Grim & Evil

Grim & Evil
Created by:	Maxwell Atoms
Directed by:	Maxwell Atoms Robert Alvarez John McIntyre '(also supervising director, Seasons 2 and 3 only) Brian Hogan Dave Brain
Voices of:	Grey DeLisle Greg Eagles Richard Steven Horvitz Phil LaMarr Armin Shimerman Frank Welker
Theme music composer:	Gregory Hinde Drew Neumann
Opening theme:	"Grim & Evil"
Ending theme:	"Grim & Evil" (sung by Jennifer Hale)
Composer(s):	Guy Moon (Billy & Mandy's episodes; 2001-2002) Gregory Hinde and Drew Neumann (Evil Con Carne's episodes and Billy & Mandy's 2003 episodes)
Country of origin:	United States
Language(s):	English
No. of seasons:	3
No. of episodes:	26 (whole) 49 (Billy & Mandy episodes) 26 (Evil Con Carne episodes) 75 (segments)
Production
Executive producer(s):	Maxwell Atoms For Cartoon Network: Linda Simensky and Jay Bastian
Producer(s):	Vincent Davis
Running time:	22 minutes
Production company(s):	Hanna-Barbera (2000 as 1st pilot) Cartoon Network Studios (2001–2003 as main series)
Distributor:	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Broadcast
Picture format:	480i (4:3 SDTV)
First aired:	August 24, 2001 (2001-08-24)
Last aired:	October 31, 2003 (2003-10-31)
Audio format:	Dolby Surround

Grim & Evil is an American animated television series created by Maxwell Atoms for Cartoon Network. It consists of two segments which were eventually spun off into their own series, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne. Grim & Evil premiered on August 24, 2001, and ended its first 13-episode run on October 18, 2002. There was also another batch of 13 episodes made for the show, but were aired on Cartoon Network when the show was split into both shows in 2003.

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy deals with the adventures of two young children who, after celebrating the birthday of Billy's pet hamster, bet that the Grim Reaper would lose to them in Limbo at his own game of limbo in an effort to save the hamster. Billy and Mandy win the bet, and Grim becomes their "best friend forever" as part of their deal.

Evil Con Carne follows the adventures of Hector Con Carne, a wealthy playboy whose body is destroyed in a tremendous explosion. His only surviving organs are his brain and stomach, which have been placed in jars and attached to a circus bear named Boskov.

History

The series' existence is largely the result of a viewer poll. An Internet and call-in event called the Big Pick was held from June 16 to August 25, 2000. The three final choices were Grim & Evil, Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, Longhair and Doubledome. Out of the three, Grim & Evil won the poll with 57% of the vote and became its own series. The first season appeared on Cartoon Network to kick off the "Cartoon Cartoon Fridays Big Pick Weekend" on August 24, 2001. Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? would later be made into a full (though short-lived) series despite losing; Longhair and Doubledome would reappear with another pilot episode in another Big Pick-style show in 2002, only to fall short once again.

In 2003, the network separated the series into The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne, effectively giving both a full-length series, despite the 2003 episodes originally made for Grim & Evil. The short-lived Evil Con Carne series was cancelled once all the already-made episodes previously seen on Grim & Evil were aired. In 2004, Evil Con Carne was given another short-lived run with the newly created intro and end credits, only to be canceled again. Grim & Evil, in its original form, has not been seen on TV since 2003 (although the theme song has been seen on The Cartoon Cartoon Show and reruns appear on Cartoon Planet). Some characters from Evil Con Carne, usually Skarr, occasionally appeared on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. Skarr was a co-star in Underfist, the TV film set in the shared universe of the programs.

On October 22, 2004, Cartoon Network aired the half-hour Billy & Mandy/Evil Con Carne combo: "Five-O-Clock Shadows" and "Ultimate Evil", with fans speculating that it could've been a new Grim & Evil episode.

The series began airing again in 2005 as part of the Cartoon Cartoon Show block on Cartoon Network, as well as the extra 13 episodes out of nowhere.

The series aired again in October 29, 2010, for the first time since the Cartoon Cartoon show airing, but the title sequence did not play at all and all of the cartoons were three Billy & Mandy cartoons from the Grim & Evil era. On October 20, 2017, all 26 episodes produced were released on Cartoon Network On Demand, including 13 other episodes made up of segments that aired as separated series, but put together in their original Grim & Evil format (two Billy & Mandy segments surrounding one Evil Con Carne, only this time, there are three cases where it is entirely Billy & Mandy). They were also listed on the website of The Detour on Teletoon in Canada. On January 8, 2019, Maxwell Atoms confirmed on Tumblr that these 13 extra episodes aired in the United States, but the dates that they aired on are still currently unknown, though it can be assumed that it would be sometime in 2002 and 2003, as the credits for each episode have copyright dates of those years.

