Pinky and the Brain, Vol. 1 |  | Directors: Barry Caldwell, Jon McClenahan, Mike Milo, Rusty Mills, Russell Calabrese
Actors: Maurice LaMarche, Rob Paulsen, Roddy McDowell, Tress MacNeill
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Portuguese (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 0.7
MPN: WARD4050D
UPC: 012569405028
EAN: 0012569405028
Theatrical Release Date: September 9, 1995
Release Date: July 25, 2006
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/19/2007
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Are you pondering what I'm pondering, animation fans? Yes! Pinky and the Brain have finally arrived on DVD, and they're going to take over the world! Well, at the very least, these genetically engineered lab mice are going to prove, once and for all, that they're the best comedy duo ever created for an animated series aimed at children.... but, why limit their appeal to kids? As executive producer Steven Spielberg said to the show's creators, he wanted this brilliant, Emmy®-winning half-hour cartoon series to lure adults into watching it with their kids, and like the classic Warner Brothers cartoons of the past, it's likely the grown-ups will enjoy it even more! This is largely due to the fact that Pinky and the Brain was produced under the radar, almost as if nobody was watching, so while this delightfully inventive spin-off from Animaniacs is purely entertaining for kids, it also includes a wide variety of in-jokes, movie spoofs, and outrageous dialogue that only older viewers can truly appreciate. It's all innocent fun, but if you watch and listen closely, you'll quickly realize that the writers and first-rate voice cast were having the time of their lives, inventing absurd plots and one-liners purely for their own creative pleasure. How else can you explain Pinky's bizarrely suggestive responses when The Brain asks "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" or the hilarious send-ups of classic movies like The Third Man (spoofed here as "The Third Mouse"), The Manchurian Candidate ("The Pink Candidate"), and the tearjerking TV classic Brian's Song (satirized, of course, as "Brain's Song")? Better yet, these 22 episodes culled from P&TB's four-season run (1995-98) demonstrate how the show's basic concept--two talking lab mice ("one is a genius, the other's insane") and their nightly attempts at global domination--lent itself to a broad spectrum of hilariously ingenious plots, with no restrictions of timeframe. So you've got episodes in ancient Egypt, Napoleonic France, and 1940s Vienna, along with contemporary schemes and shorter, time-filler episodes (like "Cheese Roll Call") that qualify as mini-masterpieces of educational comedy. "A Pinky and the Brain Christmas" is a bona-fide sentimental classic (offering proof that the Brain's got a soft heart, after all), and the polar-opposite pairing of Pinky and the Brain is just about perfect, largely due to the voice talents of Maurice LaMarche (expertly channeling Orson Welles as the Brain) and Emmy-winner Rob Paulsen as Pinky (both seen, to splendid effect, in disc 2's behind-the-scenes featurette). Additional voice talents include Roddy MacDowall (as the Brain's nemesis, Snowball) and Ernest Borgnine, but the show's primary strength is its go-for-broke writing, brilliant animation (a flawless homage to Warner Bros. tradition, yet uniquely styled to match the material), and music scores (mostly by Richard Stone) that pay tribute to the late, great WB cartoon composer Carl Stalling while incorporating frequent passages from the classical repertoire. All in all, Pinky and the Brain is perfect entertainment for the young and young-at-heart, destined for cult-favorite status as one of the best overlooked TV series of the 1990s. As Pinky might say, "Poit! Narf! Oh, this is SO much fun!" --Jeff Shannon
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Wow That Smarts! September 24, 2009
Robert E. Torres
From 1995 to 1998 Pinky and the Brain
was on network tv it was near last of quality cartoons
It was very fun, fun, silly, cartoon. with intellegence
which is dead now.
Pinky and the brain was really aimed at adults
thats what most likely doomed, it. because the wrong demographics?
(rolls eyes).
It'a one my favorite shows for wit, and humor, and parody.
The one problem I have is the price $29.00 for each season?
whats up with that? I got the whole collection for $28.00
from private sellers that sell here.
Each season should be no more than $15.00.
Because of shelf life of dvd sales each year.
the price of dvd goes down from it original msrp.
. Pinky and Brain, is 3yrs old so the price
should gone down.?
This is warner bros divine wisdom, so who knows?
Friends dvd are $ 15 each. Dexter in one year goes down
from $24 to $16. ?
Brain still has me pondering though.
What would the world be like, ruled by a lab mouse YES!
Intelligent, witty and Funny August 25, 2009
Charles Schlaegel (Sierra Vista, AZ United States)
I bought this set (along with vol. 2, and 3) for a friend who is getting his PhD who watches it with my 11 year-old. I'm not sure if I've ever seen a program with more reach between age ranges as this one. It's strikingly representative of people revealing the absurdity of mostly selfish intentions done with intelligent and slap-stick humor.
Brain is a megalomaniac and a genious and Pinky is his tolerated, unsophisticated (the lead in song calls him 'insane') sidekick who usually has the best ideas that Brain often uses to execute his plans to "take over the world." If you like sophisticated, historical, and sometimes policitical humor, Brain offers up many zingers that will tickle your funny bone. If you like the quick one-liners and silly, unexpected, and memorable quips, Pinky brings a light-hearted and seemingly innocent personality that will keep the kids laughing as well.
Cartoons were MEANT to be creepy! May 11, 2009
MARCUSHELBLINZ (St. Louis, MO USA)
This show is great, because it's just so silly and strange at the same time! I loved it since I was a kid!
Bugs Bunny, but better. May 10, 2009
E. Tustison (California)
Pinky and the Brain is something for those who love to think before they laugh. The humor is dry, and often subtle. I enjoy the radical concepts the Brain uses to "take over the world", and also enjoy Pinky's attempts to help Brain, just before the plot fails.
 Pinky and The Brain, Vol.1 May 9, 2009
Runa Zaman (Charlottesville, VA, USA)
I think I enjoyed this series better as a child. Rewatching it again, yes, I get some of the jokes, but some of them are completely lost on me, while, when younger, it was the childish jokes that really set me off. Now, the series just seems flat. Don't get me wrong, it has its moments (Pinky's letter to Santa had me bawling), but the way I see it, Pinky and the Brain has two stages of enjoyment: A stage where all the jokes fly over your head, and it's the situational humor that makes you laugh, primarily kids, and the stage where it's the secondary humor, the "inside jokes" almost, with all the references, are what brings the funny. I guess I'm somewhere in the middle of that age range, where the jokes don't make sense, since they are aimed at people who were adults/teens at the time I was a kid, and the kid stuff just isn't funny anymore.
So, highly recommended for those two groups, but everyone else, you might just want to go for Animaniacs instead?
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