Animated Atrocities: If It Smells Like an Ed

  (in rage): ROAR!!!

F*** THIS EPISODE! Like the Eds in this episode, I'm not lying! Out of all the episodes of my favorite cartoon series, Ed, Edd n' Eddy, this is the one episode that I like the least and I hated it with a burning passion. It really pisses me off and it had a really terrible ending!  

This is the one that many fans (including myself) considered it to be the absolute worst of the series.

Why is that? Here it is:

Part 1: Its Friendship Day in the town of Peach Creek and Jimmy hosted a ceremony to all the boys and girls of the cul-de-sac who were loved (mostly when Nazz and Kevin arrives) and built a giant, red papermache heart. Together they happily sing "Friends Are There to Help You" along with the singing birds flying around them, as well as the blooming flowers and woodland animals wondering around. Then Ed, Edd, and Eddy arrives (with Edd admiring the celebration), much to the neighborhood kids’ dismay and for some unexplained reasons, all the birds, animals, and everything nice and cute were all gone and left. After Eddy gives Jimmy a wedgy which causes everyone (except Sarah) to laugh at him and made Jimmy break into tears, Sarah threatens Ed to tell his mother, which causes Ed to panic and frighteningly walks away dragging his friends (very harsh and misleading to blame the wedgy on Ed Sarah!). After driving the Eds away, Sarah and the others notices that her paintbrush is missing and harshly, she quickly blames Ed "for stealing it" and grabs and drags Ed, never mind the fact that there is NO evidence that Ed steals Sarah’s paintbrush. Then Jonny 2X4 see's that Plank's mouth has been erased and breaks down into tears. Nazz see's a rag with Plank's wiped mouth on it in Edd's pocket and  blames Edd "for" wiping off Plank's mouth while the other kids confront him for it. As Edd unsuccessfully tries to defend himself, claiming his innocence ("Oh, come on, people! Why would I want to erase Plank's mouth? This isn't my rag!"), the other kids shockingly discover a hockey stick puncturing the model heart and Kevin notices that Eddy's name is written on it, leading into Eddy’s accusation. Despite Edd trying to defend his friends and himself and claiming that they would never do such foul stuff like this, nobody agrees and stood up to the Eds as Sarah and Nazz screams at them for "ruining" Friendship Day and (although it was only Eddy that did it) for blaming all the crimes on Kevin (who gives them an evil smile during it; TALK ABOUT CRUEL IRONY and HYPOCRISY; I REALLY HATED that scene) before they and the rest of cul-de-sac kids angrily leaves the emotionally hurt and heartbroken Eds to wallow over their misery     . As the Eds became left alone in the cul-de-sac, Eddy and Edd begins to suspect who framed them and made a list of suspects. Then Ed finds their only clue, a painted bootprint which they believe to be left by the culprit that did the crimes that the trio were unfairly accused for and so (despite Edd's melancholy warnings, "They'll never agree to this type of verification, Eddy! Branded we are, exiled and disgraced! Forevermore!") the Eds begin to search for the culprit to clear they're names and gain trust from everyone as they go around the neighborhood, matching everyone's foot with the print. But this was not a success as none of the Cul-De-Sac kids (sans Rolf) have the exact perfect match and so the Eds continued searching on.

