Brain Bleach - Television Tropes & Idioms

Apply directly to the cortex.

"Pardon me. I've got to go poke out my mind's eye."

— Frasier, "The Ring Cycle"

"Now I have to wash my brain out with soap"

— ((Trixie)), "Lazy Town"

A character has just witnessed something so icky, so unsettling, that he must express his disapproval. This Is Wrong On So Many Levels that a simple "That's gross," won't suffice: Only Brain Bleach can make things right.

The character informs the world that the continued knowledge of this subject is an unbearable affront to his sanity. He will not be at peace until he can remove his brain from their skull, scrub the offending mental image out with steel wool and mental floss, then disinfect the entire area with bleach. (Disinfecting his eyes or ears with fire is optional.)

In other sporking / MS Ting / mocking community, there exists an offspring named Bleeprin which is a mixture of industrial-strength Brain Bleach and Aspirin - Aspirin against the headache, Brain Bleach against the Badfic. Also Bleepka, which combines Brain Bleach and vodka. Its application is obvious.

Compare with Out Damned Spot, where characters try to scrub away their guilt.

For those subjects that make you, the audience, want to reach for the Brain Bleach, see Squick, Power Perversion Potential, Shapeshifting Squick, Gorn, Rule Thirty Four, So Bad Its Horrible, Nausea Fuel, Nightmare Fuel, and High Octane Nightmare Fuel. Some Ships can require Brain Bleach as well, especially Crack Pairings.

Examples

Comic Books

Spider Man goes to shower after seeing J. Jonah Jameson Sr. in his bed with his Aunt May.
Peter:: Must...Wash...Brain...
After having her suit stolen by... A less-than-attractive guy... Empowered's thought bubbles read as follows:
"Image... scarred into... forebrain... Scarred..."

Anime and Manga

After the reveal of 'The Event' in episode 10 of Kamen No Maid Guy, God goes for the Brain Bleach and smothers the entire scene in heavy downpour, presumably to wash away the memories of having ever seen it.
In One Piece, most of the male crewmembers suppressed their memories of seeing Kokoro in her mermaid form.

Literature

In Breaking Dawn after Jacob sees Bella apparently dead after giving birth he contemplates literally bleaching his brain to remove the image from his mind, deciding the potential for brain damage didn't outweigh his desire to forget everything.
In a Star Trek: New Frontier novel, after Calhoun and the bridge crew have been informed by a sentient computer that a level 3 diagnostic is like a head to toe gynecological exam, Soleta raises her hand and asks the captain for permission to forget she just heard that.
Done heartbreakingly in the Revenge Of The Sith novelisation, where Obi-Wan wishes he could tear his eyes out after seeing Anakin's Face Heel Turn.

Live Action TV

The page header quote, from Frasier, is his reaction to his brother mentioning he's only packing sunscreen for his honeymoon.
- Frasier makes many statements like this in the series. Another example:
  Roz: Gosh, mine was this lifeguard. He had long blond hair and the bluest eyes. He used to get so sunburned, I'd spend hours just peeling the skin off his back. What was his name? Rick? Nick! I know there was an "ick" sound.
  Frasier: I was about to make one of those myself.
- Roz's Turn:
  Roz: Big news. Gertie Oldson is leaving the station.
  Daphne: What, from "Gertie's Grab Bag"? I love that show.
  Frasier: Oh please, that homily-spouting Hausfrau? It's the most embarrassing thing on the air. So, she finally got canned, eh?
  Roz: No, she got a million-dollar TV deal.
  Frasier: (chokes on his sherry, then mock-calmly mutters) Well, good news for Gertie and for the many atheists who will welcome this new proof of their theory!
- The Wizard and Roz:
  Frasier: (after seeing his mentor Dr. Tewksbury wearing only Roz's robe): I've gone blind. And ten seconds too late.
- Slow Tango in South Seattle:
  Frasier (reading the opening of Roz's new favorite romance novel): "There are tangos that come flowing from the wine-colored seas, from the rust of a hundred sunken ships. This is one of those dances."
  Roz: Well?
  Frasier: There are books that make your stomach lurch, and rumble, and thrust your lunch ever upwards. This is one of those books!
Cheers: Diane reacts to Coach's daughter Lisa's fiance's ideal sport: "all-nude full-contact female kickboxing":
Diane: Excuse me, I have to go floss my brain.
On Friends, the Central Perk manager hates Phoebe's singing so much it makes him want to "push my finger through my eye, into my brain, and swirl it around."
- In the episode where Joey gets a gig as a butt double, he goes into Monica's bathroom to put lotion on his rear end in preparation for the "part". Chandler comes in with the phone in his hand:
  Chandler: Where's Joey? His mom's on the phone.
  Monica: In the bathroom. I don't think you wanna go in there right now!
  Chandler: Oh come on, we're roommates. [enters bathroom, runs out screaming] GAAAAAAH! MY EYES! MY EYES!

