Billy and Mandy is More DISTURBING Than You Remember...
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy was and still is one of my favorite Cartoon Network shows but is just so absolutely unhinged that it's a must watch whether your young, old or some ancient ghost who kidnaps dads. Hope you enjoy the video!
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Let me know some of your favorite episodes of Billy and Mandy and any other series you'd like to see me cover here on the channel in the future? Hope you enjoyed the video!
I hear it may be coming back and I can't wait.
Have you ever heard of the early 90s MTV series created by Ed Edd and Eddy called The Brother's Grunt, btw? It's on here and worth ....seeing a bit of it at least. Weird stuff.
chicken ball z is my favorite episode from billy and mandy. Plus those old school cartoon networks bumpers from the early and mid 2000s brings back so much memories when i was a child. i wish i can go back in time to watch those cartoons.
Billy and Mandy is my favorite show and I'm relaxing while watching without fear
Billy is my favorite character
The over exaggerated brutality is what made it so funny😂
This show made a core part of my sense of humor
Can def. Atribute alot of my humor to this show...the darness&absurdity 👌 perfect
same
Same
Even the episodes he listed weren't as dark as the episode where Grim gave Billy superpowers for no other reason than to get rid of Billy for the day
Billy says president evil is for girls so Mandy sends him back to the kitchen. God that's comedy gold XD
yeah there is no end to the jokes in this show.
Just hearing the plot for that zombie episode had me grackling up.
"we over run by zombies what do we do!!?"
"send billy out, he has no brainz, he will be fine"
This show has the best dark humor.
The darkest episode I remember is the one where Nergal’s son basically murders every kid at the winter camp and turns their frozen corpses into snowmen .
That is a BANGER
The one that always gives me existential dread was the one where Erwin and Billy put everyone’s hour glasses upside down on accident after getting kicked out of Father Times house. What then happens is everyone slowly starts aging backwards into nothing. They’re not even dead they just don’t exist anymore. By the time Grim reaches his he’s too small and young to flip it over and everyone is just un-alive, they didn’t die because they basically stopped existing. That was the first time in my life I remember thinking on the implications of stuff like that
@@Broomer52omggg I remember this 😭 I was so little, omg
Or the alien brain thing that convinces billy to feed it the whole towns brains because it can’t eat Billy’s as he doesn’t have a brain
How about that one with Voltaire? Where Billy finds a brain sucking meteoryte, kills everyone in town leaving them like zombies after Billy lured them into that green alien, then he eats Mandy and Mandy takes over that alien's mind
My kids grew up on this show. I absolutely loved it and so did they. There is nothing traumatizing about this cartoon at all.
I am 23 now I loved THE FUCK out of this show. Right on.
Actually I love this too. But what doesn't traumatize us, might traumatize someone else. I know my cousin couldn't watch the nightmare before Christmas. Because it scared her so much
Same. I love how trauma is being overused as an excuse for watching stuff that you allowed to shape you.
I was thinking the same
Bro there was an episiode where Nergal killed all the kids at a camp and turned them into snowmen it may not be traumatizing but it was certainly dark
Trauma from a kids show is allot better than trauma from your own parents
Why not have both! 😀😀
The dog dangling through the sidewalk is a direct reference to a poem called Where the Sidewalk Ends. In fact, the dog is a near perfect copy of the illustrated dog. Even the sign is in the exact same place. And their town is literally Endsville. Just a fun little Easter egg lol.
So that's what Sperg meant when he said "This is where the sidewalk ends, baby".
That episode is also a massive reference to the book and movie Christine by Stephen King
Finally someone gets this reference!! Each video that covers this episode the RUclipsr never seems to get it.
Yeah, it traumatized a generation, but in a good way.😊
True lol
True but I honestly don't remember the show being scary it just felt like a fun reimagining of the grim reaper
I loved this show so much. My dad liked Mandys attitude, so it was a win to watch cartoons.
