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* NegativeContinuity: All of Endsville are turned into Nergalings, but by next episode, everything's back to normal.
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* SuddenDownerEnding: Most of the episode is pretty lighthearted, with Billy teaching Nergal how to make friends with varying results. Things take a complete 180 during the last minute with Nergal deciding he must literally make people become his friends by zapping anyone he sees, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou even beyond the screen]], into his mindless, demonic minions. Of course, this doesn't mean much in the long run.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Billy attempts to help Nergal make friend through "The Five 'C's' of friendship" fall flat. This culminates in a desperate Nergal force everyone, including Billy, to be his friends by converting them into his mindless minions.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Billy attempts to help Nergal make friend through "The Five 'C's' of friendship" fall flat. This culminates in a desperate Nergal force forcing everyone, including Billy, to be his friends by converting them into his mindless minions.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Billy attempts to help Nergal make friend through "The Five 'C's' of friendship" fall flat. This culminates in a desperate Nergal force everyone, including Billy, to be his friends by converting them into his mindless minions.
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* OnlySaneMan: Mandy is the only person who knows that the kid she and Billy brought home is not Grim.
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* IGotARock: One of the things Billy gets from trick or treating is a rock, [[ExtremeOmnivore which he happily eats]].
* KickTheDog: Mandy claims all of Gregory's candy for herself, causing the poor boy to cry. When Billy calls her out on it, she says she doesn't care.
* KickTheDog: Mandy claims all of Gregory's candy for herself, causing the poor boy to cry. When Billy calls her out on it, she says she doesn't care.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The episode's CruelTwistEnding probably wouldn't have happened if Grim had just either lied or kept his mouth shut.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The episode's CruelTwistEnding probably wouldn't have happened if Grim had just either lied or just kept his mouth shut.
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* ActorAllusion: It’s possible that Gregory, the boy who gets mixed up with Grim, was named after Grim’s voice actor, Creator/GregEagles.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Gregory is finally unmasked, it ''still'' doesn’t sink in to Billy that this kid isn’t Grim.
-->'''Billy:''' GRIM CUT OFF SOME KID’S HEAD AND STUCK IT ON HIS SHOULDERS!\\
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Gregory is finally unmasked, it ''still'' doesn’t sink in to Billy that this kid isn’t Grim.
-->'''Billy:''' GRIM CUT OFF SOME KID’S HEAD AND STUCK IT ON HIS SHOULDERS!\\
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* ActorAllusion: It’s It's possible that Gregory, the boy who gets mixed up with Grim, was named after Grim’s Grim's voice actor, Creator/GregEagles.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Gregory is finally unmasked, it ''still''doesn’t doesn't sink in to Billy that this kid isn’t isn't Grim.
-->'''Billy:''' GRIM CUT OFF SOMEKID’S KID'S HEAD AND STUCK IT ON HIS SHOULDERS!\\
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Gregory is finally unmasked, it ''still''
-->'''Billy:''' GRIM CUT OFF SOME
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* {{Expy}}: Grim’s favorite HorrorHost, Atrocia, is pretty much Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark with red hair.
* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Grim, being the GrimReaper, naturally doesn’t dress up for Halloween. Unfortunately for him, the Grim Reaper can be a pretty common Halloween costume, which leads to the MistakenIdentity between him and Gregory.
* HalloweenCostumeCharacterization: Billy’s costume is a toilet paper mummy, reflecting his silly and simple nature. Mandy’s is as she says, “a ruthless, high-priced, prosecuting attorney”, with the addition of monster claws for “rending human flesh”, which reflects her cold, ruthless personality.
* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Grim, being the GrimReaper, naturally doesn’t dress up for Halloween. Unfortunately for him, the Grim Reaper can be a pretty common Halloween costume, which leads to the MistakenIdentity between him and Gregory.
* HalloweenCostumeCharacterization: Billy’s costume is a toilet paper mummy, reflecting his silly and simple nature. Mandy’s is as she says, “a ruthless, high-priced, prosecuting attorney”, with the addition of monster claws for “rending human flesh”, which reflects her cold, ruthless personality.
