Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure

Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure
Series	The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Production code	601 - 010 - 05
Writer	Nina Bargiel Jeremy Bargiel Maxwell Atoms
DVD	April 3, 2007
iTunes	April 3, 2007
Broadcast information
Cartoon Network US Premiere	February 14, 2007 (UK) March 30, 2007 (US)
Chronological information
Previous Billy & Mandy Begins	Next Everything Breaks

Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure is a Billy & Mandy TV movie released in March 30, 2007 in the United States and produced in 2006. The film is set after during the fifth season. The movie's plot is about how after failing at properly doing his job as the reaper, Grim gets his scythe taken away by the Boogeyman. Boogey then plans to steal Horror's Hand, an object which can turn the holder into the scariest and most powerful being in existence. Grim, aided by Billy, Mandy, and Irwin, race him to reach Horror's Hand first and get Grim's scythe back.

Plot

Prologue

The film begins with a shot of a desolate Endsville two weeks into the future, which is in ruins and is being patrolled by flying robot guards. At the center of the city sits the Lord of Horror wearing the Left Hand of Horror next to a staircase which leads to a portal. Mandroid and Billybot show up and Creeper tells them to travel back in time using the portal to temporarily replace Billy and Mandy and make sure that they do not reach Horror's Hand first. The two walk to the portal, meanwhile Billy and Irwin (who are hiding in the rubble) spy on them and Billy says that they need to get through the portal. Mandroid and Billybot enter the portal and it closes, while Billy and Irwin didn't manage to enter it. Irwin tells Billy his plan to use Billy's blueprint to build a time travel machine and save themselves, however he sees his blueprint and it's just a drawing of cops fighting dinosaurs, Billy then tells him that they should just wait for their past selves to save them. Suddendly, they're found by the robot guards.

Main Plot

Two weeks before, Grim is seen walking out of Billy's house, he enters General Skarr's house in order to collect his soul. Skarr tells him that he's in perfect health before accidentally revealing a giant hole in his chest, Grim prepares to send him through the vortex until he sees Billy and Mandy behind his robe. Mandy and Grim begin arguing due to Mandy wanting Grim to take them to work with him, while Grim refuses. Grim then notices that Skarr is gone, he looks through the window and sees Skarr driving away with his car, Grim then hops on his scythe alongside Billy and Mandy and chases after him.

Skarr puts his car on turbo velocity, leaving them behind. Mandy and Grim then fight trying to steer the scythe, crashing against multiple things and end up covered in fireworks, Skarr then throws a barrel of oil and a missile at them, he then reaches a dock so he turns his car into a submarine and goes underwater. Then, the missile (which didn't explode), a fireworks shop, a truck and fire (from using the scythe on the street) reach the three and they end up exploding. The three then go back to Billy's house covered in smoke, Irwin also comes inside to flirt with Mandy. Grim tells Billy that his job could be on the line but they ignore him. Suddendly, policemen from the underworld arrive and put them all under arrest for not doing his duty.

After Grim is stripped of his powers by the underworld court due to the Boogeyman suing for misuse of his powers (Skarr gets a hole in his body), Grim, Billy, Mandy, and Irwin are set to be exiled, and Numbuh 3 of the Kids Next Door becomes the new Grim Reaper. Boogey's main plan is to get rid of Grim and then steal the Horror’s Hand, an object capable of transforming its holder into the scariest and most powerful being in existence. The group eventually escapes and plans to obtain the hand for themselves for various reasons.

Both groups eventually reach where the hand is held, and they are forced into a race by Horror, a living statue that cut off its hand, and placed his fears within it. Grim's group wins the race, and they eventually find the hand. Boogey gets a hold of the hand, but he is eventually defeated when he learns that he is not scary. Later on, Boogey suffers from many injuries, and gets a mental disorder, causing him to be afraid of everything around him. Afterwards, Grim gets his job back, and the group learns that they had gotten everything that they wanted without having the hand. In the end, a naked, cut up Billy comes from two weeks in the future to warn that if Mandy had used Horror's Hand, she would have taken over the world in two weeks.

Future Billy eventually goes back to the future to make sure that things were set right, and finds that Fred Fredburger somehow stole Horror's Hand from Grim's magic trunk and took over the world as the new Lord of Horror. Despite his newly-acquired power, he is very much the same mutant green elephant-like creature he was. He can't spell "Nachos" (as he puts a "Z" at the end instead of an "S"), and also revealed that his fear was running out of nachos.

Songs

• Land of the Dead
• Scary-O
• Frere Jacques Fred Fredburger Style
• Boogie Wonderland

Gallery

The image gallery for Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure may be viewed here.

