Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky & The Brain

The Pinky and The Brain who live in the future travel back in time to give their present-dwelling counterparts a book on how to take over the world. The present pair travel to the future and find themselves in a world where cockroaches and are ruling the planet. After being captured, they escape to their capsule, which takes them safely back to the lab. But when Pinky leaves the book in the capsule, the craft vanishes, leaving the jet-lagged mice pondering how to take over the world yet again.

The Brain tries to clone himself, but his plan is foiled when one of Pinky's toenails is inadvertently dropped into the mixture. The clone, called Romy, looks like The Brain but thinks like Pinky.

Pinky and The Brain team with basketball coach Bobby Nacht and a crew of has-been TV actors to create the best squad in the NBA. With the aid of a mechanical arm and 3-foot-high shoes, The Brain soon achieves the kind of celebrity that he has always dreamed about. But just when The Brain is famous enough to contemplate taking over the world, his unchecked ego keeps him from achieving his lifelong goal.

The Brain enlists the help of beavers in his latest plan to take over the world by flooding it. In return for damming the water, the beavers want gum, boots and shiny things. The Brain makes his first attempt at flooding a city, but the city is well equipped for thwarting the disaster. When the beavers take the shiny remote control The Brain uses to communicate with, Pinky and The Brain are left powerless. Pinky and The Brain try to capture the adoration of the world by becoming movie stars. Their plan backfires when the world considers them comedic geniuses. Attempting to change his image, The Brain releases a dramatic film, but the audience becomes bored and leaves the movie theater, sending the two mice back to the lab.

In the 1940s, The Brain tries to acquire water rights to burgeoning Los Angeles...but someone is beating him to it.

Pinky (series star ROB PAULSEN) and The Brain's latest plans are hindered by the presence of their new, uninvited sidekick, Larry (guest star voice talent BILLY WEST). In order to gain control of the steel industry, The Brain claims that he and Pinky are among the last of the nearly extinct Mousealope species, whose natural habitat is Pittsburgh.

The Brain, disguised as famous actress-singer Cher, enters a celebrity golf tournament in order to steal Chi Chi Rodriguez' putter, with which he intends to tattoo "Property of Brain" onto the Earth. But in a fit of competitive anger, The Brain breaks the putter across his knee, thus thwarting yet another plan to take over the world. When The Brain invents a machine that brings the Earth (guest star voice talent EARL BOEN) to life, the planet is so grateful that it grants The Brain his every wish. World leaders are forced to pledge their allegiance to The Brain or face the consequences of devastating natural disasters. But The Brain asks too much of the Earth, and the planet turns against him. Gentle Pinky finally convinces the Earth that killing is not in its nature, and the planet asks to return to its former, unconscious self.

Pinky and The Brain are forced to befriend their eccentric neighbor, Sultana, in order to retrieve an important package that he has accepted on their behalf. Posing as Mr. and Mrs. Feldman, the two lab mice visit Sultana's home and slowly win his confidence. Pinky and The Brain's kindness only increase Sultana's feelings of loneliness, however. Sultana tries to end his life by climbing a radio tower in an electrical storm. The Brain, who is actually trying to save the entire planet from being electrocuted, inadvertently saves him. Sultana's promises of eternal gratitude may force the two mice to search for a new apartment.

In the 1960s, Pinky's idiosyncratic observations are mistaken for wisdom, and he is proclaimed a great guru--a fact that The Brain uses to his own advantage. Pinky plans a surprise birthday party for The Brain, inadvertently causing Brain to suspect that Pinky is trying to take over the world without him.

When The Brain (series star MAURICE LaMARCHE) gets a glimpse into the future and sees that he will continue to fail, he realizes, after some soul searching, that he must change his destiny.

The Brain develops a way to harness the energy of tornadoes in his latest bid to take over the world.

While reading a book to learn from the mistakes of great leaders of the past, The Brain leads Pinky on a whirlwind tour of history in this musical cartoon. Included are profiles of Cleopatra, Caligula, Hannibal and Napoleon. To carry out The Brain's latest plan, he and Pinky go undercover among the Minnesota Rhennish, a strict rural community that eschews modern technology and buttons. Unfortunately, his scheme is interrupted by frequent barn construction.

Famous Hollywood director Gulliver Sloane has a new conspiracy theory: two laboratory mice are attempting to take over the world! The Brain decides to use the publicity to his advantage and invents his own conspiracy theory, claiming that a secret document called the Pinky Protocol entitles him to rule the world. The Brain's plan seems to be working until an antigovernment recluse rescues him and Pinky.

In the 1930s, The Brain notes the popularity of tap dance and constructs a pair of steam-powered legs to send a subtle Morse code message of world domination. Bereft of ideas to take over the world, The Brain travels to Hollywood to get plots from screenwriters.

The Brain and Pinky move to a rural farm, where The Brain plans to raise and train giant vegetables to take over the world.

The Brain uses a dance to demonstrate the true poetic majesty of world domination in this musical interlude. The Brain becomes a fashion designer and Pinky becomes a supermodel to promote a mind-controlling fragrance.

In a horrible lab mishap, Pinky becomes a really suave guy. The Brain and Pinky infiltrate a secret organization of world leaders, where they must endure humiliating initiation rites to succeed in their latest scheme.

In this spoof of MTV's show, "The Real World," The Brain must get along with a houseful of 20-year-olds to carry out his latest scheme.

In the early 1940s, The Brain opens a resort in Las Vegas to finance a plan and poses as a singing star to draw patrons. In the process, he becomes an ultra-cool icon and the leader of the celebrated Mouse Pack.

In a special Halloween episode, Pinky sells his soul so that The Brain can take over the world. The Brain challenges the devil to get Pinky's soul back.

Discovering that the best way to take over the world is through pacifism, Pinky and The Brain travel to the Southwest on horseback and create a colony to teach the world the value of peace, love and improvisation.