Happy Easter from Stuff You Should Know! Learn all about Easter, from its humble beginnings as a pagan holiday to the multi-billion dollar industry it is today. We'll cover the Biblical and religious aspects, along with the origins of some of Easter's greatest traditions.

The mice become baseball players and lead their team to victory so that Brain can release a special perfume on the pitcher's mound at the right time. Unfortunately, the victory celebration prevents Brain from completing his plan, and while leading a losing team to a winning season, both mice are kicked off the team.

This episode covers the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom where Martin Luther King gave his famous I have a dream speech. The listener mail was called "From Chris about Jim Henson." The podcast ended with a clip from King's speech.
From prehistoric logs across streams to the 102-mile Kunshan Grand Bridge, nature works ceaselessly to take down spans. Learn about the fascinating ins and outs of bridge design and building and the mind-boggling challenges structural engineers face.

Brain changes a message on a deep space probe about to be launched that he is the ruler of the world instead of the humans; the probe is found by aliens who come to Earth to show their respect for Brain.
Charles M. Howell IV, Earl Kress, John Ludin
Brain attempts to increase the intelligence of the population in order to make the population understand why he should be their leader by opening a restaurant to feed them an intelligence-increasing drug.
You'll Never Eat Food Pellets in This Town Again
Brain becomes a surfer to get other surfers to wear his hypnotic suntan lotion.
Charles M. Howell IV, Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard

Even as far back as the Roman invaders, people have had absolutely no idea just what the massive monument complex in England known as Stonehenge was built for. Join Josh and Chuck as they try to get to the bottom of this Neolithic mystery.

Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, Firefox OS

East end of SH 29 overlap; west end of SH 16 overlap

Droughts can be an inevitable feature of a local climate or a catastrophic result of human meddling. Learn the ins and outs of droughts including the American mother of them all, the Dust Bowl.
If you think snakes are legless reptile carnivores, then you are exactly right. If you think snakes are here to kill you then you are exactly wrong. Learn more about these fascinating and undeservedly condemned animals in today's podcast episode.

Pinky and the Brain get trapped inside an Egyptian pyramid and try to avoid the Mummy's curse.

Bell on the set of Army Wives in Charleston, South Carolina

Pinky and the Brain are mistaken for monkeys by animal activists and are released into the jungle, and while trying to return to Acme Labs, encounter Snowball, who is leading a tribe of misbegotten tourists. Brain manages to defeat Snowball, and just as he gets used to the natural setting, both mice are recaptured as laboratory specimens for Acme Labs.

* Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
* Tampa Bay Rays
* Pittsburgh Pirates

Each year, Chuck and Josh read a couple of scary stories and this year they have a pair of truly frightful tales about a haunted bog and a terrifying spider exhibit.

Margate's kit at the turn of the 20th century

Live in Chicago: How Public Relations Works

Woman wearing a red rosette with a read and yellow centre, lettered "Catherine West"

The Family That Poits Together, Narfs Together

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Music from the Motion Picture)

You have very likely used reverse psychology before, trying to persuade someone to do something you want by suggesting they do the opposite. What’s behind the bizarre reaction this elicits?

Khan with Pakistan national team in 2014

Brain attempts to create a tall tale about himself to earn world renown.
Brain's latest plan for world domination is shown from Pinky's perspective.

Covering the history and law of online gambling. The listener mail was called "The Brazilian."

Brain joins a golf tournament dressed as Cher to steal a special golf club from a competitor to use in his world domination plan.
After inventing exploding crepes, Brain is mistaken for Napoleon Bonaparte and rises to the seat of power.

Junk food is literally that, empty calories of energy that provide little nutritional value and usually are stored as fat. Yet junk food is irresistible and for good reason – companies spend tens of millions engineering it to be that way.
Pigeons can get a little confusing. Passengers, messengers, carriers, homing - the list goes on. But when it comes down to it, they're all variations of the same smart bird with a knack for getting home to roost. Learn about these clever creatures in today's episode.

John LoganNeal PurvisRobert WadeJez Butterworth

This episode covers the life of Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets. The listener mail was called "Smart Sophomore."
Pyramids can be found in ruins around the world, but no civilization perfected the feat of engineering like Pharaonic Egypt. Learn about the mysteries that still surround these giants.

Brain builds a toy based on him called a "Noodle-Noggin Doll", which has the power to hypnotize people so he can order the world to obey him. Taking a job as one of Santa's elves, he puts the doll on every Christmas list in the world, so that every household receives a doll. When the time comes to switch the machine on, Pinky is horrified to find his letter to Santa wasn't given to him and gets upset, but Brain isn't interested and forces Pinky to man the equipment. However, just before the machine is switched on Brain starts reading Pinky's letter to Santa which praises Brain despite the fact he can't succeed, and asks Santa to give all of Pinky's presents to Brain. Brain, finally realizing how much of a selfish jerk he had been to his best pal, bursts into tears and orders the world to have a merry Christmas, after which he smashes the machine. Back at Acme Labs, Pinky gives Brain a keyring Earth for which Brain is truly grateful. This episode won a Primetime Emmy award in 1996.
Mr. Itch offers to give Brain the world in exchange for his soul; Brain refuses, but finds out later that Pinky has taken the deal. Snowball appears as his court jester, attempting to make Brain miss Pinky so much that he would look for him, leaving him in charge. Brain enters a rhythmic gymnastics competition with Mr. Itch and loses, when Pinky points out that Mr. Itch was actually unable to fulfill his part of the deal, making the whole deal null and void.

