Evil Con Carne is an American animated series/spin-off of Grim & Evil and sister show of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, created by Maxwell Atoms. The series first appeared on Cartoon Network during the show Grim & Evil, along with The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. The two series later became separate programs in 2003. While The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy runs for six seasons, Evil Con Carne only runs fourteen episodes and ended on October 22, 2004. It was also part of Cartoon Network's series, Cartoon Cartoons, and is the 15th and final cartoon of the series (albeit on when it was part of Grim & Evil, due to the Cartoon Cartoons brand was temporary discontinued earlier in June 2003; the show itself is considered by some to be a Cartoon Cartoon regardless). An official series finale, titled Company Halt, aired on March 16, 2007.
On April 13, 2012, the series returned to Cartoon Network in reruns on the revived block, Cartoon Planet.
Overview[]
The series is about Hector Con Carne, a former "jillionaire playboy" evil genius planning on taking over the world. He died in an explosion by his nemesis, Cod Commando. His brain and stomach were attached to the body of a bear known as Boskov.
History[]
Characters[]
Major[]
- Hector Con Carne
- Boskov
- General Skarr
- Major Dr. Ghastly
Secondary[]
- Cod Commando
- Estroy
- Abraham Lincoln
Minor[]
- Dr. Courage
- Max Courage
- Rick Courage
- Destructicus Con Carne
- Kablamity Jane
- Judge Bukowski
- Rupert the Reindeer
- Mrs. Con Carne (Hector's mom)
Production[]
A viewer's poll to decide a new Cartoon Network animated series, titled Big Pick, was held on the Internet from June 16 to August 25, 2000. The three choices for short films to become animated series were The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, and Longhair and Doubledome. After the event, the Meet the Reaper short film won with 57% of the vote. While Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? became an animated series in 2002, Longhair and Doubledome appeared at another Big Pick event, but lost once again. Another original short/pilot titled Evil Con Carne had been produced in 2000, shortly after the Billy & Mandy short. The two ideas were ultimately combined into a single show, as Cartoon Network desired a show that had a "middle cartoon" as an in-between segment (a format found in the Dial M for Monkey and The Justice Friends shorts in Dexter's Laboratory, and the I Am Weasel segments on Cow and Chicken).
The resulting show, Grim & Evil, premiered on August 24, 2001, and was put on hiatus on October 18, 2002. In 2003, 13 more half-hour episodes of Grim & Evil were made, but aired when Cartoon Network separated the two series, and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne earned their own full-length series later that year. After production wrapped on both series' new seasons, the network gave Maxwell Atoms a decision to choose one show to continue, while the other would be dropped from production. Atoms ultimately went with Billy & Mandy, and the final season of Evil Con Carne subsequently aired in 2004. He embraced the network's decision to drop one of the two series, as he considered being in charge of producing both shows difficult.
After Evil Con Carne was cancelled, its characters appeared in minor roles in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, and General Skarr became a recurring character. According to Tom Warburton, characters from Evil Con Carne were originally set to appear in the television special "The Grim Adventures of the KND". Hector, General Skarr, and Dr. Ghastly briefly appear in the end credits as character costumes for Lazlo, Raj, and Clam in a Camp Lazlo crossover titled "Evil Camp Carne".
The series aired alongside The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy on Checkered Past.
Censorship[]
During its Grim & Evil run, "The Smell of Vengeance" was subject to censorship in the wake of the September 11 attacks. The episode's plot involves Hector and his army using a weapon that produces foul-smelling odors on New York City, sending its citizens into a frenzy. "There are the twin towers, and you see tiny, little people hopping off the roof of the towers into the water", said Linda Simensky, then senior vice president of animation for Cartoon Network. "I mean, two weeks ago, you wouldn't have thought about it. What were the chances of anyone jumping out of the World Trade Center?" In response, Atoms reworked the episode, so it took place in rural Kansas instead; despite these changes, the episode was temporarily suspended from broadcast rotation.
