Prank Call of Cthulhu

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Cthulhu playing golf

Prank Call of Cthulhu is the 58th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first aired October 21, 2005 on Cartoon Network. The title and the episode are parody of Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft. In H.P. Lovecraft books, Cthulhu is green, but in this episode, he's purple and has a chubby humanoid body. This is the second episode which parodies Cthulhu mythos - the first one was Big Trouble in Billy's Basement, which features Billy summoning Yog-Sothoth.

Plot

Template:Spoiler Billy and Irwin are making prank calls. When they call Mandy, she tells them everybody has caller ID so they'll know who is calling on the phone. Billy wishes for a phone without caller ID. When he finds the phone of Cthulhu located in his own basement, he and Irwin get sucked into another dimension after he tries using it. Grim and Mandy have to go into another universe to find Billy. After they find the two dorks, Billy has a strange transformation on his face. Cthulhu has given Billy a job making prank calls. Anyone who falls for Billy's prank phone calls morphs into a mutant. What will be the outcome?

End Credits

• Grim is at Billy's house ordering a pizza.
• Phone: I want pizza.
• Grim: Hello, i'd like to order a large pizza everthing on it.
• Phone: Uh huh.
• Grim: And with that crust that's got cheese in it.
• Phone: Yeah.
• Grim: And can I get pineapples on it?
• Phone: Uh huh.
• Grim: Is that an extra charge?
• Phone: diabolical laughter
• Grim: Uh huh, okay then, forget it. Also can you include a diet soda?
• Phone: Oh thats extra -shrieking noises
• Grim: Hello, HELLO?
• The tentacles pulls Grim into the phone.

Trivia

• In the scene where Billy is making a prank phone call to his dad, Harold recognizes Billy's voice, and says the line "Is this Billy?" Where Billy responds with "Who's Billy? It's Kelly Clarkson." This a parody of the famous phony phone call made on the Howard Stern Radio Show which was made by High Pitch Eric to Eric the Midget. Where Eric the Midget recognizes High Pitch Eric voice and says "This is High Pitch" Where High Pitch responds with "Who's High Pitch? It's Kelly Clarkson".
• When Mandy uses a mirror so she would not look directly at Cthulhu, as Cthulhu's gaze can turn you insane, it is similar to the Greek myth of Perseus, in which Perseus uses a mirrored shield so that he can slay the gorgon Medusa without looking at her, as to do so would turn him to stone.
• Second time a "To Be Continued..." tag is shown since Brown Evil.
• Seventh appearance of Hoss Delgado, who appears as one of the victims of the prank calls.
• Character: James Silverman - It is the name of the production coordinator for The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
• The heads on the dolls that Grim plays with in the bathtub are similar to that of his own and that of Billy's mom.
• This is the third time Grim suggests that he and Mandy should forget about Billy and go on with their lives since A Kick in the Asgard and Which Came First?.
• Billy's blood type is O.
• There is two possible references to the film Spaceballs one is when Billy's dad gets punched and his face is shown on the back of his head and he says "Why didn't any one tell me my butt was so big?" which is similar to the part of Spaceballs when President Skroob (Mel Brooks) gets teleported to another area and his head is on backwards. The other scene is when Grim is playing with the dolls which is most likely a reference to the scene in Spaceballs where Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) is playing with dolls that look like him and Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga). Grim is also saying lines almost identical to the ones Rick Moranis says in Spaceballs.
• The woman in the bee costume is a spoof of Bumble Bee Man from the Simpsons.
• At the end of the intro, Mandy says something backwards. She's actually saying "Cartoons will rot your brain!", in reverse.