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The final boss of the game, the Brain-Eating Meteor, originates from the season 1 episode "Little Rock of Horrors". The character's musical sequence from the episode, the Aurelio Voltaire Hernández song "BRAINS!", is also featured as the fight's background music. Despite this, the game does not credit Hernández or the song's other co-writers, Gregor Kitzis, Matthew Goeke, and George Grant. Hernández also goes uncredited in the game's cast list despite his vocals from the original episode being retained in-game.

The lack of credit for "BRAINS!" reflects a longstanding issue with the song since its original commissioning, in which Cartoon Network repeatedly failed to properly attribute it to Hernández, instead crediting it to the show itself when airing the sequence as a music video. According to Hernández, the initial failure to credit him resulted in Cartoon Network revealing that it was under no legal obligation to do so, per the terms of Hernández's contract, before eventually pulling the music video from circulation. Hernández stated that he was aware at the time that he would be signing away the song's rights, but did not know until then that the network reserved the right to opt out of attribution. Despite the dispute, Hernández remained friends with series creator Maxwell Atoms and later contributed another song, "Land of the Dead", to the TV film Billy & Mandy's Big Boogie Adventure.
person Lila Cheney calendar_month September 26, 2026
Game footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJRb-NqrNNs

Episode clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7y2WUGa3uw&t=45

Voltaire - BRAINS!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp-NRJ4JFdE

In-game credits sequence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfVUP4cJR3s

GameCube version manual (pages 19-20 in the manual):
https://vimm.net/manual/3292

Discogs page for Boo Hoo (including scans of the liner notes and accompanying songwriting credits):
https://www.discogs.com/release/448240-Voltaire-Boo-Hoo

Plagiarism Today article about the "BRAINS!" controversy:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190722160611/https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2018/08/28/brains-a-story-of-missed-attribution-and-missed-opportunity/

Clip of "Land of the Dead" as it appears in the TV series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rfHoFU_AUs
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