Jeffy's Web / Irwin Gets A Clue

Jeffy's Web / Irwin Gets a Clue is the 47th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first aired June 24, 2005 on Cartoon Network.

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Jeffy's Web

Jeff the Spider laid hundreds of spider eggs and is going to die in 36 hours. He wants to give his eggs to Billy, but Billy is still afraid of bugs and it includes Jeff self. Billy runs away and Jeff is forced to chase him, along with Mandy, Grim, Billy's Dad, Irwin and many, many others, while they race against each other, somewhat like an homage to the old cartoon series Wacky Races. In the end, Jeff saves Billy and everyone sees the kind of nice spider Jeff is. Mandy gets the idea that Jeff should give his eggs to the town's people, so that they may have a kind spider of their own. The idea is met with disastrous results. As Jeff begins to run out of time, Grim decides to allow Jeff to live longer because he likes to see Jeff scaring the doody out of Billy.

Irwin Gets a Clue

Irwin is depressed again because Mandy continues to ignore him. When he met Hoss Delgado, Irwin begs him to teach him to be cool. Through training and intense shocking and modification, Irwin becomes "cool", or he now looks like Hoss, complete with the hair, beard and a mixer in his hand. They head out, so that Irwin can prove to Mandy that he's cool, and Hoss releases a blob monster that Mandy, Billy and Grim had fought earlier. After Irwin fails miserably to defeat the monster, Hoss steps in to eliminate it, and Irwin is left alone, continuing to be, in Mandy's words, a nerd.

End Credits

Irwin performs cheerleading motions while listening to polka music. He threw his pom-poms in the air. They didn't come down yet, so Irwin started dancing. After making his last cheerleading move and catching the pom-poms, his pants ripped. He blushes and walks off sideways.

Trivia and Episode Notes

• Hoss Delgado is 33 years old.
• In the episode Irwin Gets a Clue, Mandy shows super strength and expert martial arts technique.
• Third appearance of Jeff the Spider.
• The eggs Jeff laid are slimy and see through, but the egg Jeff hatched from had a shell.
• Irwin Gets a Clue mostly focuses on Irwin.
• Hoss Delgado has an idiot chip implanted in his skull. Every time Billy talks to him, it burns his brain.
• The Hanna-Barbera characters who got hit by Hoss Delgado's truck: Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo, Huckleberry Hound, Secret Squirrel and Snagglepuss.
• This episode is referenced in Chaos Theory. When Hoss Delgado is asked about when he fell in love with Eris, he replies, "In Episode 47."
• When Hoss zaps Irwin to instantly make him "cool", as Irwin stands back up after being zapped, it is a reference to a scene in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines", when the Terminator arrives from the future.
• This episode hints the fact that Irwin's mom is a mummy; when Irwin asks Hoss what reminds him of himself as a child, Hoss replies "We both have human parents...I think."
• LOOK CLOSELY!: In Irwin Gets A Clue When Irwin is about to get attacked by the slime monster in the apple suit. When Irwin screams and starts quivering you can see that only his outline moves and Irwin stays in place
• The title of Jeffy's Web refers to Charlotte's Web,a book by EB White
• In flashbacks, Hoss gets a traffic cone with the name "Kyle" on it picked before him in kickball, and with a women, and while Hoss is trying to sell vegetable cutters door-to-door. Then Hoss becomes enraged, gains huge muscles, and the flashbacks end with the traffic cone Kyle strapped to a furnace in a dark room.

Guest stars

• Maxwell Atoms as Jeff the Spider, Crowd Member
• Joshua Keaton as Driver, Zombie #2
• Brian Cummings as Hot Dog Vendor, Hillbilly Dad, Clown
• Diedrich Bader as Hoss Delgado
• Steven Jay Blum as Man, Monster
• Jane Carr as Nuns