Grim & Evil

Grim & Evil is an American animated television created by Maxwell Atoms. The show's episodes were all shorts that were later spun-off into their own shows. Those of which include The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne. After separating into their own shows, the Grim & Evil format fades from existence. The series premiered on August 24th, 2001 and ended on October 18th, 2002. Another batch of 14 episodes were made but only aired when both Billy and Mandy and Evil Con Carne were separated into individual shows. Season 3 was aired in the UK on October 20th, 2003.
It is the first Cartoon Network original series to be premiered under Jim Samples' leadership.
== Segments ==
=== The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy ===
The segment is centered around the exploits of two young children—the optimistic, dim-witted, and kindhearted Billy, and the dark, ill-tempered, and sinister Mandy. After cheating at a limbo match against the Grim Reaper, he is enslaved in a perpetual, unwanted friendship with the children, who use his magical abilities and supernatural powers to venture into supernatural locations or environments, such as the underworld, inhabited by an assortment of grotesque monstrous beasts. The pair also may use Grim's enormously strong supernatural abilities or ties with a number of beastly characters to achieve goals or desires for themselves with grotesque, altered, or twisted end results.
This is the main segment, as two The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes are wrapped around an episode of Evil Con Carne (or, on rare episodes, vice versa).
=== Evil Con Carne ===
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 archnemesis, Cod Commando, a soldier for the Secret Paramilitary Organized Response Kommand (SPORK). The explosion scattered most of his body across the world. He was rescued by a scientist, the curvaceous 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 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.
== History ==
The series' existence is largely the result of a viewer poll. An Internet and call-in event called the Big Pick was held from June 16 to August 25, 2000. The three final choices were Grim & Evil, Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, and Longhair and Doubledome. Out of the three, Grim & Evil won the poll with 57% of the vote and became its own series. The first season appeared on Cartoon Network in 2001. Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? would later be made into a full (though short-lived) series despite losing; Longhair and Doubledome would reappear with another pilot episode in another Big Pick-style show later on, only to fall short once again.
In 2003, the network separated the series into The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne, effectively giving both a full-length series. The short-lived Evil Con Carne series was cancelled once all the already-made episodes were aired. In 2004, Evil Con Carne was given another short-lived run with the newly created intro and end credits, only to be canceled again. Grim & Evil, in its original form, has not been seen on TV since 2003 (although the theme song has been seen on The Cartoon Cartoon Show and reruns appear on Cartoon Planet). Some characters from Evil Con Carne, usually Skarr, occasionally appeared on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. Skarr was a co-star in Underfist, the TV film set in the shared universe of the programs.
On October 2, 2023, Grim & Evil aired in place of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy for Adult Swim's Checkered Past block. Season 3 made its United States television premiere with the third episode. This airing was likely an error due to the network's schedule changes at the time.
== Characters ==
=== The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy ===
*The Grim Reaper (voiced by Greg Eagles): The Grim Reaper is over 137,000 years old (as his early childhood took place during the Stone Age) and speaks with a Jamaican accent. The continuity of how Grim got his reaper status and powers jumps around quite a few times and it is unknown which way he really got his powers. His scythe is the source of his powers and possesses many magical qualities; although he is still capable of using magic without it, these instances are quite rare.
*Billy (voiced by Richard Horvitz): Billy is a young 10-year-old happy-go-lucky child with an extremely low IQ of -5. He was outperformed by a shovel and a candy necklace on an IQ test. He has an extremely large, pink nose, wears a blue and white striped shirt, and covers his orange hair with a red hat. His main affiliations are Grim and Mandy. Mandy is Billy's best friend, though she treats him more like a servant than a friend. It has been hinted several times that Billy may have underlying feelings for Mandy that even he (in his stupidity) may not fully realize. Billy is definitely kinder to Grim than Mandy is, and while he may go against the Reaper's advice and use him as a plaything, he appears to genuinely like him. Of the two children, Billy is the one who most often tells Grim that he's his "best friend".
*Mandy (voiced by Grey DeLisle): Mandy is a 10-year-old girl who has (mostly) a morbid attitude. However, unlike Billy, she is more stable, sane, and intelligent. She'll punch or otherwise injure (physically, emotionally, mentally, or any combination of the three) anyone who gets in her way. She is Billy's "best friend" regardless of the awful way she treats him. She is known for rarely smiling; the one occasion on which this happens, it causes reality to fall apart. She orders Grim and Billy to do chores for her, among a slough of other grunt work. She is naturally hostile and cynical, and is shown in one episode to have physical difficulty saying the word "please". She never smiles, except in "Meet the Reaper", "Opposite Day", "Look Alive!", "A Dumb Wish", and "Something Stupid This Way Comes".
=== Evil Con Carne ===
*Hector Con Carne (voiced by Phil LaMarr): Hector is a 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 and can talk. He is often frustrated by the difficulty of taking over the world in its current state.
*Major Dr. Ghastly (voiced by Grey DeLisle): Dr. Ghastly is a mad scientist, Ghastly is the brains behind all Hector's plans. Ghastly 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 (voiced by Lance Henriksen, then by Armin Shimerman): Skarr is 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.
