Evil Con Carne

Evil Con Carne is an American animated series created by Maxwell Atoms that originally aired a series of segments on Grim & Evil, along with The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. The series ran from August 24th, 2001 to October 22, 2004. This was the last Cartoon Cartoon to premiere.
The show is about evil Hector Con Carne, who wants, and tries, to take over the world. However, he was blown up in an explosion. So, he was left without a body, reduced to a brain, and stomach. So he's now using a Russian circus bear, named Boskov, as a body.
On December, 2023, the series, along with Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel aired reruns on Adult Swim as part their Checkered Past throwback block.
== Overview ==
Hector Con Carne was a "jillionaire playboy" crime lord and evil genius bent on taking over the world. Eventually, he was caught in an explosion initiated by his nemesis, Cod Commando, a soldier for the Secret Paramilitary Organized Response Kommand (S.P.O.R.K.). The explosion scattered most of his body across the world. He was rescued by a scientist, Major Dr. Ghastly, 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 Russian 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 known as "Bunny Island" (a parody of Blofeld's lair in the James Bond movies). Gathering an army, Con Carne resumed his quest for world domination and made a new goal: to find his missing body parts.
== Characters ==
* Hector Con Carne (Phil LaMarr): the main character and the antihero. He was a dynamic, evil playboy type, but was reduced to an anthropomorphic brain and a stomach after a gigantic explosion. Somehow, the stomach has taken on a life of its own. He is often frustrated by the difficulty of taking over the world in its current state.
* Major Dr. Ghastly (Grey DeLisle): A mad scientist, Ghastly is the brains behind all Hector's plans. She does not really seem to be intent on taking over the world; she is more interested in inventing things and getting closer to Hector.
* General Skarr (Armin Shimerman): Con Carne's paramilitary leader. He is a cold-hearted, hateful and harsh man, with a scar on his face, and one eye. He tends to be more evil than Con Carne himself, many times trying to overthrow his leader. He has made several appearances on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, as Billy's next door neighbor. He has also starred in the Billy & Mandy spin-off, Underfist. 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 (Jesse Corti in the pilot, Frank Welker in series): A former Russian circus bear, Boskov carries Con Carne's brain and stomach on his body. He is sometimes difficult to control due to his animal instincts and lack of intelligence.
* Stomach (Armin Shimerman): This former stomach of Hector Con Carne will only talk if it's about food.
* Cod Commando (Maxwell Atoms): Con Carne's nemesis. He is an extremely talented anthropomorphic codfish secret agent/superhero in SPORK, who only speaks in gibberish. He almost invariably thwarts Con Carne's evil plans and is responsible for destroying Hector's body.
* 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 openly returns his affections. In his premiere episode, "The Time Hole Incident", the present Hector is baffled at how he was conceived (considering that he had lost his reproductive system in the explosion).
* 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 is shown to have a crush on Ghastly.
=== 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 any of Hector's schemes actually have 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.
* Private Simmons: A member of the super team SPORK. He is a monkey.
* Ensign Slaughter (Jim Rash): A member of the super team SPORK. He is extremely skilled with computers.
* Enrique Jr. (Frank Welker): Hector's Pet Chihuahua. Appears in a couple of episodes. In the episode "Emotional Skarr", Hector builds a robot chihuahua modeled after Enrique Jr., which had a variety of weapons.
* Max Courage (Quinton Flynn): The son of an exfriend of Ghastly.
* Tony (Charlie Schlatter): A geeky soldier working for Evil Con Carne.
== Cast ==
=== Main Cast ===
* Phil LaMarr as Hector Con Carne
* Grey DeLisle as Major Dr. Ghastly
* Armin Shimerman as General Skarr
* Frank Welker as Boskov the Bear
* Maxwell Atoms as Cod Commando
=== Additional voices ===
* Charlie Adler as Snowman
* Susanne Blakeslee as Hector's Mama
* Greg Ellis as Lady of the Lake
* Kathryn Fiore as Heidi
* Quinton Flynn as Max Courage
* Mark Hamill as Judge Bukowski
* Jess Harnell as Policeman
* Roger L. Jackson as Mojo Jojo Impression
* Tom Kenny as Warren, Huckleberry Hound Impression
* Maurice LaMarche as Estroy
* Rachael MacFarlane as Nurse Bully
* Scott Menville as Rick Courage
* Masasa Moyo as Kablamity Jane
* Jim Rash as Ensign Slaughter
* Peter Renaday as Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Courage
* Rino Romano as Destructicus Con Carne
* Charlie Schlatter as Tony
* Billy West as Gollum
== Series Overview ==
Season:	Episodes:	Premiere: 	End:
1 	9 	August 24, 2001	October 22, 2004
2 	4 	October 1, 2004	October 22, 2004
== Episodes ==
Season 1
No.
