Yakko hosts and Dr. Scratchansniff announces for a parody of the classic Groucho Marx game/talk show "You Bet Your Life" in front of stock footage of a live-action audience. The contestants are Mrs. Myra Puntridge and Aristotle. The secret word is "Yes", and if you say it, Wakko smashes you on the head with a mallet.
This cartoon is based on a true story. When Sherri Stoner moved to a new neighborhood, she threw away her Diet Coke can into another neighbor's bin, but her neighbor asked Sherri to use her own bin.
The Dance of the Reed Flutes is recurring BGM in this cartoon.
The game show that Candie appears on is a parody of Let's Make a Deal. The Warners make a cameo and do their "Hello, Nurse!" routine.
At one point, Candie types endlessly on a typewriter "All work and no cans make Candie a dull chipmunk," a parody of the "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" scene from the film The Shining.
Skippy says his catchphrase, "Spew!" for the first time.
Some dubs (such as the 2003 Russian dub) use the TMS version of the Slappy intro.
An airing of the episode on 9G! in Australia used the TMS version of the intro.
When she first meets Candie, Slappy says, "Allen Funt is a dead man!" In other words, she briefly believes that she is on Candid Camera, the prank show hosted by Funt.
The game show is hosted by Blink Winkleman, a semi-recurring character from Tiny Toon Adventures and it is also a parody of the game show Let's Make a Deal.
Each time Candie gets the can back, a five-note melody entitled "You're a Horse's Ass" can be heard. This melody is best remembered as the opening music for the Private Snafu shorts during WWII.
Quotes
Slappy: [about Candie] She reminds me of a very young Wilma Flintstone.
This cartoon marks the first appearance of Phar Fignewton.
This cartoon also marks the first time Brain competes in a sport. The Pinky and The Brain spin-off features a number of episodes in which Brain, and sometimes Pinky, would play in a professional sport as part of their plan for world domination.
When Pinky is knocked off a horse, he dizzily says, "There's baloney in our slacks..." one of the lines of the theme song.
The shot of Pinky running on the globe would later be used in the title sequence for the Pinky and the Brain spin-off.
When luring the jockey for Daddy's Little Angel away, Brain poses as Ed McMahon for "Publishers Smearing House." The real McMahon would later guest-star as himself in the Pinky and the Brain cartoon "The Pinky and the Brain Reunion Special."
While most regions use the Wang version of the intro in this episode, the 2003 Russian dub has the TMS lyrics dubbed over the Wang version.
The blueprints for Brain's plan would later be used as the background picture for the spin-off's credits sequence, as well as a printed detail on the 2017 Pinky and the Brain Q-Fig.
The names of the horses are Flamiel (a nod to Mrs. Flamiel and one of Mr. Director's catchphrases), Leggo-my-Egoiste (another dual reference, this time to the slogan to Eggo Waffles and the Egoiste calogne), and Isle of Yap (a callback to one of the Gyp-Parody questions from Win Big.)
This is also the first episode where Pinky correctly guesses what he and Brain are going to do tomorrow night.
The original blueprints from the episode
The background painting used in the credits of the Pinky and the Brain spin-off series
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Quotes
The Brain: Tomorrow is the running of the Kentucky Derby. Do you know what that is?
Pinky: Um, a very large hat?
The Brian: Promise me something, Pinky, never breed.
When this episode was on Netflix, "You Risk Your Life" and the theme song were missing. The episode began with the normal WB logo opening and jumped right to Slappy's intro.
Soundtrack
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, 1st Movement (Morning) by Edvard Grieg
Jingle Bells by James Pierpont
Deck the Halls
Frühlingslied (Spring Song) by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Rock-a-Bye Baby by Effie I. Canning
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Light Cavalry Overture by Franz von Suppé
The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money) by Harry Warren