| Wrath of the Spider Queen | |
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| Series | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy |
| Season | 7 |
| Production code | 661-017, 018, 019, & 020 |
| Writer | Maxwell Atoms |
| Broadcast information | |
| Cartoon Network US Premiere | July 6, 2007 |
| Chronological information | |
| Previous Detention X (production order) |
Next El Dia De Los Muertos Estupidos (production order) |
Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen is the two-part special and the 15th episode of season 7 of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
Credits[]
- Written by: Maxwell Atoms
- Storyboard by: Clayton Morrow & Alex Almaguer & Mike Diederich & Chris Headrick
- Art direction: Marc Perry
- Directed by: Kris Sherwood & Matt Engstrom & Gordon Kent & Juli Hashiguchi
Synopsis[]
When Grim’s past comes back to haunt him, Billy and Mandy must join forces with their greatest enemies Jeff the Spider and Mindy respectively, to save the day from evil spiders trying to take over the whole world. And to do that, Billy must conquer his fear of spiders
Velma Green the Queen of Spiders.
Plot[]
In Ms. Butterbean's class, everybody begins to notice that spiders are appearing everywhere, and students keep disappearing, being attacked by giant spiders while in the halls. Later, in the cafeteria (which is also filled with spiders), Billy leaves the table to get some milk, and finds two, one regular and one chocolate, each with a talking cow's head on it.
He takes the chocolate milk, but before he can return to his table, is he abducted by Jeff, and brought into the school's walls and air vents; in the process Billy drops the milk, which Jeff picks up. Jeff tells Billy that he is getting married, and wants Billy to come to the wedding. He then leaves in a hypnotized-like trance as he hears a strange song; Billy, afraid of Jeff but wanting his milk back, follows. There he meets Velma Green, Queen of the Spiders and Jeff's fiance who has assembled an army of spiders and has allied with the Dark Elves.
Billy and Jeff enter Velma’s lair
Billy and Jeff both leave Velma's presence to go to the Spider Palace, where Velma will meet Jeff for the wedding. On the way, Jeff accidentally drops the milk, spilling it. The cow on the box talks to Billy again, telling him that it was Jeff's fault; and out of rage and sorrow for his lost milk, Billy screams at Jeff that he wants nothing to do with him or his "ugly, hairy, smelly, stupid girlfriend". Deciding that this is the last straw, Jeff then suddenly erupts in a fit of rage, and screams that he wants nothing to do with Billy for all his horrible parenting over the years, and he leaves. Billy, somewhat sadly, drinks the rest of his milk, only to realize that it's more than thirty years past its expiration date.
Meanwhile, Velma attacks the school, and kidnaps Grim, Mandy and Mindy, as well as everyone else in her cocoons of spider web.
Velma attacks the school cocooning everyone in it and kidnapping Mandy, Grim, and Mindy.
As Grim explains, Velma and he were friends thousands of years ago (130,000 to be exact) in junior high school, but that she was supposed to have been elected Reaper, and when he was she swore revenge. Velma, for her part, claims that Grim had cheated. Velma plans to eat Grim's head, thus giving herself all of his powers; when she starts, she opens a hole in his head and is able to see his memories, initially viewing a Betty Boop cartoon by complete accident, and being warned by Grim that there are parts of his mind she shouldn't view. She orders that they be shown on a large screen for everyone to see, so that all would know the way he cheated her.
The Dark Elves preparing the big screen to display Grim‘s memories.
In Grim's memory, he and Velma became friends when they first met; their mutual enemy was the Boogeyman. When the position of Reaper came about, all three ran in a school election to choose who would get it, with Velma being the front-runner (note that this contradicts with previous episodes, where Grim either became Reaper as a child or took on the position after his father). When a little less than half the votes had been cast, Boogey destroyed them and attempted to stuff the ballot box with votes for himself, only to be stopped by Grim. Then, feeling that Velma deserved to win, Grim stuffed the box with votes for her, but she caught him and ran off crying, thinking he was trying to cheat for himself.
Velma‘s singing summons spiders witch attacks everyone in the audience.
In the present, while Velma and everyone else is watching Grim's memories, Mindy and Mandy have broken out of their prisons and are attacking the spiders and Velma's other servants. Velma and Jeff get into a fight (spanning an entire commercial break), with Jeff still raging not only about Billy, but also about Velma and how she folds his shirts wrong. Meanwhile, Billy has sneaked into the school for more milk, only to encounter the talking non-chocolate milk, which tells him to release his anger and to face his fears.
