Pinky and the Brain (season 3 episodes)

No. in Series	No. in Season	Title	Airdate	Network
26a	01a	Leave It to Beavers	September 8, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain attempts to communicate with a pack of beavers in order to control the flow of a river and threaten the humans under his control.
26b	01b	Cinebrainia	September 8, 1997	Kids' WB
The mice become silent film comedy stars in a parody of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, but when they switch from comedy to drama, people get tired of their movies.
27	02	Brain Noir	September 12, 1997	Kids' WB
In a film noir spoof, Pinky and Brain run into Billie, who uses her charm to fool them into thinking she needs help when she's really working for Snowball. At the end, she tosses Snowball and Brain over the edge of the waterslide she built for Pinky, Brain because he loves the world too much to care about her, and Snowball for making her take voice lessons in an effort to make her lose her squawky, "Pinky-like" tone.
28a	03a	Pinky & the Brain...and Larry	September 13, 1997	Kids' WB
Pinky and the Brain (and Larry, a parody of Larry Fine of The Three Stooges whose presence is never explained but may have something to do with voice actor Maurice LaMarche's nickname "Moe", is awkwardly worked into the show's routines and dialogue, and doesn't actually contribute to the plan) develop a formula for the Synchrono Plastic Remote Controller, which was intended to control garage door openers so that people will be forced to use bikes and the petroleum industry will be ruined. Unfortunately, a gyroscopic transducer chip is needed to complete the device, so Pinky, Brain and Larry pose as wallpaper hangers in the White House in order for Brain to get close to the President. Things quickly descend into Stooge madness until a butler throws them out due to the presence of three wallpaper hangers. Back at the lab, Brain works out the problem with their teamwork, seeing that there's a Yin and Yang but no Larry. Larry decides to change his name to Art (a reference to Art Garfunkel, whose hair is similar to that of the Three Stooges' Larry) and leaves in a huff at the end of the episode to become a singer and performs the song "The Smells of Loudness", a direct shout out to "The Sound of Silence", with Paul Simon, only to have another mouse named Zeppo come in at the very end.
28b	03b	Where the Deer and the Mousealopes Play	September 13, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain and Pinky pose as the endangered species, the Mousealope, to take over a large amount of land near Pittsburgh for their own.
29a	04a	Brain's Bogie	September 15, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain joins a golf tournament dressed as Cher to steal a special golf club from a competitor to use in his world domination plan.
29b	04b	Say What, Earth	September 15, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain manages to communicate with the Earth directly with a new device, and attempts to use that ability to take over the world, but the Earth turns on him and tries to destroy him. Pinky convinces him not to and sends the machine into outer space, bringing the moon to life.
30	05	My Feldmans, My Friends	September 16, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain must recover a critical part for his plan from his packrat neighbor, Mr. Sultana Sultana, whom the part was accidentally delivered to, in order to prevent a lightning strike from destroying the earth. To do so, Pinky and Brain must pose as a married couple, resulting in Mr. Sultana becoming romantically attracted to Pinky as the housewife. Brain is eventually able to recover the part and save the world, but his device is destroyed as a result.
31a	06a	All You Need Is Narf	September 17, 1997	Kids' WB
Pinky becomes a guru in 1960s India, which Brain tries to exploit in his latest plan, and they both meet a parody of The Beatles.
31b	06b	Pinky's Plan	September 17, 1997	Kids' WB
Pinky actually succeeds in talking certain powerful world leaders (including then-President Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat) into handing over control of the world, but when Pinky hands over the "key to the world" to Brain, Brain botches it up by repulsing the leaders with his anger and rudeness, thinking that Pinky is plotting against him, when in fact, it is only a surprise birthday party.
