![]() The feature “Big Boogey Adventure” finds Billy, Mandy, Grim and Irwin in the underworld when Grim’s powers are stripped. In “Billy and Mandy’s Jacked Up Halloween,” they battle an undead prankster named Jack who rises from the grave and plans to steal Grim’s scythe to help him rule the world. There were also three great Halloween specials. Claus, an omnipotent and very powerful head vampire. In “Billy and Mandy Save Christmas,” Billy and Mandy learn that Santa Claus (voiced by the late Gilbert Gottfried) is, in fact, a blood sucking vampire who was spawned by his wife Mrs. Outside the normal episodes, “Billy & Mandy” was never afraid to get epic, featuring a slew of multi-part episodes, excellent serialized shorts, and even hour-long specials. ![]() Billy is terrified of spiders, ironically, and the eight-legged Jeff will do anything to gain his dad’s acceptance. There’s also “The Crawling Niceness,” a particularly twisted tale that finds Billy accidentally fathering a giant spider named Jeff. What Mandy doesn’t know is that Dora is actually Pandora, and the mysterious lunchbox she carries around houses evil demons that she tricks Mandy into unleashing. Season 5’s “Pandora’s Lunch Box” is a biting spoof of “Dora the Explorer” as a new girl in school named Dora (with a familiar hairstyle) meets Billy and Mandy, the latter of whom she becomes instant friends with. The only problem is that he’s dead set on killing Grim. They have to fight alongside a cleft-jawed, egomaniacal, horror hero named Hoss Delgado. ![]() Most of them desire Grim’s scythe, which holds massive power.Īmong some of the best episodes, there’s Season 2’s “Brown Evil,” in which Billy and Mandy do battle with a horde of the walking dead (thanks to a batch of bad brownies that Grim makes). Grim’s presence, along with his magic scythe, allows the demented pair of kids to go on some truly horrific misadventures, where they confront all sorts of gruesome monsters, hideous ghouls, weird demons, and ugly underlings. The children cheat and Grim is tasked with becoming their eternal servant and new best friend. If they lose, the Reaper gets to take the hamster as well as the kids. If the children win a limbo contest, Grim will be required to become their slave for all eternity. However, Billy and Mandy aren’t prepared to let their favorite pet go just yet and challenge the Reaper to a wager. They meet the mythical Grim Reaper ( Greg Eagles), who is assigned to collect the soul of Billy and Mandy’s dying hamster. “Grim & Evil” only lasted 30 episodes, but the titular pint-sized hell-raisers went on to star in their own successful spin-off: “ The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.” The series stars a (somewhat) moronic young boy named Billy ( Peter Horvitz) and his devious megalomaniacal friend Mandy (the legendary Grey Delisle). His only surviving organs are his brain and stomach, which have been placed in jars and attached to a circus bear named Boskov. ![]() The film provides a haunting window to the past, to a decade living in the wake of the Moors' murders, a time where many people mistakenly believed only strangers hurt children.For this month’s installment of “TV Terrors” we revisit the animated series “ The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy,” which aired from 2001 through 2007 on Cartoon Network.īilly, Mandy, and Grim were first introduced in Maxwell Atoms’ “ Grim & Evil,” a series where they shared the bill with “Evil Con Carne.” The latter followed the adventures of Hector Con Carne, a wealthy playboy whose body is destroyed in a tremendous explosion. We went and told mummy and she said we'd been very good." It finishes with Tony saying "Charlie's reminded me I shouldn't go off with people I don't know. And I was going to go but Charlie stopped me. Then this man came up and said would I like to see some puppies? The film starts with Tony saying "Charlie and I were in the park. "Charlie Says" was a series of six short animated films about a boy called Tony and his cat Charlie aimed at children.Ĭharlie, a cat with a voice that grated worse than your tape getting stuck recording Top 40, used to warn Tony (who would translate his garblings) against everything from matches to scalding hot kettles.īut one episode that continues to haunt the memories of British children everywhere was about never going off with strangers.
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