Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy Mandy Fan Art
| The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy | |
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| Likewise known as | Billy & Mandy |
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| Created by | Maxwell Atoms |
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| Land of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | half-dozen |
| No. of episodes | 77 (161 segments; 83 airings) (list of episodes) |
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| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
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| Original network | Drawing Network |
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| Original release | August 24, 2001 (2001-08-24) – November 9, 2007 (2007-11-09) |
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| Followed by | Underfist: Halloween Bash (2008) |
| Related shows | Evil Con Carne |
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (likewise shortened to just Billy & Mandy ) is an American animated tv set serial created by Maxwell Atoms for Drawing Network, originally part of Grim & Evil. It follows an extremely dimwitted happy-go-lucky boy named Billy and a cynical remorseless girl named Mandy who, afterward winning a limbo game to save Billy's pet hamster, gain the mighty Grim Reaper as their best friend in eternal servitude and slavery.
Billy & Mandy began as a series of segments on Grim & Evil, from which it was a spin-off, along with Evil Con Carne, on Baronial 24, 2001. Although the 2003 episodes were produced for Grim & Evil, the show ran as a carve up series from June 13, 2003, to November ix, 2007, on Cartoon Network. Ii made-for-TV movies, Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Run a risk, which aired on March 30, 2007, and Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen, which also aired on July half-dozen, 2007. A crossover special with beau Cartoon Network serial, Codename: Kids Next Door, entitled "The Grim Adventures of the KND", aired on November xi, 2007, as the series finale. One more than made-for-TV motion-picture show, Underfist: Halloween Bash, intended to serve as a airplane pilot for a new spin-off series, aired on October 12, 2008. During its run, the series won two Emmy Awards and one Annie Honour, with nominations for one Daytime Emmy Award, three Aureate Reel Awards, and ii other Annie Awards. Baton & Mandy has too been made into a video game besides as various licensed merchandise.
Premise [edit]
The show's main characters. From left to correct: Billy, Mandy, and Grim.
The series is centered around the exploits of Billy (Richard Steven Horvitz), a simple, happy-go-lucky male child; Mandy (Grey DeLisle), a cynical and cold-hearted girl; and Grim (Greg Eagles), a Jamaican-absolute Reaper. After Baton and Mandy cheated at a limbo match against Grim (in retaliation for putting the limbo rod too low for them to get under), he is enslaved in a permanently unwanted friendship with the children.[1] Grim is miserable in the first days of his servitude, and even fantasizes well-nigh killing them multiple times. All the same, as the time passes, he gradually adapts to the new life, and even grows to care for Billy and Mandy, if just somewhat. Despite this, he retains a love–detest relationship with the two and desires to eventually break costless from his servitude. Maxwell Atoms, who has Asperger syndrome himself, confirmed in 2021 that all iii characters are on the autism spectrum, likening Mandy to "the cold, rational fashion [he] learned to view the earth in guild to survive", Billy to "the fun and joyous inner-world where [Atoms likes] to spend [his] fourth dimension" and Grim to "the moral mediator between the two."[2]
Billy and Mandy use Grim's supernatural abilities and powers to venture into supernatural locations or environments, such every bit the Underworld, or the Netherworld, inhabited by an assortment of grotesque monstrous beasts. The pair too use Grim's enormously strong supernatural abilities or ties with a number of beastly characters to achieve goals or desires for themselves, often with twisted results. Famed fictional monsters including Dracula, the Wolfman, and the bogeyman are likewise comically depicted in the series.
Supporting characters include Irwin (Vanessa Marshall), a nerdy bad-mannered boy who has a crush on Mandy; Harold (Richard Steven Horvitz), Billy'southward father who is even dumber than his son; Gladys (Jennifer Hale), Billy's loving nevertheless mentally unstable mother; Mindy (Rachael MacFarlane), the snobby, stuck-up, and spoiled queen bee of Billy and Mandy's schoolhouse; Sperg (Greg Eagles), the local bully who has a sensitive side; Fred Fredburger (C. H. Greenblatt), a simple-minded, irritating underworld brute who loves frozen yogurt and nachos; Dracula (Phil LaMarr), a selfish elderly vampire who is revealed to be Irwin's paternal grandfather in the final flavour of the show.
