The Best Episodes of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Every episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy!
The exploits of the Grim Reaper, who has been forced into being the best friend of two children. A spin-off of the show Grim & Evil.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" is "One Crazy Summoner", rated 9/10 from 173 user votes. It was directed by Juli Murphy and written by Maxwell Atoms, Mike Diederich. "One Crazy Summoner" aired on 8/5/2005 and is rated 0.6 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Skarred for Life".
9.0/10 173 votes#1 - One Crazy Summoner
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 8/5/2005
When Billy's parents are attacked by an anaconda, Billy suggest visiting boy wizard Nigel Planter, because he can talk to snakes. Planter in fact does not speak to snakes, but to snacks, and instead he asks for Billy, Mandy and Grim's help to win the affections of Huffefnie Pfefferpfeffer, a beautiful witch in the School of Sorcery (and having a striking resemblance to Gladys). Planter tries using a romantic love potion and enchanted chocolates, but they do not work. The guys end up completely forgetting about Billy's parents.
Director: Juli Murphy
Writer: Maxwell Atoms, Mike Diederich
8.4/10 101 votes#2 - Skarred for Life
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 6/25/2004
General Skarr buys a home in Endsville and becomes Billy's neighbor. After Skarr invites Billy into his new house, Billy mentions Grim's scythe as ,he strongest and most powerful weapon in the entire universe, and Skarr tries to battle his desire to be evil again. Eventually Skarr steals the scythe but Mandy proves to be even scarier than he is, and takes it back.
Director: Juli Murphy
Writer: Maxwell Atoms, C.H. Greenblatt
8.3/10 108 votes#3 - Look Alive!
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/31/2001
Grim is bored of being left alone while Billy and Mandy are not with him. Grim decides to fulfill his dream by working as a swimsuit model, but, as he is a corpse, he is not hired. Subsequently, Billy and Mandy give him a makeover to look more human. In the end, Grim gets the job in a TV ad, but he is only in the commercial for a few seconds and is portrayed as an ugly person.
Director: Brian Hogan
Writer: Maxwell Atoms
8.3/10 148 votes#4 - Beasts and Barbarians
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 8/2/2002
Billy and Irwin have been playing their favorite video game, Beasts and Barbarians, for three days non-stop. In an attempt to stop their video game addiction, Grim transports them all to a real-life version of the game. Seeing as Billy and Irwin are still doing good in their quest, Grim increases the difficulty by manipulating the traps himself. In the end, Billy, Mandy, and Grim return home escaping from a giant cyclops, while Irwin remains trapped.
Director: Dave Brain
Writer: Gord Zajac
8.3/10 80 votes#5 - Grim in Love
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 7/11/2003
When Billy, Mandy and Grim go to the beach, Grim falls in love with a goth woman named Malaria. Grim is having a good time with his girlfriend, but Mandy assures him that will change when he tells her that he is not human. In the following date, Grim demonstrates his supernatural powers while dancing and, as predicted, Malaria leaves in panic.
Director: John McIntyre, Robert Alvarez
Writer: Gord Zajac
8.2/10 79 votes#6 - Recipe for Disaster
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/12/2001
Billy, Mandy, Grim and Pud'n are part of the "Person Scouts" (a Boy Scouts-esque organization) and need to sell cookies in order to win a badge. However, as Billy eats all of the cookies, Grim proposes to bake their own cookies using his aunt Kali's secret recipe. The cookies are a success and the troupe wins the contest. In the end, at the Person Scouts awards ceremony, aunt Kali reveals that the secret recipe contains insects, but everyone continues eating the cookies anyway.
Director: Dave Brain
Writer: Maxwell Atoms
8.2/10 165 votes#7 - The Secret Decoder Ring
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 4/15/2005
When Billy finally gets a "secret decoder ring" in his Blasto Bits cereal, he receives a holographic message from a strange creature who speaks about finding the "Secret of the Universe" in an abandoned mine shaft. All the other children of Endsville, also with decoder rings, race to the mine to be the first one to get the Secret. The entire effort is revealed to be a trap laid by Lubbermouth, a worm-like creature from Grim's past, who wishes to free herself from the curse of guarding the Secret. When Mindy looks down at the pit, she becomes the new guardian of the Secret and has to stay there forever.
Director: Robert Alvarez, Randy Myers, Shaun Cashman
Writer: Mike Diederich, Zena Leigh Logan
8.1/10 72 votes#8 - The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/2006
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.
