"Pinky & The Brain: Volume One" DVD Talkback (Spoilers) [Archive]

James Harvey

07-25-2006, 08:55 AM

Fans can add to their classic animation DVD collection the 22 episodes from the Emmy nominated series Pinky and the Brain as they attempt to take over the world in Pinky and The Brain: Volume 1.

PINKY & THE BRAIN: VOLUME ONE
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Pinky and The Brain: Volume 1 is a 4 disc collectors set, with 22 fun-filled, classic episodes from Steven Spielberg, executive producer of the Emmy nominated series. Observe Pinky and The Brain take on each attempt to conquer the world with a dry wit and humor. Originally aired on the WB Television Network, these are two mice allowed to enter your living room! special features include the "Pinky and The Brain: The Start of All Things Wacky" Featurette with Senior Producer Tom Ruegger, Writer Peter Hastings, the voices of Pinky and the Brain stars, Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche, and voice director Andrea Romano as they discuss antidotes and antics about Steven Spielberg and why they had so much fun at work.

Comments? What are your thoughts on this new DVD?

Ishoka

07-25-2006, 07:58 PM

I just recieved these earlier... I haven't had a chance to go though all the episodes yet, but sofar it seems great =D

The audio was a little iffy for me... Mainly cause I don't have a 5.1 system, and both english settings didn't help the problem much but the vocals seemed to be much quieter than the rest of the audio - other than that and the slight grainyness I found, twas all still great. =)

The special feature had me rolling... That was great XD

MacGyver

07-25-2006, 11:14 PM

Like the Animaniacs set, from what I've skimmed it seems nice. (I'll finish both sets after I finish last week's Brisco County Jr. set tomorrow.) The featurette was nice, and despite the lack of commentaries, it's a fine set. Hopefully the next set has some other features besides a single featurette.

Martianinvader

07-26-2006, 12:00 AM

I realize not everyone could buy both sets today, but this talkback is still surprisingly short.

The featurette was worth waiting for. They didn't mention everything (like the appearances of the mice being based on Fitzgerald and Minton), but very good job overall. Really informative and they didn't go overboard on the pat-your-own-back stuff. I enjoyed Romano's tale about Spielberg playing with the P&B figures most....

And they gave props to the Christmas episode! I thought that was an incredibly powerful piece of writing and I'm glad they thought so as well. (If you haven't seen "The Pink Candidate," go watch that too....anyone who says we only THINK the cartoons we watched as kids were better should view that one and shut up.)

Next set: "Brinky," "Larry" and the Real World spoof. They haven't printed all the good material YET...

ToOn~g@l

07-26-2006, 12:14 AM

Bought this today and went through three episodes so far on disk one. Gosh the memories. I'm so glad they came out with this I'm gonna enjoy every minute of it. :D

Hades

07-26-2006, 01:34 AM

I was thinking about picking up Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain today, however, I am really bothered by what the back of the box for Pinky says. It says that the set contains the best 22 episodes they chose from 1995-1998. WHY? Why does it not contain the first 22 episodes? Is it because a bunch of the episodes are with Animaniacs?

Spider-Man

07-26-2006, 06:08 AM

Are there any order to the episodes on these DVDs. I haven't found a good episode guide for this series and I was wondering if these were 22 random episodes or the first 22?

Moto Pete

07-26-2006, 06:27 AM

Because the Animanaics Vol 1 has 5 Pinky and the Brain Episodes on it, when they were part of that show

Dogbert

07-26-2006, 07:19 AM

Dogbert

07-26-2006, 11:45 AM

Could someone please tell me what kind of packaging this set is suppose to come in? I just got mine from CD Universe (I had a coupon) and it was four regular full-size DVD movie cases shrink-wrapped together (no outer box). Plus, the cases it did come with are completely crushed and broken. I'm not very happy...

Edit: sorry about the double post; I think one of the mods merged threads while I was typing.

Pc-Famicom64

07-26-2006, 11:48 AM

Are there any order to the episodes on these DVDs. I haven't found a good episode guide for this series and I was wondering if these were 22 random episodes or the first 22?Don't know real, but before I got the sets, I made a studio gide for the DVDs for the otakus & other people who are wondering, not the airing dates, but it's the 3th best thing (2th best thing is the production numbers, witch also I do not got)

DVD set 1.

