Pinky and the Brain (2000 TV series)

Pinky and the Brain is an American animated television series. It was co-produced by Amblin Television, and produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

Pinky and the 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. In common with many other Animaniacs shorts, many episodes are in some way a parody of something else, usually a film or novel.

Premise
Many of the Pinky and the Brain episodes occur in the 2000s at Acme Labs, located in some large American city underneath a suspension bridge. Several episodes take place in historical times, with Pinky and the Brain in the laboratory of some scientifically-minded person, including Merlin, H.G. Wells, and Ivan Pavlov. There is very little continuity between episodes outside of the common fixtures of the mice, though some plans for world domination from early episodes are subsequently referred to in later seasons.

The bulk of every episode involves one of Brain's plans for world domination with Pinky's assistance and the ultimate failure of that plan, with some exceptions. Although Pinky and the Brain plan to conquer the world, they do not show much animosity.

Format
Unlike the original series, all of the episodes are in traditional 22-minute episodic format. The second incarnation of Pinky and the Brain is now a half-hour series entirely and it pretty much ditched the three-short format used in Animaniacs and Tiny Toons Adventures.

Animation
The bulk of the episodes were animated by a different variety of studios: Rough Draft Korea, Yeson Entertainment, Sunwoo Entertainment, Koko Enterprises, Hanho-Heung Up Co. Ltd, Plus One Animation, Seoul Movie, and Yowza! Animation.