The brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals—only a few invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, adult sea squirts and starfish do not have one, even if diffuse neural tissue is present. It is located in the head, usually close to the primary sensory organs for such senses as vision, hearing, balance, taste, and smell. The brain of a vertebrate is the most complex organ of its body. In a typical human the cerebral cortex (the largest part) is estimated to contain 15–33 billion neurons, each connected by synapses to several thousand other neurons. These neurons communicate with one another by means of long protoplasmic fibers called axons, which carry trains of signal pulses called action potentials to distant parts of the brain or body targeting specific recipient cells.
From an evolutionary-biological point of view, the function of the brain is to exert centralized control over the other organs of the body. The brain acts on the rest of the body either by generating patterns of muscle activity or by driving secretion of chemicals called hormones. This centralized control allows rapid and coordinated responses to changes in the environment. Some basic types of responsiveness such as reflexes can be mediated by the spinal cord or peripheral ganglia, but sophisticated purposeful control of behavior based on complex sensory input requires the information-integrating capabilities of a centralized brain.
Can you imagine your life would be if you had no fear of anything?
Plot
Emily, a lonely designer, finds herself in the middle of a fantastic and dangerous adventure when her most recent creation, the super hero rock star Melody Nife, comes to life! As Melody Nife's power increases, Emily realizes that he is a slave of the evil Brain Computer that wants to hypnotize the world with music! Now Emily must save the world and rescue Melody Nife from the sinister clutches of The Nifers, a team of video game superheroes of Emily's own design.
Keywords: based-on-album, chicago-illinois, comic-book, superhero, video-game
A lo-fi hi-tech love story.
God Loves You.
Plot
Is the year 3089 and technology has exceeded all expectations. Space travel is now common place and humans have met a race of aliens who call themselves Karomingiens. This was an initially friendly race, before a group of Karomingian scientists traveled in the earth's past, downloading for research, the brain information of one of the most devious humans of the 20th Century: Adolf Hitler. The Brain set itself free into the Main Central Unit and took control over the entire alien civilization, downgrading their political system to Fascism. Now, Karomingian Nazis have only one objective: Total annihilation of humans to achieve the existence of only one pure race, theirs.
Keywords: blitzkrieg, episode, robinson-crusoe, versace
Robinson Crusoe in a future where Nazis took control over the known universe.
Plot
Three friends, Bobby, Leonard and Harold, hangout at the local pizzeria and talk about what happened at the barbershop among other things in their lives. Bobby then starts telling Harold and Leonard a funny story about how the body parts have and argument about who should be the boss over the human and how they go to court to prove it.
The body parts have an argument over who should be the boss over the human body, so they go to court to solve it with a surprise ending!
Plot
In this Halloween Special, Babs Bunny plays the part of host as she and the Tiny Toons gang, spoof various popular horror stories. Some of the ones they parody are: "The Twilight Zone" "The Devil and Daniel Webster" "Frankenstein" and "Abbot and Costello"
Keywords: anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, cult-film, cult-film, devil, ghost, gremlin, halloween, haunted-house, horror-for-children
Babs: [in Rod Serling voice] Behind this curtain lies the scariest picture known to man. It has caused thousands to have horrifying nightmares... [unveils it] It's my third grade school photo! AHHHH! [switches back to Rod Serling and kicks the photo out of view] But, I digress. Here's something *almost* as frightening...
[Plucky arrives at Montana Max's house. The house is in flames]::Plucky Duck: [cringes] Either Monty made a deal with the devil, or Shannon Doherty's spending the night.
Monty: [falling into a hole that leads to hell] You'll pay for this, you cheap shyster!::Plucky Duck: Cheap? Wait 'til you get my bill!
[after Monty and Daniel Webfoot land in Hell]::Monty: Where are we?::Plucky Duck: [gulps] It looks like... I think this is...::Mr. Scratch: That's right, Mr. Webfoot. Sooner or later, most lawyers end up here. [laughs evilly]
Plot
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed, and she has problems dealing with her loss. Then, there is a gambler, "Right", who has bloodhounds on his trail when he becomes a murder suspect. Finally, "The Brain" is bleeding profusely, and his friends search for a way to save his life through a blood transfusion.
Keywords: 1920s, animal-in-title, based-on-short-story, bloodhound, dog, dying, gangster, independent-film, jazz-age, love
When Life Was Glittering, Glamorous... And Dangerous...
Harriet MacKyle: Kill him, Basil.
Plot
Well respected local good guy, Feet Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
Keywords: 1930s, apartment, argument, assault, b-movie, barroom, big-city, blackjack, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, broken-promise
All That Remains
Of The Man Who Was Insane
Inside Of A Jar
Is Jeffrey Dahmer's Brain
Bbbrrraaaiiinnn
Bbbrrraaaiiinnn
His Father Wants To
Burn The Brain
And His Mother Wants It Studied
For The Knowledge We Can Gain
Gggaaaiiinnn
From The Bbbrrraaaiiinnn
They Ruled To Destroy The Brain
And His Father Got His Wish
When They Put It In The Flame
Ffflllaaammmeee
The Bbbrrraaaiiinnn
(Fredcrick, Students)
STUDENT #1:
It's been said the your grandfather
Brought dead tissue back to life,
Is that true, Dr. Frankenstein?