I loved it as a kid and even played games it shaped what type of genres of shows and stuff I like now.
I didn’t get traumatized so much as sick of it due to being the Spongebob of Cartoon Network for a while show they overshowed it.
Traumatized!?!!
Nah more like AWESOME!!!! This show was amazing through my childhood. But as a kid I liked the horror/creepy/weird kinda shows.
Same they were for sure my favorites 😁
I realized that nostalgia is like PTSD but you associate that time with good memories or feelings
I wonder what the word for that is, opposite traumatized
billy and mandy pulled inspiration from so many 70s and late 80s horror and comedy and managed to combine them to give us this awsome Gem. lol
Like the haunted trike is a parody of Christine from Stephen King
The most traumatizing moment was when Mandy… *shudders* genuinely smiles.
Yeah never a good sign 😂
I loved this show back in the 2000s especially the later seasons.
"I blame the tuuba"
one of my favorite shows as a kid. honestly a prime example of "they dont make em like they used to".
A little trauma builds character, that's part of why I love this show
A reasonable amount is understandable if done right.
For adults yes, not little kids.
@angrysocialjusticewarrior
bleh. Reading scary stories to tell in the dark was fun as a kid. Yeah, those illustrations were creepy, but feeling creeped out was fun. Why deprive kids of that?
The whole spectrum of emotions is where the spice of life is. No sense in trying to bubble wrap the experience as long as you're not actively trying to hurt them.
Truth is that we're too small to in the grand scheme of things to protect our kids from everything. Instead, it's better to help them understand and deal with the world around them, and be there for them when they really need help.
@@angrysocialjusticewarrior Not necessarily... We all had fears as kids. Working through those fears is an important, healthy part of life.
@@fructosecornsyrup5759 assuming we DO work through it
🎶 Brains, Brains, I won't lie! I'll eat your brains til they're zombified. Sure, they might think it's deranged, but they won't give it a thought after I've eaten their brains.🎶
I just loved how a lot of the episodes were spoofs of pop culture. Evil dead, fairy tales, Christine and a whole slew of others. It was like they were trying to make horror more accessible to children. Favorite kids show of all time. Watched every episode from when it was Grim and Evil all the way to the series finale. One of the only kids shows rewatched as an adult.
An episode I found particularly disturbing looking back was the one where Billy gets infected with a parasite that grows out of his back that he befriends. But he doesn’t know that it really doesn’t care for him and is just using him. It grows and detaches itself from him. Causes some chaos before Mandy manages to melt it and vacuum it up. She then forces Billy to throw it out, which was a mistake because Billy obviously feels heartbroken because he did actually care for the parasite (whose name apparently was Yup yup) So instead of throwing away the bag he eats it instead and the parasite full on posses him and he says Yup Yup aloud. Then the episode ends…
Yep
Empress Mandy is a dune reference. He makes several next level references to many books and films of the past.
Bro the Episode Billy became a CIA agent legit had me rolling everytime i watch it. Billy legit hits that "Lets go spread some Freedom"
the episode of this show that always stays with me is the one where mandy falls in love, is disgusted with herself, then tries to cut out her own heart to give it to her crush. very wednesday addams in AFV vibes.
I don't remember her wanting to give her heart to Piff. Just that she wanted it cut out so she wouldn't feel love anymore. And Grim knew that if Piff showed weakness to Mandy, she would fall out of love. It was his resistance to showing any emotion that she was attracted to. Seeing him begging her to go to the dance as pathetically as Irwin snapped her out of it. And Grim hated Piff so seeing him grovel and be rejected was satisfying for him. An ending satisfying for them both.
@@CasualVFlowerEnjoyer thank you for putting me right on that - all of this show's episodes were a bit of a fever dream for me so this makes so much more sense for mandy's character
@luckie-rae6058 no problem, I love this show and rewatch some episodes from time to time for nostalgia. It's super clever overall and it really is amazing the stuff the makers of the show got away with back then. Nowadays a show like this would probably have to be self-funded like Hazbin Hotel because no network would dare take it. The subject of death itself is super danced around now, because "kids can't handle it". This show honestly feels more like an Adult Swim show than regular airing lol
@@CasualVFlowerEnjoyer A number of companies don't want to give fun content and enjoyable characters without pushing either radical politics or for cheap cash grabs.
