Line #19 Trivia/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy


1	* AccidentallyCorrectWriting:
2	** 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!
3	** 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.
4	* ActingForTwo: There are a few examples in the series:
5	** Billy and his father Harold are both voiced by Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz.
6	** Grim and Sperg have a few scenes together throughout the series; both of them are voiced by Creator/GregEagles.
7	** 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.
8	* ActorInspiredElement:
9	** Grim wasn't conceived as having a Jamaican accent. Greg Eagles just did a deep voice in his audition and was told to "put a twist on it." He attempted to do a Trinidadian accent, modelled after famous actor Creator/GeoffreyHolder, but it came out as Jamaican, which [[ThrowItIn everyone thought worked much better]].
10	*** Rumor speculated that Eagles attempted a [[Film/TheSeventhSeal Swedish accent]], but Eagles himself confirmed it was never the case.
11	** Likewise, Vanessa Marshall, who is white, was unaware that Irwin was African-American when she started voicing the character, having only seen a line drawing beforehand, which led to the writers incorporating more jive talk in his dialogue.
12	* CelebrityVoiceActor:
13	** Creator/DavidWarner was the original voice of Nergal before being replaced by Creator/MartinJarvis.
14	** Creator/JohnVernon was the original voice of Dean Toadblatt before being replaced by Creator/RonnieSchell.
15	** Creator/KurtwoodSmith voices Grim's Dad in "Dad Day Afternoon".
16	** Creator/HenryGibson is Lord Pain in "House of Pain".
17	** Creator/WayneKnight voices Jack O'Lantern in "Billy & Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween".
18	** Creator/MichaelDorn and Creator/RLeeErmey are King Beardbottom and the Drill Sergeant in "Here Thar Be Dwarves".
19	** Creator/GilbertGottfried, Creator/CarolKane and [[Creator/MalcolmMcdowell Malcolm McDowell]] are Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus and Baron Von Ghoulish in "Billy & Mandy Save Christmas".
20	** Creator/LouieAnderson voices Burt in "Fear and Loathing in Endsville".
21	** The late Creator/BettyWhite voiced Mrs. Doolin in "Who Killed Who?".
22	* 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.
23	* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Played straight with Nigel Planter, who was voiced by Jake Thomas (of ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'' fame), whose age was 13 when the character debuted.
24	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: The official {{Creator/Netflix}} description for the show calls Billy and Mandy siblings. While they [[VitriolicBestBuds hang out a lot]], they're not related in any sense of the word.
25	* CreatorBacklash: Creator/VanessaMarshall has distanced herself from her role as Irwin, saying that an African-American actor should have voiced him.
26	* CrossDressingVoices:
27	** Irwin is voiced by Creator/VanessaMarshall, Pud'n is voiced by Jane Carr, and Nergal Jr. is voiced by Debi Derryberry.
28	** Irwin's grandmama Tanya is voiced by Creator/PhilLamarr.
29	** Lubber, a female worm-like creature who has a major crush on Grim in "The Secret Decoder Ring" is voiced by Creator/CharlieAdler.
30	* DescendedCreator: Creator/MaxwellAtoms voices Jeff the Spider. He also voices Piff in the episode "Crushed".
31	* DiagnosisOfGod: Creator/MaxwellAtoms (who has Asperger's) revealed that Billy, Mandy and Grim are autistic.
32	* 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.
33	* FakeBrit: Eris, whose American voice actress, Creator/RachaelMacFarlane, uses a British accent. What makes it funny, however, is that she's supposed to be a GREEK goddess. Furthermore, she also speaks like a ValleyGirl. Mainly, though, her mannerisms were meant to be a reference to {{Music/Madonna}}.
34	* FakeNationality: American Creator/GregEagles uses a Jamaican accent for Grim.
35	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The first season was released on DVD but that has long since gone out of print. The same can be said for ''[[WesternAnimation/BillyAndMandysBigBoogeyAdventure Big Boogey Adventure]]'''s DVD, and several episodes that were released either on Cartoon Network Holiday Compilations or as extras on other [=DVDs=]. Other than that, you had to rely on recordings from the Cartoon Network broadcasts and hope those wouldn't be taken down due to copyright. Thankfully, the entire series (sans ''Billy & Mandy’s Big Boogey Adventure'', the ChristmasSpecial, and ''Underfist'') is available on iTunes, Creator/PrimeVideo, and, as of 2021, Creator/HBOMax. The show's first two seasons were also on Netflix, but are no longer there.
36	** As of June 2021, the entire series, '''including''' ''WesternAnimation/BillyAndMandysBigBoogeyAdventure'', ''Underfist'' and the ChristmasSpecial, are available on Creator/HBOMax in Latin America
37	** ''Grim & Evil'' in its original format. While every individual episode is easily available in the repackages of this show and ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' after both split up, it's very difficult to find ''Grim & Evil'' itself (possibly a result of this), and additional Mandy intros that weren't reused for the standalone ''Billy & Mandy'' series became rare. This is even moreso the case of the unaired third season, as it only properly aired as ''G&E'' in international countries. While the entirety of ''G&E'' was at one point made available through VOD services in 2017 (including the unaired third season, where it finally saw release), it was quietly removed in 2019.
38	* MoneyDearBoy: Ever wonder why the majority of "Little Rock of Horrors" is just the Music/{{Voltaire}} song? It's because Creator/CartoonNetwork was paying him by however many seconds of music he composed, hence his padding it out with instrumental vamping to make it as long as possible.
