Jack O'Lantern's Origin: Billy and Mandy's Jacked Up Halloween
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2014
- The origin story from the Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Halloween special.
I extracted the clip after downloading the following review: • Billy and Mandy's Jack... since I could not find the origin clip anywhere else.
The story is essentially a retelling of the tale of Stingy Jack, replacing The Devil with The Grim Reaper, replacing Jack's being a foul man with being a prankster that goes too far, and changing Jack's fate from wandering the world as a lost soul to being immortal but unable to go out into society because of his Jack-o-Lantern head. 
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Welcome everyone who suddenly got this in your recommendations. Hot cocoa is over to your left, the bathroom is to your right, and we forgot the popcorn, but we have some boxes of Count Chocula, cheese curds, and pretzels.
I love this time of year.
I miss 2005-2008 on cartoon network.
They'd air Halloween specials of
Ed edd n eddy
Grim adventures of billy and mandy
The scooby doo Halloween special movie, ect.
Then the thanksgiving specials in November and Christmas specials in December.
Miss those days.
Cool Eddie14 really takes me back man
@@make-outfuneral2880 yes i does.
Im actually watching the edd ed n eddy boo haw haw right now.
Was so comforting sitting by the heater, cup of hot chocolate, watching Halloween specials 😭
CHEESE curds?! Count me IN!!
@@cooleddie1438 stop, your making me cry, thinking about all those holiday specials
“He took my scyth” him and literally everyone else in that show.
And a turkey salad sandwich.... hold the mayo?
Even Puddin.
Remember that Number 3 from KND also got his scythe at one point. But with here I think once she stole it and the other time if was given to her when she became the grim reaper
And it usually ended pretty badly for them, didn't it?
They even lampshade it on the Big Boogey Adventures movie.
Nobody has anything to say about Endsville existing in the medieval era even though its an American town
Yup just like how jack was somehow able to carve a face on a pumpkin and use it as his head 🤣🤣
Lol i mean Mandy did mention endsville having a queen
"wait Endville had a queen?" Is a nice subtle little joke
Well it could be a New England town that was founded in the 1600s by early English settlers. Thus it would look pretty medieval (more renaissance actually) and would have a queen.
Hey! Grim is the one telling the story not you so shut up
Grim only lost his scythe because Jack tickled his funny bone.
Underrated comment
Clever
That joke was pretty humerus.
Budum tsh
@@noobstoise1024 bruh
Grim losses his scythe more often then Germany loses world wars.
They even made that the whole plot of the "Big Boogey Adventure" film
So, three times?
He's not even entirely powerless without it tho😭
It even got to a point where Spurg stole the scythe and Grim didn't care.
"I stopped caring 5 episodes ago."
If I had a nickel for everytime germany lost a world war, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened more than once
This show was more metal than we remember
it was basically dark comedy that never got that dark.
Their grim adventures for a reason
Well it did have darkness by spf 9000.
@Foul Homie121
Can't sugar coat the medieval times.
And that is why it was fun
I loved how Billy and Mandy seemed to forget their friend is the one who harvests souls for the afterlife. Mandy doesn't care, having plans for immortality, but poor Billy.
Billy's an Idiot. I doubt he cared either.
Well Billy may think he's a friend to Mandy he's her slave. And Billy is dumb enough and sturdy enough to be a decent puppet or whatever but I think a part of her does consider him her friend. At least enough she's always at his house despite his short comings.
@dbzcupcake it's rare but she actually does care about him but it's hard to show since she has to deal with his massive stupidity
@@aliostrowski1935I'd just put a curse in jack!
@@brianwhite9339 Immortality is its own curse.
Seeing this again makes me realize something that I didn't as a kid: Billy and Mandy were very lucky Grim fell victim to hubris and pride when they met him and got him to agree to a limbo game for Mr. Snuggles. If that weren't the case and Grim chose not to underestimate a couple of kids, they'd likely end up being friends with Jack O' Lantern with a common thread being ending up with worse lives as a result of trying to cheat death.
It's a good life lesson to never underestimate your opponent
I do feel bad for Grimm , Mandy technically cheated
@@ThePx42 Yes. After Grim deliberately tried to stack the deck and the game in his favour.
