Evil Con Carne facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Evil Con Carne
Genre	Science fiction Black comedy Slapstick
Created by	Maxwell Atoms
Story by	Maxwell Atoms Gord Zajac Alex Almaguer Vincent Davis C. H. Greenblatt
Voices of	Phil LaMarr Grey DeLisle Armin Shimerman Frank Welker
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	Grim & Evil (2001–2003) The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

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

• Phil LaMarr as Hector Con Carne
• Grey DeLisle as Major Dr. Ghastly
• Armin Shimerman as General Skarr, Hector's Stomach
• Frank Welker as Boskov the Bear

Recurring voices

• Maxwell Atoms as Cod Commando
• Maurice LaMarche as Estroy
• Peter Renaday as Abraham Lincoln
• Rino Romano as Destructicus Con Carne

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 1a (2001–02)

Season 1b (2003–04)

Season 2 (2004)

Crossover episode (2007)

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.

See also

In Spanish: Evil Con Carne para niños

• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
• Grim & Evil