Pinky and the Brain

Pinky and the Brain
Also known as	Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky and the Brain
Genre	Animated sitcom Science fiction
Created by	Tom Ruegger
Voices of	Rob Paulsen Maurice LaMarche
Theme music composer	Richard Stone
Opening theme	"Pinky and the Brain Theme" by Jess Harnell, Rob Paulsen, Dorian Harewood, & Jim Cummings[1]
Composers	Richard Stone Steven Bernstein Julie Bernstein Gordon Goodwin Carl Johnson
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	65 (96 segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Steven Spielberg
Producers	Liz Holzman Charles M. Howell IV Peter Hastings Rusty Mills
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	Amblin Television Warner Bros. Animation
Original release
Network	Kids' WB
Release	September 9, 1995 (1995-09-09) – November 14, 1998 (1998-11-14)
Related
Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain (1998–1999) Tiny Toon Adventures (1990–1995) Animaniacs (1993–1998) Freakazoid! (1995–1997) Animaniacs (2020 TV series) (2020–2023) Tiny Toons Looniversity (2023–present)
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Pinky and the Brain is an American animated sitcom created by Tom Ruegger for the Kids' WB programming block of The WB. It was the first animated television series to be presented in Dolby Surround and a collaboration of Steven Spielberg with his production company Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Animation. The characters first appeared in 1993 as a recurring segment on the animated television series Animaniacs. It was later spun off as a series due to its popularity, with 65 episodes produced. The characters later appeared in the series Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain,^[2] and later returned to their roots as an Animaniacs segment 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. The Brain is highly intelligent, self-centered and scheming, while Pinky is good-natured but feeble-minded. In each episode, The Brain devises a new plan to take over the world which ultimately ends in failure; usually due to the impossibility of The Brain's plan, The Brain's own overconfidence, Pinky's bumbling, an oversight on The Brain's part, circumstances beyond their control, or a combination thereof. In common with many other Animaniacs shorts, many episodes are in some way a parody of something else, usually a film or novel.