Cardinal Loop, Presidential Boulevard – Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Del Valle

Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard, Peter Hastings

This episode discusses the history of Hot Wheels, the children's toy. The listener mail was called "Minimum Wage Proposal."
In 1900 sponge divers found the wreck of a 2000 year-old treasure ship that contained within it a machine that should not exist. Learn of the device that reveals an understanding of the cosmos far more sophisticated than anyone knew the Greeks possessed.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Brain attempts to sway schoolchildren by creating an educational video.

The final Pinky and the Brain episode that includes many of the Animaniacs cast is a parody of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. Pinky and the Brain plan to use the Mega Star for their world domination plans. A running gag involves Brain2 being mistaken for a refrigerator and other household appliances.

Note: Cameos by multiple Warner Bros. characters, including tertiary Animaniacs characters, Freakazoid characters, Looney Tunes characters, and even the Mon-Stars from Space Jam.

Second note: This episode aired along with Animaniacs final episode as part of the Ultimate Animaniacs Super Special. Series Finale'. This also marked the return of Yakko, Wakko, and Dot with Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell and Tress MacNeille reprising their roles.

At its base, criminal profiling is a legitimate investigatory tool. The Supreme Court has drawn a clear line that bans profiling when it includes race. So why do we still do it?
Recorded live in Vancouver, this episode covers bars, cocktails, and bartenders. Chuck did not bring a listener mail to the show.

Brain learns to communicate with sea lions in order to create an aquatic army.

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The mice are unfortunate recipients of a tailor's well-meaning ways based on the folk song "The Tailor and the Mouse" popularized by Burl Ives.

Cultures around the world over the years have been inspired by, then repulsed, then inspired by maggots’ ability to heal persistent wounds. We are in an inspired-by phase right now.
This episode discusses how rainbows, an optical and meteorological phenomenon resulting in a multicolored arc in the sky, are formed. The listener mail was called "Pliny the Beer."

Brain runs out of his own ideas for world domination and seeks input from screenwriters for inspiration.
Brain converts the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial into a robot to make people believe that Lincoln has returned and that he will be returned to power immediately.

Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance

Pinky and Brain try to raise a super baby that they found in a rocket launched from a doomed alien world.
Brainwashed, Part 1 - Brain, Brain, Go Away

Byram during Leeds United's 2014 pre-season.

SH 71 briefly enters San Saba County just east of here

Charles M. Howell IV, Jed Spingarn, Peter Hastings

The Aston Martin DB10 is driven by Bond in the film .

Pinky helps Brain assemble a celebrity basketball team as part of Brain's latest plan, but fires every single one of them , causing the once adoring fans to bitterly despise them after he ends up injuring most of the other team.

Hinduism and Buddhism are closely related in a number of ways, including their vision of what comes after we exit this mortal coil. Learn about the religions’ interesting interpretation of the state of existence outside space-time.
At the height of the Cold War, a group of concerned scientists promoted their findings on the horrific aftereffects of nuclear war and were accused of fearmongering. But were they right after all?

Brain must take part along with Pinky in a reality television program based on The Real World in order to be able to set up a radio tower near Cleveland at the precise spot needed for his plan to work. While Pinky fits in perfectly, the rest of the house guests find Brain obnoxious and that he was taking money from the house funds, so sell off all of his gear in a garage sale. He intends to broadcast to the world the last remaining copy of the Rush Limbaugh singing album which is so horrible that the world will submit to get him to turn it off, but Rush himself buys it and smashes it into millions of tiny little pieces.

What began as a challenge to an oil engineer to make a terrible singer into a pitch-perfect one, Auto-Tune has become a ubiquitous part of the musical soundscape.

While attempting to lure white mice into the Labs for his latest plan, Brain discovers two that are his parents and immediately creates devices to give them intelligence, but his parents drive him off the deep end and he sends them to Florida, fooling them into thinking the trip is only a vacation.

Spirit of Texas Drive – Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA

Brain must recover crab meat from those that only live in the sunken wreckage of the Titanic to implement a hypnotic food additive for world domination.

Did you know some of our most beloved movies originally had different, sometimes better, endings? That is until they were tested in front of focus groups.

Labour Group Leader on the Islington Council

Sung to "Hickory Dickory Dock", Brain attempts to make every clock in the world chime simultaneously.

Djepi I Futbollit Shqiptar (Cradle of Albanian football)

We've covered our fair share of pop-culture icons and here is another - Hula-Hoops. They've been around since ancient time in some form or another, but made their name in during the Hoop Boom of the 1950s. Learn all about this popular fad and more.

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* Telepathy
* Empathy
* Hypnosis
* Mind reading and control
* Memory alteration and erasure
* Psionic blasts
* Illusion casting
* Astral projection
* Detection of other mutants

The Megalomaniacal Adventures of Brainie the Poo
In a film noir spoof, Pinky and Brain run into Billie, who uses her charm to fool them into thinking she needs help when she's really working for Snowball. At the end, she tossed Snowball and Brain over the edge of the waterslide she built for Pinky, Brain because he loves the world too much to care about her, and Snowball for making her take voice lessons in an effort to make her lose her squawky, "Pinky-like" tone.
Frustrated with his failures, Brain lets Pinky try to take over the world with surprising success until Brain takes control and ruins everything.
Brain poses as a child actress to gain public admiration.

