Ed, Edd n Eddy

Ed, Edd n Eddy
File:EdEddnEddy.png Left to Right: Ed, Eddy, and Edd(Double D)
Created by	Danny Antonucci
Starring	Matt Hill Samuel Vincent Tony Sampson
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	62 (including 3 specials) as of July 3, 2006
Original release
Network	Cartoon Network
Release	January 4, 1999 – present

Ed, Edd n Eddy is an American animated television series created by Danny Antonucci and produced by a.k.a. Cartoon for the Cartoon Network. The premise is that three pre-adolescent boys—named Ed, Edd, and Eddy (collectively known as "the Eds")—hang around in their suburban neighborhood of Peach Creek, where "the cul-de-sac" is located. Led by Eddy, the Eds scheme to make money off their peers, but their plans usually fail, leaving them in various predicaments. The characters never leave the neighborhood, and adults are nowhere to be found.

The series, which was Cartoon Network's fifth Cartoon Cartoon, was first aired in 1999 and has since attracted millions of fans worldwide. Originally, there were to be only four seasons; Cartoon Network, however, has ordered two more seasons of Ed, Edd n Eddy, bringing the series length to six seasons. There are also three holiday specials: Halloween, Christmas, and Valentine's Day episodes. It is now reigning as the longest running original cartoon on Cartoon Network.

Characters

Ed

Ed is the workhorse of the group who tends to speak in word salad. His mind is a subculture grab bag full of comics and monster movies, which he often confuses with reality. Despite his larger size, Ed is utterly at the mercy of his tyrannical younger sister Sarah, and is an easy target for her emotional blackmail techniques. Much to the dismay of germophobe Edd, he has zero personal hygiene—he's even terrified of soap. Even though he usually has a very sweet disposition, he can become grumpy occasionally. Ed loves buttered toast, gravy, and chickens. Ed is one of those people who seems on the surface to be stupid, but his mind simply functions in an alternate reality.

Edd

A young inventor, neat freak, and the brains of the group, sarcastic Edd is never seen without his trademark black hat that resembles a sock, hence the nickname "Sockhead". This hat apparently hides a dark and awful secret which only Ed and Eddy know about. To differentiate his homophonetic name from that of Ed, everyone calls him Double-D. His parents put a heavy workload upon him, communicating tasks solely through a multitude of sticky notes.

He is considered a nerd by everyone, hates sports and is normally a straight-A student in all of his classes. He has been excused from gym class ever since "the dodgeball incident". He is not very strong physically and has a difficult time dealing with it. He is an excellent pedal steel guitar player, although he insists that he loathes the instrument.

Eddy

An incompetent 12-year-old con artist and self-appointed leader of the Eds, Eddy is a complete sucker for jawbreakers at the local candy store. He dislikes school and goes to any length to scam the other kids for money, even at the expense of his friends' credibility. Because he is short, he has something of an inferiority complex.

It is usually Eddy's swaggering over-confidence that causes the failure of Double D's plans. Eddy has a love affair with money, and was driven insane when he had no one to scam when everyone else was under quarantine for chickenpox. He loves his retro styled room, with a lava lamp, a large round king-sized bed, and a record player, next to which can be seen a Tom Jones record. His room also includes a disco ball. Eddy is mostly seen commanding the two "Eds" into doing all the work, while he just slacks off.

Sarah

A spoiled brat of a sister who acts cute and charming only when it serves her. Sarah has Ed's unending loyalty and obedience, mostly from threats of her snitching on him. She is almost always playing with Jimmy, and when she's not, she rushes to his aid the moment he calls her. It has been hinted in several episodes that she has a crush on Edd. She also writes in her diary about how angry she is at Ed and Eddy for forcing "cute, innocent" Edd to participate in their schemes.

