You know, this may be an over thinking nitpick but this joke from Billy and Mandy has always bugged me.
Why would Grim even bother looking at the obituaries to see who has died today? He’s DEATH itself, he should know immediately by nature on who just just died and who didn’t die because again: he’s DEATH itself!
He’s proud of his work.
“Time to see who among the ones I reaped are missed!”
he wants to learn what the people he shepherds into the afterlife were like in life.