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46-516: Evil Con Carne began as a segment on Grim & Evil , from which it was a spin-off, along with sister series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy , on August 24, 2001. Although the segments were produced for Grim & Evil , the series aired as a separate series from July 11, 2003, to October 22, 2004, on Cartoon Network. After the show's end, its characters would frequently make cameo appearances in Billy & Mandy , with General Skarr becoming

92-966: A 2-part Jellystone! crossover special. Other releases including The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy season one/ Grim & Evil episodes: The entire series of Grim & Evil was officially available on Cartoon Network on Demand from October 2017 until 2019. List of The Grim Adventures of Billy %26 Mandy episodes The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is an American animated television series created by Maxwell Atoms for Cartoon Network . The series originally premiered as segments of Grim & Evil on August 24, 2001. The segments were spun-out into their own series on June 13, 2003 (the 2003-2004 episodes were originally for Grim & Evil ), and continued to air until November 9, 2007. A spin-off film, titled Underfist: Halloween Bash , aired on October 12, 2008. A total of 78 half-hour episodes were produced, including one hour-long Holiday special and four feature-length TV films, bringing

138-487: A crossover with Camp Lazlo titled "Evil Camp Carne". On July 29, 2016, the series aired re-runs for a single day on Cartoon Network's sister channel, Boomerang , in the United States, despite the schedule for Boomerang saying that The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy was airing in its timeslot. The series, alongside The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy , recently aired separately on Checkered Past . When

184-480: A full-length series, despite the 2003 episodes originally made for Grim & Evil . The short-lived Evil Con Carne series was canceled 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. Evil Con Carne ' s General Skarr became

230-468: A giant catapult (which they were to use to destroy the neighborhood), causing Ghastly and the rest of the army run away. According to Tom Warburton , characters from Evil Con Carne were originally set to appear in the television special "The Grim Adventures of the KND". Hector, General Skarr, and Dr. Ghastly (strangely, they're "costumed" by Lazlo, Raj, and Clam) did briefly appear in the crossover's end credits in

276-541: A 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. Mandy (voiced by Grey DeLisle ) is a girl about Billy's age who has a morbid , cynical and merciless attitude. 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

322-502: 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. On March 16, 2007, Cartoon Network aired

368-419: A recurring character. An official series finale , titled " Company Halt " (which was also a crossover with Billy & Mandy ), aired on March 16, 2007. On December 1, 2023, 19 years after the show's final episode, reruns of Evil Con Carne began airing on Adult Swim on its throwback programming block, Checkered Past . Thirteen episodes were produced. Once upon a time, there was a jillionaire playboy who

414-583: A single show, as Cartoon Network desired a show that had a "middle cartoon" as an in-between segment (a format found in the Dial M for Monkey and The Justice Friends shorts in Dexter's Laboratory , and the I Am Weasel segments on Cow and Chicken ) . The resulting show, Grim & Evil , premiered on August 24, 2001, and was put on hiatus on October 18, 2002. In 2003, 13 more half-hour episodes of Grim & Evil were made, but aired when Cartoon Network separated

460-552: A soldier for the Secret Paramilitary Organized Response Kommand (S.P.O.R.K.). The explosion scattered most of his body across the world. He was rescued by the scientist Major Dr. Ghastly ( Grey DeLisle ), who placed his living remains into two containment units: one for his brain, and the other for his stomach. These two units were later installed into Boskov ( Frank Welker ), a purple Russian circus bear , giving Con Carne's brain control over (almost) all

506-435: 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. However, there was also another batch of 14 episodes made for the show, but were aired on Cartoon Network when

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552-412: 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, is the brains behind Hector's plans. Ghastly really does not seem to be intent on taking over

598-560: Is attacked by Mr. Snuggles at Mandy's own command. 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

644-506: 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) is the former stomach of Hector Con Carne and will only talk if it is about food. The series' existence is largely the result of a viewer poll. An Internet and call-in event called the Big Pick

