Who Killed Who? / Tween Wolf
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Who Killed Who? / Tween Wolf is the 17th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first aired July 4, 2003 on Cartoon Network.
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[edit] Plots
[edit] Who Killed Who?
While playing a board game "Who Killed Who," Billy and Irwin accidentally throw their dice into the backyard of a creepy house in the neighbourhood. After Grim tells them the scary story about that house, Billy and Irwin are scared and they don't dare to get the dice back. But they dare Mandy, who they excluded from the game because she is a girl, to get the dice back, and she accepts.
Inside the house, Mandy meets an old woman Ms. Doolin. But Grim had told them in the story that Ms. Doolin eats children, and Mandy is, for the first, and presumably last time, scared. When she realizes that Grim made up the story, Mandy tells Ms. Doolin what she has heard about her. Ms. Doolin tells her the truth - Grim is jealous because she has beaten him in just about everything, and he never stops making up stories about her. When Ms. Doolin hears that Billy and Irwin excluded her from the game because she's a girl, she gets very angry and tells Mandy that she must teach them a lesson.
That night, Billy has nightmares and wakes up. He still believes in Grim's story and thinks that Ms. Doolin will kill Mandy. He gets up and goes to get the dice back. But Ms. Doolin and Mandy were prepared, and frighten him, and he runs away. Mandy is ready to say goodbye to Ms. Doolin and return home, but when she looks around Ms. Doolin suddenly disappears and the house appears as ruins. Then she realizes - "If Ms. Doolin had beaten Grim at everything - she had beaten Death."
[edit] Tween Wolf
After Grim fails to pull a werewolf out of his hat, Mandy throws it out the window. It lands near Irwin and he is bitten and becomes a werewolf too. Billy adopts Irwin and enters him in the Endsville dog show.
[edit] Goofs
- According to Grim, the cure for lycanthropy was to be bitten by a "were-flea", which was something like a rabid insect with large teeth and a tendency to howl. However, since the word "werewolf" somes from the Anglo-Saxon word were, meaning man, then it would make more sense if either the "were-flea" possessed human attributes or if it had its name changed to something like "flupine" (combo of lupus, or wolf, and flea).
- Mrs. Doolins's spider's name is Lil' Frankie, but the spider is a female.
[edit] Cultural References
- In the episode Tween Wolf, Irwin is seen quoting Johnny Bravo (perhaps unintentionally) as he is walking to the grocery store before being bitten by a werewolf; "Quart of milk, loaf of bread, stick of butter". The quote actually came from an old Sesame Street piece where a mother sends her child to get a "loaf of bread, a gallon of milk, and a stick of butter" at the store. The child kept repeating the line so he wouldn't forget it.
- The opening of Tween Wolf is a parody of the Rocky and Bullwinkle sketch where Bullwinkle tries to pull a rabbit out of his hat only to fail. The dialogue is also very similar.
- In the episode Who Killed Who, the board game that the title is named after is a parody of the game Clue.
[edit] Miscellanea
- Grim's phone number is 555-grim.
[edit] Guest Stars
- Betty White as Mrs. Doolin
- Billy West as Announcer, Teen Wolf