in Season:	No.
in Season:	Name: 	Premiere:
1	1	Evil Con Carne 	August 24, 2001
1	1	Emotional Skarr 	August 31, 2001
1	1	Evil Goes Wild 	September 7, 2001
2	2	Evil on Trial 	August 9, 2002
2	2	The Smell of Vengeance, Part 1 	October 5, 2001
2	2	The Smell of Vengeance, Part 2 	October 5, 2001
3	3	Bring Me the Face of Hector Con Carne	July 19, 2002
3	3	Devolver, Part 1 	October 12, 2001
3	3	Devolver, Part 2 	October 12, 2001
4	4	Everyone Loves Uncle Bob 	August 2, 2002
4	4	Tiptoe Through the Tulips, Part 1 	October 19, 2002
4	4	Tiptoe Through the Tulips, Part 2 	October 19, 2002
5	5	Max Courage 	August 15, 2003
5	5	The Time Hole Incident 	October 4, 2002
5	5	Christmas Con Carne 	October 11, 2002
6	6	Ultimate Evil 	October 22, 2004
6	6	Search and Estroy 	July 26, 2002
6	6	The Pie Who Loved Me 	October 18, 2002
7	7	Gutless 	July 11, 2003
7	7	Day of the Dreadbots 	July 11, 2003
7	7	League of Destruction 	July 11, 2003
8	8	Son of Evil 	July 18, 2003
8	8	The Right to Bear Arms 	July 18, 2003
8	8	The Trouble with Skarrina 	July 18, 2003
9	9	Go Spork 	August 1, 2003
9	9	Boskov's Day Out 	August 1, 2003
9	9	Cod vs. Hector 	August 1, 2003
Season 2
No. in
Series:	No. in
Season:	Name: 	Premiere:
10	1	No No Nanook 	October 1, 2004
10	1	Teenage Idol 	October 1, 2004
11	2	The Mother of All Evils	October 8, 2004
11	2	The HCCBDD 	October 8, 2004
12	3	Gridlocked and Loaded 	October 15, 2004
12	3	Fool's Paradise 	October 15, 2004
13	4	Jealousy, Jealous Do 	October 22, 2004
13	4	Hector, King of Britons	October 22, 2004
== History ==
Evil Con Carne's original show, Grim & Evil, became the result of a viewer's poll in 2000. The poll, titled Big Pick was held on the internet from June 16 to August 25, 2000. The three choices for short films to become animated series were Grim & Evil (shown as Meet the Reaper), Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, and Longhair and Doubledome. After the event, the Meet the Reaper short film won with 57% of the vote and soon became Grim & Evil. While Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? became an animated series in 2002, Longhair and Doubledome appeared at another Big Pick event, but lost once again.
Grim & Evil premiered on August 24, 2001, and was cancelled on October 18, 2002. In 2003, Cartoon Network separated the two series and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Evil Con Carne earned their own full-length series. Unfortunately, Evil Con Carne ended after two seasons because of the audiences’ interest with The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, resulting this spinoff a critical failure.
After Evil Con Carne was cancelled its characters appeared in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. 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 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.
==== In other shows ====
Hector and his stomach both appeared during the end credits of the Codename: Kids Next Door crossover special, The Grim Adventures of the KND, where they had a mini crossover with Camp Lazlo.
Hector and Boskov were featured in the MAD episode Once Upon a Toon.
Major Dr. Ghastly appeared in the Villainous special, The Lost Cases of Beach City. She and Boskov made background appearances in the special, The Lost Cases of the Treehouse. Hector, Boskov, Skarr, and Ghastly all appeared during the end credits of the episode, BH's Bizarre Badventure.
Major Dr. Ghastly made a cameo in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode, Crossover Nexus, where she appeared as one of the Cartoon Network heroes that were summoned and defeated by Strike.
==== Video games ====
Hector appeared as a hat item in the MMO online game, Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall.
