Meet the Reaper (The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy)

"Meet the Reaper" is the first part of the first episode in the first season of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy/Grim & Evil.

Plot
When Billy's pet hamster, Mr Snuggles, celebrates his 10th birthday, the Grim Reaper comes for him. Billy's friend Mandy is reluctant in allowing it, so she proposes a deal to the Grim Reaper: if he beats the kids in a game, he can take the hamster, but if he loses, he will spare the hamster's life and become their "best friend forever". The Grim Reaper transports the kids to limbo, where he challenges them to a game of limbo. Despite his best effort, Grim ends up losing because he is attacked by Mr Snuggles at Mandy's own command.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It was the first ever episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, meaning that we get introduced to a boy named Billy and his friend Mandy, his pet hamster, Mr Snuggles, a Grim Reaper in which they force him to be best friends with, and so much more!
 * 2) The roleplay Billy hosts with his army and fish action figures is pretty entertaining to watch, along with Mandy burning the soldier with heat magnifying glass to end it off.
 * 3) The way the Grim Reaper gets summoned is very cool to watch, as we see what Mandy describes "a green vortex of pure evil coming out of the floor", and Billy mistaking him for Santa Claus when he is first shown.
 * 4) Some funny moments, such as Billy mistaking Grim for Santa Claus as mentioned above, him thinking he has a curtain when Grim says "it's curtains for Mr Snuggles!" and even him mistaking Grim's scythe as a hockey stick, plus so much more!
 * 5) The way the Grim Reaper becomes Billy and Mandy's best friend is also interesting, thanks to him losing in a game of limbo by being attacked by Mr Snuggles.
 * 6) Good Ending: Although Grim loses in the game of limbo, Billy is very happy that Grim is now best friends with him and has a pillow fight with his body, and although Grim is miserable to sleep next to Mandy, it's very funny to watch and well executed here.

Reception

 * It holds a rating of 7.9 out of 100 on IMDB.

Trivia

 * Outside of this pilot episode, Mr Snuggles never made any appearances in future episodes, except for "The Incredible Shrinking Mandy" from the sixth season.
 * A flashback of this episode can be heard in the season 5 episode "Billy & Mandy Begins", though Mandy incorrectly states that Mr Snuggles was 7 when he was really 10. And also by Grim in "Billy & Mandy vs the Martians" when he mentions to Emperor Mars about him becoming best friends with them after losing the limbo game.