The BEST episodes written by Gordon Bressack
#1 - When Mice Ruled The Earth
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 114
The year is 1895 and Pinky and the Brain are being kept in the laboratory of H.G. Wells. Brain builds a time machine because he wants to go back in time to keys moment in mouse evolution in order to change them and make mice the dominant form of life on Earth. When he returns to the present he hopes to be proclaimed the leader of the planet. Brain heads back in time and after a number of problems manages to teach mice how to make fire. When he returns to the present, he discovers that mice are the dominant form of life on the planet. Unfortunately, all the mice act like Pinky.
#2 - The Pinky and the Brain Reunion Special
Pinky and the Brain - Season 4 - Episode 6
A special of highlights of their career is on the air, but it's really all a ruse so Pinky and Brain can hypnotize the viewers.
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#3 - Don't Tread On Us
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 23
Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration Of Independance. Brain writes up a Declaration of Obedience and hopes to switch it with Jefferson's declaration.
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#4 - Brain Food
Pinky and the Brain - Season 3 - Episode 51
Brain opens a restaurant and feeds the customers a drug to make them smarter.
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#5 - Tokyo Grows
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 3
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.
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#6 - This Pun For Hire
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 18
In a parody of The Maltese Falcon and film-noir, the Warners (as detectives) search and protect a mysterious statue from several suspicious characters.
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#7 - Broadcast Nuisance
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 99
The Warners deliver sandwiches to a news show hosted by Mr. Dan Anchorman. When the arrive late and give him the wrong meal, he refuses to pay them. The Warners protest outside the studio and later sneak into the control room and mess with the controls. Eventually, Dan apologizes. He goes insane and is taken away to a mental hospital.
#8 - Around the World in 80 Narfs
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 14
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.
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#9 - Hooked on a Ceiling
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 10
Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He must finish before the pope arrives and prays for assistance. Assistance arrives in the form of the Warners who first paint the ceiling completely white and then fill it with pictures of Elvis and dogs playing poker. Michelangelo convinces them to help him make the correct painting and they agree. They, however, add an interesting touch before the pope arrives.
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#10 - Where No Mouse Has Gone Before
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 7
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.
#11 - Four Score and Seven Migraines Ago
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 44
On a train to Gettysburg, the Warners help Abraham Lincoln write the opening of the Gettysburg Address.
#12 - Just Say Narf
Pinky and the Brain - Season 3 - Episode 48
Pinky sings a song about saying "narf".
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#13 - Pinky & the Fog
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 6
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.
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#14 - Your Friend: Global Domination
Pinky and the Brain - Season 3 - Episode 44
Brain explains why he should be leader in a mock educational film.
#15 - A Little Off the Top
Pinky and the Brain - Season 2 - Episode 8
Brain tries to discover what makes the legendary Sampson so strong.
#16 - The Wheel o' Comedy
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 3
Elmyra Duff mistakes Dizzy Devil for a dog and takes him home with her. "Optical Intrusion": Furrball accidentally glues a pair of magnetic 3-D glasses to his face and attempts to remove them. "Win, Lose or Kerplowie": Babs, Montana Max and Plucky compete on a game show. After Buster discovers that Max is cheating, he kidnaps the host and takes his place to get revenge on Max.
#17 - Broadway Malady
Pinky and the Brain - Season 3 - Episode 36
Pinky and Brain stage their own seperate musicals, which have varying degrees of success.
#18 - Mouse of la Mancha
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 17
Brain tells a group of mice the story of "Don Cerebro" a mouse driven by his dream to take over the world.
#19 - The Helpinki Formula
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 136
Brain creates chemical that will make everyone smaller than he is. He advertises it on an infomercial and it sells it wildly. Unfortunately, more than one drop spills on everybody and causes chaos.
