Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche, 2013

My cousin Cheryl wrote yesterday: On the Seattle news this morning they interviewed 2 “Pinky & the Brain” cast members.  The two gentlemen that did voices for “Pinky” and “The Brain” are in Seattle for the Emerald City Comicon Convention.  Pinky & the Brain lives on…

I am so out of the pop culture loop that I didn’t even have an inkling that there was an Emerald City Comicon and this, apparently, is Year 15!  On the other hand, I do know that Rob Paulsen and Maurice ‘Moe’ LaMarche were the voices of Pinky and the Brain.  I have even met them – long ago at a party Charlie gave (in my honor, as I recall.)  It was back in the nineties, probably during the time the television series was running (1995-1998) and gathering Emmy awards right and left.  Charlie was the lead writer on the series and had invited cast members and other friends to a sort of “Come Meet My Mom” party.

Pinky and the Brain at Comicon 2007

And I do know what a Comicon Convention is.  Sort of.  My sketchy knowledge comes from yet another zany television show, “The Big Bang Theory.”  It’s about the only sitcom we watch regularly and the protagonists’ travails in attending the various Comicon Conventions – mostly in Southern California – make up the sum total of my Comicon knowledge.  Still… knowing that Pinky and the Brain are in attendance in Seattle this very weekend makes me feel closer to the entire phenomena.  In fact, I can’t help but wonder if Sheldon, Leonard, Raj, and Howard are in attendance, too.

One of the years that Charlie won an Emmy for his script writing on the show, the awards took place in New York.  Most of the Pinky and the Brain cast were there, also receiving awards, and Charlie’s uncle and aunt, Jim and Joy Howell, hosted a cocktail party for them in their SoHo flat.  Joy told me that she served mostly cheese.  “They’re mice, right?” she laughed.

Too bad Seattle is so far from Oysterville.  Too bad Charlie isn’t at the Emerald City Comicon, too.  We’d host a party for Pinky and the Brain in a New York minute, as they say!  Narf!