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* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Sort of. Snowball's last appearance, in which he was [[spoiler: turned back into a regular hamster]] was aired around the time of his voice actor Roddy [=McDowall=]'s death from lung cancer. In essence, Snowball has been defeated for good. However, the "died" part is subverted since Snowball didn't actually die.

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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Know in French as ''Minus et Cortex'', which uses the same "X & Y" structure and order as the original title, but with the French translation of the characters' names ("Minus" means either "idiot" or "weakling", while "Cortex" is a part of the brain).

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in French as ''Minus et Cortex'', which uses the same "X & Y" structure and order as the original title, but with the French translation of the characters' names ("Minus" means either "idiot" or "weakling", while "Cortex" is a part of the brain).

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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Know in French as ''Minus et Cortex'', which uses the same "X & Y" structure and order as the original title, but with the French translation of the characters' names ("Minus" means either "idiot" or "weakling", while "Cortex" is a part of the brain.)

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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Know in French as ''Minus et Cortex'', which uses the same "X & Y" structure and order as the original title, but with the French translation of the characters' names ("Minus" means either "idiot" or "weakling", while "Cortex" is a part of the brain.)brain).
** The same can be said about the Italian title: ''Mignolo e Prof'' (translated in English as ''Pinky and the Professor'').
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* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Sort of. Snowball's last appearance, in which he was [[spoiler: turned back into a regular hamster]] was aired around the time of his voice actor Roddy [=McDowall=]'s death from lung cancer. In essence, Snowball has been defeated for good.

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* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Sort of. Snowball's last appearance, in which he was [[spoiler: turned back into a regular hamster]] was aired around the time of his voice actor Roddy [=McDowall=]'s death from lung cancer. In essence, Snowball has been defeated for good. However, the "died" part is subverted since Snowball didn't actually die.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: In the first months of Creator/DisneyXD, it aired... at 3am in the morning.
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* FakeBrit: Creator/RobPaulsen as Pinky.

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* FakeBrit: Creator/RobPaulsen as fakes a Cockney accent when voicing Pinky.
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* KidsMealToy: Wendy's had a set a set of six toys in 1997, one of which was a ''Toys/PollyPocket''-like toy of ACME Labs shaped like Brain's head.

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* BitingTheHandHumor: The episode "You'll Never Eat Food Pellets in This Town Again", which features the title lab mice as the stars of a hit TV show [[ExecutiveMeddling being heavily meddled with by network executives, who think heavily altering the show's premise will increase ratings]]. (See ''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain''.) The iTunes description for this episode even referred to its head of the network character Sandy Dreckman as Jamie Kellner, the then ''actual'' head of the WB Network. This was Peter Hastings' last script before he left Warner Bros. for Disney, and was essentially his "let me tell you how I really feel" rant.

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* BitingTheHandHumor: The episode "You'll Never Eat Food Pellets in This Town Again", which features the title lab mice as the stars of a hit TV show [[ExecutiveMeddling being heavily meddled with by network executives, who think heavily altering the show's premise will increase ratings]]. (See ''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain''.) The iTunes description for this episode even referred to its head of the network character Sandy Dreckman as Jamie Kellner, the then ''actual'' head of the WB Network. This was Peter Hastings' last script before he left Warner Bros. for Disney, and was essentially his "let me tell you how I really feel" rant.



* FranchiseKiller: What happened when ''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain'' came in.

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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: According to one of the head writers, Charles M. Howell, each of the 65 half hour episodes only had one week to prepare a script for them. Despite this, they ended up going four months over schedule.

