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devildom-moss · 1 year

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can you do barbatos with a S/O who is afraid of mouses just like him?🥲

Sure thing. I hope you enjoy.

Barbatos with a S/O who is also afraid of rats headcanons

Barbatos was kind of hoping one of you would be able to get rid of the you-know-what without being afraid, but he might need to just call Solomon, Simeon, or Lucifer.

Best case scenario: you tell Barbatos before you ever encounter a rat, and he knows that he’ll have to call someone else.

Worst case scenario: you and Barbatos encounter a rat alone and both of you freak out. Barbatos will probably be paralyzed with fear and disgust. One of you is going to have to find the courage to either summon or call someone else to be rid of the rat. It won’t be chaotic, but it will be simultaneously stressful and humiliating.

He will never admit it, but Barbatos is embarrassed that he can’t protect you from something you’re afraid of properly. He can keep rooms clean and set traps, but whenever he faces a rat, he tenses up and can’t do much. It’s even more shameful for him that you have to rely on another person. You’re supposed to be his partner, and he wants to be the only one you need. It hurts his pride and requires a long adjustment period (and a good portion of reassurance would go a long way, too).

As ashamed as he is to share your fear of rats, it also makes him feel better.

No matter how much reassurance he received that there was nothing wrong with his fear, you were the only one who could actually make him believe that.

You’re one of the bravest, most impressive creatures he has ever met, so maybe it’s not so irrational to be afraid if you’re both scared of rats.

If you tell him that it’s okay to be scared, he feels a small piece of shame lift from his shoulders. Likewise, if he needs to reassure you that there’s nothing wrong with being terrified of you-know-whats, he feels a bit better himself; after all, if it’s true for you, it’s true for him too. He won’t be hypocritical with you.

Sharing a fear with Barbatos makes him feel understood, which he craves. It’s just hard for him to open up about himself. When you learn something about him, he wants to learn something equivalent about you. Uncovering that you both have the same fear is the most equal exchange of secrets he could have hoped for. An equal exchange and understanding are so important for maintaining a relationship with Barbatos that part of him is grateful that you’re afraid of rats too.

If either of you encounter a rat, Barbatos uses this as an excuse to hold you and cling to you all day.

If he saw the rat, he’d be in desperate need of comfort. If you saw the rat, then he’d try to help take your mind off the situation and make you feel better. If you both saw the rat, then you both need comfort and distractions, right?

What better way to forget about a you-know-what than letting him kiss you until you’re desperate for more of his touch? This is especially true when someone else has to get rid of the rat – especially someone you are close with. Barbatos needs to calm his nerves after seeing a rat, but he also needs to comfort his fear of losing you to someone else by being a coward.

Again, the latter fear fades with time and reassurance, but the possessiveness he feels whenever either of you gets scared sinks into him. Like one of Pavlov’s dogs, once the initial fear of seeing a rat has cleared and the creature has been banished, Barbatos craves your touch – he needs to engrave himself into your mind and body even after the anxiety about losing you has long subsided. (Accidentally develops a fear kink?)

Also, I know what you meant by the ask, but I don’t remember Barbatos fearing mice in addition to rats (although it would make sense), and I just think it would be hilarious if Barbatos was only afraid of rats and MC was afraid of mice to the point where they were able to distinguish which was which before getting scared. I feel like the brothers would make use of that. If Belphie and Mammon saw something scurry into the corner of the kitchen and couldn’t agree on whether they had seen a mouse or a rat, they would call MC and Barbatos over to see which one of them freaked out. I know that’s a terrible take and completely pedantic. I’m genuinely not trying to make fun of you in any way anon, that was just the first thought I had, and I wanted to share it because it just seems funny to me.