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* {{Expy}}: Grim’s Grim's favorite HorrorHost, Atrocia, is pretty much Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark with red hair.
* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Grim, being the GrimReaper, naturallydoesn’t doesn't dress up for Halloween. Unfortunately for him, the Grim Reaper can be a pretty common Halloween costume, which leads to the MistakenIdentity between him and Gregory.
* HalloweenCostumeCharacterization:Billy’s Billy's costume is a toilet paper mummy, reflecting his silly and simple nature. Mandy’s Mandy's is as she says, “a "a ruthless, high-priced, prosecuting attorney”, attorney", with the addition of monster claws for “rending "rending human flesh”, flesh", which reflects her cold, ruthless personality.
* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Grim, being the GrimReaper, naturally
* HalloweenCostumeCharacterization:
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* MistakenIdentity: Three ways around. Grim initially mistakes Gregory’s mother for Atrocia, Gregory’s mother mistakes Grim for Gregory, and Billy mistakes Gregory for Grim.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Nergal turns all of Endsville into his new “friends”.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Nergal turns all of Endsville into his new “friends”."friends".
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: “And you. You will be my closest, most bestest friend of all!”
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: It’s a Nergal-centric episode, so this was a given. He even says it almost word-for-word.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The episode’s CruelTwistEnding probably wouldn’t have happened if Grim had just kept his mouth shut.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: It’s a Nergal-centric episode, so this was a given. He even says it almost word-for-word.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The episode’s CruelTwistEnding probably wouldn’t have happened if Grim had just kept his mouth shut.
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: “And "And you. You will be my closest, most bestest friend of all!”
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends:It’s It's a Nergal-centric episode, so this was a given. He even says it almost word-for-word.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Theepisode’s episode's CruelTwistEnding probably wouldn’t wouldn't have happened if Grim had just either lied or kept his mouth shut.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends:
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The
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* EurekaMoment: After Nergal learns that Billy and Mandy forced Grim to be their friend, he concludes this means "all the best things in life must be taken by force" and decides to make everyone be his friends.
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* SuddenDownerEnding: Most of the episode is pretty lighthearted, with Billy teaching Nergal how to make friends with varying results. Things take a complete 180 during the last minute with Nergal deciding he must literally make people become his friends by zapping anyone he sees, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou even beyond the screen]], into his mindless, demonic minions.minions.
* WhamLine: Said by Nergal that leads to the CruelTwistEnding.
-->'''Nergal:''' (''after learning Billy and Mandy forced Grim to be their friend'') Of course! All the good things in life must be taken by force. [''gains a look of realization before squinting''] [[EurekaMoment Now I know what to do]].\\
'''Billy:''' (''obliviously'') What?\\
'''Nergal:''' (''while sprouting his tentacles'') I MUST '''MAKE''' PEOPLE BE MY FRIENDS!
* WhamLine: Said by Nergal that leads to the CruelTwistEnding.
-->'''Nergal:''' (''after learning Billy and Mandy forced Grim to be their friend'') Of course! All the good things in life must be taken by force. [''gains a look of realization before squinting''] [[EurekaMoment Now I know what to do]].\\
'''Billy:''' (''obliviously'') What?\\
'''Nergal:''' (''while sprouting his tentacles'') I MUST '''MAKE''' PEOPLE BE MY FRIENDS!
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: It’s a Nergal-centric episode, so this was a given. He even says it verbatim.almost word-for-word.
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* SuddenDownerEnding: Most of the episode is pretty lighthearted, with Billy teaching Nergal how to make friends with varying results. Things take a complete 180 during the last minute with Nergal deciding he must literally make people become his friends by zapping anyone he sees,[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou sees, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou even beyond the screen]], into his mindless, demonic minions.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The episode’s CruelTwistEnding probably wouldn’t have happened if Grim had just kept his mouth shut.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The episode’s CruelTwistEnding probably wouldn’t have happened if Grim had just kept his mouth shut.shut.
* SuddenDownerEnding: Most of the episode is pretty lighthearted, with Billy teaching Nergal how to make friends with varying results. Things take a complete 180 during the last minute with Nergal deciding he must literally make people become his friends by zapping anyone he sees,[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou even beyond the screen]], into his mindless, demonic minions.