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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: According to one of the head writers, Charles M. Howell, Howell IV, each of the 65 half hour episodes only had one week to prepare a script for them. Despite this, they ended up going four months over schedule.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The show frequently pokes fun at 90s politics and pop culture, some obscure. For example, "Pinky Suavo" is one long reference to the 1991 single "Rico Suave."
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** This show as well as ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' were slated to air on Creator/TheHub in late 2014, but due to the change to Discovery Family, it never came to be.
** There was a planned Pinky and the Brain video game for the Sega Saturn, and possibly the [=PlayStation=] and N64 but it was canceled and there is little to no information about the game. [[http://retrocdn.net/images/8/87/EGM_US_084.pdf The little info can be seen here on page 75]].
** Russell Calabrese and Kirk Tingblad once proposed a Pinky and the Brain movie. The idea was to have an experiment fail and they get turned into their voice actors, Creator/RobPaulsen and Creator/MauriceLaMarche. The two go on a world wind adventure to find a certain gizmo that Brain can fix their conversion machine with. They find the gizmo they need and race to the lab to rebuild the device to return them into mice. Just as they start up the device Pinky is shot with the bullet hitting his heart. The conversion happens and as Brain is sobbing the bullet rolls off his cartoon chest and Pinky is saved. It ends with them cleaning up the lab ab Brain asks Pinky "Are you pondering what I am pondering?". [[https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2148146041911970&id=100001497862192 It was because it was too expensive. ]]
** The episode featuring Zalgar from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "PottyEmergency" was originally going to be a pilot for a show about him, ''Zalgar The Brain Eater''. When it was rejected, all the dialogue was redubbed and it was changed into a ''Pinky and the Brain'' episode.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** This show as well as ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' were slated to air on Creator/TheHub in late 2014, but due to the change to Discovery Family, it never came to be.
** There was
WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Animaniacs}} Shares a planned Pinky and the Brain video game for the Sega Saturn, and possibly the [=PlayStation=] and N64 but it was canceled and there is little to no information about the game. [[http://retrocdn.net/images/8/87/EGM_US_084.pdf The little info can be seen here on page 75]].
** Russell Calabrese and Kirk Tingblad once proposed a Pinky and the Brain movie. The idea was to have an experiment fail and they get turned into their voice actors, Creator/RobPaulsen and Creator/MauriceLaMarche. The two go on a world wind adventure to find a certain gizmo that Brain can fix their conversion machine with. They find the gizmo they need and race to the lab to rebuild the device to return them into mice. Just as they start up the device Pinky is shot
with the bullet hitting his heart. The conversion happens and as Brain is sobbing the bullet rolls off his cartoon chest and Pinky is saved. It ends with them cleaning up the lab ab Brain asks Pinky "Are you pondering what I am pondering?". [[https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2148146041911970&id=100001497862192 It was because it was too expensive. ]]
** The episode featuring Zalgar from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "PottyEmergency" was originally going to be a pilot for a show about him, ''Zalgar The Brain Eater''. When it was rejected, all the dialogue was redubbed and it was changed into a ''Pinky and the Brain'' episode.
its parent series]].
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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: According to one of the head writers, Charles M. Howell, each of the 52 half hour episodes only had one week to prepare a script for them. Despite this, they ended up going four months over schedule.

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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: According to one of the head writers, Charles M. Howell, each of the 52 65 half hour episodes only had one week to prepare a script for them. Despite this, they ended up going four months over schedule.
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* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Sort of. Snowball's last appearance, in which he was [[spoiler: turned into a regular hamster]] was aired around the time of his voice actor Roddy [=McDowall=]'s death from lung cancer. In essence, Snowball has been defeated for good.

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* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Sort of. Snowball's last appearance, in which he was [[spoiler: turned back into a regular hamster]] was aired around the time of his voice actor Roddy [=McDowall=]'s death from lung cancer. In essence, Snowball has been defeated for good.
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* BitingTheHandHumor: The episode "You'll Never Eat Food Pellets in This Town Again", which features the title lab mice as the stars of a hit TV show [[ExecutiveMeddling being heavily meddled with by network executives, who think heavily altering the show's premise will increase ratings]]. (See ''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain''.) The iTunes description for this episode even referred to it's head of the network character Sandy Dreckman as Jamie Kellner, the then ''actual'' head of the WB Network.

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* BitingTheHandHumor: The episode "You'll Never Eat Food Pellets in This Town Again", which features the title lab mice as the stars of a hit TV show [[ExecutiveMeddling being heavily meddled with by network executives, who think heavily altering the show's premise will increase ratings]]. (See ''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain''.) The iTunes description for this episode even referred to it's its head of the network character Sandy Dreckman as Jamie Kellner, the then ''actual'' head of the WB Network. This was Peter Hastings' last script before he left Warner Bros. for Disney, and was essentially his "let me tell you how I really feel" rant.
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** There was a planned Pinky and the Brain video game for the Sega Saturn, and possibly the PlayStation and N64 but it was canceled and there is little to no information about the game. [[http://retrocdn.net/images/8/87/EGM_US_084.pdf The little info can be seen here on page 75]].

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** There was a planned Pinky and the Brain video game for the Sega Saturn, and possibly the PlayStation [=PlayStation=] and N64 but it was canceled and there is little to no information about the game. [[http://retrocdn.net/images/8/87/EGM_US_084.pdf The little info can be seen here on page 75]].