@tunebeat3809 it's a sad truth. Nothing can just be fun anymore. Everything has to either have an angle or be dumbed down as not to step on any toes. Things cant be gross, weird, dark or edgy anymore. If it's any of those things, it's either pushed to a very late-at-night slot to protect the sensitive day-dwellers, or it's self-funded and online. I feel the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy was both ahead of it's time and humor, but aired at exactly the right time in television history. Any earlier (as in earlier than evil concarne or whatever you call it, like hanna barbara era) or later and it would be deemed too offensive or insensitive or dangerous for kids. Early 2000s was peak kids television with Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ed Edd and Eddy, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Teen Titans, Codename Kids Next Door ect
See the thing is if someone were to say endsville was purgatory and everything that happened was solely to torment billy and mandy, it would actually fit the show and setting perfectly. I think B&M really is the only show that didn't have a whole lot of creepy theories made purely because the show itself already is on that level.
Mandy!!! Ok, I can get Billy, but Mandy!!! She was the one to infring pain to every living thing, even grime fear her. Her literal goal is world domination
Everybody else was in purgatory and Billy and Mandy were the demons that tormented them
I really don’t see why two children would be in purgatory as a punishment.
@@jbrown7063 It's a common trope among cartoon theories. There's one example for ed edd and eddy that is about purgatory/limbo.
@@ResidentOne This is the more plausible theory lol
There were very few episodes that actually spooked me when it came to billy and Mandy, courage definitely scared me. I'd say it shaped my childhood a lot more, my favorite character was general scar.
Right? I have to say that courage traumatized me, especially with the out of nowhere live action stuff, but billy and Mandy was just fun. Both have a massive place in my heart, for very different reasons. Billy and Mandy I think of as fun and light-hearted, courage I think of as more macabre. Looking back, that's probably why I like horror as an adult
He ain’t bad he ain’t nuthinnn!!!
The thing about the Sperg throwing the tricycle over the edge of Endsville, that whole frame is based off a cover from a children's book titled _This Is Where The Sidewalk Ends_ by Shel Silverstein. (And yes, the dog hanging on for dear life on the edge is part of the cover, it was just there as part of the reference.)
It's also a poem in the book. In addition to writing the poems, Shel Silverstein did all the illustrations as well.
I immediately went "PSH TRAUMATIZED?!" then took a while to think and yeah I can see what you mean. Personally my tier goes: invader zim, courage, then grim. Man this humour and brutality was so liberating and fun. Thank you for covering this show :)
When I was a kid i loved this show and I didn’t notice how violent and brutal this show was as a kid and I loved the grim character the most.. 😅
This show was the shit!!
"I can be anything you want me to be dad!"
"I WANT YOU DEAD!"
"Raggle fraggle"
"Ahhhhhh, somebody help me!"
7:20 This shot is a reference to the cover of the book "where the sidewalk ends".
The most traumatizing episode for me is the one when Nargal ends the episode but transforming the entire world into his friends/slaves. Although the ghost woman episode you already mentioned was good too.
