Pinky and the Brain: Brainwashed

Brainwashed is a three-part serial/telefilm from the fourth season of the Warner Bros. Animation/Amblin Entertainment animated series Pinky and the Brain from the Animaniacs series. Originally aired in 1998 as a serialized version on Kids' WB, divided as three titled episodes "Brain, Brain, Go Away" on September 14, "I Am Not a Hat" on September 15 and "Wash Harder" on September 16, including the final appearance of Snowball when he is despliced and returned to a normal hamster. It served as the introduction to Precious, the cat.

Part 1: Brain, Brain Go Away
Brain, with Pinky, in a microscopic size sumbarine inside the arteries of Tom Bodett, intends to control his voice in a plot to take over the world. The plan fails when a white blood cell attacks forcing them off course into the nose where they are sneezed out. Brain blames it on Pinky's distraction with a new popular swedish dance, called the Schmëerskåhøvên.

Meanwhile the U.S. Governemnt becomes concerned over the dumbing down of America and plan a conference titled the Brain to discuss the issue with leading psychologists and educators An assistant, Bobby Bob Yokel tasked with sending invites, mistakes the title of the confererance, "The Brain", as a name of someone to invite and sends an invitation to Brain who believes the government is honoring him. Brain prepares a speech and travels to the conferance where he is horrified to find all the invitees dancing to the Schmëerskåhøvên except for Bob "Gilligan" Denver. Brain says the day he does the Schmëerskåhøvên is the day he's lost his mind. Brain interupts the song and demands better entertainment, before realizing he wasn't the guest of honor after all and the conferance only cared about the human mind. A party clown steals Brain's speech and after getting kicked out, Brain chases after the clown. Pinky and Brain get captured and put to sleep by ether. Brain is brainwashed after a dream of trying to take over the world where his desires are stripped from him, while Pinky with no observable mind isn't brainwashed.

Brain wakes up in the land of hats where everyone has a hat they go by the name of, and live in houses shaped like the hats. Brain is told by the Strawboater that his name is Pig Pie because of his Pie Pie hat. Pinky, now Fez, meets Brain and realizes that Brain has amnesia. The town schedule consists of daily commutes to dance the Schmëerskåhøvên in a courtyard. Among the inhabitants is Bob Denver who also refused to dance but now does so with everyone else, including Brain. Pinky who unlike the others doesn't have amnesia remembers that Brain said the day he does the Schmëerskåhøvên was the day he lost his mind. Pinky figuring Brain is brainwashed, decides to exploit Brain's mindlessness by making Brain do things Pinky likes that Pinky thinks Brain would like if he didn't stop himself, like gelatin baths, liking linoleum tiles and walking a sponge.

Pinky eventually feels guilty when Brain doesn't fit in with these activities and tries to tell Brain that his real desire is to take over the world but he's interrupted by a Schmëerskåhøvên bell which convinces Brain that his real desire is to dance. Pinky drags Brain away to escape but Bob Denver appears and points and screams at them. Other residents and Brain turn on Pinky and point and scream at him, a reference to Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Part 2: I Am Not a Hat
Pinky stops Brain's screaming when he says "narf" and reminds Brain of a desire to hurt Pinky. Brain and Pinky are captured and held for trial in the powder wig hat building. Brain is disobeying the unquestionable Top Hat's laws. Brain repeats "I am not a hat," in the room to the confused judge who thinks Brain must be another type of clothing. Brain throws down his hat in portest which which is also an offense. Brain tricks the people into leaving by imitating a bell fot the Schmëerskåhøvên. But their escape is short-lived as they are crushed by a giant ball of yarn and captured and brought before the Top Hat which is a supercomputer in the secluded Top Hat building. The word "narf", something the computer doesn't know despite it's sense of omniscience causes it to destroy itself while giving Brain and all the other inhabitants their memories back through electrecution. Before the hat explodes, Brain dowloads the remaining information from the Top Hat onto a floppy disc.

Back at ACME Labs, Brain reveals to Pinky from the data on the floppy disc that the Schmëerskåhøvên is designed to put pressure on certain pressue points in succession that cause the brain to shrink. And it is responsible for America's newfound stupidity. Brain resolves that someone else is using BAAB's influence to use the Schmëerskåhøvên to take over the world. Brain attempts to hack into the history of the anonymous writer for the song, but a cyber defense hacks back into ACME Labs and triggers a self destruct sequence to protect the identity of the writer. This is revealed to be caused by the party clown that first tricked brain.