This episode explores some of the seminal movies in film. The listener mail was called "Mike DuPont Really Cleared Something Up for Us on Scientific Method."
Carl Sagan was the world's first mainstream media super scientist, capapble of breaking down complex ideas for the common folk. But what made him tick? Billions and billions of great ideas.

Member of Parliament for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock

After Pinky writes a misunderstood letter to the newspaper complaining about The Family Circus he is elected as President of the United States and Brain uses Pinky's position to try to take over.
Brain tries to take control of tornadoes as part of his plan. The episode contains many references of The Wizard of Oz.

Nostradamus: Predictor of the future? Not so much.

James Bond, holding a gun and standing next to Dr. Swann in front of a masked man, with the film's title and credits

Even though almost half of Americans believe in it, ESP usually is treated as a load of bull by skeptics. But some respected researchers have dared to apply the scientific method to investigate ESP and a few have found some surprising results.
Tupperware won immediate design acclaim when it was released in 1947, but it took a pioneering female executive to make a line of plastic food storage into an icon of the American postwar boom. Learn about the surprisingly intriguing history of Tupperware.

Locations of the 2015–16 Northern Premier League Division One South teams

Physicians noticed centuries ago that people exposed to cold temperatures often have amazing recoveries from serious medical emergencies. Now medicine is learning how to purposefully induce hypothermia in order to buy time to fix otherwise fatal trauma.

Charles M. Howell IV, Earl Kress, Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard

Geothermal Energy: Earth’s Gift to Mankind

Brain grows an army of giant, animated vegetables to take over the world. This episode contains a reference to Green Acres and Born Free.

Sun Tzu said know your enemy, and so it is in this spirit that we present this episode on one of the worst airborne pests in the world.
Maggots: Good For Healing Wounds, Turns Out

Two of the eponymous aliens as they appear in the serial

Relegation to 1999–2000 Football League First Division

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Pinky and Brain sell a fictitious product via infomercials to gain a large database of addresses to be used in Brain's latest plan.

In 1968, Paul Erlich published The Population Bomb, predicting coming famine and mass death. Erlich's predictions didn't pan out but his ideas launched a debate still raging today.

English Labour Party politician, MP for Hornsey and Wood Green since 2015

Josh and Chuck Make It Through Male Puberty

Onslaught, Consort-Royal, Founder, Doctor X, Warlord, Entity, Prisoner M-13

Pigeons: Homing, Passenger, Carrier and Otherwise

Note: Scenes in this episode parody Oliver Twist and A Clockwork Orange.
Rich Fogel, Earl Kress, Charles M. Howell IV

What began as a pair of teens who made a film for their grandparents has exploded into its own art form. Learn all about how stop-motion Lego films are made.

Brain attempts to create an army of Brain clones, but when Pinky's DNA gets mixed up, the two discover a mouse that is the genetic child of both mice, which Brain names "Roman Numeral One", or Romy for short. Brain tries to educate Romy in the ways of world domination, while Pinky overly mothers him, causing Romy to leave the two to become a ventriloquist.

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After a year of taking it on the road, Josh and Chuck are releasing their show on public relations. Learn all about the ways you’re manipulated on a daily basis and the man who invented it in this fascinating live episode.
This episode covers the life of Nostradamus, the 16th century French apothecary and reputed seer. The listener mail was called "Trailer Builder."
This episode discusses poison ivy, oak and sumac, and how best to avoid it. Josh also recounts a time when he learned he was not immune from it. The listener mail was called "Part II of Scientific Method from a Scientist."
Other comedians cry on the inside, but Rodney Dangerfield built his entire act around his sad life. Get to know this legendary comic who was nearing 50 when he got his break.
Fairy tales are for kids right? Well not at first they weren't. They were dark tales of murder, rape, incest, cannibalism and mayhem geared toward adults. What changed? Chuck and Josh will drop that knowledge and more in today's episode.

Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard, Charles M. Howell IV, Earl Kress
Pinky and Brain are shipped to Russia as part of a toy testing project, and meet a Russian female spy mouse that has a part critical to Brain's plan.
Brain becomes a fashion designer in order to get everyone to wear his perfume, "Subjugation," which has hypnotic properties. Note* This episode's name is a parody of Calvin Klein.

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Brain invents dentures that gives him a smile which can hypnotize anyone that sees them without sunglasses. He goes on to attempt to become a celebrity in order to achieve mass population control. When starting out on his first show, he uses the jokes used by other comics, which gets him instant boos. But when he starts insulting the audience, everyone bursts out laughing, showing the benefits of his friendship with Pinky .
Pinky and the Brain develop a formula for the Synchrono Plastic Remote Controller, which was intended to control garage door openers so that people will be forced to use bikes and the petroleum industry will be ruined. Unfortunately, a gyroscopic transducer chip is needed to complete the device, so Pinky, Brain, and Larry pose as wallpaper hangers in the White House in order for Brain to get close to the President. Things quickly descend into Stooge madness until a butler throws them out due to the presence of three wallpaper hangers. Back at the lab, Brain works out the problem with their teamwork, seeing that there's a Yin and Yang but no Larry. Larry decides to change his name to Art and leaves in a huff at the end of the episode to become a singer and performs the song The Smells of Loudness, a direct shout out to "The Sound of Silence", with Paul Simon, only to have another mouse named Zeppo come in again at the very end.
Brain becomes a serial radio voice actor similar to the Shadow as a means to use a special voice modulation device in order to control the minds of the listeners.