Jimmy

A childish aspiring artist and somewhat girlish, Jimmy likes playing dollies with Sarah. He can be more manipulative, conniving, and more successful than Eddy when given motivation. Jimmy is quite accident-prone, and there are few episodes where he isn't seen with bandages. However, he can be quite crafty, and once framed the Eds for wrecking a friendship monument. Jimmy is also a member of Rolf's Urban Rangers, and he claims that his father forces him to practice hockey. Jimmy has shown how deeply attached he is to Sarah when someone tries to take her away from him. He also wears a retainer due to one of Eddy's previous scams where he bit a bowling pin and ruined his teeth.

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Clockwise from upper left: Sarah, Rolf, Kevin, Nazz, Johnny, Jimmy (image from the episode "Ready, Set, Ed")

Rolf

Rolf, of a curious European culture with odd customs and a thick accent, works his parent's small farm within the cul-de-sac, leads a scouting group called the Urban Rangers and is the son of a shepherd, in which he takes pride. His faithful farm animals are a pig named Wilfred, a goat named Victor, a cow, a chicken named Gertrude, and several other minor animals. He mostly hangs out with Kevin, playing various sports, and hardly minds the Eds unless they make a fool out of him, after which he is not afraid to use brute force. He has quite a temper, and reportedly wishes to be a barber when he grows up. He refers to himself in the third person.

Jonny 2x4

Jonny 2x4 has a large head, frequently gets on the other kids' nerves, likes collecting clams, believes Plank sees things, and talks a lot. He is a member of Rolf's Urban Rangers. He doesn't seem to mind the antics of the Eds and sometimes seems to enjoy them. He is rarely seen without Plank. Jonny is innocent and gullible, and forgives people no matter what they do.

Plank

A short piece of board with drawn-on eyes and mouth, Plank is Jonny's imaginary best friend. Plank is an oddity within the series, comparable to Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes, and Stump from The Angry Beavers. He was given a chip in his head when he got stuck in Rolf's teeth, thought by Johnny to be brain damage. While immobile, he is often able to have an effect on the kids through strange and elaborate coincidences.

Nazz

The trendy and attractive girl in the cul-de-sac who mostly hangs out with Kevin and does not mind the Eds unless they annoy her. All of the boys except Rolf and Jimmy have a crush on her, and when she approaches, they lose the ability to speak coherently. Kevin and Eddy are rivals for Nazz's attention. Nazz plays the tuba very poorly, but when she plays the boys say otherwise to appease her.

Kevin

The jock on the block, he hates the Eds,but he seems to have a sort of tolerance for Edd asking him for help fixing his bike and discussing modifications on it. Kevin has a garage full of jawbreakers (as his father works at a jawbreaker factory) and loves customizing his bike, skateboards and snowboards. When not riding his trusty bike, he hangs out with Rolf in the lane. He is a gym assistant at Peach Creek Junior High. He has a fear of needles.

Kanker Sisters

If there's one thing the Eds and the cul-de-sac kids can agree on is that they all hate the Kanker sisters. May (blonde), Marie (blue hair), and Lee (redhead) are sisters and live in a nearby trailer park. The Kankers are the cul-de-sac's number one enemy and they are feared by all the other kids, especially the Eds and Kevin for their brash and uninhibited demeanor. While all the Kankers like the Eds, it has been shown that May has a preference for Ed, Marie for Edd, and Lee for Eddy.

Unseen character

Eddy's brother

According to Eddy, his brother was "the coolest kid in the cul-de-sac" and went away. Kevin is scared of Eddy's brother, Rolf thinks Eddy's brother wants to steal his chickens...or worse, Jonny looks up to Eddy's brother, and Nazz has a crush on him. Jimmy wants to meet him because he has big muscles. Sarah does not seem to care about him. He is never shown on screen except through vague impressions such as the photo of Eddy and his brother's silhouettes on the staircase, but Eddy makes passing references to him when one of his ideas are inspired by him. He is also lactose intolerant. He is a very popular figure in the cul-de-sac and everyone except Sarah either admires him or is afraid of him.

