Grim & Evil
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| Grim & Evil | |
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| Created by | Maxwell Atoms |
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| Ending theme | "Grim & Evil", performed by Jennifer Hale |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 27 (77 segments) |
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| Executive producer | Maxwell Atoms |
| Producer | Vincent Davis |
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| Production company | Cartoon Network Studios |
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| Network | Cartoon Network |
| Release | August 24, 2001 – October 22, 2004 |
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Grim & Evil is an American animated television series created by Maxwell Atoms for Cartoon Network. It consists of two segments which were eventually spun off into their own series, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne.[1]
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy deals with the adventures of two young children respectively named Billy and Mandy who, after celebrating the birthday of Billy's pet hamster, bet that the Grim Reaper would lose to them in Limbo at his own game of limbo in an effort to save the hamster. Billy and Mandy win the bet, and Grim becomes their "best friend forever" as part of their deal.[2]
Evil Con Carne follows the adventures of Hector Con Carne, a wealthy playboy whose body is destroyed in a tremendous explosion. His only surviving organs are his brain and stomach, which have been placed in jars and attached to a circus bear named Boskov.
The show premiered its run on August 24, 2001, on Cartoon Network, and ended its first 13-episode run on October 18, 2002.[3] However, there was also another batch of 14 episodes made for the show, but were aired on Cartoon Network when the show was split into both shows in 2003. The second (and final) season of this era was aired in the UK on October 20, 2003, followed by a 27th episode as the combo special on October 22, 2004.
History[edit]
The series' existence is largely the result of a viewer poll. An Internet and call-in event called the Big Pick was held from June 16, to August 25, 2000. The three final choices were The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, Longhair and Doubledome. Out of the three, Grim & Evil won the poll with 57% of the vote[4] and became its own series.[5] The first season appeared on Cartoon Network to kick off the "Cartoon Cartoon Fridays Big Pick Weekend" on August 24, 2001.[6] Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? would later be made into a full (though short-lived) series despite losing; Longhair and Doubledome would reappear with another pilot episode in another Big Pick-style show in 2002, only to fall short once again. Along with Billy & Mandy, Atoms produced another short, Evil Con Carne, that would later be combined with the former as one show, under the title Grim & Evil. The decision came as Cartoon Network wanted the show to have a "middle cartoon" to air in-between the Billy & Mandy segments (similar to the Dial M for Monkey and The Justice Friends shorts in Dexter's Laboratory, and the I Am Weasel segments on Cow and Chicken). Sometimes the format was reversed, with a single Grim segment in between two Evil shorts. Both sides of the show were influenced by cartoons Atoms watched in the 1980s; Grim took inspiration from classic comedies from Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros., while Evil was a spoof of the era's action cartoons such as G.I. Joe and Transformers.[7]
In 2003, before the series aired in reruns for the final time on June 8, the network separated it into The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne, effectively giving both a full-length series, despite the 2003 episodes originally made for Grim & Evil. The short-lived Evil Con Carne series was cancelled once all the already-made episodes previously seen on Grim & Evil were aired. In 2004, Evil Con Carne was given another short-lived run with the newly created intro and end credits, only to be canceled again. Grim & Evil, in its original form, has not been seen on TV since 2003.[b] Evil Con Carne's General Skarr became a recurring character on Billy and Mandy beginning in the second season, including as a main character in the TV film Underfist, with other Evil Con Carne characters making occasional cameo appearances.
On October 22, 2004, Cartoon Network aired the half-hour Billy & Mandy/Evil Con Carne combo: "Five-O-Clock Shadows" and "Ultimate Evil", with it being the final half-hour Grim & Evil episode.
The series began airing again in 2005 as part of the Cartoon Cartoon Show block on Cartoon Network, as well as the extra 13 episodes out of nowhere.
On March 16, 2007, Cartoon Network aired the 11-minute Billy & Mandy/Evil Con Carne crossover episode: "Company Halt". In the episode, Con Carne and Skarr appear in Endsville, in order to recruit Ghastly and revive Evil Con Carne (the organization, not the segment) in another attempt to take over the world; naturally, like most of their other schemes and misadventures, it ends in failure when Ghastly turns against Hector once he tries to destroy her garden in an attempt to kill Billy, and crushes him with a giant catapult (which they were to use to destroy the neighborhood), causing Skarr and the rest of the army run away.
The series aired again on October 29, 2010, for the first time since the Cartoon Cartoon Show airing, but the title sequence did not play at all and all of the cartoons were three Billy & Mandy cartoons from the Grim & Evil era. On October 20, 2017, all 26 episodes produced were released on Cartoon Network on Demand, including 13 other episodes made up of segments that aired as separated series, but put together in their original Grim & Evil format (two Billy & Mandy segments surrounding one Evil Con Carne, only this time, there are three cases where it is entirely Billy & Mandy). They were also listed on the website of The Detour on Teletoon in Canada.[8] On January 8, 2019, Maxwell Atoms confirmed on Tumblr that these 13 extra episodes aired in the United States, but the dates that they aired on are still currently unknown, though it can be assumed that it would be sometime in 2002 and 2003, as the credits for each episode have copyright dates of those years.[9]
On October 2, 2023, the series returned in reruns on its original format with the series' opening and credits on Adult Swim for their Checkered Past programming block, despite listings referring to the show as Billy & Mandy. The episode aired was episode 16 which had not premiered in the United States.
Grim & Evil currently airs in reruns on Checkered Past.
Grim, Billy, Mandy, Boskov, Hector Con Carne, Major Dr. Ghastly, and General Skarr made appearances in the Teen Titans Go! Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary Special.[10]
Segments[edit]
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy[edit]
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is a series about two neighborhood kids, moronic yet enthusiastic Billy and emotionless Mandy who force the Grim Reaper to be their best friend forever after defeating the Messenger of Death in a game of Limbo. This is the main segment, as two The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes are wrapped around an episode of Evil Con Carne (or, on rare episodes, vice versa). For episodes 21, 25, and 26, only the Grim half was shown.
Evil Con Carne[edit]
Evil Con Carne is a series about an aspiring dictator obsessed with taking over the world, whose disembodied brain is transplanted onto the head of a slow-witted circus bear. This is usually the backup to The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy as Evil Con Carne is put between two The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy cartoons. On occasion, the format is reversed, with a two-part Evil Con Carne cartoon sandwiching one The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy cartoon. The Evil half was not shown in episodes 21, 25, or 26.
Episodes[edit]
| Season | Segments | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 21 | 7 | August 24, 2001 | October 18, 2002 | |
| 2 | 56 | 20 | June 13, 2003 | October 22, 2004 | |
Note: The first season originally aired from 2001 to 2002. They were re-aired in 2003, when they were divided into both shows. Another batch of 14 episodes produced for the series in 2003 only aired when they were divided into both shows. Despite which, the entirety of Grim & Evil is considered season one of both The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (Grim segments) and Evil Con Carne (Evil segments).