* SuddenDownerEnding: Most of the episode is pretty lighthearted, with Billy teaching Nergal how to make friends with varying results. Things take a complete 180 during the last minute with Nergal deciding he must literally make people become his friends by zapping anyone he sees,[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou even beyond the screen]], into his mindless, demonic minions.
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* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Grim, being the GrimReaper, naturally doesn’t dress up for Halloween. Unfortunately for him, the Grim Reaper can be a pretty common Halloween costume, which leads to the MistakenIdentity between him and Gregory.
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* HalloweenCostumeCharacterization: Billy’s costume is a toilet paper mummy, reflecting his silly and simple nature. Mandy’s is as she says, “a ruthless, high-priced, prosecuting attorney”, with the addition of monster claws for “rending human flesh”, which reflects her cold, ruthless personality.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Gregory is finally unmasked, it ''still'' doesn’t sink in to Billy that this kid isn’t Grim.
-->'''Billy:''' GRIM CUT OFF SOME KID’S HEAD AND STUCK IT ON HIS SHOULDERS!\\
'''Mandy:''' [[{{Beat}} …]](''{{Facepalm}}s'')
-->'''Billy:''' GRIM CUT OFF SOME KID’S HEAD AND STUCK IT ON HIS SHOULDERS!\\
'''Mandy:''' [[{{Beat}} …]](''{{Facepalm}}s'')
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* Expy: Grim’s favorite HorrorHost, Atrocia, is pretty much Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark with red hair.
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* Expy: {{Expy}}: Grim’s favorite HorrorHost, Atrocia, is pretty much Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark with red hair.
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* Expy: Grim’s favorite HorrorHost, Atrocia, is pretty much Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark with red hair.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The episode’s CruelTwistEnding probably wouldn’t have happened if Grim had either A.) lied, or B.) just kept his mouth shut.
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* CruelTwistEnding: * Billy, Mandy, Grim, all of Endsville, and ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the viewer]]'' are [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie turned into Nergalings]] by Nergal.
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* CruelTwistEnding: * Billy, Mandy, Grim, all of Endsville, and ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the viewer]]'' are [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie turned into Nergalings]] by Nergal.
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* CruelTwistEnding: * Billy, Mandy, Grim, all of Endsville, and ''[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the viewer]]'' are [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie turned into Nergalings]] by Nergal.
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'''"Grim or Gregory?"'''
'''Original Air Date:''' July 26, 2002
It's Halloween and Billy, Grim, and Mandy go trick-or-treating. While Billy and Mandy are at a house, Grim mistakes a boy's mother for Atrocia, the host of the all-night Halloween Marathon on TV. The boy in question, Gregory, is mistaken to be Grim by Billy, and Grim is mistaken as Gregory by Gregory's mother. In the end, everything is back to normal.
!!"Grim or Gregory?" contains examples of…
* ActorAllusion: It’s possible that Gregory, the boy who gets mixed up with Grim, was named after Grim’s voice actor, Creator/GregEagles.
* HalloweenEpisode: Which is funny considering this episode originally aired in ''late July''.
* MistakenIdentity: Three ways around. Grim initially mistakes Gregory’s mother for Atrocia, Gregory’s mother mistakes Grim for Gregory, and Billy mistakes Gregory for Grim.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Grim’s favorite HorrorHost, Atrocia, is pretty much Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark with red hair.
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'''"Something Stupid This Way Comes"'''
'''Original Air Date:''' July 26, 2002
Billy and Mandy are playing in the yard as a mysterious carnival shoots right up from the ground. The manager is the lonely Nergal, who founded this carnival in hope of finding friends. Unfortunately, the memory of his last visit lingers, and he receives a cold welcome. Billy takes pity on him and teaches him how to make friends without having to resort to unpleasantness. To do this, Billy teaches him the "The 5 'C's of Friendship"; Cleanliness, Consideration, Compliments, Conversation, and, uh, Sharing.
