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| Series | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy |
| Season | 3 |
| Production code | 302 |
| Writer | C. Scott Morse Shaun Cashman |
| Broadcast information | |
| Cartoon Network US Premiere | June 10, 2005 |
| Chronological information | |
| Previous The Problem With Billy |
Next Dream Mutt |
Wishbones is the second episode in season two and the double-length 39th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
Synopsis[]
A skull contains nine wishes, and needs someone to make a wish in order to be free. However, said wishes always backfire on the wisher.
Plot[]
As Billy is watching his favorite show "Laundry Day", which is actually just a laundry machine in his laundromat, Mandy and Grim find an old skull named Thromnambular in the wash, who can grant 9 wishes, and then be freed from his prison. When Mandy asks Grim why he hasn't wished for his freedom back, Grim responds by saying he never used the wishes because wishing is too dangerous and corrupts itself back upon the user. Billy starts it off and a weird, chaotic journey happens to whoever gets it next. Billy wants to go on a Jonny Quest-style adventure with Harold, Gladys, Saliva, and Irwin acting as his crew. But in the end, both Irwin and Saliva are eaten, with Billy not liking the dream.
Next, Harold wants to go back to his high school days. He claims them to be the best days of his life, but everyone throws him in the garbage can. Then the skull falls into the possession of Skarr, who wants supreme power, and a statue of him rises out of the ground. The statue rises into space, where Skarr loses air and explodes. The skull then falls into a blow-up pool with Irwin, and he wants Mandy while performing in a hip-hop video. Howecpver, Mandy pops the pool, and Irwin is sent flying into a trash can.
The skull is then found by Pud'n, who wants a loving pet rabbit. However, the rabbit just tries to kill Pud'n, saying that "love hurts". Next, Nergal Jr. gets Thromnambular, and he wants to know what he wishes for. After beating up Nergal Junior and getting the skull, Sperg wishes that he could go into the ladies room to steal the money of some girl. However, he is turned into a girl, and runs off while crying after being teased by all the other girls.
Then, Mindy finds the skull and wishes to be a star. But, instead, she's tied to a rocket, is shot into space, and blown up like a normal star. One wish left until Thromnambular is freed. So, who else should get the last wish but Mandy? Instead of making the last wish, Mandy intends to sell the skull. As everyone tries to buy it, Grim wishes Billy and Mandy never got the skull in the first place. Grim accidentally grabs hold of Thromnambular, and uses the last wish, wishing that the skull was never found in the first place. The skull has no more wishes again, and they go back in time to the beginning of the episode. Mandy pushes Billy into the laundry machine, ending the episode.
In the post-credits scene, it shown what would happen if Grim used any of the wishes. He wishes that both he and Thromnambular would be free of their enslavements. Thromnambular grants his wish by switching their positions: Thromnabular is now the Grim Reaper and Grim is now the wishing skull.
Cast[]
- Richard Steven Horvitz as Billy, Harold, Saliva
- Grey DeLisle as Mandy, Betty, Nerd
- Greg Eagles as Grim, Sperg
- Vanessa Marshall as Irwin, Patricia
- Dee Bradley Baker as Phillip, Pterodactyl, Sandy
- Michael Bell as Bunny #1, Guy #1
- Jane Carr as Pud'n, Old Lady
- Brian Cummings as Anchor, Guy, Assistant
- Debi Derryberry as Nergal Jr., Bunny #2
- Rachael MacFarlane as Mindy, Kid #3, Romana
- Dwight Schultz as Thromnambular, Neighbor, Guy #2
- Armin Shimmerman as Skarr, Mann
- B.J. Ward as Betty, Jenny, Woman
Characters[]
- Billy
- Mandy
- Grim
- Thromnambular
- Harold
- Reginald Skarr
- Irwin
- Pud'n
- Nergal Jr.