Season 1 (2001–02)[edit]
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboard by | Original air date | ||||||
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| 1a | "Meet the Reaper" | Maxwell Atoms | Maxwell Atoms | Maxwell Atoms | June 9, 2000[11] (Cartoon Cartoon Fridays)[c] August 24, 2001 | ||||||
| Billy's pet hamster, Mr. Snuggles, celebrates his 10th birthday, so the Grim Reaper comes for him. However, Mandy, Billy's friend, is reluctant in allowing it, so she proposes a deal to the Grim Reaper: if he beats the kids in a game, he can take the hamster, but if he loses, he will spare the hamster's life and become their "best friend forever". The Grim Reaper transports the kids to limbo, where he challenges them to a game of limbo. Despite his best effort, Grim ends up losing because he is attacked by Mr. Snuggles at Mandy's own command. Note: Based on the theatrical pilot film, Billy & Mandy, this is the only episode not produced by Cartoon Network Studios, having been produced in 1999 by Warner Bros. Animation's subsidiary Hanna-Barbera, and the only episode of the series to be animated with cels, as the series began using digital ink and paint animation when it became a full series.[9] | |||||||||||
| 1b | "Evil Con Carne" | Maxwell Atoms | Maxwell Atoms | TBA | August 24, 2001 | ||||||
| Hector Con Carne orders his staff mad scientist, Major Doctor Ghastly, to build him a new body after Boskov the Bear messes up Con Carne's latest plan for world domination by heading for food instead of battle. | |||||||||||
| 1c | "Skeletons in the Water Closet" | Dave Brain | Greg Miller | Greg Miller | August 24, 2001 | ||||||
| Billy's mother, Gladys, first notices Grim in Billy's bed, then in the shower and subsequently starts to get panic surges thinking that Billy is in danger. Meanwhile, Harold, Billy's dad, just thinks that Gladys is imagining things. In the end, Gladys ends up going living with Billy's Aunt Sis to try and calm herself down. | |||||||||||
| 2a | "Opposite Day" | Dave Brain | Maxwell Atoms | Mike Stern | August 31, 2001 | ||||||
| Billy and Mandy tell Grim it is "Opposite Day" and that, when they say something, they really mean the opposite. Due to his difficulty understanding the concept of Opposite Day, Grim has to do Mandy's chores. Finally, Grim sobs that he is a miserable person, and thinks he understands when Billy and Mandy say they "want" pie, meaning they "do not want" pie. However, Mandy then says that when she said it was Opposite Day, it really was not. | |||||||||||
| 2b | "Emotional Skarr" | Brian Hogan | Maxwell Atoms | Bob Camp & Joe Orrantia | August 31, 2001 | ||||||
| Major Doctor Ghastly makes her latest world-domination device, but General Skarr, Con Carne's Chief of Staff, uses the giant robot dog (modeled after Con Carne's tiny little chihuahua, Enrique Jr.) to attempt to kill Boskov and Con Carne instead of trying to take over the world with it. | |||||||||||
| 2c | "Look Alive!" | Brian Hogan | Maxwell Atoms | Paul McEvoy | August 31, 2001 | ||||||
| Grim is bored of being left alone while Billy and Mandy are not with him. Grim decides to fulfill his dream by working as a swimsuit model, but, as he is a corpse, he is not hired. Subsequently, Billy and Mandy give him a makeover to look more human. In the end, Grim gets the job in a TV ad, but he is only in the commercial for a few seconds and is portrayed as an ugly person. | |||||||||||
| 3a | "Mortal Dilemma" | Brian Hogan | Amy Rogers | Michael Diederich | September 7, 2001 | ||||||
| Grim misses his life as the reaper of souls and, due to his bet, he cannot return to the Underworld, much to the hilarity of his Underworld co-workers. Having a sudden epiphany, Grim decides to be good and help people rather than try to take their souls. However, Grim's attempts at being good are faced with resistance from people, who are scared off by his appearance. | |||||||||||
| 3b | "Evil Goes Wild" | Dave Brain | Gord Zajac | Greg Miller | September 7, 2001 | ||||||
| Boskov is captured by park rangers and put in the zoo, where (true to form) Con Carne mobilizes the other captive bears to take over the world. | |||||||||||
| 3c | "Get Out of My Head!" | Dave Brain | Maxwell Atoms | Maxwell Atoms | September 7, 2001 | ||||||
| After watching a movie, Grim teaches Billy to possess people by jumping into their heads. Billy possesses Mandy and makes her do assorted things like flirting with Irwin, kissing Mandy's mother, going into both men's and women's restrooms and eating earthworms. In the end, Billy leaves Mandy's head, but later that night, Mandy possesses Billy's cat, Milkshakes, to maul him as a form of revenge. | |||||||||||
| 4a | "The Smell of Vengeance" | Dave Brain | Maxwell Atoms | Greg Miller | October 5, 2001 | ||||||
| 4c | Maxwell Atoms | ||||||||||
| Major Doctor Ghastly's latest version of a world-domination device is The Almighty Stink Ray, with which Con Carne threatens to stink up the entire world unless he is given a huge ransom and small piece of land in Montana. Cod Commando, the only soldier without a nose, is sent to destroy the Almighty Stink Ray. | |||||||||||
| 4b | "Fiend Is Like Friend Without the 'R'" | Brian Hogan | Craig Lewis | Paul McEvoy | October 5, 2001 | ||||||
| Billy wanders into a junkyard, where a massive hole in the earth opens up and pulls him down in. Later, Mandy and Grim get pulled in as well. They land at the center of the Earth, which is home of Nergal, a devilish creature. The lonely Nergal, who has been watching Billy and Mandy for some time, wants Grim to hand over the kids to him so they can be his friends forever. Grim happily leaves the kids behind as he returns to the surface; however, he later goes back for them because he can not handle the guilt of abandoning his friends. In the end, Grim is defeated by Nergal's electrified tentacles, but Mandy defeats Nergal merely by kicking him in the shin. | |||||||||||
| 5a | "Devolver" | Brian Hogan | Maxwell Atoms | Mike Stern | October 12, 2001 | ||||||
| 5c | Bob Camp | ||||||||||
| General Skarr accidentally walks through Major Doctor Ghastly's devolving ray and begins to revert to his primitive forms, including a giant ape and starts to terrorize the Con Carne base. | |||||||||||
| 5b | "Recipe for Disaster" | Dave Brain | Maxwell Atoms | Michael Diederich | October 12, 2001 | ||||||
| Billy, Mandy, Grim, and Pud'n are part of the "Person Scouts" (a Boy Scouts-esque organization) and need to sell cookies in order to win a badge. However, as Billy eats all of the cookies, Grim proposes to bake their own cookies using his aunt Kali's secret recipe. The cookies are a success and the troupe wins the contest. In the end, at the Person Scouts awards ceremony, aunt Kali reveals that the secret recipe contains insects, but everyone continues eating the cookies anyway. | |||||||||||
| 6a | "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" | Brian Hogan | Vincent Davis | Bob Camp | October 19, 2001 | ||||||
| 6c | Dave Brain | ||||||||||
| Boskov goes into hibernation on the very day Con Carne has set for the invasion of the world. Con Carne gets away from the hibernating Boskov by breaking the container that houses him on the bear's head, then finds himself stuck in a pickle jar for the next six months, waiting for Boskov to come out of his winter sleep. | |||||||||||
