Episode
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: Fear and Loathing in Endsville
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 2006-05-12
Episode context
Fear and Loathing in Endsville is Episode 16 in Season 6 of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It aired on 2006-05-12.
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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 17: Dad Day Afternoon
As Billy and Mandy celebrate Father's Day, Grim becomes very depressed that he sits inside Billy's closet only listening to country rock music. Grim explains that, since his own father cared more about country rock than his own son, he has been living a lie; telling his father he is a famous country rock singer, and not the actual Grim Reaper. Mandy arranges for Grim's father to come visit and she tells him the truth, but still the old man does not believe her. Grim decides that the only way for his dad to listen to him is while performing country music. At an outdoor concert, Billy, Mandy, and Grim start performing a country rock song, in which eventually Grim reveals his supernatural abilities as the mighty Grim Reaper to his father. Grim's dad accepts his son is the Reaper, but he still does not forgive him for lying to him.
More episodes from this season
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 18: Scary Poppins
As Mandy returns from Billy's house, it is evident that Mandy's parents are extremely afraid of their daughter and her iron fist rule over them. Unable to live in fear any longer, Mandy's parents call a nanny from a reality TV show who specializes in disciplining spoiled children. Mandy and the nanny clash while the nanny tries to teach Mandy's parents to show authority to control their daughter. Grim helps the nanny in her feud against Mandy by using his scythe to make Mandy's parents more controlling and resolute. Mandy quickly restores her tyrannic control over her parents, and shows the nanny she actually controls everything and everyone.
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 19: Hurter Monkey
When Mandy says even a trained monkey is more competent to do cleaning chores than Grim, and would complain less, Grim makes Dickie Galoot, a monkey appearing in a Japanese-styled animation, come to life to prove her wrong. As Dickie turns out to be extremely good at cleaning Mandy's house, Grim decides to leave the kids for good. Due to his friendship contract, Grim is unable to break free, and he is forced to battle Dickie to recover his place as the "cleaning monkey" of the group. Grim successfully defeats Dickie at cleaning Billy's house, but this all turns out to be an ingenious plan devised by Mandy to win a bet against Billy.
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 20: Goodbling and the Hip-Hop-Opotamus
At a school fair, Grim's scythe accidentally transforms the dull Principal Goodvibes and his hippopotamus into gangster rappers, Goodvibes now calling himself Principal Goodbling. In the following, Goodbling changes the entire school to be more hip-hop-oriented, to the annoyance of Mandy. Although initially Grim likes the new style of the school principal, he later thinks Goodbling is just a poseur and goes to talk to him, but Goodbling attacks with yo-mama jokes. Irwin's grandmother, Tanya, confronts Goodbling and proves to be better than he is at yo-mama jokes that Goodbling reverts to being the boring Goodvibes.
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.
Episode 21: Spidermandy
When Billy finds his "son" Jeff the Spider lying in his bed with "Spider Pox", he goes to Mandy for help to get rid of the giant spider. While ignoring Billy, the next morning Mandy awakens afflicted by Spider Pox too, developing four additional arms and the ability to produce spider web. Mandy's condition progresses and she completely turns into a giant spider, who captures Billy's parents and Grim. Grim tells Billy that, to cure Mandy, he must use the venom of the spider that infected her. While Billy successfully gives Mandy Jeff's venom, he also carried the virus and infected the people of the city, who have all turned into spiders.
Episode 10: Herbicidal Maniac
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.
Episode 22: Be A-Fred, Be Very A-Fred
As Grim appears in an Underworld TV commercial for "Big Move" laxative pills, an accompanying contest promises a day with the famous Grim Reaper to the monster who writes the best 500-word-or-less essay describing the fun things they would do. It turns out the winner of the contest, and sole participant, is the dimwitted Fred Fredburger, who only wants to eat frozen yogurt. The Big Move company blames Grim for their sales going down since they hired him. In consequence, Grim tries save his reputation and make the best day for Fred, but it is a disaster with Grim ruining Fred's yogurt and Fred going missing in an amusement park. The Big Move executives give Grim a beating for ruining their company, and Fred finds his own paradise in a cold place with nachos- and frozen yogurt-loving creatures.