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Evil Con Carne
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Genre
Created by Maxwell Atoms
Story by
  • Maxwell Atoms
  • Gord Zajac
  • Alex Almaguer
  • Vincent Davis
  • C. H. Greenblatt
Voices of
Composer(s)
  • Gregory Hinde
  • Drew Neumann
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 22 (32 segments)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Maxwell Atoms
  • For Cartoon Network:
  • Linda Simensky
  • Jay Bastian
Producer(s) Louis J. Cuck (line)
Running time
  • 7 minutes (seasons 1–2)
  • 11 minutes (season 3)
Production company(s) Cartoon Network Studios
Release
Original network Cartoon Network
Original release August 24, 2001 (2001-08-24) – October 22, 2004 (2004-10-22)
Chronology
Related shows

Evil Con Carne is an American animated television series created by Maxwell Atoms for Cartoon Network. The series centers on wealthy crime lord Hector Con Carne, who is reduced to his brain and stomach after an assassination attempt and subsequently implanted onto Boskov, a purple circus bear. Aided by his scientist Major Dr. Ghastly and military leader General Skarr, Hector now oversees criminal organization Evil Con Carne, continuing his quest for world domination.

The series first appeared on Cartoon Network during the show Grim & Evil, along with sister series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. Thirteen more half-hour episodes of Grim & Evil were produced in 2003 and 2004; the two series became separate programs later that year. Though The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy aired for six seasons, Evil Con Carne aired only 13 full episodes (22 airings) until October 22, 2004. After the show's end, its characters would frequently make cameo appearances in Billy & Mandy, with General Skarr becoming a recurring character. An official series finale, titled "Company Halt" (which was also a crossover with Billy & Mandy), aired on March 16, 2007.

On December 1, 2023, 19 years after the show's final episode, reruns of Evil Con Carne began airing on Adult Swim on its throwback programming block, Checkered Past.

Voice cast

Main

Recurring voices

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 segment 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 and 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 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. The first cameo was in the episode "Chicken Ball Z" which ended with Mandy purchasing Hector's Bunny Island. General Skarr moved to Billy's neighborhood in the episode "Skarred for Life" after Bunny Island was bought out by an "entertainment corporation that didn't want competition in world domination". Since then, General Skarr went on to become a recurring character in Billy & Mandy. In the episode "Company Halt", Con Carne and Ghastly appear in Endsville, in order to recruit Skarr and revive Evil Con Carne (the organization, not the show) in another attempt to take over the world; naturally, like most of their other schemes and misadventures, it ends in failure when Skarr turns against Hector once he tries to destroy his garden in an attempt to kill Billy, and crushes him with a giant catapult (which they were to use to destroy the neighborhood), causing Ghastly and the rest of the army run away. 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 (strangely, they're "costumed" by Lazlo, Raj, and Clam) did briefly appear in the crossover's end credits in a crossover with Camp Lazlo titled "Evil Camp Carne".

On July 29, 2016, the series aired re-runs for a single day on Cartoon Network's sister channel, Boomerang, in the United States, despite the schedule for Boomerang saying that The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy was airing in its timeslot.

Both this seried and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy air as separate shows on Checkered Past.

Censorship

When the show was running as a segment on Grim & Evil, the two part episode "The Smell of Vengeance" was subject to censorship in the wake of the September 11 attacks. The episode centered on Hector and his army using an oversized stink gun on New York City, unleashing a stench that sends its citizens into a frenzy. A particular scene featured people jumping off of the World Trade Center prompted the decision. "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 still suspended from broadcast rotation.

Episodes

Note: Most of the episodes did not air in production code order.

Season Episodes Series Originally aired
First aired Last aired
1 13 Grim & Evil August 24, 2001 October 18, 2002
2 5 Grim & Evil (U.K.) /
Evil Con Carne (U.S.)
July 11, 2003 October 22, 2004
3 4 Evil Con Carne October 1, 2004 October 22, 2004

Season 1a (2001–02)

