Every night, Brain hatches another elaborate scheme to take over the world—and every night, it almost works. From disguises to giant robots to hypnotic toads, his plans are as absurd as they are ambitious. And somehow, they frequently get dangerously close to succeeding… until Pinky, fate, or Brain’s own ego gets in the way. These are the ten most ridiculous Pinky, and the Brain plans that almost worked—and made us laugh ourselves silly in the process.
#10: The Paper Clip Chain Plan – “Das Mouse”
Brain’s plan? Use a giant ball of paper clips to magnetically manipulate the Earth’s rotation, creating economic chaos and seizing power during the confusion. It’s so laughably low-tech that you almost miss how close it comes to working.
Using a massive chain of paper clips, Brain actually affects the planet’s rotation slightly before everything falls apart thanks to Pinky accidentally turning the machine into a slinky.
This episode shines as a parody of Cold War paranoia, but it’s the fact that Brain actually alters the Earth’s movement—with office supplies—that earns it a place on this list.
#9: Turning Everyone Into Babies – “Inherit the Wheeze”
In this delightfully unhinged plan, Brain creates a candy cigarette that turns adults into babies. His idea? Market them to smokers, regress the population, and take over the world by being the only grown-up left.
Surprisingly, people love the product. It spreads quickly, and Brain seems on the verge of controlling the world through infantilization.
It’s absurd, it’s creepy, and it’s weirdly genius. Unfortunately, Pinky—thinking it’s real candy—eats most of the stock and ruins the entire operation.
Still, the plan almost turns society into a nursery. That’s commitment.
#8: The “Spamdini” Hypnosis Scheme – “Spellbound”
Brain becomes a magician named Spamdini the Magnificent, using his act to hypnotize people into obeying his commands. The more people he performs for, the greater his control.
For a while, the plan works flawlessly. Hypnotized audiences follow his every word, and Brain starts to build real influence. He’s literally commanding the masses with the snap of a finger.
But then Pinky, in a well-meaning act of sabotage, gets Brain booked on a kid’s show instead of the U.N. General Assembly.
Despite the plan derailing, it’s one of the closest Brain ever gets to mass mind control—and all while wearing a magician’s cape and top hat.
#7: The Pants Plan – “Napoleon Brainaparte”
Brain poses as a fashion designer, inventing a pair of pants so wildly trendy that everyone starts wearing them. Once the world adopts the trend, Brain embeds subliminal messages in the pants’ patterns to gain control over the populace.
Yes, Brain tries to take over the world… with couture.
It actually works for a while—fashionistas everywhere fall for the scheme. The pants are a hit. People can’t get enough. Brain is practically a dictator in designer denim.
But when the subliminal messages get accidentally switched with Pinky’s diary, the population ends up obsessed with cheese and bubble wrap instead.
Still, for a plan that started with slacks, it came shockingly close to succeeding.
#6: The World’s Largest Papier-Mâché Globe – “Brainania”
Brain creates a fake country—Brainania—and gets it recognized by the United Nations. His goal is to use foreign aid to fund world domination.
He gets diplomatic immunity. He gets a seat at the U.N. He even makes speeches. It’s all going weirdly well.
But Pinky, in his enthusiasm, fills out a citizenship form that accidentally dissolves the fake country by not checking the “autocracy” box.
This plan almost works because it exploits real-world bureaucracy so effectively that even the United Nations doesn’t realize they’re dealing with a mouse in a Napoleon hat.
#5: Replacing Lincoln’s Head on Mount Rushmore – “Plan Brain From Outer Space”
Brain builds a giant laser to replace Abraham Lincoln’s head on Mount Rushmore with his own. He believes this will confuse future generations into thinking he was an important world leader.
It’s an extremely long game—and completely ridiculous.
But guess what? The laser actually works. Lincoln’s face gets partially erased before Pinky accidentally reroutes the laser into a popcorn factory.
It’s not about the logic here—it’s about the sheer theatricality of the plan. Leave it to Brain to try to conquer the future through historical revisionism… via mountain sculpture.
#4: Selling Self-Folding T-Shirts – “T.H.E.Y.”
In a rare business-savvy moment, Brain develops self-folding t-shirts and starts a clothing company to fund his future world domination efforts.
Shockingly, people love the shirts. The company grows. Investors pour in. Brain becomes a legitimate business mogul.
Things fall apart when Pinky accidentally signs over ownership of the company to a ferret. Still, this plan was dangerously close to working—not through conquest or hypnosis, but through good old-fashioned capitalism.
Who knew that folding laundry was the key to near-world domination?
#3: Pinky Runs for President – “You Said a Mouseful”
Brain runs Pinky as a candidate for U.S. President using a speech-to-text app he can control. Pinky’s nonsense babble is interpreted as bold, anti-establishment brilliance. He becomes wildly popular, leading in the polls.
The satire is sharp, and the plan is on track—until Pinky goes off script during a debate and says, “Narf.”
Still, the idea of manipulating the political system via speech software is so wild—and so close to working—it feels scarily plausible in today’s world.
#2: Replacing the World’s Supply of Cheese – “The Cheese Stands Alone”
Brain discovers that cheese affects brain chemistry and designs a plan to replace the world’s cheese with his own version—laced with mind-control ingredients.
The cheese is delicious. People eat it in mass quantities. For a moment, Brain has millions of people under his control, pliable and obedient.
Then, naturally, Pinky eats the entire supply himself and ruins the effect.
Still, the plan works perfectly… until it collides with Pinky’s insatiable love for dairy. If anyone else had been Brain’s partner, the world would’ve belonged to the mouse.
#1: The Internet Domination Plan – “That’s Edutainment!”
Brain builds a global educational network that replaces the internet. Students and governments everywhere adopt it as a tool for learning. Hidden in the coding? Subliminal commands that would give Brain total control.
It’s flawless. People love it. It actually works.
But Pinky accidentally deletes the entire system after trying to order a pizza through the interface.
This is Brain at his most relevant and cunning conquering the modern world through tech and education. It’s funny because it’s believable, and tragic because it’s so close. Of all the times Brain almost took over the world, this one hurts the most.
Pinky and the Brain may lose every night, but that doesn’t mean their plans aren’t brilliant, terrifying, and hilariously unhinged. Whether Brain’s hypnotizing audiences, conquering fashion, or replacing cheddar with mind-control cheese, his schemes always almost work—only to be derailed by Pinky’s lovable chaos, sheer bad luck, or Brain’s own ego. And that’s what keeps us coming back: not just to see them fail, but to see how spectacularly they do it next.