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is rife with aghast reactions to events on the screen. Examples include:
- Eegah!
  Tom: I'm being punished for something, I know it. What did I do? I DIDN'T ASK TO SEE THIS MOVIE!
- I Was a Teenage Werewolf
  Crow: Mike, I'm going to ask you to kill me now: "Mike, please kill me."
- Manos The Hands Of Fate
  Crow How can we make a sketch when we have to watch... uh... uh... uh... MANOS! THE HANDS OF FATE...
- Hobgoblins
  Tom: Mike, if I run out of vomit can I have some of yours?
- Invasion Of The Neptune Men
  Mike: To be dead... To watch 'Neptune Men' no more...
- Monster A Go Go
  Crow There was no DIGNITY, for ANYONE who worked on this film!
- "Robot Rumpus", a Gumby cartoon short preceding The Screaming Skull
  Crow: Now I need years of powerful Adlerian therapy.
- Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues..., and the reaction to the farmer's poo-stained trousers, ending with Tom's panting.
- And in The Undead, Servo sadistically shares something about Crusty Gravedigger Smolkin.
  Servo: Smolkin's naked sometimes, Mike.
  Mike: (cringing) Damn you, Servo!
- There's also Mike and the 'Bots' cries of horror whenever the camera pans down during Prince Of Space, revealing that the Chicken-Men of Krankor are going commando.
- And during the sex scene between Linda Evans (yay!) and Joe Don Baker (oh sweet merciful Bahamut) in Mitchell:
  Joel: BABY OIL?! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
  Hoyt Axton: (singing the background music) My, my, my, my, Mitchell...
  Crow: My, my, my, MY GOD!!! NOOOOOOO!!!
In Supernatural, Sam catches Dean having a threesome in a motel room. Back in the Impala, he asks Dean for his knife. "... So I can GOUGE OUT my EYES!"
CSI gives a rather chilling instance of this in Season 3, Episode 2 (The Accused is Entitled), when the killer was so disgusted by the fact that the "woman" he slept with was a man, he killed him in a violent rage
- There was another episode, Two and A Half Deaths, wherein a man accidentally sees a man and a woman get down to business in front of him (he was hiding in a closet with wooden-slat doors).
  "Some things, once you see 'em, you can't unsee."
NCIS had an episode (don't remember which) where Tony asked to see the body. Ducky obliged. Tony realized it wasn't so great.
Tony: Is there a way you can psychologically unsee something?
There aren't enough handywipes in the world to clean Monk's brain after reading the innuendo-filled memoirs of an actress from the only TV show he ever watched as a kid. A certain page is so disgusting his assistant rips it out before he can read it and at the end Monk returns the book, the page replaced with a page from Charles Dickens.
In Hannah Montana, after finding out that the reason Oliver calls Lily "Lilypop" is because he liked her even when she had a pimple, Miley replies, "I could have lived my whole life without knowing that."
A 2004 episode of Saturday Night Live featured Lindsay Lohan in a Harry Potter sketch. Lohan played Hermione, who had obviously "blossomed" over the summer away from Hogwarts, which Hagrid notices, to his chagrin:
Hagrid: [to Hermione] Hello, who are you?
Hermione: Hagrid, it's Hermione.
Hagrid: [eyes widen] Yikes. What happened? Take it out of my brain, take it out! Doot-doot-doot-doot-doot! Okay, well, all right, I'd better go out to the woods and tame my dragon.
Harry: Ah, you got a new pet?
Hagrid: [pause] Nope.