Woodward Street, Todd Lane, Burleson Road

Treasurer of the Scottish National Party

A damaged front window of a Starbucks coffee shop in Toronto

An episode of three parts. Pinky and Brain were in the midst of preparing a plan, involving a trachiomatic control chip on celebrity Tom Bodett. However, things hit a snag and largely because of the Schmëerskåhøvên , a new craze dance that’s sweeping the nation. Everyone who dances those steps gets progressively dumber and dumber. Meanwhile, the President and First Lady are planning a conference on "The Brain". To combat the dumbing down of America, a White House conference is called to find solutions to this problem. The mice attend after Brain is mistakenly invited, and he and Pinky headed off to Washington, thinking the conference is in Brain’s honor. When he soon realizes that the real reason for an affair is his error, they’re ejected from the White House, but not before refusing to participate in the Schmëerskåhøvên. Suddenly, a sinister clown, hired to make balloon animals for the event, steals the speech the Brain was giving. As the mice are leaving, they pursue him into the Washington Monument where they’re led into a trap, sedated, and captured. Then, they are strapped into a machine which causes one to lose their memory. After erasing their minds , they’re imprisoned in a strange and mysterious place called the Land of Hats , ruled by the Top Hat, where everyone is forced to identify only by the hat they wear, and participate in the Schmëerskåhøvên.

* List of jet airliners
* List of airliners

Brain must recover a critical part for his plan from his packrat neighbor, Mr. Sultana Sultana, whom the part was accidentally delivered to, in order to prevent a lightning strike from destroying the earth. To do so, Pinky and Brain must pose as a married couple, resulting in Mr. Sultana becoming romantically attracted to Pinky as the housewife. Brain is eventually able to recover the part and save the world, but his device is destroyed as a result.

Well-planned landfills have only recently come into widespread use. Recently, waste managers have found that they work a little too well and now the landfill is being reinvented.

Brain becomes a sumo wrestler as to obtain a rare Japanese fish as part of his latest plan.
Brain attempts to use the miraculous strength properties of Samson's hair for his own benefit.
Brain tries to hypnotize Sigmund Freud, but Pinky accidentally leaves Brain's mirrored glasses behind. During the hypnosis, we learn to understand the root for his want of world domination, and why Pinky's such an idiot.

Some of it seems innocuous enough: protecting kids from unseemly sites or intellectual property from piracy. But the tools to protect these things are the same that governments can also use to censor ideas and quell dissent.

Weirdness in the "Land of Hats" continues for Pinky and an amnesic Brain. They eventually get lucky, as real memories, a little truth about the Schmëerskåhøvên. With Pinky’s help, Brain is able to outwit the Top Hat , and they manage to escape. By examining files taken from the Top Hat, Brain learns that the Schmëerskåhøvên is a dance created so that its motions cause those who dance it to dumb down. It’s all someone’s plan for world domination by reducing brain function and mental capacity, and that he and Pinky were imprisoned in the Land of Hats for refusing to dance it. The disc he downloaded with the information causes a self-destruct sequence in the laboratory. The ultimate mastermind, however, is still a mystery. Brain heads out in search of the one person who could be behind such a scheme to conquer the world: Snowball. Suspecting him, Brain sets off for Microsponge, Inc. , which is owned by Snowball himself. However, Brain just finds him locked away as a culprit in his own mental institution of his creation, and that he too was coming too close to discovering who’s behind the Schmëerskåhøvên scheme, and security is tight. Brain reluctantly agrees to get Snowball out if he’ll help them, but ends up in the next cell to him as an inmate. To save the world, though, the mice have little choice but to team up with their worst foe.

Legend has it that tea was discovered by a curious Chinese emperor after leaves blew into his boiled water. Now tea is the second only to water in popularity worldwide. And despite the varieties of tea, they all come from a single species of plant.

Brain uses the Gutenberg printing press to create a series of collectible card that will convert children to his control when they collect the whole set.
Brain attempts to get a musical on Broadway, but is surprised to find that Pinky's musical is much more popular.
Brain helps to reunite Pinky's family in order to win a television show's cash prize. Tracking down his family, and then using the intelligence machine that gave the two mice their smarts, Brain finds Pinky's family are as insane as Pinky is. Brain is barely able to control Pinky's family, and is very disappointed to find the prize is not what he expected.

Since the Kepler telescope went online, astronomers have found there may be an estimate 40 billion planets like Earth in the Milky Way galaxy alone. What does it take for a planet to be considered Earth-like?

Brain creates a clone machine to create an army that will take over the world through celtic dance. Pinky puts in a picture of only himself by mistake and creates his own cloned dance troop. The dancing Brains and Pinkys have a dance-off, ultimately requiring Brain to abandon that plan altogether, but his clones turn on him, revealing that this plan was only a dream.

In 1974, Chinese farmers discovered the first of what would number 7,000 terracotta soldiers meant to protect China's first emperor in the afterlife.

Brain decides not to try to take over the world for one night, and enjoys a night out with Pinky. Brain's inadvertent actions in complaining about the service he gets ends up with people wanting him to become their leader, but their desires fail to register with Brain.
Brain attempts to become the top camp councilor at "Camp Davey", a summer camp for world leader's children by taking out all the other camp councilors. However, as soon as he is able to become the top councilor, the children of the world leaders have completed their camp, and now the children of the world vice-presidents are now attending, much to Brain's dismay.

