Pinky and the Brain: Season 3
1997 · 51 episodes · ★ 6.6
What Season 3 of Pinky and the Brain
Pinky and the Brain are two genetically modified lab mice living in a cage at Acme Labs. Pinky is kind, though not very bright. The Brain is very smart, but also arrogant, cunning and bitter, and his goal is to take over the world. For most of each episode, he comes up with a new plan and needs Pinky's help. It almost always fails: the plans prove unfeasible, the Brain's overconfidence works against him, a slip on his part brings him down, or Pinky's clumsiness ruins everything. The series was created by Tom Ruegger and airs on The WB, with Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche as the voices of the leads.
Season 3 Episodes
3x01 Leave It to Beavers
Brain enlists the aid of beavers to gain control over the flow of rivers.
Directing: Liz Holzman, Russell Calabrese · Writing: Charles M. Howell IV, Wayne Kaatz · Starring: Frank Welker
3x02 Cinebrania
The mice make a series of comedy films and hit the big time.
Directing: Liz Holzman, Russell Calabrese · Writing: Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard
3x03 Pinky & The Brain ...and Larry
Pinky and Brain have a new companion, Larry, but their newest plan just doesn't seem to pan out.
Directing: Liz Holzman, Russell Calabrese · Writing: Gordon Bressack, Charles M. Howell IV · Starring: Billy West
3x04 Where the Deer and The Mousealopes Play
In their latest plan, Pinky and Brain try to take over the steel mills in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by pretending to be a part of an endangered species called the Mousealopes.
Directing: Liz Holzman, Russell Calabrese · Writing: Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard · Starring: John Mariano, Jim Meskimen, Tress MacNeille, Jeff Bennett
3x05 Brain Noir
It's 1946 and Brain's new plan gets interrupted when he and Pinky encounter Billie and Snowball.
Directing: Charles Visser · Writing: Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard · Starring: Roddy McDowall, Tress MacNeille, Jan Rabson
3x06 Brain's Bogie
Brain gets caught up in winning a golf tournament, even though it interferes with his new plan.
Directing: Nelson Recinos · Writing: Reid Harrison · Starring: Frank Welker
3x07 Say What, Earth
After the Earth gets the power of speech from his Silitronlinguifactor device, Brain comes up with a new plan.
Directed by: Nelson Recinos · Written by: Gene Laufenberg · Starring: Jeff Bennett, Earl Boen
3x08 My Feldmans, My Friends
Brain tries to get a package meant for him back from his neighbor.
Directing: Charles Visser · Writing: Brett Baer, Dave Finkel · Starring: Paul Rugg
3x09 All You Need Is Narf
Pinky becomes a guru during the 1960s.
Directing: Kirk Tingblad · Writing: Earl Kress, Charles M. Howell IV, Bill Matheny · Starring: Jess Harnell
3x10 Pinky's Plan
It's Brain's birthday and Pinky plans a surprise party.
Directing: Kirk Tingblad · Writing: Earl Kress, Cathy Shambley
3x11 This Old Mouse
After getting a glimpse of his future, Brain abandons his attempts to take over the world and gets a job as a ski instructor.
Directing: Charles Visser · Writing: Bill Canterbury · Starring: Tress MacNeille, Jeff Bennett, Paul Rugg
3x12 Brain Storm
The mice are looking to control tornados, but a pest keeps getting in their way.
Directed by: Russell Calabrese · Written by: John P. McCann · Starring: Dani Douthette, Jeff Bennett
3x13 A Meticulous Analysis Of History
Brain sings about past and present world leaders' failures.
Directing: Kirk Tingblad · Writing: Jed Spingarn, Wendell Morris, Earl Kress · Starring: Jeff Bennett
3x14 Funny, You Don't Look Rhennish
The mice need to get into a mine, but have to pretend to join a Amish-type society.
Directing: Kirk Tingblad · Writing: Jed Spingarn
3x15 The Pinky Protocol
Brain's latest plan is a conspiracy theory about why he is not ruling the world.
Directed by: Kirk Tingblad · Written by: Rich Fogel · Starring: Tress MacNeille, Frank Welker, Townsend Coleman, Jeff Bennett
3x16 Mice Don't Dance
Brain becomes a tap dancer with steam-powered legs in order to spread a subliminal morse code at the World's Fair.
Directing: Russell Calabrese · Writing: Tom Minton · Starring: Gail Matthius, John Astin, Dorian Harewood
3x17 Brain Drained
Brain is out of ideas for taking over the world, so he tries to get some from writers.