Voice Talent

• Matt Hill - Ed
• Samuel Vincent - Edd
• Tony Sampson - Eddy
• Keenan Christenson - Jimmy
• David Paul Grove - Jonny (credited as "Buck" before season 4)
• Kathleen Barr - Kevin/Marie Kanker
• Tabitha St. Germain - Nazz (Season 1)
• Jenn Forgie - May Kanker/Nazz (Season 3)
• Erin Fitzgerald - May Kanker (Season 1-present)/Nazz (Season 2-present)
• Peter Kelamis - Rolf
• Janyse Jaud - Sarah/Lee Kanker

Episode list

All air dates are U.S. air dates and are put as day/month/year.

Season 1: 1999

1. "The Edtouchables" & "Nagged to Ed" (4 January, 1999)
2. "Pop Goes the Ed" & "Over Your Ed" (11 January 1999)
3. "Sir-Ed-a-Lot" & "A Pinch to Grow an Ed" (18 January 1999)
4. "Read All About Ed" & "Quick Shot Ed" (25 January 1999)
5. "An Ed Too Many" & "Ed-n-Seek" (1 February 1999)
6. "Look into My Eds" & "Tag, Yer Ed" (8 February 1999)
7. "Dawn of the Eds" & "Vert-Ed-Go" (15 February 1999)
8. "Who, What, Where, Ed" & "Keeping Up With the Eds" (22 February 1999)
9. "Fool on the Ed" & "A Boy and His Ed" (1 March 1999)
10. "Laugh Ed Laugh" & "It's Way Ed" (8 March 1999)
11. "Eds-Aggerate" & "Oath to an Ed" (15 March 1999)
12. "A Glass of Warm Ed" & "Flea Bitten Ed" (22 March 1999)
13. "Button Yer Ed" & "Avast Ye Eds" (29 March 1999)

For episode synopses, see Episodes from Ed, Edd n Eddy, Season 1.

Season 2: 1999

14. "Know-It-All Ed" & "Dear Ed" (13 September 1999)
15. "Knock Knock, Who's Ed" & "One Plus One Equals Ed" (20 September 1999)
16. "Eeny Meeny Miney Ed" & "Ready Set Ed" (27 September 1999)
17. "Hands Across Ed" & "Floss Your Ed" (4 October 1999)
18. "In Like Ed" & "Who Let the Ed in?" (11 October 1999)
19. "Rambling Ed" & "Home Cooked Eds" (18 October 1999)
20. "To Sir With Ed" & "Key to My Ed" (25 October 1999)
21. "Honor Thy Ed" & "Scrambled Ed" (1 November 1999)
22. "Urban Ed" & "Stop, Look, Ed" (8 November 1999)
23. "Rent-a-Ed" & "Shoo Ed" (15 November 1999)
24. "Ed in a Halfshell" & "Mirror Mirror on the Ed" (29 November 1999)
25. "Hot Buttered Ed" & "High Heeled Ed" (6 December 1999)
26. "Fa, La, La, La, Ed" & "Cry Ed" (20 December 1999)

For episode synopses, see Episodes from Ed, Edd n Eddy, Season 2.

Season 3: 2001-2002

27. "Wish You Were Ed" & "Momma's Little Ed" (23 February 2001)
28. "Once Upon an Ed" & "For Your Ed Only" (25 May 2001)
29. "It Came from Outer Ed" & "Three Squares and an Ed" (19 September 2001)
30. "Dueling Eds" & "Dim Lit Ed" (23 November 2001)
31. "Will Work for Ed" & "Ed, Ed and Away" (4 January 2002)
32. "X Marks the Ed" & "From Here to Ed" (25 January 2002)
33. ""Boys Will Be Eds & "Ed or Tails?" (15 February 2002)
34. ""Gimme Gimme never Ed & "My Fair Ed" (8 March 2002)
35. "Rock-A-Bye Ed" & "O-Ed Eleven" (22 March 2002)
36. "Luck of the Ed" & "Ed, Pass It on" (21 June 2002)
37. "Brother, Can You Spare an Ed" & "The Day the Ed Stood Still" (28 June 2002)

For episode synopses, see: Episodes from Ed, Edd n Eddy, Season 3.

