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* ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake: Berry in the Big City'': This makes up the plot of "Blueberry is Frozen", where Blueberry Muffin ends up with a severe brain freeze after eating a ton of ice cream trying to come up with a new flavor.

* In the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession17MushroomSamba Mushroom Samba]]", a one-shot character is eating shaved ice when he notices the man who killed his brother outside the restaurant. He doesn't want to miss his chance at revenge, but also doesn't want to waste the desert, so he attempts to gobble it up all at once. He does not enjoy the resulting brain freeze.

* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', Riley gets one at one point during the TimePassesMontage, which causes a panic in Headquarters when everything literally freezes over, including the emotions that run the place. (Anger attempts to use his [[PlayingWithFire ignikinesis]] to avoid getting frozen, but he gets [[HumanPopsicle frozen anyway]].)

* In one episode of ''[[Film/BillAndTed 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 unadvisedly short period of time. This is portrayed as a harsh guitar riff and ScreenShake as they cry out in brief agony.

Now, if you want to prevent it, just lick your soft palate before diving into that milkshake and you should be fine. Eating warm or hot food can also help.

* ''LightNovel/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions Ren'': Yuuta and Rikka both get one in the beginning of Episode 7 after eating their ice cream.

* Used by Team Rocket in the ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' anime, giving the characters loads of ice cream and then stealing their Pokemon while they were disabled by the freeze.

-> ''"I think I froze the left half of my brain! (Waves arm around stiffly) Look! I can't move my right arm!"''

* In the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "Mushroom Samba", a one-shot character is eating shaved ice when he notices the man who killed his brother outside the restaurant. He doesn't want to miss his chance at revenge, but also doesn't want to waste the desert, so he attempts to gobble it up all at once. He does not enjoy the resulting brain freeze.

* A 1990s [=7-Eleven=] TV spot was perhaps the TropeNamer. It featured a young man ingesting a Slurpee, letting loose a bloodcurdling scream, and then explaining: "Ugh. Brain freeze."

** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in "The Goofy Newbie", where Patrick eats so much ice cream that he freezes the entire planet over and it thaws out five billion years later.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Played literally when Beast Boy throws [[BrainInAJar The Brain]] to be frozen.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'', Daggett dares Norbert to drink his entire frozen jalapeno slushie all at once. Naturally he's reluctant to do this, for fear of getting a "brain freeze and burn"- an agonizing combination of Brain Freeze and FireBreathingDiner.

* Exaggerated during a CutawayGag in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', where Peter's head [[YourHeadASplode explodes]] after eating an entire ice cream popsicle in a single bite.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' opens with the Gangrene Gang raiding a convenience store. Ace is drinking slushies straight from the machine. He screams in pain as he gets a brain freeze...then dives straight back in. When the gang gets superpowers, his end up being [[AnIcePerson cryokinesis]].

* In the appropiately titled ''ComicBook/{{Trolls}}'' comic story "Brain Freeze", Cooper gets a brain freeze upon eating a large bowl of ice cream, leading to the Snack Pack to try to help him. When Poppy gives him cocoa, Cooper is cured, but thinks that the actual correct treatment was Poppy's previous attempt by giving him more ice cream.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'', Daggett dares Norbert to drink his entire frozen jalapeno slushie all at once. Naturally he's reluctant to do this, for fear of getting a "brain freeze and burn"- an agonizing combination of BrainFreeze and FireBreathingDiner.

* In the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "Mushroom Samba", a one-shot character is eating ice cream when a ChaseScene in progress passes him. He decides to join in, but rather than abandoning his ice cream, he attempts to gobble it up all at once. He does not enjoy the resulting Brain Freeze.