History WesternAnimation / TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndmandy

Grim is now (begrudgingly) forced to serve as something of an underworld version of Film/MaryPoppins, 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. Thus goes ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'', a absurd HorrorComedy series created by Maxwell Atoms for Creator/CartoonNetwork.

* OverwhelmingException: Despite Mandy's apathy and cold personality towards anyone she encounters, it has been implied multiple times that Mandy actually cares for Billy and he is the only one she respects. (Unlike Grim who gets abuse on a regular basis by slave labour while Billy would relax with Mandy.) A notable example would be in ''Big Boogey Adventure'', she was in denial and was teary-eyed when Billy supposedly died, however she was pleasantly surprised that he had survived but regretted worrying about him because as she said "Billy's always fine".
** Mandy has commented several times that she hates Billy, and she would rather not have him in her life. But, in the Dune parody, she has a Billy Clone and a lot of spares made after the original died. If she truly hated him she wouldn't have made clones of him.

TheGrimReaper 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 polar-opposite children: The [[TheDitz blissfully idiotic Billy]] (the hamster's owner) and [[CreepyChild the cynical, amoral Mandy]] (Billy's best friend.) [[ChessWithDeath The pair challenge "Grim" to a limbo contest to save the hamster]]; when Grim loses (through Mandy's cheating) he becomes Billy and Mandy's newest friend -- and by "friend," we mean that he's contractually bound to cater to their every whim. Grim begrudgingly serves as something of an underworld version of Film/MaryPoppins, 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. Thus goes ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'', a absurd HorrorComedy series created by Maxwell Atoms for Creator/CartoonNetwork.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou:
** After Nergal ends up transforming everyone in Endsville into beings like him in "Something Stupid This Way Comes", he then transforms the viewer while saying that they'll be his bestest, closest friend of all.
** Several of the brief segments in the beginning of every episode of Mandy talking to the viewer have her make sinister threats toward them.

This show was the winner of the first Big Pick, a contest where viewers got to vote what pilot would be greenlit to be the next [[Creator/CartoonCartoons Cartoon Cartoon]]. The series was also originally paired up with another Maxwell Atoms cartoon called ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' to make up the ThreeShorts show known as ''Grim & Evil''. This early version of the show put more emphasis on the "horror" part of horror comedy, becoming the more goofy and comedic (but still pretty dark) ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'' when the two shows were separated into their own series.

This show was the winner of the first Big Pick, a contest where viewers got to vote what pilot would be greenlit to be the next [[Creator/CartoonCartoons Cartoon Cartoon]]. The series was also originally known as ''Grim & Evil'', a ThreeShorts show that included another cartoon called ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne''. This early version of the show put more emphasis on the "horror" part of horror comedy, becoming the more goofy and comedic (but still pretty dark) ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'' when the two shows were separated into their own series.

*** "YOU FOOLS! YOU'VE DISRUPTED THE NATURAL ORDER!"

TheGrimReaper 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 polar-opposite children: The [[TheDitz blissfully idiotic Billy]] (the hamster's owner) and [[CreepyChild the cynical, amoral Mandy]] (Billy's best friend.) [[ChessWithDeath 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 cater to their every whim. Grim begrudgingly serves as something of an underworld version of Film/MaryPoppins, 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. Thus goes ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'', a absurd HorrorComedy series created by Maxwell Atoms for Creator/CartoonNetwork.

* FaceYourFears: In order to claim possession of Horror's Hand (which makes people see their worst fears come to life), Billy, Mandy, and Irwin must face their fears to overcome it.

Rounding out the show's cast are Billy's parents [[BumblingDad Harold]] and [[AmbiguousDisorder Gladys]], who have unfortunately passed on their respective stupidity and insanity onto their son, Irwin, Billy's [[RememberTheNewGuy other]] best friend and the TokenMinority (who also has a massive, unrequited, crush on Mandy), Sperg TheBully, Mindy the AlphaBitch, [[Franchise/EvilDead Hoss]] [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork Delgado]], a supernatural bounty hunter with more brawn than brains, Eris, the goddess of chaos and discord, General Skarr (formerly seen in ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'') 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.

Rounding out the show's cast are Billy's parents Harold and Gladys, who have unfortunately passed on their respective stupidity and insanity onto their son, Irwin, Billy's [[RememberTheNewGuy other]] best friend and the TokenMinority (who also has a massive, unrequited, crush on Mandy), Sperg TheBully, Mindy the AlphaBitch, [[Franchise/EvilDead Hoss]] [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork Delgado]], a supernatural bounty hunter with more brawn than brains, Eris, the goddess of chaos and discord, General Skarr (formerly seen in ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'') 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.

Rounding out the show's cast are Irwin, Billy's [[RememberTheNewGuy other]] best friend and the TokenMinority (who also has a massive, unrequited, crush on Mandy), Sperg TheBully, Mindy the AlphaBitch, [[Franchise/EvilDead Hoss]] [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork Delgado]], a supernatural bounty hunter with more brawn than brains, Eris, the goddess of chaos and discord, General Skarr (formerly seen in ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'') 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.

* DownerEnding: A whole lot of the episodes leave the main characters, often along with the rest of the world dead, eaten, horribly transformed or in some surreal dead-end. The lack of any continuity was the one thing that kept the punch-line from being a gut-punch as well. The series finale, ''Wrath of the Spider Queen'' ends with Velma taking over the world with her spider people despite rekindling her friendship with Grim. Even when it seems like Billy has finally made peace with his son, Jeff, he goes back to his abusive ways when he rediscovers his son is a spider.

* CrossoverPunchline: "Dream Date" ended with the punchline that the whole short was actually [[WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends Wilt]]'s dream.

* DownerEnding: Mostly. The series finale, ''Wrath of the Spider Queen'' ends with Velma taking over the world with her spider people despite rekindling her friendship with Grim. Even when it seems like Billy has finally made peace with his son, Jeff, he goes back to his abusive ways when he rediscovers his son is a spider.
** This doesn't seem to last long though as the sequel spin-off movie ''[[=WesternAnimation/Underfist=]]'' shows the world is no longer ruled by Velma.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: In ''Big Boogey Adventure'' Billybot and Mandroid regularly use the word "assimilate" as a synonym for "destroy". The actual definition of assimilate is more or less the same as the word "absorb".