Film

One of most famous, and oft-referenced, examples is from Hardcore, when Jake Van Dorn (George C. Scott) sees his own daughter doing porn on the screen in front of him.
Jake: Turn it off, TURN IT OFF, TURN IT OFF!
In Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Ace reacts to the realization that a woman who he was sexually attracted to used to be a man by vomiting his entire stomach's contents into the toilet (using a plunger on his face), burning his clothes and then scrubbing himself down in the shower while sobbing.
- The next scene, he's in his car, chewing a whole package of Big Red gum.
  - "Your gun is sticking into my thigh. Eyuh!"
  - "It wasn't a gun! IT WASN'T A GUN!"
Taken to its Cronenbergian conclusion by Darryl Revok in Scanners, who drilled a hole in his forehead to let out all the voices. The scar becomes his Red Right Hand.
- This is homaged in the second X Men movie, where Brian Cox's character reveals that his wife drilled a hole in her temple to let out some different voices. Unlike Revok, she died.
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is about what it would be like if Brain Bleach really existed.
The neuralyzers in Men In Black, while normally used to brain bleach others, can also be used on yourself; ie.
K: I've just been down the gullet of an interstellar cockroach. That's one of a hundred memories I don't want.

Mythology

In Classical Mythology, when Oedipus learned that he had murdered the King on the road before marrying the Queen, oh, and also that they're his mom and dad, which means his kids are the product of incest, he literally gouged out his own eyes in horror on finding her dead by her own hand (using the pin used to secure his cloak, no less), and then went Walking The Earth to atone for what he had done, making this Older Than Dirt.
There's also nepenthe, which really is Brain Bleach
This is the express purpose of the waters of the river Lethe - to utterly remove one's memories of his or her past life.
At the siege of Thebes, Athena is just about to bring Tydeus immortality, when she finds him chewing on the brains of the guy he just killed. Before she can go back home, she has to scrub her brain out with a ceremonial fire of purification and water from a special river. Needless to say, no immortality for you, Tydeus.
What is it with the Greeks?
- Considering how the Minotaur was conceived, it's small wonder that the water of Lethe was needed now and then.

Video Games

Early in Sam And Max: Culture Shock, Jimmy Two-Teeth the rat steals the duo's phone. When they catch him and make him return it, he vomits it up. Sam's reaction is a stunned "Oh, for the love 'a - I wish I could unsee that!"
- Speaking of Sam And Max, in one of their comic book adventures, Max, in the previous panel having been unarmed, is suddenly waving around a rather large firearm. Sam asks, "Where did you have that thing hidden, li'l buddy?" Max's response exemplifies this trope: "None of your damn business."
Tales of Monkey Island, Episode 1: Guybrush Threepwood goes to open a cabinet, which the Voodoo Lady yells for him not to open. He asks her what's in it, and she replies, "My unmentionables." Guybrush shudders, and the cabinet from then on is named "The Scariest Cabinet In the World."
Final Fantasy Tactics A 2 has a medicine called Lethean Draught that wipes the memories of those who imbibe it. Everyone who has taken some has wanted some nasty memory removed - in other words, the stuff is literal Brain Bleach. Maquis is an example of what happens when you drink too much.

