From The View Of The Onlooker- Ed Edd N' Eddy

HELLOOO!!!!!!

My computer obsessed, patriotic fans, here is the Eighteenth entry. But firstly, let me go over the comments and see the delightfully brisk comments you have left

JackoDarth- Lol… I knew you’d agree with me. Even though I use it, it doesn’t prevent me becoming a hypocrite… as much as I hate that

Abby Lever- Sure facebook is addictive… but I’ve learned that compared to other addictive things (not drugs, people… Im being a rightful Samaritan, in that I distrust drugs, but support copyright infringement… :D…except my own…you filthy b**terds), it actually becomes pretty minor… so it can be controlled to an extent

Oliver Smith- Hmm… exactly what doesn’t make sense? I went to London, took some pictures, and wrote an entry about it. What in that is confusing…

Sure, when I look over it, I did make some mistakes, but bearing in mind, I only worked on it on the evening I got back, AND the day I released it, so there’s bound to be of couple mistakes that I overlook.

But still… I feel that what you’ve said is a little… strong. It wasn’t that bad

Oh, and BTW… I have played God Of War (every game in the series except GOF 3 and some mobile game)

Louisah Hillman- Its fair to agree, but… I actually took pictures just because I thought you’d like em’

Granted, it is true that many people do like Starbucks, and that all this attention has obviously ruined it, but… seriously, don’t I get a smile… or a laugh. That would have been much appreciated

Anywaaaay… now to the entry, and introducing yet another new theme to my show (okay… it’s a blog… I just like calling it a show, though), appropriately called ‘Shows From Our Childhoods’



This is where I review a show that generally most people my aged watched until, say, 10 years old. Yep… those good ol’ shows, and what better way to start than by reviewing virtually the first show I ever watched, Ed Edd n’ Eddy



This show… kicks your a** till’ you develop a** cancer. Honestly, this was the first real show that I remember liking (sorry, but a show with trains with faces that don’t eat people… I ain’t buying the DVD), and for good reason, as you’ll see in a minute. But first, a little backstory

Ed Edd n’ Eddy was created around in 1999, back when an overhaul in animation was taking place. Shows like Animaniacs, Batman the animated series and a whole bunch of 80’s shows (not like the actual show which I will probably never watch) were being seen as too stereotypically ‘old’, and new animation genius’s needed to be brought in to connect with a new era of audiences… if only they knew they’d turn out chavs… hmm, I need a terminator.

But anyway, Ed Edd n’ Eddy were a result of this revamp in childrens shows, and it seems to me that they all appealed to different audiences. Think-

Powerpuff girls for girls

Dexters Laboratory for unpopular, nerdy kids

And Iam Weasel for the mentally unstable kids… didn’t stop me watching it :D

And as you can imagine, Ed Edd n’ Eddy was meant to appeal to boys, and it did a great job in the fact of how imaginatively insane it could get. Comparably, it was like shows like Ren and Stimpy… but less gross and more directional. Now lets take a look at the show itself

The shows takes place in an neighbourhood ‘cul-de-sac’ with a bunch of kids that are eternally on Summer vacation with no appearances from parents… for up to four seasons, in fact. In this group, there are our 3 main characters, the Ed’s…



…Who are all named for some variation of the name, but seem to manage anyway. Firstly, is just Ed


(Don't Worry... Ed isn't a Nazi... Nazis FTL)

This is the guy who never bathes nor does he possess any visible intelligence… though he does have so much strength that it would probably put the hulk to shame…so as you can imagine, he can sometimes be taken advantage of. You’d think this make him a somewhat stereotypical dumb*** who’s coincidently also strong… but throw in an obsession with buttered toast, gravy and aliens, and you have yourself a likeable character. Next, is Edd… yet everyone calls him double d… yet pronounce it as debble d… they’ve been off school long enough



This guy is the exact opposite of Ed, being a neat freak who possess an annoying amount of intelligence who just likes things perfect...oh, and his parents communicate to him from yellow sticky notes only…maybe his parents are computers hooked up to other machines, but its never explained. He too is also sometimes taken advantage of, but you’ll see how in a minute. He counters of Ed perfectly, and boosting that, they’re really good friends. Oh…but one thing I wanna mention… why does he wear a black sock on his head. In the show, people say its from a dodgeball incident, and most fans think he’s just bald, but… how does a dodgeball mean baldness?