@@ezrawyvern6795 To be fair, Grimm was following the rules of Limbo. The bar would've reached that low height eventually.
@@ShyBiiteVT problem was that it was entirely impossible for those 2 to even go that low. Grim was able to do it because he is a magical skeleton. And besides it was basically cheating to go that low. Mandy just simply made things fair by cheating herself. Besides the difference between jack and billy and mandy was that made a bet and won, while jack made a deal that was in his favor .
Let this be a lesson: no matter how good of a leverage you have on someone, if they have found a loophole in the bargain they WILL use it.
The details of the bargain will never be disclosed by Jack. It's a real balance, and there is real big prices. Apparently Jack knew and still didn't give a fawk. Jack is ripped.
Which is part of what makes the deal Mandy orchestrated so brilliant: It's so simple, but it also protects them from any chance of Grim actually hurting them. It gives the kids plenty of loopholes and leverage while removing any such advantage for Grim.
You’re right, Grim couldn’t harm them in any way directly. But if an accident or if someone were to cause a fatality to the kids that’s a different story. Remember lord pain he could kill them even if he didn’t in the end.
@@SuperStar-lb8gf I remember that time episode. Grimn just let their hourglasses empty, preventing them from ever being born. But karma hit him as he realized he had no one to help flip his hourglass, and he never existed either.
I love the theory the grim in the TV show is actually just playing dumb. In reality he’s training Billy and Mandy for a greater purpose. And the reason he looks so comical is because both Billy and Mandy view death as just a joke.
Well after spending so much time with him, you start to notice the metaphor, "Don't Judge a Book by it's Cover"
If I were Grim I would have cursed Jack so his pranks would always backfire on him
@@brianwhite9339 or pretend to make the deal and Jack is just electrocuted for affects and he's still killable.
Man this is some Shin Megami Tensei levels of deep writing
I can see Billy as a servant of the afterlife as a Psychopomp, comfortably guiding people to whichever end of the afterlife they get sent to. Basically, he's your Uber driver as soon as you die.
All I see Mandy as is maybe, just maybe, a mean version of St. Peter: passing judgements to see whether or not you're worthy of entering Heaven.
The only other option is she rules hell as the true princess of Darkness, replacing and killing Satan.
Im kind of surprised Grim didn’t use that “loophole” with the kids.
Friends for all eternity? Okay but I’m taking your heads.
Friends don't kill friends, though. That's the problem with his word choice.
@@PyroGothNerd Grim did not kill him though, just took his head off.
@@funkmantim2661 Still not a friendly thing to do
@@PyroGothNerd Considering that both Billy and Mandy have done worse things to him? I don't think the contract has any specifics behind it other than to be friends.
I think the difference in the situation... other than just needing a headless Jack, was that Grim wasnt after Billy and Mandy... He was after Billy's hamster. Also unlike Jack who'd stolen his scythe, Grim willingly agreed to the game of Limbo out of pride.
"Yep!" I love how casual he said it, 'I cut a guy's head off! [Eats some candy like its no big deal]' :)
I agree! It's freakin' hilarious!
Hey if someone took what is my and exchange for eternal life I too would cut his head off and act like it was no big deal.
All in a day's work for the Grim Reaper
Death has no preference after all
Death comes for everyone.
One thing I like about Jack’s backstory is that it does reference Jack Stingy, the reason why Jack-O-Lanterns are a Halloween tradition. Much like Jack, Stingy was a trickster whose restless spirit roamed the earth. Stingy was refused entrance into heaven and hell and we carve Jack-O-Lanterns to ward off his spirit.
Damn, the guy so evil even hell does not grant him permission to enter😂😂
Interesting. The story I was told relates to the sleepy hollow story. In the story the headless horseman hunts the night of Halloween in search of his head lost in the revolutionary War. Should an unlucky soul happen upon the horseman they would have to run to the nearest bridge or offer a pumpkin lantern with a face carved into it. Should a person do neither they will lose their head to the horseman.