690-399: 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. Billy (voiced by Richard Horvitz ) is a dim-witted, happy-go-lucky child who has

736-472: 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 separate 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 listed on

782-399: The 11-minute Billy & Mandy/Evil Con Carne crossover episode titled "Company Halt". 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. Billy's pet hamster , Mr. Snuggles, celebrates his 10th birthday , so

828-540: 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

874-457: 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). 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

920-455: 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. Evil Con Carne follows the adventures of Hector Con Carne,

966-572: The bear's actions and movements. Hector, Dr. Ghastly and his military leader, General Skarr ( Armin Shimerman ), then created a secret laboratory on an island with a bunny-shaped mountain known as "Bunny Island" (a parody of Ernst Stavro Blofeld 's lair in the James Bond movies). Gathering an army, Con Carne resumed his quest for world domination and made a new goal: to find his missing body parts. The group's schemes typically end in failure, often due to

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1012-672: The behavior and conflicts within the trio: Skarr is tired of being directed by Hector and wishes to overthrow him; Ghastly cares more about her unrequited love for her boss than world domination; while Hector is narcissistic, megalomaniacal, and generally abusive towards his henchmen. A viewer's poll to decide a new Cartoon Network animated series, titled Big Pick , was held on the Internet from June 16 to August 25, 2000. The three choices for short films to become animated series were The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy , Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? , and Longhair and Doubledome . After

1058-403: 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

1104-510: The decision. "There are the twin towers, and you see tiny, little people hopping off the roof of the towers into the water", said Linda Simensky , then senior vice president of animation for Cartoon Network. "I mean, two weeks ago, you wouldn't have thought about it. What were the chances of anyone jumping out of the World Trade Center?" In response, Atoms reworked the episode, so it took place in rural Kansas instead; despite these changes,

1150-418: The episode was still suspended from broadcast rotation. Note: Most of the episodes did not air in production code order. 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

1196-498: The event, the Meet the Reaper short film won with 57% of the vote. While Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? became an animated series in 2002, Longhair and Doubledome appeared at another Big Pick event, but lost once again. Another original short/pilot titled Evil Con Carne had been produced in 2000, shortly after the Billy & Mandy short. The two ideas were ultimately combined into

1242-628: The first season appeared on Cartoon Network to kick off the "Cartoon Cartoon Fridays Big Pick Weekend" on August 24, 2001. A second season consisting of 13 episodes was announced in March 2002. Maxwell Atoms created a student film titled "Billy and Mandy in 'Trepanation of the Skull and You'" in 1995. Atoms reused ideas from his student film to create the animated short "Meet the Reaper" for Cartoon Network. Along with Billy & Mandy , Atoms produced another short, Evil Con Carne, that would later be combined with

1288-452: 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

1334-503: The network's decision to drop one of the two series, as he considered being in charge of producing both shows difficult. After Evil Con Carne was cancelled, its characters appeared in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy . The first cameo was in the episode " Chicken Ball Z " which ended with Mandy purchasing Hector's Bunny Island. General Skarr moved to Billy's neighborhood in the episode " Skarred for Life " after Bunny Island

1380-632: The one of the tanks. Five episodes are included as bonus features in the Season 1 DVD set for The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy . On August 16, 2018, the entire series was added to the iTunes Store under a single volume. Grim %26 Evil 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 . The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy deals with

1426-612: 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 . SBT December 3, 2005 Grim, Billy, and Mandy made appearances in the Teen Titans Go! "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary" special. The main cast, Grim, Boskov, Hector Con Carne, Billy, Mandy, General Skarr, and Major Dr. Ghastly will appear in