32	07	This Old Mouse	September 18, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain develops a machine that can see into the future and sees that he will never rule the world. He gives up trying to take over the world and becomes a ski instructor. Back at the lab, Pinky finds a yam given by Mr. Sultana and uses the yam to replace Brain. Using the virtual reality helmets, Pinky and the yam foresee Brain's death in an avalanche and then Pinky tries to save Brain and change the future. They succeed in saving Brain, who deduces that the future can be changed, and the mice return to the lab. They take one last glance at the future using the helmets, only to discover that the yam has taken over the world.
33	08	Brain Storm	September 19, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain tries to take control of tornadoes as part of his plan. The episode contains many references to The Wizard of Oz.
34a	09a	A Meticulous Analysis of History	September 20, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain and Pinky sing about famous history leaders and their downfall, and how Brain will learn from their failures.
34b	09b	Funny, You Don't Look Rhennish	September 20, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain and Pinky must pose as Rhennish (a parody of the Amish people) farmers and assist with the barn raising activities in order to gain access to a key mineral for Brain's latest plan. However, Brain finds out that there's only the "fool's" version of the mineral in the region.
35	10	The Pinky Protocol	September 22, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain creates a conspiracy to make people think that the government is hiding a document declaring him ruler of the world (which he calls the Pinky Protocol), and when a nutjob from northern Virginia tries to rescue him, he only makes matters worse by keeping him in his cabin with nothing but "enough spam to last the turn of the century" to eat. It is soon discovered that a picture Brain pasted his own photo over is really of Joyce DeWitt, who then becomes the ruler of the world.
36a	11a	Mice Don't Dance	September 26, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain develops mechanical tap-dancing legs to tap out a subliminal morse code message while he dances at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
36b	11b	Brain Drained	September 26, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain runs out of his own ideas for world domination and seeks input from screenwriters for inspiration.
37	12	Brain Acres	September 27, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain grows an army of giant, animated vegetables to take over the world. This episode contains references to Green Acres and Born Free. Earl Kress is mistakenly credited as "Kearl Kress".
38a	13a	Pinky and the Brainmaker	September 29, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain creates a clone machine to create an army that will take over the world through celtic dance. Pinky puts in a picture of only himself by mistake and creates his own cloned dance troop. The dancing Brains and Pinkys have a dance-off, ultimately requiring Brain to abandon that plan altogether, but his clones turn on him, revealing that this plan was only a dream.
38b	13b	Calvin Brain	September 29, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain becomes a fashion designer in order to get everyone to wear his perfume, "Subjugation," which has hypnotic properties.
39a	14a	Pinky Suavo	October 4, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain uses the Personalitron to inherit the world's most attractive personas (i.e., John Wayne and Adam West), simply by scanning their photos into the machine and then stepping inside it, but Pinky ends up going into the machine instead. He is then transformed into "Pinky Suavo", a more suave version of Pinky, as the name implies. Pinky gains control of people's attention instantaneously, and the Brain finds a way to use it to his advantage and puts Pinky on a talk show. But he finds out that bopping him on the head will deplete the effects and actually "breaks" him to the point that he only says "Narf, poit, egad, troz, zort". Brain asks for a break and takes Pinky back to the Personalitron. Pinky looks changed but, at the end, it is discovered that the Brain put in a picture of The Unknown Comic instead of the celebrities.
39b	14b	T.H.E.Y.	October 4, 1997	Kids' WB
Pinky and Brain attempt to gain membership into a secret, world-controlling organization called "THEY". The mice manage to complete the hazing rituals but only Pinky is accepted into the group because Brain can't take any more of their shenanigans (including tipping Buckingham Palace Guards, presenting Saddam Hussein with the A.B.C. gum award, and T.P.-ing the White House).
40	15	The Real Life	October 10, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain must take part along with Pinky in a reality television program based on The Real World in order to be able to set up a radio tower near Cleveland at the precise spot needed for his plan to work. While Pinky fits in perfectly, the rest of the house guests find Brain obnoxious and that he was taking money from the house funds, so sell off all of his gear in a garage sale. He intends to broadcast to the world the last remaining copy of the Rush Limbaugh singing album which is so horrible that the world will submit to get him to turn it off, but Rush himself buys it and smashes it into millions of tiny little pieces.