Webcomics

In Something Positive it's caused by low-end strippers and "the horror that is roleplaying geeks" ("take me home so i can claw my eyes out in privacy, please" and "I wash and I wash, but I can still feel their stares on my skin") respectively.
Schlock Mercenary has Ennesby's "weapons-grade vocabulary" and the memorable response:
"My stomach is in my throat now. It's trying to spit acid on the parts of my brain that remember reading his message."
- Schlock Mercenary also had the incident during the cloning of General Hugo Matsui Xinchub in an effort to be paid five times for one job. Clones are grown in slime-filled People Jars and do not have clothing. This frequently elicits minor comments of disgust when main characters are being partially cloned as an extreme medical measure - but Xinchub is morbidly obese, to boot.
  Kevyn: "If I get drunk right now I might be able to shut down my long-term memory before the next write transaction."
- Der Trihs, staring into his (iced) drink after learning adult kreelies had been mating in the freezer:
"I need a tall glass of bleach right now."
Order Of The Stick has Roy's reaction to hearing what Belkar wanted to do to his gender-flipped self:
Roy: Excuse me, I need to soak my brain in acid now. ...Maybe my ears, too.
- This has lead to brain acid being a common commodity on the Oot S forum. Most notably, the Shipping section.
- On a related note, Belkar himself has a tendency to go blind, or at least wish aloud that he'd done so, when he sees other male characters naked.
In Gunnerkrigg Court, Kat tries to be polite upon meeting Ketrak, the psychopomp of insects, but as soon as he's gone, she declares:
Kat: Ugh! I need new eyes and a new brain!
- Not to mention the crazed laughing fit just before that as her brain breaks.
In Casstoons, this is Robin's reaction after Starfire shares with him the details of just how she cheered up the eternally depressed Nightwing:
Robin: I don't care if trepanning is no longer considered a valid medical procedure. I need you to cut a hole in my skull and pour in this bleach.
This strip of Loserz.
Freefall: When a security guard saw Helix's topiary rendition of Sam as a reclining nude, he had to be physically restrained: "My eyes! I have to pull out my eyes! If I don't I might see it again! I have to pull out my eyes!"
8-Bit Theater: When the Light Warriors learn of Bahamut and Matoya's relationship. And that the quest item they had just fetched for Bahamut was actually the last ingredient for a virility drug.
Black Mage: I'm going to throw up now. On the off chance that there's a kind and loving God, I will choke on my own vomit. Do not help. [after vomiting for several panels] Oh God, I'm ejecting things I haven't eaten yet.
[a few pages later]
Black Mage: Right now, I'd be happy with the power to stab out my mind's eye.
Red Mage: Can we get a full round of that?
- In a later scene, Thief is unimpressed with a so-called dark, mysterious woods the party has entered, and makes an aside remark about having seen "darker wood in Elf porn." It's enough to make Black Mage projectile-vomit in the background. His analogy certainly didn't help matters...or the readers' sanity...
  Black Mage: Man, and I didn't lose it when I caught sight of an elder god defecating.
  Fighter: (looking down) You got some of it on my shoes.
  Black Mage: It shat out advertising executives. They're the bowel obstruction that killed the old universe.
- Also seems to happen to Black Mage most of the time Red Mage proposes a plan, especially if it involves "animal husbandry".
Characters in Umlaut House do it from time to time. Given that most of them have quite a few implants in their brains, this is apparently a pretty trivial thing for them to do.
Mark from Sexy Losers plaintive cry (brought on by the antics of his room mate and his room mate's sister) of "I don't want my eyes anymore!".
- In one guest comic, he goes for a more "realistic" solution when his roommate uses him as masturbation fodder - incredible amounts of cocaine.
VG Cats: when Aeris saw "Democrat Dance Revolution" game intro.
Aeris: Sweet holy hell! Someone gouge out my eyes<
RPG World: #284, "Really Evil Costume":
Evil Soldier #???: AAAGH! The goggles! They do nothing!
Evil Soldier #565: Okay, I'm going to go dump chemically potent cleaning solutions into my eyes now. Join me if the mood arises.
Dan And Mabs Furry Adventures: More times than can be mentioned. Practiclly a Running Gag
Questionable Content: Everything is ruined forever!
- Made all the more funny when eventually, it did happen.
  - And then commemorated in a shirt.
- There's also Jimbo's, erm, wallet picture. "Now I DO need a drink. To throw into my EYES."
  - Jeph of QC also likes to write Twitter accounts for his characters. If you have not read their Twitters, do yourself a favor: Have at least two gallons of brain bleach nearby if you take a look at Pintsize's. You WILL need it.
Last Res0rt lampshades it in the middle of Jigsaw's panic attack after she picks up some apparent thoughts from Jason Spades and Alice Quinn enjoying their newfound 'alliance'.
Cypress: Doing any better down there?
Jigsaw: (weakly) My brain wants bleach please...
This page of The Last Days Of Foxhound.
Full Frontal Nerdity gave us a number of unpleasant mental images, including mind flayers and lizardmen reproducing. Considering that mind flayers are betentacled Eldritch Abominations, the screams of "THIS IS WORSE THAN HENTAI!" and "MUST DUMP CLOROX IN EARS!" seem entirely justified.
This strip of Ctrl Alt Del.
- And this one.
The majority of Polk Out strips.
These two Wapsi Square strips.
In the Webcomic Nip and Tuck, after being shown a picture of previous Pop's Girls, Nip asks about the fox cutie, stating that she was hot. Pop responds that that is Nip's mom. He then asks his brother to take a toilet brush and run it through his brain a few times.
Happens quite a few times in Sluggy Freelance most famously when Torg announces "I just got a magic flap installed!" and some other characters are heard making comments like "It's a little snug for me, but I did play with it a bit!" Later, at the bar:
Riff: Whisky double straight up.
Bun-Bun: Alfalfa margarita, hold the alfalfa.
(Gulp!)
Riff: It's that he came back from the doctor's with that announcement that freaks-
Bun-Bun: Never speak of it again.
- The full Nightmare Fuel potential is explored here.
- Also try checking out Aylee explaining about feminine things.
Referenced in this autobiographical example from The KAMics

Web Original

Near the end of Inventing Swear Words 2, there is a particularly ugly female tauren in a bikini, prompting possibly the best reaction to Squick ever;

Ten seconds (or so) of screaming

Oxhorn: It's horrible!

