A Grim Discussion about Billy and Mandy

—> In the laaaand of the dead I'm darkside royalty! I'm world renowned in the underground and you can't take that from me...

Loved that tune too, though Brains! is still my favorite tune from the show.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

And who could possibly forget "Brains, Brains, I won't lie! I'll eat your brains till they're zombiefied! And if at first they think it's strange, they won't think twice if I've eaten their brains!!"

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^ yes! Loved it as a kid! The special was hilarious!

YOU! OBEY THE FIST!

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Grim Adventures did win, KND won the one after that one(Grim even hosted it). Also, KND was also a good show and loved the crossover.

No love for Nigel, the resident Harry Potter parody?

watch at 3:25 to 3:55 that is a really dark ad

at 6:44 there's one of my favorite jokes from the series

edited 26th Oct '10 1:35:42 AM by truteal

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Too bad Grim is the Grim Reaper and therefore immortal. Forever is for ever.

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It was all right.

And that's all I have to say about that.

This series had a ton of balls, but it lost its luster fairly early in its run. The first season after the split form Evil Con Carne was the last good one.

"Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse." —Mycroft Next

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This is, in my humble opinion, one of the best Cartoon Cartoons ever made, and one of the best dark comedies out there.

All those quotable lines, songs by Voltaire, hilarious characters (Dracula don't suck! He do the scrape and lick!)... Just great, funny stuff!

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."

Oh, I guess I didn't watch long enough to see the downturn. I just liked the split because I felt Evil Con Carne wasn't nearly as inspired.

The series was brilliant all the way to the end, with a few mediocre episodes tossed in... Mostly in the last season.

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."

Love this damn show. So very very much.

On my wave, passing oooooooon

Dracula was one of my most favorite characters.
"Dracula don't suck, Dracula scrape. And. Lick. -Blalaalaa- Scrape. And. Lick. -Blalaalaa-"

And Little Rock Of Horrors was one of my favorite episodes.

edited 27th Apr '14 11:23:32 AM by AnimeBadger

Honestly, while I liked this show a lot when it was on, I do feel like it was really uneven. The beginning of the show was alright, but while it had a decently morbid tone, the humor lacked the bite it needed to really hit its mark all the time. The middle period of the show made up for this by striking a nice balance between morbidity and hilarity. Later on in the series? They seemed to revel a bit too much in stupid humor. There were moments of brilliance scattered throughout the later part of the show ("Keeper of the Reaper" might just be one of my favorite episodes of any cartoon that exists), but they tended to use the overly flanderized quirks of the characters to an annoying degree as a bit of a crutch, as well as running gags that wore out their welcome pretty quickly (e.g.: Fred Fredburger—funny in his first appearance...annoying, obnoxious, overly "we're trying to make lightning strike twice in forcing him as a meme" in most of his later appearances).

I suppose it's only tangentially related, but I feel like Evil Con Carne was a great show that had a bit of a different problem. Early on (especially in the episodes when Grim and Evil was still a thing), the show seemed to have a near-perfect tone. It clearly wasn't going for a wacky comedy thing like Billy and Mandy eventually did, but its humor was there. It had a much more subtle, muted, character-driven approach that worked incredibly well. The characters were just great in general, which is possibly a reason why they transplanted Skarr (one of the best villain cartoon characters in television history I'd say) to Billy and Mandy after the show got cancelled. Unfortunately, though, I think the show got a bit too wrapped up in this as it progressed. While I admit, I didn't see many episodes in its last season (I blame Cartoon Network constantly shuffling it around in its schedule and doing dick all to promote it), there is one that I recall just being incredibly self-indulgent with the characters, to the point where it ceased to progress the characters and it wasn't even funny—it was just boring and a little bit dumb^note The best way to describe the scene—at least, in terms of using other cartoons for the sake of comparison—is for me to tell you to imagine if in Invader Zim, they actually showed you the entirety of "The Doom Song". It's a shame, though, since I felt like in its best moments, Evil Con Carne vastly outshone Billy and Mandy. I admit, both were great and both were going for very different things, but I feel like ECC transcended to a higher plane (to describe this as pretentiously as possible), or at least tried to do so, whereas B&M was content most of the time to stay where it was.

edited 25th Apr '14 9:49:14 PM by Odd1

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Quite a few of the mediocre episodes came from the final season. Not to say there weren't hilarious episodes - the entirety of Big Boogey Adventure, the return of Evil Con Carne, Nergal opening a pizza place...

I seem to recall they buried some of the mediocre episodes in November, at 9 p.m.

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."

I'd really need to go back and rewatch the show to see this, but yeah, if nothing else, by the very end, Seasonal Rot hit this show rather hard in that regard.

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It didn't hit quite as hard as some other shows - which is why I'd classify its worst stuff as mediocre - but it did hit by the end and it may have been why they buried some of the final episodes where nobody would see them.

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."

"Excuse me, do you have a shrunken head?" "What makes you say that?" (zooms in) (the man Billy is talking to has a shrunken head) "Holyfreakshow!"

This show was so damn funny, it's up there with Cow & Chicken and early-Fairly Odd Parents as the funniest shows from my childhood.

edited 26th Apr '14 6:40:26 AM by TheLemsterPju

Bump

I've been watching episodes of this show lately, and it really isn't as great as I remember. It's still watchable, but can get kinda boring and irritating. Especially the episodes I saw from the later seasons.

Supports cartoons being cartoony!

I couldn't get through two minutes of this show. Billy's just so obnoxious that he drowns everything else out.

he's not as bad in the earlier seasons. still stupid, but not nearly as annoying.