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Arguably the most beautiful objects in the entire world, hot air balloons take advantage of some interesting physics and have a long history of killing their occupants. Find out more.

After being cancelled in 2012, the Jaguar C-X75 was recommissioned to appear in Spectre.

A Starbucks restaurant in Washington, D.C.

Brain attempts to communicate with a pack of beavers in order to control the flow of a river and threaten the humans under his control.

AIDS is one of the most well-known and most misunderstood diseases humans are susceptible to. In part one of this two-part series, Josh and Chuck explain how the disease is contracted and how it works.

After escaping from the mental institution , the trio have no time to relax. They seek out which mastermind set up this trap for them and save the world from the Schmëerskåhøvên. They travel to a distant destination – to the deserted island of Dr. Mordeau. He’s the geneticist who created the gene splicer which made them super intelligent. They discover that though the answer was there, he too was a victim of the Schmëerskåhøvên. After they’re captured, they find the true mastermind: Mordeau’s mistakenly transformed cat, Precious. She’s about to fulfill the final part of her plan. Worse, she leaves all three of them on a conveyor belt leading to the gene splicer, but they somehow escape and only Snowball is left to the trap when he runs from his lawyers directly into it; this causes him to lose his intelligence and become a normal hamster. Pinky and the Brain are left to stop her and her planned world-wide Schmëerskåhøvên group dance, before the great anthem for world peace in Washington D.C. takes place, making the Earth’s population permanently stupefied. Finally, Brain saves the world by creating a new verse to the Schmëerskåhøvên which reverses the effect, and Acme Labs is gladly rebuilt. With their grand adventure over, Brain tells Pinky they need to prepare for the following night when they will, as always, try to take over the world.
Brain develops mechanical tap-dancing legs to tap out a subliminal morse code message while he dances at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
The mice sing about world domination to the tune of the Can-can.

Josh N Chuck’s Hallowe’en Spooky Scarefest

Brain attempts to take over the royal family of Denmark by causing havoc with Hamlet.

Industrial Oaks Boulevard, Monterey Oaks Boulevard

Jesters of some sort have been around since ancient Egypt and China. Our modern clown was invented around 1800 and ever since they have been getting steadily creepier.

Earl Kress, Charles M. Howell IV, Wendell Morris, Tom Sheppard, Jed Spingarn

* Stephen Dartnell — John
* Ilona Rodgers — Carol
* Lorne Cossette — Maitland
* John Bailey — Commander
* Martyn Huntley — First Human
* Giles Phibbs — Second Human
* Ken Tyllsen — First Sensorite/First Scientist
* Joe Greig — Second Sensorite/Second Scientist/Warrior
* Peter Glaze — Third Sensorite/City Administrator
* Arthur Newall — Fourth Sensorite
* Eric Franci — First Elder
* Bartlett Mullins — Second Elder
* Anthony Rogers, Gerry Martin — Sensorites

This episode explores Feng Shui, the Chinese philosophical system of harmonizing everyone with the surrounding environment. The listener mail was called "GED Success Story."

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Belgian Flemish VRT Top 30 number-one single

This episode describes the history of ice cream, how it is made, and its variations. The listener mail was called "First of Two Scientific Method Emails."
Wine fraud may be a case of rich con artists tricking wealthy people into parting with money, but it's still a crime. Learn all about this weird, widespread practice in today's episode.

* Windows: 39 MB
* OS X: 74 MB
* Linux: 45 MB
* Android: 30 MB
* iOS: 187 MB
* Source code: 170–774 MB

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The mice become silent film comedy stars in a parody of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, but when he switches from comedy to drama people get tired of his movies.
Brain develops a machine that can see into the future and sees that he will never rule the world. He gives up trying to take over the world and becomes a ski instructor. Back at the lab, Pinky finds a yam given by Mr. Sultana and uses the yam to replace Brain. Using the virtual reality helmets, Pinky and the yam foresee Brain's death in an avalanche and then Pinky tries to save Brain and change the future. They succeed in saving Brain, who deduces that the future can be changed, and the mice return to the lab. They take one last glance at the future using the helmets, only to discover that the yam has taken over the world.
Brain creates a robotic replica of Steven Spielberg as part of his world domination plan. The episode starts out as a clip show hosted by Steven Spielberg himself, which covers such aspects of the series such as the writing, the characters, and how much Steven himself loves his creation. It is revealed that it is only a robot when it exclaims "...I'm getting goosebumps just thinking bout it. Narf! Poit! Zort!" and Brain comes to tell Pinky off. Pinky accidentally presses a button, and the robot goes into "schpiel mode", where it recreates scenes from various films, including one from Jurassic Park during which Steven gets up and walks through a brick wall out onto a bridge and explodes. Brain decides he'll try again with the "Ted Turnerator".

In part two of the SYSK puberty saga, Josh and Chuck venture into new territory as they explore all of the amazing changes girls face when they come of age.

Brain takes a job as a teacher at a troubled school in order to earn money for his latest plan and Pinky, disguised as one of the students, convince the other classmates to take the studies seriously.

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Brain, in his human suit, gets a job and then stages an accident, suing the company as to obtain enough money to set up an automated answering system that will keep people busy while he takes over the world. This episode managed to get away with saying the word "sexual".

In part two of the series on HIV/AIDS, Chuck and Josh explore how the battle against the disease is being fought and won thanks to new treatments and possible cures.