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The show was slated to air on Creator/TheHub in late 2014, but due to the change to Discovery Family, it never came to be.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The WhatCouldHaveBeen:
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show was as well as ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' were slated to air on Creator/TheHub in late 2014, but due to the change to Discovery Family, it never came to be.
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** This show as well as ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' were going to air on Creator/TheHub in 2014, but couldn't after the network became Discovery Family.
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** This show as well as ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' were going to air on Creator/TheHub in 2014, but couldn't after the network became Discovery Family.

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** Russell Calabrese and Kirk Tingblad once proposed a Pinky and the Brain movie. The idea was to have an experiment fail and they get turned into their voice actors, Creator/RobPaulsen and Creator/MauriceLaMarche. The two go on a world wind adventure to find a certain gizmo that Brain can fix their conversion machine with. They find the gizmo they need and race to the lab to rebuild the device to return them into mice. Just as they start up the device Pinky is shot with the bullet hitting his heart. The conversion happens and as Brain is sobbing the bullet rolls off his cartoon chest and Pinky is saved. It ends with them cleaning up the lab ab Brain asks Pinky "Are you pondering what I am pondering?". It was rejected as being too expensive. Source: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2148146041911970&id=100001497862192

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** Russell Calabrese and Kirk Tingblad once proposed a Pinky and the Brain movie. The idea was to have an experiment fail and they get turned into their voice actors, Creator/RobPaulsen and Creator/MauriceLaMarche. The two go on a world wind adventure to find a certain gizmo that Brain can fix their conversion machine with. They find the gizmo they need and race to the lab to rebuild the device to return them into mice. Just as they start up the device Pinky is shot with the bullet hitting his heart. The conversion happens and as Brain is sobbing the bullet rolls off his cartoon chest and Pinky is saved. It ends with them cleaning up the lab ab Brain asks Pinky "Are you pondering what I am pondering?". It was rejected as being too expensive. Source: https://m.[[https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2148146041911970&id=100001497862192 php?story_fbid=2148146041911970&id=100001497862192 It was because it was too expensive. ]]
** The episode featuring Zalgar from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "PottyEmergency" was originally going to be a pilot for a show about him, ''Zalgar The Brain Eater''. When it was rejected, all the dialogue was redubbed and it was changed into a ''Pinky and the Brain'' episode.

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* WriterRevolt: "You'll Never Eat Food Pellets in This Town Again", "Pinky and The Brain... and Larry!" and the opening theme to ''Pinky, Elmyra & The Brain''.

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* WriterRevolt: The show has two pretty well known examples:
** "Pinky and The Brain... and Larry!" is perhaps the most well known case. In a parody of the trope RememberTheNewGuy, a third character is introduced to the cast without any explanation. This episode was intended to protest the executives' demands that additional characters be added to the main cast, which is reflected quite well in the episode -- Larry has very little personality (save for saying his name over and over), does absolutely nothing to help out with the world domination plan, and is basically a total afterthought in every sense. Even Brain realizes in this alternate universe that "there shouldn't be a Larry."
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"You'll Never Eat Food Pellets in This Town Again", "Pinky Again" is basically ExecutiveMeddling: The Episode. In it, the duo quit their jobs after the studio executives demand more and The Brain... more changes be made to the show until it's virtually unrecognizable. This was Peter Hastings' final episode he headed the story for and Larry!" and left the opening theme to ''Pinky, Elmyra & The Brain''.studio not long after as a direct result of the meddling.
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* BitingTheHandHumor: The episode "You'll Never Eat Food Pellets in This Town Again", which features the title lab mice as the stars of a hit TV show [[ExecutiveMeddling being heavily meddled with by network executives, who think heavily altering the show's premise will increase ratings]]. (See ''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain''.) The iTunes description for this episode even referred to it's head of the network character Sandy Dreckman as Jamie Kellner, the then ACTUAL head of the WB Network.
* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Sort of. Snowball's last appearance, in which he was [[spoiler: turned into a regular hamster]] was aired around the time of his voice actor's death. In essence, Snowball has been defeated for good.

