Ed, Edd and Eddy

Ed, Edd n Eddy is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci for Cartoon Network. A deal was made with the network to commission the series under his control, and it premiered on January 4, 1999. During the show's run, several specials and shorts were produced in addition to the regular television series. The series concluded with a television film, Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show, on November 8, 2009. The series revolves around three friends named Ed, Edd (called "Double D" to avoid confusion with Ed), and Eddy—collectively known as "the Eds". They live in a suburban cul-de-sac in the fictional town of Peach Creek along with fellow neighborhood children Kevin, Nazz, Sarah, Jimmy, Rolf, Jonny, and the Eds' female adversaries, the Kanker Sisters, Lee, Marie, and May. Under the unofficial leadership of Eddy, the trio frequently invents schemes to make money from their peers to purchase their favorite confection, jawbreakers.

Theme Songs

Opening

Closing

Voice Cast

Japanese

English

Trivia

• The characters having different tongue colors comes from an experience Danny Antonucci once had. While in a meeting, his son and friends came in, and due to all the candy they just ate, they had different tongue colors.
• This is Cartoon Network's longest-running original series.
• This was the last major animated TV series to use conventional cel animation. When it was renewed after the fourth season, the studio switched to digital ink-and-paint and compositing.
• There is no given time line for the show. Danny Antonucci has stated that he wanted the show to appeal to any generation.
• Danny Antonucci, previously known for his adult-oriented, highly disturbing animated shorts, created this series on a dare as a show that kids could watch.
• All episodes of the initial four-season run (excluding the holiday specials) take place in the summertime. Season 5 takes place in autumn.
• Production started in 1997.
• The show's trademark squiggly lines meant that every frame of still animation had to be drawn at least twice so that characters would move even when they did nothing. This was meant to mimic how people always make slight movements in real life. Inanimate objects are drawn traditionally and are stationary.
• In early episodes, Double D is more laid-back, soft-spoken, and subservient to Eddy. As the show progresses, Double D becomes less reserved, more sarcastic, and insubordinate to Eddy. His quirks are played up more, such as his intelligence, perfectionism, and obsessions with order and cleanliness.
• Danny Antonucci originally pitched the show to Nickelodeon, but he was denied the right to retain full control over it. When he took the idea to Cartoon Network, they bought it and agreed to grant him control over the series.
• A full character model sheet was created even for Plank, displaying his facial expressions in all of his emotional states: a smiling face. This was to ensure that the animators would never change his expression even for a short sight gag, since he was meant to be a piece of wood.
• In Smile for the Ed (2006), Ed reveals that his middle name is Horace. In Your Ed Here/The Good Ol' Ed (2004), Eddy's middle name is revealed to be Skipper, and Double D later reveals that his middle name is Marian. Their surnames are unknown.
• As revealed at the end of the end credits, most season one episodes were made and finished in 1998, a year before the show aired on TV.
• In Your Ed Here/The Good Ol' Ed (2004), the name of the cul-de-sac, Rathink Ave, is revealed on Eddy's student ID. Eddy lives at number 220.
• The Eds and other main characters attend Peach Creek Jr. High, which is revealed in Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo (2005).
• Johnny 2x4 was originally supposed to carry a blanket, but because this made him too similar to the Peanuts character Linus van Pelt, the blanket was changed to Plank.
• Many cul-de-sac residents are based on people Danny Antonucci knew growing up. For example, the Kanker sisters were based on girls who used to harass him.
• A full sixth season was planned, but creator Danny Antonucci chose to work on Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show (2009) instead.
• Rolf's nationality is never specified, but he is based on a mix of various European stereotypes.
• Danny Antonucci considered making a spin-off series focusing entirely on Rolf.
• What's under Double D's hat is never revealed. Danny Antonucci once claimed that the answer would be in Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show (2009), but that did not happen. Lunchroom Rumble, a game on Cartoon Network's website, shows Double D removing his hat, revealing sparse, curly hair underneath, but this game was not approved by the show's creators.
• In Little Ed Blue/A Twist of Ed (2003), a book written by Kent Webb is shown, which is a reference to the storyboard artist Kent Webb.
• Nazz and Rolf are the only characters besides the Kanker sisters whose last names have been revealed. Nazz's last name is Van Bartonschmeer and Rolf's is Vorlick.
• After Take This Ed and Shove It (2004), Cartoon Network revived the show for another two seasons and told Danny Antonucci to make a better ending to the show, which he did with Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show (2009).
• An advertisement for the series showed the Eds running away from Nazz's pet dog, who never appeared in the series.
• Kevin is the only male character to be voiced by a female voice artist; Kathleen Barr, who also voices Marie Kanker in the series.
• A widespread fan theory suggests that the neighborhood is purgatory and everyone is dead due to everyone's tongues being are different colors like a corpse and the Kanker sisters are demons. This has been debunked by showrunner Danny Antonucci.
• According to Matt Hill and Samuel Vincent, Tony Sampson not only looks like Eddy but acts like him too.
• Each episode title contains the word "Ed."
• Keenan Christensen was the youngest actor cast in the series, he was the only one still in grade school when production began.
• In the series Jimmy likes to paint, ironically his voice artist Keenan Christensen would later become an interior and exterior painter for housing.
• All three regular female voice actresses play double roles. Erin Fitzgerald plays Nazz and May Kanker, Kathleen Barr plays Kevin and Marie Kanker, and Janyse Jaud plays Sarah and Lee Kanker. Nazz and May are voiced by Jenn Forgie in the third season, and Nazz is played by Tabitha St. Germain in Pop Goes the Ed/Over Your Ed (1999).
• The Eds conceive schemes to play on the neighborhood kids for getting quarters to buy jawbreakers. Although the schemes initially work, the Eds always end up losing what they earn. They only gain jawbreakers once: in Pop Goes the Ed/Over Your Ed (1999), when they figure out who is stealing everyone's belongings, they lose the jawbreakers from their mouths right before the end.
• "Ed, Edd, n' Eddy" is the longest-running Canadian-made cartoon as of 2018, clocking in at 10 years and 10 months (January 1999 to November 2009). "Total Drama" is the second longest-running cartoon in that criteria at 7 years and 4 months (July 2007 to November 2014). If "The Ridonculous Race" is counted as a "Total Drama" season, then it still places 2nd at 8 years and 7 months (July 2007 to February 2016).
• This was not the first animation Danny Antonucci created for Cartoon Network. Back in the 1990s, Antonucci created the Jester, a mascot for Cartoon Network during its original checkerboard year's from 1992 to 1997. Antonucci did in fact direct all the bumpers featuring the mascot, including one for Cartoon Network Europe, when the Jester signs Cartoon Network off, and starts TNT Europe or TCM Polska.
• According to "Crossover Nexus" of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes all Cartoon Network original series such as Ed, Edd n Eddy make up a multiverse which extends to Hanna-Barbera and even DC Comics.
• The show was unpopular in Japan, due to its lack of authority figures or any character over eighteen years old onscreen. It only lasted two seasons but had a good dub.
• Here's Mud in Your Ed was inspired by an idea from Kit Topp who ran Edtropolis.com, a fan site for the series.