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The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy Season 5 Episode 3

Mommie Fiercest / The Taking Tree

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AIRED: 8/12/05

Mommie Fiercest: Billy's mom is turned into a child.

The Taking Tree: Billy's action figure, mayonnaise, and pants; Mandy's books, and Grim's scythe are stolen from the Taking Tree.

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This episode was full of original scenes and a few running gags.

9.3

By DoubleE, May 28, 2011

I enjoyed this episode. It was hallarious. I especially liked the part when billy says to his mom "Every time I take a bite of this vitamin enriched bread, it keeps getting smaller." Very funny and totally original. There are also some running gags in this episode including when Gladys spends a while in the bathroom with a mud mask and cucumbers on her eyes. Later, Grim goes on his annual bathroom break. Grim does exactly what Gladys did. There is also one where when billy has a piece of bread and when Irwin say something, Billy believes that the bread is talking. This gag goes on for a while in this episode while billy, mandy and irwin go to the movies. Basically, this episode was about Gladys having crow's feet on the side of her eyes, and grim needed to use the bathroom, so grim zaps Gladys so she would look younger. Unfortunately, he made her a bit too young. Later, Billy meets younger gladys and names her "Corn," after the slice of bread she gave him. This is one of the best thought up funny episodes in the series.moreless
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There two were nice episodes, although The Taking Tree turned out to seem more of the better episode.

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By Inuyashadude101, Apr 17, 2006

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy did a good job on these two episodes, Mommie Fiercest and The Taking Tree, but there were parts that might've - really didn't need to be mentioned or parts that needed more information on it. In Mommie Fierecest, here goes Gladys with her mid-life crisis, crow's feet, so Grim turns her young, and becomes "Corn." In The Taking Tree, there is a magical tree that... takes stuff, and they need to retrieve their stolen items, but how?moreless
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Greg Eagles	The Grim Reaper
Jennifer Hale	Billy's Mom
Richard Horvitz	Billy / Billy's Dad
Vanessa Marshall	Irwin
Grey DeLisle	Mandy

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Cast & Crew: RECURRING AND GUESTS

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Peter Lurie	Mikey Munchle / Mailman	Guest Star
Kevin Michael Richardson	Eldridge Johnson Mayer / Customer	Guest Star
Vanessa Marshall	Clerk	Recurring Role
Grey DeLisle	Sunshine Boy	Recurring Role
Steven Jay Blum	Narrator / Detector / Commander	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (6)
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- When Mandy, Billy, Irwin, and Corn (the younger version of Gladys) are watching Exploding Penguins 3, they are the only ones in the movie theater watching the movie.
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- Why is it that Gladys could remember herself before the accident, but Harold couldn't?
  
  Correction: Because Harold is stupid!
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- When Billy's mom was shopping for face cream, she never paid for it.
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- Mandy said it was the first time someone mentioned she has no nose. But Billy mentioned it back in Brown Evil and The Problem with Billy.
  