Hector Con Carne appeared as wardrobe in the mobile game. Kleptocats: Cartoon Network.
== Broadcast history ==
* Cartoon Network (original run: 2001-2004; re-runs: 2004-2007, 2008, 2012-2013)
* Adult Swim (re-runs: 2023-2024)
== Home Media ==
Six episodes of Evil Con Carne were included as bonus episodes in The Complete Season 1 DVD set of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
The series was released on demand in 2017.
Evil Con Carne was re-released on Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, Google Play, Vudu, Microsoft and YouTube on August 16th, 2018.
The episode, Christmas Con Carne, was featured on Cartoon Network's second Holiday specials YouTube livestream on December 2023.
== Trivia ==
* The "Con Carne" of the title is Spanish/Italian for "with meat", as well as a pun on the expression "evil incarnate" and the dish "Chili con carne".
* According to series creator, Maxwell Atoms, on Tumblr. The character, Boskov (who is Hector's replacement body), was originally going to be a gorilla known as Bosko, but ended up being changed to a bear due to being similar to the ape villains from D.C. Comics, Monsuier Mallah and the Ultra-Humanite. They also had to change the name due to the Bosco Chocolate syrup having a bear mascot at one time.
* In the episode, Everyone Loves Uncle Bob, Major Dr.Ghastly had a non speaking role, making it the only episode where she had no lines at all.
* The series, along with Time Squad, are the only Cartoon Network shows not to be released on HBO Max in the United States or in Latin America.
* While General Skarr has appeared in every episode of the series, in the episode, Cod vs. Hector, he only appears at the end, making it the only time he only appears at the end of an episode instead of appearing entirely.
* In some broadcasts, the episode, Max Courage!, was paired with segments of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: Grim for a Day and Chicken Ball Z.
== See also ==
* Grim and Evil
* The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
== Gallery ==
EvilConCarneiTunes.jpeg|iTunes volume cover
1200x630.jpg|Apple TV volume cover
Evil Con Carne On Demand cover.jpg|On Demand cover
Hector Helmet.jpg|Hector Con Carne as he appears in FusionFall
IMG 3981.jpg|Major Dr.Ghastly in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode, Crossover Nexus
IMG 2467.jpg|Hector Con Carne in KleptoCats: Cartoon Network
File:EvilConCarneCheckeredPastpromoimage.jpg|Checkered Past social media promo
File:EvilConCarneConnectingCharactersfigures.jpeg|Connecting Characters figures
File:EvilConCarneBoskovbobblefigure.jpeg|Bobblehead figure of Boskov
File:EvilConCarneofficialCNwebsite.jpeg
File:BoskotheGorillaconcept art.jpeg|A concept art of Boskov originally meant to be a gorilla known as Bosko.
File:EvilConCarneApril18th2007broadcast.jpeg|The episode, Search and Estroy, on a broadcast of The Cartoon Cartoon Show from April 18th, 2007.
File:EvilConCarnebroadcastAugust3rd2012.jpeg|The episode, Everyone Loves Uncle Bob, on a broadcast of Cartoon Planet from August 3rd, 2012
File:EvilConCarneCheckeredPastpromoXversion.jpeg|X version of the show's Checkered Past social media promo
File:EvilConCarneDecember24th2012broadcast.jpeg|A standalone airing of the episode, Christmas Con Carne, from December 24th, 2012
File:EvilConCarneAugust13th2005broadcast.jpeg|A broadcast of Evil on Trial/The Smell of Vengeance from August 13th, 2005
File:EvilConCarneGridlockedandLoadedrerunNovember9th2005.jpeg|The episode, Gridlocked and Loaded, on a broadcast of The Cartoon Cartoon Show on November 9th, 2005
File:EvilConCarnepilotCartoonPlanetbroadcastJuly13th2012.jpeg|The show's pilot episode on a broadcast of Cartoon Planet on July 13th, 2012
File:EvilConCarneApril30th2004re-run.jpeg|A re-run of Go Spork/Boskov's Day Out/Cod vs. Hector on April 30th, 2004