Season 4: 2003-2004

38. "If It Smells Like An Ed" (5 July 2002)
39. "Don't Rain On My Ed" & "Once Bitten Twice Ed" (12 July 2002)
40. "An Ed In A Bush" & " I see no Ed" (27 September 2002)
41. "Is There An Ed In The House" & "An Ed Is Born" (1 November 2002)
42. "One Size Fits Ed" & "Pain In The Ed" (15 November 2002
43. "Ed Overboard" & "One of Those Eds" (24 August 2003)
44. "They Call Him Mr. Ed" & "For the Ed, By the Ed" (10 November 2003)
45. "Little Ed Blue" & "A Twist of Ed" (17 November 2003)
46. "Your Ed Here" & "The Good Ole Ed" (23 January 2004)
47. "Thick as an Ed" & "Sorry, Wrong Ed" (30 January 2004)
48. "Robin' Ed" & " A Case of Ed" (6 February 2004)
49. "Run for Your Ed" & "Hand Me Down Ed" (13 February 2004)
50. "Stiff Upper Ed" & "Here's Mud in Your Ed" (20 February 2004)
51. "Stuck in the Ed" & "Postcards from the Ed" (27 February 2004)
52. "Take This Ed and Shove It" (5 November 2004)

For episode synopses, see Episodes from Ed, Edd n Eddy, Season 4.

Season 5: 2005-2006

53. "Mission Ed-Possible" & "Every Which Way But Ed" (4 November 2005)
54. "Boom Boom Out Goes the Ed" & "Cleanliness is Next to Edness" (11 November 2005)
55. "Out With the Old, in With the Ed" (18 November 2005)
56. "I am Curious Ed" & "No Speak Da Ed" (25 November 2005)
57. "Cool Hand Ed" & "Too Smart for His Own Ed" (31 March 2006)
58. "Pick an Ed" & "Who's Minding the Ed?" (28 June 2006)
59. "This Won't Hurt an Ed" & "Truth or Ed" (3 July 2006)
60. "The Good, the Bad, and the Ed" & "Tinker Ed"
61. "Tween a Rock & an Ed Place" & "Tight End Ed"
62. "Smile for the Ed" & "All Eds are Off"
63. "A Fistful of Ed" & "Run Ed, Run!"
64. "A Town Called Ed" & "Luck Be an Ed Tonight"

For episode synopses, see Episodes from Ed, Edd n Eddy, Season 5.

Holiday specials

1. "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle" (Christmas) (3 December 2004)
2. "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo" (Valentine's Day) (11 February 2005)
3. "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo Haw Haw" (Halloween) (28 October 2005)

For episode synopses, see Episodes from Ed, Edd n Eddy, Special episodes.

DVD Releases

• Season 1 will be released in a 2 Disc set on October 10, 2006. http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5866
• A DVD named Edifying Ed-Ventures, containing six episodes and several bonus features, was released on May 10, 2005. A second DVD was released on March 21, 2006, entitled Fools' Par-Ed-Ise.

Videogames

• There have been two video games based on Ed, Edd n Eddy; The Mis-Edventures, released in 2005, and Jawbreakers!, released in 2001.

Trivia

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An Ed Edd 'n' Eddy production Cel along with its background.

• Ed, Edd n Eddy was unusual in that it was animated wholly using traditional cel animation, while most cartoons are now animated using 2D computer animation. The use of painted cels lasted up to the end of the 4th season: Though the show is entirely hand-drawn, all cels are colored digitally. This is due to the fact that no animation studio paints cels anymore. It was the last major cartoon to use painted cels.

• The number of characters in Ed, Edd n Eddy are "fixed": no adults or other characters other than those already in play ever appear in the show. In school, the Eds and the rest of the core cast are the only children we ever see. The entire adult world is a set of hidden characters. Occasionally, a vehicle will enter the small universe the show is set in, and it can be presumed that an adult is driving, although they are never seen. However, the arms of some adults become visible on occasion.

• The letters "AKA," the abbreviation for the name of the company that produces the show, frequently appear in the show. The words have been seen on license plates, magazines, T-shirts, and other things.