Staghorn: Oh god, why?

Oxhorn: I can't see! I'm blind!

Staghorn: Never will I be able to love another woman again!

Oxhorn: Beat the images out of my eyes!

Staghorn: We gotta run! RUN!

Oxhorn: RETREAT TO THUNDER BLUFF!

They retreat to Thunder Bluff, shouting various things like "Run like your mama!"

Gaara's response to Rock Lee and Guy's student-teacher bonding in Naruto The Abridged Series: "Wow. I think I'm gonna need mind soap."

And Team seven When Gai came out of the scroll "Oh God wHy! "My Eyes!" "Jesus Crist someone gouge out my eyes!

AH Dot Com The Series' equivalent is characters crying out for "THE FORKS<" which, it is implied, are jabbed into the eye and then into the brain in an attempt to cut out the memories.
- Porn-writing classes at Official Fanfiction University courses tend to have that effect as well.
Homestar Runner and Strong Bad are bemoaning the fact that The Cheat and Marzipan are going on a date.
Homestar Runner: Mainly, I just want to keep 'em from making out.
Strong Bad: Ewww! The disgust! It won't wash off!
The '''FundayPawpetShow''', a live online puppet show that runs for 4 hours every Sunday night (7pm-11pm Eastern), has the Pink Flamingo Challenge... where visiting guests' reactions are filmed as they watch the last 5 minutes of the Divine movie "Pink Flamingos." Do NOT ask what they see.... but they get bonus points if they can eat anything chocolate while watching without gagging.
Protectors Of The Plot Continuum features Bleeprin, a mixture of bleach and aspirin, and Bleepka, which is Bleeprin in vodka, which are taken to purge the memory of bad fanfic. The agents go through a lot of them.
- In the Official Fanfiction University of Redwall, several boys unfortunate enough to be in the bathroom with a student who had chosen a lizard fursona fled screaming and demanding brain bleach when he showed off part of his transformation by which he was impressed. Lizards have hemipenes. Look that word up and find some brain bleach for yourself.
  - And if the lizards didn't scare you enough, consider: there are people in the extreme body mod community who have actually done this.
Film Brain is temporarily undone when he sees a dog's nightmare of a cat holding scissors
The original Hamster Dance did this to many people - it was even turned into a commercial to show how truly disturbing and annoying the site really was.
Obligatory Whateley Universe example: Jericho's clothing. Jericho is a (sort of) blind deviser who deliberately wears clothing so horrible that people - mutant superpowered people - flee in terror. He hangs with a guy who looks like a humanoid velociraptor, a girl who looks like a naga, monster-girl twins who cast a fear aura, and it's his clothing choices that upset nearby people.

Western Animation

Similar to the Real Life example above, in a recent episode of Family Guy, Brian showed Stewie 2 Girls 1 Cup. His reaction is marvellous.
- "Oh, I'm never gonna be able to eat ice cream aga-OH MY GOD<"
- "Can you imagine if two GUYS did that!? Let's Google it and see what comes up!"
Venture Bros: During the trial of the Monarch, the judge wants the Monarch's comments about Phantom Limb "pounding his invisible meat" stricken from the record AND his memory.
Following a particularly unpleasant "Tale of Interest" on Futurama the announcer informs us, "You watched it, you can't un-watch it!"
Used in one episode of The Simpsons. Homer is hired by Mr. Burns to help him write an important speech. Due to the fact that at the time he was hired, Homer had been using medical marijuana and found everything funny. Since he was clean now, and no longer found Burns funny, Marge suggests Homer picture Mr. Burns naked, resulting in him screaming. Trying to make the situation better, she then changes it to picturing him in a funny hat. This idea is worse, causing Homer to curl up in a ball shuddering.
- Also in the episode "Tales From the Public Domain" in The Simpsons, Disco Stu reveals he's not a suitor for Marge, but for Bart. Bart shudders in disgust.
  - And don't forget Aunt Patty declaring herself a lesbian ("There goes the last lingering thread of my heterosexuality!") after seeing Homer run naked through the kitchen on the "Treehouse of Horror" segment, "Clown Without Pity."
One instance in American Dad involves his boss, his (college age) daughter, and kills his appetite.
Stan: Oh, come on! [Bullock] rode me like an animal for three hours! Do you have any idea what that's like?!
(Hayley folds her arms and cocks an eyebrow at her father.)
Stan: (discards restaurant menu) And now I'm not hungry.
King Of The Hill. Hank goes hysterically blind after seeing his elderly mother completely nude and making love to an elderly man - with wrinkled flesh galore.
The Simpsons - the police charge into Comic Book Guy's place and see him and Mrs. Skinner having sex - Lou promptly vomits at the sight, and Chief Wiggum reassures him "It's okay, you wouldn't be human if you didn't react like that."