The show lacks continuity for the virtually part, as many episodes end with characters killed, exiled, or stuck in a situation. Characters sometimes display an awareness of some events from previous episodes, but there are no clear character arcs or coherent plot lines tying the testify together.
Episodes [edit]
Production history [edit]
The series had its genesis in 1995, when Maxwell Atoms, while he was a junior at the Academy of the Arts in Philadelphia, made a two-minute curt picture for his thesis project. Titled Billy and Mandy in: The Trepanation of the Skull and You, it centers around Baton and Mandy (prototype versions) discussing trepanning with each other. In the end, Mandy drills Billy'south caput, causing him to pass out after too much claret loss even though he says he feels great. The short had never been shown publicly until April 30, 2016, during the first annual TromAnimation Film Festival.[iii] After the screening, Atoms uploaded the film, albeit in a deteriorating state after years of storage, on his YouTube channel.
While working on the first season of Moo-cow and Chicken, Atoms was approached past Hanna-Barbera executives for ideas for new short films. Among the ideas he presented to Hanna-Barbera was "Milkman", centering on an anthropomorphic, superhero milk carton who saves the missing children depicted on his back. Though the thought was rejected, executives were interested in Billy and Mandy, ii characters that were to be featured in the project.[4] Atoms was prompted to devise a serial centering on the two children. Feeling that the characters Billy and Mandy wouldn't be plenty to carry a show, he began devising a third graphic symbol to round out the primary cast. He was always fascinated past the idea of a petty daughter befriending the Devil or the grim reaper, but somewhen settled on the latter, equally Cartoon Network didn't approve of depictions of the devil after Cow and Chicken. Atoms pitched the Billy & Mandy concept to Drawing Network and Nickelodeon, to which Drawing Network approved the production of a short film 6 months later (which would go the brusk/pilot Run into the Reaper).[4]
The prove was put into full production after the result of a viewer poll event past way of phone and the Internet chosen Cartoon Network'south Big Pick which was held from June 16 to August 25, 2000.[five] The three final choices were Grim and Evil (before splitting into two separate series: The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Evil Con Carne), Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, and Longhair and Doubledome.[five] Out of the iii, Grim and Evil attained the most votes with 57%; Robot Jones came in second identify at 23% while Longhair and Doubledome received xx% of the vote.[five] [6]
Originally part of Grim & Evil, Billy & Mandy served as the main show. In each episode, an Evil Con Carne brusk was put between two Grim shorts.[5] An original Evil Con Carne short was produced in 2000 after Meet the Reaper, but Drawing Network wanted to combine the series, to have a "B cartoon" as a middle segment (similar to the Dial M For Monkey and The Justice Friends shorts in Dexter's Laboratory, or the I Am Weasel segment on Cow and Chicken).[4] On occasion, it was the other manner around, with two Evil shorts and ane Grim brusque. The serial premiered on Baronial 24, 2001, during the Cartoon Cartoon Fridays Big Selection Weekend.
Another batch of 13 half-hour episodes were produced for Grim & Evil, but on June thirteen, 2003, the network separated the two segments and gave each their own half-hour program. The split came every bit a upshot of Cartoon Network wanting to motility away from the old 7 minute segment format, and focus on two eleven minute segments per half hour instead.[four] After both series aired their respective new seasons, the network gave Atoms a decision to keep one serial, while the other would exist dropped from production. Atoms opted to go on Billy & Mandy and accepted the network's conclusion, every bit he considered running both shows stressful.[4] Evil Con Carne characters occasionally appear on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. General Skarr appeared in "Skarred for Life" every bit Billy's new side by side-door neighbor.[7] In "Company Halt", the ninth episode of the concluding season which also functions equally the true series finale for Evil Con Carne, Ghastly, Hector, Boskov, and Tum restart their evil organization and convince Skarr to rejoin them, simply their plans are ultimately foiled by Baton and Mandy, and Skarr goes back to living his life as a normal person.[8]
In March 2022, Craig McCracken revealed there were plans for a spinoff series titled Cheeseburger that would have featured Fred Fredburger and Cheese from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. It never got off the footing.[9]
Reception [edit]
Common Sense Media gave the show a 3/5 star rating and stated that information technology has "goofy punchlines and obscure cultural references" and recommends the viewer age be at least 8 years old.[10]
Awards and nominations [edit]
The series has won one Annie Award, two Emmy Awards and has been nominated nine times for diverse awards.
