Grim for a Day / Chicken Ball Z

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Grim for a Day / Chicken Ball Z is the 22nd episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first aired on August 15, 2003 on Cartoon Network.

1 Plots
- 1.1 Grim for a Day
- 1.2 Chicken Ball Z
2 Cultural References

[edit] Plots

[edit] Grim for a Day

Billy is annoying Grim with his "band pratice". Grim stops him and complains about how hard his life is. Billy soon argues that his life is harder. Then Billy and Grim switch places (Billy becomes the Grim Reaper, Grim becomes a stupid boy). At first each tries to do what the other would do, Billy goes to reap Mr. Vorhees and Grim goes to school. Mr. Vorhees mistakes Billy for a trick-or-treater and thinks it's Halloween, so he gives Billy a mint. Billy doesn't know how to reap someone, and Grim can't act normal. But then they start to physically turn into each other - Billy becomes a skeleton like Grim, and Grim becomes a human like Billy.

[edit] Chicken Ball Z

Mandy is in Karate class and Billy is doing a poor job at it. When class is over, Mandy sees a poster that says that there's going to be a Junior Karate Tournament, and she really wants to enter. So she goes to a mysterious Chinese store and receives a magical chicken ball from a Chinese guy by the counter. When she puts the whole thing in her mouth, it fulfills her greatest desire. The chicken ball transforms Mandy into a super-being with gold-blonde, spiky and glowing hair (much like a Super Saiyan) so that she can enter the tournament to win a cash prize of $50,000. She easily defeats all kids using super-human strength and powers, but she starts acting crazy when she wins the award, because the power has made her unstable and possibly even more malovent. Grim is suspicious and he soon finds out that Mandy's "trainer", Quan Ti (the man that gave Mandy the chicken ball), was actually Eris, goddess of chaos. Grim should had stopped Eris, but instead he turns Billy into a super-being, in which he is still the same expect his tuff of hair is tied into a ponytail, and the hair is orange. He did that so that Billy and Mandy could fight(and kill each other, he hopes). Alas, Billy challenges Mandy, they then engage in a powerful, tiring battle, but they have equal powers and nobody can win. They start powering up and people from the audience run away due to the stadium giving up on the power shown. Eventually, when the fighting gets particularly intense, the whole stadium explodes. Grim and Eris both think that they finally got rid of them, but somehow Billy and Mandy are still alive! In the end, Mandy gets a cash prize of $50,000, and spends it buying the Bunny Island, and all the henchmen working on it, from the Evil Con Carne cartoon.

[edit] Cultural References

Chicken Ball Z is a parody of Dragon Ball Z. The Chicken Ball is a parody of the Dragon Ball.

Mandy gains glowing yellow hair, a reference to Super Saiyan transformations. Billy also looks nearly bald when he gets powers, perhaps a reference to Piccolo or Nappa.

The speech that Billy says to Mandy shortly before they do battle is a parody Darth Vader's speech to Obi Wan Kenobi before they duel.

The Stadium looks like the World Martial Arts tournament Dome in the Dragon Ball Series.

The quirky announcer sounds just like the commentator on Dragon Ball.

When Grim approaches Billy before transforming him, Billy is playing a handheld video game called "Doody Tag". The sound effects are taken from Wario Land II.