Brain Food: Difference between revisions

''We're not unreasonable, I mean, no-one's gonna eat your eyes"''|'''[[Jonathan Coulton]]''', "Re: Your Brains"}}

* Mbwun from ''[[The Relic]]''. Human brains aren't its first choice, though, it prefers to eat the plants from the Amazon used as packing material in some specimen crates (which have much higher concentrations of the hormones and such it needs). The events of the novel happen because the crates are moved to a more secure area of the basement after a curator notices they've been broken into, forcing it to search for alternatives (read: brains).

* The zombies in Ryan Mecum's ''Zombie Haiku'' eat brains. One of the haiku is:

''brains brains brains brains brains.'' }}

* One of the short stories in the book ''My Zombie Valentine'' focuses on a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] originating on the set of a zombie apocalypse film. The [[Alpha Bitch]] seems to be immune to zombie attack, and they speculate that she doesn't have any brains. However, it turns out that she's wearing a perfume that repels zombies.

*** There is also a suggestion that Sylar's original power was in being able to understand how things worked, which implies that he might merely need to take the brains out to study them and somehow make the required changes to his own brain. How he would do that is another matter entirely...

*** This is actually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the first episode of Season 3: {{spoiler|we cut back to Sylar and Claire after last having seen Sylar cutting the top off of Claire's head, and he is indeed doing something - poking at Claire's brain, occasionally stopping as though examining something. Claire asks, "Aren't you going to eat it?" His response?}}

*** Does it really matter what he does with the brain? He's still ripping it out of your skull!

* In the ''[[Angel]]'' episode "Bachelor Party", a demon tries to eat Doyle's brain so that his family will let him marry Doyle's ex-wife.

* When Data has nightmares in a ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode, one of his visions is of Dr. Crusher drinking from Riker's head through a straw. It's unclear if she's supposed to be drinking his blood, cerebrospinal fluid, or (liquified) brains.

* [[Played for Laughs|Invoked]] on the "Bottle Bash" episode of [[Myth Busters]], in which Adam speaks to a Jello-brain: "You remember when I hit your head with a beer bottle?" (eats spoonful of Jello out of the brain) "No you don't!"

** "he has the voice of a zombie-angel"

** It turns out Zombie Boy is in fact capable of regular speech.

Zombie Boy: Oh gee, let me think. [[No Fourth Wall|Maybe it's because it's in the F[bleep]ing script!]] }}

** Similarly, [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer Simpson]] was [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth|immune to a zombie attack]].

*** Also when Lisa tricked Bart and Homer into thinking they had caught leprosy, they shambled to the home of their smart neighbour for his help:

'''Homer:''' Use your brains to help us! Your delicious brains... }}

* A brain-sucking alien on ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]''. Billy (of course) was found inedible, so was recruited to bring it food. Bringing it Mandy was a mistake.

** And then there was Billy's pet chupacabra...

'''Mandy:''' Poor thing's gonna starve. }}

* Parodied and subverted in ''[[My Gym Partner's a Monkey|My Gym Partners a Monkey]]'' episode "That Darn Platypus", where a new platypus student keeps rubbing into everyone's faces that he is an alien. Adam refuses to believe this, but the animals have reason to believe from various signs, such as when he keeps mentioning he enjoys brain juice. Turns out it was just a nutritional fruit juice. And then got inverted towards the end where it is implied that it really is made from brains.