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'' Ed, Edd n Eddy'' is an
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created by
Danny Antonucci Daniel Edward Antonucci (, ; born February 27, 1957) is a Canadian animator, director, producer, and writer. He created the Cartoon Network animated comedy series '' Ed, Edd n Eddy'' as well as '' Lupo the Butcher'' and ''The Brothers Grunt'' fo ...
for
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. The series revolves around three friends named Ed, Edd (nicknamed "Double D" to avoid confusion with Ed), and Eddy—collectively known as "the Eds"—who are voiced by Matt Hill, Sam Vincent and
Tony Sampson Tony Sampson is a Canadian musician, oiler and retired actor. From 1999 to 2009, he voiced Eddy in the Cartoon Network animated series ''Ed, Edd n Eddy''. Biography Tony Sampson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has played ...
respectively. They live in a suburban
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in the fictional town of Peach Creek along with fellow neighbourhood 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 favourite confection, jawbreakers. Their plans usually fail, leaving them in various, often humiliating and painful, predicaments. Antonucci, an adult cartoonist, was dared to create a children's cartoon. While designing a commercial, he conceived ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'', designing it to resemble classic cartoons from the 1940s–1970s. When pitching the series to
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, the network declined to give him creative control, a deal to which Antonucci did not agree. He then pitched the series to 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
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, '' Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show'', on November 8, 2009. ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' received critical acclaim and became one of Cartoon Network's most successful original series. It won a Reuben Award, two Leo Awards and a SOCAN Award, and was also nominated for another four Leo Awards, an
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and two Kids' Choice Awards. The show attracted an audience of 31 million households, was broadcast in 120 countries, and proved to be popular among children, teenagers, and adults. The series has also included spin-off media such as video games, DVD releases, and a series of books and comic books featuring characters from the series. With over a 10-year run (if the film is included), ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' became the longest running singular series to premiere on Cartoon Network, a status held until 2024 when it was surpassed by ''
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'' It is still the longest-running singular Cartoon Network original series. The series also was broadcast on
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in Canada.


Premise

''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' follows the lives of "the Eds", three scheming boys who all share variations of nicknames of the name
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, but differ greatly in their personalities: Ed ( Matt Hill) is the strong and dim-witted yet kind-hearted dogsbody of the group; Edd ( Samuel Vincent), called Double D, is an inventor, neat freak, and the most intelligent of the Eds; and Eddy (
Tony Sampson Tony Sampson is a Canadian musician, oiler and retired actor. From 1999 to 2009, he voiced Eddy in the Cartoon Network animated series ''Ed, Edd n Eddy''. Biography Tony Sampson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has played ...
) is a devious, quick-tempered, arrogant con artist, and self-appointed leader of the Eds. The three devise plans to obtain money from the other kids in their cul-de-sac, which they want to use to buy jawbreakers. However, problems always ensue, and the Eds' schemes usually end in failure and humiliation. The cul-de-sac kids do not include the Eds as part of their group, making the trio outcasts. The group of kids are Jonny ( David Paul "Buck" Grove), a loner whom his peers consider to be a nuisance, and spends most of his time with his imaginary friend, a wooden board named Plank; Jimmy (Keenan Christensen), a weak, insecure, and accident-prone child, who is most often seen spending his time with Sarah ( Janyse Jaud), Ed's spoiled and ill-tempered younger sister who is attracted to Edd; Rolf ( Peter Kelamis), an immigrant whose customs often differ from the other children's; Kevin ( Kathleen Barr), a cynical and sardonic jock who detests the Eds, particularly Eddy; Nazz ( Tabitha St. Germain; Jenn Forgie; Erin Fitzgerald), usually seen with Kevin, is a calm and friendly blonde girl who the Eds, Jonny, and Kevin are infatuated with. All of the cul-de-sac kids share a common fear of the Kanker Sisters, Lee (Janyse Jaud), May (Erin Fitzgerald; Jenn Forgie), and Marie (Kathleen Barr), three bully girls led by Lee who live in a nearby trailer park and romantically harass the Eds. Each Kanker has a preference for who they wish to date and marry among the three, with Lee wanting Eddy, Marie wanting Edd, and May wanting Ed. Aside from the Eds, the other cul-de-sac kids, and the Kanker Sisters, no other characters appeared in the series until
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had a cameo in "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle", flying over Peach Creek to quickly drop off presents. During the fifth season, silhouettes of other people were occasionally shown, and in "Mission Ed-Possible", the arms of Eddy's father and Ed's mother were seen. An arm of Eddy's mother was also shown during "Smile for the Ed". In the series finale, ''Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show'', Eddy's adult brother (
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) was seen for the first time, making him the only non-main character, and the only adult character to ever fully appear on the show. The series took place mostly within the fictional town of Peach Creek, and new locations were rarely introduced. Its first four seasons are set during a seemingly endless summer vacation, though from the fifth season onwards, the characters are shown attending junior high school in the fall and winter months.