Obviously, he must have been playing dodgeball, but then, someone throws one, and it collides with all sorts till it hits a… plane (it got out through the window), which then crashes because planes are vulnerable to balls (lol), and falls on the area he was playing on. He ends up in hospital, with some manageable injuries, and after 3 weeks, he gets out… still with hair…only to go to the barber the next day, WHO coincidently is just a pair of scissors, and ends up cutting off a portion of his scalp, yet just enough to survive, yet never grow hair again

Um…hmm… no, that’s stupid…

Anyway, finally is the dwarf of the group, Eddy



This is the guy who controls both of his friends for scams, so they can get money out of the other kids to buy Jawbreakers, which just about everybody in the show like, and are about the size of Jonathon Ross’s head in a couple of years of being as big-headed as he is now.

Eddy is a schemer who is half behind most of the insanity that stems from this show, and while he can get easily angry and annoying, he is still quite likeable, and though he treats his friends with little respect, he still does like them, so the show can still have its ‘together’ moments… as subtle as they are :)

There are also other kids in this show, as you can see below



But they’re not really a major focus within the show alone, and besides that, they represent the main stereotypes within… children, I suppose. Like-



Kevin being a ‘cool’ jock who easily hates the Ed’s... stupid douche



Nazz as the ‘girl next door’ (perhaps literally in this case) who people want to get with… and she will most likely turn into either a slut or a… actual intelligent person who is hot, but most likely doesn’t realize it



And Jimmy being the always 'likeable' camp and complete and total pussy wimp kid who I SWEAR is out to be hated. He’s just… irritating


But with characters, you always need a story, so as you can figure out, the general theme for episodes are usually scams that the Ed’s have made… only for it to fail EPICALLY. Which I forgot to mention… very rarely does a scam work in this show, and even if it does, the Ed’s usually lose the ‘cash’ made and somehow and end up getting beat up… which happens a s**t load of times

Good god’, these kids are showing the first signs of being terrorists… I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what they grow up into… except Nazz… sluts can’t be terrorists :/

Yet in near all these scam related episodes, there are some that to everyone shine out as they’re favourites… such as one of my favourites, a glass of warm ed (which I forgot to mention again, that all the episodes are titled after a life phrase, and then inserted with the word Ed… not bad, but not awesome, I think)

In it, The Ed’s discover that ‘regular Ed’ is not only a sleepwalker… but a

Sleep-brake into peoples houses and eat the food out of their refrigerator-er

That’s… awesome. If I had to sleepwalk, then I’d definitely also be a sleep- whatever. It’d be nice, to say the least

Anyway, Eddy and Edd discover this after Ed eats their food (and Edd’s cactus ‘Jim’… this guy needs a girlfriend), and decide to chase him down and stop him, yet at every turn, he manages to evade them. Eventually, they do catch him and wake him up, but decide to be on guard just in case he starts doing such awesome deeds again… which he does. Finally, Eddy and Edd decide to lure Ed away from his sleep- whatever-ing with the smell of his own shoe (…I don’t get it… at all, but who cares in all seriousness). They succeed in getting him to his home, and… well’ watch the ending for yourself. Its actually somewhat horrifyingly funny, and you should definitely watch it from the link below

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LnrVwt8vck

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC9icZU76y0

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lEZP4RvYLo&NR=1

Ah, such good memories. And speaking about episodes, I gotta mention how…weird, the music is. Its just either completely sounds, whistling, or some… weird instrument that I have no idea what it is (It could be some type of sound effect, I haven’t had a clue for years). If you’ve just seen the episode just now, you’ll know what I mean, the music’s just unique… but I don’t think anybody knows what makes them. Maybe the writers made a deal with Satan… or the banker…I dunno, they’re both made out to be the same thing. Or maybe… they made a deal with business satan!



