![]() An Asskicking Christmas: Billy and Mandy Save Christmas.Art Shift: An episode ended with Billy needing Grim to fix his eyes, and with each attempt, he sees the world rendered in a different animation style.Likewise, in one episode Fred Freburger (yes!) lampshades Mandy's lack of an apparent nose.Grim remarks, "That doesn't even look like us!" Art Evolution: Lampshaded in "Billy & Mandy Begins", where the original episode is played to end the dispute in the character's conflicting origin stories.Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Billy's dad's lucky pants are immune to lasers, supernatural forces, and mustard.Anti-Hero: Billy is a Type I, while Grim and Mandy are Type V.It features ninja fights, high-speed chase scenes, giant robots and wailing guitars and stars two kids with the Grim Reaper. Animesque: Billy's favorite show, The X-Treme Adventures of Brandon and Mallory.In one episode, due to the collapse of time and space, the universe is rebooted and the characters are reincarnated as the cast of The Powerpuff Girls. Its also hinted that it shares the same universe as Codename: Kids Next Door and Ed Edd and Eddy, per the crossover. Alternate Universe: It shares the same universe as Evil Con Carne, a universe where Abraham Lincoln is still President, and the League of Nations still exists.Dean Toadblatt is voiced by John Vernon, who is remembered by many as the antagonistic Dean Wormer from Animal House.Actor Allusion: On the two-part episode, "Brown-Evil", Billy mistakes Hoss Delgado for a wussy video game character named Pat the Baker, both of which are voiced by Deiderich Bader. ![]() Tropes used in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy include: The show lasted seven seasons (2001-2008) with two movies, a couple of specials - including a crossover with Codename: Kids Next Door - and a spin-off attempt called Underfist. ![]() Billy and Mandy was originally a much darker Three Shorts show that included another cartoon, Evil Con Carne (and known then as Grim & Evil), but became the more comedic (but still pretty dark) Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy when Con Carne was dropped after the first season in an unsuccessful Spin-Off attempt. (Think about this: those two shows, voted to greenlight status by the viewers, ended up lasting at least two more seasons than any other show CN greenlit afterward). On an interesting note, Billy and Mandy ended up lasting longer than most of the shows that CN greenlit without fan input Codename: Kids Next Door, the winner of the contest the following year, did likewise. This show was actually the winner of a contest held by Cartoon Network to determine what cartoon would be their next new show. Rounding out the show's cast are Irwin, Billy's best friend and the Token Minority (who also has a massive crush on Mandy) Sperg The Bully Mindy the Alpha Bitch Hoss Delgado, a supernatural bounty hunter with more brawn than brains Eris, the goddess of chaos and discord General Skarr (formerly seen in Evil Con Carne), who now wants to garden instead of conquering the world and Nergal, the Sumerian Death God who lives in Earth's molten core and just wants to be friends with everyone, really. Thus go The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. ![]() Grim begrudgingly serves as something of an underworld version of Mary Poppins, thanklessly placating Billy's demands for cheap entertainment and Mandy's schemes for self-profit with his magical scythe while desperately trying to find a way to be rid of the duo for good. The pair challenge "Grim" to a limbo contest to save the hamster when Grim loses, he becomes Billy and Mandy's newest friend - and by "friend", we mean that he's contractually bound to be the kids' friend and cater to their every whim. The Grim Reaper has come for a soul - specifically, a hamster in his dying days - but he's stopped from taking the hamster to the afterlife by two children: the blissfully idiotic Billy (the hamster's owner) and the cynical, amoral Mandy (Billy's best friend). ![]()
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