1.Wang Film Productions (Taiwan)
2.Akom Productions Co. (South Korea)
3.Wang
4.Wang
5.Wang
6.Akom
7.Wang
8.Tokyo Movie Shinsha Entertainment, Ltd (Japan)
9.Akom
10.Akom
11.Akom
12.Akom
13.Akom
14.Rough Draft Studios (South Korea)
15.Akom
16.Wang
17.Wang
18.Akom
19.Wang
20.Wang
21.Rough Draft
22.Akom

In studio tops/episodes numbers in this box set.

1.TMS = 1 Episode (if you a anime otaku, then thers only one episode in this box set, but try to watch the other episodes as well, P&TB as well as Animaniacs & TTA are a fue of the best shows ever made).

2.Startoons = 0 Episodes (maybe in the next P&TB box set we get the only Startoons episodes of P&TB).

3.Rough Draft = 2 Episodes (not much to say, bucuse alot of newer shows are shiped off to Rough Draft)

4.Wang (no comment)

5.Akom (most of Akom's shows have good animation, but Akom at ther worst is not this, Akom at ther worst is Sunbow's G.I Joe, The Real GhostBusters & Batman:TAS, not this).

:anime:

Martianinvader

07-26-2006, 11:56 AM

The show borrowed a lot of the Pinky & The Brain acts from Animaniacs. Rather than force people interested in both shows to buy those acts twice, WB is only releasing material made exclusively for Pinky & The Brain on the P&TB DVDs. As long as you're buying Animaniacs, you'll have all the episodes in order (A! Volumes 1-5 first, then P&TB Volumes 1-4 would be the correct order).
Actually, according to my figuring, there will be three P&B releases (22 episodes, 22 more, then 21 more makes 65). And there will be four Animaniacs releases (25 episodes in three volumes, then 24 in the final one, making 99). If sales are good, that is....

Could someone please tell me what kind of packaging this set is suppose to come in? I just got mine from CD Universe (I had a coupon) and it was four regular full-size DVD movie cases shrink-wrapped together (no outer box). Plus, the cases it did come with are completely crushed and broken. I'm not very happy...

Edit: sorry about the double post; I think one of the mods merged threads while I was typing.
Someone messed with yours....that isn't the proper package at all.

Dogbert

07-26-2006, 12:08 PM

Actually, according to my figuring, there will be three P&B releases (22 episodes, 22 more, then 21 more makes 65). And there will be four Animaniacs releases (25 episodes in three volumes, then 24 in the final one, making 99). If sales are good, that is....My bad. I actually knew that, but I guess I was typing in a hurry. I've edited my post so there's no more confusion.

Someone messed with yours....that isn't the proper package at all.I thought as much. I read somewhere it's suppose to come in a three-panel digipak with a shiny slipcase. Could someone confirm that? I just sent in a complaint to CD Universe hoping for an exchange.

WadeWilson

07-26-2006, 01:06 PM

Went to go buy this at Future (Retarded) Shop today and they said 'You can't buy it its been pulled from the shelves until August 15th' and they refused to sell it to me. I call WHV Canada when I get home, it HASN'T been pulled, and I got them to call that FS to tell them that they're idiots and that they can sell it; I'm hoping I'll be able to go tonight and pick it up, but given that I've worked at Future Shop and I know how retarded most of the COMPANY is including managers, I doubt they'll be able to have it fixed today to sell it, even more since it was a command from higher up in the company since the futureshop.ca site now says "August 15th" as the release; with animaniacs on the 8th. Probably has French on it, in which case I won't be buying it here anyways. (anyone that got it in Canada, French on it?)

Boy I LOVE living where everybodys a moron.

Jpox

07-26-2006, 01:58 PM

WadeWilson

07-26-2006, 03:21 PM

Hey there WadeWilson.
I live in Winnipeg and I saw Pinky & The Brain at Future Shop. I purchased mine from Wal-Mart though.
I was really looking for the Animaniacs set first. But I went to Future Shop, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, HMV, Zellers and nobody had them!
3 out of 5 places had P&B though.
I wonder why they are holding them past the release date?
I did have the same type of trouble with earlier WHV sets too.
:yakko::wakko::dot::narf::brain:
Oh yes, there is no French on the set.

Thanks! How much did you pay at Wal-Mart?

