The Crawling Niceness / Smarten Up / The Grim Show

The Crawling Niceness / Smarten Up / The Grim Show is the 19th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first aired July 18, 2003 on Cartoon Network.

Plots

Crawling Niceness

Mandy tells Billy to go get a soda, and Billy looks for it in Grim's trunk. In the trunk, among the other things, Billy finds a giant green egg. He 'hatched' it thinking it was a duck. A spider, which Billy named Jeff, comes out, thinking that Billy is his dad. Billy is very scared of him and runs away screaming. In the evening, Jeff returns, but now he is gigantic. Billy tries to squish him, but Jeff only wants to help his "dad".

Smarten Up

Billy has a math test and knows that he won't past him as he is too stupid for anything. Grim helps him - he gives him a bookworm, which will make him much smarter, but Milkshakes, Billy's Cat eats the worm. Bookworm controls Milkshakes, and the cat tries to teach Billy math.

The Grim Show

Grim goes to the TV station furious because his favorite show was cancelled, and decides to make his own show. But, Mandy gets tired of Grim's popular show. Will Mandy cancel "The Grim Show"?

Trivia

• First appearance of Jeff the Spider.
• According to the bookworm, Billy is actually the short for "William".
• This is the first episode without Mandy's intro comment. This time, Billy comes and says: "Hello! ..Where am I? [faces audience] Who are you people?".
• In Crawling Niceness, Billy, while digging into Grim's trunk, finds, among the other things, the Eye of Vecna, "Scroll of Magic Missile" and the Dark Crystal.
• Billy says Grim has a lot of junk in his trunk.
• In the Season 2 episode The Crawling Niceness / Smarten Up / The Grim Show, a reference was made to The Powerpuff Girls, more specifically, a toy octopus, owned by Bubbles.

Guest Characters

• James Horan as Narrator, Cowboy, Show Host
• Mark Hamill as TV Producer, Vampire, Co-Host
• Gregg Berger as Bookworm
• Paula Tiso as Atrocia
• Maxwell Atoms as Jeff the Spider