@@brianljh8982 Not exactly. You see, Jack was slated to go to Hell, and the Devil himself went to collect. But Jack tricked the Devil into touching a tree that Jack promptly carved a cross into, trapping the Devil. Jack refused to let him go until he swore to never allow Jack into Hell. The deal was struck, and Jack was guaranteed to never be forced into Hell. The problem was, he was never going to get into Heaven, so when he was turned away at Heaven’s gates and sent to Hell’s gates, the Devil said that he couldn’t enter. So, the Devil took an ember from Hell, put it in a turnip, and sent Jack to wander the space between Heaven and Hell for eternity, with only the turnip lantern to light his way. The lantern got turned into a pumpkin later, probably because it’s easier to carve out and turn into a lanter than a turnip.
I was told that Stingy Jack is the one who carries the lantern to light his way at night. In some tellings the lantern is lit with hellfire and in others it's lit with Jack's soul.
@@brianljh8982in the version I heard Jack didn't go to Hell because he made the devil swear to never bring him there, however due to his misdeeds in life he was barred from heaven as well. As a result he was cursed to wander the earth forever.
Billy: You cut his head off?!
Grim: Yep.
Melissa Ann Mandy: WOW Grim Impressive Didn’t Think You Had It In You.
He was going to be dead anyway.
@@neo-didact9285 he would have been dead permanently if he didn't ask for eternity which made him immortal for almost a thousand years.
Back when CN didn’t beat around the bush for one second.
It's a fitting punishment for him. Rather then pranking every single day and being a nusciance, he took his head to prevent him from doing what he wanted forevermore. Since he had no head and used a pumpkin instead he would be a freak towards others. Only coming out once a year to do his pranks where he isn't judged or pitted as a freak on a day you can basically be what you want.
Jack pulled pranks with no regard for other people's feelings, and he wanted to become immortal, something people would do ANYTHING for, just so he could keep on pranking, so he honestly had it coming. And he literally lived long enough to see himself become a villain.
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@@thedecafe1 well he’s not lying
This is a kid's show... And yet, someone just straight up got decapitated.
Good times good times
Best kid show ever loved seeing a decapitation
the GRIM adventures of billy and mandy
Our generation wasn’t mental back then so we wouldn’t go around cutting people’s heads off, now a days it’s a whole different story, people are crazy
Almost every show at least in my perspective has to have at least 2 dark moments from time to time. At least that's what it seems like to me.
The fact grim was so casual when he explained how he cut a guy's head off was one of the darkest moment in this show
_The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy_ is one of those shows that makes you wonder "How did this get put on Air?"
However, at the same time, it kinda also teaches us certain lessons. For example, Jack losing his life and his head is karma for tricking everyone he ever came across despite not actually being a bad person.
Then, Grim ultimately causing Endsville to be taken over by Jack since he cut his head off is also karma.
It's a weird way of saying "Don't do bad things, and bad things won't happen to you" in a sense.
@@johnnysalery7383 we never see the queen be punished for actual murder tho
Well he is the Grim Reaper after all. It's his job.
Nah, I see I as a vibe
@mrdropkicker1 When she ordered his execution, Jack pissed off alot of people that most agreed it was what he deserved.
What’s interesting is that, if you replace grim with the devil and “playing jokes” with being a drunken asshole, this is really close to the actual lore of the Jack o Lantern.
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Jack: yay I'm immortal!
Grim: oh yeah theirs a price for immortality
Jack: what's that?
Grim: *YOUR HEAD*
Cool immortality teenager in real life.
*there's a price...
@@HaHaHaHolowence yup
Billy: You cut his head off?!?
I gotta say, Jack's walking method and animation is pretty solid and unique.
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Grim is ticklish? That's kinda cute.
Believe it or not,it was his funny bone🙂
Ryan, Oneil Fearon, *throws a bone
Well you kinda need skin for that right?
@@photondebuger45 Skin, nerves, a brain,
@@arcanefury3666 yeah what he said ☝️ basically everything of the human body
Grim: I underestimated his power.
me: So what you're saying is, you didn't have the high ground.
He was the chosen one, mon
grim had the high ground. its just his skywalker had to lose more than just a hand.
He has no nerve endings.....