Production


Development

Although cartoonist
Danny Antonucci Daniel Edward Antonucci (, ; born February 27, 1957) is a Canadian animator, director, producer, and writer. He created the Cartoon Network animated comedy series '' Ed, Edd n Eddy'' as well as '' Lupo the Butcher'' and ''The Brothers Grunt'' fo ...
began his career by working as an animator on various children's series for
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, his later solo works were edgy and aimed at adult audiences. He was an animator on the 1981 film '' Heavy Metal'', and gained notoriety with the 1987 short film '' Lupo the Butcher'' and then, after founding his own production studio, a.k.a. Cartoon in 1994, created the series ''
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'' for
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. It was quickly cancelled, however, upon being met with generally poor reviews. On a dare, Antonucci then decided that he would try producing a children's animated series of his own. While designing a commercial, he ended up drawing three characters that he felt particularly pleased with. Growing excited over their potential, he named them Ed, Edd, and Eddy and spent the following months developing a show around them. In 1996, he faxed a one-page concept sheet and pitched the series to
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, but the network declined to give him creative control, and Antonucci refused. He then pitched the series to
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. The network agreed to let Antonucci have control of the show, and conversations between him and the studio continued. Vice president of programming and production of Cartoon Network, Mike Lazzo, showed high interest in the series and requested a show bible, which came through by fax, a few pages at a time, over a period of the next few months. After an affirmative response from Cartoon Network president Betty Cohen, the legal paperwork and deal-making began, followed by a start-up meeting at the Chateau Marmont hotel in
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. A deal was made that Antonucci's studio, a.k.a. Cartoon, would produce ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'', making it the first Cartoon Network original series to be produced by an outside production company rather than Cartoon Network's
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. The series also entered production and bypassed a seven-minute short; this marked the first time that one of the studio's original series had ever done this. According to Antonucci, he based the characters on real people in his life. The personalities of Ed, Double D, and Eddy are based on his own traits as well as the activities of his two sons, while the cul-de-sac children and the Kanker sisters were all based on children he grew up with. Rolf is based on Antonucci and his cousins, since he was part of an Italian immigrant family, and grew up in a first-generation foreign household with different customs and ways of living, compared to those born in Canada. Jimmy is based on one of his cousins, who was rather feminine and spent most of his time playing with girls rather than with boys. Jonny and Plank are inspired by one of Antonucci's childhood friends, a loner who spent most of his time outside with his blanket. He stated that he believed it was important to add Plank, a board of wood, to the show, and that he, "thought it would be really cool to do the show with Plank taking on a character of his own" and to cause Jonny to do things he would usually never do. Some wanted Plank to be able to talk, smile and blink as if he was alive, but Antonucci insisted that it should be treated as a piece of wood, brought to life by Jonny's imagination.


