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One of the best things about Pink and the Brain was the revelation that Brain, while a bit cynical and sometimes snippy, actually wants to rule the world because he thinks the current leadership is bad and his genius would make the world a better place for everyone to live in. He wants to be an overlord, but doesn't want it just to lord it over people.

"Larry died on his way back to his home planet."

It’s heartbreaking how the network treated this show.

Peter Hastings, a former writer for Pinky and the Brain wrote the episode "You'll never eat food pellets in this town again" to show how he was not proud of the executive's demands of changing Pinky and the Brain. He later quit the show afterwards. Anyway, I agree with him. And I know that everyone at WB was not pleased with Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain which is why it got canceled. At least Pinky and Brain return in the reboot.

I saw you mentioned the Real Ghostbusters, which coincidentally was another victim of being screwed over by the network. It's so unfortunate to hear about these show creators getting abused the way they do, even when you've never seen the show itself.

At least Pinky and the Brain have returned to their former glory in the Animaniacs reboot. So if anything, they won against network TV

Fun fact: I got to meet the voice of Brain at C2E2. Excellent guy!

Wow, I heard there was some behind the scenes drama, but I never knew it was that bad. When are networks gonna learn the phrase: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It!? Pinky and the Brain was a darn good example of that trope. The original segments were successful and so was the spinoff. Fortunately, the lab mice duo are back after 20 years and as beloved as ever.

Spielberg made this series special and knew that the network screwed over his masterpieces tho.

_The TV viewers you'll delight,_ _Unless the network puts your show on Sunday night!_

Warner Bros. never understands what makes something great until they muck it up beyond recognition, and they never get punished for it.

They're still making jabs at this executive meddling in the Animaniacs revival. That's one heck of a grudge.

The DCAU/Timmverse actually survived mostly unscathed because the creative team was pretty good at knowing when to stand their ground, but it might still be interesting to talk about since it can could still be pretty baffling and confusing at times, two words: Bat Embargo

You know what would be a great spinoff? Pinky! That's right, just Pinky! The Pinky show with no other characters. What could possibly go wrong? Nobody has ever tried something like that before

Introducing the new Hulu spin-off: Elmyra and Larry

It's What The Network Wants, Why Bother to Complain?

that decade had a lot of great animation and great shows

I fell in LOVE with the reboot trailer

Producers: Here's a new show, how do you like it? Everyone: It's perfect Producers: OMG It's so broken! EVERYONE HATES IT! We need to change EVERYTHING!

After watching the Animaniacs reboot, even though I prefer the Warners (both the characters and their segments), I'm glad Pinky and the Brain have been given another chance to shine like they used to. Also, is anyone else expecting the reboot to eventually make a joke that disses Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain? It did make fun of Loonatics Unleashed after all.

Wow, Pinky and the Brain were treated poorly on Kids WB. It's very sad how the last season went on a depressing note.

A network that doesn't understand why characters are popular and meddles to see why? Hmmmmm...that seems to soak up a memory...

even as a kid i always found weird how warner bros shows had an unsettling amount of fourth wall breaking, complaining about censors and the network, but i had no idea they were actual fourth wall breaking (i was a kid after all). i thought "won't the actual censors find this offensive?". seeing stuff from an adult perspective changes stuff so much...

I'm going to completely disagree about Snowball. In incapable hands, sure, the character would have fell flat and been completely pointless, but the writers knew how to deal with the character. Sure, give Brain a rival is an obvious choice, but taking that character and making him an evil counterpoint of malicious intent to Brain's supposed good intentions and ego gave the show stakes. By that point, the show was just about to go from funny comedy formula to repetitive and stale. Gently mixing it up by having Brain work to save the world from Snowball instead of just trying to take it over. There are times when he did come dangerously close, too. As for the Elmyra spinoff? It didn't need to exist at all. The show had a good run of 3 seasons, not to mention some new shorts folded into new Animaniacs episodes, which also was about to end. Pinky and the Brain had a great 3 part series finale, and even ignoring that, a very good series faux-nale where they stage a fake reunion show. The show didn't need to continue, and it was clear the end of the wacky cartoons on Kid's WB was over and action oriented shows, mostly off the success of Pokemon, became the network's new thing. Elmyra does work in her own element of Tiny Toons, and maybe one episode of Pinky and the Brain with her would have worked, but rewatching that show basically reiterated my point. Pinky and the Brain was great while it lasted, it didn't need to continue, leave the audience wanting more.

