The pair also 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. Despite this, he retains a love–hate relationship with the two and desires to eventually break free from his servitude.īilly and Mandy use Grim's supernatural abilities and powers to venture into supernatural locations or environments, such as the Underworld, or the Netherworld, inhabited by an assortment of grotesque monstrous beasts. However, as the time passes, he gradually adapts to the new life, and even grows to care for Billy and Mandy, if only somewhat. Grim is miserable in the first days of his servitude, and even fantasizes about killing them multiple times. After Billy and Mandy cheated at a limbo match against Grim (in retaliation for putting the limbo rod too low for them to go under), he is enslaved in a permanently unwanted friendship with the children. The series is centered around the exploits of Billy ( Richard Steven Horvitz), an idiotic and happy-go-lucky boy Mandy ( Grey DeLisle), a cynical, cold-hearted and tomboyish girl and Grim ( Greg Eagles), a Jamaican-accented Reaper. From left to right: Billy, Mandy, and Grim. Billy & Mandy has also been made into a video game as well as various licensed merchandise. One more made-for-TV movie, Underfist: Halloween Bash, intended to serve as a pilot for a new spin-off series, aired on October 12, 2008.ĭuring its run, the series won two Emmy Awards and one Annie Award, with nominations for one Daytime Emmy Award, three Golden Reel Awards, and two other Annie Awards. A crossover special with fellow Cartoon Network series, Codename: Kids Next Door, entitled "The Grim Adventures of the KND", aired on November 11, 2007. Two made-for-TV movies were also produced, Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure, which aired on March 30, 2007, and Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen, which aired on July 6, 2007. Although the 2003-2004 episodes were produced for Grim & Evil, the show ran as a separate series from June 13, 2003, to November 9, 2007, on Cartoon Network. Grim, who is reluctant to serve the two children, has access to supernatural items, spells, and other abilities that often lead Billy and Mandy to interact with otherworldly environments, characters, or situations.īilly & Mandy began as a segment on Grim & Evil, from which it was a spin-off, along with sister series Evil Con Carne, on August 24, 2001. It follows Billy, an extremely dimwitted, happy-go-lucky boy, and Mandy, a cynical, remorseless girl, who, after winning a limbo game to save Billy's pet hamster, gains Grim, the mighty Grim Reaper, as their "best friend forever". The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is an American animated television series created by Maxwell Atoms for Cartoon Network.
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