Director: Eddy Houchins
Writer: Alex Almaguer, Jeremy J. Bargiel
8.1/10 85 votes#9 - A Grim Day
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 3/22/2006
When Billy goes to visit his maternal grandmother and Mandy decides to have the day for herself, Grim finds himself free of the kids to do whatever he wants to do. Since Grim quickly gets bored he goes to visit General Skarr, and lets him take his magical scythe, which Skarr uses to build an army of giant lawn gnomes. Since Grim is so used to having two kids with him when they go on an adventure, he enlists Mindy and Pud'n to help him combat Skarr and retrieve his scythe. Mindy and Pud'n prove to be worthy substitutes but they are scared away by Mandy when she notices the unusual trio
Director: Shaun Cashman, Sue Perrotto
Writer: Jeff Prezenkowski, Alex Que
8.0/10 106 votes#10 - Skeletons in the Water Closet
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/24/2001
Billy's mother, Gladys, first notices Grim in Billy's bed, then in the shower and subsequently starts to get panic surges thinking that Billy is in danger. Meanwhile, Harold, Billy's dad, just thinks that Gladys is imagining things. In the end, Gladys ends up going living with Billy's aunt, Sis to try and calm herself down.
Director: Dave Brain
Writer: Greg Miller
8.0/10 74 votes#11 - A Dumb Wish
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/19/2001
While Spring cleaning in the middle of November, Billy takes an old, cursed lamp from Grim's trunk. When he gives it a rub, he releases the curse Grim had warned them about: his own mother. Having three wishes to make, Billy wastes his wish by wishing to know what to wish for. Mandy wishes Billy and Grim would "shut up", so Grim never gets to make his wish. Then, Mandy decides to make the last wish to whoever makes her the happiest. In the end, Mandy wishes everyone in the world would go away, which she is glad about.
Director: Brian Hogan
Writer: Paul McEvoy
8.0/10 98 votes#12 - The Secret Snake Club
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 2/25/2005
At school, Billy, Mandy, and Irwin look for a club to join. Irwin plans to join the Macrame club to meet girls; Billy inquires on the Junior CIA club, which forcefully recruits him; Mandy joins the "Secret Snake Club", a snake-themed club consisting of three geeks. The nerds reveal that their "secret agenda" is to resurrect Shnissugah, a giant snake which lived hundreds of years ago in Canada, to take revenge against the popular kids, but they lack the power of the Underworld to do so. Mandy calls for Grim, who proceeds to revive Shnissugah through the internet. Billy, as a junior agent of the CIA, stops a criminal plan by Irwin, who was using the Macrame club for personal gain; and Shnissugah turns out to be a tiny, 8-cm (3.14-in) long, harmless snake.
Director: Juli Murphy, Shaun Cashman
Writer: Maxwell Atoms, C.H. Greenblatt
7.9/10 123 votes#13 - Meet the Reaper
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/24/2001
Billy's pet hamster, Mr. Snuggles, celebrates his 10th birthday, so the Grim Reaper comes for him. However, Mandy, Billy's friend, is reluctant in allowing it, so she proposes a deal to the Grim Reaper: if he beats the kids in a game, he can take the hamster, but if he loses, he will spare the hamster's life and become their "best friend forever". The Grim Reaper transports the kids to limbo, where he challenges them to a game of limbo. Despite his best effort, Grim ends up losing because he is attacked by Mr. Snuggles at Mandy’s command.
Director: Maxwell Atoms
Writer: Maxwell Atoms
7.9/10 87 votes#14 - Fiend Is Like Friend Without the 'R'
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/5/2001
Billy wanders into a junkyard, where a massive hole in the earth opens up and pulls him down in. Later, Mandy and Grim get pulled in as well. They land at the center of the Earth, which is home of Nergal, a devilish creature. The lonely Nergal, who has been watching Billy and Mandy for some time, wants Grim to hand over the kids to him so they can be his friends forever. Grim happily leaves the kids behind as he returns to the surface; however, he later goes back for them because he can't handle the guilt of abandoning his friends. In the end, Grim is defeated by Nergal's electrified tentacles, but Mandy defeats Nergal merely by kicking him in the shin.
Director: Brian Hogan
Writer: Craig Lewis
7.9/10 77 votes#15 - Brown Evil
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 6/20/2003
Taking inspiration from his Pat the Baker video game, Billy decides to bake chocolate brownies. Billy uses "Evil Powder" from Grim's old trunk instead of salt, and the resultant brownies stink. Mandy tells Grim to get rid of the brownies, and he reluctantly does, but he also stores some of them in his skull. Soon, the stench of the brownies spreads through the world and starts resurrecting dead people, animals, and even food, as zombies.
Director: Robert Alvarez
Writer: Gord Zajac
7.9/10 88 votes#16 - Brown Evil, Part 2
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 6/20/2003
Billy and Hoss Delgado, spectral exterminator, team up to destroy all the zombies that congregate outside the house, but the zombies reassemble into a bigger zombie. Delgado realizes that the zombie is after the brownies that Grim has in his skull, so Delgado and Grim battle furiously for them. The zombie eats the remaining brownies and falls apart.