Credits

• Story By: Maxwell Atoms
• Written By: Nina Bargiel, Jeremy Bargiel, Maxwell Atoms
• Animation Direction: Joo-Shik Yoo, Kwang-Bae Park, Soo-Hyun Park, Hyung-Tae Kim, Jae-Bok Lee
• Art Direction: Marc Perry
• Editor: Illya Owens
• Storyboards By:
  • C.H. Greenblatt
  • Maxwell Atoms
  • Michael Diederich, Alex Almaguer
  • Ian Wasseluk, Tara Nicole Whitaker
  • John Holmquist, Spencer Laudiero
• Directed By: Shaun Cashman, Kris Sherwood, Gordon Kent, Matt Engstrom, Eddy Houchins, Sue Perrotto, Robert Alvarez, Russell Calabrese, Phil Cummings, R. Michel Lyman, Christine Kolosov
• Supervising Director: Juli Hashiguchi

Trivia

• The scene with a robotic Billy and Mandy looking on from a gigantic monitor is a reference to the film Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
• On the televised airings, subtitles are shown whenever Billybot and Mandroid speak.
• This episode claims that General Skarr has been living in Endsville even before he left his job at Evil Con Carne.
• Boogey's ability to morph into objects is absent in the film, which he had in the TV Series.
• Jack's artwork from the fighting game was reused during Grim's trial.
• It is revealed that Billy has a second cousin who was able to steal Grim's scythe at one point -- it's never explained which side of Billy's family that this particular cousin is from though.
• When Pale Ghoulish Juror says to Fred, "You eediot! That says guilty", it's a reference to Ren Hoek's most popular catchphrase from Nickelodeon's cartoon series The Ren & Stimpy Show.
• According to Maxwell Atoms, Seth MacFarlane was going to share the role of Boogey's two-headed parrot with his sister Rachel MacFarlane, but his film Ted got greenlit and he became unavailable, leading Rachel to obtain both roles.
• According to Tom Warburton, the creator of Codename: Kids Next Door, he first wanted to use Numbuh 2 as the Reaper in the film, but he ended up with having Numbuh 3 as the Reaper, since she is the only Sector V Operative who doesn't have an antagonistic side. The film changed almost 100% of Kuki's attitude and personality.
  • According to Maxwell Atoms, Grim was supposed to be replaced by an entirely new Grim Reaper character, initially to be voiced by Pamela Anderson. But the executives at Cartoon Network wanted a larger celebrity attached to the character and made a list of suggestions of unavailable or high-rated high profile actors. Since there was not enough time to choose, Numbuh 3 was chosen instead.
• Irwin said "This is just like Titanic!", referencing the suicide part.
• The guitarist shown playing the solo in the song Scary-O resembles Slash, the guitarist of the band, Guns and Roses. He has long hair and the signature top hat with medals on it like Slash does. It also closely resembles Cousin Itt, from the Addams Family franchise.
• During the drum solo, Billy wears makeup that resembles David Bowie's Aladdin Sane.
• When Billy, Mandy, Irwin, and Grim are about to be eaten by the Cyclops, then take his eye and cause Billy to eat it, is a reference to the Greek story of Odysseus where Odysseus and his men are trapped in a cyclops's cave and Odysseus and his men blind the cyclops and trick him into letting them go.
• Inside of Billy's body is real life footage of inside the body.
• Right after Billy swallows the eye of the Cyclops, the Old Man that took care of General Skarr's house in the episode Skarred for Life makes a brief cameo, looking throught the right porthole of the Boogeyman's ship.
• When Boogey enters the pipe, the Warp Pipe sound effect from Super Mario is played.
• In the first sequence of Mandy's nightmare, she tries to leave her bedroom but finds out the world outside is just a massive desert populated by some sort of worms. This is a reference to the film Beetlejuice, where the ghosts that try to abandon the immediacy of their afterlife are sent instead to a distant moon guarded by the ravenous Sandworms.
• In Mandy's worst nightmare, it is shown that Billy and Grim really mean a lot to her and she'd feel weak if they ever found out about this.
• Mandy's Couch Gag was referenced in the movie. When Mandy gets kidnapped by Boogey and has multiple, sequential nightmares, one of them features her being trapped in the gag's setting by an invisible wall (the TV screen) and yelling to be let out.
• This is the first time where Mandy is seen Screaming in terror.
• The scene where Irwin made Mandy wake up from a kiss to break the sleep spell references ‘’Sleeping Beauty’’.
• This movie marks the first time Mandy is kissed by Irwin; the ending credits state that he eventually caught cooties and mono afterwords.
• At the bottom left corner of the Cannibal Run map, there is label reading, "To Camden, New Jersey."
• The keys that Creeper uses to release the Krakken makes a sound of the car key vibration to open the headlights of a sedan.
• When Boogey tells his assistant, Creeper, to summon the kracken, it is an obvious reference to the Disney film, Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest where Davy Jones sends his kracken out to hunt down Captain Jack Sparrow and then later Will Turner. And the fact that Boogey's ship has black sails may also be a reference to the Pirates trilogy due to the Black Pearl also having torn, black sails.
• Billy's fears of spiders and clowns first appeared in Jeffy's Web and Attack of the Clowns.
• The picture where policemen are fighting dinosaurs is a parody of the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, where several police cars chase after a Tyrannosaurus Rex rampaging loose in San Diego brought by ship transport. The dinosaur the cops are fighting is a Spinosaurus, the major antagonist of the film Jurassic Park 3.
• In the credits sequence with Hoss Delgado, a poster for Underfist can be seen on his wall.
• There are two online games based on this episode named Grim's DownFall and Solar Wind.