Evil Con Carne

*Evil Con Carne*
Evil Con Carne
Genre	Science fiction; Black comedy; Slapstick;
Created by	Maxwell Atoms
Based on	Grim & Evil; 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;
Composers	Gregory Hinde; Drew Neumann;
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	22
Production
Executive producers	Maxwell Atoms; Brian A. Miller;
Producer	Vincent Davis
Running time	7 –11 minutes
Production company	Cartoon Network Studios
Original release
Network	Cartoon Network
Release	July 11, 2003 –; October 22, 2004
Related
	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.^[1] 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 Russian 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.

Evil Con Carne began as a segment on Grim & Evil, from which it was a spin-off, along with sister series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, on August 24, 2001. Although the segments were produced for Grim & Evil, the series aired as a separate series from July 11, 2003, to October 22, 2004, on Cartoon Network.^[2]

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. Twenty-two episodes were produced.

Premise

Once upon a time, there was a jillionaire playboy who was blown up in a tremendous explosion. His brain survived... (Stomach, too!) ...and was attached to the body of a stupid circus bear. I am that brain. My name is Hector Con Carne, and I will one day rule the world! (He laughs maniacally.)
— Hector Con Carne's brain (and stomach), in the opening title sequence

Hector Con Carne (Phil LaMarr), a wealthy crime lord and evil genius bent on taking over the world and the League of Nations, was caught in an explosion initiated by his nemesis, Cod Commando (Maxwell Atoms), a soldier for the Secret Paramilitary Organized Response Kommand (S.P.O.R.K.). The explosion scattered most of his body across the world. He was rescued by the scientist Major Dr. Ghastly (Grey DeLisle), who placed his living remains into two containment units: one for his brain, and the other for his stomach. These two units were later installed into Boskov (Frank Welker), a purple Russian circus bear, giving Con Carne's brain control over (almost) all the bear's actions and movements.

Hector, Dr. Ghastly and his military leader, General Skarr (Armin Shimerman), then created a secret laboratory on an island with a bunny-shaped mountain known as "Bunny Island" (a parody of Ernst Stavro Blofeld's lair in the James Bond movies). Gathering an army, Con Carne resumed his quest for world domination and made a new goal: to find his missing body parts. The group's schemes typically end in failure, often due to the behavior and conflicts within the trio: Skarr is tired of being directed by Hector and wishes to overthrow him; Ghastly cares more about her unrequited love for her boss than world domination; while Hector is narcissistic, megalomaniacal, and generally abusive towards his henchmen.

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.^[3] 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.^[4] 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 segments on Cow and Chicken).^[5]

The resulting show, Grim & Evil, premiered on August 24, 2001, and was put on hiatus on October 18, 2002.^[6] 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 & 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.^[5]

After Evil Con Carne was cancelled, its characters appeared in minor roles in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, and General Skarr became a recurring character. According to Tom Warburton, characters from Evil Con Carne were originally set to appear in the television special "The Grim Adventures of the KND".^[7] Hector, General Skarr, and Dr. Ghastly briefly appear in the end credits as character costumes for Lazlo, Raj, and Clam in a Camp Lazlo crossover titled "Evil Camp Carne".

The series aired alongside The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy on Checkered Past.

Censorship

During its Grim & Evil run, "The Smell of Vengeance" was subject to censorship in the wake of the September 11 attacks. The episode's plot involves Hector and his army using a weapon that produces foul-smelling odors on New York City, sending its citizens into a frenzy. "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 temporarily suspended from broadcast rotation.^[8]

Episodes

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

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

Season 1 (2001–04)

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"^{[nb 1]}	Dave Brain	Maxwell Atoms	Greg Miller Maxwell Atoms	December 14, 2001 (2001-12-14)
5	"Devolver"^{[nb 2]}	Brian Hogan	Maxwell Atoms	Mike Stern Bob Camp	October 5, 2001 (2001-10-05)
6	"Tiptoe Through the Tulips"^{[nb 3]}	Brian Hogan Dave Brain	Vincent Davis	Bob Camp	October 12, 2001 (2001-10-12)
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

Notes

^ Includes 32 segments

^ "The Smell of Vengeance" is a 14-minute special.
^ "Devolver" is a 14-minute special.
^ "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" is a 14-minute special.

References

^ "New 'Toons for Network". The Robesonian. Atlanta. Associated Press. February 25, 2001. pp. 7C. Archived from the original on 2015-09-27. Retrieved 2011-05-15 – via Google News.
^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Company. p. 52. ISBN 9781476672939.
^ Forkan, Jim (February 21, 2001). "Cartoon Adds Four New Shows". NextTV.com. Multichannel News. Archived from the original on 2024-09-15. Retrieved 2024-03-24.
^ Dempsey, John (August 29, 2000). "'Billy & Mandy' Beats Out 'Robot,' 'Longhair' to Get Greenlight". Variety. Archived from the original on 2013-10-03. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
^ ^a ^b Hester, Julian (January 14, 2022). What's in My Head Podcast - Maxwell Atoms: The Creator of Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy!. RSS.com (podcast). Retrieved 2022-02-13.
^ Macmillan, Alissa (February 22, 2001). "'Toon Net Sets 2 New Series". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 2012-05-09. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
^ Warburton, Tom (March 29, 2010). "WarburtonLabs: Grim Adventures of the KND!". WarburtonLabs. Archived from the original on 2018-12-12. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
^ Calvo, Dana (September 22, 2001). "Cartoon World Is Playing It Safe". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2024-09-21. Retrieved 2022-07-22.

External links

Official website (archive)
Evil Con Carne at IMDb

[1] Includes 32 segments

[10] "The Smell of Vengeance" is a 14-minute special.

[11] "Devolver" is a 14-minute special.

[12] "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" is a 14-minute special.

[2] "New 'Toons for Network". The Robesonian. Atlanta. Associated Press. February 25, 2001. pp. 7C. Archived from the original on 2015-09-27. Retrieved 2011-05-15 – via Google News.

[3] Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Company. p. 52. ISBN 9781476672939.

[4] Forkan, Jim (February 21, 2001). "Cartoon Adds Four New Shows". NextTV.com. Multichannel News. Archived from the original on 2024-09-15. Retrieved 2024-03-24.

[5] Dempsey, John (August 29, 2000). "'Billy & Mandy' Beats Out 'Robot,' 'Longhair' to Get Greenlight". Variety. Archived from the original on 2013-10-03. Retrieved 2013-05-31.

[:0-6] Hester, Julian (January 14, 2022). What's in My Head Podcast - Maxwell Atoms: The Creator of Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy!. RSS.com (podcast). Retrieved 2022-02-13.

[7] Macmillan, Alissa (February 22, 2001). "'Toon Net Sets 2 New Series". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 2012-05-09. Retrieved 2011-05-15.

[8] Warburton, Tom (March 29, 2010). "WarburtonLabs: Grim Adventures of the KND!". WarburtonLabs. Archived from the original on 2018-12-12. Retrieved 2019-05-25.

[9] Calvo, Dana (September 22, 2001). "Cartoon World Is Playing It Safe". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2024-09-21. Retrieved 2022-07-22.

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