#20 - Burne's Blues
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Season 3 - Episode 7
In the middle of a summer heat wave, the Turtles cool down by having pizza at Plink's, home to the world famous chef: Wolfgang Plink. Suddenly, three Punks storm into the restaurant and try to hold the place up. Only they did not count on the Turtles, who dispatch them with ease. Back at Channel Six News, April, Vernon, Irma, and Mr. Thompson finish watching a tape of April's broadcast. Mr. Thompson is upset because there was no footage of the Turtles. April tries to explain that she promised not to include it in her report. Mr. Thompson is furious. In his day, he goes on to explain, a good reporter let nothing stand in his way of getting the news. Vernon chimes in by suggesting that if Mr. Thompson were not so old and fat, he would be out on the streets now searching for the Turtles. The insulted Mr. Thompson thinks that this is a great idea and volunteers Vernon to go with him, leaving April to cover a story on why the air conditioners all over the city are on the blink.
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#21 - Our Final Space Cartoon, We Promise
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 36
The Warners wake up from suspended animation in a spaceship in a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
#22 - The Third Mouse
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 18
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.
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#23 - The Buster Bunny Bunch
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 5
A parody of The Mickey Mouse Club, various characters sing about Buster. "Buffed Bunny": Presuming that Babs is showing excitement over a billboard for a gym, Buster tries to win her over by conditioning his body. At the end, he discovers that she was actually looking at a billboard for carrot cake. "Squish": After stepping on a bug, Shirley predicts bad things for him, which results Dizzy dreaming that he has become the size of a bug. "Born to Be Riled": Babs' classmates become offended by her impersonations of them, and retaliate by impersonating her.
#24 - Pinky & the Brain and...Larry
Pinky and the Brain - Season 3 - Episode 4
Pinky and Brain have a new companion, Larry, but their newest plan just doesn't seem to pan out.
#25 - You Said a Mouseful
Pinky and the Brain - Season 3 - Episode 31
Brain tries to change the Earth's weather patterns.
#26 - Project B.R.A.I.N.
Pinky and the Brain - Season 4 - Episode 8
How Acme Labs became home to Pinky and Brain.
#27 - Pinky at the Bat
Pinky and the Brain - Season 3 - Episode 34
To release Brain's leather repellant, the mice become baseball players.
#28 - The Melancholy Brain
Pinky and the Brain - Season 3 - Episode 38
Brain tries to create chaos in Hamlet's family and take over.
#29 - A Hard Day's Warners
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 11
In this parody of A Hard Day's Night, the Warners are trying to go to a convention but are followed everywhere they go by their crazy fans.
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#30 - Acquaintances
Animaniacs - Season 5 - Episode 8
In a parody of the long running hit TV show "Friends," the Warner siblings meet and try to befriend six Friend-like character knock-offs.
#31 - Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 18
Buster Bunny is brought home by Elmyra, but tries to escape when he realizes how awful it is. Before leaving, Buster frees the other pets Elmyra has locked up, but he himself is recaptured. Babs, Fifi, Furrball and Tyrone Turtle come to the rescue.
#32 - Very Beast Friends
The Real Ghostbusters - Season 6 - Episode 14
The Ghostbusters take a cruise on Ray's brand-new sailboat and get caught up in a battle between immortal demons Kishnar and Anshar. They soon possess the bodies of Peter and Ray in order to battle to the death.
#33 - The Pinky P.O.V.
Pinky and the Brain - Season 3 - Episode 49
It's another usual night where Brain plans to take over the world, only it's seen from Pinky's point of view.
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#34 - The Girl with the Googily Goop
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 32
The Warners show up an a cartoon from the 1930's. They have an adventure with the animated character Googy Goop who is a parody of Betty Boop.
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#35 - No Toon is an Island
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 63
This episode teaches a valuable lesson about jealousy; one the cast will never forget. It all begins on the beach where the gang are ostracized because they have no money, and they come across a bottle with an old treasure map inside it. Buster, Babs, Plucky and Hamton sail off to Booty Island where the treasure is, and are met with a warning from a pirate about the ""green-eyed monster"". They are scared witless when they happen to see something with green-eyes lurking on the island, but it turns out to be a silly-looking X bird. They eventually find the treasure and they almost destroy themselves because they just cannot share. The X-Bird steals the treasure and puts it in its nest which is on top of a volcano. The volcano erupts and the foursome rush to get off the island with the treasure and the bird. As the foursome sail out to sea, the boat is slowly sinking and they realize that the treasure is weighing the boat down. Buster, Babs, Plucky and Hamton have no choice but to throw th
#36 - Going Places
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 2 - Episode 2
The Tiny Toons visit three places on their field trip. When You're Hot...: While Visiting the fire station, Pete Puma accidentally sets off a rocket in a demonstration and Acme Looniversity burns. It's up to the Tiny Toons to save their beloved school from becoming ashes.