File:EvilConCarneAmazonPrimecover.jpeg|Amazon Prime cover
File:EvilConCarneJanuary25th2006broadcast.jpeg|A broadcast of the episode, Bring Me the Face of Hector Con Carne, on The Cartoon Cartoon Show, on January 25th, 2006
File:EvilConCarneJanuary26th2006broadcast.jpeg|A broadcast of the episode, Search and Estroy, on The Cartoon Cartoon Show, on January 26th, 2006
File:EvilConCarneJanuary31st2006airing.jpeg|An airing of the pilot episode on The Cartoon Cartoon Show on January 31st, 2006
File:EvilConCarneVuducover.jpeg|Vudu cover
File:EvilConCarneSeptember19th2003airing.jpeg|an airing of Evil Con Carne/Emotional Skarr/Evil Goes Wild on September 19th, 2003
File:EvilConCarneSeptember26th2003airing.jpeg|An airing of Gutless!/Day of the Dreadbot/League of Destruction on September 26th, 2003
File:EvilConCarneApril13th2012broadcastSDfeed.jpeg|SD feed of the episode, The Pie Who Loved Me, on an airing of Cartoon Planet on April 13th, 2012
File:EvilConCarneApril13th2012airingHDfeed.jpeg|HD feed of an airing of the episode, The Pie Who Loved Me, on Cartoon Planet on April 13th, 2012
File:EvilConCarneDecember1st2023CheckeredPastairing.jpeg|An airing of Max Courage!/The Time Hole Incident/Christmas Con Carne on Checkered Past on December 1st, 2023
File:EvilConCarneJanuary29th2024airingCheckeredPast.jpeg|A broadcast of Evil Con Carne/Emotional Skarr/Evil Goes Wild on Checkered Past on January 29th, 2024
File:EvilConCarneJanuary30th2024CheckeredPastbroadcast.jpeg|An airing of Evil on Trial/The Smell of Vengeance on Checkered Past on January 30th, 2024
File:EvilConCarneFebruary1st2024CheckeredPastairing.jpeg|A broadcast of Everyone Loves Uncle Bob/Tiptoe Through the Tulips on Checkered Past on February 1st, 2024
File:EvilConCarneFebruary5th2024CheckeredPastairing.jpeg|An airing of Ultimate Evil/Search and Estroy/The Pie Who Loved Me on Checkered Past on February 5th, 2024
File:EvilConCarneJanuary31st2024CheckeredPastbroadcast.jpeg|A broadcast of Bring Me the Face of Hector Con Carne/Devolver on Checkered Past on January 31st, 2024
File:EvilConCarneFebruary12th2024CheckeredPastairing.jpeg|An airing of Son of Evil/The Right to Bear Arms/The Trouble with Skarrina on Checkered Past on February 12th, 2024
File:EvilConCarneFebruary13th2024CheckeredPastairing.jpeg|An airing of The Mother of All Evils/The HCCBDD on Checkered Past on February 13th, 2024
File:EvilConCarneJanuary1st2005airing.jpeg|A broadcast of Evil Con Carne/Emotional Skarr/Evil Goes Wild on January 1st, 2005
File:Boskov20thAnniversaryposter.jpeg|Boskov on Cartoon Network's 20th anniversary poster
File:EvilConCarneJanuary16th2004airing.jpeg|An airing of Son of Evil/The Right to Bear Arms/The Trouble with Skarrina on January 16th, 2004
File:EvilConCarneCheckeredPastFebruary6th2024airing.jpeg|A broadcast of Gutless!/Day of the Dreadbot/League of Destruction on Checkered Past on February 6th, 2024
File:EvilConCarneCheckeredPastFebruary7th2024airing.jpeg|An airing of Go Spork/Boskov's Day Out/Cod vs. Hector on Checkered Past on February 7th, 2024
File:EvilConCarneFebruary8th2024CheckeredPastairing.jpeg|A broadcast of No No Nanook/Teenage Idol on Checkered Past on February 8th, 2024
File:EvilConCarneCheckeredPastFebruary15th2024airing.jpeg|An airing of Gridlocked and Loaded/Fool's Paradise on Checkered Past on February 15th, 2024
File:EvilConCarneFebruary19th2024CheckeredPast.jpeg|An airing of Jealosy, Jealous Do/Hector, King of the Britons on Checkered Past on February 19th, 2024
File:B&MSeason1DVDDisc2EvilConCarnebonusepisodes.jpeg|Evil Con Carne's bonus episodes menu on the Season 1 DVD set of Billy and Mandy
File:Evil Con Carne City.png|Now/Then icon of Hector and Boskov from the City era
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