Casting

Matt Hill, Samuel Vincent, and
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were respectively cast as Ed, Edd, and Eddy. David Paul "Buck" Grove and Keenan Christensen played the parts of Jonny 2×4 and Jimmy, respectively, while Sarah was voiced by Janyse Jaud. Peter Kelamis voiced Rolf, while Kathleen Barr was cast as Kevin. Nazz was voiced by Tabitha St. Germain in season 1, Jenn Forgie in season 3, and Erin Fitzgerald in seasons 2, 4, 5, and 6. Fitzgerald also played the part of May, one of the Kanker Sisters, except in season 3 when she was voiced by Jenn Forgie. The other two Kanker sisters, Marie and Lee, were voiced by Kathleen Barr and Janyse Jaud. Eddy's adult brother is mentioned frequently throughout the series but does not appear until ''Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show'', where he is voiced by series voice director
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.Credits of all ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' episodes and the ''Big Picture Show''


Animation

Antonucci, an advocate of hand-drawn animation, wanted to ensure ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' was produced in a way similar to cartoons from the 1940s to 1970s. As a result, the series was the last major animated series to use traditional cel animation, only switching to digital ink and paint in 2004. Cels were shipped to South Korea at Yeson Animation Studios for creating the initial animation, and then later edited back at Antonucci's a.k.a. Cartoon studio. To give the impression of movement, ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' uses " boiling lines" or shimmering outlines which Antonucci likens to cartoons of the 1930s.
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has compared it to
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, and Animation World Magazine wrote that the way the line varies and shakes gives the animation a distinctive and spontaneous feeling as if it were drawn by children. The boiling line is created by tracing off a drawing three times through sheets of paper. Antonucci explained that he felt it "helps keep the characters alive" and that he wanted to depart from other Cartoon Network series and pay homage to the classic cartoon era. All the children have multicoloured tongues; Antonucci said that the idea came after he saw his son and his friends with different-coloured tongues because of eating different candy while he was working on a storyboard. The characters went through several "walking cycles," a process used to determine how each character should walk or run, turn around, blink, etc. before the crew came up with the final product.


Music and title sequence

Antonucci showed the theme song to the studios when first pitching the series, thinking it would be better than only looking at drawings. It was inspired by the
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and The Bob Cats song " Big Noise from Winnetka," which was whistled, something Antonucci enjoyed doing as a child. Composed by Patric Caird, who created all the music in the series, Antonucci performed the whistling himself. Paul Boyd created the show's title sequence. The music of ''Ed, Edd, n Eddy'' is heavily influenced by 1930s and 1940s
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and
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,
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,
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, and the
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of the 1950s.


Broadcast

Although ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' was originally set to premiere on November 16, 1998, at 8:00 PM, the pilot, " The Ed-touchables / Nagged to Ed," aired on January 4, 1999, as the sixth Cartoon Cartoon, due to minor post-production delays. It was the first Cartoon Cartoon to not have been produced by
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/
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. During the series' original run, episodes often aired as a part of Cartoon Network's weekly programming block "Cartoon Cartoon Fridays." Cartoon Network ran several marathons for either commercial promotions or special airings of one of their shows. The eight-hour "Boy Girl, Boy Girl" marathon ran on March 7, 1999, airing episodes of ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' and '' The Powerpuff Girls'', which had been Cartoon Network's two newest series at the time. Later that year, ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' was featured with other original Cartoon Network series in the third annual "Cartoon Cartoon Weekend," a fifty-three-hour marathon, which ran from August 20 to August 22. In 2002, the show was included in the similar "Cartoon Cartoon Marathon Weekend," which ran from August 23 to August 25. The six-hour "Ed's Day Off Marathon" aired 22 episodes on January 19, 2004, in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. "The Best Day Edder," in which every episode was shown in chronological order, ran from April 27 to April 28, 2007, and ended with the previously unaired season five finale, which was promoted as the "final episode ever." However, it was quickly followed by "The Eds are Coming" the following month, as part of a special alien-themed event called "Cartoon Network Invaded." As of May 2, 2007, "The Best Day Edder" provided Cartoon Network their best ratings of the year. A seven-hour Sunday marathon, which ran before the premiere of ''Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show'', posted double-digit delivery gains among children ages 9–14 (up 14%), boys ages 9–14 (up 16%) and girls ages 6–11 (up 17%), compared to the same time frame last year, highlighting the network's weekend performance. At the July 2007
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, a cut segment from the season four finale "Take This Ed and Shove It" was screened at the ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' panel. The series' fourth season was originally ordered as the last, but two additional seasons and four specials, including a movie, were ordered as a result of the series' popularity. The series finale is a movie titled '' Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show'', which aired on November 8, 2009.


