Episode
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: The Nerve
Overview
After being bullied again by Sperg, Billy asks Grim to shrink him to enter Mandy's head to steal her "nerve". After Billy swallows the raw nerve, a polyp-like organism, Mandy becomes timid and scared of everything while Billy becomes tough and mean. While Billy goes to get revenge at Sperg, Mandy enters Billy's head to recover her nerve. Mandy recovers her tough and cynical attitude without her nerve, which is successfully retrieved from Billy and banished from Endsville.
Details
- Series
- The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 2004-08-08
Episode context
The Nerve is Episode 21 in Season 3 of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It aired on 2004-08-08.
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Episode 20: Bearded Billy
When Billy sees his father shaving, he decides having a beard is cool and buys "Hair Raiser Tonique", a hair-growing formula. Grim casts a spell on the tonic to make its effects appear faster, but Billy exaggerates the quantity and grows hair in all his body. Billy is mistaken for the Sasquatch, and a reward is offered for his capture. Hoss Delgado also receives the tonic and is captured and exhibited as the Sasquatch, while Mandy collects the reward.
Episode 22: Test of Time
When Billy forgets to do his history homework, Grim gives him a universal remote control to alter time and space so he can go back in time and finish his report. Billy and Mandy travel to the American Revolution, to prehistoric times, and even to the future, where they meet an aged Billy who is just finishing the report. After a struggle for the remote, Billy ends up again in the Prehistory and the remote breaks. Fast forward into the present, every person is dumb like he is and shares his characteristic big nose, including Mandy and Irwin.
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Episode 19: Sickly Sweet
Trying to get revenge at Mandy for bossing them all the time, Billy and Grim put her in the "Mask of the Beast". Mandy must be nice and friendly while wearing the mask, or else she will become a hideous monster. Failing to remove the mask herself, and struggling to be kind to Billy and Grim, Mandy gradually turns into the beast. Billy and Grim ask Mandy to smile while she gives them a sponge bath, but this turns out to be too hard for Mandy. She fully transforms into the beast and punishes them instead.
Episode 23: A Kick in the Asgard
During a thunderstorm, a lightning bolt hits Grim's scythe, transporting Billy to Asgard, land of the Norse gods. Mandy and Grim go searching for him, while a Viking wearing Billy's shirt remains at his house as a substitute. In Asgard, Billy learns about the endless battle in Valhalla, in which if a warrior dies, he is resurrected to continue fighting. Billy is surprisingly good at killing other Vikings, so Mandy and Grim are unable to convince him to return home.
Episode 18: Super Zero
After watching a TV show, starring Captain Heifer and his Heifer Farms Brand Yogurt, Billy asks Grim to turn him into a superhero with the power of squeaking and throwing yogurt from his armpits. With his wish granted, Billy goes to outer space to fight the Evil Empire, but the planet he visits is mostly inhabited. Despite being free of Billy, Grim still has to deal with Billy's equally dumb father, Harold. After Billy fills the alien planet with yogurt, he returns home to be "normal".
Episode 24: Five O'Clock Shadows
Grim is annoyed by Billy who thinks that a shadow is following him. Grim takes Billy and Mandy to the Shadows' World, where their opposites live. Grim tells them to do whatever they want, but to be back at 5 o'clock, when the portal to the normal world opens. Grim also warns Billy about the Door to Other Dimensions, but Billy opens it and a multitude of Billys come out an wreak havoc.
Episode 17: Substitute Teacher
Billy's first cousin from the center of the Earth, Nergal Jr. goes to school for the first time, but he is worried that people may not like him. Soon enough, Junior becomes bullied by Sperg, with Miss Butterbean's allowance. Billy suggests Junior to use his shapeshifting abilities to take on the form of Miss Butterbean, so Junior can help him pass a math test. Junior likes the idea, but he morphs into Miss Butterbean to get revenge on Sperg instead. Sperg is seen living in the center of the Earth as Junior's pet.
Episode 25: Attack of the Clowns
After Billy wakes up from another nightmare involving clowns, he is more terrified than ever towards them, so Mandy and Grim try to cure him of this clown-a-phobia. Mandy asks Grim to bring to life a clown's head made on paper mache to entertain Billy, but the spell does not seem to work. They dress up as clowns in an attempt to look harmless. After consulting with his imaginary "Inner Frat Boy", Billy changes his feeling from being afraid to being angry at clowns, and attacks them with Grim's scythe. Billy is cured of his fear, but the paper mache clown attacks and eats them.
Episode 16: Which Came First?
While going to a science museum, Billy and Mandy's school bus breaks down in the middle of the desert. After digging for fossils, Billy, Mandy and Grim wander around and find an abandoned mine, where Billy is captured by a giant, mutant chicken. When Mandy and Grim go to rescue him, they find an underground laboratory from the days of the Cold War where mutant chickens were created. The mountain makes eruption, the chickens are roasted by lava, and the whole class obtains food so they do not have to resort to cannibalism.
Episode 26: Complete and Utter Chaos
Thinking that the world is chaotic enough as it is, Eris, the goddess of chaos, decides to quit chaos to work at a hamburger restaurant. She entrusts Grim the Apple of Discord to watch over for her, which he seals in his old trunk. The apple frees itself from the chest and goes to Billy. Mandy is attracted by the apple's powers, and after being persuaded by Billy's talking burrito, Billy, Mandy and Grim battle for control of the apple, which divides in three pieces. The battle results in them being fused together into an amorphous mass, and, with an evil grin on her face, Eris decides to offer the apple to Irwin too.
Episode 15: Here Thar Be Dwarves!
As Billy walks into the woods to have a picnic, Yogi and a giant, feral version of Boo-Boo (from The Yogi Bear Show) come to steal his basket, and he escapes by hiding in a cave. Billy is taken to the mushroom lair of the dwarfs where King Beardbottom tells him the story on how the different races split the food-services industry, after the conference of Rivendell. The king sends Billy to infiltrate the elves' cookie factory to deactivate their force field, so the dwarves can assault the factory. After a fierce battle (censored out "for younger viewers", by a single clip of a pink koala continuously licking a eucalyptus leaf) and Billy's words, the elves and dwarves decide to work together and split the profits.
Episode 27: Whatever Happened to Billy Whatishisname?
When Billy and Mandy have a brief fight, Billy says he never wants to speak to Mandy again. The next day, Billy is over his grudge, but Mandy has already decided to find a replacement for him. Mandy introduces Bobby, the new "Billy", who turns out to be a better friend than Billy, even gaining the affection of his parents, but who also wants to take over Billy's life. A jealous Billy uses Grim's scythe to open a portal and send Bobby to another dimension.