| 6b | "A Dumb Wish" | Brian Hogan | Paul McEvoy | Paul McEvoy | October 19, 2001 | ||||||
| While Spring cleaning in the middle of November, Billy takes an old, cursed lamp from Grim's trunk. When he gives it a rub, he releases the curse Grim had warned them about: his own mother. Having three wishes to make, Billy wastes his wish by wishing to know what to wish for. Mandy wishes Billy and Grim would "shut up", which causes both of them to zip their lips, so Grim never gets to make his wish. Then, Mandy decides to make the last wish to whoever makes her the happiest. In the end, Mandy wishes everyone in the world would go away, causing them, except Mandy, to disappear, which she is glad about. | |||||||||||
| 7a | "Grim vs. Mom" | Brian Hogan | Story by : Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | July 19, 2002 | ||||||
| After having a nervous breakdown and leaving the house in the first episode, Billy's mother, Gladys, returns. She meets Grim again and, this time, she plans to destroy him once and for all. When Grim goes to the kitchen for a glass of water, Gladys attacks him and shatters his skeleton. In the end, Grim assures the kids that Gladys has won the battle but not the war. | |||||||||||
| 7b | "Bring Me the Face of Hector Con Carne" | Dave Brain | Story by : Gord Zajac | Matt Sullivan | July 19, 2002 | ||||||
| Dr. Ghastly discovers that Hector's face may still be intact and sends out a search party to get it. This episode also reveals how Dr. Ghastly and Hector met, as well as how Hector was defeated by Cod Commando in the first place. | |||||||||||
| 7c | "Tastes Like Chicken" | Brian Hogan & John McIntyre | Story by : Gord Zajac | Michael Diederich | July 19, 2002 | ||||||
| With Irwin not answering the phone, Billy's parents missing and Mandy saying she wants "Billy for dinner", Billy and Grim assume Mandy is a cannibal who ate Billy's parents and friends. Looking for proof, Billy and Grim find tiki figures and arrangements for a celebration in Mandy's backyard. Ultimately, it is revealed that they are just celebrating Billy's birthday. Still, Mandy burps out Irwin's glasses, revealing that Mandy ate Irwin as Billy screams in terror. | |||||||||||
| 8a | "Grim or Gregory?" | Brian Hogan | Story by : Gord Zajac | Shellie Kvilvang | July 26, 2002 | ||||||
| It is Halloween, Billy, Mandy, and Grim go trick-or-treating. Grim mistakes a woman for Atrocia, the host of the all-night Halloween marathon on TV and goes to talk to her. Upon looking at her face, Grim realizes his mistake; however, the woman mistakes Grim for her son, Gregory, and takes him home Gregory is now Grim, and does not have a stomach. At the same time, Billy does mistake Gregory for Grim and he and Mandy take him with them. In the end, Billy and Mandy take Gregory back to his mother and Grim goes back with them. | |||||||||||
| 8b | "Search & Estroy" | Dave Brain | Story by : Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | July 26, 2002 | ||||||
| Skarr is evesdropping on Hector and Dr. Ghastly about their new secret weapon—a disenigration gun. To their dismay Estroy comes up with a better version of the gun. He also surprises them by inviting them to dinner. Hector accepts as a way to steal some of his ideas. Hector and Ghastly arrive at Estroy's neighboring island while Skarr slips around the back. Of course he falls while scaling the wall and lands in a pond of electric eels. At dinner, Estroy tries to recruit Dr. Ghastly. In the meantime, Skarr has gotten into the building and he reaches the secret plans. Estroy reveals that his intentions were to make Dr. Ghastly his new assistant. She is reluctant to the idea and they leave in a huff. Back at home, Skarr reveals the plans to them and they immediately begin construction. | |||||||||||
| 8c | "Something Stupid This Way Comes" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Story by : Craig Lewis | Maxwell Atoms | July 26, 2002 | ||||||
| Nergal, the fiend from the center of the Earth, returns to the surface, emerging a carnival with him, trying once more to make friends with the surface dwellers. In the following, Billy tries to help Nergal make friends by being considerate, but Nergal fails to apply correctly his advice. When Nergal is told that Grim was forced to be Billy and Mandy's friend-slave, Nergal then decides to force the world to be his friends by turning them into dark beings similar to him. In the end, Nergal turns Billy, Mandy, Grim, and even the viewer (thus breaking the fourth wall) into one before the episode ends. | |||||||||||
| 9a | "A Grim Surprise" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Story by : Rob DeSales | John McIntyre | August 2, 2002 | ||||||
| Billy tells Grim to help him throw a surprise birthday party for Mandy. Then, a reluctant Grim helps Billy prepare a cake while keeping it a secret from Mandy. In the end, a somewhat surprised Mandy reveals that her birthday is not here for the next five months, something that Billy already knew about, stating that makes it "a real surprise party." | |||||||||||
| 9b | "Everyone Loves Uncle Bob" | John McIntyre & Brian Hogan | Story by : Gord Zajac | Trevor Wall | August 2, 2002 | ||||||
| Con Carne takes over a Mister Rogers-type children's show in an attempt to rule the world by first winning over the children. | |||||||||||
| 9c | "Beasts & Barbarians" | Dave Brain | Story by : Gord Zajac | Michael Diederich | August 2, 2002 | ||||||
| Billy and Irwin have been playing their favorite video game, Beasts and Barbarians, for three days non-stop. In an attempt to stop their video game addiction, Grim transports them all to a real-life version of the game. Seeing as Billy and Irwin are still doing good in their quest, Grim increases the difficulty by manipulating the traps himself. In the end, Billy, Mandy, and Grim return home escaping from a giant cyclops, while Irwin remains trapped. | |||||||||||
| 10a | "Hoss Delgado: Spectral Exterminator" | Brian Hogan | Story by : Gord Zajac | Brian Kindregan | August 9, 2002 | ||||||
| Billy, Mandy, and Grim go to the museum on a school trip. There, they meet Hoss Delgado, self-appointed hunter of the paranormal, who upon spotting Grim, tries to eliminate him. Subsequently, Grim and Delgado engage in a fight. Finally, Delgado quits hunting Grim when he realizes Billy and Mandy control him. In the end, Delgado continues his own adventures and is seen fighting a werewolf. | |||||||||||
| 10b | "Evil on Trial" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Story by : Gord Zajac | David Mucci Fassett | August 9, 2002 | ||||||
| General Skarr turns Con Carne in to the FBI when he finds out that Con Carne is "the World's 23rd Most Wanted" criminal with a large cash bounty on his head. When it turns out no lawyer on earth will defend Con Carne, he finds himself in court defended by Major Doctor Ghastly – and prosecuted by the Cod Commando. | |||||||||||
| 10c | "To Eris Human" | Dave Brain | Story by : Gord Zajac | Chris Savino | August 9, 2002 | ||||||
| While going to the shopping mall with Billy and Mandy, Grim spots the seductive Eris, the cunning Goddess of Chaos and Discord, and tries to ask her out. However, Eris is not interested in the skinless Grim, but in the muscular Adonis. Then, Eris invites Mandy to join her in creating chaos using the Apple of Discord. Although initially they get along, Eris pulls a prank on Mandy, who subsequently tries to get revenge. In the end, Mandy fools Eris into thinking that Adonis is in the movie theater and Eris accidentally kisses Grim, who says that he will never wash his left cheek again. | |||||||||||
