Pinky and the Brain (season 4 episodes)

No. in Series	No. in Season	Title	Airdate	Network
59	01	Brainwashed: Part 1 - Brain, Brain, Go Away	September 14, 1998	Kids' WB
An episode of three parts. Pinky and Brain were in the midst of preparing a plan, involving a trachiomatic control chip on celebrity Tom Bodett. However, things hit a snag and largely because of the Schmëerskåhøvên (parody of the Macarena), a new craze dance that’s sweeping the nation. Everyone who dances those steps gets progressively dumber and dumber. Meanwhile, the President and First Lady are planning a conference on "The Brain". To combat the dumbing down of America, a White House conference is called to find solutions to this problem. The mice attend after Brain is mistakenly invited, and he and Pinky headed off to Washington, thinking the conference is in Brain’s honor. When he soon realizes that the real reason for an affair is his error, they’re ejected from the White House, but not before refusing to participate in the Schmëerskåhøvên. Suddenly, a sinister clown, hired to make balloon animals for the event, steals the speech the Brain was giving. As the mice are leaving, they pursue him into the Washington Monument where they’re led into a trap, sedated, and captured. Then, they are strapped into a machine which causes one to lose their memory. After erasing their minds (more specifically, just Brain’s mind as Pinky does not have a mind to erase), they’re imprisoned in a strange and mysterious place called the Land of Hats (a parody of the British TV series The Prisoner), ruled by the Top Hat, where everyone is forced to identify only by the hat they wear, and participate in the Schmëerskåhøvên.
60	02	Brainwashed: Part 2 - I Am Not a Hat	September 15, 1998	Kids' WB
Weirdness in the "Land of Hats" (a parody of the British TV series The Prisoner) continues for Pinky and an amnesic Brain. They eventually get lucky, as real memories, a little truth about the Schmëerskåhøvên. With Pinky’s help, Brain is able to outwit the Top Hat (a computer that controls the Land of Hats), and they manage to escape. By examining files taken from the Top Hat, Brain learns that the Schmëerskåhøvên is a dance created so that its motions cause those who dance it to dumb down. It’s all someone’s plan for world domination by reducing brain function and mental capacity, and that he and Pinky were imprisoned in the Land of Hats for refusing to dance it. The disc he downloaded with the information causes a self-destruct sequence in the laboratory. The ultimate mastermind, however, is still a mystery. Brain heads out in search of the one person (besides him) who could be behind such a scheme to conquer the world: Snowball. Suspecting him, Brain sets off for Microsponge, Inc. (a parody of Microsoft), which is owned by Snowball himself. However, Brain just finds him locked away as a culprit in his own mental institution of his creation, and that he too was coming too close to discovering who’s behind the Schmëerskåhøvên scheme, and security is tight. Brain reluctantly agrees to get Snowball out if he’ll help them, but ends up in the next cell to him as an inmate. To save the world, though, the mice have little choice but to team up with their worst foe.
61	03	Brainwashed: Part 3 - Wash Harder	September 16, 1998	Kids' WB
After escaping from the mental institution (with Pinky’s help), the trio have no time to relax. They seek out which mastermind set up this trap for them and save the world from the Schmëerskåhøvên. They travel to a distant destination – to the deserted island of Dr. Mordeau. He’s the geneticist who created the gene splicer which made them super intelligent. They discover that though the answer was there, he too was a victim of the Schmëerskåhøvên. After they’re captured, they find the true mastermind: Mordeau’s mistakenly transformed cat, Precious. She’s about to fulfill the final part of her plan. Worse, she leaves all three of them on a conveyor belt leading to the gene splicer, but they somehow escape and only Snowball is left to the trap when he runs from his lawyers directly into it; this causes him to lose his intelligence and become a normal hamster. Pinky and the Brain are left to stop her and her planned world-wide Schmëerskåhøvên group dance, before the great anthem for world peace in Washington D.C. takes place, making the Earth’s population permanently stupefied. Finally, Brain saves the world by creating a new verse to the Schmëerskåhøvên which reverses the effect, and Acme Labs is gladly rebuilt. With their grand adventure over, Brain tells Pinky they need to prepare for the following night when they will, as always, try to take over the world.
62a	04a	To Russia with Lab Mice	September 21, 1998	Kids' WB
Pinky and Brain are shipped to Russia as part of a toy testing project, and meet a Russian female spy mouse (Mousey Galore) that has a part critical to Brain's plan.
62b	04b	Hickory Dickory Bonk	September 21, 1998	Kids' WB
Sung to "Hickory Dickory Dock", Brain attempts to make every clock in the world chime simultaneously.
63	05	The Pinky and the Brain Reunion Special	September 25, 1998	Kids' WB
Brain concocts a reunion special between himself and Pinky in order to attract numerous viewers which he can brainwash with his latest device.
64a	06a	A Legendary Tail	September 28, 1998	Kids' WB
Brain attempts to create a tall tale about himself to earn world renown.
64b	06b	Project B.R.A.I.N.	September 28, 1998	Kids' WB
This episode tells the story of how Pinky and the Brain first met, and Brain's first plan for world domination.
65	07	Star Warners	November 14, 1998	Kids' WB
The final Pinky and the Brain episode that includes many of the Animaniacs cast is a parody of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. Pinky and the Brain (as 3-PinkEO and Brain2-Me2) plan to use the Mega Star for their world domination plans. A running gag involves Brain2 being mistaken for a refrigerator and other household appliances.