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* PunWithPi: In the episode "Test of Time", Billy is reading a book on theoretical physics and when he gets to a formula with pi in it, he goes to get pie from the fridge.
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** A Ham Being from the WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel episode "The Magnificent Motorbikini" appears in "The Incredible Shrinking Mandy" as one of three giant beings who were growing infinitely in the Realm of the Infinite.
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* Rogues Gallery Transplant: General Skarr was a Villain Protagonist working for Hector Con Carne in ‘Evil Con Carne’. However, the show’s early cancellation lead to Skarr moving into Endsville and becoming a minor enemy to Billy and Grim instead.
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* GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: Billy is the optimistic and cheerful one who's often naïve, while Mandy is the devious, mean and grumpy one known for wearing an ironically cutesy wardrobe.
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* HonestyAesop: In "Hog Wild", Billy, rather than facing a punishment for wrecking his dad's motorcycle, uses Grim's scythe to fix it, ends up turns his parents and many others into biker monsters. The only way everything can co back to normal is if Billy confesses his lie.
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-->Billy: You know, Grim. This never would have happened if you never lent me the scythe in the first place.\\
Grim: I hate you Billy.

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-->Billy: --->'''Billy''': You know, Grim. This never would have happened if you never lent me the scythe in the first place.\\
Grim: '''Grim''': I hate you Billy.
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--> Likewise, after retrieving Grim's scythe and defeating Jack O' Lantern:
Billy: You know, Grim. This never would have happened if you never lent me the scythe in the first place.

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--> ** Likewise, after retrieving Grim's scythe and defeating Jack O' Lantern:
Billy: -->Billy: You know, Grim. This never would have happened if you never lent me the scythe in the first place.\\


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* WomenAreWiser: PlayedWith - they're much smarter on average than the men, most of whom wouldn't even be able to function in the real world, but they also tend to be either batshit insane or horribly unpleasant.
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* EldritchAbomination: Nergal Jr's true form is apparently horrific. Cthulhu's also showed up, and Yog Sothoth almost did. Also, ''Mandy''. (At least to her antagonists, and quite literally when she assumes an [[GodEmperorOfDune immortal slug form in the future]], allowing her to conquer Earth.)

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* EldritchAbomination: Nergal Jr's true form is apparently horrific. Cthulhu's also showed up, and Yog Sothoth almost did. Also, ''Mandy''. (At least to her antagonists, and quite literally when she assumes an [[GodEmperorOfDune [[Literature/GodEmperorOfDune immortal slug form in the future]], allowing her to conquer Earth.)
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--> Likewise, after retrieving Grim's scythe and defeating Jack O' Lantern:
Billy: You know, Grim. This never would have happened if you never lent me the scythe in the first place.
Grim: I hate you Billy.
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* YourSizeMayVary: The Squid Hat is the size of, well, a squid in his debut episode. By his final episode, he's as large as Toadblatt himself.

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* YourSizeMayVary: The Squid Hat is the size of, well, of a squid small hat in his debut episode. By his final episode, he's as large as Toadblatt himself.
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* YourSizeMayVary: The Squid Hat is the size of, well, a hat in his debut episode. By his final episode, he's as large as Toadblatt himself.

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* YourSizeMayVary: The Squid Hat is the size of, well, a hat squid in his debut episode. By his final episode, he's as large as Toadblatt himself.
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* YourSizeMayVary: The Squid Hat is the size of, well, a hat in his debut episode. By his final episode, he's as large as Toadblatt himself.
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* WorldOfWeirdness: While a walking, talking skeleton with a scythe would have turned heads at the start of the series, as time went on it becomes host to a wide variety of supernatural hokum that BystanderSyndrome became the common response.
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** The Dwarven battle cry is "laven sus manos", Spanish for "wash your hands".

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** The Dwarven battle cry is "laven sus manos", Spanish for "wash your hands". The Mexican dub didn't even bother changing it, it was considered funnier that way.
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* BloodlessCarnage: Despite being one of the most violent shows in Cartoon Network's catalogue and having some genuinely brutal slapstick, actual sights of blood are very rare.


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* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: Level 5. Frequent on-screen death and violence, most frequently to children, gruesome slapstick, internal body parts and organs are frequently shown and sometimes ripped out, and there's a RunningGag of Billy [[TearYourFaceOff getting his face torn off.]] Not to mention that, being a GrossOutShow, there's quite a lot of {{Squick}}-inducing imagery. It's generally BloodlessCarnage, though, and the extremely zany, wacky tone takes some of the edge off of even the nastiest scenes.
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** In that same episode, Hoss can't remember Billy's name either, referring to him as Randy, Otis, and Remus.
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->''!sdrawkcab ti gnidaer er'uoY !egap eht fo dne eht si siht ,on oN''

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->''!sdrawkcab ti gnidaer er'uoY !egap eht fo dne eht si siht ,on oN''oN''[[note]]No no, this is the end of the page! You're reading it backwards![[/note]]
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'''Grim:''' You're a vampire! [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Vampires suck]]! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Blood]]! \\

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'''Grim:''' You're a vampire! [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Vampires suck]]! suck! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Blood]]! \\

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* EnfantTerrible: Mandy is a young girl and has demonstrated many times that she can be pretty cruel

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* EndOfSeriesAwareness: Two of them in the final, sixth season.
** In "Everything Breaks", Lord Pain tells Billy that it's about time he visited, to which Billy replied "I'll say. The show's almost over!"
** In the "Wrath of the Spder Queen" special, Billy brings the Grim Reaper to class, to which Ms. Butterbean tells him "The GrimReaper ''was'' pretty cool the first five or six times you brought it to class, but the magic's sorta worn off."
* EnfantTerrible: Mandy is a young girl and has demonstrated many times that she can tends to be pretty cruelcruel and mean-sprited on her best days, and a outright world-conquering villain at her worst.