| 11a | "Billy's Growth Spurt" | Brian Hogan | Story by : Gord Zajac | Michael Diederich | October 4, 2002 | ||||||
| Billy eats too much junk food that makes him feel sick. Grim prepares him a remedy using his granny's recipe, but this medicine makes a parasite to start growing in Billy's back, which Billy names Yap-yap. In the following, Billy and Yap-yap continue eating junk food, so Mandy suggests to use the antidote to the original remedy. Eventually, Yap-yap, now looking like a smaller version of Billy, detaches himself from Billy (which would have technically cured Billy without the need of him drinking the anitdote), and tries to escape from the antidote. In the end, Yap-yap drinks the antidote and is destroyed. | |||||||||||
| 11b | "The Time Hole Incident" | Dave Brain | Story by : Gord Zajac | Nora Johnson | October 4, 2002 | ||||||
| Major Doctor Ghastly invents the Temporal Confabulationater Izationizer Unit – a time machine that works so well that Ghastly, Hector and Skarr end up meeting their future selves and Destructicus Con Carne, son of Ghastly and Hector, as both an infant and an adult. | |||||||||||
| 11c | "Billy & the Bully" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Story by : Gord Zajac | Brett Varon | October 4, 2002 | ||||||
| Billy is constantly provoked by a bully named Sperg and runs over to Grim for help. | |||||||||||
| 12a | "Big Trouble in Billy's Basement" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Story by : Gord Zajac | Christopher McCulloch | October 11, 2002 | ||||||
| After taking the Underworld's "Bad Book" from Grim, Billy becomes possessed by an evil presence. Then, Billy steals Grim's scythe, and uses it to open a portal to summon Yog-Sothoth. In consequence, Mandy calls for Hoss Delgado to battle Billy. It is revealed that the portal can only be sealed by throwing the book into it. As Billy eats the book, Mandy throws Billy himself into the portal, restoring everything to normal. Instants later, a portal opens up and Billy comes out and says they did not want him there. | |||||||||||
| 12b | "Christmas Con Carne" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Story by : Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | October 11, 2002 | ||||||
| Rupert the Green-Nosed Reindeer saves Christmas when Hector Con Carne tries to ruin it. | |||||||||||
| 12c | "Tickle Me Mandy" | Brian Hogan | Story by : Gord Zajac | David Mucci Fassett | October 11, 2002 | ||||||
| Mandy and her parents leave the city for a day, which makes Billy feel lonely. Then, Grim uses his supernatural powers to create a fake Mandy with pieces of dolls and toys for Billy to play with. However, the "new" Mandy is too aggressive with Billy, and he starts fearing her. The next day, the real Mandy returns home, and promptly destroys the new Mandy while in the see-saw. | |||||||||||
| 13a | "Little Rock of Horrors" | Robert Alvarez | Story by : Gord Zajac | Maxwell Atoms | October 18, 2002 | ||||||
| In this musical episode, which pays homage to Little Shop of Horrors, Billy befriends a singing brain-eating meteor (voiced by Voltaire) that falls from the sky after when everyone does not want to play with him because they are busy. With Billy's help, the creature grows bigger and eventually eats the brains of all people in Endsville (turning them into zombies with glowing green eyes). The last brain he eats is Mandy's, which results in the creature transforming into a pink, brain-eating Mandy meteor. The song featured is "BRAINS!", composed by goth artist Voltaire specifically for this episode. | |||||||||||
| 13b | "The Pie Who Loved Me" | John McIntyre | Story by : Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | October 18, 2002 | ||||||
| This is a mini musical. At first, Hector is singing about some of the things he adores. This leads into why he should take over the world (classical). This goes into Dr. Ghastly singing about her scientific work, leading into her baking pies for science (rock opera). The pies are sent to all the people who are singing about the temptation of pies in the sky. Skarr breaks in with a solo about hitting people with pies. Even Boskov gets a solo (rock opera). Meanwhile, the organization that is here to stop Evil is out of commission from too much pie; as are all the citizens. This leads back into Hector rejoicing in song about his success with the pie scheme until Cod Commando infiltrates the "pie in the sky" with a patriotic tune. In the end, no one could fight any one any more because they have had "too much pie". | |||||||||||
| 13c | "Dream a Little Dream" | Dave Brain | Story by : Gord Zajac | Michael Diederich | October 18, 2002 | ||||||
| Billy, Mandy, and Grim eat moldy pizza leftovers and after falling asleep, they have nightmares. Billy dreams of cute bunnies which turn into horrific and deadly monsters; Grim dreams of an endless number of bossy Mandys; Mandy dreams of being pulled into a volcano and then commanding demons at the rhythm of music. In the end, Mandy reveals that her dream was actually very pleasant and she eats the last slice of the rotten pizza. | |||||||||||
Season 2 (2003–04)[edit]
Note: A batch of fourteen Grim & Evil episodes premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States in 2003 and 2004 when The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne were split into two half hour shows, but they were not made for the two standalone shows, as they were also made for the second season Grim & Evil in the UK in October 2003. Although not released officially in 2003 as episodes of the show, Maxwell Atoms confirmed that Cartoon Network erratic broadcast schedule, with the exceptions of Jacked-Up Halloween, Five O' Clock Shadows, and Ultimate Evil. They were, however, aired on various channels outside of the United States, including Canada's Teletoon Detour and France's Boing. Episodes 21, 25, and 26 do not contain any Evil Con Carne segments. The entire second and final season was eventually released in October 2017 on Cartoon Network on Demand.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Story by | Storyboard by | Original air date | |||||||
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| 14a | 1a | "It's Hokey Mon!" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Gord Zajac | Michael Diederich | June 13, 2003 | |||||||
| After watching Billy and Irwin play with their "Hokey Monsters" cards, Grim makes the monsters come to life. Soon, all the other kids want their own cards to be real too, and the city is soon under attack by a multitude of Hokey Monsters. To end the mayhem, Mandy draws her own card, Mandy's Monster, which defeats all the other monsters by turning them into toast. | |||||||||||||
| 14b | 1b | "Boskov's Day Out" | Juli Hashiguchi | Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | August 1, 2003 | |||||||
| Major Doctor Ghastly takes Boskov for a walk in the park while Vlad, Boskov's old trainer, tries to get Boskov back. | |||||||||||||
| 14c | 1c | "Tween Wolf" | Patty Shinagawa | Gord Zajac | David Mucci Fassett | July 4, 2003 | |||||||
