The Best Episodes Directed By Russell Calabrese

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #1 - In the Line of Johnny

   S3:E28/11/2000

   Johnny becomes a security guard for a parade.

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   #2 - Fugitive Johnny

   S3:E38/11/2000

   Johnny is chased by the police when they think he has stolen cookies from the police bake sale.

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #3 - Hold That Schmoe

   S3:E58/18/2000

   Knowing that it will sell millions, Johnny tries to get the first issue of ""an Bean, The Bean That Walks Like A Man" but it is guarded by a ghost!

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   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #4 - Billy & Mandy Save Christmas

   S5:E1112/2/2005

   The day before Christmas, Billy, Mandy and Grim go to the shopping mall, where Mandy complains that Santa Claus is just an invention from corporations. Grim assures Mandy that Santa is real, and they even went to college together. They decide to travel to the North Pole and meet Santa, but when they arrive Mrs. Claus tells them that Santa Claus has been transformed into a vicious vampire.

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   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #5 - Loch Ness Johnny

   S2:E611/21/2000

   Johnny and Mrs. Bravo go to Scotland and Johnny bought something back.

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   7.3/10(3 votes)

   #6 - Brain Storm

   S3:E129/19/1997

   The mice are looking to control tornados, but a pest keeps getting in their way.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - Mommy Fiercest

   S5:E48/12/2005

   Then Billy's mom, discovers crow's feet on her face, she panics and does not want to leave the bathroom. As Grim needs to use the bathroom, he uses his scythe to make Gladys a young girl again. Gladys goes to see Billy, but neither he nor Mandy nor Irwin recognize her, and instead, Billy calls her "Corn", because of the white bread she gave him. When Corn tells Billy to do his homework, Mandy tells him to go to the movie theater instead. Corn and Mandy struggle over who gets to control Billy. Billy's father plays with Grim's scythe and also becomes a child; he then goes to the movies and gets together with Gladys (Corn) again.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - Ecto Cooler

   S5:E810/14/2005

   As Billy desires to be "cool" like Sperg, he has an ectoplasmic manifestation coming out of his mouth. The ectoplasm grows full size and turns out to be the ghost of nineteenth-century British poet Lord Byron, who tries to teach Billy to be cool, using elaborate poetry instead of bare muscles. Billy uses a poem to insult Sperg's mother, and Sperg challenges Billy to a duel. Billy and Lord Byron fight Sperg and his gang, but are badly beaten. Byron tells Billy he has been trained in the arts of coolness, and disappears.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - Prank Call of Cthulu

   S5:E1010/21/2005

   When Billy and Irwin start making prank calls, everybody knows that Billy is behind the calls because every telephone has a caller ID. While Billy searches in Grim's trunk in the basement for something to defeat the caller ID, he finds a skull-shaped phone with no caller ID. Grim warns him to not use the phone, because it is used to call the ancient demon Cthulhu, whose sole appearance makes people go mad, and if awakened will cause the destruction of the world. Despite Grim's warning, Billy and Irwin use the phone anyway, and they are sucked into it by tentacles.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Everything Breaks

    S7:E16/6/2006

    As Billy behaves more reckless than ever and cannot stop breaking everything in sight, Mandy thinks he should go some place where he can release all his urge to destroy until he gets tired of it. Mandy, Grim, and Irwin go to Level 9, home of the fearsome warrior Lord Pain, to convince him to take Billy. Billy receives psychological treatment and it is revealed that his desire to destroy stems from lack of attention when he was younger. Lord Pain abducts him, and together they start destroying everything in Level 9, which seems to be is uninhabited. Billy is still not satisfied, so he and Lord Pain return to Endsville and carry on breaking everything.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Secret Snake Club vs P.E.

    S7:E310/20/2006

    As Billy realizes the three geeks of the Secret Snake Club get doctor's notes to avoid Physical Education (P.E.) class, he wants to know their secret to avoid the class too. All the boys in the class join the club and all, except Billy, get doctor's notes from Billy's dad, who poses as a doctor. While Billy is the only one exercising in the class, the Snake Club summons a snake to destroy the gym. Since the invoked snake is tiny, Sperg uses Grim's scythe to make it a giant. Mandy and the other girls beat the boys and their snake because they did appreciate the P.E. class as an outlet for their aggression.

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon

    S7:E155/28/2007

    When Billy is sent to bed after playing with his Dr. Brainiac action figure, he wishes he had an adventure. He notices a strange light outside and wanders into a corn field to investigate; he encounters Sperg, and both of them got caught by a UFO's tractor beam. Inside the extraterrestrials decide to experiment on them.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Cinebrania

    S3:E29/8/1997

    The mice make a series of comedy films and hit the big time.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Where the Deer and The Mousealopes Play

    S3:E49/13/1997

    In their latest plan, Pinky and Brain try to take over the steel mills in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by pretending to be a part of an endangered species called the Mousealopes.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Brain Drained

    S3:E179/26/1997

    Brain is out of ideas for taking over the world, so he tries to get some from writers.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Calvin Brain

    S3:E209/29/1997

    Brain masquerades as a fashion designer.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Your Friend: Global Domination

    S3:E442/28/1998

    Brain explains why he should be leader in a mock educational film.

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    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #18 - Bikini Space Planet!

    S2:E17/2/1999

    Bikini Space Planet Johnny is picked up by two aliens that he calls ""shiny mamas"" and taken back to their planet. Before they can start dating Johnny they need to give him a few painful tests. After the tests, they claim he is a perfect male specimen and crown him their king. After requesting the cable be fixed they see Braveheart and Mel Gibson and forget all about Johnny.

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    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #19 - Johnny's Guardian Angel

    S2:E188/27/1999

    After smashing Carl's newest computer, wrecking Mama's flowers and letting Suzy's balloon float away, Johnny wishes he was never born! Then Maurice the guardian angel shows Johnny what life would be like if he was never born in this superb parody of It's A Wonderful Life!

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #20 - Pinky & The Brain ...and Larry

    S3:E39/13/1997

    Pinky and Brain have a new companion, Larry, but their newest plan just doesn't seem to pan out.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #21 - The Family That Poits Together, Narfs Together

    S3:E422/21/1998

    Brain enters Pinky's family in a contest to win $25,000.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #22 - Johnny's Inferno

    S2:E57/30/1999

    A demon is summon accidentally and receives help from Johnny to create evil in the world, by stepping on grass when there is a ""Keep Off The Grass"" signs and bringing an extra item through the express line at the grocery store.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #23 - Cover Boy

    S2:E118/13/1999

    Johnny with a little help from Pops and Carl gets a job a fashion model so he can meet all the female fashion models but unfortunately gets exposed to poison ivy and is fired in the process.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Jailbird Johnny

    S2:E148/20/1999

    A beureaucratic mix up gets Johnny thrown into a womens prison.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #25 - Doomates

    S2:E168/27/1999

    When Bunny puts in a V-chip to limit Johnny's TV-watching, he moves into a trailer, with Carl as his new roommate. Johnny and Carl soon begin to argue about the TV, and Carl wins the battle, only for the trailer to fall down a cliff, sending Johnny and Carl tumbling down.

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