Part 2: But their struggle to clear their names and proved their innocence is futile when the Eds find Jonny tied up, blindfolded, and coated with jujubes in a candy stand with a still mouthless Plank advertising it believing that it was done by the culprit who got the trio falsely blamed and set them up and things took a turn for the worse as when Kevin, Nazz, Sarah, and Jimmy walks by in the lane and see's the Eds trying to release Jonny when they thought they tie him up, the Eds are once again yelled and blamed "for" doing this to Jonny and for "lying." Despite Edd trying to protest and claiming that they have evidence that proved their innocence, the Eds became the cul-de-sac's most wanted as Jimmy says “They made me cry!” and Kevin and Sarah became blood-boiled and furious of all this and threatens the trio to beat the crap out of them as punishment, resulting in a chase across the lane (WHAT A STUPID, DUMB IDEA KEVIN AND SARAH     ). But the Eds managed to hide in a bush and dodged the angry kids. Once they lost the angry mob, Edd discovers a trail of jujubes and so the Eds decided to follow the candy trail in which they believed would lead them to their culprit, only to lead them through the forest to an old dark shed. After being too scared to go in the shed, the Eds are forced to flee and hide in it as Ed see's that the angry neighborhood kids were right on their tail. While hiding in the dark shed from the Kids, the Eds come across the Kanker sisters (at first disguised as Rolf) and the Eds try to flee from being kissed and harassed by the sisters only to run a smack with the Kids. With no way out, the frightened Eds must make a sadistic choice of being sexually harassed and in a miserable relationship with the Kankers or (pictured) being beaten, pummeled, hurt, and humiliated by the angry kids ("We're caught in the vortex of impending doom! Trapped like animals fresh for the slaughter" You know the Eds should've just make a quick escape plan by digging a hole or find something in the shed to build to escape instead of making a decision of facing the two evils). Presumably, the Eds reluctantly choose the kids over the Kankers who beat them up with their fists, mallets, sticks, and nets they brought, and they taped them on a fenced wall and the scene cuts to them throwing fruit at them while laughing, teasing, and making fun of them    . As everyone runs out of fruit and leaves, happy and satisfied, the fruit-pelted, wearied out, and humiliated Eds see's Jimmy carrying a bag of jujubes as he offered some to Rolf and a painted boot in his pocket and Jimmy reveals to them that he was the real culprit behind all the acts! He tells the Eds that the reason he framed them and set them up into a psychological warfare on them was because Eddy gave Jimmy a wedgy which cause everyone to laugh and humiliate on him, thus swearing revenge on the Eds. As a result, Jimmy sets the Eds up and takes advantage of them by ruining his own friendship day while everyone's oblivious, then plays tricks on them by using fake clues such as the bootprint and jujubes as well as having Rolf as the patsy to keep the Eds off his trail and preserving his innocence, baiting and trapping Jonny with an acorn as a lure to get the Eds in even more trouble, and reluctantly even gets help and alliance with the Kankers for his final revenge. Together with all of this, they succeeded, with Jimmy laughing maniacally. Then the episode ends with the Eds screaming in terror as they're section of the lane fence is ripped off and dragged away with them by the Kanker sisters (who laughed evilly) to get in a romantic nightmare after Jimmy bribes them a reward for their help (via finger snap) and to add insult to injury, the Eds, after suffering the neighborhood kids' cruelty, are once again bullied and tortured (NO WONDER I don’t ship and pair the Eds with Kanker sisters) , while Jimmy laughs and enjoys the moment ("Don't mess with the best suckers!") and (minus slipping on a banana peel and yelling "Sarah! Owie!") got away successfully Scott-free, happily.   

What a horrible ending! What a horrible episode! What a flat-out horrible experience!

This episode's mean-spiritness has gone WAY too far. Jimmy is dark, manipulative, and downright sadistic as he manages to successfully frame and humiliate the Eds and psychologically tortured them and got them beaten up, getting their reputations ruined, and gets taken away by the Kankers to be sexually harassed after he offers the sisters a reward for helping him. While Jimmy and the Kankers are evil in this episode and wins, the cul-de-sac kids (especially those two morons on the left side of the image in this notebook page) are the episode's worst characters outside of the villains. They were manipulative, mean, cruel, sadistic, crazy, harsh, dumb, stupid, obnoxious, and downright unpleasant as they are hypocrites and so concentrating into yelling and blame everything on the Eds for nothing they didn't do without any logical sense and make their lives miserable, even when there's no evidence and proof that they did it (for example, Sarah blames Ed for stealing her missing paintbrush, despite the lack of evidence of it; the Eds became the Cul-de-sac's most wanted "for" not only tying Jonny up, but also coated him with jujubes, despite that the Kids never saw them with and eating jujubes) and even when it wasn't seen or shown (for example, when the Kids confront the Eds, believing that they tied up and jujube covered Jonny, and Eddy trying to claim that Jonny was tied up before the Eds found him, Kevin rudely replied, "Yeah right! We saw you dorks in our own eyes!"). Even when there's evidence and proof of their innocence, the Eds still became "the" neighborhood's fugitives.

If that wasn't bad enough, the story is weak, rushed, forced, and horribly contrived and there are a lot of plot holes that are never explained like:

• Why did Jimmy frame all three of the Eds despite that it was Eddy that gave him the wedgy? 
  