I had a feeling this one was coming!

Another example of being mistreated by the network is the 1981 Smurfs series.

I think Elmyra is a character that can work in small doses. But not as a recurring character.

Edited: Second thought. Anyone else remember Histeria? I never hear anyone talk about it anymore. I remember liking it myself, but that doesn't sat much. Original thought: As a kid, I had a very split perception of Animaniacs. I loved tge Warners, P&B, Slappy Squirrel and Chicken Boo. However, I only "liked" Good Feathers and basically didn't care about anything else. Rita and Rut were the most boring to me, possibly tied with the Hippos.

I like the creators knows is gonna be bad, but still commited to make the best possible is weird this phrase of "Wakka Wakka Doo" they used too in Barnyard?, is some kind of punchline for bad catchprhase like the "Electric Boogaloo"

This goes to show you that when you have or are given a good show like pinky and the brain halfway it's run time on TV stations across the world those meddling tv executives will try and make the show completely different from what it once was thats especially true when it comes to this show

*sees thumbnail* Me: oh wow THAT episode... wait a moment... My danganronpa side: A BODY HAS BEEN DISCOVERED AFTER A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME WHICH YOU MAY USE HOWEVER YOU LIKE, THE CLASS TRAIL WILL BEGIN!

Great review ! I’m always love Pinky and The Brain since I was a kid and of course Animaniacs but my number one favourite is i”m a huge fan of Pinky and The Brain more than the others characters . 2:05 , Yeah so true , lot of people did falling in love of does two characters , they are fascinating and also is a great story , my favourite is The Brain 😄. Well you should dislike Snowball , he’s evil , cruel and he’s a sick f🤬k . Now the new snowball is Julia who’s coming up soon to the second season reboot . Oh yeah right ! Larry , that was bizarre . Oh God ! Pinky , Elmyra and The Brain ? yak ! 🤢🤮terrible ! Honestly I never watch that another spin off version show but it suddenly looks bad 😠and is completely ruined . Pinky and The Brain show (1995 to 1998 ) it’s a classic and a masterpiece . I was really enjoy to watch the new Animaniacs 2020 reboot season one and of course Pinky and The Brain , awwwwwwww 🤩I love it ! It was excellent 👏😃. Anyway ! I’m looking forward to watch the second season Animaniacs reboot in specially Pinky and The Brain , hell yeah ! 🤟😎🤟

That Mindy and buttons joke is so true I hated those segments definitely the worst out of the lot. I don't know why they got so many more segments when compared to Rita.

I remember watching Pinky and the Brain on Jetix.

I actually liked Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain. It was pretty good, in my opinion.