Home media[]
Six episodes of Evil Con Carne were featured as bonus features on The Complete Season 1 DVD release of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
The series was released on demand in 2017.
The complete series of Evil Con Carne was re-released on iTunes along with Cow and Chicken on August 16th, 2018.
Episodes[]
Season 1 (2003–2004)[]
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboard by | Original release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Evil Con Carne" | Maxwell Atoms | Maxwell Atoms | TBA | August 24, 2001 |
| 2 | "Emotional Skarr" | Brian Hogan | Maxwell Atoms | Bob Camp &
Joe Orrantia |
August 31, 2001 |
| 3 | "Evil Goes Wild" | Dave Brain | Gord Zajac | Greg Miller | September 7, 2001 |
| 4 | "Devolver" | Brian Hogan | Maxwell Atoms | Mike Stern
Bob Camp |
October 5, 2001 |
| 5 | "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" | Brian Hogan
Dave Brain |
Vincent Davis | Bob Camp | October 12, 2001 |
| 6 | "The Smell of Vengeance" | Dave Brain | Maxwell Atoms | Greg Miller
Maxwell Atoms |
December 14, 2001 |
| 7 | "Bring Me the Face of Hector Con Carne" | Dave Brain | Story by : Gord Zajac | Matt Sullivan | July 19, 2002 |
| 8 | "Search & Estroy" | Dave Brain | Story by : Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | July 26, 2002 |
| 9 | "Everyone Loves Uncle Bob" | John McIntyre &
Brian Hogan |
Story by : Gord Zajac | Trevor Wall | August 2, 2002 |
| 10 | "Evil on Trial" | Robert Alvarez &
John McIntyre |
Story by : Gord Zajac | David Mucci Fassett | August 9, 2002 |
| 11 | "The Time Hole Incident" | Dave Brain | Story by : Gord Zajac | Nora Johnson | October 4, 2002 |
| 12 | "Christmas Con Carne" | Robert Alvarez &
John McIntyre |
Story by : Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | October 11, 2002 |
| 13 | "The Pie Who Loved Me" | John McIntyre | Story by : Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | October 18, 2002 |
| No. | Title | Directed by | Story by | Storyboard by | Original air date
(U.S.) |
U.K. air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14a | "Gutless!" | Juli Hashiguchi | Gord Zajac | David Mucci Fassett | July 11, 2003 | October 25, 2003 |
| 14b | "Day of the Dreadbot" | Juli Hashiguchi | Gord Zajac | Brian Kindregan | July 11, 2003 | October 24, 2003 |
| 14c | "League of Destruction" | Patty Shinagawa | Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | July 11, 2003 | October 23, 2003 |
| 15a | "Son of Evil" | Juli Hashiguchi | Gord Zajac | David Mucci Fassett | July 18, 2003 | October 28, 2003 |
| 15b | "The Right to Bear Arms" | Randy Myers | Gord Zajac | Michael Diederich | July 18, 2003 | October 29, 2003 |
| 15c | "The Trouble with Skarrina" | Robert Alvarez &
John McIntyre |
Gord Zajac | Matt Sullivan | July 18, 2003 | October 21, 2003 |
| 16a | "Go Spork" | Robert Alvarez &
John McIntyre |
Gord Zajac | Trevor Wall | August 1, 2003 | October 22, 2003 |
| 16b | "Boskov's Day Out" | Juli Hashiguchi | Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | August 1, 2003 | October 20, 2003 |
| 16c | "Cod vs. Hector" | John McIntyre &
Randy Myers |
Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | August 1, 2003 | October 30, 2003 |
| 17 | "Max Courage!" | Robert Alvarez &
John McIntyre |
Gord Zajac | Alex Almaguer | August 15, 2003 | October 26, 2003 |
| 18 | "Ultimate Evil" | Shaun Cashman | Maxwell Atoms &
Alex Almaguer |
Alex Almaguer | October 22, 2004 | October 31, 2004 |
Season 2 (2004)[]
| No.
