Episode
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: Anger Mismanagement
Overview
As General Skarr has trouble finding a job, the recruiter tells him to attend anger management classes if he wants to work again. Skarr finds out Mandy and Grim are attending too, Mandy for staring at the school monitor, and Grim for enjoying his job too much. The instructor of the class, Larry, turns out to be a peace-loving, short man riding a tricycle, who teaches the trio ways to calm down when angered, including counting to ten, and using harmless weapons to let go of their anger. Larry invites Billy to the class, and Mandy, Grim, and Skarr all manage to contain themselves; however, Larry himself suffers an episode of rage over a parking space and he is arrested.
Details
- Series
- The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2007-03-16
Episode context
Anger Mismanagement is Episode 10 in Season 7 of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It aired on 2007-03-16.
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Episode 9: Company Halt
As General Skarr is once again annoyed by Billy, Hector Con Carne and Major Dr. Ghastly arrive in his house with the intention of luring him back to the recently relaunched Evil Con Carne world domination organization. Although initially refusing to rejoin, Skarr later accepts with the condition that Billy and the other neighbors be destroyed. After a few weeks of living together and preparations, Evil Con Carne's ultimate weapon is revealed to be an army of tanks that shoot giant rubber bands. Skarr's all-out attack over the neighborhood is foiled when Billy tricks Hector into shooting Skarr's garden and they get into a fight.
Episode 11: Waking Nightmare
When Mandy finds Billy playing with Grim's gigantic dog, Cerberus, she tells Grim to keep Billy under tight control because she needs a good night of sleep to be ready for the next day's test. With a little persuasion from his own dad, Billy tries to wake up Mandy at night, so she will fail the test and he can score higher than her for the first time. After Grim spends the night guarding Mandy's house from Billy, the latter succeeds in waking up Mandy. It is revealed that this Mandy is in fact Irwin, used as a decoy by the real Mandy, who slept in her dog's house. Mandy passes the test, and Grim is punished for not guarding her properly.
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Episode 8: Hey, Water You Doing?
After Billy, Mandy and Grim are disappointed with the Sassy Cat amusement park submarine attraction, Grim uses his powers to take them to the bottom of the ocean to have a real magical adventure. They are sentenced to death for trespassing into the Googen Kingdom by King Triceps, a wrestling merman. The king's daughter, Hariel, also a mermaid, stops the sacrifice and tries to marry Billy to inherit the kingdom. It is revealed that King Triceps is actually Hariel's sister, the sea witch Uvula, who also tries inherit the kingdom. A cat fight ensues between the two ladies, which ends when Billy agrees to marry both of them. The plot is revealed to be a story Billy is telling to Miss Butterbean, who initially asked him what happened to his report.
Episode 12: Beware of the Undertoad
When Billy, Mandy and Grim once again go to the beach, Grim warns Billy to avoid swimming too far, because the "undertoad", a frog-like creature, will try to drag him into the sea. Billy encounters the undertoad, and he barely makes it back to the beach. With the dangers of the sea averted, the guys go back home, but the undertoad is set on bringing Billy down, that he follows him to his house. The next day, the undertoad becomes a constant annoyance to Billy, even at school. Grim and Mandy capture the undertoad, and set sail to release him at sea, where they meat the giant Mama undertoad.
Episode 7: Nergal's Pizza
When Nergal comes to tell the guys about his new pizza joint, Grim thinks he can do better by using his Granny's recipe. A pizza war ensues between Nergal's Pizza and Grim's Pizza, with each pizzeria launching TV ads and discrediting each other. Nergal Jr. uses his shape-shifting abilities to infiltrate Grim's pizza and replace Granny Grim's hot sauce with a "ghastly elixir". The result is pizzas becoming monsters and attacking the city, and the citizens developing parasites similar to Nergal. Nergal and his family leave the city just as Grim's sauce explodes.
Episode 13: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told Ever
When Irwin lacks the courage to ask Mandy to go with him to the Valentine's Day school dance, he tells Nergal Jr. to do it for him. Mandy mistakes Junior's invitation for his own, and surprisingly accepts to go with him, which naturally makes Irwin jealous. With the ill advice received from his father, to be possessive with Mandy, at the dance Junior becomes overprotective of her, that eventually he and Irwin start fighting, throwing punch at each other and ruining the ball. It is revealed that this was Mandy's true intention all along so that no one could enjoy Valentine's Day.
Episode 6: Yeti or Not, Here I Come
After watching the Unsolvable Mysteries TV show, Grim realizes he forgot a million years ago to reap the Abominable Snowman living in the Himalayas. Billy, Mandy and Grim go there to finish the job and also to obtain videographic proof of the snowman's existence. The Yeti, who likes to be called Abom, manages to escape Grim more than once before finally being trapped by the moving glacier. Grim watches the TV show again, but he may have forgotten to reap the Loch Ness monster too.
Episode 14: Detention X
When Billy accidentally food-poisons Miss Butterbean, Principal Goodvibes offers Grim the job of substitute teacher, which Grim accepts as now Billy and Mandy have to obey him. Grim sends misbehaving students to the "Detention Dimension", a place of eternal classroom punishment, until only Mandy remains in his class. Grim tricks Mandy into opening a portal and she is dragged into the dimension too. Mandy proves to be more terrifying than Miss Slither, the giant, rattlesnake-like creature in charge of the Detention Dimension, that Mandy escapes the place and takes revenge on Grim by sending him there too.
Episode 5: Billy Gets an "A"
When Billy fails an important test, the result of which will go into his permanent record, he asks Grim to magically alter his grade from an "F" to an "A"; as Grim reluctantly changes the grade, Billy becomes a genius, but reality is thrown completely off balance. Mandy and Grim go back in time to stop the past Grim from helping Billy, but it does not work. They keep going back in time to different epochs, each time meeting another Grim, eventually trying to stop Billy's ancestors from conceiving him, but nothing works. After meeting Billy's distant dinosaur relative, the episode ends abruptly as Grim wonders what the end of this could be.
Episode 15: Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon
When Billy is sent to bed after playing with his Dr. Brainiac action figure, he wishes he had an adventure. He notices a strange light outside and wanders into a corn field to investigate; he encounters Sperg, and both of them got caught by a UFO's tractor beam. Inside the extraterrestrials decide to experiment on them.
Episode 4: King Tooten Pooten
When Billy, Mandy and Grim attend an Ancient Egypt exhibit at the museum, they meet with Irwin who explains that, as his mother is a mummy, they are visiting Irwin's grandfather, the great Pharaoh King Popen Locken. Later that night, Irwin's grandfather visits Irwin in his room and offers him the Pharaoh's crown and the possibility of building his own pyramid to attract women; Irwin accepts, calling himself King Tooten Pooten, and soon they turn the citizens into slaves to build the pyramid. Against his mother's wishes, Irwin decides to finish the pyramid; however, there is something he did not anticipate, as he, the Pharaoh, needs to remain entombed inside it.
Episode 16: Dracula Must Die!
When vampire hunter Lionel Van Helsing prepares to kill Dracula, Billy, Mandy, and Grim arrive to stop him since Dracula is just senile and harmless. Van Helsing reveals the source of his hatred: in the past, he and Dracula were "best friends forever", until Dracula used his irresistible dance moves to marry Tanya, the woman of his dreams. Tanya arrives too, revealing that she is none other than Irwin's grandmother, making Irwin one-quarter-vampire on his father's side and half-mummy on his mother's side. Van Helsing leaves, but Dracula is unsatisfied with his newfound family of nerds.