Future Shop is selling it now; we've got some pretty dumb employees here that misunderstood I guess. Check the FS and Best Buy sites though and they BOTH say the 15th of August for P&TB. WHV Canada told me that there was a "Manufacturing Delay" for Animaniacs; Can't think of what it would be if it was released in the states other than:

Future Shop and Best Buy were told to pull P&TB because they'd be getting new French versions along with Animaniacs. I guess it's possible that P&TB slipped out while A! didn't? Who knows. I know HMV doesn't have either, nor does deepdiscountdvd.ca (which is an awful site, terrible prices). I wonder what's up.

P.S. which other WHV DVDs did you have problems with? I've never had any other than not getting a lithograph with BTAS v4.

DarthGonzo

07-26-2006, 06:10 PM

1.TMS = 1 Episode (if you a anime otaku, then thers only one episode in this box set, but try to watch the other episodes as well, P&TB as well as Animaniacs & TTA are a fue of the best shows ever made).

I dont even think the animation in the Christmas episode is all that good. TMS was much better with the mice when they worked on Animaniacs. To me, Wang IS Pinky and the Brain.

2.Startoons = 0 Episodes (maybe in the next P&TB box set we get the only Startoons episodes of P&TB).

Sorry Fammy, but Startoons never animated any episodes of Pinky and the Brain. They animated two Pinky segments for Animaniacs however: Meet John Brain and Brain's Apprentice.

4.Wang (no comment)

No comment why? Wang's work seriously got better during their time with Pinky and the Brain, especially the third season.

5.Akom (most of Akom's shows have good animation, but Akom at ther worst is not this, Akom at ther worst is Sunbow's G.I Joe, The Real GhostBusters & Batman:TAS, not this).

:shrug:

DarthGonzo

07-26-2006, 06:30 PM

Yesterday I checked Target, FYE and circuit City for both sets and only ended up finding two copies of Animaniacs in Target. There was a large new releases section in the front of the media section with the sets clearly advertised on a banner but but no space for either one to be seen. The nearby TV were even playing ads for the sets which they've been doing for weeks now.

I found the Animaniacs sets on an endcap on the other side of the media section on the second-to-last shelf. There were absolutely no Pinky sets whatsoever, the only DVD in the new release endcap that was completely sold out. That I take it as a very good sign, despite the difficulty I had finding the Animaniacs set.

Pc-Famicom64

07-26-2006, 09:18 PM

I dont even think the animation in the Christmas episode is all that good. TMS was much better with the mice when they worked on Animaniacs. To me, Wang IS Pinky and the Brain.

Sorry Fammy, but Startoons never animated any episodes of Pinky and the Brain. They animated two Pinky segments for Animaniacs however: Meet John Brain and Brain's Apprentice.

No comment why? Wang's work seriously got better during their time with Pinky and the Brain, especially the third season.

:shrug:1.I have saw the X-mas episode, anf I only saw one bad cell out of the episode, the rest was just the best work ever, I have saw some Wang episodes and this is much better then Wang's episodes (but that one cell), but if you what to blame another show that TMS did the animanion for (when P&TB & Animaniacs were still being made), blame Conan.

2.Sorry, I was miss under standing it.

3.What about Rough Draft, you forgot to give them a saying or somthing?

4.I have not put a saying about Wang, but from my reading, Wang haved some issues with P&TB, but James Wang liked it alot, yet TMS said "it was ok, yet it is better then Conan" (this saying came from one of the members of Toon Zoon's Forums, but don't remeber witch one).

And 5.What?

DarthGonzo

07-26-2006, 09:27 PM

4.I have not put a saying about Wang, but from my reading, Wang haved some issues with P&TB, but James Wang liked it alot, yet TMS said "it was ok, yet it is better then Conan" (this saying came from one of the members of Toon Zoon's Forums, but don't remeber witch one).

Why do you say these things when your completely unable to back it up?

Question: can you give us some opinions of these shows without talking about the animation? Do you like the writing? The voice acting? The music? I'm just really tired of hearing about TMS, because I get the impression you'll like anything as long as it's animated by TMS.

Pc-Famicom64

07-26-2006, 09:33 PM

Why do you say these things when your completely unable to back it up?

