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6	-> ''"Is that dead? Is that dead? Is ''that'' dead?" Yes, you guys. Everything is dead.''
7	--> '''Emily Graslie''', host of the Brain Scoop
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9	Have you ever gone to a museum and seen a stuffed animal on the wall? Have you ever wondered how, exactly, you turn a dead animal into a stuffed one?
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11	Well, Emily Graslie, with the help of some flesh-eating beetles and a creepy stuffed raccoon, is going to show you! Join her for a journey through the magical world of ''museum taxidermy'', to learn about everything from wolf-stomachs to skeleton preparation to, yes, the scooping of brains.
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13	The Brain Scoop is a series of educational [=YouTube=] videos that can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/thebrainscoop here]]. What started out as a series about the collection and preparation of biological specimens at the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum at the University of Montana. However one year into the show, Emily was hired as the first-ever full-time Chief Curiosity Correspondent for Chicago's famous Field Museum of National History. What went from talking about the small scale collections of skeletal and taxidermied remains at the University of Montana has expanded into a look at all fields of natural history with the millions of specimens in the Field Museum's collections and some fieldwork.
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15	Michael Aranda created the theme tune and it is currently produced, edited, and directed by Brandon Brungard since Emily's move to Chicago. Produced by [[Music/HankGreen Hank]] [[WebVideo/VlogBrothers Green]], co-host of WebVideo/CrashCourse and WebVideo/SciShow.
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17	!!Tropes:
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19	* AutopsySnackTime: Emily doesn't eat while dissecting and prepping the specimens, but frequently talks about what she wants to eat or how hungry she is, or compares the texture of the flesh to food like pepperoni slices.
20	* BluntYes: Answer about stuffed animals: "Yes, you guys. Everything is dead."
21	* BreakoutCharacter: Emily first appeared on [=YouTube=] in Music/HankGreen's December 7, 2012 WebVideo/VlogBrothers [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxauNFLyu08 video]] in which Hank visits the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum at the University of Montana. In the video, Emily showed Hank a wide variety of the specimens in the lab. Because of her ease in front of the camera, enthusiasm, and fan comments, Emily was offered her own [=YouTube=] channel.
22	* {{Catchphrase}}:
23	** "It still has brains on it." It comes up at the end of most videos.
24	** When Emily debunks something or otherwise says something that might disappoint the viewer, she'll usually toss out the sad trombone noise.
25	* EdutainmentShow: Part of the WebVideo/VlogBrothers' continued efforts to create an online empire of entertaining and educational [=YouTube=] videos.
26	* HauntedHouse: The Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum ''might'' be haunted by ghosts. Or just a creepy stuffed raccoon.
27	* InappropriateHunger:
28	** Emily has mentioned food or being hungry while dissecting or prepping specimens, most notably comparing a thin slice of frozen dead wolf to pepperoni slices.
29	--> '''Emily:''' "I want pizza."
30	** In "Squirrel [=McNastyface=]", the titular squirrel's head is removed and Emily starts swirling its brain with a brain scoop. Michael remarks that the gelatinous brain matter sticking to the scoop reminds him of when he tries making homemade thousand island dressing.
31	* MeasuringTheMarigolds: ''The Brain Scoop'' makes biology and taxidermy fascinating through Emily Graslie's obvious love for discovering new things. In "Zebra Bits", Emily was helping Anna Goldman prepare some parts of a zebra from a local zoo that had been in a freezer for a few years. Some parts of it were dried out and had begun to decay, emitting a smell which Emily likened to bad hot dogs. So Anna decided to check this for herself and decided the smell was actually that of ''good'' hot dogs.
32	%% * MotorMouth: Emily talks super quickly.
33	* NobodyPoops: According to "Into Peru", traveler's diarrhea and {{Potty Failure}} are just part of fieldwork expeditions.
34	* NoBudget[[invoked]]: Emily started out at the University of Montana's Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum, with a minimal collection of biological and taxidermied specimens until she was told they probably would not have the funds to keep her on as staff. But she was ''scooped'' up by Chicago's Field Museum which has a vastly larger collection and is now their Chief Curiosity Correspondent. What went from Emily gushing over what could be learned about the corpse of a wolf that had died in a car strike is now her learning about all parts of natural history from the specimens collected by world famous taxidermist Carl Akeley to the meteorite and gem collections where she was allowed to wear a piece worth at least a quarter of a million dollars.
35	* NoPeriodsPeriod: Lampshaded. Emily mentions in "Into Peru" that the topic of how women on field expeditions deal with menstruation never comes up.
36	%% * ShipTease: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEBpQgejSI8 Emily Gets a Valentine.]]
37	* ThatsAllFolks: "Yeah, it still has brains on it." This sentence is Emily's sign-off.
38	* VomitIndiscretionShot: Discussed. Emily has said on Q&A segments that if Michael or any of her cinematographers happens to catch her vomiting onscreen, it will make it to the final episode because it ''is'' part of the job sometimes. Michael even said that he awaits the day when Emily vomits out the sides of her mask.
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