A spoof of Winnie the Pooh, Brainie and Pinklet attempt to steal honey from a beehive so they can secretly replace the world's artificial sweeteners with it and render everyone fat, slow, and toothless. Brain as Brainie The Poo , Pinky as Pinklet , Al Gore as Algore , Christopher Walken as Christopher , and Mick Jagger as Jagger .
Liz Holzman, Charles M. Howell IV, Tom Ruegger
Brain buys out all real estate above the 39th floor, and then he and Pinky travel to the Hubble telescope in an attempt to melt the ice caps and flood the Earth.
Pinky and Brain attempt to gain membership into a secret, world-controlling organization called "T.H.E.Y.". The mice manage to complete the hazing rituals but only Pinky is accepted into the group because Brain can't take any more of their shenanagins .
Pinky and Brain are visited by their future selves, who give them a kit for world domination from a future where intelligent cockroaches take over the world.

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Charles M. Howell IV, Earl Kress, Jed Spingarn
Brain and Pinky pose as the endangered species, the Mousealope, to take over a large amount of land near Pittsburgh for their own.

In this episode of Stuff You Should Know, Josh and Chuck dive into the world of polyamory. Turns out polyamorists aren't weirdos and deviants, they're just regular folks looking for love from more than one person. Learn all you ever needed to know about this unique, but not so modern arrangement.

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The concept of passports – that people should enjoy protected freedom of movement - is an ancient one. It wasn’t until WWI that they became universal. Learn all about this overlooked, important document.
In some states, it is not only your right but your duty to arrest someone you see committing a crime. Learn all about why you should basically never do that in this episode.

Brain uses the Personalitron to inherit the world's most attractive personas , simply by scanning their photos into the machine and then stepping inside it, but Pinky ends up going into the machine instead. He is then transformed into "Pinky Suavo", a more suave version of Pinky, as the name implies. Pinky gains control of people's attention instantaneously, and the Brain finds a way to use it to his advantage and puts Pinky on a talk show. But he finds out that bopping him on the head will deplete the effects and actually "breaks" him to the point that he only says "Narf, poit, egad, troz, zort". Brain asks for a break and takes Pinky back to the Personalitron. Pinky looks changed but, at the end, it is discovered that the Brain put in a picture of The Unknown Comic instead of the celebrities.

Don't be confused - this one is about actual circus acts made of family members, not the controversial comic strip.
Police dogs have been used since the 19th century - one WWI German defector became a major movie star. But in the US the post-9/11 era has seen a K9 unit boom and questions and concerns have increased as well.

This episode tells the story of how Pinky and the Brain first met, and Brain's first plan for world domination.

Donating your whole body to further science and medicine is probably the best thing you could do with your corpse. Which is why the industry that handles those gifts need regulating.
This episode explores why some people are left handed. The listener mail was called "Christian Shoutout."

Brain manages to communicate with the Earth directly with a new device, and attempts to use that ability to take over the world, but the Earth turns on him and tries to destroy him. Pinky convinces him not to and sends the machine into outer space, bringing the moon to life.
Brain uses Pinky's new fame as an abstract art painter called Pinkasso as a means to finance his latest plan for world domination.

It has been called a "glorified spring", but Slinky is one of the best selling toys of all time. From accidental origins to an unlikely resurrection, Slinky has a pretty great back story.

Brain and Pinky must pose as Rhennish farmers and assist with the barn raising activities in order to gain access to a key mineral for Brain's latest plan. However, Brain finds out that there's only the "fool's" version of the mineral in the region.

A store on Piccadilly with its windows boarded up after being smashed by protesters

Lobbying is an entrenched part of American politics and one that many people think is breaking government. But petitioning the government is protected in the Constitution. How can this system be fixed?
Why would people want to remove salt from water? To solve the world's water problem, that's why. Learn all about the efforts to desalinate H2O in cheaper and more efficient ways.
This episode explores the history of perfume and how it is made. The listener mail was called "Little Nostradamus Bit from a Canadian."

Pinky actually succeeds in talking certain powerful world leaders into handing over control of the world, but when Pinky hands over the "key to the world" to Brain, Brain botches it up by repulsing the leaders with his anger and rudeness, thinking that Pinky is plotting against him, when in fact, it is only a surprise birthday party.

Born and raised in South America, chilis were the earliest crop domesticated in the continent and among the first items brought back to Europe by Columbus. Today people are really, really into them.
Anonymous is an amorphous group of hacktivists with no single leader or power structure. Some call them heroes, others call them criminals. Can they be both?

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* Legion Field
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The number of people suffering from dementia is expected to explode in the coming decades and, in a pleasant surprise, countries around the world are taking steps to plan for the increase in friendly, caring ways.
During World War II, Nazis invaded the United States with saboteurs bent on fomenting chaos. Three times.
Since its re-discovery in the early 20th century, the Medieval codex the Voynich Manuscript has thoroughly puzzled anyone who has tried to unlock its secret language and bizarre drawings. Will it ever give up its secrets?
This episode covers the history and physics of juggling, and offers instructions on how to juggle. The listener mail was from an actress who was separated from her husband for a long stretch of time but stayed connected by their mutual admiration for the podcast.
They are creepy, sure, but they are also useful, cute and in great danger of extinction. Get a new lease on life from a new view of bats in this episode.
This episode explores folklore. The listener mail was called "Creepy Email ."
You've heard lots of complaints about vocal fry, mostly from older white men. But it's not exclusive to the Kardashians. Learn all about vocal fry, upspeak and other quirky speech trends in today's episode.