| After when Grim fails to pull a werewolf out of his hat, Irwin is bitten by said werewolf. Billy takes Irwin as his new pet dog, naming him Sprinkles, and enters him in the Endsville Dog Show to compete against Mandy's dog, Saliva. At the contest, Sprinkles is about to win, so Grim releases a "were-flea" whose bite causes the werewolf to revert to a naked Irwin. | |||||||||||||
| 15a | 2a | "Grim in Love" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Gord Zajac | Brett Varon | July 11, 2003 | |||||||
| When Billy, Mandy, and Grim go to the beach, Grim falls in love with a goth woman named Malaria. Grim is having a good time with his girlfriend, but Mandy assures him that will change when he tells her that he is not human. In the following date, Grim demonstrates his supernatural powers while dancing and, as predicted, Malaria leaves in panic. | |||||||||||||
| 15b | 2b | "The Trouble with Skarrina" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Gord Zajac | Matt Sullivan | July 18, 2003 | |||||||
| Evil Con Carne's enemy, Estroy, builds a robotic woman for General Skarr in revenge after he and Ghastly ruined his chrome polisher. Skarr does not realize it is a trap and ignores all of the warnings he is given. | |||||||||||||
| 15c | 2c | "Love is "Evol" Spelled Backwards" | Juli Hashiguchi | Craig Lewis | Paul McEvoy | July 11, 2003 | |||||||
| It is Valentine's Day and Nergal, the fiend living in Earth's core, appears in Billy's house to court Billy's spinster aunt Sis. Billy tries ruining Nergal's date, to avoid becoming his nephew. Although initially Sis does not show interest in Nergal, she changes her mind when Nergal is stung by bees and she sees his "dance moves". Aunt Sis accepts Nergal's marriage proposal and accompanies him back to the center of the Earth. | |||||||||||||
| 16a | 3a | "Mandy, the Merciless" | Patty Shinagawa | Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | June 27, 2003 | |||||||
| October 2, 2023 (Adult Swim's Checkered Past) | |||||||||||||
| On a hot day when Billy, Mandy, and Irwin are bored, Grim uses a crystal ball to show them the future. In the distant future, Mandy has turned herself into a giant worm-like creature to be immortal, and now rules the whole world. Mandy gives false information to a clone of Billy to capture the members of a resistance that try to defeat her. This is a parody of God Emperor of Dune, with Mandy as the emperor Leto II, and Billy as Duncan Idaho.[12] | |||||||||||||
| 16b | 3b | "Go Spork" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Gord Zajac | Trevor Wall | August 1, 2003 | |||||||
| October 2, 2023 (Adult Swim's Checkered Past) | |||||||||||||
| A response team called SPORK tries to stop Hector from brainwashing the world with a telemarketing scheme. | |||||||||||||
| 16c | 3c | "The Really Odd Couple" | John McIntyre & Randy Myers | Gord Zajac | David Mucci Fassett | June 27, 2003 | |||||||
| October 2, 2023 (Adult Swim's Checkered Past) | |||||||||||||
| Billy accidentally sets off a powerful stink bomb in Mandy's house and, while the house is being disinfected and fumigated, Mandy's family goes to live with Billy's. Billy and Mandy have a dispute over how to split Billy's room, prompting Grim to intervene. Mandy takes over the entire room, and imprisons Billy inside a brick wall with his mouth gagged by a dark red handkerchief. | |||||||||||||
| 17a | 4a | "Brown Evil" | Robert Alvarez | Gord Zajac | Paul McEvoy | June 20, 2003 | |||||||
| 17c | 4c | Patty Shinagawa | |||||||||||
| Part 1: Taking inspiration from his Pat the Baker video game, Billy decides to bake chocolate brownies. Billy uses "Evil Powder" from Grim's old trunk instead of salt, and the resultant brownies stink. Mandy tells Grim to get rid of the brownies, and he reluctantly does, but he also stores some of them in his skull. Soon, the stench of the brownies spreads through the world and starts resurrecting dead people, animals, and even food, as zombies. Part 2: Billy and Hoss Delgado, spectral exterminator, team up to destroy all the zombies that congregate outside the house, but the zombies reassemble into a bigger zombie. Delgado realizes that the zombie is after the brownies that Grim has in his skull, so Delgado and Grim battle furiously for them. The zombie eats the remaining brownies and falls apart. | |||||||||||||
| 17b | 4b | "League of Destruction" | Patty Shinagawa | Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | July 11, 2003 | |||||||
| Hector believes that all of the evil geniuses in the world are keeping each other from conquering the Earth, so he unites them all to come up with an ultimate plan. All of the evil geniuses end up arguing, instead. | |||||||||||||
| 18a | 5a | "Go-Kart 3000!" | John McIntyre & Randy Myers | Gord Zajac | Michael Diederich | July 25, 2003 | |||||||
| When Billy and Irwin exclude Mandy and Grim from helping them build a go-kart to enter the Annual Endsville Go-Kart Competition, the latter two decide to build their own. Billy-Irwin, and Mandy-Grim compete against Mindy, Sperg, and a mystery racer (Pud'n). Mindy gets stuck in highway traffic, Billy-Irwin's car is destroyed, Sperg and Grim mutually prevent each other from winning, and Pud'n wins in his little red wagon. | |||||||||||||
| 18b | 5b | "Day of the Dreadbot" | Juli Hashiguchi | Gord Zajac | Brian Kindregan | July 11, 2003 | |||||||
| Hector gets fed up with his army and replaces it with robots, which overthrow the Evil Con Carne island. | |||||||||||||
| 18c | 5c | "Smarten Up!" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Gord Zajac | David Feiss | July 18, 2003 | |||||||
| Billy is worried about failing an upcoming Math test, so Grim gives him a "bookworm", which will make him much smarter. Milkshakes, Billy's cat, eats the worm instead, and is forced to tutor Billy. Billy is still an idiot in the end. | |||||||||||||
| 19a | 6a | "Educating Grim" | Juli Hashiguchi | Rachael MacFarlane | Brett Varon | June 13, 2003 | |||||||
| Billy and Mandy take a reluctant Grim to school with them. Mandy's nemesis, Mindy, befriends Grim to annoy Mandy and Billy calls for their other friend, who is Abraham Lincoln. Mandy devises a plan in which Mindy ditches Grim, and keeps Abraham as her friend instead. | |||||||||||||
| 19b | 6b | "Gutless!" | Juli Hashiguchi | Gord Zajac | David Mucci Fassett | July 11, 2003 | |||||||
| While planning to invade Buckingham Palace in Great Britain, Hector's stomach falls ill and makes him lose confidence in the plan. | |||||||||||||
| 19c | 6c | "Toadblatt's School of Sorcery" | Robert Alvarez | Ben Spergel | Michael Diederich & Maxwell Atoms | June 13, 2003 | |||||||
| Grim sends Billy and Mandy to a sorcery school so the latter duo could avoid boring summer camps they were supposed to go to. The sorcery school is owned by Dean Toadblatt, an anthropomorphic frog. Billy and Mandy are sent to the most hated house of the school, Weaselthorpe, while Grim becomes a prefect for a more loved house, Gunderstank. Billy and Mandy team up with boy wizard Nigel Planter to sabotage Gunderstank's hopes of winning the house championship. Planter takes all the credit for the sabotage (which was Mandy's idea), but he is punished once he is found out by Toadblatt. | |||||||||||||
| 20a | 7a | "Creating Chaos" | Patty Shinagawa | Gord Zajac | Brett Varon | June 27, 2003 | |||||||