No. Title Directed by Written by Storyboard by Original air date
1 "Evil Con Carne" Maxwell Atoms Maxwell Atoms TBA August 24, 2001 (2001-08-24)
2 "Emotional Skarr" Brian Hogan Maxwell Atoms Bob Camp &
Joe Orrantia
August 31, 2001 (2001-08-31)
3 "Evil Goes Wild" Dave Brain Gord Zajac Greg Miller September 7, 2001 (2001-09-07)
4 "The Smell of Vengeance" Dave Brain Maxwell Atoms Greg Miller
Maxwell Atoms
October 5, 2001 (2001-10-05)
5 "Devolver" Brian Hogan Maxwell Atoms Mike Stern
Bob Camp
October 12, 2001 (2001-10-12)
6 "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" Brian Hogan
Dave Brain
Vincent Davis Bob Camp October 19, 2001 (2001-10-19)
7 "Bring Me the Face of Hector Con Carne" Dave Brain Story by : Gord Zajac Matt Sullivan July 19, 2002 (2002-07-19)
8 "Search & Estroy" Dave Brain Story by : Gord Zajac Alex Almaguer July 26, 2002 (2002-07-26)
9 "Everyone Loves Uncle Bob" John McIntyre &
Brian Hogan
Story by : Gord Zajac Trevor Wall August 2, 2002 (2002-08-02)
10 "Evil on Trial" Robert Alvarez &
John McIntyre
Story by : Gord Zajac David Mucci Fassett August 9, 2002 (2002-08-09)
11 "The Time Hole Incident" Dave Brain Story by : Gord Zajac Nora Johnson October 4, 2002 (2002-10-04)
12 "Christmas Con Carne" Robert Alvarez &
John McIntyre
Story by : Gord Zajac Alex Almaguer October 11, 2002 (2002-10-11)
13 "The Pie Who Loved Me" John McIntyre Story by : Gord Zajac Alex Almaguer October 18, 2002 (2002-10-18)

Season 1b (2003–04)

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 (2003-07-11) October 25, 2003
14b "Day of the Dreadbot" Juli Hashiguchi Gord Zajac Brian Kindregan July 11, 2003 (2003-07-11) October 24, 2003
14c "League of Destruction" Patty Shinagawa Gord Zajac Alex Almaguer July 11, 2003 (2003-07-11) October 23, 2003
15a "Son of Evil" Juli Hashiguchi Gord Zajac David Mucci Fassett July 18, 2003 (2003-07-18) October 28, 2003
15b "The Right to Bear Arms" Randy Myers Gord Zajac Michael Diederich July 18, 2003 (2003-07-18) October 29, 2003
15c "The Trouble with Skarrina" Robert Alvarez &
John McIntyre
Gord Zajac Matt Sullivan July 18, 2003 (2003-07-18) October 21, 2003
16a "Go Spork" Robert Alvarez &
John McIntyre
Gord Zajac Trevor Wall August 1, 2003 (2003-08-01) October 22, 2003
16b "Boskov's Day Out" Juli Hashiguchi Gord Zajac Alex Almaguer August 1, 2003 (2003-08-01) October 20, 2003
16c "Cod vs. Hector" John McIntyre &
Randy Myers
Gord Zajac Alex Almaguer August 1, 2003 (2003-08-01) October 30, 2003
17 "Max Courage!" Robert Alvarez &
John McIntyre
Written by: Gord Zajac Alex Almaguer August 15, 2003 (2003-08-15) October 26, 2003
18 "Ultimate Evil" Shaun Cashman Maxwell Atoms &
Alex Almaguer
Alex Almaguer October 22, 2004 (2004-10-22) October 31, 2004

Season 2 (2004)

No.
overall
No. in
season
Title Directed by Story by Storyboard by Original air date Prod.
code
19a 1a "No No Nanook" Juli Hashiguchi &
Phil Cummings
Michael Diederich Michael Diederich October 1, 2004 (2004-10-01) 10a
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 (2004-10-01) 10b
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 (2004-10-08) 11a
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 (2004-10-08) 11b
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 (2004-10-15) 12a
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 (2004-10-15) 12b
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 (2004-10-22) 13a
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 (2004-10-22) 13b
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 episode (2007)

No.
overall
No. in
season
Title Directed by Story by Storyboard by Original air date Prod.
code
78a 5a "Company Halt" Kris Sherwood Maxwell Atoms &
Alex Almaguer
Alex Almaguer March 30, 2007 (2007-03-30) 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.

Home media

Five episodes are included as bonus features in the Season 1 DVD set for The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. On August 16, 2018, the entire series was added to the iTunes Store under a single volume.

American releases
Product Season(s) Episodes Format Release date
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Season 1 1–2 5 (1–4, 10) DVD September 18, 2007
Evil Con Carne: The Complete Series 1–3 22 Digital purchase August 16, 2018

See also

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