Episodes


Specials

Along with an additional fifth and sixth season, Cartoon Network ordered three
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specials that originally aired in 2004 and 2005. "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle," the first, is a
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special aired on December 3, 2004.
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's "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo" originally aired on February 11, 2005. The final,
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special, " Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo Haw Haw" aired on October 28, 2005. Antonucci stated that "Boo Haw Haw" was one of his favourite ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' episodes that he worked on. On May 11, 2007, a fourth special, "The Eds are Coming" aired; however, it was not a holiday special, but an adjunct to other Cartoon Network series '' Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'', '' My Gym Partner's a Monkey'', ''
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'', and '' The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy'' in the alien-themed mini-series Cartoon Network Invaded that aired all five specials from May 4 to May 28, 2007.


Appearances in other series or works

Besides their own series, Ed, Double D, and Eddy have also appeared in other cartoon series. They appeared in the '' Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'' episode "Eddie Monster" and were drawn using that series' style of animation, and made a short cameo in "The Grim Adventures of the KND", a crossover of '' The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy'' and '' Codename: Kids Next Door''. They also appeared on a small crossover poster during its credits entitled ''Ed, Edd n Mandy''. In 2012, Double D made an appearance in the animated
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Cartoon Network series '' Mad'' episode "Once Upon a Toon." In 2018, Plank appeared in the ''
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'' episode "3 2 1 2 333, 222, 3...66?" in a segment entitled "Plank: The College Years". The show was featured in the 2002 edition of Cartoon Network's fictional awards program, ''The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo''. It won Best Performance by an Inanimate Object in a Dramatic Role for the character of Plank, and Best Performance by a Team in a Cartoon Series for the characters of Ed, Double D, and Eddy. The character of Sarah was nominated for Best Performance by a Female in a Cartoon Series, but lost to Bubbles from '' The Powerpuff Girls''. In 2004, the Eds appeared in a short series of basketball commercials with
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All-Star Steve Francis. Ed appeared in the "Cartoon Network Elections 2004" with Grim from ''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy'' as a team, and they ended up winning, due to the highest number of votes by viewers. The fourth single on American rapper
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's debut album, ''
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'', is titled "EdEddnEddy." In the song, the rapper declares the antics of him and two of his friends are similar to the scams of Ed, Edd, and Eddy. A music video for the song was later released, replicating the series' signature art style. The video was also planned to debut on
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, but according to JID legal issues prevented this from panning out.


Reception and achievements


Ratings and run length achievements

''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' attracted an audience of 31 million households, was broadcast in 120 countries, and was popular among both children and adults. According to Cartoon Network executive
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, the first season did "remarkably well" in ratings following its premiere, becoming one of the top-rated series on the network. It was Cartoon Network's most popular show among boys ages 2–11. In 2005, it was reported that ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' was the number one rated show on Cartoon Network and was known to 79% of children aged 6–11. The series ran for nearly 11 years, making it the longest-running Cartoon Network original series at the time, and at the time of its finale, the longest-running Canadian-produced animated series.


Critical reception

''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' received critical acclaim and became one of Cartoon Network's most successful original series. David Cornelius of
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considered the Eds to be child equivalents of
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, believing that "the series revels in the sort of frantic, often gross humour kids love so much, and there's just enough oddball insanity at play to make adults giggle just as easily." Cornelius also wrote that the "animation is colourful and intentionally bizarre; bold lines forming the characters and backgrounds wiggle and morph in a delirious haze. This is the animation that's, well, really animated." Despite this, not all reception of the show was positive. Terrence Briggs of '' Animation World Magazine'' considered every second of the show "filler" and lamented that the main characters are drawn as "products from the school of acid-trip caricature." After Briggs' review was published, a large number of letters supportive of the show were sent to the magazine, prompting it to "take a second look" at the show. Different reviewers then gave it a positive review, calling it a "fresh show with very different approaches."


