Fool on the Ed

"Fool on the Ed" is the 17th episode of Season 1 and the 17th episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, Eddy decides to prank all the other kids after he easily pranks Ed and Double D, but he and his friends soon find out that the kids of the Cul-de-Sac are being terrorized and pranked by the infamous "Prank Master". The Eds soon become terrified that they may be the next victims on his list.

Plot
The episode starts with Eddy sliding into Ed's room, where his friend is making a model. When Ed asks for the glue, Eddy goes to get it, but notices a trap. Eddy manages to firstly dismantle the trap and prank Ed, and then rig Ed's trap so that Ed is pranked again. They then head off to Edd's house, where they find him tinkering with a chemistry set. When the phone rings, Eddy does as Double D requests and goes to answer it, but senses a trap when he reads three sticky notes on the phone inviting him to pick it up. Eddy smartly pretends to pick it up and pretends to talk into it. When he insinuates that the call is for Edd, Edd is surprised and accidentally causes a chemical explosion. This isn't all for Edd, though; Eddy comes in and tells him that there's a girl on the phone for him. Edd swiftly rushes out–straight into a trap Eddy has set.

After Eddy has pranked both his friends, he marches up to them, bragging about how he is the king of pranks. He then suggests that he'll be able to prank every single kid in the cul-de-sac before sunset. His friends come with him on the expedition. The first stop is Rolf, who is busy feeding the hogs. Strange goings-on are afoot, however, as when Rolf steps into his shed for a minute, he is swiftly tossed out in a butter churn barrel. When the Eds rush over to check it out, Ed finds a card atop the barrel. On the card are written the words "Prank Master".

Eddy tries to shrug it off and goes to find his next victim. While walking down the lane, however, they run into Jonny, who is diaper-clad and hanging from a tree. The Eds laugh at this sight until Plank falls from the tree, with a familiar card tacked to his face. Ed pulls it off, and the signature from before is shown. The Eds are all fearful, but Eddy tries to disguise his fear by pointing out anyone could prank Jonny. When he looks back at the tree, however, Jonny has disappeared.

Eddy tries to get his friends to relax, but is unsuccessful since he as well is scared. The fear becomes too much for him, and he takes off running, his friends in hot pursuit. As they run, they encounter several other victims of the Prank Master, including Jimmy, Sarah, and Kevin. Trying to find a place to hide, they dive into the sandbox, only for Prank Master cards to rain down on them. Edd, terrified, notes that they're next.

When we next see the Eds, they're wearing makeshift helmets and carrying basic weapons. They're also in an outside-facing ring in order to make sure nothing and nobody can creep up on them. Soon enough, they find something suspicious: a stray jawbreaker. While Ed wants to simply eat it, Edd and Eddy demand testing. Eddy therefore nudges it twice with his hockey stick. The second nudge is harder than the first, and the sweet rolls down the sidewalk to the curb, straight into the path of Sarah and Jimmy. Jimmy picks it up, licks it, and begins to eat it. Seeing this, Eddy realizes that the jawbreaker wasn't a fake at all, and they've lost their chance at one of the sweets. When he tries to blame it on the other Eds, however, Ed points out that Eddy was the one who thought it was a trap. In response, Eddy tells them to look another way and ties Edd's hat to his underwear. In retaliation, Ed wedgies Eddy, and both Edd and Eddy join in by giving Ed a pants wedgie. The Eds are all cheered up by this bout of wedgies, but soon their attention is drawn to the laughter of another group. This group is the kids, who reveal that there never was a Prank Master and that they all faked being pranked. Eddy is sickened by this, and angrily declares that he'll get the kids back as they walk off, leaving the Eds alone.

Later that day, the kids are playing in the Cul-de-Sac. Eddy isn't preoccupied with this, however, as he and his friends have more sinister plans. They are building an El Mongo Stink Bomb from a recipe Eddy's older brother had given. Once the final ingredient is put in, they ready it for deployment. The bomb moves forward towards the exit of Eddy's garage. It seems as though things will go off without a hitch when the bomb catches on the garage door and becomes stuck. The Eds desperately try to move it out, but are unable to budge it. The bomb explodes while stuck, sending atrocious fumes across the cul-de-sac and perhaps through the whole of Peach Creek. The kids are hit horribly by the stench and rush to get inside. By far the worst hit are the Eds, however, who were right next to the bomb when it went off. Dazed by the stink, they stumble outside and collapse on Eddy's lawn, victims of their own prank.

