Evil Con Carne
Evil Con Carne is an American animated television series/spin-off of "Grim & Evil" and sister show of "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy", created by Maxwell Atoms. The series first appeared on Cartoon Network during the show "Grim & Evil", along with "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy". Thirteen more half-hour episodes of "Grim & Evil" were produced, but the two series later became separate programs in 2003. While "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" ran for eight seasons, "Evil Con Carne" only ran for thirteen full episodes (22 airings) and ended on October 22, 2004, lasted  for three years. It was also part of Cartoon Network's brand, "Cartoon Cartoons", and is the 15th and final cartoon of the series (albeit when it was part of "Grim & Evil", due to the "Cartoon Cartoons" brand being temporarily discontinued earlier in October 2003; the show itself is considered by some to be a "Cartoon Cartoon" regardless). An official series finale, titled "Company Halt" (which was also a crossover with "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy", on which main character General Skarr became a recurring character), aired on March 16, 2007. Overview. Hector Con Carne, a wealthy crime  lord and evil genius bent on taking over the world and the League of Nations, 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 the 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 Ernst Stavro 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. Production. An original short/pilot for the series titled "Evil Con Carne" was produced in 2000, shortly after The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy short, "Meet the Reaper". The two ideas were combined into a single  show, as Cartoon Network desired a show that had a "B cartoon" as a middle segment (a format found in the "Dial M For Monkey" and "The Justice Friends" shorts in "Dexter's Laboratory", and the "I Am Weasel" segment on "Cow and Chicken")"." The resulting show, "Grim & Evil", became the winner 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 put on hiatus on October 18, 2002. In 2003, 13 more half-hour episodes of "Grim & Evil" were made, but aired when Cartoon Network separated the two series, and "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" and "Evil Con Carne" earned their own full -length series later that year. After production wrapped on both series' new seasons, the network gave Maxwell Atoms a decision to choose one show to continue, while the other would be dropped from production. Atoms ultimately went with "Billy & Mandy", and the final season of "Evil Con Carne" subsequently aired in 2004. He embraced the network's decision to drop one of the two series, as he considered being in charge of producing both shows difficult. 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 when Skarr turns against Hector once he tries to destroy his garden in an attempt to kill Billy, and crushes him with a giant catapult (which they were to use to destroy the neighborhood), causing Ghastly and the rest of the army run away. According to Tom Warburton, characters from Evil Con Carne were originally set to appear in the television special "The Grim Adventures of the KND". Hector, General Skarr, and Dr. Ghastly (strangely, they're "costumed" by Lazlo, Raj, and Clam) did briefly appear in the crossover's end credits in a crossover with "Camp  Lazlo" titled "Evil Camp Carne". On July 29, 2016, the series aired re-runs for a single day on Cartoon Network's sister channel, Boomerang, in the United States, despite the schedule for Boomerang saying that "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" was airing in its timeslot. Episodes. Most of the episodes did not air in production code order. Home media. The six season one episodes are included as bonus features in the Season 1 DVD set for "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy". On August 16, 2018, the entire series was added to the iTunes Store under a single  volume.