#anon #ask #requests #barbatos #obey me #obey me headcanons #obey me barbatos

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blanddcheadcanons · 7 months

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jervis accidentally Pavlov himself into getting rock hard whenever you hear sound of a Metrodome, one would think he this wouldn't be a problem but his cell is next to the music Masters and the mice was allowed a metronome in his cell to help him practice musical instruments

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#jervis tetch #mad hatter #music meister #darius chapel

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termiteterraceclub · 7 months

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Termite Terrace Club - October 6th

1934 - The Miller's Daughter - Dir. Friz Freleng 1951 - Ballot Box Bunny - Dir. Friz Freleng

#LooneyTunes #LooneyTwt #bugsbunny #yosemitesam

1995 - Another Froggy Evening - Dir. Chuck Jones

TV 1993 - Animaniacs Season 1: "Pavlov's Mice" / "Chicken Boo-Ryshnikov" / "Nothing But the Tooth"

#looney tunes #looneytwt #wb100 #wb #warner bros #bugs bunny #yosemite sam

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the-teacup-poisoner · 9 months

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Dr MacCulloch described how, during his many long interviews with Graham, it had become apparent that he was not in fact as ‘emotionally cool’ as might have been expected but was instead ‘highly sensitive’. Nonetheless, he found it extremely difficult to show his emotions. The medical director noted:

He has got a deeply embedded resistance to discussing his inner feelings and a deep revulsion of discussing matters which are sexual or emotional, although he does turn out to be deeply emotional. This is evidenced by extreme anger which he can manifest readily and it is apparent in his previous history in relation to his victims and he had also manifested it here. Sometimes when his wishes are frustrated he has become very angry. He does work over his experiences many times and has come back to a discussion from previously and has sought to put right points which he thought I may have misunderstood... He shows chronic uncertainty. There are some asthenic qualities in his personality and elements of ambitiousness ‘to be the greatest poisoner ever’ and there is quite a bit of moral pride. He is deeply against Pavlov whose experimentation on animals he abhors. I pointed out to him his inconsistency in that he had given ‘aconite’ to mice as a child but he brushed this off by saying he had become disgusted by what he was doing and stopped it. I think he has a deep affection for animals. He is self-critical in that he tends not to excuse himself and is peculiarly a man of conscience.

— A Passion For Poison, by Carol Ann Lee.

#graham young #serial killers #true crime #a passion for poison #carol ann lee #graham frederick young #the teacup poisoner #i wish we had access to those interviews #MacCulloch seems to have had the most insightful analyses about Graham

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kornwarner · 1 year

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My Most Favorite Animaniacs Episodes (also including songs) by Animation Studio

Original series (1993 - 1998)

TMS: Hello Nice Warners, Yakko’s World, Ups and Downs, Potty Emergency, The Brave Little Trailer, Roll Over Beethoven, Temporary Insanity, Noel, The Great Wakkorotti: The Master and His Music, Drive-Insane, Little Drummer Warners, LA LA Law, The Monkey Song, Hooked on a Ceiling, Pavlov’s Mice, the Wheel of Morality segments, The Senses Song, Piano Rag, Turkey Jerky, The Three Muska-Warners, No Place Like Homeless, The Flame, Clown and Out; the Tower Escapes, Chases, and Returns segments, A Christmas Plotz, Fair Game, Newsreel of the Stars, I’m Cute, Babblin’ Bijou, The Great Wakkorotti: The Summer Concert, Taming of the Screwy, Garage Sale of the Century, H.M.S. Yakko, Cutie and the Beast, the Mime Time segments, Cookies for Einstein, The Warners’ 65th Anniversary Special; Hot, Bothered, and Bedeviled

Startoons: Wakko’s America, Chairman of the Bored, Ragamuffins, Bully for Skippy, Dot - the Macadamia Nut, Wally Llama, Meet Minerva, Magic Time, Cartoons in Wakko’s Body, Slappy Goes Walnuts, There’s Only One of You, It, Plane Pals, …And Justice for Slappy, Critical Condition, Guardin’ the Garden, Windsor Hassle, Be Careful What You Eat, What Are We?, The Big Candy Store, Testimonials, the Randy Beaman segments, Meet John Brain, Meatballs or Consequences, Bumbie’s Mom, Karaoke-Dokie