Pinky and the Brain are held by cops at banana-point who believe them to have cause the explosion. Brain tricks them into doing the Schmëerskåhøvên and escapes. Pinky and Brain break into the White House and learn that the President and First Lady are dmbed down and that the Schmëerskåhøvên-a-thon for world peace is coming up. They meet Bob Bobby Yokell who expresses his desire to impress the president and become cheif of staff. Brain decides the make Bob Bobby whistle-blow the land of hats but when the return, the land of hats has been destroyed. Brain is convinced that the plot is caused by Snowball, an old rival.

Brain locates Snowball impronsoned in his own center for psychiatric research which he was using to learn about the real culprit of the Schmëerskåhøvên before getting to close to the truth and getting locked up. Snowball agrees to help Brain on the condition that they stop the culprit together. To rescue Snowball, Brain convinces the doctors that they are inside the cell and Snowball is free on the other side, which is in fact inside the cell. So they should unlock the cell door. But before doing so, Brain is enraged by their Pauly Shore references and yells at them and gets locked up himself. A TV reminds them of the impending Schmëerskåhøvên-a-thon and Pinky hopelessly bangs his head into the clear cell door to try to bust out Brain.

Part 3: Wash Harder
Pinky is still ramming his head into the cell door and encourages a prison guard to do the same. The guard knocks himself unconscious and Pinky uses his keys to save Brain and Snowball. Pinky, Brain and Snowball take an airplane to the island of Dr. Mordough, the geneticist who gave Pinky, Brain and Snowball their intelligence. Pinky recalls being batted around by his cat, Precious and enjoying it. Snowball used Dr. Mordough as an accomplice to take over the world but Mordough stopped returning calls. Snowball sent lawyers to his island but hey never returned. Mordough signed the papers committing Snowball to the asylum. Brain and Snowball get in an argument and resolve to have a fight in the back of the plane. Pinky takes over and crashes next to the island.

The gang proceeds on foot to Dr, Mordough's compound and are attacked by Snowball's brainwashed lawyers. They escape into the compund discovering that Mordough's cat Precious was behind the Schmëerskåhøvên, the party clown and the Land of Hats. She seeks revenge for being seen as ugly for her aquired head size from the ACME gene splicer, by dumbing down the world into her catlike slaves. She leaves with the party clown to give her new cat lyrics & dance moves to BAAB who will introduce it as the new verse during the worldwide Schmëerskåhøvên-a-thon. Precious puts Pinky, Brain and Snowball into a cage to be sent back throught the gene splicer which would reverse their intelligence. As a last word, Pinky gets a cat treat, which Brain uses to get the catified Dr. Mordough to break open their cage for. While Pinky is trying to get Brain out the cage, Snowball betrays them but runs into his lawyers who chase Snowball through the gene splicer while Brain and Pinky escape the crushed cage. Precious and the Clown leave the island while Pinky and Brain concoct a new Schmëerskåhøvên verse and moves to reverse the dumbing down effects of the Schmëerskåhøvên.

Brain creates a new shrinking submarine which he intends to use to control the voice of the BAAB vocalist to sing his new verse. But the meatballs they go into were intended for Bob, not BAAB. Brain and Pinky improvise by convincing Bob Bobby Yokell to serve coffee to BAAB which he spills on all of them. Unable to perform, BAAB asks Bob Bobby Yokell to sing in their place. Brain gives Bob the new verse that convinces everyone to "just say no to the Schmëerskåhøvên." The Evil Clown attepts to seek revenge on Bobby Bob but Bobby Bob spills coffee on him and the Clown runs to cool off in the National Mall reflecting pool. Bill and Hillary Clinton ask Bobby Bob how they could ever rethank him and Brain has Boby Bob ask them to rebuild ACME Labs and the President agrees. Pinky and the Brain escape from Bob's body and Bob Booby Yokell finds Precious and calling her pretty, decide to adopt her. Back at the new ACME Labs, Pinky and the Brain receive a thank-you note from Precious. Bob's now the chief of staff like he wanted to be. Brain resorts to retunr to his plans to take over the world before another idiotic dance comes along.

Schmëerskåhøvên
The Schmëerskåhøvên, a parody of the Macarena, is played by BAAB, a pardoy of ABBA, and written by Precious under the alias, "Psuedo Nym". It was tested on Dr. Morough and was designed to make people stupid and eventually make them act like cats. It could be seen as a parralel to the Law from the Island of Doctor Moreau.

Verse 1: Stick your finger in your ear And put it in your belly Don't be afraid if it jiggles like jelly Yeah, Schmëerskåhøvên!