| When Billy, Mandy, and Grim go fishing, Eris, the goddess of chaos, gets Billy to help her use the Apple of Discord to create chaos. Instead of using the apple, Billy becomes distracted with his own idiotic errands, leading Eris to go insane. Billy finally decides to start creating chaos, but Eris is already too altered that she runs away. | |||||||||||||
| 20b | 7b | "Max Courage!" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Written by: Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | August 15, 2003 | |||||||
| Major Doctor Ghastly captures an old friend and forces him to help her build a destructive machine. Note: Despite being an Evil Con Carne episode after both segments were split into two half hour shows, it originally premiered during The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy after "Grim for a Day" and before "Chicken Ball Z". | |||||||||||||
| 20c | 7c | "The Grim Show" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Craig Lewis | Trevor Wall | July 18, 2003 | |||||||
| Grim is upset after his favorite show, Atrocia's Late Night Atrocities, is cancelled. He goes to the TV station and using his powers, turns the studio into a creepier place and becomes the host of the Grim Show. Grim's success on TV is interrupted when Mandy tells him he has neglected to do her chores. Billy and Mandy go to the TV station and show embarrassing footage of Grim at home. | |||||||||||||
| 21a | 8a | "Who Killed Who?" | Patty Shinagawa, John McIntyre & Randy Myers | Gord Zajac | Paul McEvoy | July 4, 2003 | |||||||
| After excluding Mandy from their board game "Who Killed Who?" for being a girl, Billy and Irwin mistakenly throw their dice into the backyard of a haunted house. Grim warns them about the ghost of Mrs. Doolin, a lady that lived there. Mandy dares them to go retrieve the dice, and she befriends Mrs. Doolin, who is alive and well, and who says that all the stories told about her (that anything that went beyond her fence into her garden never came back) are inventions from Grim, whom she beat long time ago at a staring contest. Fearing for Mandy's life, Billy also ventures into the house, but Mrs. Doolin and Mandy scare him away by posing as ghosts. It appears that Mrs. Doolin is in fact a ghost, and when she meant "beating Grim", it meant that she "beaten death". | |||||||||||||
| 21b | 8b | "Son of Nergal" | Robert Alvarez | Gord Zajac | Paul McEvoy | July 25, 2003 | |||||||
| Billy and Mandy are sent to "Winter Camp", where they meet Nergal's son, Nergal Jr. Just like his father, Junior tries making friends, although not in the best way possible. Junior attacks the campers, freezes them and, using his shape-shifting abilities, takes over their appearances. Billy decides to be Junior's friend, but he is scared away at the moment Junior shows him his true form. | |||||||||||||
| 22a | 9a | "Crushed" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Gord Zajac | Brett Varon | July 11, 2003 | |||||||
| At school, Mandy rejects Irwin's invitation to go to the school dance with him. Billy introduces his foreign and mysterious new friend, Piff, and Mandy becomes desperate when she realizes that she has developed a crush on him. Mandy asks Grim to cut her heart out to stop being in love, but Grim has a better idea and gives Mandy a makeover, turning her into a really seductive figure. Piff gets a crush on Mandy (the same way Irwin had gotten before), who takes the opportunity to brutally turn him down. | |||||||||||||
| 22b | 9b | "Son of Evil" | Juli Hashiguchi | Gord Zajac | David Mucci Fassett | July 18, 2003 | |||||||
| Destructicus Con Carne, the son of Hector and Major Doctor Ghastly, comes back from the future to help his parents. Hector is disappointed in his son when he finds out Destructicus is a crime fighting super hero. Note: In the beginning of the episode, it shows a parody of Samurai Jack. | |||||||||||||
| 22c | 9c | "Night of the Living Grim" | Juli Hashiguchi | Gord Zajac | Spencer Laudiero | June 20, 2003 | |||||||
| Grim is lying sick in bed with "Encroaching Doom Syndrome". The Underworld doctors are not able to help Grim, and he becomes a human being. Back in Endsville, Grim seems attractive to women, but he ends up being punched by jealous boyfriends, especially Billy's dad Harold. Grim covers himself in the mucus that he produced when he was sick and becomes a skeleton again, and Billy tries it too. | |||||||||||||
| 23a | 10a | "Terror of the Black Knight" | Juli Hashiguchi | Craig Lewis | Alex Almaguer | August 1, 2003 | |||||||
| After being impressed by Irwin's realistic armor at the medieval fair, Billy wishes for a fancy armor too. Grim gives him the "Cursed Suit of the Black Knight". When Billy needs to go to the bathroom, the curse is revealed to be that the armor cannot be taken off until the person wearing it beats someone in a competition. Billy desperately tries to defeat other people at various contests, but fails to come out victorious. He defeats Mandy at a breakdance contest in which Mandy decided not to participate, but he does not need to go to the bathroom anymore. | |||||||||||||
| 23b | 10b | "The Right to Bear Arms" | Randy Myers | Gord Zajac | Michael Diederich | July 18, 2003 | |||||||
| Major Doctor Ghastly invents a new machine called the Cerebro-Ransmuter 2000, which is meant to transfer Hector from Boskov's head to General Skarr's. An error causes the two to switch arms, instead. Note: Hector mentioned the name of Scooby-Doo. | |||||||||||||
| 23c | 10c | "Battle of the Bands" | Robert Alvarez | Craig Lewis | Brett Varon | August 1, 2003 | |||||||
| Billy wants to join Sperg's garage band, "Purple Filth", and take part in the upcoming battle of the bands. After witnessing Grim's prowess with the electric guitar, Sperg invites Grim instead. Billy's dad, adopting the rock and roll persona of "Mogar", decides he and Billy should go to the contest to make a surprise appearance. Billy impresses the audience with his armpit sounds. The song featured is "Darkness", composed by SPF-1000's David Ivy specifically for this episode. | |||||||||||||
| 24a | 11a | "The Crawling Niceness" | Robert Alvarez & John McIntyre | Maxwell Atoms | Maxwell Atoms | July 18, 2003 | |||||||
| Billy takes a big egg found in Grim's trunk and hatches it expecting a duck. Instead, Jeff the Spider is born, who considers Billy his father. Despite Jeff trying to please Billy in any possible way, Billy is terrified of Jeff and wants him squished. The exterminator chose not to squish Jeff because he is a nice bug. | |||||||||||||
| 24b | 11b | "Cod vs. Hector" | John McIntyre & Randy Myers | Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | August 1, 2003 | |||||||
| Hector, Boskov, and Cod Commando realize they have got to work together to survive on a deserted island. | |||||||||||||
| 24c | 11c | "Chicken Ball Z" | Juli Hashiguchi | Ben Spergel | Matt Sullivan | August 15, 2003 | |||||||
