<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 33 </Td> <Td> September 8, 1997 (1997 - 09 - 08) </Td> <Td> May 16, 1998 (1998 - 05 - 16) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 7 </Td> <Td> September 14, 1998 (1998 - 09 - 14) </Td> <Td> November 14, 1998 (1998 - 11 - 14) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Brain (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) looks and sounds a little like Orson Welles . In "What Ever Happened to Baby Brain", Brain actually crosses paths with Welles (voiced by Jim Cummings), who is working as a busboy in a Hollywood restaurant; they find themselves inadvertently yelling in unison, "Things will be different when I take over the world!" In "Project B.R.A.I.N." Brain's name is the backronym for the eponymous project: "Biological Recombinant Algorithmic Intelligence Nexus". His tail is curly and bent--he often uses it to pick the lock of the cage--and his head is large and wide, housing his abnormally large brain . He is highly intelligent and develops complex plans for global domination using politics, cultural references, and his own inventions toward his goal . He seems coldly unemotional, speaking in a snarky deadpan . Nevertheless, Brain has a subtle sense of humor and has even fallen in love; with Trudie in the episode "The Third Mouse" and with Billie in "The World Can Wait". Due to his stature and megalomania, Brain has been compared to Don Quixote and a pop culture depiction of Napoleon Bonaparte . </P> <P> Brain sees his inevitable rise to power as good for the world, and not mere megalomania . In Wakko's Wish, he said to Pinky "We're on our way to fame, fortune and a world that's a better place for all ." Many of the Brain's plots had the endgame of winning over the people's hearts and having them make him their ruler . However, his motives are not pure . In one episode, Brain finds himself hypnotized by a psychologist he had planned to manipulate for one of his schemes, who turns out to be none other than Sigmund Freud . There Brain reveals that he originally lived with his parents in a tin can at the base of a tree in a large field . When he was young, ACME researchers captured Brain and took him from his home, and the last he saw of it was a picture of the world on the side of the can . Dr. Freud speculates that Brain's hunger to take over the world is misplaced, and that all he really wants is to go back home to his parents . According to the creators, Brain wants to take over the world not for the sake of being a dictator, like his rival Snowball, but because he believes that he could do a much better job of it than the people currently in charge . Brain has even helped save the world by doing everything in his power to prevent Snowball's evil schemes, knowing that a world under Snowball's rule would be the worst - case scenario . </P>

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