STUDENT #2:
It's been said that your grandfather
Created a horrifying monster,
Is that true, Dr. Frankenstein?
STUDENT #3:
It's been said . . .
(spoken)
. . . nay, even sung . . .
(sung)
That your grandfather's monster
Hurt and lamed, killed and maimed,
Is that true, Dr. Frankenstein?
STUDENTS:
Is that true, Dr. Frankenstein?
Is that true, Dr. Frankenstein?
Is that true,
Is that true,
Is that true,
Is that true, Dr. Frankenstein?
FREDERICK (spoken):
That's Fronkensteen! My name, it's pronounced
Fronkensteen! Yes, yes, the whole world knows what my
grandfather did. But
please, do I look like the kind of madman who'd prowl
around graveyards, digging up freshly buried corpses?
STUDENT #1:
Well, Professor . . .
FREDERICK:
Don't answer that!
(sung)
I'm not a Frankenstein,
I don't indulge in hijinks
Or tomfoolery!
I'm not a Frankenstein,
I don't believe in mummies,
Ghosts, or Ghoulery!
I deal in fact not fiction,
I am a scientist,
I live for truth and reason,
That's the reason I exist
(spoken)
There is a vast difference between my crazy
grandfather's delusional experiments and my own
devotion to pure science. Which
leads us directly to the subject of today's lecture.
(sung)
The brain!
There is nothing like the brain
Hearts and lungs are simply tinker toys
When stacked against the brain!
Insane!
I'm insane about the brain!
No invention in the universe
Is equal to the brain!
The mouth's a marvel
When it comes to eating,
I've nothing against the womb,
I thank the bladder
When I'm excreting,
And I always give the elbow room!
But the brain!
Please allow me to explain,
There's no organ can compare to it,
I swear to it, it's plain,
It's the brain . . .
(spoken)
Mr. Hilltop here, with whom I have never worked nor
given any prior instruction to, has graciously offered
his services for
this afternoon's demonstration.
(sung)
His medulla oblongata,
Tells his brain stem that it's gotta
Send an impulse full of data
Which creates a lotta pain.
His frontal lobe gets busy
With a thought that makes him dizzy,
Puts his cortex in a tizzy,
So he never will complain,
That's what I love about the brain!
(spoken)
Mr. Hilltop, will you raise your left knee, please. You
have just witnessed a voluntary nerve impulse. Mr.
Hilltop, you
may lower your knee. Reflex movements, on the other
hand, are those which are made independently of the
will. Why you dirty
rotten yellow son-of-a-bith!
MR. HILLTOP:
Ooooh!
FREDERICK:
Even though I almost kneed him
His reflexes have no freedomm
to react when I mistreat him,
It's important I explain
Synaptic nerve connection
Goes its way without detection
Bringing cranial protection
In a never-endinig chain!
That's what I love about the brain!
(spoken)
But what if we were to block those nerve impulses by
simply aplying local pressure . . . . . . which can be
done with any
ordinary metal clamp, just at the swelling of the
posterior nerve root . . . for say, oh, four seconds .
. . . . . Why you
mother-grabbing bastard! As you can see, even though I
have just smashed my knee into his crotch, he does not
react. He
feels absolutely nothing.
MR. HILLTOP:
Mmmm . . .
FREDERICK:
More or less. So if it were not for this continuous
stream of motor impulses from the brain, we would
collapse . . . . . .
like a bunch . . . of . . . broccoli!
MR. HILLTOP:
Oooooh!
FREDERICK (sung):
And in conclusion,
So there's no confusion,
Let me say it once again,
Though your genitalia
Has been known to fail ya,
You can bet your ass on the brain!
(spoken)
Everybody!
STUDENTS (sung):
The brain!
There is nothing like the brain!
It's the king of our anaotomy
And ever shall it reign!
FREDERICK:
You can call me Copernicus,
Kepler, or Newton,
Compare me to Freud
I'd feel high-falutin!
Call me a Darwin,
I love that man's theory,
Call me Pasteur
And watch me get teary!
Say Madame Curie,
That would be the best,
Call me a Rorschach,
I'm up to the test!
I really light up
When you call me Edison
Call me an Erlich,
I like that man's medicine
Call me Marconi,
That wireless wow
Call me Pavlov,
And I'll bark like a chow
Call me an Einstein
And that would be fine
If you called me a Tesla
I wouldn't decline
But to call me a Frankenstein
Would be insane,
Cause I love the brain!
STUDENTS:
His name is Fronkensteen
The facts are plain