The Best Episodes Directed By Eddy Houchins

Cassandra has a dreadful vision of kissing the school freak Icarus and makes a deal with Hades to prevent it, but when Hercules attempts to break the contract, with the aid of Aphrodite, he sets in motion a series of hilarious misunderstandings.

Hercules finds himself hired by a bunch of nerdy "abacus geeks" when they enlist him to protect them from rampaging centaurs that pillage the town weekly.

Icarus' bright idea once again backfires when he talks Hercules into visiting the Fates to convince them into reweaving their cosmic Tapestry so that the boys can score some hot concert tickets. However when they refuse, Icarus takes things into his own hands and messes with the Tapestry himself and trouble insues.

Queen Hippolyte kidnaps her daughter, Tempest, and makes her undergo a savage initiation ceremony to regain her status as a warrior and to earn the right to wear the Golden Girdle. Meanwhile, Hercules attempts to follow in a misunderstood rescue attempt.

As Grim watches the entire season of "My Troubled Pony" (parodying My Little Pony), he learns from Mandy that the show was cancelled and does not have an ending. Grim decides to reap the "Schlubs" (a parody of The Smurfs), 100 creatures that live in Billy's yard, to melt them into gold so he can finance the creation of the series finale. Grim must get past Billy and the aggressive Schlubs themselves, including the single, large female (a parody of Smurfette). After Grim thinks he got the creatures with his scythe, Mandy appears to have used all the gold herself to become rich.

When Billy's dad gets a promotion at his job, he tells his family they are going to move to another town, starting a dispute between Billy and Mandy over who gets custody of Grim. Grim suggests they settle this in court, and hours later Billy, Mandy and Grim find themselves in the Underworld court, presided by Judge Roy Spleen, and which has Fred Fredburger, an incorrigible dumb character, as a juror.

When Billy and Mandy's school is preparing for a big game, Mindy entrusts the care of the school's mascot, Fluffy Cat, to Billy, to protect him from being kidnapped by the rival team, the Booty Heads. At Billy's house, Fluffy Cat is a disaster, so Billy's mom throws him into the basement, where the cat gets inside Grim's trunk, absorbing its powers. A giant Fluffy Cat appears just before the game wreaking havoc.

When Billy gets under his house's foundation, he encounters again his "son", Jeff the Spider, who has just laid eggs. Jeff tries to make things right with Billy so he can take care of the baby spiders, as he is going to die after the eggs hatch. Naturally terrified of seeing Jeff, Billy runs away and a wild car chase ensues. The eggs hatch, and Grim decides to refill Jeff's hourglass that represents his lifetime so he does not die and can continue to scare Billy.

When Billy and Irwin start making prank calls, everybody knows that Billy is behind the calls because every telephone has a caller ID. While Billy searches in Grim's trunk in the basement for something to defeat the caller ID, he finds a skull-shaped phone with no caller ID. Grim warns him to not use the phone, because it is used to call the ancient demon Cthulhu, whose sole appearance makes people go mad, and if awakened will cause the destruction of the world. Despite Grim's warning, Billy and Irwin use the phone anyway, and they are sucked into it by tentacles.

When Billy decides he wants to grow up to be like Grim, he says nothing will stand in the way of their friendship. They meet a girl named Blandy, who looks very much like Billy, and Billy falls completely head-over-heels in love with her. When Blandy shows romantic interest in Grim, Billy is struck with mad jealousy and wants Grim out of the picture. Mandy consults Grim's encyclopaedia of monsters and realizes Blandy is actually a creature from another dimension. Despite Blandy showing her true form and leaving, Billy remains madly romantically infatuated with her; but only up until the following episode.

When Billy destroys Grim's favorite childhood toy, Fancy Jake, Grim feels devastated and wishes he had never lost the limbo game that made him become Billy and Mandy's best friend forever and ever. A lawyer appears saying that although the game is legally binding while all parties remain on Earth, it is not if Grim leaves Earth. In consequence, Grim follows the lawyer's advice, opens a mystical portal, and leaves. With Grim traveling aboard his spaceship, the lawyer takes off his disguise and introduces himself as Morg, the Martian Grim Reaper, who is also Emperor of Mars and commands an army of Martian, brain-eating zombies.

As Billy and Mandy celebrate Father's Day, Grim becomes very depressed that he sits inside Billy's closet only listening to country rock music. Grim explains that, since his own father cared more about country rock than his own son, he has been living a lie; telling his father he is a famous country rock singer, and not the actual Grim Reaper. Mandy arranges for Grim's father to come visit and she tells him the truth, but still the old man does not believe her. Grim decides that the only way for his dad to listen to him is while performing country music. At an outdoor concert, Billy, Mandy, and Grim start performing a country rock song, in which eventually Grim reveals his supernatural abilities as the mighty Grim Reaper to his father. Grim's dad accepts his son is the Reaper, but he still does not forgive him for lying to him.

When Mandy says even a trained monkey is more competent to do cleaning chores than Grim, and would complain less, Grim makes Dickie Galoot, a monkey appearing in a Japanese-styled animation, come to life to prove her wrong. As Dickie turns out to be extremely good at cleaning Mandy's house, Grim decides to leave the kids for good. Due to his friendship contract, Grim is unable to break free, and he is forced to battle Dickie to recover his place as the "cleaning monkey" of the group. Grim successfully defeats Dickie at cleaning Billy's house, but this all turns out to be an ingenious plan devised by Mandy to win a bet against Billy.

When Billy finds his "son" Jeff the Spider lying in his bed with "Spider Pox", he goes to Mandy for help to get rid of the giant spider. While ignoring Billy, the next morning Mandy awakens afflicted by Spider Pox too, developing four additional arms and the ability to produce spider web. Mandy's condition progresses and she completely turns into a giant spider, who captures Billy's parents and Grim. Grim tells Billy that, to cure Mandy, he must use the venom of the spider that infected her. While Billy successfully gives Mandy Jeff's venom, he also carried the virus and infected the people of the city, who have all turned into spiders.

When vampire hunter Lionel Van Helsing prepares to kill Dracula, Billy, Mandy, and Grim arrive to stop him since Dracula is just senile and harmless. Van Helsing reveals the source of his hatred: in the past, he and Dracula were "best friends forever", until Dracula used his irresistible dance moves to marry Tanya, the woman of his dreams. Tanya arrives too, revealing that she is none other than Irwin's grandmother, making Irwin one-quarter-vampire on his father's side and half-mummy on his mother's side. Van Helsing leaves, but Dracula is unsatisfied with his newfound family of nerds.

When a dateless Hercules creates his perfect girl out of clay, he invokes Aphrodite's help in bringing her to life. But he soon realizes he forgot one minor detail - her personality - and the dream date becomes a clinging nightmare.