Featuring the voices of Greg Eagles, Grey DeLisle, and Richard Steven Horvitz, the series stars the two main characters, Billy and Mandy, having manipulated the Grim Reaper, usually called "Grim", into being their best friend for eternity after having won a bet over a sick hamster through a game of limbo.
Originally part of Grim & Evil, Billy & Mandy served as the main show. In each episode, an Evil Con Carne short was put between two Grim shorts. On occasion, it was the other way around, with two Evil shorts and one Grim short. On June 13, 2003, the network separated the two and gave both a full length show. The short-lived Evil Con Carne show was cancelled once the already-produced season had aired. In 2004, it was given another short-lived run with the newly created intro and end credits, only to be cancelled again. Some characters from Evil Con Carne, usually Skarr (who eventually became Billy's neighbor), occasionally appeared on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
According to Maxwell Atoms' blog on MySpace, the show ended post-production in spring 2007, after having 90 full half-hour episodes; the show officially ended production all together in summer 2008 due to the deaths of John Vernon and Henry Gibson, who previously voiced Dean Toadblatt and Lord Pain respectively.
Billy and Mandy are two children from Endsville, a typical "Anytown, USA". One day, while they are celebrating the tenth birthday of Billy's old pet hamster, Mr. Snuggles, the Grim Reaper appears. He comes to reap the old hamster's soul, but, to his surprise, Billy and Mandy are not afraid of him at all. Mandy refuses to give Grim the hamster and offers to play a game for its soul (a homage to the classic film The Seventh Seal). If the Reaper wins, he would get the hamster's soul.
Grim, assured of his victory, says that, if they win, he will be their best friend "forever and ever." Grim takes Billy and Mandy to limbo to play, where they compete in Grim's favorite game—limbo. However he loses because Mandy cheats by making Mr. Snuggles attack him, and Grim is doomed to be the "best friend" of these two children, a task he suffers with no small amount of disdain and mockery from other supernatural creatures. Grim is very depressed in the first days of his servitude, but as the time passes, he gradually adapts to the new life. Despite this, he has a love-hate relationship with Billy and Mandy and desires that he will eventually break free from his servitude (he mentions fantasies of killing them multiple times).
The show takes place in modern-day Endsville, Billy and Mandy's hometown. Endsville's location is an Anytown, USA where the location, climate conditions, and anything else bends to the whim of the plot. The city has been seen several times with palm trees, hot summers, and a beach, while it is shown that it snows there in November ("Dumb Wish"). In the episode "Jeffy's Web", the Statue of Liberty can be seen. The age of the town is also frequently changed: it appears in flashbacks of Billy's dad Harold's youth ("The Taking Tree"), the early 1900s ("Who Killed Who?"), medieval times ("Billy and Mandy's Jacked Up Halloween"), and prehistoric times ("Wrath of the Spider Queen"). Grim ostensibly comes from the Underworld, so the show makes frequent forays onto his turf. Grim's scythe is able to produce cosmic rifts through which the characters can visit different planes of existence, including afterlife variations like Nirvana, Asgard and Lower Heck.
The show's universe, in addition to frequently violating the laws of physics, also contains a number of historical variations and anachronisms. Abraham Lincoln is President (save for the episode "Ecto Cooler", where he appears as a ghost) and is a personal friend of Billy. The world police organization is not the United Nations, but the League of Nations, which, in reality, disbanded in 1946. The presence of what appears to be a Communist leader in the League of Nations may also suggest that the Soviet Union has not dissolved in this universe. The universe is also Evil Con Carne's universe: the characters meet, briefly. In the third season episode "Skarred for Life", General Skarr meets the characters in what could be seen as a full crossover. Skarr was a recurring character in the show, and struggled with fighting his addiction to war. Hector, the star of Evil Con Carne, also makes a brief appearance, along with Boskov the Bear (to whom Hector is physically attached), Cod Commando, and Skarr (3 other characters on the show) in a crowded jail cell in the episode "Duck!", which provoked Hector to break the fourth wall and point out that he's "not even in this stupid show anymore"; in the episode "Chicken Ball Z" he sells his island to Mandy for $50,000 she earned in the karate tournament. It's also known that Mandy's grim attitude and Billy's stupidity are constant in the universe, and if something affects it, the reality will change drastically. Since then Mandy once smiled, and the characters were transported to the PowerPuff Girls cartoon; and when Grim changes Billy's note to A, the earth inhabitants (aside Grim and Mandy) became the exact opposite of what they were originally. There is limited continuity between episodes, allowing for the destruction or alteration of the world, or with the disappearance, horrific transformation, or (implied or not) death of the main characters such as Mandy becoming a giant brain eating meteor in "Little Rock of Horror". Often the episode will end with no resolution at all. In "Billy Gets an "A", the show ended with a comical "The End". Billy once also attempted to end the show early out of boredom ("Hey, Water You Doing?"). There is a meta-reference of this lack of continuity in the episode "Detention X", where Grim imprisons both Billy and Mandy (along with all their classmates) in a supernatural version of a detention class, but Mandy manages to escape and when Billy asks if she will help them, she replies that she will do it "in another episode."
Originally part of Grim & Evil, Billy & Mandy served as the main show. In each episode, an Evil Con Carne short was put between two Grim shorts. On occasion, it was the other way around, with two Evil shorts and one Grim short. On June 13, 2003, the network separated the two and gave both a full length show. The short-lived Evil Con Carne show was cancelled once the already-produced season had aired. In 2004, it was given another short-lived run with the newly created intro and end credits, only to be cancelled again. Some characters from Evil Con Carne, usually Skarr (who eventually became Billy's neighbor), occasionally appeared on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
According to Maxwell Atoms' blog on MySpace, the show ended post-production in spring 2007, after having 90 full half-hour episodes; the show officially ended production all together in summer 2008 due to the deaths of John Vernon and Henry Gibson, who previously voiced Dean Toadblatt and Lord Pain respectively.
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The show takes place in modern-day Endsville, Billy and Mandy's hometown. Endsville's location is an Anytown, USA where the location, climate conditions, and anything else bends to the whim of the plot. The city has been seen several times with palm trees, hot summers, and a beach, while it is shown that it snows there in November ("Dumb Wish"). In the episode "Jeffy's Web", the Statue of Liberty can be seen. The age of the town is also frequently changed: it appears in flashbacks of Billy's dad Harold's youth ("The Taking Tree"), the early 1900s ("Who Killed Who?"), medieval times ("Billy and Mandy's Jacked Up Halloween"), and prehistoric times ("Wrath of the Spider Queen"). Grim ostensibly comes from the Underworld, so the show makes frequent forays onto his turf. Grim's scythe is able to produce cosmic rifts through which the characters can visit different planes of existence, including afterlife variations like Nirvana, Asgard and Lower Heck.
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