Directed by: Russell Calabrese · Written by: Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard
3x18 Brain Acres
Farmer Brain tries to grow an army of monster vegetables.
Directing: Nelson Recinos · Writing: Wendell Morris, Earl Kress, Tom Sheppard · Starring: Frank Welker, Lauren Tom, Mark Hamill
3x19 Pinky And The Brainmaker
Brain creates a cloning machine and plans to clone himself in order to create the best Celtic dance troupe the world has ever seen.
Directing: Russell Calabrese · Writing: Norm McCabe · Starring: Laraine Newman, Jeff Bennett
3x20 Calvin Brain
Brain masquerades as a fashion designer.
Directing: Russell Calabrese · Writing: Earl Kress, Charles M. Howell IV, Rich Fogel
3x21 Pinky Suavo
Brain plans to use the Personalitron to give him irresistible charisma, but it winds up going to Pinky.
Directed by: Mike Milo · Written by: Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard
3x22 T.H.E.Y.
The mice learn of a secret organization, T.H.E.Y. (comprised of world leaders), and try to get in.
Directed by: Mike Milo · Written by: Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard
3x23 The Real Life
A house needed for Brain's latest plot becomes the set of a reality series about the people living there. So the mice become participants to get in.
Directing: Kirk Tingblad · Writing: Jed Spingarn · Starring: Scott Valentine, LeVar Burton, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
3x24 Brain's Way
To save his Las Vegas casino, Brain works as a lounge singer.
Directing: Nelson Recinos · Writing: Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard · Starring: Tress MacNeille, Jeff Bennett, Jess Harnell, Billy West
3x25 A Pinky And The Brain Halloween
Mr. Itch offers Brain control of the world in exchange for his soul, but Brain refuses. In a shocking twist, Pinky sells his soul to make it happen and Brain soon decides to get his friend back.
Directed by: Kirk Tingblad · Written by: Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard · Starring: Jeff Bennett, Roddy McDowall, Tress MacNeille, Billy West
3x26 Brainy Jack
Brain assumes the identity of Briany Jack, a hippie leader, and tries to create a peace chain to send a subliminal message.
Directed by: Charles Visser · Written by: Earl Kress, Brett Baer, Dave Finkel · Starring: Jeff Bennett
3x27 Leggo My Ego
Brain's attempt to control Emperor Franz Josef get side tracked when he talks about his problems with psychiatrist Dr. Sigmund Freud.
Directed by: Charles Visser · Written by: Jed Spingarn · Starring: Clyde Kusatsu
3x28 Big In Japan
Brain enters the world of a sumo wrestling to acquire a paralyzing fish.
Directing: Charles Visser · Writing: Jed Spingarn
3x29 But That's Not All, Folks!
Brain takes control of a satellite to air his infomercial around the world, but the satellite belongs to the military and they want to capture whoever hacked into their systems.
Directing: Nelson Recinos · Writing: John Ludin · Starring: Corey Burton, Frank Welker
3x30 Operation Sea Lion
Brain takes control over aquatic mammals for his latest plan and Pinky falls for a female sea lion.
Directing: Kirk Tingblad · Writing: John P. McCann · Starring: Tress MacNeille, Jennifer Hale
3x31 You Said a Mouseful
Brain tries to change the Earth's weather patterns.
Directing: Kirk Tingblad · Writing: Gordon Bressack · Starring: John Moschitta Jr.
3x32 The Tailor and The Mice
A well-meaning tailor makes Pinky and Brain's lives miserable.
Directed by: Mike Milo · Written by: Tom Ruegger · Starring: Gabrielle Carteris, Laraine Newman, Pat Musick
3x33 Bah, Wilderness
At a sleep away camp for world leaders' children, Brain tries to trick the children into placing listening devices in their parents' offices.
Directing: Mike Milo · Writing: Jed Spingarn · Starring: Gabrielle Carteris, Laraine Newman
3x34 Pinky At The Bat
To release Brain's leather repellant, the mice become baseball players.
Directed by: Nelson Recinos · Written by: Gordon Bressack, Bill Braunstein · Starring: Corey Burton, Frank Welker
3x35 Schpiel-Borg 2000
Brain's latest plan for world domination is the Schpiel-Borg 2000, which hosts a retrospective of past episodes.
