Original Air Date: October 19, 2001
"A Dumb Wish" contains examples of...
- Be Careful What You Wish For: The basic lesson of the episode. Not that Mandy learns it…
- Big Word Shout: When a fight breaks out between Billy, Grim, and Grim’s Mom due to the antics of the former two’s attempts to make Mandy happy, Mandy, in a fit of anger, yells “STOOOOP!” so loud that it actually stops time.
- I Have No Son!: Grim’s Mom says this due to being trapped in a lamp and locked inside his trunk for 10,000 years.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Subverted. Mandy seems to have this moment when she wishes away everyone on Earth except her. But after she goes inside and turns of the TV, she gives a smirk to the viewer and says, "Perfect."
- Title Drop: Mandy after wishing Billy and Grim would shut up.Mandy: Well, that was a dumb wish.
- Negative Continuity: In true Billy and Mandy fashion, everyone vanishes off he face of the earth, but return with no explanation in the next episode.
- Wham Line: “I wish everybody in the whole wide world would go away!”