Brain attempts to make the ultimate emotional movie, "Brain's Song" and to take over while the world is in tears, but the vibrating of the electric football machine Brain used in the movie has had an effect on him, causing him to vibrate uncontrollably at random times, making him the worlds biggest joke.

Cover art featuring Spartan Locke and Master Chief , with a Guardian rising in the background

Unless you were raised alone in a basement , you probably grew up on fairy tales. That’s appropriate because they may be humanity’s greatest psychic projection screen.
Tens of millions of Scouts, and their parents, have taken standard blocks of wood and turned them into cars that zip along at up to 20 mph. Learn about the origin, physics and more of Pinewood Derbies in this episode.
Medical science has a long and storied history of trying out cures and procedures that later strike us as wacky. And they’re still at it today! Learn about bizarre treatments, from opium for children to tobacco smoke enemas in this episode.
In 1977, Ohio State astronomers discovered a radio transmission from space that was 30 times louder than the cosmic background noise. Since then every explanation of what it was has fallen short and the Wow! Signal remains possible evidence of alien life.
The FDA was the first consumer protection agency in the US. Since 1906, it’s been issuing regulations meant to protect Americans from tainted food, ineffective drugs and pacemakers that don’t work. But is the FDA too cozy with industries it regulates?

Brain goes to the Area 5.1, a parody of Area 51, and makes contact with the alien Zalgar in hopes that he will help him take over the world, but Zalgar has other plans in mind: specifically, devouring Brain's brain.

Green energy is good for all, and it doesn't get much greener than using the Earth's own heat to warm your home or office. Learn all about geothermal energy in today's new episode.

In 1962, Brain opens a casino, and becomes a lounge singer to attract people to it. However, he only offers the game of baccarat, and runs into financial and mortal danger from his funding source. The loaner he borrowed from turns out to be a loan shark and takes Acme Labs into custody until, turning it into a lounge, Brain can repay her.

The Aston Martin DB5 reappears after reconstruction in Q's workshop at the film's ending, with Bond driving away with it.

The mice must navigate a difficult and dangerous maze in Acme Labs to retrieve a microchip critical for Brain's latest plan.

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A map of the contemporary Cantabrian territory.

The show is changed and Pinky and Brain become frustrated with this and quit the show. When Brain falls back onto Pinky's attempts to get some work, he is given a job blowing up balloons at a children's birthday party, where he becomes angry at the birthday boy for insulting him and is kicked out. It is revealed that Brain is married to Billie , who pretty much only agreed because he's famous, and eventually kicks him out and makes Brain live in his restaurant . In the end, Brain wakes up and realizes it's all a bad dream, but Pinky still has his puppet Margaret and they still live next door to Dick Clark.

It’s easy to overlook the importance of ocean currents – they move along out at sea, while we stay mostly on land. But we are globally affected by them every day. Currents form the base of the food chain, drive weather and keep life as we know it going.

Brain creates a conspiracy to make people think that the government is hiding a document declaring him ruler of the world , and when a nutjob from northern Virginia tries to rescue him, he only makes matters worse by keeping him in his cabin with nothing but "enough spam to last the turn of the century" to eat. It is soon discovered that a picture Brain pasted his own photo over is really of Joyce DeWitt, who then becomes the ruler of the world.

You should never BASE Jump. It is one of the most genuinely dangerous sports on the planet. But with that out of the way, you should definitely learn all about this pastime where people jump from tall structures and outcroppings for fun and thrills.
Off the coast of Nova Scotia is Oak Island, which is purported to have buried treasure. This episode explores the legends and some of those who have gone in search of it. The listener mail was called "Posin Ivy Follow Up from JB."
Blood types have one of the more interesting backstories in medical history. But as much as we've figured out about them and how they work, we still don't know much about why we even have different blood types. Listen in for a truly fascinating look at your most essential bodily fluid.

Locations of the 2014–15 Northern Premier League Premier Division teams

Rainbows: Delighting humanity since forever

Brain creates a fictional island nation in attempt to exploit the United States for billions of dollars in foreign aid.

Does the human body really replace itself every few years? The answer is yes, but different parts of the body do so at different rates. Learn all about which parts of your body are the speediest, and which take the longest to regenerate.

Pinky and Brain sing about the parts of the human brain, to the tune of "Camptown Races"

There is a way to not only sustainably get rid our household waste, but also produce enough energy from it to power the process and even create electricity for the grid. The future is here!
Despite tons of people using cotton swabs each day to clean the earwax from their ears, cerumen is actually quite beneficial to the health of your ears – and even kind of ingenious as your body’s defense goes.
Science doesn’t have a good explanation for why we sense color, yet it is everywhere and affecting us all the time. But why should minutely different wavelengths of light have such an impact on our moods and motivations?

Brain uses a machine that can increase or decrease intelligence, and uses it so that Pinky can become smart enough to understand that he is the cause of Brain's failures, due to research Brain conducted. Pinky, depressed over the fact that Brain doesn't like him when he is smart, uses the machine to make himself stupid, so Brain will like him again. However, Brain, discovering that he himself is the cause of his failures and believing both of them to be better off with Pinky as the genius and Brain as a moron, uses the machine on himself as well. In the end, both of them are idiots and are too dumb to operate the machine and restore either of them to their intelligent selves.