Segments

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

Main article(s): The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is a series about two neighborhood kids, moronic yet enthusiastic Billy and emotionless Mandy who force the Grim Reaper to be their best friend forever after defeating the Messenger of Death in a game of Limbo. This is the main segment, as two The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes are wrapped around an episode of Evil Con Carne (or, on rare episodes, vice versa). For episodes 21, 25, and 26, only the Grim half was shown.

Evil Con Carne

Main article(s): Evil Con Carne

Evil Con Carne is a series about an aspiring dictator obsessed with taking over the world, whose disembodied brain is transplanted onto the head of a slow-witted circus bear. This is usually the backup to The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy as Evil Con Carne is put between two The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy cartoons. On occasion, the format is reversed, with a two-part Evil Con Carne cartoon sandwiching one The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy cartoon. The Evil half was not shown in episodes 21, 25, or 26.

Episodes

Season		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
	1	6		August 24, 2001 (2001-08-24)	October 19, 2001 (2001-10-19)
	2	7		July 19, 2002 (2002-07-19)	October 18, 2002 (2002-10-18)
	3	13		June 13, 2003 (2003-06-13)	October 31, 2003 (2003-10-31)

NOTE: All of the first 13 episodes originally aired from 2001 to 2002. They were re-aired in 2003, when they were divided into both shows. However, there was another batch of 13 episodes produced for the series in 2003, but were only aired when they were divided into both shows.

Season 1 (2001)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboarded by	Original air date

Season 2 (2002)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboarded by	Original air date

Season 3 (2003)

There was another batch of thirteen episodes produced for Grim & Evil. Although they premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States in 2003 when The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne were split into two half hour shows, they were not made for the two standalone shows, as they were also made for the second season Grim & Evil in the UK. Although not released officially in 2003 as episodes of the show, Maxwell Atoms did confirm that Cartoon Network aired them out of nowhere, with the exception of Jacked-Up Halloween. They were, however, aired on various channels outside of the United States, including Canada's Teletoon Detour and France's Boing. Episodes 21, 25, and 26 do not contain any Evil Con Carne segments. The entire third and final season was eventually released in October 2017 on Cartoon Network On Demand.

• Episode 14: "It's Hokey Mon! / Boskov's Day Out / Tween Wolf" (UK: October 20, 2003)
• Episode 15: "Grim in Love / The Trouble with Skarrina / Love is "Evol" Spelled Backwards" (UK: October 21, 2003)
• Episode 16: "Mandy the Merciless / Go Spork / The Really Odd Couple" (UK: October 22, 2003)
• Episode 17: "Brown Evil: Part 1 / League of Destruction / Brown Evil: Part 2" (UK: October 23, 2003)
• Episode 18: "Go-Kart 3000! / Day of the Dreadbot / Smarten Up!" (UK: October 24, 2003)
• Episode 19: "Educating Grim / Gutless! / Toadblatt's School of Sorcery" (UK: October 25, 2003)
• Episode 20: "Creating Chaos / Max Courage / The Grim Show" (UK: October 26, 2003)
• Episode 21: "Who Killed Who? / Son of Nergal" (UK: October 27, 2003)
• Episode 22: "Crushed / Son of Evil / Night of the Living Grim" (UK: October 28, 2003)
• Episode 23: "Terror of the Black Knight / The Right to Bear Arms / Battle of the Bands" (UK: October 29, 2003)
• Episode 24: "The Crawling Niceness / Cod vs. Hector / Chicken Ball Z" (UK: October 30, 2003)
• Episode 25: "Grim for a Day / Sister Grim / The Halls of Time" (UK: October 31, 2003)
• Episode 26: "Billy & Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween" (UK: November 1, 2003)

Billy & Mandy/Evil Con Carne Combo special (2004)

The combo special in question is "Five-O-Clock Shadows" for Billy & Mandy and "Ultimate Evil" for Evil Con Carne. Although not technically made Grim & Evil, both shorts in the same half-hour that premiered on Cartoon Network on October 22, 2004, with fans believing that it could've been episode 27 of Grim & Evil.

Characters

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

Main article(s): List of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy characters