Nergal does well in "Cleanliness" by scraping all the mushrooms out of his armpits. The other goals are a bit more challenging. He insults a little girl by complimenting how awful she looks in a fun-house mirror, when in fact the mirror is out of order and the girl is awful in reality. His idea of conversation makes Pud'n vomit as all his topics revolve around horrible diseases he's had and offensive odors he has produced. In the end, while trying out Sharing, he wins a stuffed animal and offers half of it to a girl, scaring her away. All out of ideas, he asks Grim how he made friends with Billy and Mandy. Grim answers that he was forced, and this gives the demon an idea. Nergal uses his tentacles to zap people into nergalings and takes them all home. Finally, he breaks from rejoicing to induct the viewer into his newfound friendly legion.
!!"Something Stupid This Way Comes" contains examples of…
* TheBadGuyWins: Nergal turns all of Endsville into his new “friends”.
* CruelTwistEnding: * Billy, Mandy, Grim, all of Endsville, and ''[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the viewer]]'' are [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie turned into Nergalings]] by Nergal.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: “And you. You will be my closest, most bestest friend of all!”
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: It’s a Nergal-centric episode, so this was a given. He even says it verbatim.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The entire ending of the episode wouldn’t have happened if Grim had just kept his mouth shut.
'''"Grim or Gregory?"'''
'''Original Air Date:''' July 26, 2002
It's Halloween and Billy, Grim, and Mandy go trick-or-treating. While Billy and Mandy are at a house, Grim mistakes a boy's mother for Atrocia, the host of the all-night Halloween Marathon on TV. The boy in question, Gregory, is mistaken to be Grim by Billy, and Grim is mistaken as Gregory by Gregory's mother. In the end, everything is back to normal.
!!"Grim or Gregory?" contains examples of…
* ActorAllusion: It’s possible that Gregory, the boy who gets mixed up with Grim, was named after Grim’s voice actor, Creator/GregEagles.
* HalloweenEpisode: Which is funny considering this episode originally aired in ''late July''.
* MistakenIdentity: Three ways around. Grim initially mistakes Gregory’s mother for Atrocia, Gregory’s mother mistakes Grim for Gregory, and Billy mistakes Gregory for Grim.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Grim’s favorite HorrorHost, Atrocia, is pretty much Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark with red hair.
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'''"Something Stupid This Way Comes"'''
'''Original Air Date:''' July 26, 2002
Billy and Mandy are playing in the yard as a mysterious carnival shoots right up from the ground. The manager is the lonely Nergal, who founded this carnival in hope of finding friends. Unfortunately, the memory of his last visit lingers, and he receives a cold welcome. Billy takes pity on him and teaches him how to make friends without having to resort to unpleasantness. To do this, Billy teaches him the "The 5 'C's of Friendship"; Cleanliness, Consideration, Compliments, Conversation, and, uh, Sharing.
Nergal does well in "Cleanliness" by scraping all the mushrooms out of his armpits. The other goals are a bit more challenging. He insults a little girl by complimenting how awful she looks in a fun-house mirror, when in fact the mirror is out of order and the girl is awful in reality. His idea of conversation makes Pud'n vomit as all his topics revolve around horrible diseases he's had and offensive odors he has produced. In the end, while trying out Sharing, he wins a stuffed animal and offers half of it to a girl, scaring her away. All out of ideas, he asks Grim how he made friends with Billy and Mandy. Grim answers that he was forced, and this gives the demon an idea. Nergal uses his tentacles to zap people into nergalings and takes them all home. Finally, he breaks from rejoicing to induct the viewer into his newfound friendly legion.
!!"Something Stupid This Way Comes" contains examples of…
* TheBadGuyWins: Nergal turns all of Endsville into his new “friends”.
* CruelTwistEnding: * Billy, Mandy, Grim, all of Endsville, and ''[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the viewer]]'' are [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie turned into Nergalings]] by Nergal.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: “And you. You will be my closest, most bestest friend of all!”
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: It’s a Nergal-centric episode, so this was a given. He even says it verbatim.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The entire ending of the episode wouldn’t have happened if Grim had just kept his mouth shut.