To understand Billy and Mandy, you must realize, they are a product of their time. The target demographic for this show were the Millennials. So, social cultural norms of their generation played a major role. Generally speaking, the Millenials grouped off into various social clicks. Two of the most stereotypical being the Preps and the Goths/Freaks. The Goths/Freaks tended to dress in black or dark, sometimes bizarre or grunge style clothing. It wasn't unusual to see them wearing make up. I remember one Freak I went to school with liked wearing a long black skirt with a Marilyn Manson shirt. He wore black lipstick and lots of interesting jewelry and piercings. If I remember correctly, he was a buddhist. He was actually a pretty chill dude. The Goths/Freaks tended to enjoy darker subjects such the occult and spoopy things. They preferred music by artist such as Marilyn Manson and Korn. Heavy Metal and alternative music were definitely on the menu. Socially, Goths/Freaks tended to display themselves as Nhilistic or logical. I'd say Mandy's character hit the nail on the head, except a little less harsh. So, shows like The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy was right up their alley. Movies like The Nightmare Before Christmas became almost a stereotype in of itself. We were already predisposed to some of the more classic horror movies of the 80s and 90s. So Billy and Mandy really wasn't that bad. Especially when compared to movies like Alien, Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chian saw Massacre, Friday the 13th, The Blair Witch Project and Austin Powers. In fact, I always got a good laugh out of Hoss Stele Gado.
No goths werent that common, you're thinking of scene, skaters, and emo types.
@DigitalPand3mic Those groups where after the goth's time. Those groups were mid 2000s forward. Goths were popular around 1990s to around early 2000s. Goths largely disappeared, evolving into other groups like emo's and strangely enough, some fell in the furry culture. Although furry has existed since the 80s many freaks and goths found a happy home there. You can still remnants of goth's effects on furry culture in the mid 2000s such as dark stylizations and spoopy art.
@@abdulalhazred3027 bro Billy and Mandy didn't air during the 90s. Its was in the early 2000s, im only 28. I was in elementary when that showed started...
@DigitalPand3mic As for how popular they were. No, they weren't as prevalent as the preps and other groups. But, just about every school had a group of goths and freaks. I'd say that is prevalent enough to warrant recognition. Political correctness wasn't really that big back then. So, a lot of the time they were viewed as social out casts and misfits who simply didn't fit in, but wanted to fit in somewhere. I disagree though. I was friends with a lot of goths and freaks back then. They were good people and very much chose and enjoyed their chosen culture.
@@DigitalPand3mic You should reread what I wrote. Goths/Freaks were between the 90s and early 2000s. So yes, indeed, Billy and Mandy aired during their time. 🤦♂️
I wish you would’ve covered the episode with the skull that grants wishes - especially the part with Puddin’s wish that manifests into a…PSYCHOTIC RABBIT who tries to kill him. Lol
Puddin's wish was terrifying and my favorite part!
Man this was my favorite show during this era of Cartoon Network. Either that or KND. This show was so great, humor and just raw violence. Miss this era of Cartoon Network.
Remember when mandy took over the moon base
The tricycle is a Christine reference and the worm empress is a God Emperor of Dune reference, with Billy clones to boot, lol
I remember the Halloween Episode, which was absolutely hysterical and I was laughing towards the end.
Every Billy and Mandy episode is super funny
It was honestly so hard to pick which episodes to include in the video
You call it trauma, I call it a difficultly tweak
Package: EVIL POWDER
Billy: Salt! 😊
Only Billy could make Eris crazy as well 😅
Bro The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy was such a good cartoon, always one of my favourite things to watch as a kid
I still remember the sensation of the butterflies in the pit of my stomach from when and how Mandy said "She beat death!"
I grew up with this show. I’m a HUGE horror fan now and it makes sense shows like the grim adventures, courage and other spooky or alternative shows
Whenever this show is mentioned, I remember the musical episode about the brain-eating alien. I had the whole Brains song memorized and sung it not infrequently. It was right up there with Colors of the Wind in childhood songs I loved to sing.
The song is on spotify
@@islandofideals6571 It's on RUclips as well. I have it in a playlist I haven't listened to in a couple years.
I wouldn't say this show was traumatizing or left me in pain.
But an average evil meteor left a song in my brain!
Aurelio Voltaire (the singer) sings it live at his shows.
Love this show. Of course, I was in my 20s when it came out, but the creator Maxwell Atoms is from Gen X, so he puts a lot of references from both his and my 80s and 90s childhoods in the show.
