The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (season 3)
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy season 3 | |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 13 (25 segments) |
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Original network | Cartoon Network |
Original release | October 1, 2004 – June 10, 2005 |
This season has 13 regular episodes.
This season marks the first appearance of the three nerds of the Secret Snake Club, a school club dedicated to snakes and their dark supernatural abilities. Also appearing are Thromnambular, a mysterious talking skull that grants wishes. Minor characters that would later recur are Judge Roy Spleen, and Irwin's paternal grandmother whom he calls "Grandmama."
Recurrent characters that are also featured include Irwin, Mindy, Pud'n, Eris, Jeff the Spider, Hoss Delgado, and Nergal Junior. The stories presented are varied, including Billy becoming the superhero the Green Squeaker, having the power of being green, squeaking when he moves, and shooting yogurt from his armpits; and Hoss Delgado, spectral exterminator and Odin, Thor, and other Norse gods, who battle against Billy in Valhalla; Eris and the Apple of Discord. Billy facing his phobia of clowns; Sperg; Billy stealing Mandy's "nerve", to become tough and mean; enchanted candies; the Tooth Fairy, who is an Old West cowboy; Mandy getting a new friend to replace Billy; Billy getting rid of his "Dinobonoid" action figures; and Irwin, whose mother is revealed to be a mummy.
In the episode Toys Will Be Toys, Pud'n's roar sounds like the T-Rex in the Jurassic Park movies.
Episodes
No. in series | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Story by | Storyboard by | Original air date |
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19 | 1 | "31a Super Zero /31b Sickly Sweet" | Phil Cummings & Juli Hashiguchi Robert Alvarez & Phil Cummings | Brett Varon Maxwell Atoms | Brett Varon Celia Weiss | October 1, 2004 |
Super Zero: After watching a TV show, starring Captain Space Heifer and his Heifer Farms Brand Yogurt, Billy asks Grim to turn him into a superhero with the power of squeaking and throwing yogurt from his armpits. With his wish granted, Billy goes to outer space to fight the Evil Empire, but the planet he visits is inhabited except for an adorable little alien creature whom Billy fails to notice almost the entire episode and is smothered in Billy's limitless supply of armpit yogurt. Despite being free of Billy, Grim still has to deal with Billy's equally dumb father, Harold. After Billy fills the alien planet with yogurt, he returns home to be "normal". Note: There is also a The Fairly OddParents episode that also called "Super Zero". Sickly Sweet: Trying to get revenge at Mandy for bossing them all the time, Billy and Grim put her in the "Mask of the Beast". Mandy must be nice and friendly while wearing the mask or else she will become a hideous monster. Failing to remove the mask herself, and struggling to be "kind" to Billy and Grim, Mandy gradually turns into the beast. Billy and Grim ask Mandy to smile while she gives them a sponge bath, but this turns out to be too hard for Mandy. She fully transforms into the beast and punishes them instead. | ||||||
20 | 2 | "32a Bearded Billy /32b The Nerve" | Brian Sheesley Shaun Cashman | Gord Zajac & Brian Larsen Gord Zajac & Jim Schumann | Brian Larsen Jim Schumann | October 8, 2004 |
Bearded Billy: When Billy sees his father, Harold shaving, he decides having a beard is cool and buys "Hair Raiser Tonique", a hair-growing formula. Grim casts a spell on the tonic to make its effects appear faster, but Billy exaggerates the quantity and grows hair in all over his entire body. Billy is mistaken for the Sasquatch and a reward is offered for his capture. Hoss Delgado also receives the tonic and is captured and exhibited as the Sasquatch, while Mandy collects the reward. The Nerve: After being bullied again by Sperg, Billy asks Grim to shrink him to enter Mandy's head to steal her "nerve". After Billy swallows the raw nerve, a polyp-like organism, Mandy becomes timid and scared of everything while Billy becomes tough and mean. While Billy goes to get revenge at Sperg, Mandy enters Billy's head to recover her nerve. Mandy recovers her tough and cynical attitude without her nerve, which is successfully retrieved from Billy and banished from Endsville. In the end, Sperg is walking away and giving Billy a wedgie all at the same time. | ||||||