| Yr | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Consequence |
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| 2002 | Golden Reel Awards | Best Sound Editing in Boob tube Animation | Glenn Oyabe, Jesse Aruda, and Rob Desales for "The Odor of Vengeance: Pt. 1 & 2/Fiend is Like Friend Without the "R"" | Nominated |
| 2003 | Best Sound Editing in Telly Blitheness – Music | Glenn Oyabe for "Fiddling Rock of Horror/The Pie Who Loved Me/Dream a Piffling Dream" and "Baton & Mandy'south Jacked-Upwardly Halloween" | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Best Sound Editing in Television Animation | Glenn Oyabe, Jesse Aruda, Erik Sequeira, and Cecil Broughton for "Super Aught/Sickly Sweet" | Nominated | |
| Annie Awards | Directing in an Animated Telly Production | Brian Sheesley for "Nursery Crimes" [11] | Nominated | |
| Shaun Cashman and Phil Cummings for "Set on of the Clowns" [11] | Won | |||
| 2006 | Shaun Cashman for "Hill Billy" [12] | Nominated | ||
| Emmy Awards | Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation | Michael Diederich[thirteen] | Won | |
| 2007 | Phil Rynda for Billy & Mandy'southward Big Boogey Take chances [fourteen] | Won | ||
| Daytime Emmy Awards | Broadband-Children's | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy [15] | Nominated |
Boob tube movies [edit]
3 TV movies were made for the series. The first one was called Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Take chances and was released on DVD in April, 2007.[16]
A second movie, Wrath of the Spider Queen, was also released in 2007. It was based on a spider queen from Grim's distant past, who tries to take revenge on him because she was meant to be the reaper. Meanwhile, keeping up with the spider theme, Billy learns to love his spider son Jeff.[17]
On October 12, 2008, a third and final spin-off movie, titled Underfist: Halloween Bash, premiered on Drawing Network. The film's primary focus is on Irwin, Jeff the Spider, Hoss Delgado, Full general Skarr, and Fred Fredburger accidentally coming together to defeat an invasion of chocolate bar monsters, led by an evil marshmallow bunny, on Halloween night.[18]
Media [edit]
Music [edit]
The score composers for the series are Gregory Hinde, Drew Neumann and Guy Moon.[19] [xx] [21] In add-on, 2 songs were made for the evidence by Aurelio Voltaire, the episode "Fiddling Rock of Horrors", which parodies the musical Picayune Shop of Horrors, features a song titled "BRAINS!"[22] [23] and, in Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure, the song "Land of the Dead" is played in the opening credits.[24] Both songs are a office of the album Spooky Songs For Creepy Kids.[22] The third-flavor episode "Battle of the Bands" besides featured the song "Darkness" by metal band SPF 1000. There was also an instance at the end of the Christmas special entitled "Billy & Mandy Relieve Christmas", where the end credits music is the vocal "Round and Round" by heavy metal band Ratt.
Video game [edit]
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is a 3D fighting video game inspired by the series developed by Midway Games and released on September 25, 2006, for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube, on October 31, 2006, for the Game Boy Accelerate, and on November 19, 2006, in Northward America for the Wii.[25] The video game received fair to adept reviews: GameSpot's Greg Mueller gave it a half-dozen.vi/10, stating that while its fun lasts the "first few hours" and has "fast-paced gameplay" the game activity "gets old chop-chop" and has a very short story mode.[26] IGN's Marking Bozon rated it 7.2/10, highlighting its presentation and appeal.[27] Metacritic rated information technology 61/100 based on x critic reviews.[28]
Home media [edit]
The kickoff flavor was get-go released on DVD by Warner Home Entertainment in 2007. All eight seasons are bachelor on iTunes and Amazon Prime on six volunes, with the exceptions of Billy and Mandy Save Christmas and Billy and Mandy'south Big Boogey Adventure.
