"Fly" is the eleventh episode of the first season of Pinky and the Brain.
After Brain buys out all real estate above the 39th floor in the world, he and Pinky impersonate foreign astronauts and go to the space center in order to reach the Hubble telescope in an attempt to melt the ice caps and flood the Earth.
Tropes:
- Buffy Speak:Brain: A pantheon of aviation, a shrine to lofty goals!Pinky: Thingies hanging on wires!
- Dope Slap: Brain makes Pinky take the wheel of the plane just so he can give him one.
- Eat the Camera: When Floyd Nesbit screams upon realizing that Jimmy Brain is one of the astronaut impersonators.
- Funny Foreigner: The Brain and Pinky impersonate two Norwegian scientists, Dr. Ingmar Hostwax and Dr. Nikki Jiggleitalittleitllopen.
- Furry Confusion: In the spaceship, a couple of fellow astronauts perform an experiment on two non-sapient lab mice to see how they’ll be affected by zero gravity.Brain: This is sick.
- I Can See My House from Here: Pinky says this after they’ve been launched into space and their shuttle is floating above the Earth.
- Inflating Body Gag: Technically, inflating G-force suits, but still.
- Jerkass: Floyd, although at least part of it is because of Brain buying out the man's retirement home in Florida.
- Laser-Guided Karma: One of the people Brain scammed (who also happens to be the one in charge at the space center) gets revenge on Brain by disconnecting him from the life support and abandoning him and Pinky in space.
- Mistaken for Aliens: The Russians who open the capsule to find that Pinky and the Brain have taken refuge in it, think they’re aliens and take them back to Russia to perform tests on them.
- No Endor Holocaust: The fate of the people who live below 39th floors, much less residents of houses, in Brain's scheme is not mentioned.
- Refuge in Audacity: Brain tells Floyd Nesbit that he’s “a laboratory mouse bent on world domination”, but he just thinks he’s being a Funny Foreigner.
- Running Gag: Brain's "No-Spill" coffee mug keeps spilling coffee.Floyd Nesbit: Ugh, this coffee mug!
- Shout-Out:
- At the beginning of the episode, Brain is dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and calling himself Jimmy Brain.
- Brain almost quotes a famous line from Top Gun, but then subverts it at the last minute: “I feel the need, the need for expeditious velocity!”
- The name Jiggleitalittleitllopen is a reference to a running gag in The Lucy Show where Lucille tells visitors having trouble opening her refrigerator to "just jiggle it a little, it'll open", to the confusion of some of her visitors.
- Pinky suggests that they sing the Gilligan's Island theme song while they wait to reach the telescope.
- When the mice bounce around the rocket in their space suits, this is referencing a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- This Means War!: When Nesbit mistakes them for imposters, the real Dr. Ingmar Hostwax tells him “This could mean war!”
- Variations on a Theme Song: The chorus at the end of the episode is sung in a Russian accent.
