Thursday, November 29, 2018

Countdown to Christmas: A Pinky & The Brain Christmas (1995)

Pinky & The Brain were granted a primetime berth, airing on Sundays on WB, halfway through the 1995-6 season, as the network was having trouble finding suitable programming to fill the night.

Their Christmas show was the first primetime episode, but it's the usual nonsense from the malevolent mice (Rob Paulsen & Maurice LaMarche). You know what to expect. They want world domination (highly unlikely), but Pinky's no smarter than a broken Christmas ornament, so of course their plans always fail.....

Edit, 12/8/2020: The video has been deleted. In its place, we give you a screencap of a VHS release.



If you've seen one episode in this series, chances are you've seen them all.....

Rating: C.

4 comments:

Silverstar said...

Unpopular Opinion: I never thought Pinky & the Brain needed their own show. They were fine as one of several rotating segments on Animaniacs, 'cause then you got a break from them time to time, but placing the characters front and center and getting them nonstop week after week, the limitations of the premise and characters became all too obvious. The WB was really banking on P&tB being their network's breakout hit, to the point of giving the show a brief prime-time run (where it got clobbered by 60 Minutes) and even meddling with the show in the hopes of turning it into WB's Simpsons. The pair even continued to appear on A!, despite having their own spinoff; in short, WB kept ramming the mice down viewers' throats until the hit starting hitting back. Not a good thing.

If any one segment from A! deserved its' own show, I'd have taken Slappy Squirrel over Pinky & The Brain in an anvil-dropping split second, IMNSHO.

hobbyfan said...

File this, then, under "stupid network decisions" in an era when they were obsessed with celebrating stupidity (and still are, since Family Guy is still on the air).

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