41	16	Brain's Way	October 11, 1997	Kids' WB
In 1962, Brain opens a casino, and becomes a lounge singer to attract people to it. However, he only offers the game of baccarat, and runs into financial and mortal danger from his funding source. The loaner he borrowed from turns out to be a loan shark and takes Acme Labs into custody until, turning it into a lounge, Brain can repay her.
42	17	A Pinky and the Brain Halloween	October 19, 1997	Kids' WB
Mr. Itch (the devil himself) offers to give Brain the world in exchange for his soul; Brain refuses, but finds out later that Pinky has taken the deal. Snowball appears as his court jester, attempting to make Brain miss Pinky so much that he would look for him, leaving him in charge. Brain enters a rhythmic gymnastics competition with Mr. Itch and loses, when Pinky points out that Mr. Itch was actually unable to fulfill his part of the deal (due to not knowing what an object Pinky had requested as part of the deal actually was), making the whole deal null and void.
43	18	Brainy Jack	November 1, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain becomes a hippie leader and encourages people to form a human chain across America in order to send a subliminal message.
44a	19a	Leggo My Ego	November 7, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain tries to hypnotize Sigmund Freud, but Pinky accidentally leaves Brain's mirrored glasses behind. During the hypnosis, we learn to understand the root for his want of world domination, and why Pinky's such an idiot.
44b	19b	Big in Japan	November 7, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain becomes a sumo wrestler as to obtain a rare Japanese fish as part of his latest plan.
45	20	But That's Not All, Folks!	November 8, 1997	Kids' WB
Pinky and Brain sell a fictitious product via infomercials to gain a large database of addresses to be used in Brain's latest plan.
46a	21a	Operation: Sea Lion	November 14, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain learns to communicate with sea lions in order to create an aquatic army.
46b	21b	You Said a Mouseful	November 14, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain attempts to put helium in hacky-sack sack-kicker shoes in a Hackensack factory. The episode contains numerous tongue-twisters, and Brain's plan fails because he cannot enunciate what he wants Pinky to do.
47a	22a	The Tailor and the Mice	November 15, 1997	Kids' WB
The mice are unfortunate recipients of a tailor's well-meaning ways based on the folk song "The Tailor and the Mouse" popularized by Burl Ives.
47b	22b	Bah, Wilderness	November 15, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain attempts to become the top camp councilor at "Camp Davey", a summer camp for world leader's children by taking out all the other camp councilors. However, as soon as he is able to become the top councilor, the children of the world leaders have completed their camp, and now the children of the world vice-presidents are now attending, much to Brain's dismay.
48a	23a	Pinky at the Bat	November 22, 1997	Kids' WB
The mice become baseball players and lead their team to victory so that Brain can release a special perfume on the pitcher's mound at the right time. Unfortunately, the victory celebration prevents Brain from completing his plan, and while leading a losing team to a winning season, both mice are kicked off the team.
48b	23b	Schpiel-borg 2000	November 22, 1997	Kids' WB
Brain creates a robotic replica of Steven Spielberg as part of his world domination plan. The episode starts out as a clip show hosted by Steven Spielberg himself, which covers such aspects of the series such as the writing, the characters, and how much Steven himself loves his creation. It is revealed that it is only a robot when it exclaims "...I'm getting goosebumps just thinking bout it. Narf! Poit! Zort!" and Brain comes to tell Pinky off. Pinky accidentally presses a button, and the robot goes into "schpiel mode", where it recreates scenes from various films, including one from Jurassic Park during which Steven gets up and walks through a brick wall out onto a bridge and explodes. Brain decides he'll try again with the "Ted Turnerator".
49	24	Broadway Malady	January 3, 1998	Kids' WB
Brain attempts to get a musical on Broadway, but is surprised to find that Pinky's musical is much more popular.
