Snake Nerds vs. P.E. / King Tooten Pooten

The Secret Snake Club vs. P.E. / King Tooten Pooten is the 74th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first aired on October 20, 2006 on Cartoon Network.

Plots

The Secret Snake Club vs. the P.E.

In P.E. class at Endsville Elementary School, Billy and Irwin are running. Billy notices that the Snake Nerds aren't running and wants to know their secret about how to skip P.E., so at lunch, Billy and Irwin ask them if they want them to sit at their table. The Snake Nerds accept and Billy forces them to share their secret. They decide they are going to send letters to all the boys who want to be excused from P.E. demanding that they join the Secret Snake Club. At Viper's house, the soon-to-be Secret Snake Club members take an oath, however, Wiggly and Viper argue about something and say, "Shut up!" repeatedly. The others do exactly what they are doing and Wiggly ends the oath. Now, they go to a room where the Snake Nerds will receive their excuses for P.E. The door opens and it turns out to be Harold as a doctor. He gives everyone an excuse, except Billy, because he is his son. The Snake Nerds return to P.E. class and show their excuses (their excuse is that they all caught cooties). Billy is the only one without an excuse, so he is forced to perform for all the excused classmates. Meanwhile, all the Snake Nerds gather in a circle and attempt to attract a snake, so that the snake can destroy P.E. It's successful, with only one problem: the snake is too small to crush anything, so Sperg runs to Billy's house and steals Grim's scythe. He makes the snake larger where it demolishes everything. The Snake Nerds cheer, but Mandy and other girls are angry that the gymnasium got destroyed. Then, they beat up all the boys, which ends the episode.

King Tooten Pooten

At the Endsville Museum, Irwin's grandfather, a former pharaoh, rises from the dead and visits Irwin's home, which is filled with Sassy Cat merchindise and a giant picture of Mandy. He convinces Irwin that he is the next pharaoh called King Tooten Pooten and that he should come to the museum. At the museum, they unleash (with the help of a miniature stargate) a swarm of scarabs that turn everyone into Irwin's minions. They will make a pyramid for Irwin to make him more popular, but Irwin's parents persuade him not to become a pharaoh, but Irwin doesn't obey them and speeds up the process of making a pyramid. When the pyramid is almost finished, Irwin's grandfather tells him that once the pyramid is finished, he and his grandfather can never leave. In the future, the pyramid is shown in a museum exhibit where Irwin complains.

End credits

Wiggly throws crumpled sheets of paper at Grim, and Mandy applaudes.

Trivia

• Irwin's grandfather is Irwin's mother's father. But Irwin's grandmother ,Grandmama, is more likely to be Dick's mother.
• "King Tooten Pooten" may be a takeoff on the Three Stooges short We Want Our Mummy, in which the mummy they seek is that of "King Rootin' Tootin'."
• Marks second time the Snake Nerds summoned a tiny snake anticipated to be huge.
• The Snake Nerds get beaten up twice; once by Sperg and once by Mandy and the girls.
• When Sperg steals Grim's scythe, Grim yells back, "I stopped carin' like five episodes ago." This is probably a reference to Dad Day Afternoon / Scary Poppins when Billy told Grim to be careful.
• Mandy's hair and skin in this episode is paler than from previous episodes.
• Irwin is a half mummy.
• Second appearance of Irwin's Mom.
• This is one of the many episodes that breaks the fourth wall during the story. This is shown when Grim tells Sperg that he "stopped carring 5 episodes ago" when Sperg stole his scythe. Other references are: "The Crass Unicorn" when Mary Frances says when the darkness came over her land was "when the show first aired" and in "He's Not Dead, He's My Mascot" when Mandy walks off for the whole episode and when Billy asks whrer Grim is, Grim said, "I'm not in this scene, Billy."
• Codenames for new members: Irwin - Constrictor, Pud'n - Corn Snake, Sperg - Copperhead, and Billy - The Adder
• Irwin's mother's skin color is no longer greenish-yellow, it is blue.
• During the intiation to the Snake Club, the boys are given the choice between a blue cupcake and a red cupcake. The lines that Wiggly says mirror Morpheus exactly from a similar line in The Matrix. One could simply just replace the word cupcake with pill, as Neo was (unfortunately) not offered a cupcake, but a red or blue pill.
• When Billy and the other boys are giving the oath to join the Snake Club, one of the lines is, "By Graptar's Hammer". This is a reference to the movie Galaxy Quest. The full line, said by the Spock-like doctor Dr. Lazarus of Tev'Meck was "By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!"
• Apparently Irwin's Egyptian ancestry is distinctly Jewish. His grandfather seems to speak like an older Jewish gentleman.
• A brief reference is made to the film and television series Stargate, although Irwin's grandfather (apparently worried about copyright violations) quickly corrects himself and calls the portal in the Egyptian museum a "space door."
• At one point, Billy's Dad says something like "What kind of father would I be if I gave you a fake excuse to get out of gym?"This would actually not be fake if Billy's Mom or Dad wrote it.

Guest Stars

• Tom Kenny as Wiggly
• Billy West as Viper, King Cobra