@@ArbiterofTruth well he did get a-head
@@aj_the_infamous1013
Plus, after that close shave, he looked pretty gourd-geous
This is like....75 percent accurate to the actual legend of jack o lantern.
Legend says that when jack died the devil came to get him, and allowed him 1 final request. Jack asked for an apple from the top of a nearby tree. When the devil climbed up the tree, Jack carved a cross in the trunk so the devil could not get down. The devil agreed to spare Jack if he got rid of the cross.
Not allowed into heaven and banned from hell, Jack's spirit was forced to wander the eternal twilight between the two, with only a candle to light his way.
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Hardcore
Literally THE most underrated villain in the history of cartoons. If fact he wasn't even a villain until the townspeople and Grim f*cked him over.
Well Grim was just doing his job.
That the thing with most villain normal people who lives got f***ed over to quote a clown prince of crime "all it take is one bad day"
He got soul blocked
And got his scythe held for ransom
If he knew when to stop with his pranks and knew how far to go the people wouldn't have screwed him.
Yeah
Billy: "You cut his head off?!"
Grim: "Yup" *eats candy*
LMAO they way he says yup is great
Yup
And then Mandy gives Grimm a compliment.
@@PresbianTier yup
@@PresbianTier Yup lol
I love how it’s like: “HOLY CRAP HE GOT DECAPITATED IN HIS SLEEP” only for us to get faked out, then Grim reveals that HE cut it off in such a casual manner.
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It is pretty cool how they made even kids not be afraid of dying and death by making the grim reaper funny.
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Jack o lantern seems like a combination of the april fool (fairly oddparents), loki (marvel comics), and scarecrow (batman). A brilliant villain imo!
Actually, he's based loosely on Stingy Jack, aka the origin of the Jack O'Lantern
Jack would probably get pissed if you called him that last one.
One legend goes that a man named Jack who was particularly fond of also playing tricks and messing with people's heads once got lost in the woods. While he was walking through the woods, he bumped into the Devil himself. When the Devil asked Jack why he was in the woods, Jack told him he was there to look for treasure (the reason he was there differs from story to story), but had gotten lost. The Devil said he could help Jack out of the woods, if in return he tells him where the treasure is. Jack of course thinking up a quick scheme for the Devil, agreed to his terms. So, the Devil made a Lantern for Jack using a candle that would never go out and a simple pumpkin growing in the woods. Afterwards, Jack pointed to the highest tree in the woods and told the Devil to climb it and he'd see the treasure. So, the Devil did. Now I'm not sure whether or not he saw the treasure, but when the Devil was all the way at the top, he had a problem climbing down and asked Jack for help. Jack mocked the Devil and said he fell for his joke, Jack began to leave but before he did, the Devil cursed him to forever walk the woods with his Jack O Lantern, which now if you see it's glow late one autmn night, something terrible will happen, Jack had become an omen.
Loki talked his way out of getting his head cut off - pointed out that he agreed to let two of the dwarves take his head if they won the contest against the other two dwarves but that he never said that they could cut his neck. So they just sewed his lips shut instead.
@@snakefang1123 the version I like more is that Jack tricked the Devil twice within the course of two years. Once was the Tree making him promise to not claim his soul that year and he’d let the Devil climb down since Jack was holding a Cross to the Tree preventing him from climbing down. The next year the Devil tries again only for Jack to agree to go but requested one last drink after his drink at a pub he tell the Devil he has no money to pay it off and asked the Devil to turn into a coin so he could pay. The Devil agrees and Jack immediately pockets the Devil in the same pocket holding his cross. He forces the Devil to agree to NEVER claim his soul. Eventually Jack anger villagers with his scams and tricks and he gets his head cut off. He tries to enter Heaven but his soul is clouded with too much greed and selfishness to ever enter Heaven, Jack tries to enter Hell but the Devil denies entry because it was his deal to never claim his soul. Jack as a spirit is freezing eternally because he is unable to feel the warmth of Heaven or even Hell and begs the Devil for something to keep warm. The Devil gives him a single ember from Hell, because it’s an ember from Hell it will never go out but as it’s only an ember will never be enough to make him feel completely warm. Jack returns to his headless body and carves a face into a Pumpkin he puts the ember into the makeshift lantern to keep himself warm and light his way. This is also why we use Jack o Lanterns, because they act as a way to trick demons into keeping away from us because they think Jack lives there.