*Boskov (voiced by Frank Welker): Boskov is a former Russian circus bear, whom carries Con Carne's brain and stomach on his body, via metal plates on said spots. He is usually controlled by Con Carne and seems to care for everyone around him. He is sometimes difficult to control due to his animal instincts and lack of intelligence.
== Episodes ==
Series Overview
Season:	episodes:	premiere: 	finale:
1 	13 	August 24th, 2001 	October 18th, 2002
2 	13 	Unaired in the U.S.	Unaired in the U.S.
=== Season 1 (2001-2002) ===
Number in 
series:	Number 
in episode:	name: 	
1 	1 	Meet the Reaper (Billy and Mandy) 	August 24th, 2001
1 	1 	Evil Con Carne (pilot) 	August 24th, 2001
1 	1 	Skeletons in the Water Closet (Billy and Mandy)	August 24th, 2001
2 	2 	Opposite Day (Billy and Mandy) 	
2 	2 	Emotional Skarr (Evil Con Carne) 	
2 	2 	Look Alive (Billy and Mandy) 	
3 	3 	Mortal Dilemma (Billy and Mandy) 	
3 	3 	Evil Goes Wild (Evil Con Carne) 	
3 	3 	Get Out of My Head! (Billy and Mandy) 	
4 	4 	Devolver, Part 1 	
4 	4 	Recipe for Disaster 	
4 	4 	Devolver, Part 2 	
5 	5 	Tiptoe Through the Tulips, Part 1 	
5 	5 	A Dumb Wish 	
5 	5 	Tiptoe Through the Tulips, Part 2 	
6 	6 	The Smell of Vengeance, Part 1 	
6 	6 	Fiend is Like Friend Without the R 	
6 	6 	The Smell of Vengeance, Part 2 	
7 	7 	Grim vs. Mom 	
7 	7 	Bring Me the Face of Hector Con Carne 	
7 	7 	Tastes Like Chicken 	
8 	8 	Grim or Gregory? 	
8 	8 	Search and Estroy 	
8 	8 	Tastes Like Chicken 	
9 	9 	A Grim Surprise 	
9 	9 	Everyone Loves Uncle Bob 	
9 	9 	Beasts and Barbarians 	
10	10	Hoss Delgado: Spectral Exterminator 	
10	10	Evil on Trial 	
10	10	To Eris Human 	
11	11	Billy's Growth Spurt 	
11	11	The Time Hole Incident 	
11	11	Billy and the Bully 	
12	12	Big Trouble in Billy's Basement 	
12	12	Christmas Con Carne 	
12	12	Tickle Me Mandy 	
13	13	Little Rock of Horrors 	
13	13	The Pie Who Loved Me 	
13	13	Dream a Little Dream 	
=== Season 2 (2003) ===
Number in
Series:	Number in
Season:	name:
14	1 	It's Hokey Mon!
14	1 	Boskov's Day Out
14	1 	Tween Wolf
15	2 	Grim in Love
15	2 	The Trouble With Skarrina
15	2 	Love is Evol Spelled Backwards
16	3 	Mandy the Merciless
16	3 	Go Spork
16	3 	The Really Odd Couple
17	4 	Brown Evil, Part 1
17	4 	League of Destruction
17	4 	Brown Evil, Part 2
18	5 	Go Kart 3000
18	5 	Day of the Dreadbot
18	5 	Smarten Up!
19	6 	Educating Grim
19	6 	Gutless!
19	6 	Toadblatt's School of Sorcery
20	7 	Creating Chaos
20	7 	Max Courage!
20	7 	The Grim Show
21	8 	Who Killed Who?
21	8 	Son of Nergal
22	9 	Crushed
22	9 	Son of Evil
22	9 	Night of the Living Grim
23	10	Terror of the Black Knight
23	10	The Right to Bear Arms
23	10	Battle of the Bands
24	11	The Crawling Niceness
24	11	Cod vs. Hector
24	11	Chicken Ball Z
25	12	Grim for a Day
25	12	Sister Grim
25	12	The Halls of Time
26	13	Billy and Mandy's Jacked Up Halloween
== Broadcast and availability ==
The series aired on the Latin American network, Tooncast.
Grim and Evil was released on demand in 2017.
The series aired on Checkered Past for one time on October 2nd, 2023.
== Gallery ==
File:Grim and Evil on demand cover.jpeg|On demand cover
File:GrimandEvilposter.jpeg
File:GrimandEvilscreensaver.jpeg|Screensaver
File:GrimandEvilAugust24th2001premiere.jpeg|The show's premiere on August 24th, 2001
File:GrimandEvilFebruary8th2002airing.jpeg|An airing of Tiptoe Through the Tulips, Part 1/A Dumb Wish/Tiptoe Through the Tulips, Part 2 on February 8th, 2002
File:GrimandEvilJanuary12th2003airing.jpeg|A broadcast of Meet the Reaper/Evil Con Carne/Skeletons in the Water Closet on January 12th, 2003
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