The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (season 5)

The fifth season of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy consists of 13 regular episodes in total.

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Season 5
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	13 (24 segments)
Release
Original network	Cartoon Network
Original release	January 6 – August 9, 2006
Season chronology

New characters introduced include Captain Deadwood, a sailor made entirely of wood, except for the little finger; Fred Fredburger, an incorrigible dumb, elephant-like creature from the Underworld, who only cares about nachos, frozen yogurt, spelling his own name, and saying "Yes!"; and Pandora (a parody of Dora from Dora the Explorer), who tricks Mandy into opening Pandora's box.

Other characters that have major appearances are Judge Roy Spleen, the judge of the Underworld Court; Miss Butterbean, who is kidnapped by the unfrozen Fred Flintstone (from The Flintstones); General Skarr, who becomes a plant-like creature while tending to his garden; Hoss Delgado and Eris who became a couple, and now break up; Morg, the Martian Grim Reaper, who, together with Grim, plans to conquer Earth; Dracula, who is as cranky as always; Principal Goodvibes, who becomes an gangsta-rapper; Irwin's grandmother, who knows plenty of yo-mamma jokes; and Jeff the Spider, who infects Mandy with "Spider Pox".

The episode “Billy and Mandy vs. the Martian” was initially a straight-to-DVD Special but Cartoon Network greenlit the idea to episode of the series.

In "Billy & Mandy Begins", Billy, Mandy, and Grim recount the beginning of their eternal and unbreakable friendship, including two fantastic stories and the actual story of how they first met from the first episode in the series, "Meet the Reaper".

