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1'''Airdate:''' October 6, 1993
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3Opening Line: "Pinky And The Brain-y"- Yakko, Wakko, and Dot
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5'''Pavlov's Mice:''' In 1904 Russia, the Brain plots to steal the Czar's crown jewels to fund his world domination. Unfortunately, he and Pinky have been conditioned to sing and dance when a gong and bell is rung.
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7'''Boo-Ryshnikov:''' Chicken Boo poses as a ballet dancer.
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9'''Tower Escape:''' The Warners shoot a cannon from the Tower that contains a zip line which they slide down in a air car.
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11'''Nothing But the Tooth:''' When Rasputin gets a toothache, he gets the Warners are dentists!
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13'''Wheel Of Morality:''' Brush your teeth after every meal
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15'''Tower Return:''' Wakko pulls a flying carpet from his gag bag
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17!!"Pavlov's Mice" has examples of:
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19* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: "Uh, yeah, Brain, but where are we gonna get rubber pants our size?"
20* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Ivan Pavlov was not really interested in conditioned response, he wanted some saliva to study. He actually won the Nobel Prize for "his work on the physiology of digestion, through which knowledge on vital aspects of the subject has been transformed and enlarged".
21* ChekhovsGag: Pavlov hypnotizes Brain to sing "[[TheTeapotPose I'm a Little Teapot]]" when he hears a gong sound, and Pinky to do ThatRussianSquatDance when he hears a bell ring. Brain's plan to steal the crown jewels with the Vacuuminator is foiled when the clocks in the Czar's treasury go off at 1:00 A.M., causing him and Pinky to get distracted and sucked up.
22* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Thanks to Pavlov hypnotizing them, Pinky and Brain get sucked up in the Vacuuminator when the clocks in the Czar's treasury go off.
23* ImprovisedLockpick: Brain uses a pen he sucks up with the Vacuuminator to pick the lock on his cage.
24* RunningGag: Pinky and Brain's conditioned reflexes being triggered. When the clocks in the treasury go off, they're triggered at the same time.
25* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: Brain plans on doing the heist during a lunar eclipse, under the cover of its darkness.
26* WeaponsThatSuck: Brain invents the Vacuuminator from a French horn, which uses reverse air pressure to suck up anything in its path. He plans to use it to steal Russia's crown jewels, but his plan is foiled when the clocks in the Czar's treasury go off.
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28!!"Boo-Ryshnikov" has examples of:
29* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the theme song, during the "You wear a disguise / To look like human guys..." part, instead of Chicken Boo trying out disguises in front of a mirror, a Brady Bunch-style shot of Boo's disguises are shown.
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31!!"Nothing But the Tooth" has examples of:
32* TheDentistEpisode: Rasputin gets a toothache, and to his horror, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot are his dentists. In the ''Wheel of Morality'' segment that follows, the episode's moral is "Brush your teeth after every meal. This moral brought to you by the American Dental Association."
33* LampshadedTheObscureReference: Yakko suggests knocking Rasputin out with "a little Anastasia". Dot then does an aside, "Obscure joke. Ask your parents." This episode was written long before [[WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}} the Don Bluth film]] was released.
34* TheToothHurts: Rasputin's toothache is how the Warners get involved.
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