Memorable Quotes
Edd: [recoiling from the handwritten Prank Master card in Ed's hand] "He's such a horrible printer!" Ed: "Here! You hold it, Double D." Edd: "I have no idea where it's been!"
 * Eds: "The Prank Master?!"

Edd: "The odor should be quite impressive." Eddy: [offscreen in the background] "Just one more ingredient (Ed's stinky sock)." [Ed laughs while Eddy is grabbing his leg]
 * Eddy: [gleefully watching the fumes percolate through the stink bomb] "My brother showed me how to make it, before he went away. Isn't it beautiful?"

Edd: [holding his nose] "It is said that scent is a gateway to one's inner essence." Eddy: [brain scrambled by the stench] "Yes! I stink, therefore I am!"
 * Ed: [reveling in the smell of the erupted stink bomb] "Ah, something smells good."

Eddy: "It's a phone call, Romeo." Edd: [steps on the roller-skates in mid-speech] "Thank you, ED-D-D-Y!"
 * Edd: [giggles] "M-m-me?" [drops the test tubes and heads towards the phone] "H-h-how do I look, Eddy?"


 * Edd: [after the El Mongo Stink Bomb exploded] "I CAN'T BREATHE!"

Trivia

 * When Kevin inhales the stench, his breathing sounds watery and his nose is otherwise stuffed. If so, then there is a good chance he shouldn't have been able to smell anything, but it is more likely that he would still be affected by the stench of the stink bomb.
 * Nazz only makes a small cameo appearance in this episode; she is seen with the other kids laughing at the Eds for falling for their pranks, but she was never seen being pranked though she might have been pranked off-screen.
 * This is the first time we see the El Mongo Stink Bomb. The other times it is mentioned is in the video game, Ed, Edd n Eddy - The Mis-Edventures and the online game Cul-de-Sac Smash 2: Wheels of Fury. However, in the former game, it is a lot smaller, so small that Eddy can hold it up and throw it and in the latter, the stink bomb is not shown but it is considered as Eddy's special attack in the latter.
 * The shot where Edd and Eddy give Ed a wedgie is the design of the CD cover for Ed, Edd n Eddy - The Mis-Edventures.
 * This is the second time Edd says "I CAN'T BREATHE!". The first time was in "The Ed-Touchables."
 * This episode's title is based on "Fool on the Hill", a song by The Beatles.
 * The remote control used to control the El Mongo Stink Bomb reappears again in "The Good Ol' Ed."
 * Eddy's line of "I stink, therefore I am" is a reference to the famous saying, "I think, therefore I am."
 * 6th time the Kankers are absent.
 * There are no scams in this episode.
 * List of pranks happened in this episode:
 * 1) Churning Chamber Imprisonment (Rolf)
 * 2) Infant Imitation (Jonny)
 * 3) Trap Door (Sarah)
 * 4) Surprise Gift (Jimmy)
 * 5) Giant Human Swatter (Kevin)
 * 6) Bear Trap Biter (Kevin)
 * 7) Spring Launcher Trap (Jonny)
 * This episode was featured on the Ed, Edd n Eddy Vol.2: Fools' Par-Ed-ise DVD.
 * When Sarah yells "Mommy!" and falls through the trap door, there is no Prank Master card to be seen. In every other scene where a kid is pranked, a Prank Master card is seen.
 * Usually Rolf has only Victor under his ownership. But this episode shows that Rolf has three other goats under his ownership. The other three goats he had could have been borrowed and this marks the only episode he owns more than one goat.
 * Eddy's shocking "Buzz Bob" is seen again in "Every Which Way But Ed."
 * A running gag in this episode is that the Eds get more and more terrified when they see the other kids getting pranked by the "Prank Master".
 * When the Eds were making the El Mongo Stink Bomb at Eddy's garage, there's a calender on the wall similar to the ape calendar Eddy came across in the trash from "Quick Shot Ed". However the calender seen in this episode was not in color.