The moment Grim truly became The Grim Reaper.
Awesome moments in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
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The Main Series
- The moment that kickstarted the series: Mandy literally cheats Death himself.
- In "Whatever Happened to Billy Whatshisname?" Grim and Mandy replace Billy with an evil doppelganger named Bobby who attempts to completely take over Billy's life. Billy, in an ultra-rare moment of intelligence and cunning, steals Grim's scythe and banishes Bobby to another dimension.Billy: Alright, Bobby. It's on at dawn!
- Before making that deal with Billy and Mandy, Grim was pretty badass himself. After giving Jack O'Lantern eternal life in exchange for Jack returning his scythe, he made sure Jack learned Equivalent Exchange the hard way.Grim: But the Grim Reaper does not like being tricked! So I decided that Jack wouldn't be showing his face around town again. EVER!
- Even Mandy was impressed when she heard the story!
- Later in the episode we get an unexpected one from Irwin when he finally picks a serious costume. Jack has Mandy captured when suddenly, who should appear but the Knight who killed him! Too bad it’s cut short when it’s revealed to be Irwin dressed up who proceeds to trigger all Mandy’s traps.
- From the later episode "Pandora's Lunchbox", Pandora calling Mindy a loser, which immediately earns Mandy's respect. Mindy's reaction makes it all the satisfying.
- Also, Mandy's treatment of Skarr in his debut episode...Mandy: (sitting on Skarr's own armchair, clapping sarcastically) Bravo, Mr. Skarr, bravo. I've been watching you.General Skarr: (tries to blast Mandy with the scythe)Mandy: Oh, really, now. Put that thing down before you poke your other eye out.General Skarr: ....Mandy: Since you're new here, I'll be nice and explain the rules. (takes a nut from the bowl) I am the one who gets annoyed by Billy. I am the one who bosses Grim around. And most importantly, I am the one who plays with the scythe! (crashes the nut in a nutcracker meaningfully) So you see, when you steal from Grim, you steal from me. And you don't want to steal from me. Do you? (cracks another nut with just as much force)General Skarr: No! I... Wait...! This is mine! I earned it! You can't just... WHAT ARE YOU?!Mandy: (sinisterly) I'm just a pretty little girl.
- Also points for Grim and Billy cursing Mandy with a mask that will turn her into a donkey-like beast (a literal jackass) unless she acts nice to them in "Sickly Sweet". For perhaps one single point in the show they actually had her under their thumb. Granted she eventually sacrificed beauty to beat, or in this case, literally kick the living hell out of them, but even then they insist it was Worth It.
- In the episode "The Nerve", Mandy stands up to her own nerve (the source of her dominant personality which was stolen by Billy) without it.Mandy: Now you listen up, pal. You’re not what makes me Mandy! I don’t need some pompous polyp to make me dark, foreboding, and charmingly cynical. I am what makes me Mandy! You got that?
- Even better, this was right after her nerve had told her she was nothing without it.
- Mandy gets another one in "Duck!"; Grim has a dream that manifests a ghostly duck. The duck, who cannot be seen by anybody but its victim, follows random people around making farting noises just to annoy them, until they snap and end up either as social pariahs, or in jail. Finally, it gets to Mandy, who not only stoically and sarcastically rebuffs every one of the duck's attempts, but then feeds it a MAGNIFICENT "The Reason You Suck" Speech:Mandy: You think you've won? You think you've humiliated me? Broken me? Driven me crazy? When every day of my life I've had to deal with... (cut to a montage of Billy doing random stupidities). Compared to that, you're just an insignificant pimple on the butt of the world's smallest amoeba! You have no power over me.
(The duck's Villainous BSoD is so great that it erases itself from existence. With an actual fart no less.)- When the duck frames Mandy for using the intercom, Principal Goodvibes, of all people scares Mandy into submission. Next we see her, she just got back from her second week of detention.
- The end of "Who Killed Who?", when it's shown that Mrs. Doolin, The Rival to Grim (and voiced by the equally awesome Betty White), won the fight against Grim when he came for her, and was rewarded with immortality.Mandy: Wow... Mrs. Doolin beat Grim. She beat death.
- It's made even more epic when you realize that she beat Grim multiple times, to the point that he quit trying to collect her. It was a series of staring contests and Grim doesn't have eyelids!
