One Crazy Summoner / Guess What's Coming to Dinner

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One Crazy Summoner / Guess What's Coming to Dinner is the 54th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first aired August 5, 2005 on Cartoon Network.

1 Plots
2 Cultural References
3 Trivia
4 Miscellanea
5 Guest stars

[edit] Plots

[edit] One Crazy Summoner

"Well, this has all been really fun, but I can't help but think that we went off track somewhere."

-Grim

A giant anaconda is holding Billy's mother and father hostage in their own house. Mandy walks in, and demands why Grim and Billy, who are calmly playing video games in the next room, aren't helping. Grim replies that he's unwilling to get rid of the anaconda because of its size.

Billy suggests calling Nigel Planter, because he's able to talk to snakes. Using a toilet as a conduit to Nigel's world, the trio are sucked through onto the grounds of Toadblatt's, which is hosting summer school. Upon being apprised of the situation, Nigel replies that he is, in fact, a Partial-tongue, and that he can talk to snacks.

Nigel has problems of his own, however. He's been going through puberty, and has fallen for a girl, Herpheffenie Phefferpheffer an obvious parody of Hermione Granger (Who looks a bit like Billy's mother, oddly),. He asks Billy, Mandy, and Grim for help in wooing her. After a number of ill-fated attempts, incliuding love potions and chocolate spiked with love potion, Herpheffenie leaves for a date with Dorko Malfly (a parody of Draco Malfoy), Nigel's arch-nemesis.

Later, sulking on the beach, Nigel accidentally eats one of his tampered chocolates, and falls in love with it. The chocolate escapes, and Nigel runs after it. The episode ends with Grim remarking that they've lost the purpose of their journey to Nigel's world.

[edit] Guess What's Coming to Dinner

Billy, Mandy, and Grim are playing croquet when the ball is suddenly possessed, and hits Billy. The ball turns out not to be a freak of nature, but Eris incarnated as a small ball. Hoss Delgado, spectral bounty hunter, arrives on the scene, claiming supernatural emissions, which were caused by Eris. This being his first meeting with Eris, Hoss seems taken with the Goddess of Chaos.

Billy's parents inform Billy that they are leaving on their second honeymoon. Billy reminds them that Principal Goodvibes is meeting them today for Billy's possible admission into Rollington Academy for the Gifted, a statement met with disbelief. Billy's dad suggests that Hoss and Eris pose as Billy's parents for the meeting.

Goodvibes arrives, and the meeting goes downhill Both Hoss and Eris continually address Goodvibes by the wrong name; (Good- followe by a random word) Hoss forgets his "son's" name, and we learn that Billy scored lower than a shovel and two candy bracelets on an IQ test.

Eventually, Eris summons giant mutant zombie lobsters that begin to attack. Hoss immediately flies into action, destroying much of the house in the process.

Eventually, under duress from Hoss, an originally reluctant Goodvibes recommends Billy for Rollington, which turns out to be a miltary academy. Hoss and Eris share a kiss, totally unexpected considering their dialogue leading up to the kiss. Then Eris sends Hoss Delgado into a parallel universe.

[edit] end credits

Hoss wakes up in a dumpster as a puppet, showing us that Eris made good on her threat to "banish him to the Puppet Dimension" if he tried to capture her.

[edit] Cultural References

"Guess What's Coming to Dinner?"when serving the refreshments, Eris loudly yells "open the pod bay doors HAL!" an obvious reference to 2001:A Space Odysee
One Crazy Summoner is the 3rd episode that parodies Harry Potter, after Toadblatt's School of Sorcery and Nigel Planter and The Chamber Pot of Secrets.
"Guess What's Coming to Dinner" is a parody of the movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
At one point Eris and Hoss are getting Goodvibe's name wrong calling him things such as "Goodwater", "Goodpoop" and "Goodyoureanidiot." One of these names is "Goodburger" making reference to the "All That" skit and movie.
Herpheffenie Phefferpheffer is a spoof of Hermione Granger from Harry Potter while Dorko is a spoof of Draco malfoy.

[edit] Trivia

Before airing this episode, John Vernon (voice of Dean Toadblatt) died on the First of February in 2005. So the creators will have to find another person to be voice of Dean if the decide to create an episode featuring him and Nigel Planter.
The list of names Hoss, Eris and others called Principal Goodvibes.
- Goodwater
- Goodchild
- Goodhector
- Goodpudding
- Goodpoop
- Goodburger
- Goodbread
- Goodlamb
- Goodchair
- Goodtoaster
- Goodpotty
- Goodmanners
- Goodyoureanidiot
- Goodbar

[edit] Miscellanea

Guess What's Coming to Dinner is the first episode in which Eris and Hoss Delgado appear together
In "Guess What's Coming to Dinner," Grim breaks the fourth wall by saying "This is a kids show for Gosh sake," when Eris and Hos Delgato are kissing.
Billy's IQ is -5 in this episode. A shovel and a candy bracelet took the same test, getting +17s.