Original Air Date: October 18, 2002
One night, Billy is feeling lonely, so he asks Mandy to play with him but she was busy reading a book. He asks Grim, but Grim turns him down too. Billy then goes over to Irwin's house to see what he is doing. Irwin is watching a movie, and doesn't see Billy in the window. Billy walks off, all mopey. He lookes at a twinkling star in the sky and made a wish for someone to play with him. The star came shooting out of the sky and into Billy's backyard! The star was just a meteor who sings! He asked Billy for some brains. So he gathered everyone in Endsville (except for Grim and Mandy). It accepted Irwin as its first victim. The last victim is Mandy. Mandy notices the meteor and walks over to it. The meteor eats her brain, but he melts due to her brain being "spicy". She becomes the meteor and asks Billy for brains.
"Little Rock of Horrors" contains examples of:
- Aside Glance: The alien brain gives one of these to the audience upon learning just how stupid Billy actually is.
- Black Dude Dies First: Irwin is the first person to get his brain sucked out.
- Card-Carrying Villain: The meteor even tells Billy straight up that he's your "average evil meteor from out of the sky".
- Downer Ending: Everyone in town is fed to the meteor, with seemingly no way to get them back, especially once Mandy becomes the new meteor and asks Billy to help her continue the conquest.
- Early-Bird Cameo: General Skarr makes an appearance as one of the many zombiefied citizens of Endsville a good while before Evil Con Carne ended and he became a regular on Billy and Mandy.
- Expy: With the entire episode being one big homage to Little Shop of Horrors, the Brain-Eating Meteor is an obvious parody of Audrey II, with him being from outer space, feasting on internal human parts to grow substantially larger, and being a Manipulative Bastard who sways Billy with promises of friendship the same way that Audrey II tempted Seymour.
- Faux Affably Evil: The meteor is only here to eat everyone's brains, but when Billy turns out to not have any, he turns on the charm and promises him that he'll be his best friend in return. The meteor's devouring of everyone in town and continued malicious expressions should make it clear to the audience that he doesn't mean a word of it.
- Hidden Depths: As stupid as Billy is, he seems to be rather charismatic when he needs to be. He lures people to the meteor without much hassle.
- Idiot Houdini: Billy gets no comeuppance for essentially leading thousands to their deaths.
- Musical Episode: The majority of the episode is the song "Brains!".
- Negative Continuity: As per standard of the show. Mandy is turned into a brain monster and everyone still has their brains removed, save for Billy. Everyone is fine by the next episode.
- Out of Focus: Grim doesn’t play a big role and while he does try to stop the meteor, it’s ultimately Mandy who does it.
- Pragmatic Villainy: The meteor tried to eat Billy's brain, only to find he doesn't have any. Making the best of it, the meteor hires Billy as his henchman to bring him brains.
- Self-Made Orphan: Downplayed. Billy gave the aliens his parents’ brains, meaning they had their lives sucked away.
- Shout-Out:
- The title and general plot is a parody of Little Shop of Horrors.
- The meteor looks a bit like a combination of The Crawling Eye and the creature from It Came from Outer Space.
- At one point there is a Michael Jackson's Thriller Parody since the residents that have their brains consumed are made zombies as per cartoon tradition.
- The Meteor's last words are the same as The Wicked Witch of the West.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: The other Trope Namer. When the meteor devours Mandy's brain, it screams in pain, dies, and then reforms—but with Mandy in control.Billy: Mandy! Is that you?
Mandy: Yes. I guess my brain was a little too... spicy for that meteor you tried to feed me to. - Villain Song: The song serves as this given the meteor is, well, evil.
- Would Hurt a Child: The Brain-Eating Meteor will eat anyone’s brains, including children. In fact, he tries doing this to Billy himself before finding out that the boy doesn't have one.
- Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal: The only reason why Billy is spared by the meteor monster is because he has no brains to begin with.
Original Air Date: October 18, 2002
Grim, Billy, and Mandy eat an ancient left-over pizza that gives them three individual nightmares, each of which features nasty pizza slices.
Billy dreams of idyllic scenes with Disney-esque animals that turn into monsters, Grim's nightmare has Mandy ordering him around while replicating herself endlessly, and Mandy's nightmare is a wonderful parody of “A Night on Bald Mountain”. Complete with demons and other vile creatures, Mandy is the monster on the mountain who watches happily as swarms of pizza bats swirl around her.
Naturally, only Mandy gets a good night's sleep, and she eats the last pizza slice, while Grim and Billy can't even imagine eating breakfast.
"Dream a Little Dream" provides examples of:
- Affectionate Parody: Of Disney's Fantasia.
- Black Comedy: All three segments run off of this, with Billy’s antics with the woodland creatures being darkly funny until he’s attacked by the monsters, and Mandy darkly enjoying her dream. Even Grim’s, the most serious of the segments, has some comedy in Grim’s continued attempts to stop Mandy by chopping off her head.
- Bolivian Army Ending: The segment of Billy’s nightmare ends when he runs straight into the horde of killer rabbits, but we can assume from his later reactions that they did a thorough job on him.
- Catapult Nightmare: Billy briefly wakes from his nightmare with a horrified scream before falling back asleep.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: The slug is subjected to one as the chef pours a bunch of salt on it while it’s still alive. It can only scream in agony while the chef happily watches.
- Downer Ending: Billy’s nightmare ended with him presumably being killed by the rabbit monsters and left him afraid of rabbits; Grim’s nightmare underscored how hopeless his situation is and how he can’t escape from it; and Mandy only got to enjoy a dream where she reigned supreme over the forces of evil, and woke up feeling great, whereas Billy and Grim are weary from their nightmares.
- Evil Feels Good: Mandy greatly enjoys her dream where she lords over a horde of evil monsters like Chernabog. The following morning, she even gets more of the expired pizza since she enjoyed her dream after eating it so much.
- Exact Words: Harold orders Billy to take care of an old pizza that needs to be thrown out, but Billy only takes care of it in bringing it back for him, Mandy, and Grim to eat.
- Hope Spot:
- When two of the baby bunnies mutate into monsters, Billy grabs the last one to save it, only for it to also transform into a monster.
- Grim seems to have stopped Mandy when he destroys the TV, and later when he beheads her, but it just gets worse for him.
- Killer Rabbit: The rabbit monsters start out as cute baby bunnies before subverting this trope and mutating.
- Off with His Head!: Grim chops off the heads of the Mandy’s who swarm him, but they simply spawn new bodies from the disembodied heads and the decapitated bodies grow new heads.
- Shout-Out:
- The trio's dream sequences are parodies of different Fantasia segments.
- Billy's is a parody of "The Pastoral Symphony". The appearance of a deer, skunk, and rabbit is also a shout out to Bambi.
- Grim's is a parody of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice".
- Mandy's is the most blatant of the three, being a parody of "Night on Bald Mountain".
- The slug’s scream when the chef pours salt on him is reminiscent of the famous scream that Queen Grimhilde let out upon her Disney Villain Death at the end of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, later famously reused for Maleficent’s dying scream in Sleeping Beauty.
- Numerous demons are seen gathering around the volcano Mandy is about to erupt out of and cheer when she appears, calling back to the gathering of animals at Pride Rock in the beginning of The Lion King.
- The trio's dream sequences are parodies of different Fantasia segments.
- Slasher Smile: The group of killer rabbits that Billy runs into at the end of his segment are sporting wicked grins as they wait for him.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Mandy as ever, as she kills the demon imp that drags her down to the inferno where she ascends to become the lord of evil as a reward for his service.
