History Awesome / PinkyAndTheBrain

* Brain shows his inner [[TheTrickster Trickster]] in "Brain of the Future" when the two are taken prisoner by a race of humanoid cockroaches. Brain bets the queen he he can hold more in his two arms than her two guards can hold in their combined twelve, and if he's right, she'll let them go. She accepts his challenge, and of course, there's no way he can top the mountain of stuff the guards end up holding... but now that they've got their hands full, he's free to grab the MacGuffin and escape! [[BatmanGambit Classic]]! [[Literature/WatershipDown El-ahrairah]] and [[Film/SongOfTheSouth Br'er Rabbit]] would be so proud.

* Pinky in "Welcome to the Jungle": When Brain finds his techno savvy genius useless in the underdeveloped wilds of the jungle Pinky takes charge of the situation through his adaptability.

* Brain shows his inner TricksterArchetype in "Brain of the Future" when the two are taken prisoner by a race of humanoid cockroaches. Brain bets the queen he he can hold more in his two arms than her two guards can hold in their combined twelve, and if he's right, she'll let them go. She accepts his challenge, and of course, there's no way he can top the mountain of stuff the guards end up holding... but now that they've got their hands full, he's free to grab the MacGuffin and escape! [[BatmanGambit Classic]]! [[Literature/WatershipDown El-ahrairah]] and [[Film/SongOfTheSouth Br'er Rabbit]] would be so proud.

* Pinky saving Brain from the avalanche in "This Old Mouse," refusing to listen when Brain tells him it's hopeless -- they've seen the future, and YouCantFightFate. ScrewDestiny, he's saving his friend! His actions give Brain all his hope back, making him see that the future is truly what you make it.

* "A Pinky and the Brain Christmas" rightfully won an Emmy for "Outstanding Animated Program" in 1996.

* "A Pinky and the Brain Christmas" rightfully won an Emmy for "Outstanding Animated Program" 1996.

* Brain shows his inner TricksterArchetype in "Brain of the Future" when the two are taken prisoner by a race of humanoid cockroaches. Brain bets the queen he he can hold more in his two arms than her two guards can hold in their combined twelve, and if he's right, she'll let them go. She accepts his challenge, and of course, there's no way he can top the mountain of stuff the guards end up holding... but now that they've got their hands full, he's free to grab the MacGuffin and escape! [[BatmanGambit Classic]]! [[WatershipDown El-ahrairah]] and [[Film/SongOfTheSouth Br'er Rabbit]] would be so proud.

* Brain shows his inner TricksterArchetype in "Brain of the Future" when the two are taken prisoner by a race of humanoid cockroaches. Brain bets the queen he he can hold more in his two arms than her two guards can hold in their combined twelve, and if he's right, she'll let them go. She accepts his challenge, and of course, there's no way he can top the mountain of stuff the guards end up holding... but now that they've got their hands full, he's free to grab the MacGuffin and escape! [[BatmanGambit Classic]]! [[WatershipDown El-ahrairah]] and [[Disney/SongOfTheSouth Br'er Rabbit]] would be so proud.

* In one comic book adaptation, Brain and Pinky wind up in an alternate universe where everyone has super-powers, including their counterparts in that universe, who are both villains. Alt-Pinky turns out to be a DangerouslyGenreSavvy foe and is smart enough to outwit Brain, due mainly to having the power to read minds. Pinky Prime bets that Alt-Pinky can't read Prime-Pinky's mind. Alt-Pinky takes the challenge, then [[GoMadFromTheRevelation promptly falls to the floor in a fetal position,]] since Pinky was thinking what he's always thinking: Nothing.

* Brain shows his inner TricksterArchetype in "Brain of the Future" when the two are taken prisoner by a race of humanoid cockroaches. Brain bets the queen he he can hold more in his two arms than her two guards can hold in their combined twelve, and if he's right, she'll let them go. She accepts his challenge, and of course, there's no way he can top the mountain of stuff the guards end up holding... but now that they've got their hands full, he's free to grab the MacGuffin and escape! [[BatmanGambit Classic]]! [[WatershipDown El-ahrairah]] and [[SongOfTheSouth Br'er Rabbit]] would be so proud.

* Pinky in "Welcome to the Jungle" When brain finds his techno savvy genius useless in the underdeveloped wilds of the jungle Pinky takes charge of the situation through his adaptability.
** Near the end though Brain steals the show when he breaks the ropes binding him, and then proceeds to school Snowball in a fight and wraps it all up by rescuing Pinky.
* Brain shows his inner TricksterArchetype in "Brain of the Future" when the two are taken prisoner by a race of humanoid cockroaches. Brain bets the queen he he can hold more in his two arms than her two guards can hold in their combined twelve, and if he's right, she'll let them go. She accepts his challenge, and of course, there's no way he can top the mountain of stuff the guards end up holding... but now that they've got their hands full, he's free to grab the MacGuffin and escape! [[BatmanGambit Classic]]! [[WatershipDown El-ahrairah]] and[[SongOfTheSouth Br'er Rabbit]] would be so proud.

* In one comic book adaptation, Brain and Pinky wind up in an alternate universe where everyone has super-powers, including their counterparts in that universe, who are both villains. Alt-Pinky turns out to be a DangerouslyGenreSavvy foe and is smart enough to outwit Brain, due mainly to having the power to read minds. Pinky Prime bets that Alt-Pinky can't read Prime-Pinky's mind. Alt-Pinky takes the challenge, then [[GoMadFromTheRevelation promptly falls to the floor in a fetal position,]] since Pinky was thinking what he's always thinking: Nothing.

* In one comic book adaptation, Brain and Pinky wind up in an alternate universe where everyone has super-powers, including their counterparts in that universe, who are both villains. Alt-Pinky turns out to be a DangerouslyGenreSavvy foe and is smart enough to outwit Brain, due mainly to having the power to read minds. Pinky Prime bets that Alt-Pinky can't read Prime-Pinky's mind. Alt-Pinky takes the challenge, then [[GoMadFromTheRevelation promptly falls to the floor in a fetal position,]] since Pinky was thinking what he's always thinking: Nothing.
* Their cameo (still voiced by [=LaMarche=] and Paulsen) in TheNostalgiaCritic review of ''ThePurge'', where many Brain fans get their long-awaited wish of his telling off Pinky in a decidedly non-kid friendy fashion.

* Their cameo (still voiced by [=LaMarche=] and Paulsen) in TheNostalgiaCritc review of ''ThePurge'', where many Brain fans get their long-awaited wish of his telling off Pinky in a decidedly non-kid friendy fashion.

* In one comic book adaptation, Brain and Pinky wind up in an alternate universe where everyone has super-powers, including their counterparts in that universe, who are both villains. Alt-Pinky turns out to be a DangerouslyGenreSavvy foe and is smart enough to outwit Brain, due mainly to having the power to read minds. Pinky Prime bets that Alt-Pinky can't read Prime-Pinky's mind. Alt-Pinky takes the challenge, then [[GoMadFromTheRevelation promptly falls to the floor in a fetal position,]] since Pinky was thinking what he's always thinking: Nothing.

* Some of Brain's plots are actually amazingly elaborate in hindsight. In one instance, he and Pinky actually ''create an exact duplicate of Earth'' (and inadvertantly save it's entire population in the process when a meteor hits the original).

* "Star Warners". All of it.

* The robot army in "The Brain's Apprentice".

** Near the end though Brain steals the show when he breaks the ropes binding him, and then proceeds to school Snowball in a fight and wraps it all up by rescuing Pinky.