Wang: Space-Probed, Go Fish, Soda Jerk, The Return of the Great Wakkorotti, Win Big, A Hard Day’s Warners, Battle for the Planet, Three Tenors and You’re Out, Mobster Mash, Dot’s Quiet Time, Hiccup, Gold Rush, The Sound of Warners, Yes, Always; With Three You Get Eggroll, Lookit the Fuzzy Heads, Super Strong Warners, The Party, Message in a Bottle, Take My Siblings Please, King Yakko, From Burbank With Love, the Good Idea, Bad Idea segments; Night of the Living Buttons, Fake, I’m Mad, Bones in the Body; No Pain, No Painting

Freelance: Chalkboard Bungle, Nighty-Night Toon, Moby or Not Moby, Survey Ladies, Of Nice and Men, Les Boutons et le Ballon, When Rita Met Runt, The Cat and the Fiddle, Katie Ka-Boom: The Blemish, General Boo-Regard, The Mindy 500, Animator’s Alley, Katie Ka-Boom: The Broken Date, Up a Tree, the Dot’s Poetry Corner segments

AKOM: Hurray for Slappy, Bingo, Raging Bird, Astro-Buttons, Multiplication, Noah’s Lark, This Pun For Hire, Dough Dough Boys, I Got Yer Can, Hello Nurse, Goodfeathers: The Beginning, Opportunity Knox, Boot Camping, White Gloves, The Girl with the Googily Goop, Mesozoic Mindy, Star Truck, Moon Over Minerva, Anchors A-Warners, Bad Mood Bobby, Back in Style, Dot’s Entertainment, No Time for Love, Jokahontas, Ten Short Films About Wakko Warner, You Risk Your Life, A Very Very Very Very Special Show, We’re No Pigeons, Kiki’s Kitten, Four Score and Seven Migraines Ago

Koko: Boo Wonder, The Carpool, Birds on a Wire, Cute First (Ask Questions Later), Here Comes Attila, The Sunshine Squirrels

Revival series (2020 - present)

Titmouse: WhoDonut, Math-Terpiece Theater: Apples, The Cutening, Hindenburg Cola, Manny Manspreader, Rome Sweet Rome, No Brainer, Bun Control, Mousechurian Candidate, Warner She Wrote, Teeniacs, Please Submit, Yakko’s Big Idea, Wakkiver Twist Parts One and Two, Talladega Mice: The Ballad of Pinky Brainy, Rug of War, How To: Brain Takes Over the World, Rejected Animaniacs Characters, Warner’s Ark, Equal Time, The Warners Are Present

Snipple: Gold Meddlers, Gift Rapper, Jurassic Lark, Fear and Laughter in Burbank, Good Warner Hunting, Suspended Animation: Part 1 and 2, Of Mice and Memes, Warners Unbound, Ex Mousina, Ralph Cam, Close Encounters of the Worst Kind

Digital eMation: Yakko Amakko, All About the Benjamin, Slappy’s Return, The Warner’s Vault, Mouse Madness, The Pinktator, My Super Sour 16, The Flawed Couple

Saerom: The Apology, WARnerGAMES: Parts 1 and 2, Christopher Columbusted, Wakko’s Short Shorts: Now Loading, Know Your Scroll, Santamaniacs, The Longest Word, The Hamburg Tickler

#animaniacs

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mysteriouslybluepirate · 1 year

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STORY TIME!(Happy! With Cat Photos!)

7 years ago(maybe) I got my baby girl Polly! She was a 1-year-old street cat who hadn't ever been homed. With how nervous she was, I was the only person she trusted, and had problems falling asleep. I knew about Pavlov's dog training due to a hyper fixation with psychology in my freshmen year of high school. So I played this YouTube video to help calm her down!

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Now.

The issue with this is that it works the other way around. So now every time I went to bed, I had a nice song to listen to.

I have really bad sleep issues due to stress, school, and just general sleep issues. So for my Freshman-Senior year of high school, I used this Baby sleep YouTube video to fall asleep most days. It usually took ~10 minutes to fall asleep, with two cats snuggled up to me. Amazing stuff.

It doesn't work for me nowadays, not unless I'm already tired and was procrastinating sleep. But this old video still works on Polly and Cricket(my other goblin). If I start humming this, in the same rhythm and pitch, I can make them yawn. It's very funny. I use it during the 4th of July, or when I'm trying to get stuff done and don't want them on me.