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* TheStinger: Scenes playing over the credits became increasingly common (to the point of eventually being true for every episode) as the series went on. Usually they were just a DeletedScene or WhatIf scenario, but occasionally they did conclude the plot of one of the previous segments.
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* NegativeContinuity: Many episodes end with characters being killed, given permanent transformations, or even straight up erased from existence, although it tends to recall certain events of various episodes.
* NeverSayDie: Obviously averted, what with death ''itself'' being a main character and all, and an episode titled "Who Killed Who?".

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* NegativeContinuity: Many An odd example - despite many episodes end ending with some sort of bizarre or apocalyptic DownerEnding that can only be resolved via SnapBack (such as the main characters dying, being killed, given permanent transformations, or even straight up erased from existence, although it tends to recall certain events or given a permanent BalefulPolymorph, everyone on earth becoming descendents of various episodes.
Billy, ''the entire universe imploding'' and turning into ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''...) [[ContinuityNod continuity nods]] and [[CallBack call backs]] are fairly common, and the status quo does occasionally shift around. Gets especially odd when the acknowledgement of a past episode coincides with the aforementioned SnapBack, as happened with the episodes that introduced Nergal Jr, the entire underworld court system, and Hoss Delgato and Eris's short lived relationship.
* NeverSayDie: Obviously Unsurprisingly given the premise, this is usually averted, what with death ''itself'' being but not always consistently - there's quite a main character and all, and an episode titled "Who Killed Who?".few times where they clearly have to dance around it by using substitutes like "destroy".
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* AmbiguouslyRelated: While it ultimately ends up [[AvertedTrope not being the case]], the first couple episodes aren’t very clear as to whether or not on Billy and Mandy are siblings. The PilotEpisode makes no mention of their relationship is and it ending with the two of them (and Grim) [[ThatCameOutWrong sharing the same bed]] certainly didn’t help matters. It isn’t until Mandy's parents are introduced is it more or less confirmed that Mandy simply just spends her free time at Billy's house. A gag in a later episode even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the fact that she [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave almost never goes home]].

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* AmbiguouslyRelated: While it ultimately ends up [[AvertedTrope not being the case]], the first couple episodes aren’t very clear as to whether or not on Billy and Mandy are siblings. The PilotEpisode makes no mention of what their relationship is and it ending with the two of them (and Grim) [[ThatCameOutWrong sharing the same bed]] certainly didn’t help matters. It isn’t until Mandy's parents are introduced is it more or less confirmed that Mandy simply just spends her free time at Billy's house. A gag in a later episode even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the fact that she [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave almost never goes home]].
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* ShotAtDawn: In one of the darkest jokes in the series (which is saying a lot), this is heavily implied to happen to Billy at the end of "Guess What's Coming to Dinner" after he attempts to escape the military school he's been enlisted in.
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->''!sdrawkcab ti gnidaer er'uoY !egap eht fo dne eht si siht ,on oN''
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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted in "Mommy Fearest", where Billy states that his mom "is grappling with the onset of menopause."
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* SlidingScaleOfRealisticVersusFantastic: ''Way'' down on the surreal end, especially later on.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [[Radar/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy A whole page.]]
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* DarkerandEdgier: The early seasons were significantly much darker and morbid in tone. After which, the later seasons were particularly toned down and emphasizing more on comedy, surrealism and toilet humor.

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* DarkerandEdgier: DarkerAndEdgier: The early seasons were significantly much darker and morbid in tone. After which, the later seasons were particularly toned down and emphasizing more on comedy, surrealism and toilet humor.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title refers to not only Grim being one of the main characters, but also the copious amounts of BlackComedy.
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* AmbiguouslyRelated: While it ultimately ends up [[AvertedTrope not being the case]], the first couple episodes aren’t very clear as to whether or not on Billy and Mandy are siblings. The PilotEpisode makes no mention of their relationship is and it ending with the two of them (and Grim) [[ThatCameOutWrong sharing the same bed]] certainly didn’t help matters. It isn’t until Mandy's parents are introduced is it more or less confirmed that Mandy simply just rarely goes home in favor of hanging out at Billy's house.

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* AmbiguouslyRelated: While it ultimately ends up [[AvertedTrope not being the case]], the first couple episodes aren’t very clear as to whether or not on Billy and Mandy are siblings. The PilotEpisode makes no mention of their relationship is and it ending with the two of them (and Grim) [[ThatCameOutWrong sharing the same bed]] certainly didn’t help matters. It isn’t until Mandy's parents are introduced is it more or less confirmed that Mandy simply just rarely goes home in favor of hanging out spends her free time at Billy's house.house. A gag in a later episode even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the fact that she [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave almost never goes home]].

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