Episode
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: Herbicidal Maniac
Overview
When General Skarr tries to get rid of a weed in his otherwise perfect garden, he asks Grim to use his scythe to do the job. Billy drives a lawnmower and ruins the garden; also, the scythe's magic accidentally shoots Skarr, transforming him into a plant-like creature. Using his new plant powers, Skarr rebuilds his garden, and tries to exact revenge on Billy by throwing a party, and attacking him. Skarr gets mulched by a helicopter rotor, but he is reborn as a small weed.
Details
- Series
- The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2006-03-21
Episode context
Herbicidal Maniac is Episode 10 in Season 6 of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It aired on 2006-03-21.
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Episode 9: Druid, Where's My Car?
When Billy gets his kite stuck in a tree, he starts throwing objects at it to knock it down, including Mandy and a group of three boy scouts, but all objects get stuck too. Frustrated, Billy and Grim call a druid for help, who in turn trains them to become druids, so the three of them can perform a ritual. Meanwhile, inside the tree, Mandy battles a group of squirrels, and leads the scouts back to the ground. Since the druidic chants did not work against the tree, the druid goes ahead and uses a chainsaw to bring the tree down, but this gets him arrested.
Episode 11: Chaos Theory
When Mandy and Grim go to the warehouse store, Mandy notices that everything seems to be in order, lacking any presence of chaos. Hoss Delgado, spectral exterminator, arrives saying that everything has been that way since he started dating Eris, the goddess of chaos. Mandy assures Delgado he must break up with Eris to restore chaos, but fearing her temper, he is reluctant to do so. After failed attempts by Grim, Mandy, Billy, and Irwin to break their relationship, Delgado finally tells Eris the truth about he wanting to break up, and she complies by turning into a giant insect and devouring him.
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Episode 8: The Wrongest Yard
When Billy and Irwin are yet again bullied by Sperg, they decide to play for the school's football team so they are not bullied anymore. During practice, Irwin shows a powerful arm and he becomes the starting quarterback, while Billy is relegated to being a punching bag. During their first game, Mandy directs the team into scoring their first ever touchdown, so Coach Kilgore gives her the job of captain cheerleader, taking it away from Mindy. With Irwin's arm and Mandy's cheerleading the team reaches the finals. Mindy tries different ways to get back at Mandy and recover her job, but she ends up affecting her own team, which eventually loses the game.
Episode 12: A Grim Day
When Billy goes to visit his maternal grandmother and Mandy decides to have the day for herself, Grim finds himself free of the kids to do whatever he wants to do. Since Grim quickly gets bored he goes to visit General Skarr, and lets him take his magical scythe, which Skarr uses to build an army of giant lawn gnomes. Since Grim is so used to having two kids with him when they go on an adventure, he enlists Mindy and Pud'n to help him combat Skarr and retrieve his scythe. Mindy and Pud'n prove to be worthy substitutes but they are scared away by Mandy when she notices the unusual trio
Episode 7: Giant Billy and Mandy All Out Attack
When Billy and Irwin want to watch classic giant monsters movies, Grim decides to take them to Japan to see real monsters. They meet the turtle-like Cragorah (a parody of Gamera) who engages in a fierce battle with the three-headed Kittirah (a cat version of Ghidorah). To help Cragorah, Grim transforms Billy into a giant monster too (a parody of Ultraman). Mandy soon arrives with the intent of punishing them all for organizing this expedition without her permission. Controlling Mecha-Gorillasaur (a giant gorilla robot) she defeats Kittirah and beats Billy.
Episode 13: Pandora's Lunch Box
There is a new student in the school, named Dora (parodying Dora the Explorer), who insists on getting people to open her lunch box. Mandy befriends Dora once she gets into a fight with the snobby Mindy. While noting something strange with Dora, Grim does not recognize her as Pandora until it's too late and she tricks Mandy into opening Pandora's box, releasing all kinds of plagues upon humanity. Mandy restores everything to normal, and captures Pandora inside the box, saying that nobody tricks her, and that when the time is right it will be Mandy herself who will unleash humanity's doom and destruction.
Episode 6: Modern Primitives
When Billy digs his front yard he finds a frozen caveman, who is actually Fred Flintstone (from The Flintstones), but whom Billy names Jake Steele. Billy tries to acclimate Fred to the modern life but the job is not easy. When Fred is taken to school, he predictably goes out of control, kidnapping Miss Butterbean and running away in Principal Goodvibes' car. The ensuing chase results in Fred crashing into an ice cream truck, becoming frozen again. Instead of reaping him, Billy decides to bury Fred in the yard again. A future is shown where both Billy and Fred are defrosted by brain-eating creatures.
Episode 14: Billy and Mandy vs. the Martians
When Billy destroys Grim's favorite childhood toy, Fancy Jake, Grim feels devastated and wishes he had never lost the limbo game that made him become Billy and Mandy's best friend forever and ever. A lawyer appears saying that although the game is legally binding while all parties remain on Earth, it is not if Grim leaves Earth. In consequence, Grim follows the lawyer's advice, opens a mystical portal, and leaves. With Grim traveling aboard his spaceship, the lawyer takes off his disguise and introduces himself as Morg, the Martian Grim Reaper, who is also Emperor of Mars and commands an army of Martian, brain-eating zombies.
Episode 5: Major Cheese
Billy, Mandy and Grim visit Mighty Moe, an old man who has discovered the secret to add extra years to his lifespan: a good diet and exercise. Mighty Moe decides to publish his secret in a book, and Grim needs to stop him by offering junk food.
Episode 15: Dumb-Dumbs and Dragons
As Billy sees Hoss Delgado's manliness is action again, Billy wishes to grow up to be a hero like him. Grim tells Billy that in older times an evident way to become a hero was to slay a dragon. They travel to the Middle Ages so Billy can train under the supervision of the best dragon slayer, Sir Boss Del Guapo, who resembles the present time Delgado. Billy becomes friends with the dragon he was supposed to kill and spares his life, becoming the dragon's hero. Del Guapo finds himself transported to the present, where he has a brief encounter with Delgado.
Episode 4: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
When Billy decides he wants to grow up to be like Grim, he says nothing will stand in the way of their friendship. They meet a girl named Blandy, who looks very much like Billy, and Billy falls completely head-over-heels in love with her. When Blandy shows romantic interest in Grim, Billy is struck with mad jealousy and wants Grim out of the picture. Mandy consults Grim's encyclopaedia of monsters and realizes Blandy is actually a creature from another dimension. Despite Blandy showing her true form and leaving, Billy remains madly romantically infatuated with her; but only up until the following episode.
Episode 16: Fear and Loathing in Endsville
When Grim decides to visit again his childhood idol, the aged king of the vampires, Dracula, the latter suggest they drive to an early bird buffet, only to get lost in the scorching desert. Grim and Dracula need to find their way back home while dealing with situations like meeting a creepy truck driver and being attacked by a giant scorpion. After what they have gone through, and thinking that Dracula is just a selfish, old man, Grim decides to go a separate way. After finding that Dracula in fact helped him by sucking out the scorpion's venom, Grim rushes to help Dracula, and they finally make it to the diner. However, it appears that Dracula left without paying the check.