Happy Huggy Stuffy Bears / Secret Decoder Ring
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Happy Huggy Stuffy Bears / Secret Decoder Ring is the 44th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first aired April 15, 2004 on Cartoon Network.
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[edit] Happy Huggy Stuffy Bears
"Huggy Stuffy Pony Bears!"
-Billy
It's one of those summer days in Endsville, the kind where it's too hot to do anything. Billy, Mandy, and Grim are sitting around Billy's house, bored. A TV advertisement announcing a free toy giveaway at the mall propels Billy into action.
They reach the mall, and begin to browse. After Mandy incapacitates a group of children with a Goo Cannon, a mysterious woman names Serisue accosts her, and offers her a part in the new "Happy Huggy Stuffy Bear" commercial. Mandy agrees after a large sum of money is offered.
The ad campaign works, and soon, everybody is carrying a Happy Huggy Stuffy Bear around. Mandy, distraught when she is paid in Happy Huggy Stuffy Bears instead of money, goes out to find Serisue. Outside, however, holds a much different scene, when everybody who owns a bear is zombified. After confronting Serisue, Mandy learns that the salesperson is actually Eris, Goddess of Chaos. The bears were just part of her plan to create chaos in the world. Although Eris offers Mandy a place at her right hand when she takes over the world, Mandy declines, saying that she won't settle for second most powerful, and orders Grim to destroy the bears.
In the end, life goes back to normal, complete with Irwin's courtship attempts being foiled.
[edit] Secret Decoder Ring
Billy tries to use a decorder ring that he finds in a cereal box in order to discover the secret of the universe. The weird thing is, he's not the only one trying to discover it this way.
[edit] Cultural References s
- When Billy first put on his ring, he thought that he is invisible, and started running around naked. This is a reference to the One Ring from The Lord of the Rings.
- Billy's ring also translated text from the back of the cereal box as a picture of woman asking for help, a reference to Princess Leia's pleas for help broadcast from R2D2 in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
- Happy Huggy Stuffy Bears are reminiscent of Care Bears.
- One of the children in the toy store who's blasted with Mandy's goo gun is the Mattel Toys mascot.
- As Mandy's payment for her TV advertisement arrives at the front door, Billy cheers, "Big bucks! No Whammies!" This is a phrase often said by contestants on the famous Press Your Luck game show.
[edit] Guest stars
- Kath Soucie as Happy Huggy Stuffy Bear
- Cam Clarke as Employee, Kid #2, Narrator
- Charlie Adler as Lubbermouth, Zombie Kid
