The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

Yeah.

Uh, like the v- very much Grim Adventures of, uh, uh, the-

Billy and Mandy?

...

And much like his predecessors, Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson especially, Ivey implemented a lot of horror themes in his lyrics, mostly surrounding the classic... gothic aesthetics.

So, like, witches, phantoms, and vampires, foreboding castles, and fog-laden churchyards and cemeteries, you know? Anyway, he was approached by the creators of the Cartoon Network show, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

And... mainly to compose a song for the episode Battle of the Bands, in which the fictional band Purple Filt, fronted by the titular Grim Reaper, would perform at the Battle of the Bands competition.

The result? Darkness.

He's like a polo shirt situation.

He is, yeah, dressed like Billy from Billy & Mandy, but in gray, in like grayscale, basically.

It definitely is-

And he has, like-

Or maybe it was Nickelodeon.

I can't remember because they, they, they did a thing where a bunch of cartoons were in a contest that you can vote for the cartoon that you liked the best, and I remember it was Fairly OddParents, Chalk Zone, um, Grim Adventures of Billy and Man-

Oh, that was a good one too

...

Billy and Mandy.

And there were a couple other ones that I, I don't remember 100%, but I think the Fairly OddParents won, and then somehow Chalk Zone also got a deal, and then the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy went to Cartoon Network.

Hm.

So-

Now, when I think of like big scary spiders, like, yes, Harry Potter.

But I, for some reason, just thought of like the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and like Billy's son, Jeff.

yeah love me father why won't you love me that's what i picture that's amazing and so sometimes it's really hard for me like not to picture like like really big like scary spiders not like that

yeah that's so valid that's so valid and it's

You know him as many characters.

A lot of you will know him as the Grim Reaper in Grim and Evil and, of course, the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

I know him as many other roles too, Aku Aku and Crash Bandicoot.

As a gamer myself, it's great to see so many different avenues where Greg has popped up over the years.

It's just, I mean, so many kids grew up listening to your voice and your characters.

Yeah, and I did guest voices on just about all those shows.

I mean, Grimm was the star vehicle for me, but I worked on Cow and Chicken.

I worked on Plowpuff Girls.

Jennifer is probably best known as Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect franchise, but still a Shan in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Ash in Overwatch, and Cinderella across Disney projects since 1995.

She also voices Sam and Mandy in Total Spies, Rosalind Lutece in Bioshock Infinite, Rivet in Ratchet and Clank, Rift Apart, Samus in Metroid Prime, Trinity in The Matrix, Path of Neo, Gladys in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Naomi Hunter and Emma Emmerich in the Metal Gear Solid series, avatar kayoshi and june in avatar the last airbender flora in tac and the power of juju and dory in the finding nemo video games as well as aka black cat in spider-man plus jean gray slash madeline slash the phoenix in x-men and if that wasn't enough she's also the voice and singing voice of thorn from scooby-doo's Hex Girls.

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So you know him as the voice of Samurai Jack, Jon Stewart, Green Lantern, and Virgil Hawkins, Static in DC Animated Universe, Hermes Conrad in Futurama, Jedi Kit Fisto in Star Wars The Clone Wars, Bowlby Stravanovski in Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Dracula and the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Carver Descartes in The Weekenders, Ollie Williams and Judge Dignified Q Blackman in Family Guy, and Wilt Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

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Hi, I'm Phil.

People would notice if you weren't there."

[exhales] And you know what you say? I'm ripping this, this is all the way back from the, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.

You say, "I'm sorry.

The idiot chip in my brain is burning a hole through my forehead."

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The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.

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