21 | 3 | "33a Test of Time /33b A Kick in the Asgard / 34 Five-O-Clock Shadows" | Shaun Cashman, Brian Sheesley, & Robert Alvarez Robert Alvarez, Juli Hashiguchi, & Brian Sheesley Juli Hashiguchi | Gord Zajac & Paul McEvoy Maxwell Atoms Brett Varon | Paul McEvoy Vincent Waller Brett Varon | October 15, 2004 |
Test of Time: When Billy forgets to do his history homework, Grim gives him a universal remote control to alter time and space so he can go back in time and finish his report. Billy and Mandy travel to the American Revolution, to prehistoric times, and even to the future, where they meet an aged Billy who is just finishing the report. After a struggle for the remote, Billy ends up again in the prehistory and the remote breaks. Fast forward into the present, every person is dumb and slowwitted just like he is and shares his characteristic "dot eyes", big nose and laugh, including Mandy and Irwin. A Kick in the Asgard: During a thunderstorm, a lightning bolt hits Grim's scythe, transporting Billy to Asgard, land of the Norse gods. Mandy and Grim go searching for him, while a Viking wearing Billy's shirt remains at his house as a substitute. In Asgard, Billy learns about the endless battle in Valhalla, in which if a warrior dies, he is resurrected to continue fighting. Billy is surprisingly good at killing other Vikings, so Mandy and Grim are unable to convince him to return home. Five-O-Clock Shadows: Grim is annoyed by Billy who thinks that a shadow is following him. Grim takes Billy and Mandy to the Shadows' World, where their opposites live. Grim tells them to do whatever they want, but to be back at 5 o'clock, when the portal to the normal world opens. Grim also warns Billy about the Door to Other Dimensions, but Billy opens it and a multitude of Billies come out an wreak havoc. | ||||||
22 | 4 | "Attack of the Clowns / Complete and Utter Chaos (Billy Gets Dumber)" | Shaun Cashman & Phil Cummings Randy Myers | Gord Zajac & C.H. Greenblatt Spencer Laudiero | C.H. Greenblatt Spencer Laudiero | October 29, 2004 |
Attack of the Clowns: After Billy wakes up from another nightmare involving clowns, he is more terrified than ever towards them, so Mandy and Grim try to cure him of this clown-a-phobia. Mandy asks Grim to bring to life a clown's head made on paper mache to entertain Billy, but the spell does not seem to work. They dress up as clowns in an attempt to look harmless. After consulting with his imaginary "Inner Frat Boy", Billy changes his feeling from being afraid to being angry at clowns, and attacks them with Grim's scythe. Billy is cured of his fear, but the paper mache clown attacks and eats them and they all hate clowns in the end. Complete and Utter Chaos (Billy Gets Dumber): Thinking that the world is chaotic enough as it is, Eris, the goddess of chaos, decides to quit chaos to work at a hamburger restaurant. She entrusts Grim the Apple of Discord to watch over for her, which he seals in his old trunk. The apple frees itself from the chest and goes to Billy. Mandy is attracted by the apple's powers, and after being persuaded by Billy's talking burrito, Billy, Mandy and Grim battle for control of the apple, which divides in three pieces. The battle results in them being fused together into an amorphous mass and, with an evil grin on her face, Eris decides to offer the apple to Irwin too. This episode is unusual in some aspects: it starts being called Billy gets Dumber, but the Apple of Discord swallows the screen and the real title Complete and Utter Chaos is shown instead; the episode starts at the end, and the story is told as a flashback; the talking burrito is featured prominently, but other than a brief mention, its origin is not explained. | ||||||
23 | 5 | "Whatever Happened to Billy Whatishisname? / Just the Two of Pus" | Brian Sheesley Robert Alvarez | Maxwell Atoms & Alex Almaguer Jackie Buscarino & Brian Larsen | Alex Almaguer Brian Larsen | November 5, 2004 |
