The Firebird Sweet / The Bubble With Billy

The Firebird Sweet/The Bubble with Billy is the 51st episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first aired in June 29, 2005 on Cartoon Network.

Plot

The Firebird Sweet

Billy discoveries a new cereal called Frosted Golden Apple Scraps, but when he opens it he finds out that most of the content was eaten by a phoenix which was inside of the box and only one morsel was left. Billy fights with the phoenix to eat the morsel until finally get his head swallowed by the phoenix, and Grim and Mandy decides to help him. They find out that Frosted Golden Apple Scraps actually belongs to a cereal industry owned by Eris, who plans to seed more chaos in the World putting phoenixes in the cereal boxes.

The Bubble with Billy

As Billy is about to take a test, he wants some bubble gum to chew during the test. After asking his classmates, he then goes to Grim, who has had enough of granting Billy's dumb requests. He gives Billy a "bottomless gumball machine" and warns him to not swallow the gum, or something will happen. Billy swallows the gum anyway, and the result is that several bubbles emerge from the holes in Billy’s body (ears, nose, mouth, butt) which spread throughout Endsville. The only thing that can stop the bubble madness is getting the gum out of Billy's stomach. When Billy swallows the gum machine and pukes out a large amount of gum he gets a unimaginable rash from another dimension.

End Credits

A rash-covered Billy and the Gumball Machine make a prank call to Ms. Butterbean for some calamine lotion. Billy laughs, while the Gumball Machine explodes with laughter. As Billy hands the phone to the Gumball Machine, he purposely shatters its glass. The Gumball Machine then remarks, "Cruel... unreasonable little boy." Billy giggles.

Guest stars

• Grey DeLisle as Bird
• Greg Eagles as Pilot #2/Mailman
• Richard Horvitz as Diver
• Vanessa Marshall as Lady
• Maxwell Atoms as Bob
• Dee Bradley Baker as Firebird/Hot Dog Man/Dale
• Chris Cox as Principal Goodvibes/Gumball Machine/Pilot #1
• Brian Cummings as Radio Voice/Uncle Frosty
• Bill Fagerbakke as Grandpa/Thud/Clerk
• Jennifer Hale as Dachsund
• Rachael MacFarlane as Eris
• Renee Raudman as Ms. Butterbean

Trivia

The title of the episode, "The Firebird Sweet," is a pun on the Stravinsky ballet The Firebird Suite.

Irwin breaks the fourth wall in "The Bubble With Billy" by asking if they could change the show's name to The Grim Adventures of Irwin and Mandy.

According to the Gumball machine, he can speak 42 languages, including the binary language of moisture vaporators, which is a reference to Star Wars A New Hope. He also speaks Klingon, a reference to Star Trek.