50a	25a	The Megalomaniacal Adventures of Brainie the Poo	February 7, 1998	Kids' WB
In a spoof of Winnie the Pooh, Brainie and Pinklet attempt to steal honey from a beehive so they can secretly replace the world's artificial sweeteners with it and render everyone fat, slow, and toothless. Brain is Brainie the Poo (Winnie-the-Pooh), Pinky is Pinklet (Piglet), Al Gore is Algore (Eeyore), Christopher Walken is Christopher (Christopher Robin), and Mick Jagger is Jagger (Tigger).
50b	25b	The Melancholy Brain	February 7, 1998	Kids' WB
Brain attempts to take over the royal family of Denmark by causing havoc with Hamlet.
51	26	Inherit the Wheeze	February 14, 1998	Kids' WB
Brain attempts to use a tobacco company to take over the world by selling cigarettes to children. However, Pinky becomes disgusted at the sight of children smoking and convinces Brain to double cross the tobacco company. The episode later won a PRISM Award for Best Children's Animated Television Episode, for its anti-smoking message.
52a	27a	Brain's Night Off	February 21, 1998	Kids' WB
Brain decides not to try to take over the world for one night, and enjoys a night out with Pinky. Brain's inadvertent actions in complaining about the service he gets ends up with people wanting him to become their leader, but their desires fail to register with Brain.
52b	27b	Beach Blanket Brain	February 21, 1998	Kids' WB
Brain becomes a surfer to get other surfers to wear his hypnotic suntan lotion.
53	28	The Family That Poits Together, Narfs Together	February 21, 1998	Kids' WB
Brain helps to reunite Pinky's family in order to win a television show's cash prize. Tracking down his family, and then using the intelligence machine that gave the two mice their smarts, Brain finds Pinky's family (father, mother, and a spool of thread they call "Sis") are as insane as Pinky is. Brain is barely able to control Pinky's family, and is very disappointed to find the prize is not what he expected.
54a	29a	Pinky's Turn	February 28, 1998	Kids' WB
Frustrated with his failures, Brain lets Pinky try to take over the world with surprising success until Brain takes control and ruins everything.
54b	29b	Your Friend: Global Domination	February 28, 1998	Kids' WB
Brain attempts to sway schoolchildren by creating an educational video.
55	30	You'll Never Eat Food Pellets in This Town Again	April 25, 1998	Kids' WB
The show is changed and Pinky and Brain become frustrated with this and quit the show. When Brain falls back onto Pinky's attempts to get some work, he is given a job blowing up balloons at a children's birthday party, where he becomes angry at the birthday boy for insulting him and is kicked out. It is revealed that Brain is married to Billie (who in real life is Sheila, and hates playing Billie), who pretty much only agreed because he's famous, and eventually kicks him out and makes Brain live in his restaurant (which is bought by Yurkle, a parody of Steve Urkle from Family Matters). In the end, Brain wakes up and realizes it's all a bad dream, but Pinky still has his puppet Margaret and they still live next door to Dick Clark.
56	31	Dangerous Brains	May 2, 1998	Kids' WB
Brain takes a job as a teacher at a troubled school in order to earn money for his latest plan and Pinky, disguised as one of the students, convince the other classmates to take the studies seriously.
57a	32a	What Ever Happened to Baby Brain	May 9, 1998	Kids' WB
Brain poses as a child actress (as a parody of Baby Jane) to gain public admiration.
57b	32b	Just Say Narf	May 9, 1998	Kids' WB
Pinky sings a song in the style of "Make 'Em Laugh" to try to cheer Brain up.
58a	33a	The Pinky P.O.V.	May 16, 1998	Kids' WB
Brain's latest plan for world domination is shown from Pinky's perspective.
58b	33b	The Really Great Dictator	May 16, 1998	Kids' WB
The mice sing about world domination to the tune of the Can-can.
58c	33c	Brain Food	May 16, 1998	Kids' WB
Brain attempts to increase the intelligence of the population in order to make the population understand why he should be their leader by opening a restaurant to feed them an intelligence-increasing drug.