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Re: Pinky and the Brain

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instead of that which would have been awesome and retconned Jar Jar from embarrassing into a great story of our times… We instead got the first movie redone, and two pretty poor follow ups with grrrrrr fake teeth being the series rock bottom. Ugh, that plot hole of a light speed weapon, the force can’t bring someone back to life but let’s do it like three times, whatever. I’ve forgotten more about the last trilogy th…

Star Wars has lost me. I loved 4,5,6, and I found 1,2,3 at least exciting to see the story arc closed up. But what came afterwards was pretty much unwatchable. I went to the cinema for Rogue One even, but dont remember a single plot-line. Thats pretty unusual for me, since I uslally remember storylines from movies I watched many years ago. But this stuff just didnt leave any impression at all.

Conventional wisdom says the prequel trilogy was a good story, poorly executed, while the sequel trilogy was a poor story, well executed.

Re: Pinky and the Brain

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post #13

The link neglects to mention that the game-show was called "Gyp-Parody," and is one of the best Jeopardy knock-offs ever made. My personal favorite is the one where the Brain assumes the identity of country singer Bubba-Bo-Bob-Brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgt1X6qXTKs

Re: Pinky and the Brain

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> Shockingly, Pinky was the one who ultimately answered the question correctly, and it's also shown that Pinky can read, whereas the Brain can barely write his own name.

Pinky doesn't answer the final question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgt1X6qXTKs

And I think the way Brain wrote his name was a parody of how Jeopardy guests can get extravagant with their signatures.

Re: Pinky and the Brain

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I thought this was made pretty clear in the theme song's lyrics? "They're Pinky and The Brain - Yes Pinky and The Brain - One is a genius - The other's insane" Brain is clearly made out to be insane (in the cartoon sense), which leaves Pinky as the genius. QED, right?

also in general English style if you say there is X and Y and one is an A and other a B, it is common that the property A refers to X and the property B to Y as they occupy the same positions in the statement. However one can also be structuring things in this ambiguous manner for artistic reasons.

Re: Pinky and the Brain

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Sorry I know this is off topic, but I must post the obligatory Pinky and the Brain from Postmodern Jukebox with the original voice actors in the background. [1] [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqMs9WsJg2k

I love how we come full circle with this YT comment...

"Anybody else ever realized that Pinky is the Genius and Brain is the one that is Insane? I mean, Brain is always coming up with completely implausible plans that have no chance of actually working, and Pinky always finds a way to help his friend out without destroying his delusions and get them both safely back in the lab before they're discovered." - Sarah Coleman

The YT video was great to see, thank you for sharing.

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