Truth or Ed



"Truth or Ed" is the 12th episode of Season 5 and the 114th episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, Ed and Eddy take over the duties of the school newspaper and create false articles about the kids.

Plot
The episode begins with Rolf and Kevin choosing to who they want on their team for a game of basketball. Jonny and Nazz goes on Kevin's team, and Ed and Plank join Rolf, leaving Eddy out, despite his cries to Rolf and Kevin to pick him. The game goes well until Ed burst the ball with with his teeth when the ball is passed to him. As the kids leave and Eddy gloats at the kids, Edd appears with a huge, somewhat eerie smile on his face, he'd been promoted to the editor-in-chief of The Peach Creek Jr. High, the school newspaper whose extremely dull stories makes it's sales slump lower than Eddy's popularity. Edd asks his pals if they would like step in the Exciting World of Journalism, Eddy, unsuprisingly, is uninterested but Ed is (as long as he doesn't get it on his feet) and Edd gives him the position as the paper boy and goes to give him the newspapers and collection box. The mere word Collection has Eddy thinking about cash and decides to join.

In the newsroom, the crew is hard at work publishing the new issue, but Eddy isn't impressed with the extremely dull content, i.e. Jimmy makes shortcake, Sarah eats shortcake, etc. Edd admits the last few have been lacking, but according to Edd's sources, the school's knitting team is to darn the worlds largest doily. Eddy has him sent to the knitting club's room to report it, as soon as he leaves he tells Ed that they'll Make this rag into a world class money-machine, the Eddy way! As Eddy begins publishing a new version of the next issue, full of made-up scandalous stories about the students written by Eddy, under the penname of Bobby Blabby as this will not only sell the papers good, but Eddy will get a lot of cash when all the papers have been sold. Ed notices a story about Miniature-Mutant Aliens colonizing his head and mining bubblegum from his skull, Eddy sends Ed out to begin selling the papers, the scandalous stories prove to be hit as Sarah and Jimmy pay to enjoy reading a story about Nazz getting fired from the Cheerleading Squad for refusing to shave her legs. But Sarah enjoyment sours when Sarah reads a story about how she's part of a Secret Chimp Foghorn Race, she immediately begins sobbing and exiles herself into the girl's bathroom and disallowing anyone to see her. Rolf is then shown sneaking Wilfred dressed in his clothes into a class where there's a test going underway. He pays for a paper and curiously reads about how the lost city of Atlantis being found in Jonny's nostril, after he foraged in his nostrils. He finds Jonny, who's enjoying the stories in the paper and takes a good look in his nostrils, but finds no city. But their enjoyment soon sours as the kids begin accusing each other of telling Bobby Blabby the lies, as the arguments get violent, the kids begin asking 'Who exactly is Bobby Blabby?' They head over to the newsroom to get their answers.

Ed returns to the newsroom, with a giant cap full of quarters, Eddy is naturally excited but Edd returns disappointed, as the story about the knitting club is false, as the club has no members. But his disappointment soon turns to joy as he sees the cap full of quarters. However he reveals that the newspaper is a non-profit organization and that all the funds goes to the student fund, but Eddy decides to keep all of it. The kids come bursting through the door demanding that they disclose the identity of Bobby Blabby. Eddy tries to escape, but as he drops his money, Ed informs him he had dropped his loot, mispronouncing his name as Baby Booboo, prompting Eddy to shout "IT'S BOBBY BLABBY! GET IT RIGHT!", unwittingly disclosing his identity.

The kids in revenge force Eddy to join the knitting club, where he is forced to knit the world's largest doily. The story is published in the paper and is interviewed by Edd for the next issue of the paper. Upon being asked if he has anything to share with the readers, Eddy blatantly tells Edd to 'Get Lost', Edd tells him his quote will be published in the front page, as the camera irises in on Eddy, knitting the doily who angrily exclaims 'I hate doilies.'

Memorable Quotes
Rolf: [throws the ball at Eddy's head for getting too agitated from his constant talking] "His shrieks rip through Rolf like Nana's cabbage stew! Continue, yes."
 * Eddy: [trying to be picked for the basketball game] "Hey guys! Wake up! Yoohoo! What are ya, blind? I'm red hot, baby! Right here! Pick me! Come on! The light don't get any greener! Eddy goin' once, Eddy goin' twice, sold to the guy with-"

Rolf: "Rolf chooses the wood. Yes?" [Rolf picks up Plank] Eddy: "Oh come on! It's a hunk of wood for crying out loud!"
 * Eddy: "Ah ha! You gotta pick me now!"

Ed: "Not today, Eddy! I'm flying solo."
 * Eddy: "I'd rather wear Ed's underwear for a week!"

