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** In 2021, Atoms pitched a revival movie for ''Billy & Mandy'', [[https://www.tumblr.com/maxwellatoms/661969549430767617/i-may-as-well-be-a-tease-this-was-the-cover titled]] "Billy & Mandy Destroy Us All (A Cosmic Horror Musical)". The pitch was rejected by Cartoon Network due to their target audience being unfamiliar with the series by that point.

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** In 2021, Atoms pitched a revival movie for ''Billy & Mandy'', [[https://www.tumblr.com/maxwellatoms/661969549430767617/i-may-as-well-be-a-tease-this-was-the-cover titled]] "Billy & Mandy Destroy Us All (A Cosmic Horror Musical)". The pitch was rejected by Cartoon Network due to their target audience being unfamiliar with the series by that point. Atoms elaborated on the pitch in [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/autism-accepted-103037406 this Patreon post]], noting that it was a multiverse story "about living life with Autism". The villain of the movie would have been "The Edgelord", the Reaper of the Multiverse, who eliminates universes with paradoxes. The film would also have revealed that the show's NegativeContinuity had all actually occurred across different universes.
---> ''The script starts with Mandy at age 20-ish. And her life isn't what she thought it was going to be. She works at a diner rather than ruling the world. She lives at home with her parents, who now make unboxing videos to stay afloat. Grim and Billy have moved away after some horrible fight. She's friends with Irwin and Mindy. And on top of it all, she's been diagnosed with "Frownington's Syndrome", so her characteristic scowl has just been a medical condition rather than anything she chose for herself. In short– everything seems to suck.\\
[...] The primary cast was to be Future Grim from the Dune episode, Adult Mandy, and a typical Billy. Later on, they pick up the pilot versions of the characters for a bit. Eris played a heavy supporting role.\\
[...] So basically, every time Billy ate himself or Mandy wished the world out of existence, those things actually happened. We get to revisit old episodes. We get alternate Billys and Mandys. We get to see some cool apocalypses. We return to The Halls of Time. There's a boppin' song I'm particularly fond of called "Rise From The Grave" where Billy, Mandy, and Grim go to all of the universes where Billy & Mandy have died in order to resurrect a zombie army.''
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** Creator/GilbertGottfried, Creator/CarolKane and Creator/MalcolmMcdowell are Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus and Baron Von Ghoulish in "Billy & Mandy Save Christmas".

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** Creator/GilbertGottfried, Creator/CarolKane and Creator/MalcolmMcdowell [[Creator/MalcolmMcdowell Malcolm McDowell]] are Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus and Baron Von Ghoulish in "Billy & Mandy Save Christmas".


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** The late Creator/BettyWhite voiced Mrs. Doolin in "Who Killed Who?".

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** The ''Underfist'' movie was meant as a possible pilot for a new spin-off series (made a bit more obvious due to the new animation style), but Cartoon Network turned it down. Some sources say that the creator, Maxwell Atoms, pitched the idea as a prank. Atoms confirmed in his interview with WebVideo/RebelTaxi that the rejection was due to changes in network heads.

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** The ''Underfist'' movie was meant as a possible backdoor pilot for a new spin-off series (made a bit more obvious due to the new animation style), but Cartoon Network turned it down. Some sources say that the creator, Maxwell Atoms, pitched the idea as a prank. series. Atoms confirmed in his an interview with WebVideo/RebelTaxi that the rejection was due to changes in network heads.management during the TV movie's production killed plans for the show.