Whatever Happened to Billy Whatishisname?: When Billy and Mandy have a brief fight, Billy says he never wants to speak to Mandy again. The next day, Billy is over his grudge, but Mandy has already decided to find a replacement for him. Mandy introduces Bobby, the new "Billy" replacement, who turns out to be a better friend than Billy, even gaining the affection of his parents, but who also wants to take over Billy's life. A jealous Billy uses Grim's scythe to open a portal and send Bobby to another dimension. Just the Two of Pus: When a doctor is unable to cure Sperg of his severe case of acne, Sperg goes to see a fortune teller that deals with skin problems. Following a Burmese recipe in her own book, the psychic tells Sperg to get the Grim Reaper's bones and rub them upon his face. Sperg has to tolerate being friends with Billy and Grim to get access to the latter's bones. One of Grim's arms gets into a stew and when Sperg is immersed in it, the mix cures completely his acne, but it also erases his nose and mouth. | ||||||
24 | 6 | "Chocolate Sailor / The Good, the Bad and the Toothless" | Shaun Cashman Juli Hashiguchi | Craig Lewis Brett Varon | Mike Diederich Brett Varon | November 12, 2004 |
Chocolate Sailor: While reading an Underworld comic book, Billy finds an advertisement for "Chocolate Sailors", a delicious chocolate candy-which being Underworld candies are secretly hexed into enslaving the eater. Billy becomes a seller of Chocolate Sailors, but instead of selling them ends up eating them all by himself. The enchanted candies turn him into solid chocolate, and now Billy cannot stop eating himself. Billy, Mandy, and Grim go searching for the Chocolate Sailor to retrieve the antidote before Billy eats himself completely. Instead of eating the antidote, Billy eats the antidote along with other enchanted chocolates, and his head (which was all that was left of him) explodes as a result and covers Chocolate Sailor, Grim and Mandy in chocolate. Later Grim and Mandy are shown watching TV while drinking "Billy" Chocolate shakes. On one of the "Billy" Chocolate shakes bottles, the Billy Sailor on it says, "I like chocolate". The Good, the Bad and the Toothless: When Billy has a loose tooth he cannot wait for the Tooth Fairy to appear to give him money. Mandy, who does not believe in the Tooth Fairy, asks Sperg to end Billy's waiting by knocking his tooth off. Sperg's punch leaves Billy unconscious, who has a dream about being in the wild west, where the Tooth Fairy has taken his own tooth. Mandy challenges the Tooth Fairy to a showdown to recover the tooth, and she comes out victorious just as Billy awakens. Billy does find money under his pillow, while the aged Tooth Fairy watches through the window. | ||||||
25 | 7 | "Toys Will Be Toys / That's My Mummy" | Randy Myers Robert Alvarez | Spencer Laudiero Maxwell Atoms & Alex Almaguer | Spencer Laudiero Alex Almaguer | November 26, 2004 |
Toys Will Be Toys: Thanks to Mandy, Billy decides to get rid of his "Dinobonoid" action figures thinking he is too old for them. Grim makes the toys come to life, and shrinks Billy to their size so he can have a last adventure with them. The "Jurassic Creeps" become aware of Grim's scythe and steal it from him to use its powers to rule the world; however, the magic that made them come alive runs out just in time, and the toys become inanimate once again. Billy reverts to his normal size too, but he stays trapped inside the box in which the action figures came. That's My Mummy: When Billy hangs out at Irwin's house, he finds a living mummy in the bathroom. Seeing as Irwin gets nervous, and as Billy has never met Irwin's mother, he suspects she is the mummy. To scare him off, Irwin's dad tells Billy he has the "curse of the mummy". Billy is attacked by insects and snakes while he tries to find out the truth about the mummy. It is later confirmed that Irwin's mother is in fact the mummy, but no further explanation is given as to how Irwin's family works or how he was conceived. | ||||||
26 | 8 | "The Secret Snake Club" | Shaun Cashman & Juli Hashiguchi | Maxwell Atoms & C.H. Greenblatt | C.H. Greenblatt | February 21, 2005 |