• Several errors in the first four individual episodes—off-key music, disappearing outlines, and a fuzzy picture—were fixed for later airings.

• In Season 5, for the first time, the show begins to allow time to move forward (e.g., Jonny starting to wear a sweater rather than a t-shirt.) The first 4 seasons took place during the summer entirely. Season 5 displays the beginning of the school year.

• All the episode titles, except for the holiday specials, are popular sayings with a word replaced with the name "Ed" (e.g., "Stop, Look, and Ed"- Stop, Look, and Listen.) Some are also parodies of movie titles (e.g., "For Your Ed Only" - For Your Eyes Only, "The Day the Ed Stood Still" - The Day the Earth Stood Still, "O-Ed's Eleven" - Ocean's Eleven).

• Most of the episodes begin with something completely unrelated to the storyline of the episode. This is to emphasize the randomness of childhood. [1]

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The titular characters from Ed, Edd n Eddy and Dexter's Laboratory make a cameo, Foster's style.

• The Eds made a cameo in the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Eddie Monster", although they were stylized for that particular series.

• The most coveted sweet treat in the Ediverse, especially among the Eds, is the jawbreaker. A number of episodes have used jawbreakers or quests to obtain the same as plot or sub-plot devices. The jawbreakers of the Ediverse are noticeably oversized; in fact, almost as large as a kid's head. Kids enjoying jawbreakers will have characteristic bowling-ball-sized bulges on one side of their heads, due to the presence of a massive jawbreaker under one of their cheeks.

• In "Cool Hand Ed", Ed made a reference to an old airline commercial by saying, "Hi. I'm Ed. Fly Me!"

• The Eds' plans are usually ruined by deus ex machinas. For example, in "Cool Hand Ed" the gang's attempt to escape from school using a makeshift plane fails when Double-D's sweater gets caught on a bush; he was still holding onto the plane when it happened, so the plane was pulled back and crashed. There are several more of these in other episodes.

• The show features many meta-references and breaks of the fourth wall. To name a few examples:
  • In "Know-It-All Ed", Edd tells Eddy his "25 cents or 25 days in the pokey" line is from the "wrong cartoon". The cartoon this was referencing was Hanna & Barbera's "Quick Draw McGraw."
  • In "Key to My Ed", after tripping over a napping Johnny, Eddy complains "Does this guy sleep through the whole show?"
  • In "Cry Ed", as he chases Eddy around, Edd complains "I've lost about ten pounds this season!"
  • In "Momma's Little Ed", Eddy apologizes to Edd for posting up "sticky notes of the Apocalypse", blaming it on Ed and Kevin, and Edd points out "Kevin wasn't in this show, Eddy."
  • In "For Your Ed Only", Kevin is perplexed by Eddy and Edd's use of "hasta la vista" and "c'est la vie", and declares "This show needs subtitles."
  • At the end of Act 1 of "If It Smells Like an Ed", Ed says "I should have all the feeling back in my feet after this word from our sponsors, Double-D." Edd, who is stuck hauling a chunk of sidewalk that Ed had been carrying, then says "Curse broadcast commercialism!"
  • In "Ed Overboard", when asked to be sworn in as a temporary member of the Urban Rangers, Eddy quips "I'd swear, but Standards won't let me."
  • In "Hands Across Ed", at the auditions, after banishing Rolf after his disconcerting dance of the hairless otter, Eddy whispers to Edd, "No budget for subtitles!"
  • In "Robin Ed", after finding out that Eddy has been selling boxes of junk to the kids, Edd says "That's what we do on every show, but not like this!" as he complains about Eddy sinking to a new low.
  • In "The Good Ol' Ed", after Eddy finds the "Canadian squirt gun" from "Know-It-All Ed", Ed says "Funny, it was, as though it were only second season."
  • Also, in the same episode, when Ed starts reminiscing about the beginning of the episode, Eddy hits him over the head with a fish and shouts "I hate clip shows!", and again thwacks him over the head with the fish and says "STOP IT! No more remembering!"
  • In "Stuck In Ed", after Edd reminds Eddy that he'd taught Jimmy (who is trying to help think up a scam) everything he knows, Eddy asks "Didn't we win an Emmy for that episode?" Edd says, "Hardly."
  • At the end of "Here's Mud In Your Ed", after Eddy falls for Rolf's "money-tree" scam a second time, Edd turns to the camera and says, "An iris-in would be appropriate, don't you think?", cueing the end of the cartoon. After the iris-in occurs, his voice says, "Thank you!"
  • Near the end of "Boom Boom Out Goes the Ed", Ed finds Edd's hat, with no sign of Edd, and assumes the worst, while Eddy protests "But it's the end of the show, Ed!" Also in the same episode Eddy has quarters in the near end of the episode and exclaims "I still have money and it's the almost the end of the show!"
  • In "Hot Buttered Ed", after Edd agrees to force Kevin from their spot at the swimming hole, Eddy rebuts saying "That exactly what I said 20 pages ago!"