** The appearance of human Grim in "Night of the Living Grim" was originally meant to [[InkSuitActor resemble his voice actor, Greg Eagles]], before someone pointed out the [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything dubious optics]] of two white children basically owning a black man.
** Players of the game probably notice how Jeff seems to be the most major character missing from the roster. While on the Pizza Party Podcast, [[WordofGod Maxwell Atoms confirmed]] he was in development but [[DummiedOut got cut at the last minute]] for predictable reasons; he's a harder to program giant spider rather than a bipedal humanoid.
** Atoms also mentioned he thinks he recalls Billy's mom being mentioned a few times when thinking up the roster. This is confirmed through there being unused text in the game that implies both her and Mindy were planned to be playable.
** [[https://maxwellatoms.tumblr.com/post/658098016444661760/did-you-ever-pitch-billy-and-mandy-to-nickelodeon The show]] was pitched to Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} before Cartoon Network, but they rejected it as it featured the Grim Reaper as a main character.
** Atoms revealed on his Tumblr that he had [[https://maxwellatoms.tumblr.com/post/660003543871324160/if-krampus-had-been-more-well-known-when-you-were originally planned to use Krampus]] in the ChristmasSpecial, but since Krampus ''looks'' like a devil, he knew Cartoon Network would never allow it, so we got Vampire Santa instead.
** In the [[Recap/CodenameKidsNextDoorSpecialTheGrimAdventuresOfTheKND crossover episode]] with ''Codename: Kids Next Door'', Mandy was originally going to torture Numbuh 1 by having him watch ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'', but the execs turned it down as they thought it was too obscure of a reference. They changed it to Numbuh 1 being tortured with ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'', but it was still thought to be too obscure of a reference. So they changed it to Numbuh 1 being tortured by Fred Fredburger.
** In 2021, Atoms pitched a revival movie for ''Billy & Mandy'', [[https://www.tumblr.com/maxwellatoms/661969549430767617/i-may-as-well-be-a-tease-this-was-the-cover titled]] "Billy & Mandy Destroy Us All (A Cosmic Horror Musical)". The pitch was rejected by Cartoon Network due to their target audience not knowing the show anymore. Concept art included an aged-up Mandy, possibly indicating a TimeSkip (or not, considering Billy is still depicted as a kid in said concept art).

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** The appearance of human Grim in "Night of the Living Grim" was originally meant to [[InkSuitActor resemble his voice actor, Greg Eagles]], before someone pointed out the [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything dubious optics]] of two white children basically owning a black man.
** Players of the game probably notice how Jeff seems to be the most major character missing from the roster. While on the Pizza Party Podcast, [[WordofGod Maxwell Atoms confirmed]] he that Jeff the Spider was planned as a playable character in development the video game, but [[DummiedOut got cut at the last minute]] for predictable reasons; he's a harder to program giant spider rather than a bipedal humanoid.
** Atoms also mentioned he thinks he recalls
humanoid. Billy's mom being mentioned a few times when thinking up the roster. This is confirmed through there being unused text in the game that implies both her and Mindy were planned to be playable.
also considered for the game's roster.
** [[https://maxwellatoms.tumblr.com/post/658098016444661760/did-you-ever-pitch-billy-and-mandy-to-nickelodeon The show]] was pitched to Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} before Cartoon Network, but they Network. Nickelodeon rejected it as it featured on the basis that, while they liked the pitch, no one would greenlight a kids' show starring the Grim Reaper as a main character.
** Atoms revealed on his Tumblr that he had [[https://maxwellatoms.tumblr.com/post/660003543871324160/if-krampus-had-been-more-well-known-when-you-were originally planned to use considered using Krampus]] in the ChristmasSpecial, but since Krampus ''looks'' like a devil, he knew looks demonic and Cartoon Network would never executives had come to regret allow it, so we got Vampire Santa instead.
having previous shows use "the Devil" as a character, he didn't bother to even pitch that version.
** In the [[Recap/CodenameKidsNextDoorSpecialTheGrimAdventuresOfTheKND crossover episode]] with ''Codename: Kids Next Door'', Mandy was originally going to torture Numbuh 1 by having him watch ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'', but the execs turned it down as down; both because they thought were concerned ''Sheep in the Big City'' creator Mo Willems would be offended by the joke (he wasn't) and believing it was too obscure of a reference. They changed it to Numbuh 1 being tortured with ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'', but it was still thought to be too obscure of a reference. So they changed it to reference, hence the final episode having Numbuh 1 being tortured by Fred Fredburger.
** In 2021, Atoms pitched a revival movie for ''Billy & Mandy'', [[https://www.tumblr.com/maxwellatoms/661969549430767617/i-may-as-well-be-a-tease-this-was-the-cover titled]] "Billy & Mandy Destroy Us All (A Cosmic Horror Musical)". The pitch was rejected by Cartoon Network due to their target audience not knowing being unfamiliar with the show anymore. Concept art included an aged-up Mandy, possibly indicating a TimeSkip (or not, considering Billy is still depicted as a kid in said concept art).series by that point.
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* SameContentDifferentRating: The show was originally rated TV-Y7 for its original run, but the reruns on the "Checkered Past" block are rated TV-PG instead.

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* SameContentDifferentRating: The show was originally rated TV-Y7 TV-Y7-FV for its original run, but the beginning in 2023 after reruns on of the "Checkered Past" block are rated TV-PG instead.show began airing on Adult Swim, the series was re-rated TV-PG, even on Max, where the show originally had its former rating back when it was added to the service.
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** In 2021, Atoms pitched a revival movie for ''Billy & Mandy'', [[https://www.tumblr.com/maxwellatoms/661969549430767617/i-may-as-well-be-a-tease-this-was-the-cover titled]] “Billy & Mandy Destroy Us All (A Cosmic Horror Musical)”. The pitch was rejected by Cartoon Network due to their target audience not knowing the show anymore. Concept art included an aged-up Mandy, possibly indicating a TimeSkip.

