| Dream Mutt | |
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| Series | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy |
| Season | 5 |
| Production code | 501 |
| Writer | Brett Varon |
| Broadcast information | |
| Broadcast number | 40A |
| Cartoon Network US Premiere | June 17, 2005 |
| Paired with | Scythe For Sale |
| Chronological information | |
| Previous Wishbones |
Next Scythe For Sale |
Dream Mutt is the 1st episode from season 5 of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. It was produced in 2004.
Synopsis[]
The story begins with Billy asking his father if he have the four dogs that the local pet shop is giving away for free. Harold allows Billy to pick only one, but Billy does not know which one to choose, as all four dogs share the qualities he is looking for in his "dream mutt". To solve this, Harold goads Grim into using his scythe to magically combine all four dogs into one. Grim does so, and the four dogs are combined and transformed into an anthropomorphic cartoon dog called Wiggy Jiggy Jed, and he and Billy become best friends.
Mandy is then seen to be a guest on a television program (which is called "Dream Mutt 2"), which is tracing Billy and Jed, and asks if Billy really has found his dream mutt, or if his relationship with Jed will only last one day. The program also has Harold and Grim as guests, both of whom seem to think the latter.
On the other, it is shown that how much Billy and Wiggy enjoyed being each others best friend. Billy shows Jed around his house and the basement, where he shows him Grim's magical trunk.
When they get to the bedroom and Jed prepares to go to sleep in Billy's bed, Billy's demeanor towards his dream mutt begins to change. Billy forces Jed out of his bed and has him sleep outside in the doghouse, and also tells Jed to stop speaking in rhyme (as it gives Billy a headache) and to turn off the music that accompanies his walking (as Billy finds it "corny").
Jed sneaks in the house in the middle of the night while Billy is asleep to get a snack in the kitchen, but when he spots Grim's trunk, decides to go in the basement instead. Billy is woken up by the sound of drilling, and he immediately deduces that someone is messing with Grim's trunk. Billy goes to the basement and his finds that Jed has used the trunk to create a monstrous "doomsday-type device". Jed tells Billy that he means to use the device to steal every bed in every city in the world, so that he can sleep in a different bed every night for the rest of his life, and open a shop where he gives away free mattresses.
Billy runs out the basement, out of his house, and through the street, yelling for Mandy. He eventually enters the studio of the "Dream Mutt 2" television program (via falling through its ceiling), where Mandy, Grim, and Harold are and asks them for help with Jed, which they respond to by giving him a dish of green "primordial ooze".
Jed is wreaking havoc in Endsville with his device, sucking up every bed in the city, Billy sneaks into the cockpit of Jed's device and throws the dish of primordial ooze at him. The primordial ooze melts Wiggy Jiggy Jed into nothing, thus ending the anthropomorphic cartoon dog's reign of terror. Billy then takes Jed's hat and walks out of the device.
The episode ends with Billy on Dream Mutt 2, where he laments how he and Jed were never on the same page, but is glad he was able to get Jed's hat during the fray.
Credits[]
- Story by: Brett Varon
- Storyboard by: Brett Varon
- Art direction: Rae McCarson
- Directed by: Shaun Cashman
Trivia[]
- Billy's fish Lil' Porkchop makes a cameo in this episode, during the flashback of how Billy treated the last pet he had.
- Wiggy Jiggy Jed appears to be a homage to anthropomorphic dog characters created by Cartoon Network Studio's predecessor, Hanna-Barbera. In fact, the episode's title card strongly resembles those for Hanna-Barbera shows from the 1950s and 60s, like Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and Snagglepuss.
Gallery[]
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