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* BitingTheHandHumor: The episode "You'll Never Eat Food Pellets in This Town Again", which features the title lab mice as the stars of a hit TV show [[ExecutiveMeddling being heavily meddled with by network executives, who think heavily altering the show's premise will increase ratings]]. (See ''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain''.) The iTunes description for this episode even referred to it's head of the network character Sandy Dreckman as Jamie Kellner, the then ACTUAL ''actual'' head of the WB Network.
* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Sort of. Snowball's last appearance, in which he was [[spoiler: turned into a regular hamster]] was aired around the time of his voice actor's death.actor Roddy [=McDowall=]'s death from lung cancer. In essence, Snowball has been defeated for good.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The show frequently pokes fun at 90s politics and pop culture, some obscure. For example, "Pinky Suavo" is one long reference to the 1991 single "Rico Suave."
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** Russell Calabrese and Kirk Tingblad once proposed a Pinky and the Brain movie. The idea was to have an experiment fail and they get turned into their voice actors, Creator/RobPaulsen and Creator/MauriceLaMarche. The two go an a world wind adventure to find a certain gizmo that Brain can fix their conversion machine with. They find the gizmo they need and race to the lab to rebuild the device to return them into mice. Just as they start up the device Pinky is shot with the bullet hitting his heart. The conversion happens and as Brain is sobbing the bullet rolls off his cartoon chest and Pinky is saved. It ends with them cleaning up the lab ab Brain asks Pinky "Are you pondering what I am pondering?". It was rejected as being too expensive. Source: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2148146041911970&id=100001497862192

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** Russell Calabrese and Kirk Tingblad once proposed a Pinky and the Brain movie. The idea was to have an experiment fail and they get turned into their voice actors, Creator/RobPaulsen and Creator/MauriceLaMarche. The two go an on a world wind adventure to find a certain gizmo that Brain can fix their conversion machine with. They find the gizmo they need and race to the lab to rebuild the device to return them into mice. Just as they start up the device Pinky is shot with the bullet hitting his heart. The conversion happens and as Brain is sobbing the bullet rolls off his cartoon chest and Pinky is saved. It ends with them cleaning up the lab ab Brain asks Pinky "Are you pondering what I am pondering?". It was rejected as being too expensive. Source: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2148146041911970&id=100001497862192
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** Russell Calabrese and Kirk Tingblad once proposed a Pinky and the Brain movie. The idea was to have an experiment fail and they get turned into their voice actors, Creator/RobPaulsen and Creator/MauriceLaMarche. The two go an a world wind adventure to find a certain gizmo that Brain can fix their conversion machine with. They find the gizmo they need and race to the lab to rebuild the device to return them into mice. Just as they start up the device Pinky is shot with the bullet hitting his heart. The conversion happens and as Brain is sobbing the bullet rolls off his cartoon chest and Pinky is saved. It ends with them cleaning up the lab ab Brain asks Pinky "Are you pondering what I am pondering?". It was rejected as being to expensive. Source: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2148146041911970&id=100001497862192

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** Russell Calabrese and Kirk Tingblad once proposed a Pinky and the Brain movie. The idea was to have an experiment fail and they get turned into their voice actors, Creator/RobPaulsen and Creator/MauriceLaMarche. The two go an a world wind adventure to find a certain gizmo that Brain can fix their conversion machine with. They find the gizmo they need and race to the lab to rebuild the device to return them into mice. Just as they start up the device Pinky is shot with the bullet hitting his heart. The conversion happens and as Brain is sobbing the bullet rolls off his cartoon chest and Pinky is saved. It ends with them cleaning up the lab ab Brain asks Pinky "Are you pondering what I am pondering?". It was rejected as being to too expensive. Source: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2148146041911970&id=100001497862192
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**Russell Calabrese and Kirk Tingblad once proposed a Pinky and the Brain movie. The idea was to have an experiment fail and they get turned into their voice actors, Creator/RobPaulsen and Creator/MauriceLaMarche. The two go an a world wind adventure to find a certain gizmo that Brain can fix their conversion machine with. They find the gizmo they need and race to the lab to rebuild the device to return them into mice. Just as they start up the device Pinky is shot with the bullet hitting his heart. The conversion happens and as Brain is sobbing the bullet rolls off his cartoon chest and Pinky is saved. It ends with them cleaning up the lab ab Brain asks Pinky "Are you pondering what I am pondering?". It was rejected as being to expensive. Source: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2148146041911970&id=100001497862192
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* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/RoddyMcDowall loved playing Snowball.

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* AwesomeDearBoy: You may think a Hollywood legend like Creator/RoddyMcDowall would resent being in cartoons, but as it turns out he loved playing Snowball.Snowball and got on very well with Maurice and Rob.

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