Question: can you give us some opinions of these shows without talking about the animation? Do you like the writing? The voice acting? The music? I'm just really tired of hearing about TMS, because I get the impression you'll like anything as long as it's animated by TMS.The writing I love (same with Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, The Simpsons, Beavis & Butt-Head, Freakazoid & Ect.), same with the voice acting & the music (same with Tiny Toons, Animanians, Freakazoid, The Simpsons & Ect.). :anime:

Jpox

07-27-2006, 08:36 AM

Thanks! How much did you pay at Wal-Mart?
which other WHV DVDs did you have problems with? I've never had any other than not getting a lithograph with BTAS v4. I paid 39.83 for P&B at Wal-Mart.
The other sets I've had trouble finding would be Looney Tunes Golden Collection 2, Yogi Bear the Complete Series, Superman Vol.2, and Batman Vol.4.
It seemed that stores around here only got a shipment of a few when these were released. I waited a day or two, and I could not find any anywhere. LT wasn't released until a few days later. I found the rest a couple of months after they were released.
Of course now, I see them all over the place.

Jonny Mack

07-27-2006, 03:12 PM

... Startoons never animated any episodes of Pinky and the Brain. They animated two Pinky segments for Animaniacs however: Meet John Brain and Brain's Apprentice ...

I was surprised to find out in the DVD that I got directing credit on "Brainania." I did storyboard & time it, and all in all, I thought that epsiode looked OK, but it definitely wasn't StarToons' animation (sadly ... we would've loved to have done it).

Keeper

07-28-2006, 12:42 AM

mobo85

07-28-2006, 08:12 AM

These do seem to be the first 22 episodes in numerical order, by the way. Why they say "Favorite episodes" is anyone's guess. The people making the DVD sets haven't a clue what they're working with, after all...

I think I recall reading that there are a handful of episodes which compiled the Pinky and the Brain shorts which originally aired on Animaniacs. Since these shorts are already on the Animaniacs DVDs, they aren't going to repeat them for the Pinky and the Brain DVDs. I see there were eight episodes compiled from Animaniacs shorts, and all of them aired during the time frame these 22 original episodes aired in. So calling this the "first 22 episodes" of the series would be, technically, a lie.

mobo85

07-28-2006, 06:35 PM

Just out of curiousty, which version of Of Mouse and Man shows up on this set? Does Brain rule out Eisner or Congress as a way of getting money?

Keeper

07-28-2006, 06:45 PM

Didn't watch it yet but I would expect all of these to be the latest versions -- so, Congress.

That's one thing that's too bad, really: The compilation episodes missing means those gag credits won't be seen. Eh, not a huge loss. But in the case of the Animaniacs set, there were a lot of "A" and "H" and "E" episode variants of that show, some of which had unique wraparound or filler segments. Those will not make it to the DVD sets unless Warner Home Video is on the ball and adds them to the final set as bonuses or something (fat chance).

Brainatra

07-28-2006, 07:57 PM

I think I recall reading that there are a handful of episodes which compiled the Pinky and the Brain shorts which originally aired on Animaniacs. Since these shorts are already on the Animaniacs DVDs, they aren't going to repeat them for the Pinky and the Brain DVDs. I see there were eight episodes compiled from Animaniacs shorts, and all of them aired during the time frame these 22 original episodes aired in. So calling this the "first 22 episodes" of the series would be, technically, a lie.

As stated before, that's why it's called "favorites"---some of the early PatB eps were just the A! shorts thrown together.

Re: "E"/"A"/etc. episodes of Animaniacs: Recall that the "E" ones were special E/I qualifying episodes of Animaniacs compiled of various somewhat-educational segments of the show (such as "Cookies for Einstein", "Yakko's World", and such put into one episode), produced in the late 90's when the E/I requirement first reared its head. Would guess such special compilations won't show up either.

Wonder if the "New Year's Party Tonight" redub of "Big Wrap Party" (produced for a New Year's special on Kids WB in the mid-to-late 90's) will appear at all as an extra...

Pc-Famicom64

07-28-2006, 11:21 PM

Just out of curiousty, which version of Of Mouse and Man shows up on this set? Does Brain rule out Eisner or Congress as a way of getting money?It's Congress.

Martianinvader

07-29-2006, 12:53 AM

Wonder if the "New Year's Party Tonight" redub of "Big Wrap Party" (produced for a New Year's special on Kids WB in the mid-to-late 90's) will appear at all as an extra...
Wow, someone else who isn't Keeper or Weinman or myself remembered that fact!

I have the "New Year's Party" variation on tape (most of it anyway; it starts when they begin singing what everyone is eating). I will make a .wmv sometime in the future when my site has something that it would fit into.

There's seriously a lot of stuff that will be lost to time. Any of the Animaniacs promos done for Fox or WB could be used; otherwise those VA performances will be gone.