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* Airbus A340
* Boeing 767-400
* Boeing 777-200
* McDonnell Douglas MD-11

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Are You My Mother?: How Animal Imprinting Works

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Darwin asserted that seemingly useless organs and behaviors are left over from our evolutionary history. But as more are found to have a function, the idea has become a flashpoint for the battle between science and religion.
Around ages 9 or 10 a boy will begin to undergo a magical, surprising, weird, amazing, totally bonkers transformation from childhood to adulthood. To separate fact from myth, Chuck and Josh take on the role of gym teachers and wade into male puberty.

Bill Matheny, Charles M. Howell IV, Earl Kress
Brain conducts a chain letter scheme that will make him the ruler of the world by simply spelling "you will bow before the Brain" backwards. But unknown to the pair that Brain's childhood friend , Snowball , has been spying on them and stole Brain's plan. Brain becomes frustrated and creates a new holiday and closes the post office. Snowball then tries to convince Pinky that Brain is only using him , but Pinky refuses to believe him. Later, Snowball buys out the world with his incredible wealth, and builds a Pinky themed amusement park. Pinky begins to consider Snowball's offer, to which Brain replies, unbeknownst to Pinky's talk with Snowball,"Oh, go ahead, Pinky; I don't need you. What, do you think I just have you around so I can steal your brilliant ideas and claim them as my own? That I'm just using you? Oh, yes,I'm using you for your brilliance." Pinky, unable to distinguish that he was being sarcastic, accepts Snowball's offer, but misses Brain terribly. The episode ends when Brain snaps and challenges Snowball to a fight.

What do little baby ducklings have to do with Nazis? A lot actually. Find out about animal imprinting experiments and the debate over their ethics.

Brain concocts a reunion special between himself and Pinky in order to attract numerous viewers which he can brainwash with his latest device.
A parody of Robin Hood, Brain collects a group of his own Mighty Mallards in a parody of the Merry Men to steal from the rich to fund his own plans for world domination.

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Interferometric observations of lunar occulations and pulsars

Brain attempts to put helium in hacky-sack sack-kicker shoes in a Hackensack factory. The episode contains numerous tongue-twisters, and Brain's plan fails because he cannot enunciate what he wants Pinky to do.

This episode covers the history of the scientific method and its place in society today. The listener mail featured an email from Bryant's sister-in-law on home schooling.
Fleas are the bane of the existence of pet owners. From their eggs to their lifespan to their feeding habits, fleas are practically designed to be a nuisance. They are parasites, after all.

In a parody of The Third Man, Pinky searches for Brain in post-World War II Vienna, despite constant attempts to convince him that Brain is dead.

Some people call them flacks. Other people call them liars. But if you’re in the public eye and suddenly have an image problem, you’ll call them your best friend.
Chuck and Josh Make It Through Female Puberty
About half of all people experience rage on a daily basis when they get behind the wheel. What is it about driving that ticks us off so badly?
Gazing too long upon another person is almost universally viewed as anywhere from impolite to hostile, which is odd considering science isn’t fully certain why we stare – and why we’re so good at knowing when we’re being stared at.

St Nicholas Church, vandalized and desecrated after 2004 unrest in Kosovo

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In the US, 17 million people are alcoholics. Not merely abusing alcohol, these sufferers become physically dependent on it, forming a chronic disease. Learn about the effects on the body, the brain, and the life of an alcoholic and ways to get help.

Atlantic Studios, New York City, April–May 1967

Brain attempts to use a tobacco company to take over the world by selling cigarettes to children. However, Pinky becomes disgusted at the sight of children smoking and convinces Brain to double cross the tobacco company. The episode later won a PRISM Award for Best Children's Animated Television Episode, for its anti-smoking message.
Brain tells the story of "Don Cerebro", a mouse with plans to take over the world in a parody of Man of La Mancha.

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Brain and Pinky sing about famous history leaders and their downfall, and how Brain will learn from their failures.
Brain creates a Papier-mâché copy of the Earth, and lures the entire population to it with free t-shirts in order to take over the real Earth. However, a meteor crashes with the real Earth, forcing the mice to flee to "Chia Earth" to narrowly avoid its complete destruction.

Locations of the 2014–15 Northern Premier League Division One North teams

Brain determines that he's tired of trying to take over the world, and joins a support group for others that have done the same, but convinces himself that his megalomaniacal attempts aren't an obsession.

Suite from Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Brain plans to use a "growing ray" to grow Pinky into super-size while dressed up as Gollyzilla , while Brain would stop him in exchange for world domination. However, the real Gollyzilla emerges from the ocean and starts to rampage, making Brain think that the lizard is Pinky. The episode ends with the ray making everything on Earth grow, including the Earth itself, to the point that Pinky, the Brain, and even Gollyzilla are mouse-sized by comparison again.
Pinky sings a song in the style of "Make 'Em Laugh" to try to cheer Brain up.

PEZ began in Vienna as a mint meant to help people quit smoking. But once American kids got ahold of it, the candy took off and a symbol of childhood – and healthy secondary market among collectors – was born.

Brain becomes a hippie leader and encourages people to form a human chain across America in order to send a subliminal message.

Spiders are second only to snakes in the dread department, but they're actually very helpful arachnids who are only deadly to humans under the worst case scenario. Of the more than 40,000 species, very few spiders are even venomous to humans. Learn everything you ever needed to know about these 8-legged wonders in today's episode.