The Bad News Ghouls / The House of No Tomorrow

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The Bad News Ghouls / The House of No Tomorrow is the 43rd episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first aired on April 8, 2005 on Cartoon Network.

1 Plots
- 1.1 The Bad News Ghouls
- 1.2 The House of No Tomorrow
2 Miscellanea
3 Guest stars

[edit] Plots

[edit] The Bad News Ghouls

Billy and the other boys are in a baseball game against Mindy's team. Mandy wasn't invited, because, according to Billy, she's a "girl". Mandy wants to help him and his team win the game against Mindy, so she disguises herself as a boy named "Manfred."

[edit] The House of No Tomorrow

Grim, Billy, and Mandy are at the amusement park based on a cartoon character named Sassy Cat. With long, long lines at most of the rides, they come across the House of Tomorrow. Thinking that As the three go inside to look around, Billy wakes up Master Control, an all-knowing computer. After the three goad him into admitting that he is not happy, the Master Control becomes very angry and starts to send his robots to attack them and the rest of humanity.

[edit] Miscellanea

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The House of No Tomorrow is partly based on Harlan Ellison's sci-fi/horror short story I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (also a PC videogame). In it, 5 random people have been trapped for decades within the ruined structure of an insane, human-hating computer.
The Bad News Ghouls is a parody of the movie The Bad News Bears.
The Bad News Ghouls marks the third time Billy didn't let Mandy do something because she was a girl. The first time was in Who Killed Who?, and the second was in Go Kart 3000.
Second appearance of Sassy Cat. Back in Get Out of My Head, Billy was reading "Sassy Cat" comic book.
Sassy Cat is a spoof of Hello Kitty.
The ghouls walking out of the cornfield is a parody to the movie Field of Dreams.
We learned that Billy's favorite color is blue, the best kind of bean is pinto, and Billy was wearing white underwear with pink frilly lace (Note: Master Control mentioned these when Billy asked the questions with these respective answers).
The voice for Billy and his dad, Richard Steven Horvitz, wrote the script for Bad News Ghouls.
In The Bad News Ghouls Pud'n helped Billy's team win the game by reaching home plate. It is the second time that Pud'n is the mystery victor and then started to cry when his fans cheered because he is afraid they will hurt him. The first time was in Go Kart 3000.
In The House of No Tomorrow, the Master Control computer seems to be a parody of the MCP in the movie Tron.