Pinky and The Brain/Headscratchers


 * In the episode "This Old Mouse," Brain invents a device that allows him to see into the future. He looks and sees himself and Pinky in their old age, still trying to take over the world. Despairing at the realization that he will never succeed in his ambition, he decides to give up on world domination and go out into the world to try something different. Eventually, however, Pinky chases him down in order to warn him that he has looked into the device and seen Brain dying in a freak accident in just a few minutes. Brain, however, refuses to try and save himself, convinced that the future cannot be changed and that he will die no matter what he does. Fair enough, except that... the future has already changed. The first time Brain looked through the goggles he saw himself and Pinky growing old. If the timeline has changed so that he now dies in a few minutes, there's no reason he couldn't change it again and avert his death, and Brain should know that. The only obvious explanation that this troper can come up with is that Brain has a death wish, but somehow I suspect that isn't what the writers intended to imply...
 * It sounds like an "I just can't win" sort of giving-up. "I try to avoid one terrible fate, and lo and behold, this new path leads to my demise. What's the use? Let this new terrible prediction happen."


 * What happened to everything else from Tiny Toon Adventures when they added Elmyra? Something terrible must've happened to Acme Acres between 1994 and 1998 if it meant everybody else vanished.
 * She doesn't live in Acme Acres anymore. She goes to school with other kids instead of cartoon animals. I assume they kicked her out for being an annoying bitch.
 * So why does Elmyra's house look exactly the same as it did in TTA (from the outside, at least)?
 * The house was kicked out of Acme Acres too, for associating with Elmyra.
 * You win.
 * How come Pinky's nose and Brain's nose show as a shade of grey in black and white, but Yakko, Wakko, and Dot's noses show as red even in black and white?
 * In the black and white Pinky and The Brain episode, "The Third Mouse," Pinky and Brain's red noses show up as a shade of grey, but Dot Warner's red nose appears red.
 * Shouldn't all the red-nosed Animaniacs and Pinky and The Brain characters have their noses appear red even in black and white cartoons so it won't be so jarring?
 * In the Animaniacs episode, "The Girl With The Googily Goop," the character who is a parody of Betty Boop has a red nose that shows as red even in black and white.
 * Pinky and Brain are merely cartoon mice. The Warners are... Well....
 * So, did Pinky ever have an actual sister? A mouse one? His whole family seems to easily accept that the empty spool of thread found at the petting zoo is his sister, but the pet store had records of selling a mouse to that zoo.