Take This Ed and Shove It

"Take This Ed and Shove It" is the 25th and final episode of Season 4. It's also the 102nd episode in the entire series, and the second two-part episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, Eddy find the Cul-de-Sac kids are all growing up and tries to make his career out of it. This was originally planned to be the last episode of the series, but due to popular demand, seasons 5, 6, and the movie Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show were made.

Plot
Eddy's new scam (a very cheesy children's show) fails after none of the kids are interested, since they're not babies anymore. Eddy is perplexed as to why the scam didn't work. Edd explains to him that the children are growing up and becoming mature, as he points out when Jimmy throws away his tricycle and start's to learn step by step how to ride a bike, and how Kevin has grown facial hair and how Rolf has grown back hair, a sign of them beginning to mature. Double D then says how they will soon start looking for jobs etc. and that makes the gears in Eddy's head turning.

He then thinks of a scam in which the kids find out what their jobs are. As a result, Jonny is a gopher, Jimmy a lumberjack, Sarah a traffic light, Rolf was supposed to become a potato monger but he objected and he became a barber, the most manliest job in his Old Country, and Nazz becomes a dentist. The scam works very well and the Eds get jawbreakers and they then happily run out of the Candy Store, with Eddy holding their jawbreakers. However they run in to Nazz, who locks the jawbreakers in a cabinet drawer as she says that they are not good for your teeth. Just as she is about repair their teeth, she is distracted by lumberjack Jimmy, who falls from a tree and on to his teeth, and Nazz decides to help him. The Eds free themselves and try to free the jawbreakers. They then run to Eddy's house so that they can free them by using Eddy's Dad's power tools. They are delayed by traffic light Sarah, gopher Jonny who carries away the cabinet and the barber Rolf who uses the cabinet as a shampoo table (and gives Ed and Eddy new haircuts). They manage to carry the cabinet to Eddy's garage and try to free the jawbreakers all the while talking what they want to be when they grow up. Ed wants to be rice, Double D an explorer and Eddy wants to scam kids forever and he says that he will be young, handsome and rich forever. Just then he is launched in to the garage ceiling by gopher Jonny burrowing underneath him. The roof breaks and Eddy falls down in to the hole that Jonny created, and all the stuff from the ceiling fall on him, knocking him out unconscious.

Eddy wakes up in his room and sees a reflection of an old man in a mirror. At first he thinks that that is his grandfather and happily greats him, but to Eddy's shock, the old man is him. He staggers to the door and opens it to find the equally old Double D and Ed,who came for a game of cribbage. Double D never stops talking and Ed can barely walk,and he has grown an abnormally long white beard but he hasn't changed much. Double D than tells him that they haven't been kids in over 90 years. Eddy still in denial, sees the rest of the kids. Jonny is senial, Plank is withered and has lost one eye and part of his mouth. Nazz spends the day feeding birds. Sarah is very ugly but both she and Jimmy didn't change much. Kevin is still mean to him, but now he rides a small motorbike and wears thick glasses. Rolf has grown a long grey beard and has lost one eye and constantly mistakes Eddy for Kevin, Jonny and Nazz. Eddy then figures out that the jawbreakers might be the key to their youth. They try to pry it open but are too weak to lift any of the tools so he orders Ed to destroy it. Ed approaches the desk, but he simply sneezes on it and he destroys it. The jawbreakers and the desk disintegrate into dust.

Eddy then starts hitting himself with his cane (who has once again somehow returned) screaming "I'm not old!". Eddy wakes up on the garage floor, happy that he is still young and that that was all a horrible dream. Ed has freed the jawbreakers and they proceed to eat them. Just as Eddy says "I don't ever wanna grow up!" he wakes up as an old man again. Double D tells him that he fell asleep during one of their nostalgia induced stories about their adventures as kids and that all of his memories were simply dreams of his childhood and that he really is old. Eddy then smashes his head on the table. Ed remembers something and tries to pull the "Pull my finger" joke on Eddy but he farts before Eddy even pulled his finger. Ed laughs to himself and Double D tells him that that joke is older than them. Eddy yells at him "Grow up you shriveled up, petrified lump!" and they all start to laugh. Just as the episode ends, Eddy says "I still wish I was a kid!" and the episode ends there.

Deleted Scenes
There were two deleted scenes from "Take This Ed and Shove It" that did not make it into the episode. These were first shown at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con. They are the only deleted scenes from Ed, Edd n Eddy to be revealed.

First Deleted Scene
300px|rightAfter Eddy looks in the mirror and sees he is a old man he thinks it is just a joke. He then tries to tell Danny Antonucci to wake him up. When he doesn't answer, Eddy says he will give him a new quarter. But when he takes it out it is really a jar of Aunt Bonni's prunes.

Second Deleted Scene
After Ed turns the desk to dust Eddy starts to sob over it. Then Lee Kanker comes in to see who it is and reveals that she and Eddy have been married, had their honeymoon at the junkyard and had lots of babies (Or these may possibly be grandchildren considering the ages of the characters) and they all look the same for each couple. It is also revealed that May Kanker married Ed and Edd is married to Marie Kanker (who has become obese). It then cuts to the main scene with Eddy hitting himself with the cane. Oddly, the audio track of Edd saying "Time has reduced it to dust, Eddy" still plays even when the scene where the desk crumbles has been passed by a few scenes. It is possible that the line was later added in when the previous scene was cut and that the clip played at Comic-Con used the aired scene rather than the production scene.

