History WesternAnimation / PinkyandtheBrain

'''Brain''': The same thing we do every night, Pinky -- try to take over the world!

* ContinuityNod: Every now and then somebody will recognize Brain and mention a scheme from a previous episode. In "The Pink Candidate," a Congressional investigation unearths Brain's plans for world domination, and every one is the plot from a previous episode; similarly, the episode "Brain Drained" began with a reference to the first episode after spinning off from ''{{Animaniacs}}''.

* InterspeciesRomance: Pinky and Pharfignewton, a horse. Also Romy (cloned mouse) and Pat (human).

--> "I see clams! Giant, shirtless clams!"

An AnimatedSeries about a superintelligent, genetically-altered lab mouse who enlists his halfwit roommate (read: the other mouse in his cage) into his endless quest to take over the world. Each episode saw The Brain devise an elaborate, improbable scheme for world domination, only be foiled in the end due to some unforeseeable twist of fate ([[XanatosGilligan read: the other mouse in his cage)]], or occasionally his own blundering. On one or two occasions he actually succeeded in taking over the world, but with some kind of unacceptable side-effect that sent him back to the drawing board. By contrast, many episodes had his schemes barely even getting off the ground, and the story centered around his attempts just to get Step One going.

--> "Yes, Darlene, now go make Mama a sandwich."

* IntoxicationEnsues: In "Brainy Jack" Brain gets bitten by a rattlesnake and alternates between thinking he's Bob Hope and Henry Kissinger.

* IronButtmonkey: Pinky and Brain regularly get smashed, beaten, exploded, so forth, as Brain's schemes fail. Of course, Pinky doesn't really mind when Brain bops him on the head, so perhaps he's okay with it. Brain, however, gets the worst of it. Naturally, they're still standing (if bruised) at the end of every episode, ready to do "the same thing we do every night".

* LoveDodecahedron: Even if you leave [[HoYay certain]] [[FoeYay fanon]] out of it, it's a mess: Brain and Billie had a fling, then she dumped him and started dating Snowball, ''then'' she dumped ''him'' and started chasing Pinky, who's happy with Pharfignewton (who loves him back) and seems alarmed by Billie's advances. Meanwhile, Brain still hasn't gotten over Billie...

* DistaffCounterpart: Billie looks and acts like a female version of Pinky. And Brain has a crush on her. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Make of that]] [[HoYay what you will.]]

* KavorkaMan: For such an ugly little jerk, Brain doesn't have much trouble [[ChickMagnet getting girls]] when he's [[PaperThinDisguise *cough*]] disguised as a human. (RuleOfFunny is probably at work here.)

-->''What's wrong with being friendly with a thoroughbred?''
Pinky sings that bit while hugging a photo of his girlfriend Pharfignewton, who [[InterspeciesRomance happens to be a horse.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In "Brinky", The Brain attempts to clone himself, which almost works until Pinky's DNA (from a clipped toenail) accidentally gets combined with Brain's, thus essentially making them parents of the resulting clone (and Pinky calling himself the clone's "mommy"). Most of the dialogue during the cloning process is scripted like an actual birth: for example, when the door on the cloning machine won't close (which is the reason Pinky's DNA is even in there), the Brain tells Pinky to help him "push", complete with Pinky doing [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamaze Lamaze breathing.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In "Brinky", The Brain attempts to clone himself, which almost works until Pinky's DNA (from a clipped toenail) accidentally gets combined with Brain's, thus essentially making them parents of the resulting clone (and Pinky calling himself the clone's "mommy"). Most of the dialogue during the cloning process is scripted like an actual birth: for example, when the door on the cloning machine won't close (which is the reason Pinky's DNA is even in there), the Brain tells Pinky to help him "push", complete with Pinky doing Lamaze breathing.

* KavorkaMan: For such an ugly little jerk, Brain doesn't have much trouble [[ChickMagnet getting girls]] when he's disguised as a human. (RuleOfFunny is probably at work here.)

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Romy's "birth" in the episode "Brinky".

--> '''Brain:''' I see ''someone'' had too much Shasta on the plane.

* DrunkOnMalts: Alluded to (in a non-DrowningMySorrows way) in "Brain's Song":

* [=~It's Been Done~=]: The episode "Brain Drained" opens with Brain realising that his plans are beginning to repeat themselves in some form.

* NoodleIncident: Many of Pinky's answers to [=~Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering~=] fall into this category. Sometimes the Noodle Incident involves NoodleImplements.

* OnceAnEpisode: The plot for world domination, [=~Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering~=], and others, often {{lampshade|Hanging}}d.