The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (simply known as Billy and Mandy) is an American animated television series created by Maxwell Atoms for Cartoon Network. The series is about two kids known as Billy and Mandy who accepted The Grim Reaper as their best friend after he lost in a limbo game. The series originally premiered as part of Grimm and Evil on August 24th, 2001 before it was separated into its own series on June 13th, 2003, and officially ended on October 12th, 2008 with a spin off TV movie, Underfist: Halloween Bash.

## The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

### Animation Studio:

Hanna Barbera (pilot episode only)Cartoon Network Studios (Seasons 1-6

### voice actors:

Richard Steven HortvitzGrey DeLisleGreg Eagles

### episodes:

77 (+ Grim and Evil episodes)160 segments

### premiere date:

August 24th, 2001 (Grim and Evil episodes)June 13th, 2003 (stand alone series)

### end date:

October 18th, 2002 (Grim and Evil episodes)October 12th, 2008 (stand alone series)

### picture format:

4:3, fullscreen (Seasons 1-5)16:9, widescreen (Season 6, TV movies)

### run time:

7 minutes (Grim and Evil episodes)7-22 minutes (stand alone series, both episodes)7-11 minutes (stand alone series, individual segments)

## Characters

### **Main Protagonists**

* The Grim Reaper (simply known as Grim)
* Billy
* Mandy

### **Secondary Characters**

* Irwin
* Harold (Billy's Dad)
* Gladys (Billy's Mom)
* Sperg
* Mindy
* Pud'n
* Fred FredBurger
* Hoss Delgado
* Jeff the Spider
* Nergal
* Nergal Jr.
* Eris
* General Skarr
* Dracula
* Sir Raven
* BoogeyMan (simply known as Boogey)
* Mandy's mom
* Mandy's dad
* Milkshake
* Saliva
* Toadblatt
* Velma the Spider Queen

### **Voice Cast**

* Greg Eagles as Grim and Sperg
* Richard Steven Horvitz as Billy
* Grey DeLisle as Mandy
* C.H. Greenblatt as Fred FredBurger
* Maxwell Atoms as Jeff the Spider

## Media

### **TV movies**

**Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure**- Originally aired on March 30th, 2007. It revolves Billy, Mandy, and Irwin helping Grim to get his job back by competing against Grim's rival Boogey.

**Billy and Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen-** Originally aired on July 6th, 2007. It revolved the Spider Queen getting her revenge on Grim due to her not getting the job of being the reaper.

**Underfist: Halloween Bash**- Spin off TV movie. originally aired on October 12th, 2008. The movie revolves Irwin teaming up with Hoss Delgado, Fred FredBurger, Jeff the Spider, and General Skarr to save the world from Bun Bun the marshmallow bunny and his evil army of candy monsters. The movie was originally planned to be the beginning of a new Billy and Mandy spin off series, but was never picked up.

### **Video game**

A video game based on the series was released in 2006 for Nintendo Gamecube, Playstation 2, and GameBoy Advance, A Wii version was also released at the launch of the Wii itself.

### **Home media**

The Complete First Season of the series was released on DVD on September 2007. Seasons 2-6 were never released on DVD.

All 6 seasons (except Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure and Underfist: Halloween Bash) are available on iTunes and Amazon Prime.

## Trivia

* The series' pilot episode, Meet the Reaper, was originally produced in 1999, and later aired in 2000 as part of The Cartoon Cartoon Show.
* Despite the original Grim and Evil episodes being as part of Season 1, some sources say that The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy had seven seasons instead of six. The article of the series on Wikipedia says that it had six seasons instead of seven. According to YouTuber, NoParkingBerry, Wikipedia and iTunes are both correct of how many seasons Billy and Mandy had.
* As of 2019, some of the international Cartoon Network YouTube channels (New Zealand and Australia) were the only evidences of Billy and Mandy's 16:9 widescreen format.