Didn’t know this, very interesting

You know, listening to this video in the comments about “Pinky in the brain“, I have to say that my complaints go back to when the networks really controlled Saturday morning. This happened when the networks intervened at all, and we were no longer getting theatrical cartoons totally uncut! When cartoons were being created specifically for Saturday morning kids entertainment, you kind of knew that the entertainment was going to be rated as to how kid friendly the things were! So when they aired a classic Tom and Jerry cartoon, you know the first thing that people would complain about was the excess violence! No one understood exactly why people watch Tom and Jerry cartoons to begin with! Then, even when the Tom and Jerry cartoons showed up in syndication, they were edited down so nothing would “offend” anybody. Nobody realized, once again, why people go to the theaters to see these things! When they were Saturday matinees at your local theater, those were theatrical cartoons from another era, another time in another place, and you kids got to see what’s your parents like to see between classic films, or rather than brand new films. So the adults were getting entertained, even with the animation. Of course it had to be something kid friendly about the cartoons, so some of the characters were cute and cuddly, or they tried to emulate Walt Disney, or are they just plain marked everything that Walt Disney was trying to do. Of course, this was not the case, but it felt like it sometimes. Some animators kind of understood what Walt Disney was doing, and they wanted to do something like it, but the adult content remained so adults would not get bored. That to me was Looney Tunes and merry melodies in the beginning. Even when you had a sniffles cartoon, look at the first one, his adversaries The cat was defeated by white? A drunken electric razor! It was so absurd it was funny! If a network cartoon was made of that, you know the network with immediately start punching holes in the whole concept, and anything entertaining about it would be taken away! Mind you, folks, this is my opinion and not necessarily fact. I’m sure if you talk to animators, they were happy with what they did. I am happy with most of what they did, except for a few examples which I’ve mentioned above. The first time I saw a theatrical Tom and Jerry cartoon, edits were already made, so I didn’t realize that there was stuff that certain people didn’t want us to see. Then, years and years later, we got these wonderful DVDs and Blu-rays of uncut cartoons, and we realize what fun was Hidden within the cartoons, references to adult films and adult radio shows, things like that. Do you enjoy these cartoons, you have to understand entertainment history. If you don’t, you will find some things unsettling! This does not mean that everything invented specifically for television animation was awful. Far from it; I liked the very early Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Those were interesting, sometimes written by the same people who wrote those theatrical Tom and Jerry cartoons. The only difference, or so it seemed, is that all animal characters had to talk. What I loved, when I saw my first theatrical Tom and Jerry cartoon, was that the cat and mouse mostly did not even talk! Their emotions and the comedy was all pantomime! I loved it! So my long meandering point here is that this sort of stuff was happening long before the invention of “pinky and the brain“. You kind of know that if you approach a network with a television show that is sophisticated in any way, you’ll have to deal with the networks, because they will not get it! It has to appeal to the general audiences or it doesn’t see the light of day. This is what eventually turned me off of Saturday morning altogether! I knew that if I was going to see anything worthwhile, it would be in syndication; and even then, once the sensors got their hands on it, you knew you were gonna be missing the point of some of the gags with the cartoon. And, of course, the main studios wanted to make money. So they would go along with the network sensors, no matter how much it hurt all the talent within the studio.

Did You Do Any VS. The Network Videos Before[and if you haven't do animaniacs next]

the peta of cartoons

nice earthbund music

and then when they brought it back with the 2020 reboot the new writers kind of forgot brain actually does care about pinkey so toned up his abuse towards him.

Animaniacs was great because of the variety. Not too much of anything & nothing was too long. The Pinky & the Brain series & the Animaniacs revivals sucked because they couldn't grasp this simple concept.

You know what this spin-off with Elmyra reminds me of? It reminds me of those really... REALLY bizarre Looney Tunes shorts from the 60s with Daffy Duck and Speedy González. Just like this spin-off, these cartoons sucked because... Well, obviously, a duck and a mouse don't fit together as enemies in the same cartoon. Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain did basically the same thing BUT WORSE! Because not only they don't fit, but also... What are you gonna do with this 3? Have Pinky and the Brain trying to take over the world but Elmyra is preventing them from doing it? This won't work. Maybe it could work if it was only suppose to be ONE episode of the ORIGINAL Pinky and the Brain show crossovering them, not an entire series. And this show is so nonsense that, when I see the intro, I can easily imagine this being a joke from an Animaniacs short, but no, it isn't! This actually exists. It's just ridiculous how far executives can go just because of a few more points.

Please the 80s and 90s were ripe with smart cartoons that didn’t treat kids like idiots. Mighty Mouse sure as hell wasn’t one. Tiny Toon was far from the first. It wasn’t even the first out of Warner Bros to do so during the era.

this show was what the network wanted. why bother to complain?

hey i like buttons and mindy

vs the network basically sums up alot of problems with entertainment. Replace the term network with publishers and you get the game industry being screwed with by rich out of touch morons ruining everything they touch because they think they know better lol.

I would argue from the weirdo of the weirdo perspective we love Elmira