July 2009

When I was a kid, I loved Animaniacs. Did you? I couldn’t wait to see what kind of scheme Pinky and the Brain would come up with to take over the world. I especially loved it when Brain would ask, “Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?” And Pinky would say something idiotic like, “I think so Brain, but where are we going to get that much jelly?” Though their plots never worked, they never stopped trying to ensnare the global population in some maniacal plot.

Today we have someone much better than Pinky and the Brain. He’s more evil, he’s more cunning, and his plans—though often about global domination—are typically centered around offing his own mother. We have Stewie Griffin.

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