At school, Billy, Mandy, and Irwin look for a club to join. Irwin plans to join the Macrame club to meet girls; Billy inquires on the Junior CIA club, which forcefully recruits him; Mandy joins the "Secret Snake Club", a snake-themed club consisting of three geeks. The nerds reveal that their "secret agenda" is to resurrect Shnissugah, a giant snake which lived hundreds of years ago in Canada, to take revenge against the popular kids, but they lack the power of the Underworld to do so. Mandy calls for Grim, who proceeds to revive Shnissugah through the internet, even though the geeks tie her up using their pet garden snake, Wiggly Jr. Billy, as a junior agent of the CIA, stops a criminal plan by Irwin, who was using the Macrame club for personal gain; and Shnissugah turns out to be a tiny, 8-cm (3.14-in) long, harmless snake who forces the nerds to untie Mandy and goes back into the internet. Mandy ends up beating up the three geeks severely. Guest star: Billy West as Viper | ||||||
27 | 9 | "He's Not Dead, He's My Mascot / Hog Wild" | Phil Cummings, Juli Hashiguchi, & Eddy Houchins Shaun Cashman & Eddy Houchins | Nina Bargiel & Alex Almaguer Brett Varon | Alex Almaguer Brett Varon | April 1, 2005 |
He's Not Dead, He's My Mascot: When Billy and Mandy's school is preparing for a big game, Mindy entrusts the care of the school's mascot, Fluffy Cat, to Billy, to protect him from being kidnapped by the rival team, the Booty Heads. At Billy's house, Fluffy Cat is a disaster, so Billy's mom throws him into the basement, where the cat gets inside Grim's trunk, absorbing its powers. A giant Fluffy Cat appears just before the game wreaking havoc and spitting out a furious Mandy who says, "This is why I hate cats". Hog Wild: As Billy is tired of all the rules in his house, he cannot resist the urge to try his father's new motorcycle. The motorcycle breaks down as soon as Billy touches it, and Billy asks Grim to repair it. Grim's scythe turns the motorcycle into a wild, supernatural vehicle, which transforms Billy's parents and everyone around it into undead creatures and motorized monsters. Mandy makes Billy tell the truth about breaking the motorcycle in the first place, at which point his parents and everyone else return to normal. Billy was, of course, grounded at the end. | ||||||
28 | 10 | "The Bad News Ghouls / The House of No Tomorrow" | Brian Sheesley Robert Alvarez | Richard Horvitz & Vincent Waller Nina Bargiel & Alex Almaguer | Vincent Waller Alex Almaguer | April 8, 2005 |
The Bad News Ghouls: After Billy's baseball team loses badly against Mindy's, Grim decides to coach them. Mandy is not allowed on the team, as Billy is reluctant to let girls play, although he does not realize Mindy is a girl too. Mandy puts on a baseball cap and, assuming the role of "Manfred", pitches for Billy's team anyway. With additional help from ghoulish players which played in the Underworld Little Leagues alongside Grim, Billy's team wins when Pud'n hits a home run. Pud'n ends up being lifted up by the other baseball players in celebration, but ends up crying thinking that they were going to hurt him. The House of No Tomorrow: While at Sassy Cat Land, the theme park dedicated to Sassy Cat (and to ridiculously long lines), Billy, Mandy and Grim stumble upon a closed attraction, a futuristic "house of tomorrow". Inside, they find Master-Control, a sentient and autonomous, thinking, feeling artificial intelligence computer program claiming to know everything (and wishing death upon the trio when Billy angers him), and Tom Smith, a tour guide that became trapped in the house when it closed forty years ago. Tom explains that the attraction closed when a kid, actually Billy's dad, annoyed Master-Control with his dumb questions and the robots started attacking the humans. Billy, Mandy and Grim exit the house unharmed, but Tom misses his opportunity to escape and is left behind again. | ||||||
29 | 11 | "Happy Huggy Stuffy Bears / The Secret Decoder Ring" | Brian Sheesley Robert Alvarez, Shaun Cashman, & Eddy Houchins | Nina Bargiel & Spencer Laudiero Zena Wyss & Michael Diederich | Spencer Laudiero Michael Diederich | April 15, 2005 |