In addition to P&B and Animaniacs, there were even cut-and-paste Freakazoid episodes. These were made during the beginning of the run when they wanted to debut one cartoon at a time, and the next summer when the WB ran a few Freakazoids in prime time that consisted of things from various episodes. One of the ones edited for prime-time featured a new Joe Leahy "We interrupt this program" bit at the end. The bit was credited as new, and by different people. Whoever they were, it's lost now--it caught me off guard and I couldn't tape it.

I do have one cut-and-paste Freakazoid from Halloween week; it has the debut of "The Cloud" and then "Candle Jack." The commercial is in the middle of "Candle Jack" instead of "The Cloud," the gag credit is a blank credit page with "SCREAM" in the middle, and the end signoff is a drawing of Emmitt Nervend (which you can see in Ruegger part 1 as one of the easter eggs).

Brainatra

07-29-2006, 10:02 AM

Wow, someone else who isn't Keeper or Weinman or myself remembered that fact!

Yeah, well, I'm old (as Slappy would say). ;-)

Also remember the promos on Fox Kids that were used to push A! in its first season (or just before its debut)---still images of the mice on the 50's TV set from "Puppet Rulers" with trivia questions of some sort(?) displayed...

But that said, if no one else but us recalls "New Year's Party", doubt the yahoos throwing together these DVD sets that can't be bothered to keep the "special features on other disks" mislabeling straight will, either...plus guessing they probably figure we should be grateful it is on DVD at all.

Argument in favor of such extras would be that they're included on the Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear sets (which had as extras a few episodes with the original openings and closings plus the original Kellogg's commercials in them)...

-B.

DarthGonzo

07-29-2006, 10:33 AM

There's seriously a lot of stuff that will be lost to time. Any of the Animaniacs promos done for Fox or WB could be used; otherwise those VA performances will be gone.

Somehow I doubt we'd see all of that stuff, probably because they're plugging not only the networks (especially FOX) but they're also plugging other shows.

Additionally the promos during the Kids WB years are seriously lame with all that reused animation. The shot of the Warners singing together at the end of "A Quake" was used so often for so many different promos that I really dont want to see it anymore. :p

We just all have to live with the fact that a lot of little things we fondly remember will probably be lost to time, unless we taped it. I mean, who remembers one of the earliest promos sung by Yakko describing the show and naming the characters?

"I'm an Animaniac
Some people say I'm out of whack
You can't miss my wild new show
With my cute sis
And my bro..."

We'll probably never see that on DVD, but it's fun to remember it.

Keeper

07-29-2006, 02:08 PM

Right, I don't mean promos, or the whole Animaniacs A/E/H episodes, but that some of those episodes had material in them that didn't appear in any other episode. I can't think of any specific thing, but I'm talking about a Colin bit or a GIBI or two.

bottles98

07-31-2006, 10:29 AM

My parents bought me this set (nice surprise) so I actually have it before the A! set (which should arrive here around the 4th)

All in all, this is a good set. The one special feature was entertaining, and the episodes look and sound wonderful, plus, it's just nice to see them again.

BRAIN: ...impersonate Regis Philbin.
PINKY: I'm outta control! (falls over)
BRAIN: YE-ES!

(It appears right now that I'm the only one on this page actually talking about the PatB Vol. 1 DVD. :p)

Duke

08-06-2006, 05:19 PM

This is the talkback thread for "Pinky and the Brain" Vol. 1: Taking Over the World, One DVD at a Time (http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=11893).

You have to wonder where the security is in Acme Labs to let Pinky & the Brain escape all the freaking time...

http://news.toonzone.net/images/2006-07/splash-pab.jpg (http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=11893)

takineko

09-26-2006, 02:44 PM

"My.. people.. "

I'm so happy to read these posts. People who speak my brand of nerd.
I know we may lose alot of good and bad promos of Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain forever, but we'll always have random cool people who have something on a VHS that they are willing to rip and share with us.

takineko

09-26-2006, 02:55 PM

sorry to double post but--

I realize not everyone could buy both sets today, but this talkback is still surprisingly short.

The featurette was worth waiting for. They didn't mention everything (like the appearances of the mice being based on Fitzgerald and Minton), but very good job overall. .
Actually they did but it was cut out before the release, WB was afraid of being sued even though Minton and Fitzgerald both knew about it sense back then..