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Billy Ocean / Hill Billy is the 60th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first premiered on January 6, 2006 on Cartoon Network.

Plots

Billy Ocean

Mandy and Grim enjoy spending the whole day at the beach, but Billy comes. After Billy dumps sand on Grim, Mandy suggest him to go swimming in the ocean. Grim throws Billy into the ocean, as far as he can.

In the ocean, Billy first meets "Ziggy the Crab" who sings him song "Under the Ocean". After the short musical number Billy eats Ziggy. But while Billy was swimming, a whale suddenly appeared, jumped from the water and ate Billy. Inside, Billy finds Pinnochio and his papa, Gepetto. Pinnochio still wants to eat Billy's flesh so he could become a real boy. But Gepetto decides to reject Pinnochio, and take Billy as a son, enraging the cannibalistic wooden boy. Meanwhile, Grim and Mandy venture with Captain Deadwood the Heartless (don't let the name fool you, he's not a real captain) and his crew to find the whale and rescue Billy.

Billy Ocean is the second parody of a fairytale Pinnochio, after Nursery Crimes. Billy still can't pronounce Pinnochio's name propertly, saying something like "Pinochiochiochiobla". This episode marks Gepetto debut. Billy apparently can't pronounce his name either.

Hill Billy

Billy wants to learn how to juggle chickens, so he visits Uncle Chokey, the chicken juggler legend. Soon, the farm turns into that of a retro black-and-white cartoon. Grim and Mandy find Billy as a retro cartoon character that is juggling chickens. An annoyed Mandy yells that she hates retro cartoons, causing the phonograph to turn the whole world into a black-and-white cartoon from the 1920s.

End Credits

A scene from Hill Billy: Billy constantly pulls on the 1920s retro cartoon cow's tail. After the imagery returns to the normal, the realistic bovine gets annoyed quickly and kicks Billy with the back legs.

Cultural References

• The title of Billy Ocean is a reference to the singer with the same name, Billy Ocean.
• The song Under the Ocean is an obvious parody of song Under the Sea from The Little Mermaid. Ziggy the Crab who sings the song is a parody of Sebastian from The Little Mermaid movie.
• The last time Billy tries to say Gepetto, he says "Jennifer Lopez" in the middle of pronouncing it, pronouncing it "Jennifer Lopezzio".
• The scene in which Grim parts the ocean to reveal Blubbery Joe, the whale, is an allusion to a religious story about Moses parting the ocean to make a path so he could lead the Hebrews out of Egypt.
• Underwater, there is a tombstone engraved "Davey Jones", as in "I'll send you to Davy Jones locker".
• Grim's clones doing the "Skeleton Dance!" in Hill Billy is a reference to an old Disney cartoon. Both segments of this episode feature references to classic Disney cartoons.
• We learn that Mandy hates retro cartoons. When she makes this known, she does so in the same way when Lucy van Pelt from the Peanuts comics gets very furious, which is where she looks at the sky while raising her arms in the air and shouting furiously.
• At the beginning of Hill Billy, Billy was watching an episode of Evil Con Carne.

Guest stars

• Steven Jay Blum as Captain Deadwood, Ziggy the Crab
• Bob Joles as Uncle Chokey
• Barry Dennen as Gepetto, Blubbery Joe
• B.J. Ward as TV, TV Memorial, Ostrich Kid,
• Hamilton Camp as Country Dirt Gnome
• Scott Menville as Pinochhio, First Mate
• Dee Bradley Baker as Freckle Commercial
• Jodi Benson as Blue Fairy