Cricket (Featured on the left-Also a rescued, but very social, street cat. A demon who kills ten mice a year. Stinky little loud gremlin. Sounds like she smokes a pack a day when she wakes up. Hobbies include: Yelling at all times, loves kneading with claws. Just a little snuggle bug.)

Polly -The Polydactyl cat.(Featured on the right-She sleeps for most of the day, and looks sad 80% of the time. In all her years, she has done no wrong. She hates everyone, except for me. Which makes her fun.)

They hate each other and have been housemates for five years. This photo was a miracle. I would love to see some pet photos down below if y'all wouldn't mind sharing! I love to hear about people's pets, past or present!

#If you can't sleep and can't get on sleeping meds #just Pavlov yourself into it I guess #Loud cat that chirps=cricket #Polydactyl cat=Polly #I know #I'm a genius #just wanted to share cause I used it tonight while writing an outline and doing some research for college <3 #pets #cute #cats pics #cats #I have so many ugly photos of Cricket #this is one of the best ones #life

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timelesstimesgoneby · 2 years

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EPISODE DISC 1 1. CATTERIES NOT INCLUDED 2. THREE MEN AND A BOOBY 3. THE CARPETSNAGGERS 4. PIRATSY UNDER THE SEAS 5. ADVENTURES IN SQUIRRELSITTING 6 FLASH THE WONDER DOG 7 POUND OF THE BASKERVILLES 8 PARENTAL DISCRETION RETIRED 9 RISKY BEESNESS 10 BEARING UP BABY 11 OUT TO LAUNCH DISC 2 12 DALE BESIDE HIMSELF 13 KIWI'S BIG ADVENTURE 14 A LAD IN A LAMP 15 BATTLE OF THE BULGE 16 NORMIE'S SCIENCE PROJECT 17 GHOST OF A CHANCE 18 AN ELEPHANT NEVER SUSPECTS 19 A CASE OF STAGE BLIGHT 20 THE LUCK STOPS HERE 21 FAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER 22 LAST TRAIN TO CASHVILLE DISC 3 23 THE CASE OF THE COLA CULT 24 THROW MUMMY FROM THE TRAIN 25 A WOLF IN CHEAP CLOTHING 26 PREHYSTERICAL PET 27 ROBOCAT 28 DOES PAVLOV RING A BELL? 29 A CREEP IN THE DEEP 30 SEER NO EVIL 31 CHOCOLATE CHIPS 32 THE SS DRAINPIPE 33 CHIPWRECKED SHIPMUNKS DISC 4 34 THE LAST LEPRECHAUN 35 DOUBLE O' CHIPMUNK 36 SONG OF THE NIGHT 'N DALE 37 LOVE IS A MANY SPLINTERED THING 38 WEATHER OR NOT 39 OUT OF SCALE 40 GADGET GOES HAWAIIAN 41 RESCUE RANGERS TO THE RESCUE (1) 42 RESCUE RANGERS TO THE RESCUE (2) 43 RESCUE RANGERS TO THE RESCUE (3) 44 RESCUE RANGERS TO THE RESCUE (4) 45 RESCUE RANGERS TO THE RESCUE (5) DISC 5 46 GOOD TIMES, BAT TIMES 47 SHORT ORDER CROOKS 48 WHEN MICE WERE MEN 49 IT'S A BIRD, IT'S INSANE, IT'S DALE 50 THEY SHOOT DOGS, DON'T THEY 51 ONE-UPSMAN-CHIP 52 ZIPPER COME HOME 53 SHELL SHOCKED 54 PUFFED RANGERS 55 A FLY IN THE OINTMENT DISC 6 56 DIRTY ROTTEN DIAPERS 57 MIND YOUR CHEESE AND Q'S 58 PIE IN THE SKY 59 A CHORUS CRIME 60 LE PURRFECT CRIME 61 WHEN YOU FISH UPON A STAR 62 A LEAN ON THE PROPERTY 63 REST HOME RANGERS 64 THE PIED PIPER POWER PLAY 65 GORILLA MY DREAMS

#tv series episode #episode #episode guide #tv series #complete series #blu ray #chip n dale rescue rangers

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fandomlurker · 3 years

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A Ponderous Rewatch: Pavlov’s Mice and Cameo

So thanks to Tumblr nerfing my ability to make an admittedly absurdly long post combining the previous episode rewatch with this one, I had to do this entry in two parts.