Director: Pat Shinagawa
Writer: Gord Zajac
7.9/10 72 votes#17 - Ecto Cooler
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 10/14/2005
As Billy desires to be "cool" like Sperg, he has an ectoplasmic manifestation coming out of his mouth. The ectoplasm grows full size and turns out to be the ghost of nineteenth-century British poet Lord Byron, who tries to teach Billy to be cool, using elaborate poetry instead of bare muscles. Billy uses a poem to insult Sperg's mother, and Sperg challenges Billy to a duel. Billy and Lord Byron fight Sperg and his gang, but are badly beaten. Byron tells Billy he has been trained in the arts of coolness, and disappears.
Director: Sue Perrotto, Russell Calabrese
Writer: Maxwell Atoms
7.9/10 74 votes#18 - Modern Primitives
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 1/27/2006
When Billy digs his front yard he finds a frozen caveman, who is actually Fred Flintstone (from The Flintstones), but whom Billy names Jake Steele. Billy tries to acclimate Fred to the modern life but the job is not easy. When Fred is taken to school, he predictably goes out of control, kidnapping Miss Butterbean and running away in Principal Goodvibes' car. The ensuing chase results in Fred crashing into an ice cream truck, becoming frozen again. Instead of reaping him, Billy decides to bury Fred in the yard again. A future is shown where both Billy and Fred are defrosted by brain-eating creatures.
Director: Shaun Cashman
Writer: Maxwell Atoms, Alex Almaguer
7.8/10 74 votes#19 - It's Hokey Mon!
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 6/13/2003
After watching Billy and Irwin play with their "Hokey Monsters" cards (parodying the Pokémon Trading Card Game), Grim makes the monsters come to life. Soon, all the other kids want their own cards to be real too, and the city is soon under attack by a multitude of Hokey Monsters. To put an end to the mayhem, Mandy draws her own card, Mandy's Monster, which defeats all the other monsters by turning them into toast.
Director: John McIntyre, Robert Alvarez
Writer: Gord Zajac
7.8/10 81 votes#20 - Crushed!
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 7/11/2003
At school, Mandy rejects Irwin's invitation to go to the school dance with him. Billy introduces his foreign and mysterious, new friend, "Piff", and Mandy becomes desperate when she realizes that she has developed a crush on him. Mandy asks Grim to cut her heart out to stop being in love, but Grim has a better idea and gives Mandy a makeover. Piff gets a crush on Mandy, who takes the opportunity to brutally turn him down.
Director: John McIntyre, Robert Alvarez
Writer: Gord Zajac
7.8/10 85 votes#21 - Spider's Little Daddy
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 6/11/2004
At a father-and-son picnic, Billy re-encounters with his spider "son", Jeff, in a dirty bathroom. Once again, Jeff tries to make Billy love him as a true father does, but Billy remains terrified of all bugs. Mandy tells Jeff he is being too nice, and to get Billy's attention he needs to be meaner. After being coached by Mandy, Jeff finally snaps and ensnares Billy in his spider web, forcing Billy to say he loves him.
Director: Robert Alvarez
Writer: Maxwell Atoms
7.8/10 80 votes#22 - Circus of Fear
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 7/16/2004
When Billy and Mandy are utterly bored, Grim takes them to Underworld's "Circus of Fear". The ringleader, Dr. Fear, notices Billy and Mandy, and tries to recruit them into the circus to attract customers, who would pay to see real, live humans. After they go back home, Dr. Fear captures the two kids, and Grim has to get them back. During the show, Mandy breaks free and in a strange twist of the story, she reveals that the beastmaster, Clortho, is actually Dr. Fear, who in turn is just an earthworm, leaving Billy confused.
Director: Brian Sheesley
Writer: Gord Zajac, Rich Chidlaw
7.8/10 80 votes#23 - The Schlubs
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 10/14/2005
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.
Director: Eddy Houchins
Writer: Maxwell Atoms
7.8/10 73 votes#24 - Keeper of the Reaper
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/2006
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.
Director: Juli Murphy, Eddy Houchins
Writer: C.H. Greenblatt, Richard Steven Horvitz, Kristen Lazarian
7.8/10 65 votes#25 - Major Cheese
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 1/20/2006
Billy, Mandy and Grim visit Mighty Moe, an old man who has discovered the secret to add extra years to his lifespan: a good diet and exercise. Mighty Moe decides to publish his secret in a book, and Grim needs to stop him by offering junk food.
Director: Juli Murphy, Sue Perrotto
Writer: Brett Varon