As I watch this clip over and over, I loved the way he told the story and the logic of death within the series was amazing. Someone doesn’t die until the Grim Reaper officially greets them and comes with him to the realm of the dead. I also love a classic story of a human or god/goddess of mischief being taught a lesson from Medellin with a higher deity. As I’ve read all across different cultures no god, goddess or immortals deity appreciates being medelled with or being the butt of the joke and the one that caused all the chaos learns their lesson at the hands of the immortal being they decided to mess with. They really did this story well in the Halloween special.
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I love how he says "yep" in such a nonchalant, "nobody (besides you two) messes with me" sort of way.
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2:16 Looks like Jack lives by Roger Rabbit’s philosophy:
_“A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have.”_
That Knight was hard as hell though and nobody is talking about it. This man showed up, with his hard as theme in the background, killed a man and left without a word
If nothing else,he is efficient.
He was actually so effective that Jack fears that Knight hundreds of years later. Erwin shows up as a Knight and scares the shot out of Jack until he realizes it’s some stupid kid.
Jack, the reason they created the word Jackass.
So, you know how at the end of this special, Jack gets his head smashed off-screen by some demons in hell? Makes me wonder, what did Jack use as a head after that, since his old one got smashed? Also, judging by the way his voice sounds while he was laughing in his sleep, his voice changed when he used a pumpkin for a head. Does that mean that depending on what he's using for a head, his voice changes?
Those are good questions.
Also, it's my experience that a person's laugh can sound completely different than their voice. EX: The deep voiced person with a high-pitched giggle.
PyroGothNerd
That's true, but I can't imagine a face like that (before his head was cut off) being voiced by Wayne Knight.
As a kid, I couldn't imagine him as he was in the special voiced by Wayne Knight. It actually really bothered me as a kid.
PyroGothNerd
It never bothered me. :/
PyroGothNerd Please pass the salt.
mindy "endsville had a queen"
grim "HEY, who's the immortal"
The first confirmed decapitation in the show. Grim was a thug in this episode.
Mrs. Doolin: "I challenged Grim to a fight for my soul and won using my fencing skill"
Jack: *I TICKLED HIM*
Shit, so this is why I have a dark sense of humor. THANK GOD I GREW UP WITH THIS
So did I, along with the Eds, Monty Python and a few other things. In fact, my mother and aunts grew up on Monty Python’s Flying Circus, so it’s possible I got my sense of humor from her.
I’m so lucky to have grown up with the 90’s Cartoon Network. Today’s Cartoon Network turns my brain to mush.
The best part is that this is actually accurate to the true story
Overall yes. I wonder though if it hadn't been for this episode would I have ever looked for the actual story
2:35 every choice has a consequence
Emilio Zamora Yup
I don’t care about the consequence.
@@jeremyanderson6789 ok “tough guy”
I never forgot the scream of the guy stabbed by the antlers
This isn't that different from the actual myth. The writers really did their research here. Props to them.
Looked it up some and I can definitely see the parallels.
You can thank both this and Truth or Scare when they told about the Jack legend!
What myth?
@@declannewton2556 In folklore, Jack was a thief that was running from an angry mob of people he had stolen from, when Satan came across him and said it was time to die, but Jack made a deal that the devil could bedevil the religious crowd by turning into a silver coin, which Jack would use to pay for the stolen goods, then the devil would turn back and return to Hell, leaving the villagers fighting over who stole the coin, the devil agreed and transformed into a silver coin, before jumping into Jack's wallet, but Jack also kept a crucifix in his pocket, which took away the devil's powers, later, Jack made a deal with the devil that he would let him go, in exchange, Satan could never take away his soul. Satan agreed. Years later, when Jack died, his life had been too sinful to get into Heaven, but since Satan promised to never take his soul, he also couldn't get into Hell. Satan mocked him by handing him a burning coal to light his way, which Jack put into a carved out turnip and used as a lantern, earning the nickname 'Jack O'Lantern'
0:33-Richard Steven Horvitz' Laugh.