39	* TheOtherDarrin:
40	** 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.
41	** Creator/DavidWarner was the original voice of Nergal, but was later replaced with Creator/MartinJarvis.
42	** Dean Toadblatt was voiced by 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.
43	** Creator/WayneKnight was the original voice of Jack O' Lantern, but in the video game, he was replaced with Creator/MauriceLaMarche.
44	* TheOtherMarty: Creator/GreyDeLisle revealed that she replaced Maxwell Atoms' then wife as the voice of Mandy in the final version of "Meet the Reaper".
45	* OutOfOrder: The episode order is severely scrambled on Creator/HBOMax. Most notably, the episode with "Meet the Reaper" is the 11th episode of the first season.
46	* PosthumousCredit: Creator/JohnVernon's final performance as Dean Toadblatt aired several months after his death in February 2005.
47	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/VanessaMarshall, traditionally known for playing adult female characters, voices the [[CrossdressingVoices young male]] Irwin.
48	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Part of the eeriness in "BRAINS" is how its performed in an odd off key. This happened purely on accident, as it was the result of Voltaire not tuning his guitar before recording, and the other instrumentalists trying to tune to him. He’s even commented that he hasn't quite been able to match it since.
49	* RoleReprise:
50	** With the aforementioned exception of Creator/MauriceLaMarche replacing Creator/WayneKnight as the voice of Jack O' Lantern, every character featured in the video game is played by the same voice actor who plays them in the show.
51	** Creator/TomKenny reprises his role as [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Boo-Boo]] in "Here Thar Be Dwarves" after previously voicing him on ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'' and ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''.
52	** 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'').
53	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: According to Maxwell Atoms, Michael Ouweleen, who became an executive within Cartoon Network during the show's final season, publicly fired him during a meeting, dressing him down and accusing him of ruining the Cartoon Network brand with his "hateful fart cartoon," which is why ''Underfist'' was canceled after its pilot movie.
54	* SameContentDifferentRating: The show was originally rated TV-Y7-FV for its original run, but beginning in 2023 after reruns of the 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.
55	* SurprisinglyLenientCensor: WordOfGod from Maxwell Atoms is that the rampant BlackComedy on the show generally got past unopposed. He attributes this to the censors not really being used to dealing with that style of humor, and instead they focused more on clamping down on crude sex jokes and language.
56	* 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.
57	* {{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.
58	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
59	** The ''Underfist'' movie was meant as a backdoor pilot for a new spin-off series. Atoms confirmed in an interview with WebVideo/RebelTaxi that changes in network management during the TV movie's production killed plans for the show.
60	*** It was rumored that [[EnsembleDarkhorse Jack O’Lantern]] was supposed to make a cameo in ''Underfist'', but it was cut.
61	** Grim was initially going to be an {{expy}} of [[Series/LostInSpace Dr. Smith]], complete with Creator/JonathanHarris voicing him.
62	** [[http://67.media.tumblr.com/b473205cd2303022605138153040e6ba/tumblr_nywqlpEoLG1r2qm9ko6_1280.jpg Mandy's original design]] was closer to her appearance in Maxwell Atoms' short film where she originally appeared, having GirlishPigtails and BlackBeadEyes. Also, she was originally going to have [[FieryRedhead red hair]].
63	** "Brains!" originally had one lyric about {{Dumb Blonde}}s: "Bring me a brunette, a redhead, I just don't care, just don't bring me those girls with the long blonde hair, 'cause everyone knows there's nothing in there." Cartoon Network vetoed it for being potentially offensive.
64	** 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 owning a black man.
65	** While on the Pizza Party Podcast, [[WordofGod Maxwell Atoms confirmed]] that Jeff the Spider was planned as a playable character in 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. Billy's mom and Mindy were also considered for the game's roster.
66	** [[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. Nickelodeon rejected it on the basis that, while they liked the pitch, no one would greenlight a kids' show starring the Grim Reaper as a main character.
67	** Atoms revealed on his Tumblr that he had [[https://maxwellatoms.tumblr.com/post/660003543871324160/if-krampus-had-been-more-well-known-when-you-were considered using Krampus]] in the ChristmasSpecial, but since Krampus looks demonic and Cartoon Network executives had come to regret allow having previous shows use "the Devil" as a character, he didn't bother to even pitch that version.
68	** 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; both because they 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, hence the final episode having Numbuh 1 being tortured by Fred Fredburger.
69	** 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.
70	* WriteWhatYouKnow: Evidently, Mandy is based on Maxwell Atoms' ex-wife.
71	* WrittenByCastMember: [[Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz Richard Horvitz]] wrote two episodes: "The Bad News Ghouls" (with Vincent Waller, who also storyboarded this episode) and "Keeper of the Reaper" (with his wife Kristen Lazarian and C.H. Greenblatt, who storyboarded the episode and voiced Fred Fredburger).
72	** Speaking of C.H. Greenblatt, every episode Fred appeared was also written and storyboarded by him.
73	** An earlier episode, "Educating Grim", was written by Mindy's voice actress Creator/RachaelMacFarlane.
74	* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/DiedrichBader as Hoss Delgado and Pat the Baker (a wussy video game character that Billy likes). Lampshaded in "Brown Evil", when Mandy and Grim say "It's Hoss Delgado!" while Billy yells "It's Pat the Baker!".
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