  Correction: Mandy was being sarcastic.
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- Billy's slice of bread keepes changing sizes. For example, in one scene where billy only has a tiny bit of bread left, but in the next scene, othe bread had only one bite taken out of it.
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- When Billy, Mandy, Corn (younger version of billy's mom), and irwin were at the theatre, there was a scene where there was a coming soon poster on the wall. It was a picture of a lady with a yellow dress. However, in the next scene, it turns blue.
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QUOTES (13)
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- Billy: Mandy, I'm looking for my Captain Fathead!
  Mandy: Your dad's in the garage
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- Mikey Munchie: You're here for the walruses, right?
  Grim: Uh, no.
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- Grim: Great sister's of the underworld! Someone open a window!
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- Gladys: Aw kids, they just don't understand the concept of eating.
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- Mandy: You lost your pants?
  Billy: Well... (turns around) just the back, but it's not so bad. (starts shaking his butt)
  Mandy: I just lost my ability to see! I can still feel your butt facing me!
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- Billy: (talking to his slice of bread sadly) I thought we have something really special. (sniff)
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- Mandy: (about Mikey Munchle) Who does he look like?
  Grim: He looks like an alien wearing human skin, so that he can fool us into buying collectibles and games that will implant tiny tracting chips in our fingers!
  Mandy: No, he's Mikey Munchle.
  Grim: I know. I'm just messing with you. I thought I should say something stupid since Billy ain't here.
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- Taking Tree: Hello, my name is Eldridge Johnson Mayer. And yes, I am a Taking Tree.
  Mandy: You're a talking Taking Tree? Why would a tree be named Eldridge Johnson Mayer?
  Tree: Well, why don't you have a nose?
  Mandy: Oh, that's the first time I've heard that one. I'll go get the chainsaw.
  Tree: I already have that, my dear. (shows the stolen chainsaw and puts it back in his mouth)
  Billy: OOW!!!
  Mandy: Crafty.
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- Mandy: You were in a child's Kung Fu class?
  Grim: Silence, non-believer!
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- Billy: This pillow stuffing tastes like I'm choking. (coughs)
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- Billy: My mom is ancient and grappling with the onset of menopause.
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- Billy: Mom, I needs you. Every time I take a bite of this vitamin-enriched bread, it keeps getting smaller. Pretty soon, it will be all gone, then what'll I do?" (starts to cry)
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- Billy: Hey, not only did I find Captain Fathead, but I found Carmen San Diego and Waldo! (Waldo waves)
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- Apparently, Grim has a grudge on a girl in his child's kung fu class named Amy Cooper.
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- $11,756,833 is what Grim said the second time. But the first time, he said the card is worth $11,756,832.
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- Apparently, Billy's dad isn't really so dumb. It is revealed in "The Taking Tree" that he got accepted into Harvard University.
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- This was the first episode to use the "roll-up" version of closed captioning.
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- This marks the first time Grim said something stupid due to Billy's absence.
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- The Mickey Munchle card is worth $11,756,833.
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- Eldridge Johnson Mayer is the name of the Taking Tree.
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- The movie Irwin and Mandy want to see is "Exploding Penguins 3: Total Annihilation.
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- The name of the movie Billy's Mom wants to see is Sunshine Boy
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- Grim goes to the bathroom annually.
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- In the beginning of The Talking Tree, Grim took Kung Fu lessons.
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- Credits: Billy's dad is staring at the fly. He catches it with his tongue like a frog and eats it.
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- Running Gags:
  1) Billy keeps getting upset about his slice of bread getting smaller as he eats it.
  2) Billy thinks Irwin's voice is coming from his slice of bread.
  3) Billy and Irwin laugh hysterically every time a penguin or more explode.
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- Grim named his scythe Jodi.
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- After zapping Billy's mom with his scythe, Grim made her shrink and go younger!
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- "Mommie Fiercest" is very similar to the movie Monster In Law, where a to-be-mother-in-law and the bride-to-be fight over the control of one man.
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- Episode Title: The Taking Tree
  
  The Giving Tree is a famous childrens book written by Shel Silverstein. More Info
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- In "Mommie Fiercest," Grim knocks on the bathroom door and asks "you hear me knocking, can I please come in?" This is a slight variation on a very famous 1950 blues song called "I Hear You Knockin'," which repeats the line "I hear you knockin' but you can't come in." A variety of bands and singers have turned the song into a hit single over the years, and the line itself has since appeared in other songs. More Info
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- Episode Title: Mommie Fiercest
  
  It is a reference to the 1981 film Mommie Dearest, a notoriously bad biopic that portrayed Joan Crawford as a similarly controlling and hot-tempered mother.
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- Character Mikey Munchle
  
  It's a spoof of the baseball star, Mickey Mantle.
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- Waldo is a skinny guy with a stripy shirt, hat, and glasses. There is several books on "Where's Waldo?"
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- Carmen San Diego is a international criminal mastermind in the red coat.
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- Novels: Nancy Drool
  
  It is an obvious parody of the female detective Nancy Drew.
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- Title: The Taking Tree
  This is a spoof of the popular children's book, the Giving Tree.
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