References in Popular Culture
- In the television show The Wonder Years, one episode features Kevin Arnold, his current girlfriend, Paul, and Paul's current girlfriend all in Kevin's basement watching this episode. Later on, when Kevin is knocked unconscious, he fantasizes that his girlfriend, Winnie Cooper, and Paul's girlfriend are all the women who have taken Spock's brain. Further, Kevin fantasized himself as Kirk, Paul as Spock, and Winnie's current boyfriend as McCoy. When Kevin implies "We're Men!", the girls activate their wristbands, causing the boys to double over in pain, just like in the episode.
- Alternative rock band Semisonic included a reference to this episode in the song Never You Mind, off the album Feeling Strangely Fine. The verse is as such:
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- Switch on the box, Mr. Spock is on the table,
- Dr. McCoy is unable to connect his brain,
- Sweating and straining,
- Well, it seemed so simple at the time.
- Mike Carano produced a stage version of the episode in 2004.
- Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok in Modern Principles: Economics state that some economists consider "Spock's Brain" to be the worst Star Trek episode, because no single brain could come close to running an economy.
- Nerd-core heavy rock band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets did a song called Mr Spock's Brain.
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