History Recap / BillyAndMandyInTrepanationOfTheSkullAndYou

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In addition to the above-mentioned examples, the short lacks any supernatural elements, up to and including the presence of Grim.

''Billy and Mandy in: Trepanation of the Skull and You'' is an animated short from 1995 and the earliest incarnation of what would eventually become ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''. Creator/MaxwellAtoms (credited here by his real name, Adam M. Burton) created it as his junior thesis for University of The Arts, Philadelphia.

''Billy and Mandy in: Trepanation of the Skull and You'' is an animated short from 1998 and the earliest incarnation of what would eventually become ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''. Creator/MaxwellAtoms (credited here by his real name, Adam M. Burton) created it as his junior thesis for University of The Arts, Philadelphia.

* DescendedCreator: Maxwell Atoms (credited under his birth name) voices Billy.

The short can be seen in full [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVTyJ3Yecx0 here]].

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Mandy doesn't have her later counterpart's mean streak, but at the same time, she has a very unsettling air to her even ''before'' she drills a hole into Billy's skull. It's also never confirmed if Mandy herself was ''actually'' trepanned before this or claimed to be so she could mess with Billy.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Mandy. She doesn't have her later counterpart's mean streak, but at the same time, she has a very unsettling air to her even ''before'' she drills a hole into Billy's skull. It's also never confirmed if Mandy herself was ''actually'' trepanned before this or claimed to be so she could mess with Billy.

''Billy and Mandy in: Trepanation of the Skull and You'' is an animated short from 1998 and the earliest incarnation of what would eventually become ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''. Maxwell Atoms (credited here by his real name, Adam M. Burton) created it as his junior thesis for University of The Arts, Philadelphia.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: While Billy doesn't look all that different from his ''Grim Adventures...'' incarnation, Mandy is a completely different character altogether, having a different outfit and pigtails. Both are also drawn to be more realistic heights than the squat statures they'd have in the series proper.

* AuthorAppeal: Maxwell Atoms is big on fringe culture, where trepanning was seeing a popular reassurance in the late 90s.

* DontTryThisAtHome: Parodied. The short ends with Mandy informing the kids to ask their parents to help them with electrical appliances, not that they... y'knwo, shouldn't be drilling holes in their heads.

* {{Retraux}}: In the style of a 1950s PSA.

''Billy and Mandy in: Trepanation of the Skull and You'' is an animated short from 1995 and the earliest incarnation of what would eventually become ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''. Maxwell Atoms (credited here by his real name, Adam M. Burton) created it as his junior thesis for University of The Arts, Philadelphia.

''Billy and Mandy in: Trepanation of the Skull and You'' is a PSA-styled animated short from 1995. It was created as a junior thesis for college.

The short has a simple plot: A boy named Billy asks his friend Mandy about the bandages on her head. She tells him that she drilled a hole in her head so that she can fulfill her brain's full potential. Billy then decides to get a hole drilled into his head.

Years later the characters were revived for ''Grim And Evil'' and then later ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Billy's design is mostly identical to his final one but Mandy's are completely different. She wears pigtails and has different clothes on.
* GirlishPigtails: Mandy is a little girl who wears pigtails.

* {{Retraux}}: It's styled after old animated [=PSAs=].

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Billy's design is mostly identical to his final one but Mandy's completey different. She wears pigtails and has different clothes on.

* BlackBeadEyes: The character's have black dots for eyes.

The short has a simple plot: A boy named Billy asks his friend Mandy about the bandages on her head. She tells him that she drilled a hole in her head so that she can fulfill her brain's full potential. Billy then decides to get a hole drilled into his on own hole.

Years later the characters were revived for ''WesternAnimation/GrimAndEvil'' and then later ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''.