7.9/10244 votes#1 - Das Mouse
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1995
Brain hatches a plot to hypnotize people, but he needs white crab meat to succeed. In order to get the crab meat, he takes a submarine to the wreck of the Titanic. Unfortunately, the CIA spots his sub and orders its destruction.
Director: Liz Holzman, Al Zegler
Writer: Peter Hastings
8.1/10189 votes#2 - Of Mouse and Man
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1995
Brain plans to take over the world by creating a voice mail system that will tie up everyone on the planet long enough for him to take over. In order to do this he needs money. He decides to get it by getting a job and then staging an accident in order to sue the company.
Director: Audu Paden
Writer: Peter Hastings
7.8/10178 votes#3 - Tokyo Grows
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1995
Brain uses an enlarging ray to make himself and Pinky four hundred feet tall. With Pinky dressed as a Gollyzilla, Brain stages a fight to make himself look like hero. But then the real Gollyzilla shows up.
Director: Al Zegler
Writer: Gordon Bressack, Charles M. Howell IV
7.7/10161 votes#4 - That Smarts
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/24/1995
Brain makes Pinky smarter so his stupidity won't ruin anymore plans.
Director: Audu Paden
Writer: Peter Hastings
7.9/10147 votes#5 - Brainstem
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/24/1995
Pinky and Brain perform a song about the brain.
Director: Al Zegler
Writer: Tom Minton
7.9/10147 votes#6 - Pinky & The Fog
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/1/1995
Brain gains the ability to cloud the minds of men with his voice. He tries to get on the radio by adapting the persona of "The Fog". Unfortunately his plan falls apart when he gets to the studio.
Director: Audu Paden
Writer: Gordon Bressack, Charles M. Howell IV
7.9/10142 votes#7 - Where No Mouse Has Gone Before
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/8/1995
Brain hears that a space probe is about to be launched. On the probe is a plaque with a representation of man and woman. Brain changes the plaque to make it appear that he rules the world. Aliens discover the probe and take Pinky and the Brain to their planet where they honor them just like they are "honored" on Earth.
Director: Al Zegler
Writer: Gordon Bressack, Charles M. Howell IV
8.5/10453 votes#8 - Cheese Roll Call
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/8/1995
Pinky sings about cheese.
Director: Audu Paden
Writer: Paul Rugg
8.2/10157 votes#9 - Brainania
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1995
The Brain hatches a plan to take over the world by using static electricity to shock the world into submission. Unfortunately he needs several billion dollars to build a giant clothes dryer. Pinky and the Brain head to Island X where they set up a fake country and hope to get a giant foreign aid loan from the United States.
Director: Jon McClenahan
Writer: John P. McCann
8.0/10146 votes#10 - TV or Not TV
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1995
Brain develops a special pair of dentures that can produce a smile that can hypnotize anyone who is not wearing a special pair of sunglasses. In order to take over the world, he needs people to see the mesmerizing smile. He figures that he needs to get on TV and in order to do that he has to become a celebrity.
Director: Al Zegler
Writer: Peter Hastings
8.0/10135 votes#11 - Napoleon Brainaparte
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1995
While France awaits Napoleon's triumphant return from Austria, Brain develops a recipe for exploding crepe-suzettes in an effort to conquer France. He uses the recipe in a cooking class and when the crepes explode, he is arrested. When he is taken to prison, however, his luck begins to change when people mistake him for Napoleon Bonaparte.
Director: Audu Paden
Writer: Peter Hastings, John Loy
7.9/10134 votes#12 - A Pinky and the Brain Christmas
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1995
Pinky and the Brain head to the North Pole. Pinky just wants to see Santa, but the Brain has a more sinister plan. He wants pretend to be an elf so that he can mass produce a hypnotic doll named "Noddle Noggin" in Santa's workshop. He then hopes that Santa will distribute the toy all over world so he can take over.
Director: Rusty Mills
Writer: Peter Hastings
8.4/10147 votes#13 - Snowball
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/1996
Brain comes face to face with his former friend and now enemy, Snowball. And it seems Snowball has his own plans to take over the world.
Director: Audu Paden
Writer: Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard, Peter Hastings
7.0/101 votes#14 - Around the World in 80 Narfs
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/1996
In Victorian England, the Brain realizes that he can take over the world by becoming president of the "Pompous Explorers Club". since the position usually leads to the Prime Ministership of England. In order to become president of the club, he must make it around the world in seventy-nine days.
Director: Liz Holzman, Al Zegler
Writer: Gordon Bressack, Charles M. Howell IV
7.0/101 votes#15 - Fly
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/11/1996
Brain plans to melt the ice caps with the Hubble Space Telescope once he buys everything higher than the 39th floor.
Director: Liz Holzman, Al Zegler
Writer: Peter Hastings, John Loy
7.0/101 votes#16 - Ambulatory Abe
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1996
Brain hopes to take over the world by convincing everyone that Abraham Lincoln has been reincarnated. He takes up ventriloquism and plans on using a statue.
Director: Charles Visser
Writer: Tom Minton
7.0/101 votes#17 - Mouse of La Mancha
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/1996
Brain tells a group of mice the story of "Don Cerebro" a mouse driven by his dream to take over the world.
Director: Charles Visser
Writer: Gordon Bressack, Charles M. Howell IV
7.0/101 votes#18 - The Third Mouse
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/12/1996
Pinky searches for the Brain in post-World War II Vienna. He misunderstands people when they try to tell him the Brain is dead and his misunderstandings lead to a series of misadventures.
Director: Charles Visser
Writer: Gordon Bressack, Charles M. Howell IV
7.0/101 votes#19 - The Visit
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/12/1996
The Brain captures two mice for an experiment to aid in a plan for world domination. He discovers however that the two mice are his parents.
Director: Charles Visser
Writer: Peter Hastings
The Best Episodes of Pinky and the Brain Season 1
Every episode of Pinky and the Brain Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Pinky and the Brain Season 1!
Pinky and Brain are genetically enhanced laboratory mice who reside in a cage in the Acme Labs research facility. Brain is self-centered and scheming; Pinky...
Genres:AnimationComedyFamilySci-Fi & FantasyKids
Network:The WB
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Das Mouse" is the best rated episode of "Pinky and the Brain" season 1. It scored 7.9/10 based on 244 votes. Directed by Liz Holzman, Al Zegler and written by Peter Hastings, it aired on 9/9/1995. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Of Mouse and Man".