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** In 2021, Atoms pitched a revival movie for ''Billy & Mandy'', [[https://www.tumblr.com/maxwellatoms/661969549430767617/i-may-as-well-be-a-tease-this-was-the-cover titled]] “Billy & Mandy Destroy Us All (A Cosmic Horror Musical)”. The pitch was rejected by Cartoon Network due to their target audience not knowing the show anymore. Concept art included an aged-up Mandy, possibly indicating a TimeSkip.TimeSkip (or not, considering Billy is still depicted as a kid in said concept art).
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** Creator/MichaelDorn and Creator/RLeeErmey are King Beardbottom and the drill Seargant in "Here Thar Be Dwarves".

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** Creator/MichaelDorn and Creator/RLeeErmey are King Beardbottom and the drill Seargant Drill Sergeant in "Here Thar Be Dwarves".
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** Creator/KurtwoodSmith voices Grim's Dad.

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** Creator/KurtwoodSmith voices Grim's Dad.Dad in "Dad Day Afternoon".
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** Creator/GilbertGottfried, Creator/CarolKane and CreatorMalcolmMcdowell are Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus and Baron Von Ghoulish in "Billy & Mandy Save Christmas".

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** Creator/GilbertGottfried, Creator/CarolKane and CreatorMalcolmMcdowell Creator/MalcolmMcdowell are Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus and Baron Von Ghoulish in "Billy & Mandy Save Christmas".
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** Creator/KurtwoodSmith voices Grim's Dad.
** Creator/HenryGibson is Lord Pain in "House of Pain".
** Creator/WayneKnight voices Jack O'Lantern in "Billy & Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween".


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** Creator/LouieAnderson voices Burt in "Fear and Loathing in Endsville".
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** Creator/DavidWarner was the original voice of Nergal before being replaced by Creator/MartinJarvis.
** Creator/JohnVernon was the original voice of Dean Toadblatt before being replaced by Creator/RonnieSchell.
** Creator/MichaelDorn and Creator/RLeeErmey are King Beardbottom and the drill Seargant in "Here Thar Be Dwarves".
** Creator/GilbertGottfried, Creator/CarolKane and CreatorMalcolmMcdowell are Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus and Baron Von Ghoulish in "Billy & Mandy Save Christmas".

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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: How accidental is up to debate, but the show's version of Dracula is actually pretty accurate compared to the original novel, especially in terms of appearance. They even got the DaywalkingVampire thing right!

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How accidental is up to debate, but the show's version of Dracula is actually pretty accurate compared to the original novel, especially in terms of appearance. They even got the DaywalkingVampire thing right!
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** Creator/JamesArnoldTaylor reprises his role of [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]] in "Modern Primitives" after voicing him in various commercials. The same episode also has Creator/FrankWelker return as Barney Rubble (from various media since 1990) and Creator/GreyDeLisle as Betty Rubble (from ''The Flintstones On The Rocks'').
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** Atoms also mentioned he thinks he recalls Billy's mom being mentioned a few times when thinking up the roster.

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** Atoms also mentioned he thinks he recalls Billy's mom being mentioned a few times when thinking up the roster. This is confirmed through there being unused text in the game that implies both her and Mindy were planned to be playable.
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** Dean Toadblatt was voiced by John Vernon in his first three appearances, but due to his death, in "Nigel Planter and the Order of the Peanuts", Vernon was replaced with Ronnie Schell, who gave Toadblatt a much different hillbilly-like attitude. The change was lampshaded by one of the students at Toadblatt's, and the change may have been used to make reference to the fact that the same thing had happened with Albus Dumbledore in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' films.

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** Dean Toadblatt was voiced by John Vernon Creator/JohnVernon in his first three appearances, but due to his death, in "Nigel Planter and the Order of the Peanuts", Vernon was replaced with Ronnie Schell, who gave Toadblatt a much different hillbilly-like attitude. The change was lampshaded by one of the students at Toadblatt's, and the change may have been used to make reference to the fact that the same thing had happened with Albus Dumbledore in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' films.
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* SameContentDifferentRating: The show was originally rated TV-Y7 for its original run, but the reruns on the "Checkered Past" block are rated TV-PG instead.
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* ChannelHop: The show aired on mainline Creator/CartoonNetwork for the duration of its run. However, in 2023, reruns started airing on Creator/AdultSwim as part of its new "Checkered Past" block of classic Cartoon Network shows.
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* ThrowItIn: Greg Eagles originally intended to voice Grim with a Trinidadian accent as a ShoutOut to actor ''Creator/GeoffreyHolder'', but it accidentally came out sounding more Jamaican and they decided to just go with that because it sounded funnier.