| Grim's refusal to help Mandy win a karate tournament and the $50,000 prize it promises to the winner leads her to a curiosity shop, where the shopkeeper, Kuan Ti, gives her an ancient "Chicken Ball" which, when eaten, allows her to become a great fighter. Mandy easily wins the tournament and does not care about the money anymore, only about fighting. It turns out Kuan Ti is actually Eris in disguise, and this was just another of her schemes to create chaos. Seeing how Grim has a chance to get rid of the kids and finally be free, he tries to take advantage of this by making Billy a superb fighter too, so he and Mandy can fight ferociously to the death until the entire arena is destroyed. With both still alive, Mandy still demands the prize money, which she uses to buy Hector Con Carne's Bunny Island. | |||||||||||||
| 25a | 12a | "Grim for a Day" | Robert Alvarez | Craig Lewis | Paul McEvoy | August 15, 2003 | |||||||
| After a lousy night for Grim, Billy and Grim argue about who has the hardest time, the kid or the Reaper of the Souls. Mandy shouted at Grim and Billy to "SHUT UP!" first, but then she proposes they switch places for the day to find out. Grim seems to be having a good time, acting like a silly kid, while Billy is bored waiting for his old victim, Mr. Voorhees, to open the door. Billy transforms into a short skeleton, while Grim transforms into a taller version of Billy. | |||||||||||||
| 25b | 12b | "Sister Grim" | John McIntyre & Juli Hashiguchi | Gord Zajac | Brett Varon | July 25, 2003 | |||||||
| After being accidentally hit by Billy, Grim lands in a can of white paint in a remote convent. Due to his appearance, still with the can in his head, Grim is mistaken for "Sister Big Mamma" by little cherubic nuns. Grim has a great time with the friendly nuns, until Billy and Mandy come looking for him. When the nuns realize the truth about Grim they get angry at him, but also help him go back home by sending him flying away with another punch. | |||||||||||||
| 25c | 12c | "The Halls of Time" | John McIntyre & Randy Myers | Gord Zajac | Michael Diederich | August 1, 2003 | |||||||
| After missing a school trip, Grim takes Billy, Mandy, and Irwin to the "Halls of Time" for a tour. There, Billy and Irwin mess with the hourglasses that symbolize each person's lifespan. When they leave, they accidentally leave their own hourglasses, including Grim's, upside down, resulting in the group getting younger as time passes. Grim allows the kids to disappear by going before birth, but he cannot restore his own hourglass to its correct position and he disappears too. | |||||||||||||
| 26 | Special | "Billy & Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween" | Juli Hashiguchi & Robert Alvarez | Maxwell Atoms, Brett Varon, & Paul McEvoy | Brett Varon & Maxwell Atoms | October 1, 2003 | |||||||
| Billy, Mandy, and Grim go trick-or-treating for Halloween, but Irwin is left behind because he needs a scarier costume. After pulling a trick on an old lady, and getting some candies, Grim tells the story of why people pull pranks, which he was partially responsible for. He tells about Jack (voiced by Wayne Knight), a prankster of the old Endsville who just never knew when to stop. One day, the citizens decided to punish him for his constant pranks, and they pulled a prank on the queen, but signed it "From: Jack"; in consequence, the angry queen sent a knight to kill Jack. When Grim went for Jack's soul, Jack stole his scythe. In return for his scythe, Grim promised Jack eternal life, but after closing the deal, Grim takes his scythe and cuts Jack's head off, showing that no one will ever see his face again. Afterwards, Jack decided to use a pumpkin for a head, becoming Jack O'Lantern the Mandrill Baboon and Sloth, and, suffering from the loss of his real head and learning his lesson about pulling pranks too far and whom he does them to, every Halloween he goes out to pull pranks on the citizens of Endsville, and waits 364 more days a year until next Halloween in a solitary mode in his own house. After hearing the story, Billy splits from the group and finds Jack's house downtown. Jack realizes Billy is carrying the actual Reaper's scythe, so he takes it from him and uses it to open the gates of the Underworld and bring forth ghosts, which cause havoc in the city. Jack then plans to get revenge on Grim by cutting his head off which, being cut with the Reaper's scythe, will stay off "forever". To stop Jack from carrying on with his vengeance, Mandy sets up a series of pranks for him. The pranks affect Irwin instead, causing major laughter from Jack and his ghouls, which explode and return to the Underworld. Grim recovers his scythe and sends Jack to the Underworld too. | |||||||||||||
| 27a | 13a | "Five O' Clock Shadows" | Juli Hashiguchi | Brett Varon | Brett Varon | October 22, 2004 | |||||||
| Grim is annoyed by Billy who thinks that a shadow is following him. Grim takes Billy and Mandy to the Shadows' World, where their opposites live. Grim tells them to do whatever they want, but to be back at 5 o'clock, when the portal to the normal world opens. Grim also warns Billy about the Door to Other Dimensions, but Billy opens it and a multitude of Billies come out and wreak havoc. | |||||||||||||
| 27b | 13b | "Ultimate Evil" | Shaun Cashman | Maxwell Atoms & Alex Almaguer | Alex Almaguer | October 22, 2004 | |||||||
| Tired of consistently failing at his attempts to rule the world, Hector orders General Skarr to make Boskov into a vicious monster. Boskov in his new form manages to take down Cod Commando and the entire army of SPORK on his own, but when General Skarr pushes Boskov too far, Boskov starts attacking Hector and Skarr for mistreating him. Only Ghastly is able to stop Boskov. Cameo appearance(s): The Powerpuff Girls | |||||||||||||
Crossover episode (2007)[edit]
| Title | Directed by | Story by | Storyboard by | Original air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Company Halt" | Kris Sherwood | Maxwell Atoms & Alex Almaguer | Alex Almaguer | March 16, 2007 | 6-05 |
| As General Skarr is once again annoyed by Billy, Hector Con Carne and Major Dr. Ghastly arrive in his house with the intention of luring him back to the recently relaunched Evil Con Carne world domination organization. Although initially refusing to rejoin, Skarr later accepts with the condition that Billy and the other neighbors be destroyed. After weeks of living together and preparations, Evil Con Carne's ultimate weapon is revealed to be an army of tanks that shoot giant rubber bands. In the end, their all-out attack over the neighborhood is foiled when Billy tricks Hector into shooting Skarr's garden and they get into a fight, causing Hector to get crushed by one of the tanks. Note: This episode belongs to The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. | |||||
Characters[edit]
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy[edit]
- Billy (voiced by Richard Horvitz): He is an 8-year-old happy-go-lucky child with an extremely low IQ of −5. He was outperformed by a shovel and a candy necklace on an IQ test. He has an extremely large, pink nose, wears a blue and white striped shirt, and covers his orange hair with a red hat. His main affiliations are Grim and Mandy. Mandy is Billy's best friend, though she treats him more like a servant than a friend. It has been hinted several times that Billy may have underlying feelings for Mandy that even he (in his stupidity) may not fully realize. Billy is definitely kinder to Grim than Mandy is, and while he may go against the Reaper's advice and use him as a plaything, he appears to genuinely like him. Of the two children, Billy is the one who most often tells Grim that he is his "best friend".