Episodes

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy season 5 episodes

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Story by	Storyboarded by	Original air date
54a	1a	"Billy Ocean"	Juli Hashiguchi and Sue Perrotto	Tim McKeon and Alex Almaguer	Alex Almaguer	January 6, 2006
When Billy, Mandy, and Grim go to the beach, Billy is swallowed by a whale known as Blubbery Joe, which also houses in her stomach Mister Geppetto and Pinocchio from Nursery Crimes. Tired of not having a real son, Geppetto convinces Billy to be his "real son", while Pinocchio becomes increasingly jealous and is set on eating Billy's flesh again to become a real boy and gain Geppetto's fatherly love and affection. Mandy and Grim search for Billy on board Captain Deadwood's ship, who is made of wood and who has been hunting Blubbery Joe for years. Billy, Geppetto, and Pinocchio are expelled from Blubbery Joe's stomach, and as Billy needs to go home, Blubbery Joe accepts to be Geppetto's son.
54b	1b	"Hill Billy"	Shaun Cashman	Brett Varon	Brett Varon	January 6, 2006
When Mandy and Grim tell Billy to quit watching TV and follow his life dreams, Billy gets into a chicken costume and decides to become a world famous "chicken juggler". When Billy's mom tries to convince him to be a chiropractor instead, Billy runs away to Uncle Chokey's farm to pursue his dream. Billy and Uncle Chokey juggle chickens at the rhythm of an old phonograph, whose music turns the farm into a 1920s black and white rubber hose cartoon. Due to a shortage of eggs in the city, Mandy and Grim go to the farm to investigate. They destroy the phonograph and things return to normal.
55	2	"Keeper of the Reaper"	Juli Hashiguchi and Eddy Houchins	Richard Horvitz, Kristen Lazarian, and C.H. Greenblatt	C.H. Greenblatt	January 13, 2006
When Billy's dad gets a promotion in his job, he tells his family they are going to move to another town, starting a dispute between Billy and Mandy over who gets custody of Grim. Grim suggests they settle this in court, and hours later Billy, Mandy, and Grim find themselves in the Underworld court, presided by Judge Roy Spleen, and which has Fred Fredburger, an incorrigible dumb character, as a juror. During the trial, Billy calls for Irwin to testify in his favor; Mandy tries to discredit Billy by presenting his failed history taking care of pets, including Jeff the Spider, Little Porkchop, and Wiggy Jiggy Jed; Billy responds by calling Mandy's parents, Mindy, Eris, and others, such as Scooby-Doo, and Major Dr. Ghastly (from Evil Con Carne). During the entire trial, Fred Fredburger interrupts constantly, using the Judge's gavel, asking for permission to go to the bathroom, eating nachos, and just repeating his name and his characteristic "Yes". When the jury has to vote over who becomes the "Keeper of the Reaper", the result is a tie, and Fred Fredburger is the tiebreaker. Since Fred only says "Yes", the Judge decides Grim should not be separated from either Billy or Mandy, so he places Billy's family under house arrest and they are not allowed to move. NOTE: This episode marks as Fred FredBurger's Debut to the show.
56a	3a	"The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name"	Eddy Houchins	Jeremy Bargiel and Alex Almaguer	Alex Almaguer	January 20, 2006
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.
56b	3b	"Major Cheese"	Juli Hashiguchi and Sue Perrotto	Brett Varon	Brett Varon	January 20, 2006
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.
57a	4a	"Modern Primitives"	Shaun Cashman	Maxwell Atoms and Alex Almaguer	Alex Almaguer	January 27, 2006
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.
57b	4b	"Giant Billy and Mandy All Out Attack"	Sue Perrotto	Jeff Prezenkowski and Alex Que	Alex Que	January 27, 2006
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.
58a	5a	"The Wrongest Yard"	Sue Perrotto	Tim McKeon and Ian Wasseluk	Ian Wasseluk	February 17, 2006
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.
58b	5b	"Druid, Where's My Car?"	Juli Hashiguchi, Eddy Houchins, and Russell Calabrese	Maxwell Atoms and Mike Diederich	Mike Diederich	February 17, 2006
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.
59a	6a	"Herbicidal Maniac"	Shaun Cashman	C.H. Greenblatt	C.H. Greenblatt	March 20, 2006
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. Note: Johnny Bravo and Cow (from Cow & Chicken) both make a cameo appearance.
59b	6b	"Chaos Theory"	Eddy Houchins	James Silverman and Mike Diederich	Mike Diederich	March 20, 2006
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.
60a	7a	"A Grim Day"	Sue Perrotto and Shaun Cashman	Jeff Prezenkowski and Alex Que	Alex Que	March 22, 2006
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.
60b	7b	"Pandora's Lunch Box"	Shaun Cashman	Nina Bargiel and Ian Wasseluk	Ian Wasseluk	March 22, 2006
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.
61	8	"Billy and Mandy vs. the Martians"	Juli Hashiguchi and Eddy Houchins	Maxwell Atoms, Nina Bargiel, and Jeremy Bargiel	John Bahn and Mike Diederich	March 24, 2006
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. So Grim can get the respect he deserves, Morg convinces Grim to conquer Earth, which they do easily while enslaving and turning all of the people into zombies. Next for the reapers is to use the ultimate weapon in mind control, the Braincaster, which, if powered by a dumb and stupid mind, will allow them to control all of the zombies forever. Meanwhile, Billy, Mandy, and Irwin, who followed Grim to Mars hidden in his bottomless trunk, look for a way to save Earth. When the kids are captured, and Billy is strapped to the Braincaster, all hope seems lost. Billy talks to Grim about friendship, and Grim has a change of heart and decides to help Mandy. Billy's stupid, idiotic brain overpowers the Braincaster, returning all of the people to normal and foiling Morg's plan, who disappears into outer space.
62a	9a	"Dumb-Dumbs & Dragons"	Sue Perrotto	Maxwell Atoms and Alex Almaguer	Alex Almaguer C.H. Greenblatt	May 12, 2006
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.
62b	9b	"Fear and Loathing in Endsville"	Shaun Cashman, Juli Hashiguchi, and Eddy Houchins	C.H. Greenblatt	C.H. Greenblatt	May 12, 2006
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.
63a	10a	"Dad Day Afternoon"	Eddy Houchins	Brett Varon	Brett Varon	June 5, 2006
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.
63b	10b	"Scary Poppins"	Sue Perrotto	Shaun Cashman	Alex Almaguer	June 5, 2006
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.
64a	11a	"Hurter Monkey"	Shaun Cashman, Eddy Houchins, and Sue Perrotto	Anna Chambers, Zena Logan, and Ian Wasseluk	Ian Wasseluk	July 7, 2006
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. Dickie himself reveals that he intended all along to supplant Grim since, similar to Grim's situation, he was fed up with his own normal life in the show he was brought out of. Grim successfully defeats Dickie at cleaning Billy's house and sends Dickie back into the show from whence he came, but this all turns out to be an ingenious plan devised by Mandy to win a bet against Billy.
64b	11b	"Goodbling and the Hip-Hop-Opotamus"	Juli Hashiguchi, Eddy Houchins, and Russell Calabrese	James Silverman and Alex Almaguer	Alex Almaguer	July 7, 2006
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.
65a	12a	"Spidermandy"	Eddy Houchins	Maxwell Atoms and Jim Schumann	Jim Schumann	July 14, 2006
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.
65b	12b	"Be A-Fred, Be Very A-Fred"	Sue Perrotto	C.H. Greenblatt	C.H. Greenblatt	July 14, 2006
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.
66a	13a	"The Crass Unicorn"	Shaun Cashman	Maxwell Atoms and Cindy Morrow	Cindy Morrow	July 21, 2006
As Billy notices Mandy and Grim's usual negative attitude, he wishes they were in a magical land of happiness, so Grim transports them to an enchanted forest. Billy enjoys the relaxed surroundings until he meets a cantankerous and sour unicorn named Mary-Frances. Billy tries to change Mary-Frances attitude, but she is reluctant due to an earlier trauma of not being able to swim and follow the other unicorns into the sea. After Billy teaches Mary-Frances to swim, she feels happy and finally can join the other unicorns, but they turn out to be bullies, the real reason she never joined them in the first place. Billy stays with the unicorns and Mary-Frances goes back with Mandy and Grim to watch TV.
66b	13b	"Billy & Mandy Begins"	Juli Hashiguchi	Jeff Prezenkowski, Mike Diederich, Maxwell Atoms, and Antoine Guilbaud	Mike Diederich, Maxwell Atoms, and Antoine Guilbaud	July 21, 2006
As Billy, Mandy, Grim, and Irwin hang from a rope about to be eaten by a giant sea serpent, Irwin wonders how they came into that trouble. Billy and Grim each tell separate stories on how they originally became best friends forever and ever. Billy's fantastic story is about him and Mandy being space patrol officers who collect the Grim Reaper's bones, cloak, and skull to summon him; Grim tells a story on how the evil Mandy and her pet servant, Billy, managed to capture him inside a containment unit (parodying the Ghostbusters' ghost traps). Mandy quickly tells the real story, and footage from the first episode is seen, before the four are swallowed whole by the serpent.

DVD releases

An episode "Herbicidal Maniac" was released on Cartoon Network Fridays on September 19, 2006,[1] in region one.

References

1. Cartoon Network Fridays, Amazon.com, ASIN B000FZETT8