Drawn by: Neal Sternecky
A prehistoric scene: Pinky and the Brain, dressed as Wilma and Fred Flintstone respectively, are surrounded by cavemen bearing clubs. The time machine from Rewriting History is in the background. Pinky is telling the Brain, "That outfit is simply smashing, Brain!", to which the Brain replies, "Don't say smashing, Pinky."
Despite appearances, this is not an adaptation of the cartoon When Mice Ruled the Earth.
Pinky and the Brain are watching TV. The Brain complains about the mediocre popular image of mice. The Brain decides that drastic measures are necessary to correct that - namely time travel, since the image was established long ago.
The Brain turns the TV they had been watching into a time machine, and they travel to one million BC. They discover the hard way that prehistoric man is incapable of understanding the reasons mice are superior. In fact, all they can understand is different sounds from hitting each other on the head. All seems lost until the Brain discovers a cave painter, and their sense of history and impact on the culture of the future.
This leads the Brain to a plan, and soon there are silhouettes of the Brain's head painted on everything: rocks, trees, clubs, legs. They return to the present to discover the silhouette on everything. There's only one small flaw in the plan: There's a new character, Rickee Rat, that has sprung up to take advantage of the widespread presence of the shape - thus the Brain has partially succeeded: there's a rodent ruler of the world, just not him.
It's an Acme remote control, of course. There's a "NO STANDEES" sign in the time machine, and the helmets are held in place by Warner arms and hands. A piece of toast pops out of the toaster as they arrive in the past. The Warners are the parade grand marshals, all with Rickee Rat ear hats (which look a lot like Mickey Mouse ears). Of course, Dot's has a flower, and Wakko wears his on top of his baseball hat.
The channel indicator on the TV covers the bars of the cage. (pages 1, 2) Where did writer John Walker get the idea that Pinky uses British slang? Despite his accent, his words are definitely American. Pinky also uses several new nonsense words seen nowhere else. Two cavemen's clothes and hair change color from one panel to the next. (page 7)The Warners are at Coco Gazelle's spring fashion show. They have VIP privileges because Coco was once their costume designer. Dot and Coco have a chat about the old days in Paris, while Yakko and Wakko go chasing after the models - and one stagehand when their radar has problems. We then see a flashback to the good old days...
Paris, city of amour and hot chocolate. Coco finds the Warners at a sidewalk cafe, and chides them for missing their costume fitting. They notice the obnoxious dress Coco is wearing, which she will show to the master designers of Paris. Coco's dog is mad at Dot for shaving him bald a month ago, and snaps at Dot's scarf, causing Dot to spill her hot chocolate all over Coco's dress, ruining it.
Coco has used all of her material on that dress, and her presentation is in two hours...but Yakko vows to make her another dress anyway. They return to Coco's shop, where all that's left is some black material. That doesn't stop the Warners, though: they make a slinky number that turns out to launch Coco's career.
We return to the present, and the fashion show. Yakko and Wakko have gotten bored with the flashback, so they go find a model. They're finally pried loose, and the show goes on.
Coco Gazelle is, of course, a takeoff of Coco Chanel. The logo is a takeoff of the Gucci logo. Finally, Kate Floss is a reference to supermodel Kate Moss. In Paris, Wakko wears a beret, and Yakko wears a striped shirt. The pigeons that bombard Wakko are Bobby and Squit...who are also wearing berets. Dot rolls up her fur, showing a human flesh-toned arm. This used to be a nit, but then Yakko did the same thing in the Animaniacs cartoon The Kid in the Lid, in episode 74, so apparently the Warners can really do that. Coco might have an easier time of dressmaking if she had fingers. Her French accent isn't very convincing, either; the word choices are almost entirely American. Bobby is colored yellow, not the standard blue. (page 15) Pages 16 and 17 aren't numbered.The Warners run off the lot, bouncing on Ralph as they land. As they leave the gate, Dot spots a singing cowboy and immediately falls for him. He turns out to be an aspiring country star, and so the Warners drag him off to Nashville straightaway.
On the way in the singer's car, they're stopped by a highway patrolman. The singer can't afford the ticket, so Yakko has them all sing a song, which makes the highway patrolman reconsider the wisdom of having stopped them, and they continue to Nashville. They stumble across a record company advertising fame and fortune, and are ushered immediately into the president's office.
The singer introduces himself and his backing band, The Toonettes (which the Warners hadn't realized they were until that moment). They sing for the president of the company, who tells them that they're going to be big. He goes off to make some phone calls, and the Warners eavesdrop...and what they hear is something else entirely: the band is so bad that they'll be a big tax writeoff, and that's why the president is so happy to see them.
The president returns to tell them that he's arranged a huge press party that afternoon. They go off to work on their image, returning first with the big hat look, then as cacti, then deep sea divers, as the president dislikes each previous attempt. He finally goes off to show them how to do it right, and then demonstrates how to perform for the press. He makes a complete fool of himself just in time for the press to arrive and take pictures of the whole thing. He's out of a job, and Yakko tells the singer - who thinks his career is over - that there's a record company that will need a new president.
Dot's flower and Wakko's hat are present no matter what costume they're wearing. This is Costanza's first effort, and it shows; his Warners are a bit more primitive than his later work, and he draws Dot's hair strangely: it looks like she has wings on the side of her head. He also generally draws her flower with four petals instead of the standard five. Dot's underwear is shown as white, which is nonstandard (but has at least been seen in the cartoons, unlike Wildman's blue in Taming of the Screwy). (pages 20, 25, 31) Pages 24 and 25 aren't numbered.