- Mandy (voiced by Grey DeLisle): She is a girl about Billy's age who has (mostly) a morbid, cynical and merciless attitude. However, unlike Billy, she is more stable, sane and intelligent. She hates everything, especially unicorns. She will nag, punch, or otherwise injure (physically, emotionally, mentally or any combination of the three) anyone who gets in her way. She is Billy's "best friend" regardless of the awful way she treats him. She is known for rarely smiling; on one of the occasions on which this happens,[citation needed] it causes reality to fall apart. She orders Grim and Billy to do chores for her, among a slew of other grunt work. She is naturally hostile and cynical and is shown in one episode to have physical difficulty saying the word "please". She never smiles, except in "Meet the Reaper", "Opposite Day", "Look Alive!", "A Dumb Wish", "Something Stupid This Way Comes", "Dream A Little Dream", "Crushed", and "Mandy the Merciless" where she does crack a smile.
- The Grim Reaper (voiced by Greg Eagles): He is over 137,000 years old (as his early childhood took place during the Stone Age) and speaks with a Jamaican accent. The continuity of how Grim got his reaper status and powers jumps around quite a few times and it is unknown which way he really got his powers (for example, in The Spider Queen, he was elected to his position as the Grim Reaper while he was in middle school; however, in "A Grim Prophecy", it is shown that he was the Grim Reaper since his childhood with his parents forcing him to be the Reaper, which is revealed to be all a dream and further contradicted in a later episode where he is seen stumbling over his scythe to become Grim Reaper). His scythe is the source of his powers and possesses many magical qualities; although he is still capable of using magic without it, these instances are quite rare.
Evil Con Carne[edit]
- Hector Con Carne (voiced by Phil LaMarr): He is a dynamic, evil playboy type, reduced to an anthropomorphic brain and a stomach after a gigantic explosion. Somehow, the stomach has taken on a life of its own. He is often frustrated by the difficulty of taking over the world in its current state.
- Major Dr. Ghastly (voiced by Grey DeLisle): A mad scientist, Ghastly is the brains behind all Hector's plans. Ghastly really does not seem to be intent on taking over the world; she does get more interested in inventing things and getting closer to Hector.
- General Skarr (voiced by Armin Shimerman): Con Carne's paramilitary leader. He is a cold-hearted, hateful and harsh man, with a scar on his face, and one eye. He tends to be more evil than Con Carne himself, many times trying to overthrow his leader. He has made several appearances on Maxwell Atoms' other show, "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy", as Billy's next-door neighbor. He has also starred in the Billy & Mandy spin-off, Underfist. Skarr seems to resemble Fearless Leader, Herr Starr, and General Armin Skull. It has been stated that he quit working for Hector Con Carne after they were "bought out" by the cartoon industry because they did not want the competition in world domination.
- Boskov (voiced by Frank Welker): A former Russian circus bear, Boskov carries both of Hector's brain and stomach on his body, via metal plates on said spots. He is usually controlled by Hector and seems to care for everyone around him. He is sometimes difficult to control due to his animal instincts and lack of intelligence.
- Stomach (voiced by Armin Shimerman): This former stomach of Hector Con Carne will only talk if it is about food.
Broadcast history[edit]
| Country | Network | Premiere Date |
|---|---|---|
 United States | Cartoon Network | August 24, 2001 |
 Canada | The Detour on Teletoon | September 7, 2002[13] |
 Spain | Cartoon Network | September 14, 2002 |
 United Kingdom Ireland | Cartoon Network | October 5, 2002 |
 Italy | Cartoon Network | October 8, 2002 |
 Poland | Cartoon Network | October 5, 2002 |
 Romania | Cartoon Network | October 5, 2002 |
 Hungary | Cartoon Network | October 5, 2002 |
 Mexico Argentina Chile Colombia | Cartoon Network | November 1, 2002 |
 Brazil | Cartoon Network Brasil | November 11, 2002 December 3, 2005 |
 India Pakistan Bangladesh Afghanistan | Cartoon Network | August 2, 2004 |
 France | Cartoon Network Boing | c. 2004 |
Home media[edit]
Various episodes originating from Grim & Evil have been released on DVD. The Billy & Mandy short "Son of Nergal" was released as part of the 2004 DVD release of Cartoon Network Christmas Yuletide Follies, and its other short "Battle of the Bands" was released as part of the 2005 DVD release of Cartoon Network: Christmas Rocks; both of which had the intro and end credits from Grim & Evil. Most of the Billy & Mandy shorts originating from Grim & Evil were released as part of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Season 1 DVD in 2007. Six Evil Con Carne shorts were included in the DVD as special features.
| Title | Season(s) | Episode count | Region 1 release date | Episodes include |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Season 1 | 1–2 | 13 | September 18, 2007 | "Meet the Reaper" – "The Smell of Vengeance: Part 2" • "Recipe for Disaster" • "A Dumb Wish" • "Grim vs. Mom" • "Tastes Like Chicken" • "Grim or Gregory?" • "Something Stupid This Way Comes" • "A Grim Surprise" • "Beasts & Barbarians" – "Billy's Growth Spurt" • "Billy & the Bully" • "Big Trouble in Billy's Basement" • "Tickle Me Mandy" • "Little Rock of Horrors" • "Dream a Little Dream" |
| June 23, 2015 (Disc 1 in Hall of Fame #3) | Entire first season (Grim episodes only, excluding Evil episodes) |
Other releases including The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy season one/Grim & Evil episodes:
- "Billy and Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween" – Cartoon Network Halloween: 9 Creepy Cartoon Capers (August 10, 2004)
- "Night of the Living Grim" – Cartoon Network Halloween 2: Grossest Halloween Ever (August 9, 2005)
- "Crushed!" – Codename: Kids Next Door: Sooper Hugest Missions: File Two (August 23, 2005)
The entire series of Grim & Evil was officially available on Cartoon Network on Demand from October 2017 until 2019.
Notes[edit]
- ^ Grim segments only
- ^ The theme song has been seen on The Cartoon Cartoon Show and reruns appear on Cartoon Planet and Checkered Past
- ^ (the pilot aired on Cartoon Cartoon Summer as part of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays)
References[edit]
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- ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 256–258. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 385–386. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ^ Dempsey, John (August 29, 2000). "'Billy & Mandy' Beats Out 'Robot,' 'Longhair' to Get Greenlight". Variety. Archived from the original on October 3, 2013. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
- ^ Forkan, Jim (February 25, 2001). "Cartoon Network Shows Off Four New Series". Multichannel News. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- ^ Macmillan, Alissa (February 22, 2001). "'Toon Net Sets 2 New Series". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on May 9, 2012. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
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