"Pinky and the Brainmaker" / "Calvin Brain" is the thirteenth episode of the third season of Pinky and the Brain.
As the title suggests, this episode contains two cartoons. In "Pinky and the Brainmaker," Brain invents a machine to make enough clones of him to take over the world through Celtic dance. In "Calvin Brain," Brain becomes a fashion designer in order to get everyone to wear his perfume, Subjugation, which has hypnotic properties.
"Pinky and the Brainmaker" contains examples of:
- All Just a Dream: The episode ends with the revelation that Brain only dreamed its events.
- Clone Army: Brain plans to make enough clones of himself to take over the world.
- Duplicate Divergence: Pinky accidentally makes a bunch of clones of himself and leads them in a ballet dance. Brain's clones all start imitating Pinky's ballet moves instead of Brain's Celtic dance steps, then turn on Brain.
- Self-Duplication: Brain invents a machine that makes clones of him when he inserts a photo of himself.
"Calvin Brain" contains examples of:
- Bankruptcy Barrel: A non-poverty example. Pinky and the Brain go to a Fashion Show in order to promote Brain's mind-controlling perfume. One of the models is showcasing an outfit that's nothing but a barrel.
- Baths Are Fun: To get everyone to wear his perfume, Brain emphasizes that Subjugation is a unisex scent, and he produces the Subjugation Kids line, including bubble bath in a bottle that looks like Pinky. Baloney the Dinosaur, from Animaniacs, appears in a commercial for it.
- Expy: After becoming a fashion designer, Brain appears on the TV show Stylish and is interviewed by Elsa Kitsch—based on Elsa Klensch, host of the TV show Style with Elsa Klensch.
- Fashion Show: Pinky, wearing a pin cushion on his head while tangled in thread and a tape measure, accidentally lands on the runway of one. He immediately gets the attention of the photographers and becomes a supermodel, with Brain as his fashion designer, Calvin Brain.
- Is This Thing Still On?: Brain's plan is undone when a behind-the-scenes documentary crew films him unleashing a diatribe on the shallowness of the fashion industry and the brainlessness of those who follow its dictates. His last words on the video are even "Was that thing on?"
- Perfume Commercial: Brain makes one for Subjugation. Pinky's shenanigans ruin the effect.
- Shout-Out: The name Calvin Brain is a shout-out to fashion designer Calvin Klein.
- Song Parody: Pinky, after becoming a supermodel, gets his own music video: "I'm Too Happy", a parody of Right Said Fred's Heavy Meta song "I'm Too Sexy".
- You Are the New Trend: When Pinky becomes a supermodel, women everywhere start wearing tape measures and pin cushions.