Only he would ship out sounds directly recorded from the second layer of Hades :)… it pays to be in the music industry

However, your probably thinking ‘who is the mad-man who came up with the idea for this crazy c**p’. Well, we owe all that to the great mad-man himself, Danny Antonucci



Seeing as this guy made Ed Edd N’ Eddy, he is automatically awesome

The guy came from Canada perhaps that inserts some of the Canadian jokes into the mix like-

‘Canadians are weird’
Ed
Know it all Ed
27/9/99

Oh, and a jokey slight distrust I have over Canadian people… this show caused it though >:3)

Anyway, the guy came from Canada, though he was descended from Italian parents, which he always claimed were an inspiration for his little group of self-made cartoons. Until Ed Edd N’ Eddy, he did work on shows like The Smurfs and Scooby Doo (I hate that show… I always have), and also had some involvement with MTV, however, he never exactly made a name for himself, and by the time he made Ed Edd N’ Eddy, he’d became determined to make a cartoon similar to something 1940’s-ish, and that he’d reportedly became frustrated and ‘edgy’ by his previous experiences. First pitching the idea to Nickelodeon (back when they were using an orange blob monster that was probably s**t out by the great mighty poo… groan), they liked it, however, they wanted full creative control, and seeing as Antonucci went through the experiences he did, he pulled out of the deal straight away (thank god too. If Nickelodeon had it, they’d probably make it about a homosexual sponge that lives in the sea with a bunch of other hideous monsters, and have every story seem like forgettable filler

Oh wait… they already did that ^^)

Anyway, after such an incident, Antonucci pitched his idea to the ‘then-new’ Cartoon Network, and seeing as they were just starting out… they said yes, and with that, we given over 5 seasons, 134 episodes and 10 years of dedicated episodes.

And if you’re thinking now, ‘how the hell is it popular’, then judge this for yourself… Ed Edd N’ Eddy is the longest running original CN series as of 2009, as all the other shows died out

Well… except Powerpuff Girls… that’s an manga now, I think

Either way, that must prove how great this show was, because if we didn’t like it, it would have ended before 50 episodes by now. No… it DOES prove it. If you don’t agree…

…Then you’re not human >:(

On the subject of its seasons, well… the first 4 seasons were basically set in the cul-de-sac on summer vacation. All the same, however, the final episode of s4 was kinda set to be the final one… as it deals with Eddy having an epiphany about his future…so yeah. We all thought it was going to be the final one, but no, we eventually got a new season after a long hiatus

This newest season finally moved to…well new seasons… as in like, the weather. Season 5 was set in autumn as the kids went back to school (finally…), and to be fair, it did inject some much needed refreshness into the show, and it made it slightly closer to when it was in its prime. The plots tended to include some more school related things, yet… we we’re still given the same characters, so…yeah, it’s hard to make it REALLY updated, in this sense.

Anyway, this season was made doubly long by the fact there was supposed to be a season 6, however, it was all bowled into one, where the ending of the season took place in winter.

You’d be thinking that the producers (and other… people) are basically giving us the long one… but it was worth it, sorta, as we were given a movie :D (But I’ll probably go over that as a review in the future)

And that basically wrapped up all those years of watching the Ed’s get into all sorts of shenanigans and eventually getting beat up… awesome :(

Looking back at this show and re-watching all these episodes… it’s an nice experience, and just to say it now… but I have a couple more SFOC planned for the VLOG I’m hoping to release in the future, including one in particular, that… well I’ll say it’ll be best if its out in July ;)

To wrap up this entry, I just wanna say that (even though I’ve already got across my message >.>) this show has had a part in making me who I’am, and that if you don’t like it… leave a comment or some criticism. Or… if all you’re going to do is send hate mail… then Business Satan who rape and eat you

He does it to hookers on Thursdays anyway ^^