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[[File:Button Mash brain freeze.png|link=Button's Adventures|308px|thumbnail|This is why having a "Milkshake Race" is a bad idea.]]
Characters eating cold food or drinks too fast will get a "Brain Freeze". Almost universally a [[Comedy Trope]]. '''Brain Freeze''' will be treated as the most searing pain imaginable. Expect to see rivers of tears, screams of anguish, and the victim frantically clutching his head in agony.
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* On ''[[Cheers]]'', Frasier can't get Norm to understand what a stress headache is until he compares it to eating ice-cream too fast.
* On ''[[Step by Step]]'', Cody gets a brain freeze, so (someone... Dana, possibly) advises him not to (consume his frozen foodstuff) so fast. Cody remarks that he wouldn't get the brain freeze if he stopped. Apparently, [[Too Kinky to Torture|this is a desirable condition for him]].
* ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]'': In "Field of Pete", the brain-freezing power of the Orange Lazarus slushy incapacitates anyone who drinks it. The legendary drink has since spawned a [https://web.archive.org/web/20091102022154/http://peteandpete.isourgod.com/ Pete and Pete fanlisting], [http://www.youtube.com/user/OrangeLazarusComedy an improv group], and [http://www.myspace.com/therealorangelazarus a band].
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== Stand-Up Comedy ==
* When Steve Geyer was young, the kids called them "Slurpee Tumors".
== Toys ==
* in 2004, [[Milton Bradley]] had a sweepstakes called "What's Ailing Sam?" where fans could vote on what new ailment to give Sam for the game ''[[Operation]]'', and gain a chance to win a $5,000 shopping spree. The choices were "Growling Stomach", "Tennis Elbow", and "Brain Freeze". Brain Freeze won.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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{{quote|'''Beast Boy:''' ''Hey, check it out! [flash-freezes The Brain] Brain freeze!''}}
* Taken [[Up to Eleven]] during a [[Manatee Gag]] in ''[[Family Guy]]'', where Peter's head [[Your Head Asplode|explodes]] after eating an entire ice cream popsicle in a single bite.
* Numbuh One from ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' never got a brain freeze. This is a plot point in one episode, as Professor
* ''[[The Weekenders]]'' use this as a way to "draw straws"... they all start drinking their Slushees at the same time, and whoever stops first due to brain freeze, loses.
* In one episode of ''[[Bill and Ted|Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures]]'', the lads experience a synchronized brain freeze after meeting their own challenge to drink very large Slurpee analogues in an inadvisedly short period of time. This is portrayed as a harsh guitar riff and [[Screen Shake]] as they cry out in brief agony.
* Happened to ''[[Earthworm Jim (animation)|Earthworm Jim]]'' at one point - particularly bad, since earthworms have ''four'' brains, and they all froze at once.
* ''[[The Fairly
* One episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had the church hold an ice cream social, complete with a brain freeze clinic. Cut to a severely-affected Nelson getting an oral hot fudge injection.
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', Jimmy gets this by...shoving ice cream onto his head.
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