Verse 2: Wave your arms in the air Like you won a big prize Bop yourself on the head and cross your eyes Yeah, Schmëerskåhøvên!

Precious's Verse 3: Get down on your knees And try to look pretty Chase your tail in a circle and meow like a kitty Yeah, Schmëerskåhøvên!

Brain's Verse 3: Give yourself a hug Like the air is chilly Put your hands on your face and slap yourself silly Yeah, Schmëerskåhøvên!

Do your own thing Get your body groovin' Just say no to the Schmëerskåhøvên! No, Schmëerskåhøvên!

Cast/ Characters

 * Maurice LaMarche as Brain: A mouse trying to take over the world who becomes convinced that a was invited to a party honoring him which was actually for a discussion of the human brain.
 * Rob Paulsen as Pinky: A mouse assistant to Brain who is generally stupid but becomes an inadvertant genius at times when Brain ignores him out of arrogance. When Brain and Pinky and captured, the computer doesn't erase his mind due to his mind being unobservable. This allows Pinky to keep his memory and save Brain.
 * Tom Bodett as himself
 * Frank Welker as Bill Clinton: The President of the United States who is potrayed as stupid.
 * Tress MacNeille as Hillary Clinton: The First Lady of the United States who is potrayed as the real power behind the president.
 * Townsend Coleman as Bobby Bob Yokell: A lowly assistant to the President of the United States who always ends up being tasked with carrying coffee and fails for various reasons from using his hands, spilling and using a flower pot with a hole in it. His desire to prove himself to the president is exploited by Brain.
 * Corey Burton as the Evil Clown
 * Corey Burton as Strawboater: A man from the land of hats who introduces Brain to their town and rules.
 * Roddy McDowall as Snowball: A hamster who has always been a rival of Brain. He's previously used Pinky against Brain.
 * Jeff Glen Bennett as Dr. Mordough: The scientist who spliced the genes of Brain, Pinky, Snowball and unintentionally his cat Precious using the ACME gene splicer. He was known to Pinky as the funny fruit man for his obsession with fruit. He began to work for Snowball on an island to make the world his fruit salad, until Precious used him for testing the Schmëerskåhøvên and Mordough stopped returning Snowball's calls. He now acts like a cat and even likes fish flavored treats.
 * Nora Dunn as Precious: Dr. Mordough's cat who goes into the ACME gene splicer and gains super intelligence at the cost of her beauty. This causes her to run away an become an outcast who plots revenge using the Schmëerskåhøvên to make everyone a kitty slave.

Locations

 * ACME Labs
 * Washington D.C.
 * The White House: The President hosts a conferance on the brain.
 * Washington Monument: The clown lures Brain into here with his speech to kidnap and brainwash him because he wasn't dancing the Schmëerskåhøvên.
 * Lincoln Memorial: The Schmëerskåhøvên is played for the last time on its steps.
 * The Land of Hats
 * Courtyard
 * Powdered Wig Hat
 * Top Hat
 * Microsponge corporation building
 * Durwood Kirby: Microsponge Center for Psychiatric Research
 * The Island of Dr. Mordough
 * Mordough's Compound

Vehicles

 * Microscopic shrinking submarine
 * First submarine: A failure with the immunosupressant sheilds cause it to be lost inside Tom Bedett. Pinky and the Brain need to go back to the lab to resize themselves.
 * Second makeshift submarine: Used to go inside Bobby Bob Yokell. They take it to his eardrum where they convince him that they're his conscience. They successfully escape out of it and unshrink themselves and the sub itself. They're kicked by Bob Bobby returning to the tents for more meatballs.
 * Mircosponge corp. private jet: Pinky, Brain and Snowball take it to the island of Dr. Mordough. It crashes into the water next to the island and the gang washes up on the beach on a seat cushion.
 * Two Helicopters: Precious and the Evil Clown escape in one. Pinky and the Brain wait on the island making the new verse and escape later presumably on the second.

Comparison to other versions

 * Unique: This version is an arc in the show Pinky and the Brain.
 * Original draft of Moreau (1894): Both versions feature a quaint village where trivial actions are considered crimes and a trial is held.
 * The Island of Doctor Moreau: The conflict between being a man or an animal is replace with being a hat or a mouse. The hypnotic law is replaced with the Schmëerskåhøvên particularily the intended third verse which would make everyone act like cats in servitude of Precious. Snowball's lawyers on the island act as beast-folk.
 * The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996 film): Dr. Mordough resembles Marlon Brando's potrayal of Doctor Moreau.