0:55
*THATS GOTTA HURT*
“He loved pulling pranks”
The narrator says as a man falls to his death
"You cut his head off?"- Billy
"Yep."-Grim
Honestly the way Grim tells the story, it sounds like it could've been real.
I just realized that Grim's voice loses its echo when he's talking to Mandy instead of telling the story. That's a nice touch
For a kids show, this was dark
Man these cartoon specials used to hit different. You got me in the mood to do some Halloween bingeing
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This was probably one of Grim’s most hardcore moments. Other then when he won the election to becoming the grim reaper.
If you think about it, this is kinda dark. A date worse than death. Eternal life without a head
Cool.
Grim was too easy on Jack; if I were in his place, I would’ve cursed Jack so that everytime he pranks someone, he is faced with a searing pain so strong it forces him to be paralyzed in his own agony.
I remember when this premiered and I thought, "This is pretty dark. I LOVE it!"
It's incredible how similar this story is to the original folktale of Jack o lantern and it's still it's own thing kudos
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I remember this show as a kid, those were the good old days.
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Mandy: Endsville had a queen?
I think she has a good point. If Endsville was a small village how did it have enough diplomatic power to have royalty? Wouldn’t royalty want to rule in bigger places?
Assuming this was colonial america, the queen was likely an English official or regional governor charged with overseeing the area. I know the Spanish let Peninsulares act as local governors based on pure Spanish background alone, so this woman may have had some level of noble background (existing aristocracy was more likely to get charters, after all).
@@davidhong1934 yeah and it would be easier for kids to understand saying Queen instead of Saying the appointed noble french official that had control over the land at the time
Hey, who's telling the story here?
Everyone: You cut his head off?
Grim: No f--ks given.
0:55 that’s not a prank that’s just cruel! Lol
I like how you can notice by his face thst the dude that was eating basically was cool with the first joke, bit then he was pissed when Jack continued
the class of 3000 bumper! lol, what a throwback
I hate how Jack walks but I love how Grim says, 'Hey, who's telling this story?'
Honestly this scene is badass everything from the head cutting to the montage and the set up from the town as revenge
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Later in the episode
Jack: 364 DAYS A YEAR I CANT GO TO THE DING DONG GROCERY STORE AND DO YOU KNOW WHY?!
Billy: is it because you’re a big pumpkin headed freak
Jack: YES AND DO YOU KNOW WHY?!
Billy: is it because grim cut your real head off
Jack: YYYES
After Grocery Store, he said, "...To buy pudding"
He wanted pudding
No one's gonna talk about the guys nuts getting impaled by the antlers at 0:55 ?
Its amazing how as a kid I just took that statement in stride and never questioned grim cutting jacks head off.
I'm an adult and realize now just how morbid it was, despite being easily brushed off by grim
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Whenever you make a deal with the devil always include that "you can't harm me or by your actions or inaction harm me".
That’s a good way to get stuck in a cave for all eternity. Yeah you’re in one place, but staying somewhere for eternity won’t physically harm you
@@AJSSPACEPLACE "or restrain me or restrict my movement." Good call. Though I would still consider being locked up for all eternity to be "mental harm".
@@Thecommander248 of course the devil could always just not keep his end of the deal. I mean what would you do? Sue him?
Hard to believe was that this jack and jack o lantern are the same person. Their personalities seem so different!
Centuries of being an outcast can change a man
PyroGothNerd that’s true
Back when Cartoon Network was actually worth watching. No shity reboots, no Teen Titans Go and no Granpa's stick
Stefan Loncar yep in today's world Cartoon Network now show bad shows like teen titans go and other modern Cartoon Network shows
Stefan Loncar they still have some quality cartoons like Craig of the Creek and OK K.O., but the channel itself was much cooler back in 2003 without question.
Hell, even the good shows are being run into the ground. I'm tired of "The Amazing World of Gumball" now.
