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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ChopSockyChooks'', [[BigBad Dr. Wasabi]]'s latest money-making scheme is to open a liposuction clinic that gives clients complementary burgers [[{{Squick}} made with the fat that they just had sucked out of them]. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard He falls into one of the liposuction machines himself]] and his brain gets sucked out, leaving him with the intelligence of an infant.

** An earlier episode had Gumball's brain literally quit on him when he tries educating himself. Gumball is perfectly fine without it, but regardless urges it to stay and work on improving itself with him.

* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons episode “Downward Duck” Daffy who is acting as a yoga guru tells Porky he must clear his mind, which he demonstrates by removing his own brain and cleans it off, then tosses it away, he acts no different than before.

* A lot of stranger animals in the wild don't have brains and instead have nervous systems that do the thinking instead, like Jellyfish. The Xenophyophore is an eight-inch long underwater Amoeba that has a collection of thousands of Nuclei instead of any kind of brain.

** In another episode, Billy is in the future with [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]] centuries after Billy found him in his yard. Fred's brain is promptly eaten by one of two alien overlords, but Fred is fairly indifferent toward it.

** In an even more violent (and extreme) example a different episode has Music/BritneySpears survive a self-inflicted shotgun blast to the head to that leaves her with nothing above her lower jaw. Since her "speech" is now incomprehensible it's difficult to know which type she is, but possibly a Stupid but Aware (she seems too aware of the outside world to be a Vegatable). This was apparently based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken Mike the Headless Chicken]].

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Billy's dad accidentally eats his own tiny brain and is no less stupid than before. He also once had his brain removed during an AlienInvasion and talked differently but was otherwise the same.

** In one episode Timmy drinks a smoothie too fast and get a brain freeze, which Cosmo replies to with "Brain? What is this "brain" you speak of?" and then proceeds to drink the whole smoothie in one slurp. "Nope.. nothing." [[ChekhovsGag Later]], Cosmo and Wanda disguise as smoothies. Cosmo drinks himself in one slurp and still feels nothing.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ChopSockyChooks'', [[BigBad Dr. Wasabi]]'s latest money-making scheme is to open a liposuction clinic that gives clients complementary burgers [[IAteWhat made with the fat that they just had sucked out of them]]. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard He falls into one of the liposuction machines himself]] and his brain gets sucked out, leaving him with the intelligence of an infant.

** Supposedly the first lyric Eminem ever wrote for Slim Shady was "''Slim Shady - brain dead, like Jim Brady]'' [[note]]the Regan staffer who got shot in the head during the failed assassination attempt[[/note]]". He eventually used this lyric in "Just Don't Give A Fuck", along with the line "''clinically brain dead - I don't need a second opinion''".

** In "Rain Man", an absurdist song about Eminem's [[IdiotSavant uselessness at anything other than rapping]], he claims, "I ain't got no legs... or no brain. Nice to meet you, [[ContinuityNod hi! My name is...]] - I forgot my name!"

** Supposedly the first lyric Eminem ever wrote for Slim Shady was "''Slim Shady - brain dead, like Jim Brady]'' [[note]]the Regan staffer who got shot in the head during the failed assassination attempt[[/note]". He eventually used this lyric in "Just Don't Give A Fuck", along with the line "''clinically brain dead - I don't need a second opinion''".

** Supposedly the first lyric Eminem ever wrote for Slim Shady was "''Slim Shady - brain dead, like Jim Brady [[note]]the Regan staffer who got shot in the head during the failed assassination attempt]]''". He eventually used this lyric in "Just Don't Give A Fuck", along with the line "''clinically brain dead - I don't need a second opinion''".

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* Anais from ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' suffers brain damage on account for too much facepalming due to her family's stupidity, leaving her in a vegetable state but can still walk around.

* In the Music/{{Eminem}} song "Brain Damage", a fictionalised version of a real incident in which Eminem ended up in a coma due to being assaulted by his school bully at 10 years old, Slim goes home with severe concussion and acts spaced-out while bleeding from the ear. His mother, [[ConcussionsGetYouHigh assuming he's on drugs]], wallops him over the head with the remote control for "bleeding all over my rug", which causes his whole brain to fall out of his skull and land on the floor. Slim picks it up, cusses out his now apologetic mother, then stitches his own head back up, and [[FrankensteinsMonster puts "a couple of bolts" in his neck]].

** In "Brainless", also an allegory for Eminem's savantism, the inside of Slim's skull is an [[BagOfHolding enormous void]] that he uses "more as a bin for storage". It's filled with a [[RhymingList bunch of random junk]] that [[LeastRhymeableWord rhymes with orange]], but there's no brain present.

[[caption-width-right:229:[[{{Pun}} Una Nemo has an open mind.]]]]

->'''Dr. Cockroach Ph.D.:''' (''about B.O.B'') Forgive him, but as you can see, he has no brain.\\

(''B.O.B. then forgets how to ''breathe)

* In ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' when the villain makes the campers sneeze their brains out, they end up as mindless zombies only able to moan "Teeeee-Veeeeee...." and stumble to the nearest set to start watching. If Raz can find the jars holding the brains, he can return the campers to normal with no ill effects. In ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'' it's a bit closer to a mix of Type 1 and Type 2, as the victim of the de-braining will mumble random phrases related to their job. The Psychonauts see no problem with having the de-brained Nick Johnson return to working in the mailroom while they search for his brain, although he doesn't do it very well.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' when the villain makes the campers sneeze their brains out, they end up as mindless zombies only able to moan "Teeeee-Veeeeee...." and stumble to the nearest set to start watching. If Raz can find the jars holding the brains, he can return the campers to normal with no ill effects.

* Rare "serious" example: the infamous ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekS3E1SpocksBrain "Spock's Brain"]]. [[TitleDrop Spock's brain]] is stolen by aliens who use it as a computer to run their planet's infrastructure. For some reason, his autonomic functions still work, but he is completely unconscious. Kirk has to get the brain back quickly, because Spock's Vulcan physiology is especially dependent on that tremendous brain. (While a brain-dead human could be kept "alive" easily for quite some time.) So that they can restore the brain quickly when they find it, [=McCoy=] rigs up a device that fits on Spock's head and allows his lifeless body to walk around, manipulated by a remote control. [[PlotSensitiveButton With three buttons.]] Music/{{SPOCK}} has made a song called "Mr. Spock's Brain", based on the above episode.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SuicideSquadHellToPay'', [[spoiler:Zoom]] spends most of the movie strolling around with a hole in his head. Justified, as it actually was just as lethal as you'd expect, he just [[spoiler: used the Speed Force to stretch out the fraction of a second before death]], giving the impression that it hasn't effected him.