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This first set of The Brak Show has 14 episodes. There's some confusion over what the intended original play order was, but I'm presenting them as they are on the TVD.

 

1) Goldfish (AKA Leave It To Brak)

Brak wants to go to the Carnival of Feet but has to feed Thundercleese’s goldfish first. He kills the fish and doesn’t know what to do. Thundercleese will kill him if he finds out.

 

-Matt Maiellaro from Aqua Teen Hunger Force appears as Mr. Tickles.

 

2) War Next Door (AKA Gimme A Brak)

Thundercleese is being attacked by cloneborgs. Zorak takes a hit while watching and coughs up Carmine, a strange little creature that has been serving as his voice. Zorak’s real voice is marvelously pleasant and even better when he sings. Even though he sings vile songs the crowds love him. Carmine becomes his manager but stiffs him out of his money. Zorak quits and plots to get his voice back.

 

-Features Jason Bowen as Zorak’s singing voice and Jim Fortier as Notorious Fluffy G.

 

3) Time Machine (AKA Diff’rent Braks)

Brak & Zorak didn’t do their homework so they go back in time to make their old selves do it, except they all four get caught up in playing video games (Head Kicker) instead and have to go back again and again. With an army of themselves standing behind them the mischievous pair decide it’s time for a new plan, destroy homework itself!

 

4) Hippo (AKA The Braks Of Life)

Zorak catches Brak talking to his stuffed lobster and convinces him to give up his friend. Mom gives the heartbroken Brak a new toy, but Dr. Grumbles has a secret.

 

5) Bawkbagawk (AKA B.J. & the Brak)

Zorak & Brak steal the rival high school’s mascot, a chicken. It becomes Brak’s best friend until he is forced to return it. Heartbroken, he laments their parting in song.

 

-This is said by some web sites to be the original pilot, which I can believe because it is very different from the other episodes. It has more of a feel of being filmed before a "live studio audience," and the entrances of the characters seem designed to introduce them for the first time. It features canned laughter to simulate the audience, music from Cartoon Planet, several sets I don’t recall seeing in any other episode, a different corkboard in Brak’s room (this one with his underwear collection rather than the autographs of the 2 Stupid Dogs, the painfully tacked sheep, and the drawings), and a more standard closing credits sequence. It’s as if this episode was filmed then the elements of the show changed and standardized. It actually would have worked better as episode 1 on the collection rather than in the middle.

 

6) Mobab (AKA Laverne & Brak)

Mom and Dad are fighting. In steps Mobab, Zorak’s acquaintance from his new gentleman’s club, who woos Mom at just the right time. She goes with Mobab to make Dad jealous but ends up kidnapped instead. Now it’s up to Brak and Dad to go save her.

 

7) Expiration Day (AKA Brak’s My Momma)

Thundercleese is considered obsolete on his birthday. His weapons systems are disabled by his creator, and life becomes unlivable for him. Brak and Dad appeal to his creator, Slappy, to reinstate him so that he can save the planet from an oncoming asteroid. Slappy believes one of his new, compact models will do a better job, but comes to realize that nothing can match the power of Thundercleese!

 

-If I can be geeky for a moment, this episode aired on my birthday suggesting Thundercleese and I share it.

 

8) Psychoklahoma (AKA Father Knows Brak)

Dad and Brak love the show Senor Science, though for different reasons. Brak wants to buy a special science product from the show but doesn’t have the money. He decides to put on a play to raise the cash enlisting all his friends and family. The play is a musical combination of Oklahoma and Psycho.

 

-This is sure to be a classic episode. Be sure to go through the Senor Science credits frame by frame, there’s some funny stuff including a Star Wars reference. Incidentally they misspelled Megadeth.

 

9) The Eye (AKA Petticoat Brak)

Dad, it turns out, is a champion at staring contests. Brak wants to learn to be as good, but he falls victim to Dad’s trickery. Zorak tries his luck but ends up in the hospital. Then Dad’s nemesis shows up for a challenge.

 

10) Poppy

Brak’s dead grandfather narrates this tale of Brak trying to get a woman. Having no luck he turns to Zorak then Dad. His parents give him an item his grandfather left for him before dying. Then the spirit of Poppy begins coaching the still clueless Brak. Brak is just too innocent to go after the girls like everyone wants him to.

 

-This is perhaps one of the most nonsensical episodes so far which is not to say it isn’t funny. It is also the first one to not have a title card that parodies another famous title. I don’t know why they quit doing that, I loved it.

 

11) Bully

Zorak sets up a bully booth for beatings and easy lunch money depositing, but he’s overthrown by Roy “Butch” Toughington. He’s so afraid of Butch that he moves into Brak’s room – takes over it is more like it. Mom wants Zorak out of her house so she sets out to rid the schoolyard of Butch.

 

12) Mother Did You Move My Chair

Dad is upset because someone has moved his chair. It’s barely noticeable, but you would think it’s been bolted to the floor in a torture device. Brak, meanwhile, doesn’t want to dissect a clam in Biology class. He appeals to the stars above to help him escape the dilemma, but the clam, Luther, proves to be resourceful on his own.

 

-Jon Kohler appears as Wunderburd.

 

13) President Dad

Dad is tired of the Neighborhood Association pushing him around, making him do such heinous things as wearing pants outside! Dad decides to overthrow the regime by running for president but resorts to slander to win. Brak gets worried when he learns the current president is a viscous monster that will likely devour the planet if he loses the election.

 

14) Pepper

An alien ship is coming to choose a “lucky one.” Dad is certain they will pick him and make him king. Zorak, meanwhile, falls for an unusual alien with an interesting secret.

 

-There is a rumor that this episode was originally voiced by Mom replacement Joanna Daniel and was redone by Crenshaw. If it sounds different to you that may be why. 

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