• The Grim Reaper (voiced by Greg Eagles): He is over 137,000 years old (as his early childhood took place during the Stone Age) and speaks with a Jamaican accent. The continuity of how Grim got his reaper status and powers jumps around quite a few times and it is unknown which way he really got his powers (for example, in The Spider Queen, he was elected to his position as the Grim Reaper while he was in middle school; however, in "A Grim Prophecy", it is shown that he was the Grim Reaper since his childhood with his parents forcing him to be the Reaper, which is revealed to be all a dream and further contradicted in a later episode where he is seen stumbling over his scythe to become Grim Reaper). His scythe is the source of his powers and possesses many magical qualities; although he is still capable of using magic without it, these instances are quite rare.
• Billy (voiced by Richard Horvitz): He is an 8-year-old happy-go-lucky child with an extremely low IQ of −5. He was outperformed by a shovel and a candy necklace on an IQ test. He has an extremely large, pink nose, wears a blue and white striped shirt, and covers his orange hair with a red hat. His main affiliations are Grim and Mandy. Mandy is Billy's best friend, though she treats him more like a servant than a friend. It has been hinted several times that Billy may have underlying feelings for Mandy that even he (in his stupidity) may not fully realize. Billy is definitely kinder to Grim than Mandy is, and while he may go against the Reaper's advice and use him as a plaything, he appears to genuinely like him. Of the two children, Billy is the one who most often tells Grim that he's his "best friend".
• Mandy (voiced by Grey DeLisle): a girl about Billy's age who has (mostly) a morbid, cynical and merciless attitude. However, unlike Billy, she is more stable, sane and intelligent. She hates everything, especially unicorns. She'll punch or otherwise injure (physically, emotionally, mentally or any combination of the three) anyone who gets in her way. She is Billy's "best friend" regardless of the awful way she treats him. She is known for rarely smiling; the one occasion on which this happens^{[citation needed]}, it causes reality to fall apart. She orders Grim and Billy to do chores for her, among a slew of other grunt work. She is naturally hostile and cynical and is shown in one episode to have physical difficulty saying the word "please". She never smiles, except in "Meet the Reaper", "Opposite Day", "Look Alive!", "A Dumb Wish", "Something Stupid This Way Comes", "Dream A Little Dream", "Crushed", and "Mandy the Merciless" where she does crack a smile.

Evil Con Carne

Main article(s): Evil Con Carne

• Hector Con Carne (voiced by Phil LaMarr): He is a dynamic, evil playboy type, reduced to an anthropomorphic brain and a stomach after a gigantic explosion. Somehow, the stomach has taken on a life of its own. He is often frustrated by the difficulty of taking over the world in its current state.
• Major Dr. Ghastly (voiced by Grey DeLisle): A mad scientist, Ghastly is the brains behind all Hector's plans. Ghastly really does not seem to be intent on taking over the world; she is more interested in inventing things and getting closer to Hector.
• General Skarr (voiced by Armin Shimerman): Con Carne's paramilitary leader. He is a cold-hearted, hateful and harsh man, with a scar on his face, and one eye. He tends to be more evil than Con Carne himself, many times trying to overthrow his leader. He has made several appearances on Maxwell Atoms' other show, "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy", as Billy's next-door neighbor. He has also starred in the Billy & Mandy spin-off, Underfist. Skarr seems to resemble Fearless Leader, Herr Starr, and General Armin Skull. It has been stated that he quit working for Hector Con Carne after they were "bought out" by the cartoon industry because they didn't want the competition in world domination.
• Boskov (voiced by Frank Welker): A former Russian circus bear, Boskov carries both of Hector's brain and stomach on his body, via metal plates on said spots. He is usually controlled by Hector and seems to care for everyone around him. He is sometimes difficult to control due to his animal instincts and lack of intelligence.
• Stomach (voiced by Armin Shimerman): This former stomach of Hector Con Carne will only talk if it's about food.

Broadcast history

Country	Network	Premiere Date
	Cartoon Network	August 24, 2001
Canada	The Detour on Teletoon	September 7, 2002
Template:ESP	Cartoon Network	September 14, 2002
Template:UK Template:IRL	Cartoon Network	October 5, 2002
Template:ITA	Cartoon Network	October 8, 2002
Template:POL	Cartoon Network	October 5, 2002
Template:HUN	Cartoon Network	November 2, 2002
Template:IND Template:PAK Template:BAN Template:AFG	Cartoon Network	August 2, 2004
Template:BRA	SBT	December 3, 2005

Home media

Various episodes originating from Grim & Evil have been released on DVD. The Billy & Mandy short "Son of Nergal" was released as part of the 2004 DVD release of Cartoon Network Christmas Yuletide Follies, and its other short "Battle of the Bands" was released as part of the 2005 DVD release of Cartoon Network Christmas Rocks; both of which had the intro and end credits from Grim & Evil. Most of the Billy & Mandy shorts originating from Grim & Evil were released as part of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Season 1 DVD box set in 2007, but not in its entirety. Also, in that DVD, 6 Evil Con Carne shorts were included as special features.

Other releases including The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy season one/Grim & Evil episodes:

• "Billy and Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween" – Cartoon Network Halloween: 9 Creepy Cartoon Capers (August 10, 2004)
• "Night of the Living Grim" – Cartoon Network Halloween 2: Grossest Halloween Ever (August 9, 2005)
• "Crushed!" – Codename: Kids Next Door: Sooper Hugest Missions: File Two (August 23, 2005)

All 26 half-hour episodes of Grim & Evil were released officially on Cartoon Network on Demand in October 2017 until 2019. However, it is unknown if there were plans to give Grim & Evil a complete series box set of 26 episodes on DVD and Blu-Ray.

External links

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