Ed, Edd n Eddy

About

Ed, Edd and Eddy is an original animated television series created by Danny Antonucci and produced by Canadian-based a.k.a. Cartoon, about the exploits of “the Eds,”, a group of three adolescents who constantly make up plans to get money, usually failing. It has received positive reviews from critics since the first day the show aired and has gained a cult following.

Premise

The show revolves around three adolescent boys collectively known as “the Eds,” who hang around in a suburban cul-de-sac in the fictional town of “Peach Creek”. Unofficially led by Eddy, the Eds constantly scheme to make money off their peers in order to purchase their favorite confectionery; jawbreakers. However, their plans usually fail, leaving them in various predicaments that go astray.

History

The original concept from the show comes from a sketch of three characters that pleased Danny Antonucci, making him work on the concept for a kid series, faxing a concept sheet to Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon in 1996, getting a quick response from both.^[9] It officially premiered on Cartoon Network on January 4, 1999, lasting 6 seasons. The show later ended on November 8, 2009 with the premiere of the TV movie “Ed, Edd n Eddy’s Big Picture Show”, which is recognized as the series finale. To this date, Ed, Edd n Eddy still remains the longest running original Cartoon Network cartoon series and the longest running Canadian-made series.

Online Relevance

At some point, screencaps from the show started being captioned with humorous and absurd internal monologues on 4chan, in similar vein to 60’s Spider-Man macros. The earliest archived use of it, though, comes from a Funnyjunk compilation submitted on May 2nd, 2010.^[8]

Arround 2009, a theory about how all of the characters came from different time periods and settled within the cul-de-sac, respective to their time, suffering a gruesome death which takes them to the cul-de-sac from in the show, which can be determined as some sort of purgatory, unable to accept their untimely demises started circulating on 4chan’s /x/ paranormal board, though the first registered version of the story can be found on a Boxden post from July 26th, 2009.^[1]

In late-December 2011, Kevin Lordi released “The Bro Show”, a non-canon spinoff of Ed, Edd n Eddy. The show goal is to show origins of certain things from Ed, Edd n Eddy, most of which will be Eddy’s brother’s fault. the characters and story were developed according to details and facts citted in the original show, like for example “Take This Ed and Shove It” (Season 4, Episode 13) and “Mission Ed-Possible” (Season 5, Episode 1).

Fandom

The series has followings on websites like Tumblr,^[7] Reddit^[4], or 4chan.^[5]^[6] There’s also an official Wikia about the series.^[10] As of June 3rd, the online artist community DeviantART has over 13,600 submissions submitted under the keywords “Ed Edd N Eddy”,^[2] and over 31,600 submissions submitted under the keywords “Ed Edd And Eddy”.^[3]

Related Memes

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Kevin’s TV

Kevin’s TV is a Youtube and Photoshop fad, based on the edition of the images that appear on Kevin’s TV which appears in the episode “A Town Called Ed”.

Double D’s Epic Doorbell

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Give Planks a Face

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A Dickie?

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Eddy Shoop

Eddy Shoopis the name of a reaction image, featuring Eddy raising his hands in displeasure, similar to the “Y U NO” guy.

We’re Watching Infomercials.

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