| Billy & Mandy Begins | |
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| Series | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy |
| Season | 5 |
| Production code | 513 |
| Writer | Jeff Prezenkowski
Mike Diederich Maxwell Atoms Antonie Guilbaud |
| Broadcast information | |
| Broadcast number | 13B |
| Cartoon Network US Premiere | August 9, 2006 |
| Paired with | The Crass Unicorn |
| Chronological information | |
| Previous The Crass Unicorn |
Next Everything Breaks |
Billy & Mandy Begins is the second segment from the sixty fifth episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
Summary[]
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 his pet servant Billy managed to capture him inside a containment unit (parodying the Ghostbusters' ghost traps). Mandy quickly tells the real story during a montage of clips from the pilot (though Grim denies it), but he is interrupted by Irwin, who asked how everyone got stuck in the sea serpent's tunnel, Mandy explains that "we got trapped ten minutes ago", but Billy could begin his story, the rope snapped and the sea monster ate all four of them alive.
Credits[]
- Story by: Jeff Prezenkowski & Mike Diederich & Maxwell Atoms & Antonie Guilbaud
- Storyboard by: Maxwell Atoms & Mike Diederich & Antonie Guilbaud
- Directed by: Juli Hashiguchi
Gallery[]
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| The image gallery for Billy & Mandy Begins may be viewed here. |
Trivia[]
- Shmoo makes a cameo appearance.
- Irwin mentions his brother, Melvin, which would indicate that he's still around, even though he accidentally killed him in "The Halls of Time".
- When Mandy tells the real flashback, she incorrectly states that Mr. Snuggles was seven years old at the time when he was actually ten.
- Mandy cuts off Grim's hand and exclaims that he would never join her, which is a direct reference to The Empire Strikes Back. Additionally, Billy captures Grim by using two devices which resemble the Proton Pack and Ghost Trap from Ghostbusters (1984).
- The title of the episode is direct reference to Batman Begins, which released the previous year in 2005 before the episode was broadcast.