Bully Boogie / Here Thar Be Dwarves

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Bully Boogie / Here Thar Be Dwarves is the 30th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first aired July 23, 2004 on Cartoon Network.

1 Plots
2 Cultural References
3 Guest stars

[edit] Plots

[edit] Bully Boogie

Grim is still mad at Boogie, his middle school bully, because he made his life miserable. To spite Grim, Boogie takes Billy to the underworld. Mandy insists Grim help her get Billy back. Grim tries to trick Boogie but it all backfires. They then decide to have a scare-off, which Grim wins. Boogie is teleported to an odd world with very strange creatures. Billy is still in the underworld, but Grim is satisfied to have had his revenge.

[edit] Here Thar Be Dwarves

Despite warnings from friends and family, Billy decides to go on a picnic. As he is walking in the woods, some very decadent looking Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo appear and try to steal his basket. Billy escapes from the two bears into a cave, where he stumbles upon a giant door to the mushroom lair of the Dwarves. The Dwarves at first mistake Billy for an elf and take him to the Dwarven closet of cleaning supplies, where he meets the Dwarven king, Beardbottom.

King Beardbottom, after some examination, realizes that Billy is a human. He tells Billy that Dwarves are at war with Elves and explains to him how the war began: After the battle for the "Mid-Western Earth", the winners got a monopoly on the fast-food industry, and they had a meeting to divide it. The humans got hamburgers, the druids got salads, the halflings got chicken nuggets, the Elves got mushrooms, and the Dwarves got cookies. But the Elves tricked the Dwarves and took the cookie industry, leaving Dwarves with the mushrooms. Of course, the Dwarves now want the cookie industry back.

King Beardbottom asks Billy for help: the Dwarves can't attack the Elves because of their "Dwarf-repelling force-field," and they need him to dress like an Elf and infiltrate the "evil Elf cookie factory" (similar to Isengard), so he can turn off the "main shield power generator." Everybody will win: Dwarves will take back the cookie industry, and Billy can take all the cookies he can eat. Billy happily accepts.

When Billy infiltrates the cookie factory and turns off the shield generator, the Dwarves attack. After a long battle (which is not shown, and is replaced by shots of a koala bear because "it's too violent for our younger viewers"), nobody wins. Billy solves the conflict between elves and dwarves (by using an analogy to life being a digestive system, and comparing the Dwarves and Elves to peas and mashed potatoes), and both Elves and Dwarves realize that they should stop fighting. They unite their fast food sectors; Dwarves put their mushrooms into the Elves' cookies, and "Mushookies - cookies that taste like your cat," are born.

[edit] End Credits

A little girl tires of eating the same old cookies day after day. The sergeant from Here Thar Be Dwarves appears, introducing Mushookies to the little girl. After a taste test, she declares that "they taste just like my cat!".

[edit] Cultural References

The meeting in Here Thar Be Dwarves in which races divided the fast food industry is a parody of Council of Elrond from The Lord of the Rings series.

When the council of representatives from each race met to divide up the food service industry, a clown is seen sitting next to a human (the race that's in charge of the hamburger business). The clown is a reference to Ronald McDonald, a spokesman for McDonald's.

The elves' forcefield generator is a parody of the Death Star forcefield generator from the Star Wars.

Also in the Dwarven Invasion to the elven factory , the scene was "censored" with the Apparition of R. Lee Ermey saying that scene was too violent for TV and is changed for a pink Koala in an Tree , in a moment Gunny mistakes showing a little of the fight because he thought the battle was over, saying he "misread the signal". He then goes on to say that he once new someone who misread a signal in a combat situation, and as a consequence must drink all of his foods through a mechanical straw.

In Here Thar Be Dwarves, the Dwarven war whoop is "¡Laven sus manos!" In Spanish, this means, "Wash your hands!"

In Bully Boogie, when Grim used The milk and hot sauce trick, he mentioned that he saw that in the Halloween special. Mandy used the same trick in Billy and Mandy's Jacked Up Halloween.

The Elves in Here There Be The Dwarves are a parody of the Keebler Elves.

The episode "Bully Boogie" is a bonus feature on the "Billy and Mandy's Big Boogie Adventure" DVD, presumably in case no one heard of him before and to get a slight better grip on Boogie's motives and why Grim hates him so much.