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* ThrowItIn: Greg Eagles originally intended to voice Grim with a Trinidadian accent as a ShoutOut to actor ''Creator/GeoffreyHolder'', Creator/GeoffreyHolder, but it accidentally came out sounding more Jamaican and they decided to just go with that because it sounded funnier.
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** In the pilot short, ''Recap/BillyAndMandyInTrepanationOfTheSkullAndYou'', Billy was originally voiced by series creator Creator/MaxwellAtoms, while Mandy was voiced by his sister, Nicole. In the series proper, Billy and Mandy are respectively voiced by Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz and Creator/GreyDeLisle.
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://grimadventures.wikia.com/wiki/The_Grim_Adventures_of_Billy_and_Mandy_Wiki:Main_Page The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy Wiki]], and another [[http://billymandygrim.wikia.com/wiki/The_Grim_Adventures_of_Billy_and_Mandy_Wiki:Main_Page The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy Wiki]].
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** In 2021, Atoms pitched a revival movie for ''Billy & Mandy'', [[https://www.tumblr.com/maxwellatoms/661969549430767617/i-may-as-well-be-a-tease-this-was-the-cover titled]] “Billy & Mandy Destroy Us All (A Cosmic Horror Musical)”. The pitch was rejected by Cartoon Network due to their target audience not knowing the show anymore. Concept art included an aged-up Mandy, possibly indicating a TimeSkip.
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* TropeNamer:
** PresidentEvil
** TooSpicyForYogSothoth
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** While the show's version of Thor in "A Kick in the Asgard" isn't physically accurate to the mythical warrior (once again being blonde as opposed to a redhead) they were correct in that Thor in Norse myth was very stupid and gullible, as evidenced by how easily he's defeated in battle and how easily Billy took Mjölnir.

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* CreatorBacklash: Creator/VanessaMarshall has distanced herself from her role as Irwin, saying that an African-American actor should have voiced him.



* OldShame: Creator/VanessaMarshall has distanced herself from her role as Irwin, saying that an African-American actor should have voiced him.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: According to [[https://maxwellatoms.tumblr.com/post/172976961332/did-you-know-that-the-name-of-your-character a Tumblr post]] from series creator Maxwell Atoms, Sperg was named after one of the writers' childhood friends, whose last name was Spergel.

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* EndOfAnAge: "Meet the Reaper" was the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bdBHMpsnwE very last new cartoon]] to be made under the Creator/HannaBarbera name and bear its logo. By the time ''Grim and Evil'' formally began production, the transition from Hanna-Barbera to Cartoon Network Studios was complete.

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* EndOfAnAge: "Meet the Reaper" was the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bdBHMpsnwE very last new cartoon]] (that isn't a continuation of a legacy franchise) to be made under the Creator/HannaBarbera name and bear its logo. By the time ''Grim and Evil'' formally began production, the transition from Hanna-Barbera to Cartoon Network Studios was complete.
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* RelationshipVoiceActor: [[Creator/TomKenny The Secret]] [[Creator/BillyWest Snake Club's members]] are voiced by [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Philip and Yancy Fry.]]

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* ActingForTwo: There are a few examples in the series:
** Billy and his father Harold are both voiced by Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz.
** Grim and Sperg have a few scenes together throughout the series; both of them are voiced by Creator/GregEagles.
** Irwin's family is full of this. Irwin's dad, [[CrossDressingVoices grandmother]], and grandfather (Dracula) are all voiced by Creator/PhilLamarr. Creator/VanessaMarshall voices Irwin's mother and Irwin himself.



* TalkingToHimself: There are a few examples in the series:
** Billy and his father Harold are both voiced by Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz.
** Grim and Sperg have a few scenes together throughout the series; both of them are voiced by Creator/GregEagles.
** Irwin's family is full of this. Irwin's dad, [[CrossDressingVoices grandmother]], and grandfather (Dracula) are all voiced by Creator/PhilLamarr. Creator/VanessaMarshall voices Irwin's mother and Irwin himself.
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* FakeNationality: American Creator/GregEagles uses a Jamaican accent for Grim.

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