Ex. That dog hanging off the sidewalk where Spurg throws Trikey is a reference to a classic children's book of poems called Where the Sidewalk Ends.
The creator also admitted that Billy and Mandy were two parts of his personality as a kid. He has Asperger's and is a huge horror fan so turning these childhood personalities into a cartoon are his way of telling funny horror stories.
The tricycle story was an homage to the Stephen King story Christine.😊
The Mandy the merciless episode was partially a parody of Dune
Finding merchandise for this show is IMPOSSIBLE. Plushies now are $300… super lucky i found an original shirt for $15
This show wasn’t traumatizing! I think it was really comforting!
I was never traumatized looool. But when mandy would take over the world, it did give me a weird feeling lmaoooo. Think moreso any episode that showed it as “their doomed forever” sparked an unease because I wanted the show to go on forever.
Aah, the 2000s were wild, man! We grew up with the most bizarre and disturbing yet hilarious cartoons ever, and it was completely normal for us! I think most parents didn't mind much what we watched on TV (as long as it was on Cartoon Network, Disney, or Nickelodeon) back then, but I'm sure today's kids wouldn't be allowed to watch shows like Courage, Billy & Mandy, Flapjack or Invader Zim, AT ALL. Their moms would freak!!!
"A little childhood trauma builds character."
- Eddy
holy shit i never realized that the episode where they showed the future was just straight up a Dune reference. (specifically the 4th book God Emperor Of Dune). the ruler of a desert planet being half human half worm, the servant being cloned a few thousand times the resentence and mentioning cinnamon since the whole book series revolves around the production of "spice". iv read the books since i was a kid and saw the episodes so i never knew until now XD god even years later watching episodes brings new joy since i know now the refences
Chickenball Z nuff said. That whole episode being a take on dragonball z got me laughing so much
My dog loved Billy and Mandy, he would get on sofa and watch it every time it come on. He would bark at Billy's spider son every time he saw it.
ah man this show s a huge part in shaping my sense of humor as a kid
I like how he focuses on how quickly the tricycle messes up Grim like Grim getting messed up wasn't a regular running gag since the shows start. The only person who was safe from that sort of thing was Mandy.
Billy and Mandy made me realize how much I like goth style lol. It was my favorite cartoon.
I vividly remember always watching and loving both billy and Mandy and courage the cowardly dog but I don’t remember a single thing about it even if I rewatch it so
Courage was more creepy. But I enjoyed them both❤
I just remember loving that the Mandy was so brutal that even the Grim Reaper feared her.
I'll never forget the day Mom was finally in the same room as I was watching this show:
As soon as we were greeted with Grim's cackling disembodied flaming head in the opening, she remarked, "I don't think this is a good show! 😨😠"
A thing i liked abiut the show was how they didnt mind having mandy be mean. But not totally giving up on her being a girly girl at times. It made her a much more interesting character.
I said a long time ago that the only thing keeping this from being on Adult Swim was no cuss words, and it would be pretty fitting if they did swear! 😆😆😆
I love this show so much.
Mandy being so evil she made death her bitch, and then have Bily who is so stupid nether, death nor Mandy knows what to do with him.
I like that we see the future Mandy has some foundness for Billy.
It seams Billy is such a force of stupid she just enjoys the constant chaos he brings.
To those who were actually traumatized by this show:
"Get over it."
Do you say that to rape victims too?
@@bayardkyyako7427 that is not the same.. at all
@@janailjackson2685 You're the one saying it is lmao
@@janailjackson2685It's minimizing. Gaslighting and minimizing others is shitty behavior in whatever circumstance it's used in. You don't get to dictate what others feel about a situation.
To those who feel like they need to shame others who were easily spooked as children and still don't like the show years later as an adult for their own valid reasons:
"You're a dick."
Jordan Fringe, is that you?