- Sperg
- Mindy
- Saliva (cameo)
- Gladys (Non-speaking cameo)
- Sandy (cameo)
- Bunny
- Phillip
Credits[]
- Story and Storyboard by:
- C. Scott Morse (Intro and Mandy segment)
- Shaun Cashman (Billy segment)
- Alex Almaguer (Harold segment)
- C. H. Greenblatt (Skarr segment)
- Mike Diederich (Irwin segment)
- Maxwell Atoms (Pud'n segment)
- Ian Wasseluk (Junior segment)
- Paul McEvoy & Thurop Van Orman (Sperg segment)
- Paul McEvoy (Mindy segment)
- Art direction: Rae McCarson
- Directed by: Juli Hashiguchi & Brian Sheesley
Trivia[]
- List of all the wishes:
- Billy: Wishes that he would go on an adventure with his friends and family with Thromnambular being the ancient treasure they seek, only for it to backfire and get them chased by monsters.
- Harold: Wishes that he would relive his high school days, but when he tries to talk to the people there, he gets beaten up and stuffed into a trash can.
- General Skarr: Wishes that he would be the ruler of the world, but the statue growing out of the ground that he was standing on is too big, and Skarr ends up suffocating in outer space as a result.
- Irwin: Wishes that he would be in a Hip-Hop video and Mandy would be there. When he rips one in order to create the illusion that they're in a hot tub, Irwin finds himself assaulted by Mandy. As a result, having lost his swim trunks, Irwin walks home while covering himself with a newspaper.
- Pud'n: Wishes for a bunny that will love him, but the bunny loves him so much that it tries to kill him using what it refers to as "tough love".
- Nergal Jr.: Attempts to think of a good wish that wouldn't backfire. First, he considers becoming a superhero, but would have to save the world all the time. Then he thinks of being rich and famous, but would have to put up with the paparazzi. He then thinks of wishing to be the smartest child on Earth, but becomes afraid that his head would explode from so much knowledge. After that, he accidentally wishes that he knew what to wish for. As a result, he wasted a wish.
- Sperg: Wishes that he could get into the girl's room so he could bully the ladies. He is then turned into a lady, but the girls start insulting him/her, making him cry.
- Mindy: Wishes that she would be the world's biggest star. But her wish was taken too literally, so Mindy was launched into space, killing her and making her a "star".
- Mandy: Realizing that any wish would backfire, she instead decides to sell the skull to the highest bidder. This ends up turning into a street brawl.
- Grim: Wishes that Billy and Mandy never found the skull in the first place, thus reversing the episode back to where it started and preventing the previous events and deaths from occurring at all.
- In the end credits, Grim then decides to wish that both he and Thromnabular were free from their respective roles, expecting it not to backfire at all. However, this ends up backfiring as well as they've switched places, with Thromnabular becoming the Grim Reaper and Grim would've had Thromnabular's job.
- Billy's wish is a parody of Jonny Quest, a popular cartoon from the 60's. During Billy and his parents' escape from the tomb, music from said show is reused, composed by Hoyt Curtin.
- The truck Pud'n goes in parodies Optimus Prime, even going as far as to include a face insignia on the side that parodies the Autobot logo.
- The truck chase between Pud'n and the pink bunny, parodies the truck chase between John Connor and the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
- When Nergal Jr. tries to wish that he was the smartest kid in the world, it's a reference to Jimmy Neutron, whom Debi Derryberry also voices.
- When Nergal Jr. holds Thromnambular, he has a white shirt with short sleeves. But, when he wishes he knew what to wish for, his shirt has long sleeves with a dark-blueish stripe in the middle.
Quotes[]
Skarr: (laughs evilly while standing on the statue of him as it rises into the air) Yes, cower, you fools! Cower at the sight of my awesome visage! Kneel before me! Kneel and bow! And, with your chins in the dirt, look up! Look up and say, “Who in all the heavens is mightier than General Ska-” (suddenly chokes) No air! (Skarr and Thromnambular start to float up into space before Skarr explodes)
Nergal Jr.: I could wish I was a super hero. I could do anything. But... wait! Then I'd have to save the world all the time. And do dangerous things like fight giant monsters, I'm tired just thinking about it. What if I wished I was rich and famous? I'd get all the ladies. But then I'd be harassed by the paparazzi all the time. I could wish I was the smartest kid in the world. I'd even get awards for just for being smart. And I'd just get smarter and smarter and smarter and... AAAAHHHH! I wish I knew what to wish for.
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