But at least now we’re in for the real treat: The first episode in airing order that’s animated by TMS Entertainment. And hey, even the Animaniacs show itself seems to acknowledge that this is special, because theme song rhyme is…

We're Animanie! Totally insane-y!~

Pinky and the Brainy!~

…which hasn’t been done since their debut. So this is gonna be fun.

Might as well get this out of the way, then, since this episode obviously involves Ivan Pavlov. I think most people who know of Pavlov through cultural osmosis pretty much know him as just “that one scientist who got dogs to respond to the sound of bells as if they were being offered food”. This is what happened, but it’s only part of the story. In reality, Ivan Pavlov was doing research on the physiology of digestion in dogs and he noticed one day that the dogs he was studying started to drool in the mere presence of the lab technician who regularly fed them even if the technician didn’t have food with them. Pavlov developed a way to redirect the dogs’ digestive juices outside of the body so that they could be measured, and then he ran some conditioning experiments to see if he could get them to salivate in response to external stimuli that had nothing to do with food, like ringing a bell.

The year in the title card, 1904, was the year Ivan Pavlov was awarded the Nobel Prize for the previously mentioned experiments, which he published the results of in “The Work of the Digestive Glands” in 1897. Basically, by 1904 he was done with his work with dogs and he moved on to experimenting with mice…at least according to this article in National Geographic by Virgina Hughes.

With that, let’s begin the episode proper.

“At the dawn of the 20th century, Russian scientist, Ivan Pavlov, trained animals through his technique of conditioned reflex” says the narrator as we zoom in on a laboratory with Pavlov and our lovable mouse duo.

“Time to earn your dinner, my little mousey friends!”

It’s interesting how Pinky is the one that flinches uncomfortably at the loud sound of the gong while Brain simply snaps into his conditioned response. And that response? Uhhh…

“I’m a little teapot, short and stout.~”

“This is my handle, this is my spout.~”

(Is he…you know…?)

“When I get all steamed up, hear me shout!~”

“Tip me over and pour me out.~”

Oh no… This is a cute and funny scene and all, but when you know about Brain’s canonical issues with how he hates not being in control of a situation and all the traumas he’s endured (for those of you not in the know, yes, Brain does have a lot of trauma in his backstory that we learn about much later, both in the 90s spin-off and the reboot) regarding both general control and losing family and friends…there’s a bitter tinge to this scene.

He’s so embarrassed and humiliated.

He takes the cheese but he is positively fuming with rage, and I can’t exactly blame him from what I know about him.

This is made all the worse by Pinky’s innocent reaction to Brain’s little song and dance.

“Hahahahaha! Wonderful! Hahaha! EGAD, Brain, I could watch you do that dance all day! Haha, narf!”

For Pinky, this is harmless silliness and he gets to see Brain sing and dance and “have fun”, which is not a usual occurrence. But for Brain? Well...

“You have watched it all day, Pinky. Sixty-one times, to be exact. It’s a conditioned reflex to that infernal gong.”

“I’m powerless to stop it!”

Well, Brain, at the very least it’s not like you were a part of a more inhumane experiment like one regarding, say, learned helplessness or anything. …Oh wait. Whoops. (For those sensitive to animal abuse, I suggest refraining from clicking on the second link, and caution against clicking on the first if even more clinical text descriptions of such would upset you. The third link is spoilers for the reboot.)

All that aside, it seems like it’s Pinky’s turn. He gets the more traditional bell chime for his stimulus.

And the result is him going into an uncontrollable and very enthusiastic Slavic folk dance.

With violent results. I hope you appreciate that last screencap, as the animation goes by so quickly I had a lot of trouble isolating the part where Pinky kicks Brain and he goes flying.

