Ed, Edd n Eddy

From left to right: Ed, Eddy, and Edd, aka Double D

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

The series was first aired in 1999 on Cartoon Network 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 will also be three holiday specials: Halloween, Christmas, and Valentine's Day.

In Brazil the show screens under the name Du, Dudu e Edu. The show's name is particularly funny in Spanish, where it is Ed, Edd y Eddy.

Characters

Ed: "harebrained," likes buttered toast, gravy, comic books, chickens, and monster movies.
Edd: (normally called Double D or Double Dee), inventor and neat freak, sarcastic as of late. Never seen without his trademark black-stocking cap, hence the nickname Sockhead.
Eddy: incompetent juvenile con artist and unofficial leader of the Eds, scams people for money to get jawbreakers.
Sarah: Ed's bad-tempered sister, best friend is Jimmy
Jimmy: aspiring artist, likes playing dollies with Sarah. Acts like a girl.
Rolf: of foreign unknown culture with odd customs, enjoys farming, leads a scouting group called the Urban Rangers; son of a shepherd.
Jonny: likes collecting clams, has a large head, believes Plank sees things.
Plank: a piece of plywood with drawn-on eyes and mouth, Jonny's best friend.
Nazz: the more mature girl in the cul-de-sac, hangs out with Kevin. Most of the boys have a crush on her, but when she approaches, they usually lose the ability to speak coherently.
Kevin: the "cool" kid, calls the Eds dorks (sometimes hating them), watches 60 Minutes, and has a garage full of jawbreakers.
Lee (redhead), Marie (blue hair), and May (blond) (collectively known as the Kanker Sisters): have crushes on the Eds, live in a nearby trailer park.

Trivia

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.
An interesting gimmick in the show (much akin to the theme in Peanuts) is that the number of characters in the show is "fixed": no adults or other characters other than those already in play ever appear in the show. 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. The character who comes closest to ever being seen is Rolf's Nana, whom he sometimes talks to (although she never talks back). Also, Santa Claus made a cameo on the Christmas special to give the kids their gifts. He flew away shortly after appearing.
Another gimmick is the constant use of the letters "AKA," which is the abbreviation for the name of the company that produces the show. The words have been seen on license plates, magazines, and other things.
In the show, jawbreakers, the candy all the characters love, are huge candy spheres as big as (sometimes bigger than) the characters' heads.
Television is an odd matter in the series. Typically, the only thing on is a movie that is identified in "Nagged to Ed" as Fishbowl 2 ("A classic!"), which consists of live-action paper fish being moved around on sticks. In another episode, in which the characters play hide and seek, Ed hides inside the television set in the same setting as a cartoon character resembling Felix the Cat.
All the episode titles have the word "Ed" in them, e.g., "Knock, Knock, Who's Ed?" and "Wish You Were Ed."
Most of the episodes begin with something completely unrelated to the storyline of the episode. This is to emphasize the randomness of childhood.[1]

Episode list

Season 1

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

Season 2

14) "Eeney, Meeney, Miney Ed" & "Ready, Set, Ed" (9/13/1999)
15) "Knock Knock, Who's Ed" & "One + One = Ed" (9/20/1999)
16) "Know It All Ed" & "Dear Ed" (9/27/1999)
17) "Hands Across Ed" & "Floss Your Ed" (10/4/1999)
18) "In Like Ed" & "Who Let the Ed In" (10/11/1999)
19) "Rambling Ed" & Home Cooked Eds" (10/18/1999)
20) "To Sir with Ed" & "Key to My Ed" (10/25/1999)
21) "Honor Thy Ed" & "Scrambled Ed" (11/1/1999)
22) "Urban Ed" & "Stop, Look, Ed" (11/8/1999)
23) "Rent-a-Ed" & "Shoo Ed" (11/15/1999)
24) "Ed in a Halfshell" & "Mirror Mirror on the Ed" (11/29/1999)
25) "Hot Buttered Ed" & "High Heeled Ed" (12/6/1999)
26) "Fa, La, La, La, Ed" & "Cry Ed" (12/20/1999)

Season 3

27) "Wish You Were Ed" & "Momma's Little Ed" (6/8/2001)
28) "Once upon an Ed" & "For Your Ed Only" (6/15/2001)
29) "It Came from Outer Ed" & "Three Squares and an Ed" (10/19/2001)
30) "Dueling Eds" & "Dim Lit Ed" (12/14/2001)
31) "Will Work for Ed" & "Ed, Edd and Away" (1/4/2002)
32) "X Marks the Ed" & "From Here to Ed" (1/25/2002)
33) "Boys Will Be Eds" & "Ed or Tails?" (2/15/2002)
34) "Gimme Gimme Never Ed" & "My Fair Ed" (3/8/2002)
35) "Rock-a-Bye Ed" & "O-Ed-Eleven" (3/22/2002)
36) "The Luck of the Ed" & "Ed, Pass It On" (6/21/2002)
37) "Brother, Can You Spare an Ed?" & "The Day the Ed Stood Still" (6/28/2002)
38) "If It Smells Like an Ed" (half-hour episode) (7/5/2002)
39) "Don't Rain on My Ed" & "Once Bitten, Twice Ed" (7/12/2002)

Season 4

40) "An Ed in the Bush" & "See No Ed" (9/27/2002)
41) "Is There an Ed in the House?" & "An Ed Is Born" (11/1/2002)
42) "One Size Fits Ed" & "Pain in the Ed" (11/15/2002)
43) "Ed Overboard" & "One of Those Eds" (8/24/2003)
44) "They Call Him Mr. Ed" & "For the Ed, by the Ed" (11/10/2003)
45) "Little Ed Blue" & "A Twist of Ed" (11/17/2003)
46) "Your Ed Here" & "The Good Ole Ed" (1/23/2004)
47) "Thick As an Ed" & "Sorry, Wrong Ed" (1/30/2004)
48) "Robbin' Ed" & "A Case of Ed" (2/6/2004)
49) "Hand Me Down Ed" & "Run for Your Ed" (2/13/2004)
50) "Stiff Upper Ed" & "Here's Mud in Your Ed" (2/20/2004)
51) "Stuck in Ed" & "Postcards from the Ed" (2/27/2004)
52) "Take This Ed and Shove It" (half-hour episode) (11/5/2004)

Holiday specials

1) "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle" (12/3/2004)
2) "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo" (To air 2/11/2005)[2]
3) Halloween (Unaired)

All air dates are U.S. air dates and are in U.S. format (Month/Day/Year).

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