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Because kids are not as stupid as people think they are.

If the show purpose was supposed to have a hint of intelligence why would it be targeted for little kids?

I don't see why everyone hated the Elmyra thing. I thought it was really funny. Not as funny as the actual show, but it was still hilarious. It's always hard to justify saying a show was "ruined". It was a gimmick that didn't work for most fans, but there were people who loved it.I for one hope that it will be released on DVD.

If it was going stale, then let it die with dignity instead of adding Elmyra and making the show terrible.

Pinky and the Brain ran it's product life cycle. Even bringing in Elmyra couldn't save it. The concept was running stale and, after three years, you need to recruit a whole new fan base. If it doesn't appeal to the younger fans coming up, it's finished. Relax, watch the re-runs, and accept the fact that all good parties come to an end. Narf. Zort, Egad.

P&B ruled, buy PE&B SUCKED! Anybody remember Billy Bo Bob Brain? And him telling Dolly Parton what a mammal was CLASSIC!

People may jump down my throats... but I believe Pinky, Elmira, and the Brain was brilliant. Hear me out first. YES, the show was ruined, but I also believe that was the whole point behind the switch. The network put so much pressure on the writers. The "Pinky and the Brain... and Larry" episode was the beginning of all this. I thought they *brilliantly* showed a third character just wasn't meant for the show. However, the network demanded more, and they decided to go out in style. If we're going to ruin the show, we're going to DESTROY it with a character that fits in the *least*. That's my take on it, anyway.

Someone asked why they moved to Elmyra's, well the WB forced them too! EEver wonder why in the theme song they say "Now Pinky and the Brain, share new domain, it's what the network wants, why bother to complain?". The executives loved the idea but the staff of the show hated it and Peter Hastings, a writer for the show, left for OSM (His last episode was "You'll never eat food pellets in this town again"). From [url http://www.platypuscomix.net/kidzone/fuzzyheads.html][/url]

This was a great cartoon. Brain was the smart one, Pinky was the dumb one, and their opposite personalities were a fully functional formula. Though Pinky always ruined Brain's plans, we still loved him and Brain would be lost without him. Though we may not want a mouse to rule over us, we did secretly hope that Brain would one day succeed with his plan to rule the world. However, once Elmyra came along, this dynamic was thrown out of whack. Instead of trying to rule the world, they had to endure Elymra, and make world domination plans in their spare time. Elmyra wasn't just torture for the two mice...she was torture for us, too! Her voice is ANNOYING as Hell! Three's a crowd! A new character messes things up; it does not make it better! Well, at least classic Pinky and the Brain are on DVD.

I really hated that Christmas episode with the hypnotizing dolls. At then end, Brain tells everyone to have a merry Christmas and then destroys the controls. It seemed cheap to me.

It pains me to admit that this series jumped the shark as a result of the move to Elmyra's house. Luckily, that was a spinoff and not part of the main series, so in a way, you can say that Pinky and the Brain never jumped the shark--it just had a crappy spinoff.

it actualy stopped being clever when it got it's own show,but i still believe this 'pinky and the brain and the elmyra' thing is an elaborate internet joke cause seriously

if it is real,what the ef-u-ce-kay was they smoking when they thought that up?

I, like many people could not stand Elmyra and feel that her interaction with Pinky & the Brain was a true torture test, but the truth of the matter is, Pinky & the Brain had already gone downhill before the ever repulsive Elmyra arrived on the scene. PE&B was just the final nail on the coffin. P&B had already run out of steam around season 3, where the writers had clearly run out of "take over the world" plotlines and the began to rely more on gags that made fun of celebrities and political figures. Caricatures of Bill and Hilary Clinton turned up week after week, which was very cutting edge 6 years ago, but Clinton's not in office anymore, making these references seem extremely dated now. That "P&B Anniversary Special" was so obviously an attempt to recreate the far better "Warners 65th Anniversary Special". But Pinky & the Brain are NOT Yakko, Wakko and Dot. Simple as that. Plus, the writers got a tad sadistic later on, with several shorts and episodes built solely around abusing and publicly humiliating poor Brain. And then came Elmyra. Granted, the old formula was tired, but adding the most repulsive and least funny character from Tiny Toons into the mix was definitely NOT the way to go! It would have been better to simply cancel the series than keep P&B alive in this sort of cartoon hell. And in response to the person who suggested that P&B interact with more Tiny Toon characters, I say NO! That would have been totally retarded. Tiny Toons and Animainiacs were both great shows, but they don't deserve each other. Their 2 universes should be kept separate.

PatB was doomed when it became a show in itself. I was a great idea and I loved it, but I knew it just wasn't enough to sustain 1/2 hour week after week. If it stayed with Animaniacs, we may have only seen the same things over a longer period, but we would have been spared Elmira. When I saw the first 'Pinky, Elmira & the Brain' commercial I laughed my ass off, *then* I slowly and painfully began to realize "Holy S@*#!, they're not kidding!" Are you pondering what I'm pondering? I think so, Brain, but Pinky, Mcginley & and the Brain?...It's a bit busy for a title. poit

Strictly speaking, "Pinky and the Brain" didn't _jump_; it was _pushed_, directly into the shark tank. Putting P&tB into Elmyra's house was not a flawed marketing decision; it was not intended to attract more kid viewers; it was a deliberate, and successful, attempt to repel all viewers. "Pinky and the Brain" was deliberately destroyed. For some reason, this cartoon sendup of megalomania got some exec's knickers in a twist, and the next thing you know, the opening credits were chanting, "It's what the network wants / why bother to complain?" It was murder most foul, I say; a farce and a tragedy. Imagine what P&tB would have done with the Bush regime's world-domination schemes! But that, no doubt, was precisely why the show had to be lobotomized. But such was the character of the show, that even as the sharks homed in, its writers managed to get off a couple of zingers. One was the ditty quoted above. The second was the last words the extraterrestrial said to the Brain upon parting; "May you outlive all your creditors." That, surely, is the hard-earned wisdom of an alien supercivilization; and a fitting valedictory for one of the most brilliant cartoons to grace the small screen. Hail and farewell, Pinky and the Brain! You were too good for the medium.