Pinky is all too happy to get a reward of cheese, his favourite food, for doing something that he has no memory of.

“What’cha doin’ over there, Brain?”

“Contemplating your afterlife, Pinky.”

That’s not exactly fair, Brain, you know he has no control over this. To Brain’s credit, though, he doesn’t bop him or anything for kicking him involuntarily.

Pavlov leaves, playfully saying that he hopes the mice dream of cheese tonight, and the mice are immediately down to business.

“At last, he’s gone.”

“Now we can begin our conquest of the world!”

We’re already back to it being “our” conquest of the world, eh?

“Behold my latest creation, Pinky: The Vacuum-o-nator.”

Brain has never been good with naming things, has he? At least, not so far. I wonder if this will continue throughout the franchise?

Pinky is certainly very happy and impressed, though.

“It uses reverse air pressure to vacuum everything toward it.”

You know, I was just about to roast Brain for thinking that making a very odd version of a vacuum cleaner was such a brilliant thing, but then I remembered that this takes place in 1904. The vacuum cleaner as we know it was “invented independently by British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth and American inventor David T. Kenney” in 1901 according to Wikipedia, and portable vacuums were available to the general public starting in 1905.My apologies, Brain, that actually is very impressive.

Although, this all hinges on if the viewer considers episodes that take place in the past and/or at different locations than Acme Labs California to be mere Alternate Universe/What If? stories or Brain and Pinky using some kind of time machine to go to a different place and time for these episodes. (Before you tell me that this is just a cartoon and sicc the Please, Please Get a Life Foundation on me, I do this to have fun and maybe educate myself and the reader along the way. I promise I have a life. Barely.)

“Are you thinking what I’m thinking, Pinky?”

“Uhh… Yeah, Brain! But where are we gonna find rubber pants our size?”

Pinky, that’s… Listen, folks, don’t make the same mistake I did and google “rubber pants”. It’s not what you think it is. You will be disappointed.

BONK!

Seems like you’re enjoying yourself there, Pinky.

“No, Pinky. We’re going to use the Vacuum-o-nator to steal Russia’s crown jewels!”

Man, the animation for even this one small proclamation by Brain is so, so good. Brain standing authoritatively and holding the pen like a scepter or spear, the grand sweep of his arm as he says “no”, the serious and slightly menacing expression on his face, a violent and grabby swing of his arm on the word “steal”, and a dramatic point and look up towards the sky when he finishes. TMS does great work, folks.

“Narf! Genius, Brain!”

Look at Brain’s satisfied smile at Pinky’s simple compliment. Remember what I said earlier about Brain going through his explanations to show off to and impress Pinky? At this point I’m absolutely convinced that that’s why Brain turns up the theatrics more than necessary when going through his plans. After all, Pinky is (oddly and rather sadly) the only one in-universe who thinks Brain is a genius and a good person.

…Of course, the effect can sometimes be lessened by subsequent innocent bumbling.

“Turn it off, Pinky.”

He says this so exasperatedly yet so deadpan at the same time, it’s great.

“Oh! Right-o!”

Even Pinky immediately knows that he fucked up.

“Zort! Whew! Wild hairdo, Brain! Heh heh, I like it.”

He even pets Brain’s “hairdo”, aww. And though I personally could take or leave the ‘do, I like the pointed, sharp look this mishap’s given to his ears.

BONK!

“Now I feel cleansed.”

Okay, this one might have been a little too much, Brain.

“But Brain, aren’t the crown jewels always guarded by giant Cossacks?”

Well, Pinky, from what I know Cossacks were usually used extensively in the police force and as border guards during this time, so I guess that’s possible?

Brain picking the lock with the pen is a fun little detail.

“Don’t worry about the guards… For tonight, Pinky, at precisely 1 am, there’s a total lunar eclipse. “

Again, this is probably not a thing the average person could look up quickly and easily in the 90s and the writers most likely didn’t care about accuracy here, but there were no total lunar eclipses in 1904. There were some penumbral lunar eclipses in March and September of that year, though. Just a fun fact for you folks.

“The Earth’s shadow will completely cover the moon, blacking out all of St. Petersburg for a period of 30 seconds.”