#37 - Hare-Raising Night
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 12
Buster, Babs, Plucky and Hamton attempt to stop a mad scientist named Dr. Gene Splicer, who performs mutation experiments on animals.
#38 - Citizen Max
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 22
A Citizen Kane parody with Montana Max in the role of Charles Foster Kane. Hamton interviews the other characters, asking why Max said "Acme," but is unable to find an answer. At the end, it is revealed that he actually said "acne."
#39 - Vandal Scandal
Snorks - Season 1 - Episode 2
The Governor unveils a new painting of himself in the town square, which is ruined by the mark of a red crayon. Interestingly enough, Casey was missing a red crayon from her set. Junior and his family blame All-Star and his friends for ruining the painting. Tooter later finds the red crayon and starts scribbling with it. Unfortunately, Junior catches Tooter with the evidence. Tooter is charged with defacing property, but when the trial begins, Tooter is nowhere to be found. The Snorks find Tooter by using Professor Galleo's secret weapon, the Silver Fish. While the Snorks find Tooter, someone else is scribbling red mustaches on the Governor's painting. The Snorks find Tooter being chased by a giant crab and almost gets caught in a bad sea current. Casey finds her red crayon when Baby Smallstar is found scribbling red mustaches on the painting! The charges against Tooter are dropped.
#40 - Which Snork Snitched?
Snorks - Season 1 - Episode 6
All-Star and Junior compete against each other in a gymnastics event and Junior cheats. All-Star finds out and gets Junior in trouble. To get back at All-Star, Junior buys a myna bird to spy on all of the Snorks' plans.
#41 - The Wacko World of Sports
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 28
Buster and Babs describes the sporting activities determined in each segment. "Tennis the Menace": Buster poses as a professional tennis player after discovering that Montana Max has been cheating against his competitors. "Bleacher Bummer": Dizzy and Furrball sneak into a baseball game in which Acme Acres is competing against rival Perfecto Prep. There, the two inadvertently reveal that the rival team has been cheating. "Miniature Goof": Buster and Babs try to play a game of miniature golf on a course owned by Roderick and Rhubella Rat, but after being unfairly treated by the rats, they pose as the Vanderbunnys.
#42 - A Snorking We Will Go
Snorks - Season 1 - Episode 9
The Snorks go on a snorking trip. Everyone is having the time of their lives, except Junior. Junior is all shook up after a story about a sea creature. While on a nature hike, they get lost thanks to Junior's ""sophisticated"" compass. While finding the way back, they come across an old sunken ship. As they explore the ship, they almost get caught by a strange giant form reaching into the ship. All-Star gets them all out safely, and he is commended for his efforts. The strange form just happened to be a diver just exploring under the sea.
#43 - Sawdust and Toonsil
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 31
Babs, Buster, and Plucky spend a fun-filled day in Wackyland with Gogo. All of a sudden, a train pulls into town advertising a big circus. Gogo freaks out and runs away. The gang finds out why Gogo ran off so quickly. The reason: Silas Wonder has a sideshow act with stolen characters from Wackyland: a dragon, a Sphinx, and a Pegasus. Gogo breaks in to try to free his friends, but he ends up getting caught himself. Gogo finds himself fading away and getting weak like the rest of the captives. The bunnies try to help Gogo, but Plucky wants to go into the circus business. They dress up like a three-headed rabbit duck and gets into a high-diving act, where they are expected to dive in a thimble of lime jello. After bypassing that obstacle, they free Gogo's friends and send them back to Wackyland where they get better.
#44 - Spring in Acme Acres
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 32
Springtime comes to Acme Acres, whether you like it or not thanks of Babs and her winter eliminator flame thrower. Love Among the Toons:Cupid makes his rounds to spread love with his arrows. He tires of his job and gets Concord Condor to do his work for him. Of course, this leads to catastropic love matches among odd couples, especially Montana Max and Babs! The Lord gets on Cupid for his wrongdoing and gets him to undo Concord's mess.