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1472-764: The show are considered the entire first season of the Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy . These shorts were parts of a mini-series called Billy's Birthday Shorties , which mostly starred Billy. The shorts revolved around Billy's birthday and aired on "The Grim and Courage Hour", an hour-long block of episodes from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Courage the Cowardly Dog . It aired for four days in October 2006 on Cartoon Network . On February 14, 2007, four shorts aired entitled Irwin Hearts Mandy . The entire series has been made available for purchase on

1518-517: The show was running as a segment on Grim & Evil , the two part episode "The Smell of Vengeance" was subject to censorship in the wake of the September 11 attacks . The episode centered on Hector and his army using an oversized stink gun on New York City , unleashing a stench that sends its citizens into a frenzy. A particular scene featured people jumping off of the World Trade Center prompted

1564-420: 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. The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is a series about two neighborhood schoolchildren, moronic yet enthusiastic Billy and emotionless Mandy who force the Grim Reaper to be their best friend forever after defeating

1610-447: 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 . 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

1656-416: 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

1702-517: The stench of the brownies spreads through the world and starts resurrecting dead people, animals, and even food, as zombies. The series began airing again in 2005 as part of the Cartoon Cartoon Show with 13 extra episodes unannounced. 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

1748-532: The three) anyone who gets in her way. She is Billy's "best friend" regardless of the awful way she treats him. She orders Grim and Billy to do chores for her, among a slew of other grunt work. The Grim Reaper (voiced by Greg Eagles ) is over 137,000 years old (as his early childhood took place during the Stone Age ) and speaks with a Jamaican accent. His scythe is the source of his powers and possesses many magical qualities. Hector Con Carne (voiced by Phil LaMarr )

1794-501: The total number of episodes to 86, in the form of 160 segments. The episode "Billy & Mandy Moon the Moon" was part of Cartoon Network's "Invaded" event, which included other shows such Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends , Ed, Edd n Eddy , My Gym Partner's a Monkey , and Camp Lazlo , with Billy & Mandy being the last to air. Grim & Evil had two seasons produced with 27 half-hour episodes. Episodes from both seasons of

1840-443: The two series, and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne earned their own full-length series later that year. After production wrapped on both series' new seasons, the network gave Maxwell Atoms a decision to choose one show to continue, while the other would be dropped from production. Atoms ultimately went with Billy & Mandy , and the final season of Evil Con Carne subsequently aired in 2004. He embraced

1886-496: The website of The Detour on Teletoon in Canada. 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. On October 2, 2023, the series returned in reruns on its original format with

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1932-500: The world; she does get more interested in inventing things and getting closer to Hector. General Skarr (voiced by Armin Shimerman ) is 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. Boskov (voiced by Frank Welker ) is a former Russian circus bear who carries Hector's brain and stomach on his body via metal plates on said spots. He

1978-501: Was blown up in a tremendous explosion. His brain survived... (Stomach, too!) ...and was attached to the body of a stupid circus bear. I am that brain. My name is Hector Con Carne, and I will one day rule the world! (He laughs maniacally.) Hector Con Carne ( Phil LaMarr ), a wealthy crime lord and evil genius bent on taking over the world and the League of Nations, was caught in an explosion initiated by his nemesis, Cod Commando (Maxwell Atoms),

2024-644: Was bought out by an " entertainment corporation that didn't want competition in world domination ". Since then, General Skarr went on to become a recurring character in Billy & Mandy . In the episode "Company Halt", Con Carne and Ghastly appear in Endsville, in order to recruit Skarr and revive Evil Con Carne (the organization, not the show) in another attempt to take over the world; naturally, like most of their other schemes and misadventures, it ends in failure when Skarr turns against Hector once he tries to destroy his garden in an attempt to kill Billy, and crushes him with

2070-447: Was eventually released in October 2017 on Cartoon Network on Demand. 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,

2116-640: 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 and became its own series. Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? would later be made into a full series; Longhair and Doubledome would reappear with another pilot episode in another Big Pick -style show in 2002, only to fall short once again. Though initially announced by Betty Cohen in February 2001 for an October premiere,

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