• Peach Creek Estates, which is where the cul-de-sac is, shares the name of several real-life neighborhoods. The show's creators insist that the Peach Creek of the show can never be found on a map, and is more an idealistic location than a specific one.

• In the episode The Day the Ed stood Still, Ed wears costume resembling a Xenomorph from the Alien movie series, and Ed actually mimics its behavior by turning his bedroom into a "hive" and suspending the other kids from the wall using a resin formed from semi-digested cereal.

• In the episode "O-Ed Eleven," Edd creates a fake ID card with the name Walter Sobchak. Walter Sobchak is also the name of a character in the movie The Big Lebowski.

• In the episode "Urban-Ed," Ed makes a reference to Smokey and the Bandit; while in the city, Ed imitates a semi-truck, running through a lineup of kids and through a red light shouting "Smokey's on my tail!"

• In the episode "Every Which Way But Ed" there is a reference to the song "Jesus built my Hotrod" by industrial metal band Ministry (band) when Kevin dives into the lake saying "ding a ding dang my ding a long ding dong!"

• A reference to Bruce Almighty is used in "Out With the Old, In With the Ed". Edd has an extendable file cabinet in his suitcase, much like Bruce Nolan's life file cabinet in the Omni Presents building.

• A reference is made to the 1992 Los Angeles riots in "One + One = Ed" when Jimmy says, "Can't we all just get along?" is what Rodney King said in response to the violence.

• In the episode, "Once Upon an Ed," Johnny makes reference to various songs by The Beatles by telling the Eds "Plank and I want real stories, with stuff like octopus's gardens, silver hammers, and Mr. Kite!" Another Beatles reference was made in the episode "Rent-A-Ed", where Ed shouts "O-bla-di, o-bla-da!" after crashing through the see-saw.

• A majority of the show's voice actors are affiliated with Ocean Group.

• A clip of the series can be seen on a television set in an episode of the television drama Judging Amy (specifically the episode "An Impartial Bias," but the sound on the television cannot be heard as well. Another clip of the series can be seen in the films Crazy/Beautiful and The Kid.

• During speculation of the fifth season of the series the TV Tome website (now TV.com) listed a set of episodes that would be a part of the season, but those episodes turned out to be false. Among them included an episode where Edd clones himself and his clones start tormenting the others. While this problem was cleaned up, it created a great deal of confusion for fans.

• Ed, Edd n Eddy is not set in any identifiable time period. Danny Antonucci has stated that he wanted the show to appeal to any generation. If a VCR is needed in a plot, it is there. In the first episode, Edd used a computer to give Jonny a lie detector test, powered through a toaster. The kids do not have IPods, Game Boys or cell phones, Rolf's TV has 4 channels and Ed's TV has rabbit ear antennas.

• Ed was the winner of the 2004 Cartoon Network presidential election, while running with Grim from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Plank was also a candidate and never uttered a word when asked questions by the media.

External links

• Official site at Cartoon Network (USA)
• The 3 Eds
• EDtropolis: home of the Ed, Edd n Eddy Zone

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