Bully Boogie is the 7th episode of the Third Season. It precedes Here Thar Be Dwarves.
"I blame cartoons and video games and... The tuba!"
Plot
A teenage boy wakes up and goes down to the kitchen for something to drink. The Boogey Man, a nightmare bringing shapeshifter is stalking him, and attemps to scare him as he opens the fridge. This is not successful, as the boy does not even believe in him.
Downcast, Boogey picks up his old middle school yearbook, where he is titled as "Biggest Jerk". He plans to visit Grim, in hope of reliving some memories.
He arrive behind Billy's TV and attempts to scare the two children watching. The only one afraid of him in the house is Irwin, and Grim is not happy to see his old classmate. He shows the children in a flashback how Boogey used to torment the kids at school, and an episode where he humiliated Grim in front of the whole school.
Sick of the story, and to pull Grim's leg once more, Boogey kidnaps Billy and hurls him into an Underworld forest of thorns. Here he is chased by a frightening giant thorn monster.
Grim and Mandy follow him to an underworld lunch room, where Grim plots to spike the bully's milk with hot sauce.
However, this backfires when Boogey pretends to be sorry for his past mistakes and lure him into drinking the milk. But Grim refuse to accept defeat, and they almost attack each other, when Mandy suggests a scare-off. Boogey chooses form as a werewolf, and Grim a rubber duck.
A little boy is taking a bath, and Boogey appears next to him, but is mistaken for a dog and not scaring anyone. Grim appears as the rubber duck, who is initially cute, but grows and grows until it breaks the bathtub and takes on a bloodthirsty monster-form. Boogey looses the scare-off and Grim exorcises him to the plain of terror, where he lands in the thorn patch, in the nostril of the thorn monster Billy has now tamed.
Trivia
- Boogey Man is voiced by comedian Fred Willard.
- When Grim is searching for milk he says 'Not the soda, not the purple stuff...' This is a referance to the old Sunny Delight commercials, and was also used in an episode of Evil Con Carne where Hector Con Carne was searching for the liquid to his brain jar.