Memorable Quotes
Edd: "Well, you see--" Rolf: "Rolf wishes to be a barber." Edd: "A barber?" Rolf: "In the Old Country, he who cuts hair is known among men." Edd: "But Rolf he--" Rolf: [showing muscle] "Rolf is a barber!" Ed: "Party at Rolf's house!"
 * Rolf: [after receiving his career results] "A potato monger!?"


 * Old Jonny: "Hey Eddy! Nice day isn't it? Whatcha' staring at? Did Nazz forget her pants again?"

Old Jonny: [refering to Nazz] "She still got it, huh, Eddy?" Old Eddy: "Got what? Liver spots? I can't take this anymore!" [trips over on a chess playing piece] "Ow! My hip!"
 * [Eddy has woken up to find himself and other people in the Cul-de-Sac as senior citizens]

Old Eddy: [confused] "Huh? I'm not Kevin." Old Rolf: "Who is this Kevin you speak of?" [pause] "ROLF'S TRACTOR IS NOT FOR SALE!" [Shows Rolf's tractor with a "FOR SALE" sign] [smiles and grabs Eddy] "YOU FOOL!" [places Eddy on Old Wilfred] "Rolf does not love you, Nazz girl." Old Eddy: "Okay." Old Rolf: [shouting at Eddy] "YOU TAUNT ROLF'S TURNIP, JONNY THE WOOD BOY?! GET OFF ROLF'S PROPERTY BEFORE ROLF GETS HIS BEATING STICK!"
 * Old Rolf: "Hello, Kevin."

Old Eddy: "It was all just stories? Memories from the past?! We really are old!"
 * Old Ed: "You remember the funniest things, Eddy. Like… uh, I forget."

Old Sarah: "Skip rope? What do we look like!? A couple of babies!? We're knitting, you idiot!" [Shows Jimmy knitting] Old Jimmy: "And, no. You can't have one. I made this bedtime cozy for Sarah" [Shows a pink bedtime cozy with white flowers] Old Sarah: "So get lost, bub!" [Hits Eddy in the head]
 * Old Eddy: "Leave you to what?" [stares at a yarn with a skip rope handle] "Skip rope? Ain't you too old to skip rope?"

Trivia/Goofs

 * If we take into account that in the episode "Your Ed Here," Eddy is 12, then in this episode he would be 102 years old in the future.
 * This episode was originally the last episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy, until production started again in 2005.
 * In the first deleted scene, Eddy pulls out a jar from his pocket that says "Aunt Bonni's prunes". Aunt Bonni could be a reference to Bonni Reid, who is the color designer of the show!
 * In the first deleted scene, Eddy breaks the fourth wall by saying "You can wake me up now, Mr. Cartoon Director!" and "HEY, ANTONUCCI, WAKE ME UP!".
 * It seems that Jimmy, Nazz and Rolf are the only ones that got real jobs, but only Rolf knew what he was doing.
 * Old Ed and Hot Dog Ed (in the gag, he's a real hot dog!) were both seen in Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show when Ed was zapped with the electric gum.
 * When Rolf rips off his shirt for Kevin, Kevin's chin hair is showing. In the next scene, it is not there. It then reappears in the career counseling scene.
 * Kevin was the only one who didn't get a job at Eddy's Career Counseling.
 * In the first deleted scene, the chair next to Eddy is transparent.
 * Jonny has some hair in this episode.
 * This was also the last episode produced with traditional ink and paint. AKA Cartoon switched over to digital color starting with Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle. Because Ed, Edd n Eddy are considered to be the last major animation production to use the traditional process, Take this Ed and Shove It can be considered, beside "Hair High (2004)" which was released months before this episode, to be the last cartoon in history to be completely done in Traditional Cel animation right down to the ink and paint.
 * When the kids are getting their Career, there were only 5 quarters in Eddy's jar. Jonny usually pays for Plank, but the reason for this could be that Plank did not get a career.
 * When Eddy jumps over the bush, he has no thorns on him, but in the next scene, he and Edd are covered with them.
 * It was revealed that Jonny 2x4's favorite color is magenta, his pant size is about 12 and his favorite vegetables are sprouts.
 * It was also revealed when Edd is old he has a cat named "Neils Bohr", named after a Danish nuclear physicist who won a nobel prize for physics in 1922.
 * Almost all the characters appeared and spoke in this episode, but the Kankers were seen only in the deleted scenes of the episode, which were not shown in the full episode.
 * Ed said "Magellan!" while evaluating Jonny's profile for a career. Magellan is known as Ferdinand Magellan, a well-known Portuguese explorer who made an expedition of sailing from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean and has a strait with his name entitled known as "Strait of Magellan".
 * Eddy calls Ed "Figaro". This is a possible reference to the popular Pinocchio cat of the same name.
 * Goof: When Double D and Eddy were chasing the desk, Eddy jumps over a bush, but he is later shown covered in brambles.
 * This episode was featured on the Ed, Edd n Eddy Vol.2: Fools Par-Ed-Ise DVD.
 * In One + One = Ed, Rolf tells the barnyard animals not to burn the candle at both ends, as it leads to the life of a hairdresser. However in this episode he wants to become a barber despite what he said in the former episode.
 * This is the only episode with deleted scenes released.
 * Ed says "Yummity Yum Yum" when he's about to eat a jawbreaker in Eddy's dream that he's still a kid. This line was paraphrased as "Zappity Zap Zap" 3 times in the season 5 episode "Every Which Way But Ed."

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