- It wasn't just staring contests. She beat him in "Just about everything". Some of the examples she listed were Tennis, Golf, Boxing, and Poker, the last of which she won Grim's pet dog, Lucky.
- It's made even more epic when you realize that she beat Grim multiple times, to the point that he quit trying to collect her. It was a series of staring contests and Grim doesn't have eyelids!
- In "Wishbones", Grim manages to undo all the horrible things that happened in the episode by making the last wish on Thromnambular that he knows won’t backfire;Grim: I wish you two had never found that skull!
- Grim’s “clean-off” duel with Dickie in "Hurter Monkey". Only a show like this could make cleaning Billy’s house look like something out of an action movie. Grim even had a Lock-and-Load Montage beforehand!Grim: Groovy.
- In "GoodBling and the Hip-Hop-O'potamus", Irwin's Granmama beats Principal Goodvibes in a "Yo Mama" throw down. Some of the stuff she said doubles to Funny Moments as well.Granmama: Yo mama is so ugly she made onions cry! ... Yo mama is so stupid she took a ruler to bed to see how long she slept! ... Yo mama is so stupid she cheated off Billy's test! ... Yo mama is so ugly, she looked out the window and got arrested for mooning!
- Though it's ruined a few moments later, Grim reminding Billy's Mom just exactly who she's messing with is rather awesome.Grim: Foolish mortal! I don't think you know who I am. (Magics up his scythe) Let me give you a hint!
- In "Scythe For Sale" Irwin gets his hands on Grim's scythe and goes mad with power, turning Grim into a slug and hypnotizing Mandy into liking him. Billy and Grim go to get the scythe back and rescue Mandy and when Irwin thwarts Grim's attempt to snap Mandy out of it, Billy comes to the rescue by taunting Irwin to zap him with the scythe and dodges every blast sent at him while continuing to insult him."Nope! Missed me~! Try again! Uh-uh! You got NO-THIN'!!!"
- Billy gets another one a few seconds later. After Grim fails to knock the scythe out of Irwin's hands by catapulting rocks at him, he states that they need something harder than rocks. Billy, remembering a previous remark from Grim, immediately pulls out a plate of homemade sandwiches that, when launched, successfully knock the scythe away.
- In "My Peeps" Grim performs magical corrective surgery on Billy's eyes multiple times causing him to see the world in several different art styles. After stopping on one that makes the world seem like a Dr. Seuss story Billy thinks Grim and Mandy are laughing at him and loses it, chasing them down with Grim's scythe.
- In "Secret Snake Club", Billy joins the CIA, and proves to be quite competent, chasing down a criminal and even exposing Irwin's diabolical plot in the macrame club.
- Grim's guitar playing in "Battle of the Bands," which is so epic that ground cracks and demons erupt from the bowels of hell.
- In "Keeper of the Reaper", Judge Roy Spleen manages to scare Mandy into being quiet by threatening to put her in the chocolate pudding chair, one of the few beings who can get Mandy to behave.Judge Roy Spleen: The stains WILL NEVER COME OUT OF YOUR CLOTHES!
- Another moment has to be when after being humiliated by Mandy's trial, Billy turns the tables on her spectacularly by bringing in everyone who either fears her or hates her and she absolutely deserved every bit of it. Even better was that it was a reversal of their character archetypes by having Billy as the smart one and Mandy do something stupid as bite his finger in a fit of primal rage.
- Harold gets one in "Billy Idiot," where he not only figures out the evil plot of a ballet dancing dark sorceress quicker than Mandy did at the start, but then manages to destroy her by beating her in a ballet dance-off.
- Grim, in general, is just a walking skeleton of pure awesomeness.
- The way he confronts Sperg for the first time in "Billy and the Bully" is a prime example.
- Grim declaring Harold to be Billy's problem and the reason the boy is stupid in "The Problem With Billy".
- In "Yeti or Not, Here I Come", the Abominable Snowman, or "Abom" as he prefers to be called, has managed to evade Grim for eons. Every attempt Grim, Billy and Mandy make to catch him, he manages to trick his way out of. That's right, he even managed to pull one over on Mandy!Mandy: (as the Antarctic town square's bell tower is about to fall on her) Find him, Grim. Find him, and hurt him.