Accolades

During its run, ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' was nominated for a Reuben Award, six Leo Awards, an Annie Award, two Kids' Choice Awards and a SOCAN Award, winning the Reuben Award, two Leo Awards and the SOCAN Award. Desi Jedeikin of Smosh.com listed ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' on the website's list of "9 Cartoons That Need a Reboot." ''
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'' included Eddy's room on their list of "Movie and TV Characters' Bedrooms You Wished Were Yours," and ranked Jimmy 14th on their list of "15 Artistic Characters We Miss From Our Childhood." Cracked.com praised the show's high level of violence, stating that it "set the bar on cartoon violence for anything that was played on Cartoon Network, and thus far, none have surpassed them." Bob Higgins, head of creative at Wild Brain, considered ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' to be a "landmark in animation." In August 2002, the New York Museum of Television and Radio featured the episode "An Ed Is Born" as part of the special program "Cartoon Power! Celebrating Cartoon Network's 10th Birthday".


Other media


Film

The made-for-TV movie ''Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show'' serves as the series' finale and premiered in the United States on November 8, 2009; although it had completed production a year earlier and first aired in Scandinavia, Australia, and Southeast Asia. The plot focuses on the Eds' search for Eddy's Brother, a character mentioned several times throughout the series, but never seen until the film. He is voiced by series voice director Terry Klassen. The film was directed by Antonucci, who also co-wrote the script with Rachel Connor, Jono Howard, Mike Kubat, and Stacy Warnick. The story was written by Joel Dickie, Steve Garcia, Jim Miller, Raven Molisee, and Scott Underwood, while the score was written by series composer Patric Caird. The film achieved broad ratings success for Cartoon Network with high delivery gains.


Home media

The first two seasons of ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' were released on DVD by
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in the US and
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in Australia in 2006 and 2007. The ''Fools' Par-Ed-Ise'' DVD, the DVDs of the first two seasons, and several ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' T-shirts were available for purchase on the Cartoon Network Shop. Selected episodes from the series were also featured on various Cartoon Network compilation DVDs. All five seasons of the series, as well as ''Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show'', are available for download on the iTunes Store. The first four seasons were available on
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from March 2013 until March 2015. The third season can be downloaded at
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. The Eds and Sarah have been free toys in children's meals for Subway. In the United Kingdom the character of Eddy was given away in
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cereal boxes as one of the Cartoon Network Wobble Heads in 2003. On January 1, 2021, all six seasons were added to the
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streaming service; the single-episode sixth season was combined into the fifth season. The show, along with '' Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'', received a complete series DVD release on October 18, 2022. Amazon Prime added the complete series to its streaming library in December 2022, including the holiday specials and ''Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show''.


Publications

''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' was regularly featured in
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' ''Cartoon Network Block Party'' (originally ''Cartoon Cartoons'', the collective name of original Cartoon Network series from 1995 to 2003)
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s, along with other Cartoon Network series. Two books based on the series have been released, both published by Scholastic Inc. in 2005: ''Ed, Edd n Eddy: Lots of Laughs'', written by Jesse Leon McCann, and ''Ed, Edd n Eddy: Book of Extreme Excuses'', written by Howie Dewin.


Shorts

Cartoon Network produced short cartoons involving the Eds which were shown during commercial breaks. A short music video was produced with stylized versions of Ed, Edd, Eddy, and Sarah, entitled "The Incredible Shrinking Day" (listed on the Season 2 DVD as "I'm Not Coming in Anymore"), which aired on Cartoon Network in 2002 and 2003. In the video, Sarah uses a potion to shrink the Eds to a size capable of playing in her dollhouse, with predictable results. Plank starred in a similar video called "My Best Friend Plank," which aired in 2002.


Video games

Four video games based on the series have been produced. '' Ed, Edd n Eddy: Jawbreakers!'' was released on September 15, 2003, for the
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. ''Ed, Edd n Eddy: Giant Jawbreakers'' was released on March 4, 2004, for
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s. '' Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Edventures'' was released in 2005 for the
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,
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,
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, Game Boy Advance, and
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. The most recent game, '' Ed, Edd n Eddy: Scam of the Century'', was released for the
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on October 26, 2007. The games were met with generally mixed reception. Characters and locations from the show appear in other Cartoon Network video games, including 2003's '' Cartoon Network: Block Party'' and '' Cartoon Network Speedway''. All three main characters, and the Kanker sisters, appear as non-playable "Nano" characters in the
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'' Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall''.


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