Directed by: Rusty Mills · Written by: Bob Davies
3x36 Broadway Malady
Pinky and Brain stage their own seperate musicals, which have varying degrees of success.
Directing: Russell Calabrese · Writing: Gordon Bressack, Charles M. Howell IV
3x37 The Megalomaniacal Adventures of Brainie The Poo
Spoofing Winnie the Pooh, Brainie and Pinklet try to steal honey from a bee hive.
Directing: Charles Visser · Writing: Patric M. Verrone · Starring: John Rhys-Davies
3x38 The Melancholy Brain
Brain tries to create chaos in Hamlet's family and take over.
Directing: Charles Visser · Writing: Gordon Bressack, Patric M. Verrone
3x39 Inherit The Wheeze
Brain tries to become a national hero by taking down a tobacco company.
Directing: Nelson Recinos · Writing: Earl Kress · Starring: Tress MacNeille
3x40 Brain's Night Off
Taking the night off from trying to take over the world, Pinky and Brain try other things.
Directed by: Kirk Tingblad · Written by: Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard, Charles M. Howell IV · Starring: Julie Brown, Candi Milo, Michael Donovan
3x41 Beach Blanket Brain
Brain tries to get surfers to put on his suntan lotion, Brain de Soleil, which creates a hypnotic effect.
Directing: Kirk Tingblad · Writing: Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard · Starring: Julie Brown
3x42 The Family That Poits Together, Narfs Together
Brain enters Pinky's family in a contest to win $25,000.
Directing: Russell Calabrese · Writing: Earl Kress, Charles M. Howell IV, John Ludin · Starring: Gail Matthius, Tress MacNeille, Frank Welker, Jeff Bennett
3x43 Pinky's Turn
Pinky has his own plan for world domination and Brain goes along with it.
Directed by: Russell Calabrese · Written by: Jed Spingarn · Starring: John Glover
3x44 Your Friend: Global Domination
Brain explains why he should be leader in a mock educational film.
Directed by: Russell Calabrese · Written by: Gordon Bressack
3x45 You'll Never Eat Food Pellets In This Town Again
As network executives keep repeatedly changing their show, Pinky and Brain decide to quit.
Directing: Russell Calabrese · Writing: Jed Spingarn, Charles M. Howell IV · Starring: Pat Musick, Dick Clark, Philip Maurice Hayes
3x46 Dangerous Brains
As he prepares his plan for world domination, Brain goes to work teaching rebellious students.
Directing: Mike Milo · Writing: Tom Ruegger, Brett Baer, Dave Finkel · Starring: Tress MacNeille
3x47 Whatever Happened To Baby Brain
Pinky and Brain masquerade as a mother and child star respectively to get money needed for the next plan.
Directing: Charles Visser · Writing: Jed Spingarn · Starring: Tress MacNeille, Jeff Bennett
3x48 Just Say Narf
Pinky sings a song about saying "narf".
Directed by: Charles Visser · Written by: Gordon Bressack, Bill Canterbury
3x49 The Pinky P.O.V.
It's another usual night where Brain plans to take over the world, only it's seen from Pinky's point of view.
Directing: Mike Milo · Writing: Gordon Bressack
3x50 The Really Great Dictator
The mice sing about world domination.
Directing: Mike Milo · Writing: Liz Holzman
3x51 Brain Food Season Finale
Brain opens a restaurant and feeds the customers a drug to make them smarter.
Directing: Mike Milo · Writing: Gordon Bressack, Bill Braunstein
Season 3 Cast
Gail Matthius2 episodes
Corey Burton2 episodes
Gabrielle Carteris2 episodes
Pat Musick2 episodes
Julie Brown2 episodes
Paul RuggMr. Sultana (voice)2 episodes
Clyde KusatsuEpisode 1
John MarianoRobert (voice)Episode 1
John AstinEpisode 1
Dick ClarkDick Clark (voice)Episode 1
Philip Maurice HayesPollster #2 (voice)Episode 1All Seasons
Season 11995 · 19 ep. · 
Season 21996 · 16 ep. · 
Season 41998 · 9 ep. · Where to Watch Season 3 of Pinky and the Brain
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does season 3 of Pinky and the Brain have?
Season 3 of Pinky and the Brain has 51 episodes.
When Did Season 3 of Pinky and the Brain Premiere?
Premiered on September 8, 1997.
Where to Watch Season 3 of Pinky and the Brain?
Currently not available on the major subscription platforms (availability may vary by country).