• Why didn't Jimmy get revenge on everyone in the cul-de-sac (except Sarah) since the Eds weren't the only ones laughing at him? 
  
• Why did all the birds and other animals that appear in the "Friends are there to help you" song leave when the Eds show up? 
  
• How did Jimmy successfully frame the Eds so fast and without any flaws, as well as not having any of the kids noticing it? 
  
• Why Jonny didn't tell the others that Jimmy, not the Eds, tied him up and covered in jujubes, as well as wiping off Plank's mouth (While being blindfolded, tied up, and jujube covered, you can clearly see his ears being exposed, meaning that he could have heard the Eds and noticed that their innocent; during the flashback sequence where Jimmy tells the Eds how and why he set them up, Jimmy lures Jonny with an acorn, captures him through a wagon while he was distracted, and then the scene cuts to Jimmy gluing jujubes to an already tied up and blindfolded Jonny, so how Jimmy tied up and blindfolded Jonny without any noticing of them was unknown as it was never shown; Plank's mouth may be erased, but he still has eyes and see's things and should've told Jonny the Eds' innocence)? 
  
• Why the Kids being insane, mean, and harsh to the Eds, yelling at them, blaming everything on them when there's no evidence and proof and not being seen, and not let them explain the evidence and proof of their innocence?
  

Ok, there were a few scenes, such as Ed's word from his sponsors and Ed eating a log, that were kind of funny and entertaining, but it's still not enough to make it a good episode as the majority of it is mean-spirited, having innocent main characters getting yelled, abused, sexually harassed, tortured, and humiliated, and failed to prove their innocence, as well as the villains getting away scott-free.

This is a major example of how much hated and despised those poor Eds (even, sadly, Ed and Edd who were nice and kind, being innocent in this episode) really were, even when they're not doing their infamous scams to the neighborhood kids, how it's tough and difficult to be one in this cruel world, and seems to be at its pinnacle and highest level [even the birds and animals, and everything nice and happy, that appear when the neighborhood kids happily sing "Friends are there to help you" were all gone when Ed, Edd, and Eddy showed up and the Kids were not happy of it; also when the Eds were framed and get blamed by the other kids for "their" crimes, Nazz scolded at all three of them for blaming the crimes on Kevin (even though it was only Eddy that blamed him), telling them that they should be ashamed for doing it, while Kevin gives the them a villainous-looking grin (Talk about cruel irony!)     ;also the neighborhood kids angrily chased the Eds and unfairly hurt them with not only their fists, but also mallets, sticks, and other weapons they brought to give them even more pain and misery (OUCH!) ; the Kids were feeling a lot happy and satisfied after beating up and fruit-pelting the Eds (Jonny gives them raspberries during it, while Jimmy happily says that it looks good on them), enjoying the moment as well as Jimmy joyed and enjoying the moment of the Eds getting taken away by the Kankers to get sexually harassed]. It shows that the one thing the Eds only have is each other.

So yeah, this is where both the Kanker sisters and the neighborhood kids are at their absolute WORST!

It would've been best if this episode gets edited, or even have an alternate ending of having the Eds getting their names cleared, not suffer the cul-de-sac's cruelty, not getting taken and smooched by the Kankers, and foil Jimmy's plan and ends with Nazz hugging the Eds while tearfully apologizing to them for blaming and turning against them and kisses Edd. That would've been a great ending! But Nope! We instead get this s****y episode with a s****y ending that's unfair and it’s nothing but a blatant slap in the face to people who like, love, sympathize, and fans of the Eds. I can't believe that show creator, Danny Antonucci considers this as one of his favorite episodes and I'm SHOCKED and DISAPPOINTED! I don't get why?

There are other episodes (such as Your Ed Here, A Town Called Ed, Smile for the Ed, etc.) that I don't like, but this episode I hate the most. ITS DEAD TO ME! Boy do I wish I bring in a hungry Tyrannosaurus rex in this lousy episode. That'll teach Jimmy and everyone for treating the Eds like CRAP!   

Donate to the family of those poor Eds (especially Ed and Edd who were innocent) that were put through physical and emotional abuse in this terrible episode at BlowMeEdKillers.com 

         

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Note: On 7/27/20 I edited it to add some more description