#45 - Hooked on a Feeling
Snorks - Season 1 - Episode 3
Everyone is having a good time at a carnival, everyone except Occy who is excluded from everything. He finds a love interest in a fishing lure in the guise of a girl octopus. This relationship takes a dangerous turn when a swordfish follows it along with Occy all over Snorkland. The Governor blames Occy for causing this whole mess and banishes him to the Great Beyond. The Snorks then help Occy out when the Swordfish chases him again. They find out that the cause of the whole trouble was the girl octopus lure and Occy has to give her up for the good of the town.
#46 - Wake Up Call of the Wild
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 23
Buster and Babs talk about the "call of the wild" and animal instincts. "Migrant Mallard": Plucky attempts to migrate with a flock of ducks and makes several attempts to modernize them in the process. At the end, the ducks are portrayed flying south while listening to Walkman's. "It's a Jungle Out There": Concord Condor escapes the zoo in search of "wide open spaces." After being pursued by Arnold the Pitbull and other creatures, he returns to the zoo. "Kitty Cat-Astrophe": Furrball fantasizes that he is living in prehistoric times and ends up destroying Hamton's kitchen.
#47 - Career Oppor-Toon-ities
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 37
Buster details the virtues of having a part-time job. "Busters Guide to Getting a Job": Buster walks Babs though a step-by-step course on how to get a job. Buster and Babs end up at Weenie Burger, waiting on an unruly Montana Max. "Working Pig": Hamton must attend to a customer in the toy department in order to get promoted to cleaning supplies. Unfortunately, that customer is Elmyra. "Falling to Pizzas": A penniless Calamity Coyote attempts to steal a pizza from Little Beeper, who's working as a delivery boy.
#48 - Hero Hamton
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 44
Hamton mistakenly hits Montana Max with his locker door and Max threatens to hit him. Plucky makes it even worse when he forces Hamton to have a boxing match with Max! Hamton tries to get out of the whole situation, but his friends help him out with physical and spiritual training. On the night of the fight, Hamton is sitting in Porky's prop class feeling sorry for himself, and Buster and Babs go into the ring in his place. When Hamton sees his friends get beaten up, he uses the power of his ancestors (and Porky's props) to get even with Max, who chickens out!
#49 - Mr. Popular's Rules of Cool!
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 48
This is just like Episode 46, except Mr. Popular teaches people how to be cool about themselves, crazy fads and not disrespecting people. Mr. Popular's Rules of Cool: Hamton is having a hard time fitting in because he is not cool. Mr. Popular shows Hamton how to fit in, win lots of friends, and how to get in the coolest clubs. He is put to the test when Mr. Popular and Babs take him to the coolest club in town. Arnold then shuts the door on Hamton, and he starts swaying around and unknowingly starts a conga line with the crowd. After that, Babs and Mr. Popular try to get rid of his record collection, but he starts doing some fresh DJ scratch mves that makes him even more cooler with the studio audience. The audience then leaves with Hamton, leaving Mr. Popular and Babs with an empty set and running cameras!
#50 - Fairy Tales for the '90s
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 49
Babs as a fairy tries to display the Fairy Tales of the 90's even if it kills her. This is a great homage to the openings of ""Farctured Fairy Tales"" on the classic Rocky and Bullwinkle series. Bunnochio: The Acme Toy Company is in a bit of a slump, and they call on Mr. Gepetto to make a new toy. Gepetto makes an old fashioned drumming bunny and is ostrasized by the executives. That night Gepetto wishes that his toy would come to life. Coincidently, Buster burrows his way into Gepetto's factory and Geppetto thinks that his wish had come true. The next day, Buster is displayed and tells everyone off. Everyone thinks that he is a great toy, and Buster keeps telling them that he is not a toy. This gives way into a chase scene, where Buster has the executives fall into a toy-making vat. Pretty soon, the Executive wind-up toy is the hottest toy to hit toy store and Gepetto and Buster are both reaping the rewards.