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The Best Episodes of Pinky and the Brain Season 2

Every episode of Pinky and the Brain Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Pinky and the Brain Season 2!

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 is good-natured but feebleminded. In each episode, Brain devises a new plan to take over the world, which ultimately ends in failure, usually due to Pinky's idiocy, the impossibility of Brain's plan, Brain's own arrogance, or just circumstances beyond their control.

Genres:AnimationComedyFamilySci-Fi & FantasyKids
Network:The WB

Season 2 Highlight

The best episode of "Pinky and the Brain" season 2 is "It's Only a Paper World", rated 8/10 from 130 user votes. It was directed by Liz Holzman and written by David Finkel, Brett Baer. "It's Only a Paper World" aired on 9/7/1996 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Collect 'em All".

  • It's Only a Paper World
    8.0/10 130 votes

    #1 - It's Only a Paper World

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1996-09-07

    Brain tries to get all the people off Earth onto his paper mache creation, Chia Earth.

    Director: Liz Holzman

    Writer: David Finkel, Brett Baer

  • Collect 'em All
    8.0/10 125 votes

    #2 - Collect 'em All

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1996-09-14

    Using Johannes Gutenberg printing press, the Brain make a series of collectible trading cards.

    Director: Kirk Tingblad

    Writer: Charles M. Howell IV, Rich Fogel

  • Pinkasso
    7.6/10 120 votes

    #3 - Pinkasso

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1996-09-14

    A successful modern artist is born and it's Pinky, trying to help fund Brain's new plan.

    Director: Charles Visser

    Writer: Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard

  • Plan Brain From Outer Space
    8.1/10 121 votes

    #4 - Plan Brain From Outer Space

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1996-09-28

    Brain hopes his inter-galactic pen pal, Zalgar, will help him take over the world. But it turns out Zalgar likes to snack on brains.

    Director: Al Zegler

    Writer: Earl Kress, Tom Sheppard, Nick DuBois

  • The Pink Candidate
    7.9/10 125 votes

    #5 - The Pink Candidate

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1996-11-02

    Pinky writes a letter to the newspaper criticizing the comic strip "The Family Circus". His letter, however, is misunderstood as a political statement that thrusts him to a spotlight that leads him to the Presidency of the United States. Pinky's administration, however, must deal with a scandal when the Brain's plans to take over the world are made public.

    Director: Charles Visser

    Writer: Reid Harrison

  • Brain's Song
    8.2/10 123 votes

    #6 - Brain's Song

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1996-11-09

    Brain makes a tearjerker movie to make the world sad enough to make him leader.

    Director: Liz Holzman

    Writer: David Finkel, Brett Baer

  • Welcome to the Jungle
    7.8/10 115 votes

    #7 - Welcome to the Jungle

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1996-11-16

    Animal rights activist think Pink and the Brain are monkeys and release them into the jungle after taking them out of Acme Labs. The pair try to make it back home, but run into the Brain's old enemy Snowball.

    Director: Rusty Mills

    Writer: Gene Laufenberg

  • A Little Off the Top
    7.9/10 115 votes

    #8 - A Little Off the Top

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1996-11-23

    Brain tries to discover what makes the legendary Samson so strong.

    Director: Charles Visser

    Writer: Gordon Bressack, Charles M. Howell IV

  • Megalomaniacs Anonymous
    8.1/10 110 votes

    #9 - Megalomaniacs Anonymous

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1996-11-23

    When Brain comes to the conclusion he no longer wants to take over the world, he decides to help others who had his problem and the first one to be helped is Pinky.

    Director: Nelson Recinos

    Writer: Charles M. Howell IV, Bill Matheny

  • The Mummy
    8.0/10 119 votes

    #10 - The Mummy

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1996-12-28

    Brain gets a group of men to steal money from the rich (ala Robin Hood) to pay for his new plot.

    Director: Kirk Tingblad

    Writer: Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard

  • Robin Brain
    8.0/10 116 votes

    #11 - Robin Brain

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1996-12-28

    Pinky and Brain get sealed in an Egyptian pyramid where a mummy is lurking about.

    Director: Kirk Tingblad

    Writer: Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard

  • Two Mice and a Baby
    7.7/10 107 votes

    #12 - Two Mice and a Baby

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1997-02-01

    Pinky and Brain stumble upon a super powered baby, who happened to arrive from an exploding alien world.

    Director: Kirk Tingblad

    Writer: Charles M. Howell IV, Shaun McLaughlin

  • The Maze
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #13 - The Maze

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1997-02-01

    Pinky and Brain have to brave a virtual reality maze to find a microchip crucial to Brain's new plot.

    Director: Kirk Tingblad

    Writer: Earl Kress, Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard, Charles M. Howell IV

  • Brain of the Future
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #14 - Brain of the Future

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1997-02-08

    The mice's future selves arrive in the lab, sending them on a roller coaster ride through time to find a world domination kit.

    Director: Nelson Recinos

    Writer: Brian Swenlin

  • Brinky
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #15 - Brinky

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1997-02-22

    Pinky and Brain's DNA get merged during a cloning experiment, creating a new mouse.

    Director: Kirk Tingblad

    Writer: David Fury, Elin Hampton

  • Hoop Schemes
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #16 - Hoop Schemes

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1997-05-17

    Pinky and Brain put together a basketball team as part of their next plan, but the fame may be swelling Brain's head.

    Director: Nelson Recinos

    Writer: David Finkel, Brett Baer