Pinky and the Brain facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Pinky and the Brain |
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DVD cover for Pinky and the Brain Volume 1
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| Genre | Comedy Science fiction |
| Created by | Tom Ruegger |
| Voices of | Rob Paulsen Maurice LaMarche |
| Theme music composer | Richard Stone |
| Opening theme | "Pinky and the Brain" performed by Jess Harnell Dorian Harewood Jim Cummings and Rob Paulsen |
| Composer(s) | Richard Stone Steven Bernstein Julie Bernstein Gordon Goodwin Carl Johnson |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 66 (97 segments) (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Steven Spielberg |
| Producer(s) | Tom Ruegger Liz Holzman Charles M. Howell IV. Peter Hastings Rusty Mills |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Warner Bros. Animation Amblin Entertainment |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
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| Original network | Kids' WB |
| Picture format | SD: 4:3 |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital |
| First shown in | United States |
| Original release | September 9, 1995 – November 14, 1998 |
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Pinky and the Brain is an American animated television series that was created by Tom Ruegger that premiered on Kids' WB on September 9, 1995. It was the first animated television series to be presented in Dolby Surround and the fourth collaboration of Steven Spielberg with his production company, Amblin Entertainment, and Warner Bros. Animation. The characters first appeared in 1993 as a recurring skit on Animaniacs. It was later spun off as a series due to its popularity, with 66 episodes produced. The characters later appeared in the series Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain, and have since returned to their roots as an Animaniacs skit in the 2020 revival of that series.
Pinky and the Brain are genetically enhanced laboratory mice who reside in a cage in the Acme Labs research facility. Brain is self-centered and scheming, while Pinky is good-natured but feeble-minded. In each episode, Brain devises a new plan to take over the world which ultimately ends in failure: usually due to the impossibility of Brain's plan, Brain's own arrogance or overconfidence, Pinky's bumbling, circumstances beyond their control, or multiples thereof. In common with many other Animaniacs shorts, many episodes are in some way a parody of something else, usually a film or novel.
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Video games
There are two video games based on Pinky and the Brain. The first, a PC game called Pinky and the Brain: World Conquest, was produced by SouthPeak Games and distributed by Warner Bros. The second was Pinky and the Brain: The Master Plan for the Game Boy Advance. The game was produced by Warthog and distributed by SWING! Entertainment in 2002. A third game, titled simply Pinky and the Brain, was announced for the Sega Saturn in 1996, but was later cancelled. The characters have also appeared in several of the Animaniacs video games, such as Animaniacs: The Great Edgar Hunt.
In the computer game Fallout 2 the character may encounter an albino mole rat that calls himself "The Brain". "The Brain" created a cult that attempts to restore the humanity of the ghoul characters (humans that were badly damaged by radiation), by a process referred to as "Renewal". By doing so, "The Brain" hopes to take over the world. The player can engage in dialogue with "The Brain", with one of the dialogue possibilities being, "Big plans for an oversized rat."
Music
While Pinky and the Brain does not feature as many songs as Animaniacs, some of the music from the show can be found across the three Animaniacs CDs. An expanded version of the Animaniacs skit "Bubba Bo Bob Brain" presented in a radio drama or audiobook fashion was released as a read-along book and CD in 1997 by Rhino Entertainment.
Images for kids
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Pinky
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The Brain
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Caricatures of Minton (left) and Fitzgerald (right) from "The Pinky and the Brain Reunion Special"
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Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche together at the 34th Annie Awards red carpet.
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DVD cover for Pinky and the Brain Volume 1
See also
In Spanish: Pinky y Cerebro para niños