overall |
No. in
season |
Title | Directed by | Story by | Storyboard by | Original release date | Prod.
code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19a | 1a | "No No Nanook" | Juli Hashiguchi &
Phil Cummings |
Michael Diederich | Michael Diederich | October 1, 2004 | 201a |
| Hector tries to freeze the Earth, but accidentally disrupts the planet's gravity in the process. | |||||||
| 19b | 1b | "Teenage Idol" | Juli Hashiguchi &
Robert F. Hughes |
Maxwell Atoms | Maxwell Atoms &
Octavio E. Rodriguez |
October 1, 2004 | 201b |
| Hector requires the aid of a legendary living stone idol to rule the world. However, the idol is immature and only agrees to help Hector if he can date Major Doctor Ghastly. | |||||||
| 20a | 2a | "The Mother of All Evils" | Juli Hashiguchi &
Robert F. Hughes |
Maxwell Atoms &
Alex Almaguer |
Alex Almaguer | October 8, 2004 | 202a |
| Hector is nervous because his blind mother visits him and does not know that he is only a brain and a stomach. | |||||||
| 20b | 2b | "The HCCBDD" | Shaun Cashman &
Phil Cummings |
Maxwell Atoms &
Brett Varon |
Brett Varon | October 8, 2004 | 202b |
| Hector is depressed that he has not been able to take over the world yet, and feels he is missing something. Then Major Doctor Ghastly creates the HCCBDD, which she intends to show Hector the following day. Even though he does not know what it is, Estroy tries to steal the HCCBDD, only to figure out it is Hector's surprise birthday party. | |||||||
| 21a | 3a | "Gridlocked and Loaded" | Juli Hashiguchi &
Steve Socki |
C. H. Greenblatt | C. H. Greenblatt | October 15, 2004 | 203a |
| Evil Con Carne plans to steal gold from a ship, but ends up getting stuck in traffic for hours. | |||||||
| 21b | 3b | "Fool's Paradise" | Phil Cummings &
Juli Hashiguchi |
C. H. Greenblatt | Mary Hanley &
Maxwell Atoms |
October 15, 2004 | 203b |
| Evil Con Carne goes on vacation, where Hector has a good time, Major Doctor Ghastly is bothered by Estroy, and General Skarr has a bad time. | |||||||
| 22a | 4a | "Jealousy, Jealous Do" | Robert F. Hughes &
Juli Hashiguchi |
C. H. Greenblatt &
Maxwell Atoms |
Mike Bell &
Maxwell Atoms |
October 22, 2004 | 204a |
| Hector gets a new secretary who turns out to be a Swedish spy that Major Doctor Ghastly is jealous of. The secretary flirts with Boskov, not knowing that only Hector knows the plans she is trying to obtain. | |||||||
| 22b | 4b | "Hector, King of the Britons" | Brian Sheesley | Maxwell Atoms,
Vincent Waller, Grey DeLisle, Phil LaMarr, Armin Shimerman, Rosalind Ayres, & Greg Ellis |
Vincent Waller | October 22, 2004 | 204b |
| Hector wants to rule Britain, so he goes to Great Britain to find Excalibur, but the Lady of the Lake may not give it to him even after he does things to prove himself worthy. | |||||||
Crossover (2007)[]
| No.
overall |
No. in
season |
Title | Directed by | Story by | Storyboard by | Original release date | Prod.
code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78a | 5a | "Company Halt" | Kris Sherwood | Maxwell Atoms &
Alex Almaguer |
Alex Almaguer | March 30, 2007 | 6-05 |
| As General Skarr is once again annoyed by Billy, Hector Con Carne and Major Dr. Ghastly arrive in his house with the intention of luring him back to the recently relaunched Evil Con Carne world domination organization. Although initially refusing to rejoin, Skarr later accepts with the condition that Billy and the other neighbors be destroyed. After weeks of living together and preparations, Evil Con Carne's ultimate weapon is revealed to be an army of tanks that shoot giant rubber bands. In the end, their all-out attack over the neighborhood is foiled when Billy tricks Hector into shooting Skarr's garden and they get into a fight, causing Hector to get crushed by the one of the tanks.