Other

During the Rifftrax of The Phantom Menace, Kevin Murphy becomes so disgusted by Jar Jar Binks, his sole response to Jar Jar's speech is to continually vomit. For 5 minutes.
Someone on You Tube had posted the entire collection of transformations from the Japanese live-action version, "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon". Another You Tube user remarked on seeing Sailor Luna's transformation, "Sailor.....Luna......? Wh-what the....what the hell?! My EYES!!! My precious innocent eyes!!! They're ruined!!!"
This Troper was foolish enough to read a [[/Fan Fiction spoiler'd description]] that she really, REALLY shouldn't have read. Argh. Bleh. No wonder those spoilered things are called Schmuck Bait.
- Seconded by this Troper. Dear, sweet god....
  - KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
  - DEAR SWEET LORD SOMEONE DELETE THAT ABOMINATION!!!!! ;_;
This gem from Dragonball Abridged:
Vegeta: Aah, my eye! It's like walking into Frieza in the shower...wait a minute, Frieza's always naked! AAAAAAAAAH!
This troper once saw a cartoon of Legolas, Aragorn, Elladan and Elrohir reacting to a slash fic. Legolas was covering his eyes and screaming something like "SWEET MERCIFUL VALAR!"
This troper came across a .gif that can only be described safely as 'lust penis'. Upon discovering it, I saved it to a flashdrive in a folder with pics concerning the game. For those who wish to see it, simply ask for 'lust penis' on 4chan.
This Troper stumbled upon this persons Daily Show fanart,[1] No...Just no
Ichigo says he stopped at the school nurse for some brain soap after witnessing a disturbing Fergilicious knockoff gag in this episode of Khenpoe's Bleach Abridged.
- WHAT IN THE NAME OF EARTH, HEAVEN, AND ALL NINE HELLS WAS THAT!!!??
This trope is, of course, the root of much Memetic Mutation along the lines of "CANNOT UNSEE".

Real Life

There are people who take great pleasure in sending their friends to shock sites such as Tub Girl, Goatse, Lemon Party, 2 Girls One Cup and others to elicit this kind of reaction. Examples have been purposely kept out, but for the naive, at least now you've been warned.
- It's to the point where reactions are video taped then put up on You Tube. Yes, most of them want brain bleach. YOU. HAVE. BEEN. WARNED.
- There is a legendary image of Ron Jeremy, one of the most famous porn stars in history, absolutely horrified by Goatse.
- Likewise for Joe Rogan (dirty comic and former host of Fear Factor, where animal genitalia was consumed regularly) states that he wishes he could "unwatch" 2 Girls One Cup.
The erotic letters James Joyce wrote to his wife, Nora, often elicit a fairly horrified reaction.
- Which is dramatized in this Kate Beaton comic.◊
  - In case you want to read them, they're here.
After the scans from a particularly horrific Japanese (of course it was Japanese) comic were posted on Scans_Daily, one poster responded by saying that they needed some brain bleach, while the next person replied by asking for some buckshot, instead.
- Similarly, this troper has heard many people saying they need to excuse themelves to perform a very quick and imprecise self lobotomy.
A lot of war veterans would really like brain bleach.
Exploring Fanfiction.net requires you to have brain bleach handy, even without reading a single story. Its hard to tell which is worse, the sheer badness exuded by certain story synopses, the thought that the author thought the synopses would attract readers rather than serve as a GTFO before its too late sign, or that they went on to write 100,000+ words worth of story based on that synopses.
An example of self-induced need for brain bleach: This editor's friend gets EXTREMELY creeped out whenever he sees Dakota Fanning lately, especially in the spots for New Moon. Understandable as she's still only 15, and he's 30. So Yeah.