- But ultimately, it's Grim who has the last laugh when he chases Abom to just the right spot (a nearby glacier), and without even touching him, proves that you can't outrun Death forever.Grim: Well, Snowman, looks like you've gone and gotten yourself cornered!
Abom: Don't count your victories too fast, Grim! I've escaped death too many times to count!
Grim: Ah, Yeti, but this night I have a secret weapon at my disposal!
(Grim reaches into his cloak to pull out…)
Abom: A tape measure?
Grim: Just how far did you say these glaciers can travel in 24 hours, Snowman?
Abom: Six feet! What's your point?
Grim: Well, (holds up a wristwatch) it just happens to be midnight… Right. Now!
(Abom's eyes widen and he turns around just in time to be crushed by the glacier)
- But ultimately, it's Grim who has the last laugh when he chases Abom to just the right spot (a nearby glacier), and without even touching him, proves that you can't outrun Death forever.
- Mandy’s crush Piff gets a small one in "Crushed". That boy had the balls to literally spit in Grim's face.
- Mandy's Badass Boast against the nanny trying to convert her into a normal child and controlling everyone to essentially kill her. Bottom line? Never fuck with Mandy.Mandy: This is my world. I'm just letting you live here.
- Mandy giving payback to Billy after the latter pulls a Grand Theft Me on her in Get Out of My Head.
- After he becomes a substitute teacher and sends all of her classmates into the titular Dimension X, Grim goads Mandy into warping there, and she returns and sends him to the dimension.
- When Mandy declines an offer from Eris to rule the world after discovering she would be the second most powerful, she has Grim decapitate the teddy bears hypnotizing everyone.
Wrath of the Spider Queen
- Jeff the Spider epically Calling the Old Man Out after Billy calls Velma his girlfriend instead of his fiancee. Okay, granted he was possessed by the Alien Cow God of Aggression, but still.Jeff: Get away from me! I hate you, Dad! I hate you! I only wanted to be a good son and you never came to any of my birthday parties and you never let me see Mom, and you took all my college money to spend on jawbreakers and you kept cutting my brake cables and I've had it!
- Mandy and Mindy realizing that for once, they need to work together, fighting off Velma’s lackeys and horde of giant spiders.
- Throughout the flashback scenes, Grim had to put up with a lot of taunts and bullying in middle school, especially at the hands of Boogey... but it's after Boogey indirectly costs him his friendship with Velma during the Reaper Election, that Grim finally snaps. He grabs the prototype scythe out of Principal Spleen's hands and cuts a huge crack in the ground, unleashing a huge pillar of green fire and demonic spirits that proceed to give Boogey a well-deserved beatdown. He then tops it all off by letting out that Evil Laugh we all know and love, thus acting truly scary for the first time in his life, winning the Reaper Election by a landslide. And it. Is. GLORIOUS.
Underfist: Halloween Bash
- The opening narration done by Grim at the beginning of Underfist. It shows the Underfist logo panning slowly past the screen, with clips from the series shown inside as Grim narrates, then it zooms out, shimmers, and explodes. It oozes awesome:Grim: When you've been around as long as I have, man, you have some crazy stories. Stories about annoying little monsters, stories about monsters who think they're people, stories about people who fight monsters, and stories about people who fight people! But the strangest story of all, is about a youth whose baby-mama was a mummy, and whose granddaddy was Dracula himself! A kid who was half mummy, half vampire, half nerd! This is his story, man, and the story of that fateful Halloween night! This is the story of Underfist!
- Jeff and Fred's musical number, during which their choreography incidentally happens to beat up a large number of trick-or-treater eaters.
- Billy defeating a giant Halloween monster by simply eating it (the monster itself was made entirely out of candy).
- Hell, Underfist was one walking awesome moment what with 5 popular recurring characters becoming a badass team of heroes.
- Irwin unleashing his monster powers and being able to hold his own against Hoss.
- Bun Bun revealing that he was behind every major problem that befell everyone.
- General Skarr manages to get one. The team has been defeated, Skarr, being Skarr, has betrayed the good guys to Bun-Bun and all hope seems lost. Then, suddenly, Skarr betrays Bun-Bun, and saves the day. Turns out, if you're good at betraying others, that's still a power that can be used for good instead of evil.
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