Brain…?!? Brain, how did you get the diagram on that piece of paper to animate like that? What kind of Harry Potter-style magic bullshit is this?

I know this is a cartoon and all and I’m not truly upset but this honestly came out of nowhere and made me do a double-take.

“In that brief time, we will sneak past the Czar’s guards under the cover of darkness and steal the crown jewels…for he who controls the jewels controls Mother Russia!”

More dramatics!

“But…I thought your mother’s name was Désirée?”

I love Brain’s pose here. Very grumpy and sassy.

As for Pinky’s comment: We do get to meet Brain’s parents way later in the spin-off, though neither are addressed by any name. I’m taking this joke as canon anyway because it’s funny.

Well, well, well… Looks like we’re shaking things up a bit with an inking instead of a bonk. That’s gonna be a pain to get out of his white fur, though.

“Soon, Pinky, I will rule Russia…so from now on, call me Czar.”

Another sassy hand-on-hip pose.

“Right-o, Brain!”

“—eek! Czar Brain!”

“Come along, Pinky… Conquest awaits!”

Nice to know that despite the inking, Pinky’s still following him anyway. Plus he’s doing it with that fond look on his face again. Hmm…

What follows is a cute and ingenious sequence of Brain launching Pinky and himself through an open window via the spring force of a mousetrap. It goes by very quickly, but I just wanted to highlight a few things I managed to notice while pausing through it. Kudos to the animators again for these little details.

Pinky’s the one that wraps one arm around Brain’s shoulders so that Brain has both hands free to spring the mousetrap properly and so that they’ll be launched together.

Interestingly enough, Pinky’s the cautious one who braces for impact right away while Brain gleefully flies through the air with his arms outstretched.

The “camera” changes perspective and while Brain is still boldly flying forward with confidence, Pinky is still worried but has now opened his eyes as they fly towards the window.

Pinky’s still holding onto Brain and the Vacuum-o-nator as tight as he can. As they get closer to the window, however…

…Pinky seems to realize he’s going to smash into the wall above the window if he doesn’t let go, so he lets go of Brain. Brain doesn’t realize where his trajectory is taking him.

Pinky angles himself downward and through the open window, but it’s too late for Brain.

WHAM! RIP, Brain.

But his pain is not done! It looks like Pinky’s landing was in the soft snow. Meanwhile, Brain slides down onto the window and through the opening, only to bash into the lid of a garbage can, much to Pinky’s concern.

Then Brain falls headfirst into the snow.

And finally, Brain is clonked on the head by the same garbage can lid, which makes a loud gong noise. Someone get this poor mouse some Aspirin.

But since there was a gong noise, you all know what that means!

Cutely, Pinky joins in on the dance in the middle of it.

“Ha! Oh that was fun, Czar Brain! But let’s give it another go, right? Only this time with feeling!”

Man, that side-eye at the beginning from Brain…

Pinky’s body language is great in this episode, too. The gleeful flapping of his arms and feet and the “with feeling” gesture are fantastic examples of his more open and energetic nature coming through.

Oh hey, there’s that one shot of Brain being ticked off used in the spin-off theme song! I can’t exactly blame him for his anger here. He just went through a lot of pain in a short amount of time and was then involuntarily made to humiliate himself. Pinky doesn’t mean to be mean here—he genuinely wants to have some sing and dance fun with Brain—but it’s gotta sting to have the humiliation highlighted.

Pinky still doesn’t deserve a bonking for it, though. But it’s slapstick, so he’s fine.

Heh, “deliveries to rear” indeed.

Oh, are those jingle bells on a sleigh that I see?

Uh oh…

“No, Pinky… Not now!”

It cannot be stopped, Brain. He must dance!

Another quick detail as Brain launches himself at Pinky’s midsection to either topple him over or hold him still to get Pinky to stop.

Alas, Pinky’s dancing is too strong.

OUCH!

The face of regret.

His punishment is swiftly thwarted, though.

“…That was unpleasant.”

They take a different and more uneventful ride on a hay wagon to the palace.

I love the exaggerated perspective going on here.

Peekin’.

