Li'l Porkchop / Skarred for Life

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Li'l Porkchop / Skarred for Life is the 26th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first aired on June 25, 2004 on Cartoon Network.

1 Plot
- 1.1 Li'l Porkchop
- 1.2 Skarred for Life
  - 1.2.1 Recap
2 Cultural References
3 Guest Stars

[edit] Plot

[edit] Li'l Porkchop

Harold goes fishing, thinking that his son Billy is with him, although Billy refuses as he respects fish rights, much to Harold's confusion. Seeing how Billy likes fish, Mandy suggests that he buy one as a pet. Mandy and Grim bing him to the aquarium to choose his pet fish. Billy, from all the other fish, chooses a pathetically small hardly breathing one, and names it Li'l Porkchop. Seeing how connected Billy is to his fish, Grim, who also had a pet fish when was a boy, wants to help him. He uses his supernatural fish food to make Li'l Porkchop grow. But he apparently put in too much - Li'l Porkchop is turned into giant mutant fish, and is able to speak(it sounds similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger). Since Li'l Porkchop is a giant, he can't fit into his bowl and begs for water. Billy gladly helps, though he takes him for water in all the wrong places.

[edit] Skarred for Life

After General Skarr has retired from the villainy, he moves into Billy's neighborhood. He just wants to be a "nice man from the neighborhood", until he heard of the ultimate power that can be found in Grim's scythe.

[edit] Recap

General Skarr, now making cornbread... out of real corn.

The house of Billy's next door neighbor lays in ruins. A pizza deliveryman knocks on the door; an ugly old hand suddenly appears and stops him, while the rest of the body is hidden behind the door. Deliveryman freaks out, but the weird figure apologizes - "It is sorry. It forgets sometimes." While the deliveryman just wants to get the money for the pizza, the figure tells him the story of how everything happened. After Billy again terrorized his next-door neighbors, they "drove" to Australia, never to return to Endsville. Their house went up for sale, and "that's when IT made horrible mistake number one - IT bought the house!"

General Skarr moved into Billy's neighborhood. After an old man from the neighborhood gave him a warm welcome ("Cursed! Pain! Paaaain! Oh, and welcome to the neighborhood") and a jello("Wife made... it's got bits of fruits and stuff"), Skarr meets Billy. "IT should have walked away... IT should ignored the child... But instead, IT has made horrible mistake number two" - Skarr asked Billy to come in for a glass of water.

In Skarr's house, Billy found a lot of "cool weirdo stuff" - Skarr turned his house into a war museum, filled with piles of exhibits from his military past. Skarr told Billy the story of his past (Evil Con Carne) - he was a general of a "fearsome evil army", but he retired when they were bought out by an "entertainment company who didn't want competition in world domination". Billy wants him to use some of his cool stuff, but Skarr refuses - he just wants to be a "nice old man from the neighborhood", that isn't him anymore. Billy mocks him, and tells him about his cool friend - Grim, "who has the long magic blade-thingy that can create a lot of really bad stuff". Billy wakes up Skarr's obsession for the power, and "IT decided to steal the scythe - that was horrible mistake number three."

Billy and Mandy had told Grim that they will free him if he says that he is a "pretty little girl", but Grim overacted, not realizing that they were only joking. Skarr easily took Grim's scythe (Grim just said "It's not nice to steal from little girls"). But back at the house, he encounters an unpleasant surprise. Mandy was watching him, and she waited for him in his house. As he was new, she nicely explained the rules - "I'm the one who is annoyed by Billy, I'm the one who bosses Grim around, and most important of the all - I'm the one who plays with the scythe". Skarr is freaked out by Mandy's evil attitude, and she easily takes the scythe back. Finally, while she was at the doorstep, she finishes the chain of bizarre events with "...and welcome to the neighborhood".

The strange figure ended the story with "and IT lived miserly ever after". But then Skarr appears, returning from the holidays. It turned out to be that the figure was actually the strange man who gave Skarr the Jello. Skarr left him in charge of the house for just three days, and he let the place fall apart. But as the old man said, "That was horrible mistake number four - I'm not very reliable".

[edit] Cultural References

The way Billy chased after the neighbors' car in Skarred for Life is similar to the way T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day chased John Conner, Sarah Conner and T-800 while they were driving away.

When Skarr told Billy that he doesn't want to be an evil general anymore, Billy responds: "I thought you were baaaad.. You ain't bad, you ain't nothin'!" This is a reference to Michael Jackson's "Bad" music video.
When Skarr makes cornbread and the phone rings, it zooms in on his face with children laughing in the background, this is a reference to Freddy Krueger
While dressed in Skarr's uniform, Billy announces "I'm a used car salesman". This is likely a reference to Cobra Commander, who was a used car salesman before he created Cobra.

At one point in the episode, General Skarr is inside a giant robot, and starts destroying things. He yells, "Take my love, my hate, and all of my anger!". The same line was used by Domon Kasshu in an episode of G Gundam.