Evil Con Carne
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| Format | Animated television series |
| Created by | Maxwell Atoms |
| Voices of | Phil LaMarr Grey DeLisle Armin Shimerman Frank Welker Maxwell Atoms |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
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| Running time | 30 min. |
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| Original channel | Cartoon Network |
| Original run | August 24, 2001 (within Grim and Evil), June 20, 2003 (as its own show). – December 31, 2004 |
Evil Con Carne is a Cartoon Network American animated television series, created by Maxwell Atoms, which first appeared during the show Grim and Evil and later became a separate program in 2003, running for one season. The show was repackaged from Grim and Evil, and ended in 2004.
The “Con Carne” of the title, is Spanish for "With Meat" as well as a pun on the expression "evil incarnate." The main characters (Hector/Boskov, Ghastly, Skarr, and Cod Commando) have made cameo appearances on Atoms' remaining show, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
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[edit] Plot
Hector Con Carne was a "gajillionaire playboy" crimelord and evil genius bent on taking over the world. Eventually, he was caught in an explosion initiated by his archnemesis, Cod Commando. The explosion scattered most of his body across the world. He was rescued by a scientist, the begoggled and curvaceous Major Dr. Ghastly who has a crush on him, who placed his living remains into two containment units: one for his brain, and the other for his stomach. These two units were later installed into Boskov, a purple circus bear, giving Con Carne's brain control over (almost) all of the bear's actions and movements.
Hector, Dr. Ghastly, and his military leader, General Skarr, then created a secret laboratory on an island with a bunny-shaped mountain (apparently a spoof of Blofeld's lair in the James Bond movies, or a spoof of Easter Island). Gathering an army, Con Carne resumed his quest for world domination and made a new goal: to find his missing body parts.
After Evil Con Carne was canceled, its characters appear in Maxwell Atoms' other show, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Evil Con Carne are the two spinoff TV series of Grim and Evil). The first cameo was in the episode Chicken Ball Z, which ended with Mandy purchasing Hector's Bunny Island. General Skarr moved to Billy's neighborhood in the episode Skarred for Life after Bunny Island was bought out by an "entertainment corporation that didn't want competition in world domination". Since then, General Skarr has been a recurring character in the Grim Adventures. In the recent episode Company Halt, Con Carne and Ghastly appear in Endsville, in order to recruit Skarr and revive Evil Con Carne (the organization, not the show) in another attempt to take over the world; naturally, like most of their other schemes and misadventures, it ends in failure.
Evil Con Carne can still be seen occasionally on "Cartoon Cartoons" on Cartoon Network. Two episodes are included as bonus features in the Season 1 DVD set for The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy,[1] the episodes on the first season are 8 and 9 and each following season will have two episodes on them except for season 3 through 6 which will contain three Evil Con Carne episodes unless the pattern of number of bonus episodes per season are changed.
[edit] Characters
- Hector Con Carne (Phil LaMarr): the main character, as described above. Dynamic, evil playboy type. Reduced to an anthropomorphic brain and a stomach after a gigantic explosion. Somehow, the stomach has taken on a life of its own. Is often frustrated by the difficulty of taking over the world in this state.
- Major Dr. Ghastly (Grey DeLisle): A mad scientist, Ghastly is the brains behind all Hector's plans. Ghastly isn't really intent of taking over the world. She just likes inventing stuff and has a secret crush on hector
- General Skarr (Armin Shimerman): Con Carne's military leader. He is a cold-hearted, hateful and harsh man with a scar on his face, and he has one eye. He tends to be more evil than Con Carne himself, many times trying to overthrow Hector. He is the only character to remain in the show with a significant importance, the others are usually for comic relief and has made several appearances on Maxwell Atoms' other show "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy", as Billy's next door neighbor. Skarr seems to resemble Fearless Leader, Herr Starr and General Armin Skull. It has been stated that he quit working for Hector Con Carne after they were "bought out" by the cartoon industry because they didn't want the competition in world domination.
- Boskov (Frank Welker): A former circus bear, Boskov carries Con Carne's brain and stomach on his body, via metal plates on said spots. Is usually controlled by Con Carne and seems to care for everyone around him. Is sometimes difficult to control due to his animal instincts and lack of intelligence.
- Cod Commando (Maxwell Atoms): Con Carne's arch-nemesis. He is an anthropomorphic codfish secret agent/superhero who can only speak in gibberish by going "blah, blah, blah" (though he did say "Hello" in his premiere episode). Almost invariably thwarts Con Carne's evil plans.
- Destructicus Con Carne: (Rino Romano) Destructicus is Hector and Ghastly's son from the future, created when the two, along with Skarr, were stranded on a deserted island. Destructicus rejects his father's evil ways and becomes a superhero, fighting in the name of good, mainly against Hector's forces. He still loves his parents, though only Ghastly returns his affections. In his premiere episode, "The Time Machine Incident", the present Hector is baffled at how he was conceived (considering Hector lost his reproductive system).
- Estroy (Maurice LaMarche): Hector's very short next-island neighbor; the two are very competitive. He wears a metal mask to hide his immense beauty, as seen in the episode "The HCCBDD". He is a parody of Destro, a villain from the G. I. Joe series. He also seems to have a crush on Ghastly.
[edit] Minor Characters
- Abraham Lincoln (Peter Renaday): The "President" of this show. Even though he does not occur very often in the show, he calls Cod Commando if one of Hector's schemes actually has a chance of succeeding.
- Kablamity Jane (Masasa Moyo) A member of the super team SPORK. She is styled after blaxploitation heroines and can produce two machine guns from her large afro.
- Ensign Slaughter (Jim Rash) A member of the super team SPORK. He is extremely skilled with computers.
- Enrique : Hector's Pet Chihuahua. Appears in a couple of episodes. In the episode "Emotional Skarr", Hector builds a robot chihuahua named Enrique Jr., which is named after him.
[edit] Episode List
| 01 "Gutless / Day of the Dreadbots / League of Destruction" June 20, 2003 |
| 02 "Son of Evil / Right to Bear Arms / Trouble With Skarrina" June 20, 2003 |
| 03 "Go Spork! / Boskov's Day Out / Cod vs. Hector" June 27, 2003 |
| 04 "Search & Estroy / The Pie Who Loved Me / Evil on Trial" June 27, 2003 |
| 05 "Max Courage"* July 4, 2003 |
| 06 "The Time Machine Incident / Christmas Con Carne" November 19, 2003 |
| 07 "Bring Me the Face of Hector Con Carne / Devolver: Part 1 / Devolver: Part 2" November 26, 2003 |
| 08 "Evil Con Carne / Emotional Skarr / Evil Goes Wild" May 30, 2004 |
| 09 "The Smell of Vengeance Part 1 / The Smell of Vengeance Part 2" June 6, 2004 |
| 10 "Everyone Loves Uncle Bob / Tiptoe Through The Tulips Part 1 / Tiptoe Through the Tulips Part 2" June 13, 2004 |
| 11 "No No Nanuk / Teenage Idol" July 19, 2004 |
| 12 "The Mother of All Evils / The HCCBDD" November 11, 2004 |
| 13 "Gridlocked and Loaded / Fool's Paradise" November 18, 2004 |
| 14 "Jealousy, Jealous Do / Hector, King of the Britains" November 25, 2004 |
| 15 "Ultimate Evil"* December 31, 2004 |
- Note: "Max Courage" and "Ultimate Evil" were originally packaged with episodes of "Billy And Mandy" upon first broadcast, but they have been separated from those episodes of "Billy And Mandy" when they are broadcast on "The Cartoon Cartoon Show".