“We made it inside, Brain!”

“…’Czar Brain’.”

“Czar Brain.”

He says it so quietly and sweetly, aww.

“Yes, Pinky. There are fleeting moments when I even amaze myself.”

I…don’t know if it’s much of an accomplishment yet, Brain. Settle that ego down a bit.

Oh, that’s some classic Looney Tunes-style sneaking animation there.

Wait, why is the door to the treasure room just open behind them? Czar Nicolas II, what gives?

Speaking of…

Hello, Czar Nicolas II. I hope you’re enjoying your “eclipse party”. You only have another 14 years or so to live it up, after all.

“In just a few minutes, it’ll be totally dark and scary. OooOOoo!~ But don’t anyone touch me, I have cooties!”

I, uhhh. Okay, then.

Same, boys. Same. Best to get down to business.

“Behold the crown jewels of Mother Russia, Pinky. World conquest will soon be ours!”

Again, world conquest is “ours” and not just Brain’s. Also you can just tell Pinky’s thinking “I’m going to wear so much of this jewelry!”

“Now, Brain?”

“Not yet. Wait for the total eclipse.”

Speaking of…

“Complete darkness, Pinky. Start the Vacuum-o-nator…”

“NOW!”

That gonging noise is an interesting choice for a chime. Surely this ornate clock is only an omen of good things for our duo.

Pinky, you’re swooning again. And Brain…

Oh no.

Another clock! Who’d have thought Russian nobility loved clocks so much? This one has a more pleasant bell chime, though.

…Oh NO!

Well, looks like things are going to hell pretty quickly.

Goodbye, boys.

Goodbye, Czar Nicolas II! You might wanna look out for a man named Grigori Rasputin in the future, okay?

Nice hat, Brain.

“Whu--? The eclipse is over? Narf! What happened, Brain?”

BONK!

“Zort! I mean, Czar Brain.”

“We failed again, Pinky… But just wait until tomorrow night!”

“Why? What are we going to do tomorrow night, Brain?”

“What else, Pinky?: Try to take over the world!”

It was a nice try, boys, but honestly I don’t know how you were going to fit all those crown jewels into that tiny improvised vacuum bag, anyway.

One last cute little detail in this episode is our mousey duo jumping up with enthusiastic determination in front of the silhouette of the moon on the last note of the theme reprise. One day, you guys. One day…

Oh! And before I forget, have another short cameo from “Plane Pals”. It’s a tiny one.

Pinky and the Brain steal a sheep off of an airplane. For what purpose? Who knows? But that’s it. I’m kind of wondering if the writers wanted to make a running joke of them making cameos to steal random things for world conquering purposes and just sort of gave up.

Anyway, so ends our recap for this post. It sure was a long one, but what can I say? There were some very cute details that needed to be shared. Have we learned anything new this time? Well, I mean, besides historical trivia.

Brain thinks both he and Pinky are great actors, despite his own near inability to lie and keep up an innocent pretense. Oh, he can be sarcastic, sure, but he can’t seem to manage to stop himself from revealing that he’s out for world domination whenever he has an audience.

For the first time we see Brain’s annoyance and humiliation resulting from him being a lab mouse. Though it’s on the more subtle side at the moment, Brain seemed extra grumpy and violent during that last episode because of the conditioning he’s unwillingly gone through. I’m curious to see if there are any more examples of this before we reach an episode touching on his origin story. Or…one of his origin stories, at least. There’s around four of them last I checked and all but one of them can reasonably fit into the others.

Pinky is truly beginning to show how much he adores Brain, which is nice. Beforehand we knew he was down with his world domination plans for whatever reason and also that he thinks Brain’s plans are great and ingenious. Now, though, we’ve gotten to the point of him literally swooning at Brain and his plans. Something’s definitely brewing there.

Next time: We get some more substantial cameos, join our mouse duo on a Fort Knox heist, and meet a new character that is both pretty important to the “lore” of the show going forward…but also doesn’t appear in person after their introductory episode until the very end of the Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain spin-off run.

See you then!

#Pinky and the Brain #PatB #Pavlov's Mice #Plane Pals

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