Happy Huggy Stuffy Bears: After a trip to the mall, Mandy becomes the spokesperson for Happy Huggy Stuffy Bears, a new stuffed toy in town. After the success of her commercial, Mandy gives away stuffed bears, which were her payment from the commercial, to the other children in the neighborhood, who start wreaking havoc in the city. Eris, the goddess of chaos, is behind the toys, which mind-control the children into creating chaos. Mandy decides not to share control of the world with Eris, and orders Grim to destroy the toys, which he does. The Secret Decoder Ring: When Billy finally gets a "secret decoder ring" in his Blasto Bits cereal, he receives a holographic message from a strange feminine creature who speaks about finding the "Secret of the Universe" in an abandoned mine shaft. All the other children of Endsville, also with decoder rings, race to the mine to be the first one to get the Secret. The entire effort is revealed to be a trap laid by Lubbermouth, a female worm-like creature from Grim's past who has a major crush on Grim, who wishes to free herself from the curse of guarding the Secret. When Mindy looks down at the pit, Lubbermouth pushes Mindy into the pit and she becomes the new guardian of the Secret and has to stay there forever. | ||||||
30 | 12 | "Wild Parts / The Problem with Billy" | Shaun Cashman Juli Hashiguchi | Dr. Richard M. Burton & Bill Reiss Brett Varon | Bill Reiss Brett Varon | June 3, 2005 |
Wild Parts: One night a strange odor travels through the city, prompting the noses of all the people, including Billy's, to follow it. The next night, Mandy, who is noseless, and Grim decide to wait outside Billy's house for the event to repeat. When the odor reappears, the nose parade leads them to the shopping mall, where they meet a "Nasalmancer", a nose wizard who is trying to take over other people's noses since he lost his own. Billy recovers his nose, but slices it in two, and gives one half to the Nasalmancer. The Problem with Billy: When Billy goes into the mud for the fifth time in the day while wearing his white tuxedo before a wedding, Grim tries to figure out why Billy is so stupid. Billy's dad recounts Billy's life from his birth until he met Mandy and explains that Billy is not dumb, but actually a genius with a certified "Honorary Genius Degree". It is quite evident to Grim that Billy's problem is his equally dumb father. | ||||||
31 | 13 | "Wishbones" | Juli Hashiguchi & Brian Sheesley | C. Scott Morse, Shaun Cashman, Alex Almaguer, C.H. Greenblatt, Michael Diederich, Maxwell Atoms, Ian Wasseluk, Paul McEvoy, & Thurop Van Orman | C. Scott Morse, Shaun Cashman, Alex Almaguer, C.H. Greenblatt, Michael Diederich, Maxwell Atoms, Ian Wasseluk, Paul McEvoy, & Thurop Van Orman | June 10, 2005 |
After Grim's robe comes out of the washing machine, Billy and Mandy find Thromnambular, a talking skull with ruby eyes and a number nine imprinted on his forehead. Grim tells them that the skull is a magical artifact imprisoned on Earth that must grant his nine wishes to be free. When Mandy asks Grim why he has not used any of the wishes, Grim tells her that the skull will corrupt the wishes and end up affecting the wisher. Despite this, Billy runs away with the skull and makes the first wish: (1) he wishes to be in an adventure (which parodies Indiana Jones and Jonny Quest), this backfires because Irwin is eaten, which Billy complains about getting him in trouble. After this, Thromnambular is found by different people who each make a wish: (2) Billy's dad wishes he could relive his high school years, but this backfires because he is not popular; (3) General Skarr wishes to rule on high, but this backfires because he asphyxiates in space; (4) Irwin (despite being eaten already in an earlier episode) wishes he was in a hip-hop music video, but backfires because he gets punched by Mandy; (5) Pud'n wishes he had a bunny, but backfires because he is almost killed by it, because "Sometimes Love Hurts"; (6) Nergal Junior wastes his wish by wishing for a wish that wouldn't backfire; (7) Sperg wishes for a way to get into the girls restroom to bully a girl into giving him a large sack of money, this backfires because he is turned into girl and insulted by the other girls for being ugly; (8) Mindy wishes to be a "big star", but this backfires when she is sent into space strapped to a rocket; (9) finally, Mandy tries to auction the last wish, but Grim gets ahead and wishes the kids never found the skull in the first place. This goes back to the beginning of the episode where Billy is staring at the washing machine, followed by Mandy pushing him into it. Credit aftermath: Grim is shown talking to Thromnambular wishing that he was free from Billy and Mandy and granting wishes, but this backfires because Thromnambular switches places with him to grant this wish. |