"Brain's Song" is the fifth episode of the second season of Pinky and the Brain.
The Brain, realizing the power of tearjerker movies, decides to produce the saddest one yet: a film called Brain's Song, which will leave everyone in such tears that the world's leaders will relinquish power to him.
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- Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?:Pinky: I think so, Brain, but we're already naked.
Brain: One more of those and I'm calling the Pied Piper of Hamlin!
Pinky: Yippee! [Beat] Wait, he hates mice. - Do Not Adjust Your Set: Brain uses this... twice. First, he somehow manages to broadcast a tearjerker (broadcasting live no less) in order to make everyone in the world chronically depressed so he can easily take over. For the most part, it works. (Apparently, no one turns off their TV when their favorite show is interrupted for a so-called "true story" about a football player whose career is ended by career-ending stomach cramps.) Unfortunately for Brain, when he takes over the airwaves again to try and announce his leadership of the world, he finds himself suffering from uncontrollable "post-production jitters" (thanks to his own work in simulating the aforementioned stomach cramps), and thus appears so funny that he inadvertently cures the world's depression (and creates a new catchphrase: "I am the O-o-o-overlord!").
- Drunk on Milk: Alluded to (in a non-Drowning My Sorrows way).Brain: I see someone had too much Shasta on the plane.
- Take That!: Brain suggests going to a place that never shuts down, where your wallet matters, and where actors and actresses slave all day. He's talking about Hollywood, but Pinky thinks they're going to Denny's.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Brain actually succeeds in his mission to get the world to relinquish control to him. But while he's giving a televised address, he suffers involuntary tremors from his earlier scenes filmed on an electric football table, making the population laugh at the absurdity and curing their depression.