Eddy: [reading article] "'Jimmy Makes Shortcake'? I wouldn't line a birdcage with this bunk!" Edd: "I'll have you know, Jimmy's shortcakes are the best I-" [smacked with newspaper in the face] Eddy: "Where's the scandal?! That's what sells papers!" Ed: [eating a sandal] "Yep. Because sandals are baked fresh daily, Double D." Eddy: [breaking the fourth wall] "Ignore him. Just stick to the script."
 * Ed: "Extra! Extra! Kids pelt Ed with can't-sell-school papers! Not a one."


 * Ed: "Pick paper up! Pick paper up!"


 * Eddy: "Let's see what we got here. [forms an idea from shredded pages] "Fork boy created"...I got tomorrow's headline, Ed! "Fork Boy created in cooking class! Meatball jabbed and teachers run for napkins! I like that."

Jonny: ''"Hey Rolf!" [gets up and walks over to Rolf pointing at an article in the paper] "Did you hear about Kevin having the worlds biggest collection of spandex bike shorts under his mattress?" [Rolf stretches Jonny nostrils to get a glimpse of the inside] Rolf: "Rolf sees no city, only darkness and sesame seeds!"
 * Rolf: [reading article about Jonny] "Jonny 2x4 forged into his nostrils and found the lost city of Atlantis yesterday!" ''[Looks up from his paper to see Jonny looking up from his paper and waving to him from a bench]

Eddy: [exposing his secret identity] "IT'S BOBBY BLABBY! GET IT RIGHT!" [Eddy puts his hands against his mouth, realizing he has said the wrong thing] "Oops..."
 * Ed: "You dropped your loot, Bippy Boo-boo!"

Edd: "Sounds like a front pager." Ed: "Smells like a back pager." Eddy: "I hate doilies!"
 * [Eddy is forced into knitting a doily]

Trivia

 * Did you spot the date on the school's printing press? AKA 1957 - the year Danny Antonucci was born, and the AKA obviously refers to A.K.A. Cartoon, the shows production company.
 * The Drama Club's poster says 'Ask Mr. Toomey' who of course is Corey Toomey; Ed, Edd n Eddy's character and prop designer.
 * "Sabrina Rubber Duck talks Korea" headline is a reference to storyboard artist Sabrina Alberghetti.
 * The Volunteer Yearbook Club is run by Nurse Prowse, a reference to Ceile Prowse.
 * Right after Eddy sends Edd to search for the knitting club, he tosses all of the old non-scandalous newspapers in the air. However, when they fall back down, you can see that they are all Eddy's scandalous newspapers, even though they had not been manufactured yet.
 * Eddy breaks the fourth wall by saying "Just stick to the script", referring to the episode's script.
 * When Jonny was reading the article about the knitting club being formed with only one member at the end of the episode, you can see another article entitled, "Pig Makes Top Mark on Test", with Jonny's huge head blocking the picture. Earlier in this episode, Rolf sent Wilfred into a test room, dressed up as Rolf, so this could possibly mean that Wilfred is this pig and he made the best score.
 * An article in the paper (the back page to be precise) at the end of the episode claims the principal had to take the bus after his car was mysteriously destroyed as well as a missing toilet seat. Sarah was the one who destroyed the principal's car and the toilet seat when she fought with Nazz.
 * In the scene right before Eddy reveals he is Bobby Blabby, there is a picture on the wall that says "Bobby Blabby" with a question mark over an outline of Eddy's head (making it look mysterious). This image is later used for the picture next to the "Bobby Blabby Tricked You" headline.
 * If you watch closely at the end, you can see a poster that says "Darn. Ain't this fun?" and has a ball of yarn.
 * When Rolf is reading the article about Jonny discovering Atlantis in his nose, the image used for Atlantis in the newspaper is actually the skyline of Vancouver, Canada, the location of A.K.A. Cartoon.
 * The use of the word "Tattler" in the school newspaper name is a tongue-and-cheek reference to journalism in general.
 * When Eddy takes the picture of Ed after he hit the door, he isn't wearing his jacket, but when Ed reads the next newspaper, the picture shows him wearing his﻿ jacket.
 * Jonny was the only person who liked the scandals.
 * Lee and Marie are absent in this episode, May only has a cameo.
 * Eddy changed the name of the Peach Creek Jr. High Tattler to "Peach Creek Extreme Magazine - 25 Cents" (Though he kept the Tattler part.).
 * Running Gags:
 * 1) Ed getting Bobby Blabby's name wrong.
 * 2) The kids thinking another one of the kids told a scandal about them to Bobby Blabby.

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