Billy Ocean / Hill Billy

Billy Ocean / Hill Billy is the 60th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first premiered on January 6th, 2006 on Cartoon Network.

Plots

Billy Ocean

Mandy and Grim enjoy spending the whole day at the beach, but Billy comes. After Billy dumps sand on Grim, Mandy suggest him to go swimming in the ocean. Grim throws Billy into the ocean, as far as he can.

In the ocean, Billy first meets "Ziggy the Crab" who sings him song "Under the Ocean". After the short musical number Billy eats Ziggy. But while Billy was swimming, a whale suddenly appeared, jumped from the water and ate Billy. Inside, Billy finds Pinnochio and his papa, Gepetto. Pinnochio(this is his second appearance, after Nursery Crimes) still wants to eat Billy's flesh so he could become a real boy. But Gepetto decides to reject Pinnochio, and take Billy as his son, enraging the cannibalistic wooden boy. Meanwhile, Grim and Mandy venture with Captain Deadwood the Heartless(don't let the name fool you, he's not a real captain) and his crew to find the whale and rescue Billy.

Hill Billy

Billy wants to learn how to juggle chickens, so he visits Uncle Chokey, the chicken juggler legend. Soon, the farm turns into that of a retro black-and-white cartoon. Grim and Mandy find Billy as a retro cartoon character that is juggling chickens. An annoyed Mandy yells that she hates retro cartoons, causing the phonograph to turn the whole world into a black-and-white cartoon from the 1920s.

End Credits

Billy constantly pulls on the cow's tail. The giant bovine then gets annoyed and kicks him away.

Miscellanea

The episode Billy Ocean is the second parody of a fairytale Pinnochio, after Nursery Crimes. Pinnochio still wants to eat Billy' flesh so he could become a real boy. Apparently, Billy still can't pronounce Pinnochio's name, and Gepetto's name either. In this episode, Pinnochio and his father, Gepetto, got stuck inside the whale Blubbery Joe, a spoof of Monstro. There was even a Blue Fairy.
The song Under the Ocean is an obvious parody of song Under the Sea from The Little Mermaid. Ziggy the Crab who singed the song is a parody of Sebastian from The Little Mermaid movie.
Billy's appearance in Hill Billy resembles the title character of the Sega video game Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
The scene in which Grim parts the ocean to reveal Blubbery Joe, the whale, is an allusion to a religious story about Moses parting the ocean to make a path so he could lead the Hebrews out of Egypt.
Captain Deadwood the Heartless would later be mentioned in Pud'n's report in Modern Primitives.
Underwater, there is a tombstone engraved "Davey Jones". This is a reference to the famous pirate saying "I'll send you to Davy Jones locker," meaning they will throw you in the ocean to drown.
Grim's clones "Skeleton dance!" in Hill Billy is a reference to an old Disney cartoon. Both segments of this episode are or have references to classic Disney cartoons.
This marks the second time Mandy wears a swimsuit since No Body Loves Grim. This time, she wore it longer than from the last episode she was in, and wore flip-flops instead of going barefoot.
When Billy's Mom learns that Billy wants to be a chicken juggler and says that he's going to be a chiropractor instead, her nose keeps disappearing and reappearing.
We learn that Mandy hates retro cartoons. When she makes this known, she does so in the same way when Lucy van Pelt from the Peanuts comics gets very angry, which is where she looks at the sky while raising her arms in the air and shouting furiously.
At the beginning of Hill Billy, the TV show that Billy is watching is an episode of Evil Con Carne.