an entire episode of the old show ''and'' the new theme song were deliberately making fun of their stupid idea. The worst idea in the history of bad ideas! The NostalgiaCritic was way off; watching ''BatmanAndRobin'' isn't a FateWorseThanDeath, its watching an episode of this...atrocity. Even worse, after watching an episode of the excellent show they ruined. [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOO!!!!]]

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** Media execs are brainless -- no exaggeration, no comedy. Hey, they were too dense even to see that an entire episode of the old show ''and'' the new theme song were deliberately making fun of their stupid idea. The worst idea in the history of bad ideas! The NostalgiaCritic Critic was way off; watching ''BatmanAndRobin'' isn't a FateWorseThanDeath, its watching an episode of this...atrocity. Even worse, after watching an episode of the excellent show they ruined. [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOO!!!!]]

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* How come Pinky's nose and Brain's nose show up as a shade of grey in black and white, but Yakko, Wakko, and Dot's noses show up as red even in black and white?

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* How come Pinky's nose and Brain's nose show up as a shade of grey in black and white, but Yakko, Wakko, and Dot's noses show up as red even in black and white?white?
** In the black and white PinkyAndTheBrain episode, "The Third Mouse," Pinky and Brain's red noses show up as a shade of grey, but Dot Warner's red nose appears red.
*** Shouldn't all the red-nosed {{Animaniacs}} and PinkyAndTheBrain characters have their noses appear red even in black and white cartoons so it won't be so jarring?
** In the {{Animaniacs}} episode, "The Girl With The Googily Goop," the character who is a parody of BettyBoop has a red nose that shows as red even in black and white.
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* How come Pinky's nose and Brain's nose show up as a shade of grey in black and white, but Yakko, Wakko, and Dot's noses show up as red even in black and white?
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*** I've seen some of it. It was funny. Claiming the executives were "too dense" to see they were being made fun of by the intro doesn't hold when the lyrics explicitly ''state'' as much. Anyway, none of this actually answers the question -- sheer stupidity alone wouldn't account for Elmyra's presence, even if it ''was'' an accurate blanket statement of media heads. My guess? Uh... someone used to getting his way put "little girl who is anathema to pets" and "super-smart megalomaniacal mice" together in his head, decided it was a good idea, and declared, "Make it happen."
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***** You win.

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