Attack of the Clowns / Complete and Utter Chaos
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Attack of the Clowns / Complete and Utter Chaos is the 36th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first aired October 22, 2004 on Cartoon Network.
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[edit] Attack of the Clowns
[edit] Plot
Billy has got an annoying fear of clowns. Mandy will not stand for such fears, so she decides to cure him. She commands Grim to bring a paper clown head to life so it could entertain Billy, but that doesn't work (Grim accused the Underworld Accounting). Then they try the plan B: they come to Billy's house in clown costumes trying to entertain Billy themselves. But when he sees them, he just starts running away in terror. They go searching for him and finally find him in a beauty salon. They again try to entertain him, but they every attempt backfires.
Eventually, Grim grabs Billy and starts shaking him violently and yelling, "Stop being afraid of clowns, you ninny! Stop it!" At the breaking point, Billy receives help from his imaginary "Inner Frat Boy". He tells Billy clowns aren't scary - just different - and that he should beat 'em up as "how dare they be different!". Billy takes his words and when he wakes up, he starts attacking anything clown-like. He snatches Grim's scythe and attacks Mandy and Grim (who are still in their clown costumes). Grim and Mandy, trying to get rid of the costumes, pass them on Irwin and continue to retreat.
After Billy finishes with Irwin, he meets Grim and Mandy (who aren't wearing their clown costumes anymore) back in their neighborhood, and tells them about "those stinkin' putrid dirty clowns he finished up!" After they conclude that Billy has finally conquered his fear, they all go for Ice Cream Sunday. But at the doorsteps, they realise that the paper clown head did come to life. However, it didn't want to entertain anyone; it had became an awful monster and it eats Grim, Billy and Mandy. In the clown's latex body, Billy, Mandy and Grim all agree that clowns are nothing but ultimate evil.
[edit] Annie Award
Shaun Cashman and Phil Cummings won the 32th annual Annie Award in the category of Directing in an Animated Television Production for their work on the episode Attack of the Clowns[1].
[edit] Destroy us All!
"Destroy Us All" scene from Attack of the Clowns is one of the most popular moments in the series.
- Mandy: What's with all the oranges?
Billy: They're not oranges, they're tangel-elos!
Mandy: ... Okay, what's with all the tangelos?
Billy: Clowns hate tangelos. Messes with their equilibrium.
Mandy: Billy, you got to get over this ridiculous fear of clowns.
Billy: Who are you calling ridiculous? Well, what about your fear of professional figure skaters?
Mandy: That's not a fear. I just don't trust the way they spin is all.
Billy: You gotta believe me, Mandy! [yelling] Clowns are nothing but ultimate evil! They wanna be the dominant species on the planet, and they'll destroy us all to make it happen! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL!"... [repeated line]
[edit] Trivia and Notes
- The line "Clowns hate tangelos" was used on Cartoon Network's promotion billboards. [2][3].
- The paper clown monster ate Milkshakes, Billy's cat, in the middle of the episode. In the ending scene, when Billy, Grim and Mandy are at the door and monster is about to eat them, Milkshakes isn't in clown's plastic body. In the next, last, scene, Milkshakes, together with eaten Billy, Mandy and Grim, is in it.
- When Grim attempts to alive the clown's head, he chants the strophe: "Ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa". This is a referentce to Michael Jackson's song Wanna be starting something.
- The title is a reference to Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
- Before Grim lost the game of limbo, he had a chariot of 400 burning horses.
- In the episode, Smarten Up, Billy didn't seem to be scared of clowns, but in Attack of the Clowns Billy has a fear of clowns.
[edit] Complete and Utter Chaos
[edit] Plot
Eris appears - she says that she has given up on chaos and gives Grim the powerful Apple of Discord. Grim must keep it safe, and he puts the Apple in his trunk. But when he leaves the basement, the apple escapes. The next day Billy finds it, thinking that it is a "magic banana". When Grim and Mandy see it, they all start fighting over the apple. Their fight creates what Eris wanted in the first place - chaos.
[edit] Trivia and Notes
- When Eris gives Grim the Apple of Discord, she says "Keep it secret, keep it safe" - this is a reference to The Lord of the Rings. Also, when Mandy contemplates using the Apple to rule all chaos, she emulates Galadriel when Frodo offers her the ring.
- Running gag: Billy thinks that the Apple of Discord is a "magic banana."
- Unexisting episode Billy gets Dumber is announced before Complete and Utter Chaos. After few seconds it is replaced with the real episode. The front page for Billy Gets Dumber is sucked up like a blanket into the Apple of Discord and Eris whistles the rest of the front-page-theme-song in the corner of the all-white screen.
[edit] Guest stars
- Dorian Harewood as the Talking Burrito
- Bart Flynn as Inner Frat Boy