On January 1, 2021, seasons of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy were added to HBO Max.[29]
Come across also [edit]
- Evil Con Carne
- Grim & Evil
References [edit]
- ^ "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Characters". Cartoon Network. Archived from the original on May 21, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2012.
- ^ Atoms, Maxwell (21 September 2021). "Sparagmos Industries". Tumblr . Retrieved 24 March 2022.
And so yeah. Mandy'south probably on the spectrum. As are Billy & Grim. Mandy is the common cold, rational way I learned to view the globe in order to survive. Billy is the fun and joyous inner-world where I similar to spend my fourth dimension. And Grim is the moral mediator between the two. Information technology's actually Id, Ego, and Superego to some degree. I haven't thought about that in a long fourth dimension, simply that was purposeful.
- ^ Amidi, Amidst (May 1, 2016). "Maxwell Atoms Reveals Lost Educatee Picture show That Inspired 'Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'". Drawing Mash. Archived from the original on May 3, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ^ a b c d east "What's In My Caput Podcast - Maxwell Atoms: The creator of Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy! | RSS Podcasting". RSS.com . Retrieved 2022-02-xiii .
- ^ a b c d "Billy, Mandy and Grim Caput to the Movies". Animation World Network. Archived from the original on January twenty, 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
- ^ Dempsey, John (August 29, 2000). "'Billy & Mandy' Beats Out 'Robot,' 'Longhair' to Get Greenlight". Variety. Archived from the original on October 3, 2013. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
- ^ "Skarred for Life". The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. Season ii. Episode 21b. July 2, 2004. Cartoon Network.
- ^ "Company Halt". The Grim Adventures of Baton & Mandy. Season six. Episode 71a. March thirty, 2007. Cartoon Network.
- ^ https://twitter.com/CrackMcCraigen/status/1505403885980045312
- ^ "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy". Common Sense Media. 22 March 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
- ^ a b "32nd Annual Annie Nominations and Awards Recipients". AnnieAwards.org. ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on February 14, 2014. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
- ^ "34th Annual Annie Nominations and Awards Recipients". AnnieAwards.org. ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on March 22, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
- ^ "Listing of Creative Arts Emmy winners". USA Today. Baronial xx, 2006. Archived from the original on June 28, 2011. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
- ^ "Academy of Idiot box Arts & Sciences announces Emmy® Award Winners in Costumes for Variety or Music Program and Individual Accomplishment in Animation" (PDF). Emmy Awards. Archived (PDF) from the original on Feb 22, 2014. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
- ^ "Children's Emmy Honor noms make history at the KidScreen Summit". KidScreen.com. Archived from the original on June 18, 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
- ^ "Billy & Mandy'south Large Boogey Take chances DVD". CD Universe. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2012.
- ^ "Wrath of the Spider Queen". IMDb. Archived from the original on March 21, 2015. Retrieved May 26, 2012.
- ^ "Underfist: Halloween Bash". BCDB . Retrieved May 27, 2012.
- ^ "Gregoryhinde resume". world wide web.gregoryhinde.com. Archived from the original on 2012-08-31. Retrieved 2012-05-27 .
- ^ "Drew Neumann Credits". DrewNeumann.com. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
- ^ "Guy-Moon". Movies & Telly Dept. The New York Times. 2013. Archived from the original on May 31, 2013. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
- ^ a b Brains! (From The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy), ASIN B004F9RE9M
- ^ "Little Rock of Horror". Cartoon Network. Archived from the original on June xiii, 2012. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
- ^ "New Voltaire Album!". AdventureQuest Worlds. Archived from the original on March 29, 2012. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
- ^ "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (Video game)". BBFC . Retrieved May 26, 2012.
- ^ "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2012.
- ^ Bozon, Marker (December 5, 2006). "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (Video game review)". IGN. Archived from the original on January xiv, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2012.
- ^ "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Wii". Metacritic. Archived from the original on April vii, 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2012.
- ^ "HBO Max Rings in 2021 with CN Classics, New 'Looney Tunes Cartoons' & More". Animation Magazine. December 24, 2020.
External links [edit]
- The Grim Adventures of Baton & Mandy at the Big Drawing DataBase
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy at IMDb
- Markstein, Donald D. "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy". Toonopedia. Archived from the original on September 1, 2016.
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