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Brain has had many, many plans to take over the world. Following are just some of them.
He has gone on the gameshow Gyp-parody (an obvious parody of Jeopardy!), and attempted to win enough money to buy the world. At Final Gyp-parody, Brain can win the money he needs if he bets all his winnings and gets the Final Gyp-parody answer correct. Ironically, the Final Jeopardy requires Brian to identify a quote that Pinky was constantly using that episode. But because he paid no attention to Pinky, Brain loses everything. This episode is a dual parody; beside being a parody of the game show, the plot is a blatant and direct lift of the classic Honeymooners episode where Ralph goes on \"The $99,000 Answer\" Pinky\'s quote \"Bang! Zoom! To the Moon!\" is the tip of the hat to that fact.
In another attempt, Brain becomes a country singer who plays a hypnotic message in his video. His stage name is \'Bubba Bo Bob Brain\', which Pinky cannot pronounce. Brain becomes the country\'s most popular singer (since he hypnotises his audiences to buy all his records), and on the night he does a nation-wide show, he plans to give the hypnotic command to obey him as the county\'s leader. But when set to give the command, Pinky once again calls Brain by the wrong name. A frustrated Brain snaps \'Just forget my name. And while you\'re at it, forget you ever knew me!\'. The crowd obeys the command and forgets about Brain all together, foiling his plan once again.
Brain has run for President of the United States. His running mate is Admiral Pinky (parodying Admiral Stockdale), who in his only television appearance states, \"Zort, what am I doin\' here?\" Appearing to be charismatic and lovable, Brain rises in the polls, but never makes a public appearance. When he finally does the night before the election, the public is shocked to discover that Brain resembles a mouse because he is a mouse. Brain promptly loses the election.
In a Christmas Special, Brain built a toy based on him called a \'Noodle-Noggin Doll\', which had the power to hypnotise people. Taking a job as one of Santa\'s elves, and putting the doll on every Christmas list in the world, every household receives a doll. Brain plans to use his hypnosis machine to order the world to obey him. But upon reading Pinky\'s letter to Santa (which sings his praises despite the fact he can\'t succeed, and asks Santa to give all of Pinky\'s presents to Brain), Brain burst into tears and orders the world to have a Merry Christmas, after which he smashes the machine.
In a historical episode, Brain hears the offer that the man to travel around the world in 80 days will become the Prime Minister of Britain. Due to Brain\'s genius travel methods and Pinky\'s multi-lingual guidebook (one of the few episodes where Brain acknowledges Pinky\'s input on the plan), the two travel east around the world and reach New York, and only need to take an already scheduled ship to Britain to secure Brain\'s position as Prime Minister. But upon catching a cab to the pier, the driver only speaks \'New York Cabbie\', the one language that Pinky\'s guidebook does not contain. Because the driver does not understand \'Take us to the pier\', Brain is foiled again.
Brain does a television similar to Welles\' radio broadcast of \'War of the Worlds\', hoping that, as happened in the radio broadcast, the country will panic and ensuing chaos would give Brain control over the world. The plan backfires simply because Brain\'s attempt to stage a televised alien invasion is incredibly cheesy, and the country is amused rather than scared.
One episode starts out as what could feasibly be considered a clip show hosted by Steven Spielberg himself, which covers such aspects of the series such as the intelligent writing (followed by a montage of \"poit!\"s from Pinky), the characters, and how much Steven, himself, loves his creation. Steven gets up and walks through a brick wall out into a grassy field, and is revealed to have actually been a robotic creation of Brain\'s called \"Steven Spielborg\" which he was to use to take over the world.
A few rare episodes involve no attempt on the Brain\'s part to take over the world. One centers on his rival Snowball\'s plan (see above) to take over the world using Microsponge. Another involves Brain and Pinky using a machine to increase/decrease intelligence, resulting in both of them being stupid and thus, neither can remember what it is they do every night. Another episode features Brain\'s single day where he tries to do anything BUT take over the world, but in the end, a group of a people vote that he should take over the world on the one day he is not wanting to
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