The Secret Snake Club episode & the episode where Dracula and Grim go hitchiking are highlights for me
this show rised a generation of goths and dark humor lovers
I loved this show. Mandy is still my spirit animal.
traumatizing you say? the horror and the twisted sense of humor is the best part of the show, no matter how dark or twisted it gets
“Killed Pinocchio with her thickness “ is crazy 😭
This show didnt really traumatized me tbh. But the brain eating meteor episode will always remain a creepy moment for me
the song was a bop though.
I made a 3ds theme with it
IT WASN'T JUST ME, THEN, GOOD.
this show was awesome and one of my favorites back in the day when i was young. Good times
Jordan fringe was a huge influence on this guy and it really shows lol
I wish SNAFU had finished his comic series with Billy, Mandy, Grim, PPG, and the rest. Such an awesome take on the characters as adults.
The first two minutes of the episode "everything breaks" fundamentally shaped my sense of humor as a child.
As an adult, I can appreciate the show's pitch black macabre humor, but fully understand that this was not a show that should've been put in front of children. I wonder if the executives realized that in the later seasons because it feels like the macabre humor was toned down in favor of more simple grossout.
Literally my favorite cartoon show!!! “Gimme Banana! 🍌 “
Halloween is truly the best holiday. Your love for Halloween is what caused me to subscribe but also your videos are quite entertaining. I watched every other one before this middle one lol.
This is still one of the best cartoon shows to ever be made I miss it so much
I adore this show it never traumatized me in any way just made me laugh. Still looking for this completa series and other dark cynical cartoons on DVD.
Dude I freaking loved this show. I swear I have a memory of like...Billy and Mandy being paired up with another show by the same people, it was like a purple bear with a brain in his stomach or something crazy. But I remember there being like a wheel that would spin to pick which show would play. I must be trippin
I love the episode where Billy willingly feeds the entirety of Endsville's population's brains to some cosmic horror
8:50 can confirm. Handlebars do give the worst wedgies
I think Mandy being a giant worm in the future and the multiple Billy clones are a reference to God Emperor of Dune
How about the episode where Grim, Billy, and Mandy have to deal with giant mutated chickens, including the chicks with the frighteningly hissing sounds?
Wait…this traumatized y’all? This was my favorite show but courage freaked me out.
I wouldn't say traumatized, more like developed our dark scene of humor.
I was a teen when I watched this show and loved it.
This show never traumatize me
Such a small channel, glad I got recommended
Glad you did too! 😁
To be continued:
Billy: ooooohhhh I hope I live!
i miss this show so much, just want to go back to the good days, where this were the intertainmet we would watch.
trauma what? I literally couldn't wait to see the episodes of billy and mandy when I was a kid and I still enjoy them a lot
I love being kid in the early 2000 they held nothing back from us. It's amazing !!!😊
Bruh. This is the first time this channel crossed my home page, but I know that voice! My mans Ruff is out here talking about cartoons as well as anime?? Sign me up lol
I checked out this channel this morning(16/06/2023) and it only had 889 subs, now it's 1.02K in the evening. Proud my boy😌
In the episode where everyone remembers the picnic where Billy's dad dressed up as an ape and ran off with Billy; Billy lifts up his shirt and says, "Wanna see my emotional scars?" ...🤔
RAGGLE FRAGGLE
I loved this show as a kid and I loved the episode when billy got eye contacts and could see the future and then it showed the show in different animation styles.
I can't believe he didn’t include the monkey's paw episode with the Puddin's bunny friend.
Mandy must really care about well might actually be secretly obsessed with Billy if she clones him so many times
The clones were a dune reference.
That whole episode was dune.
I think maybe Billy is the only one dumb enough to do what she says.
that dog is there as an inside joke to a poem book called “where the sidewalk ends”
As funny as it was I always found it weird to just have a random where the Sidewalk ends reference (complete with poor dog) in this random episode that parodies Christine but that is what makes Billy and Mandy so great.
Fun fact the witch from the fairytale episode is voiced by missus puff. And misses dooleen is voiced by betty white.
No way?! That’s awesome! Thanks for letting me know 😁