10 Things You Should Know About The Iconic Cartoon "Pinky and the Brain"

Animator and Tiny Toon Adventures writer Eddie Fitzgerald would say a lot of would say all kinds of funny phrases like "narf" and "egad" like Pinky and Brain was based on a caricature of Animaniacs writer/producer Tom Minton. 

Raul Paulsen, who was the voice of Pinky, was also the voice of Raphael in TMNT. 

Rob Paulsen who voiced Pinky and Maurice LaMarche who voiced Brain were both voice actors for "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" before they were Pinky and the Brain. 

Rob Paulsen loved Monty Python's Flying Circus and thought the producers would love the character with an English accent. 

LaMarche based the voice of Brain on Orson Welles and Vincent Price. 

LaMarche was given an audio tape for Orson Welles arguing with a recording engineer. He started to memorize it and use it as part of vocal warmups. 

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Both mice were a part of a gene-splicing program called “Biological Recombinant Algorithmic Intelligence Nexus.”

In 1998 producers wanted to add more characters to the show. The called it Steven Spielberg Presents the Further Adventures of Pinky & The Brain and it told the story of the mices lives after they were adopted by Elmyra Duff. It only last 13 episodes.