Note: This episode aired as a segment of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. | |||||||
Cameos in Billy & Mandy[]
The main characters (Hector Con Carne, Boskov, Major Dr. Ghastly, General Skarr, and Cod Commando) have made cameo appearances on fellow Grim & Evil segment program (now defunct as well) The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
- In "Little Rock of Horrors", General Skarr was seen in the background, as one of the people hypnotized by the singing rock. Since this was before he became a recurring character, it counts as a cameo.
- In the final scene of "Chicken Ball Z", Mandy bought Bunny Island from Hector Con Carne, and took charge of becoming it's new, evil dictator, bent on dominating the world.
- In "Skarred for Life", following the recent cancellation of Evil Con Carne, General Skarr moves into Endsville and explains his the fate of ECC and his reasons for leaving. In short, Evil Con Carne was bought out by an entertainment company, so he had to leave the island and start anew in a suburban house in Endsville.
- In "Duck!", Hector, General Skarr, and Cod Commando are all seen, locked in a jail cell, with Hector shouting "I'm not even in this stupid show anymore!" (referencing to Grim & Evil becoming separate)
- In "Keeper of the Reaper", Major Dr. Ghastly is briefly seen as one of the witnesses against many, calling her "Cynical".
- In the credits for "Druid Where's My Car?," Billy was seen throwing random stuff in that same tree that he was trying to get his kite down in the beginning and one of the stuff he thrown was Major Dr. Ghastly in the tree.
- The episode "Company Halt", was passed of as a full-length crossover and Evil Con Carne series finale, where Hector and Ghastly came back for Skarr and told him his services were needed for one last shot at taking over the world. The crossover would feature appearances from Hector Con Carne, Major Dr. Ghastly, Boskov, and Stomach.
- In "Hill Billy", Billy was apparently watching the Evil Con Carne episode "Gridlocked and Loaded", as on the TV, Hector's voice was very faintly heard saying "General Skarr, what time is it?"
- In "Billy and Mandy's Big Boogie Adventure" - When the tram runs over Boogey, Hector and Boskov can be spotted as passengers.
- "The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door" - In the end credits they are pictures of crossovers between random Cartoon Network shows. One of "Evil Camp Carne", an amalgamation of Camp Lazlo and Evil Con Carne. In it, Hector and Stomach were attached to Lazlo, Raj was dressed as General Skarr, and Clam was dressed as Major Doctor Ghastly.
- In "Billy Ocean", Cod Commando is briefly seen, holding up a sign that says "Remember Me?"
- In "Modern Primitives, when Fred Flintstone is overwhelmed by modern technology, one of the items spinning around him is a laptop with Hector and Boskov on the screen.
- In "Fear and Loathing in Endsville", Billy and Mandy watch a quiz show on TV which the chosen category is canceled shows with the question being about a show about a bear with an evil brain attached. No one answers the question.
- In "Beware of the Undertoad", Hector, Boskov, and Stomach are seen on a desert island in a pile of "junk". Their appearance might've took place before "Company Halt".
Trivia[]
- The "Con Carne" of the title is Spanish/Italian for "with cow meat", as well as a pun on the expression "evil incarnate" and the dish "Chili con carne".
- The series wasn't supposed to end on such short notice. Atoms actually had more plans in mind for the series. However, the network gave Atoms a choice, choose one show to continue running, while the other would be cancelled from production, so he chose to end Evil Con Carne in favor of more Billy & Mandy episodes. He considered working on two shows at once difficult anyways.
- There were only 11 new shorts made for season one, all of which were simply from season two of the previous show.
- The series was created because Cartoon Network asked Maxwell Atoms to create another pilot pitch after the success of the Billy & Mandy pilot "Meet the Reaper", which resulted in the two shows becoming Grim & Evil.
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