What are you talking about cartoon network is still worth watching yeah yeah yeah yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Troy Crawford sure:Amazing World of Gumbal, Regular Show, Steven Universe, OK KO But there aren’t many good shows on modern Cartoon Network like in golden age
Man i used to watch this every Halloween after trick or treating
0:33 we should call that "Billy Laugh" and make it into an iconic gag.
I just realized after all these years that endsville being some medieval village makes no sense lol
Grim casually eating chocolate while telling a story about how he cut a dude head off
Jack should asked for immortality and to be indestructible. Did he honestly thought he trick the grim reaper and get away with it unscathed?
@Mecha Jay Especially when he possesses a scythe that can even permanently decapitate an immortal
I still remember the fun of watching this the first time in 2003. The stuff cartoon makers could get away with back then was great
This episode is a massive part of my childhood. I think it came with a DVD of Halloween CN episodes and I watched it nonstop
Billy-You cut his head off?
Grim-Yup.
Mandy-Wow Grim I didn't think you had it in you.
*I asked Grim, "So what happened next?"*
I thought the Class of 3000 was a fever dream I had, it disappeared without a trace. I’m happy I finally have proof it exists here, on this video
To be fair, that traveler who didn't open his eyes apparently deserved it at the start.
Gotta love that the knight didn't bother taking his axe after doing the deed. It's also amusing that Jack had quite the place for a pain who pranked everyone all the time
I find it funny that the rule of death being implied here is that you’re not officially dead until Grim comes. Otherwise you’re fine and go on living like Jack as he just tosses the axe away
So was the deal Grim just leaves him alone for all eternity?
@jareththegoblinking3191 The deal was immortality. Except Jack didn't stipulate that he keeps all his body parts.
Actually a cool villain origin
As dark as this is, it’s not nearly as dark as the actual tale of Jack O’ Lantern. At least, not the Irish tale.
Basically, Jack was a jerk. So much of one that Hell didn’t want him. Heaven wouldn’t take him, so he’s doomed to walk the earth forever with only a lantern to light his way. Hence, Jack of the Lantern, or Jack O’ Lantern
The pumpkin thing was a way to ward him off, so I’m told
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You know Jack is a menace to society when he has a goofy-ass walk like that.
I guess the old saying is True "Don't cross the Grim Reaper."
Lesson learned is never make deals with pranksters.
I remember Billy And Mandy, its a old school show that i used to watch
Jokez PvZ Me 2
@Aidan Golembiewski Cool
Billy: you cut his head off? Grim: yup
To be honest, I would've done the same, if I was in Grim's position.
Anybody remember playing the game based on this episode on The CN website years ago?
Yes, I played that pretty much every Friday night!
Loved it, I didn't know it was based on a Halloween special, I spent months watching the show, waiting for an episode with Jack
Yes I loved it
@@Nick_C1997 I was lucky to watch it on New Years 2003/2004 after I got cable as I was first exposed to the game!
You know after getting his scythe stolen alot you would think that Grim would put a spell or curse on it so that anyone other than him would touch it would get the effects of said spell or curse.
I'm sure he requested that to management, but was always denied.
This was one of my favorite Halloween specials as a kid and I always liked Jack out of all the villains the most. He had a pretty dark backstory and just had a really cool design.
"You cut his head off!?"
"Yup."
The end.
So then the queen's executioner broke into my house and killed me with an axe to the back. Soon after the Grim Reaper came for me saying it was my time...but I DISAGREED
Mandy: Innsville had a queen?
Grim: Hey! Whose telling the story!!!
0:21 I can't stop laughing at the way he walks.
1:55 ya know you could have stopped there perfectly. 😂😂
Comments section: "wow grim is ticklish" and "omg he cut a guys head off"
Me, an intellectual: 0:53 "I can't wait for class of 3000!"
What a great ass show. The design and the music was amazing. The Animation really made it seem like downtown Atlanta
literally just paused and went to the comments if anyone else noticed, loved that show sm lmao
@@malach_te absolutely underrated
I didn't really like the show when it aired on TV initially.🤷♂️
@@TheKing60210 right? That show was fun as hell
Give it up to the townsfolk They knew that as long as the high ends were safe from his pranks, nothing would be done about him. A frame job like this was the only way.
1:50
Well this was dark watching as a kid when it came out....