Billy sneaking into the school while coming across his classmates trapped in cocoons screaming for help.
After this, Mandy returns to Grim's body and asks it where the head is. The body points to the sky and Mandy sees Velma with Grim's head climbing to the top of the Spider Palace. Mandy follows her to the top but before she can do anything Mindy notices Billy with an army of Eagles. All the Eagles are caught in the spiders webs but Billy manages to escape. He then flies over to Velma with two large Eagle feathers and knocks Grim's head from her hands. After Mandy catches it she jumps back down to the ground. An enraged Velma follows her and before she can attack Mandy, Mandy tells her to look inside Grim's head one last time. When she does, she sees Grim cheating again but then sees that Grim was stuffing the box with votes for Velma.
Velma on top of the Spider Palace shooting her webs at Mandy and Mindy after they pursue her.
After Velma had run off crying, Grim had hunted down Boogey, angry at him for everything, and attacked him with the prototype Scythe reserved for the winner of the election. Everyone who hadn't voted was so impressed that they all voted for him, and thus he managed to win despite having cheated for Velma. Velma realizes that Grim did win fairly and Grim tells her that he thought she should've won. Velma then apologizes to Grim and their friendship is reconciled.
Velma shedding tears after finding out Grim was trying to help her win the election all along.
Billy arrives with the others, and tells Jeff that he is not really angry with Billy or Velma, but must release the "spirit of anger" inside him. Suddenly, out of Jeff's mouth emerges a half-cow, half-spider creature called Arachnotaur, who claims to be the god of anger from Velma's home galaxy. He explains that he had been trapped by the celestial beings inside a milk carton for decades, but that he had manipulated Billy to become free and then possessed Jeff. Billy allows Arachnatar to beat him up until he gets bored and walks away. Jeff returns to his normal, loving self, and he and Billy reconcile.
Velma and Jeff get married.
Everything ends well, and Jeff and Velma are married, though immediately afterwards, Billy declares that his son isn't going to marry a spider (despite the fact that Jeff is a spider, too), so Jeff cancels the marriage. Velma is not too upset, and since her plans for becoming the Reaper did not go through and just attempt to pull out plans to conquer the world like her dad wanted. She sings her strange song again, and spiders begin attacking Endsville.
Velma summons spiders that begin to invade Endsville.
Trivia[]
- Despite being only 44 minutes long, Cartoon Network labels the special as a "movie".
- At the beginning of the special, Billy summons Grim to "show and tell" in his class, but Ms. Butterbean points out that while it was cool at first, at this point in the series, the "magic has gone away." Grim himself even points out that Billy brings him to school so often that [Grim] probably knows more about certain subjects than Billy does (like the metric system).
- This may be a subtle reference to what fans consider to be the show’s "seasonal rot" and impending conclusion.
- While Grim isn't always seen at school with Billy and/or Mandy, he does go to school with them quite often.
- The scene where Billy tells Jeff to leave resembles the scene from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi where Darth Vader redeems himself to Luke before his death.
- When Velma first looks inside Grim's memory, footage of the black and white Betty Boop cartoon Bimbo's Initation was shown.
- Jeff claimed that Billy never let him see his mother in this episode, even though Billy never married anyone. Billy however, almost married Mandy and an underworld girl.
- This is the only time Billy is able to communicate bravely towards Jeff for a while.
- The expiration date on the chocolate milk carton is the birth date of creator Maxwell Atoms.
- The entire film's plot-focus is a spoof of the 1990 film Arachnaphobia, the 2002 film Eight-Legged Freaks
- During the end credits of Underfist, there is a title card for a (fictive) sequel called "Underfist: Return of the Spider Queen".
- This is the first time dinosaurs were depicted. The second is the title card displayed during the end credits of Underfist: Halloween Bash called Underfist Vs. The Dinosaurs.
- Cartoon Network USA aired the movie in HD for the first time on October 8, 2017.
- Mr. Snuggles can be seen in a "missing person" sign on a milk carton. A reference to his rare appearances on the show.
- Some of Grim's memories include Attack of the Clowns and Billy & Mandy vs. the Martians.
- There is a reference to Ed Edd n Eddy in this episode.
- Eris is the only human-like student to attend the underworld highschool.
- In the ending credits, Billy's racecar has the 2004-2010 Cartoon Network Logo without the text at the bottom.
- This special was completed on April 27th, 2007.
Gallery[]
The image gallery for Wrath of the Spider Queen may be viewed here.