Ed, Ed and Away

"Ed, Ed and Away" is a season 3 episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy, in which the Eds try to catch a red balloon after scamming Kevin.

Plot
The Eds open up the scam "Crazy Ed's Custom Hot Bikes", and Kevin happens to fall for it. After test driving a bike and breaking it from its low-quality, he gets angry at them and decides to send red balloons in the sky, knowing each of the Eds would be interested in them.

Ed wants to play with the balloon, Edd is moved by it and Eddy wants to pop it. They then go through great lengths to catch it, running through Rolf's farm, down dead ends and through Sarah and Jimmy's airplane game, but never do. Sarah ends up getting it then and pops it. Though Eddy is angry about this, Kevin lets loose another balloon and they are now after this one. They never realize the balloons are from Kevin.

Quotes
Kevin: [throws a bike pedal at Eddy] "I'll get you dork!" [turns around to reveal his scratched back] "After I find some ointment! Ouch!" Eddy: "What's with him? I did everything my dad does, how come he sells stuff? Maybe it's the tie." Edd: "Well, it certainly couldn't be that we manufactured the bike from HAND-ME-DOWN KITCHENWARE! Ten hours of hard work! And for what?" Ed: "To fleece the masses!" Eddy: "Check's in the mail, Ed." Edd: "It's the same thing! Day in and day out! It's so monotonous! A pipedream, at best." Ed: "You are not alone, my friend. I dream of pipes too." Eddy: "Boy, Ed, who'd have thought?"
 * Eddy: "Looking good is what is about, Double D. You just lie about the other stuff."
 * Ed [seeing Kevin crash and burn into a mailbox]: "Come again!"
 * Eddy: "Hey, Kev, what'd I tell ya? Is it hot or what?"
 * Ed [while pointing at the sky]: "Look! A balloon!"
 * Edd [off-screen]: "Aw! Someone must've accidently set it free!"
 * Ed: "It is an alien probe from outer space!"
 * Eddy: "It's headed for that tree! Oh man, it's gonna pop. Come on branches, do your stuff. Pop it, pop it, that's it, that's it." [disappointed when the balloon evades the tree's branches and blames on the tree] "Aw! Stupid tree!"
 * Edd: "There's something symbolic about an abandoned balloon. Boundless, devoid direction, nutched by a gentle breeze into the unknown."
 * Ed [running]: "Let's capture it!"
 * Eddy [running]: "And pop it!"
 * Edd: "You two mind your P's and Q's now!"

Ed: "Fly Nazz, fly!" [throws Nazz up in the air] Eddy: "She didn't even make a grab for it!" Ed: "Your turn, Eddy." Eddy: "Get away from me, Ed!" [Ed pulls Eddy's key chain on his pants] "Why you little--" [Eddy's hair start spinning as he flies up into the air]
 * Nazz: "Hey guys, what's up?"
 * Ed [telling Eddy to get the balloon]: "Balloon mister!"


 * Edd: [Ed twists Eddy's hair and makes him fly off] "Remind me to ask you how you did that, Ed."


 * Eddy: [flying, as his hair twirls like a helicopter] "This better not mess up my hair, Ed!"

Ed: [chicken flies over them] "CHICKEN!" [pig flies over them] "PIG!" [they run into a cow, injured] "Cow…" Rolf [his cow tips over on to him as he calls for medical assistance]: "Mama! A bandage for Rolf!" [gets crushed by his cow] Eddy: [running] "Hurry up, it's getting away!" Edd: [also running] "Excuse me, Rolf." Ed: [also running] "What'd ya do, Double D?" Rolf: [sighs] "Never again will Rolf store house keys in his trouser pockets."
 * [the Eds are running]


 * Edd: [holding up a magazine] "Um, excuse me, Sarah. You wouldn't happen to have a more current issue?"

Trivia

 * This is the first time that Kevin uses wits to get revenge instead of violence or humiliation.
 * This is the first time Ed makes Eddy "fly," the second time in the episode "I Am Curious Ed."
 * Running gags:
 * Eddy saying "crazy" at the start of the episode.
 * The Eds trying to catch the balloon.
 * The Eds "interrupting" Sarah and Jimmy's airplane game.


 * The word "crazy" is spoken 8 times in this episode: 7 times by Eddy and once by Kevin.
 * The main scam in this episode is very similar to custom choppers like in "American Choppers."
 * The title of this episode is a reference to the Superman phrase "Up, Up and Away."
 * The magazine that Edd was reading was called A View Into Science.
 * Kevin laughing at the Eds when they were chasing the balloon in the middle of the episode might have been foreshadowing.
 * Sarah: "Gimme Gimme Never Gets!" This was used as a title reference in another episode.
 * The Tower of Eddy is used again in this episode. It is also used in the episode "Quick Shot Ed", "Who, What, Where, Ed" and Ed, Edd n Eddy - The Mis-Edventures.
 * Eddy says "I did everything my dad does, how come he sells stuff?" This could point out that Eddy's father is a salesman.
 * The Kanker Sisters are absent in this episode.
 * It's possible that Double D subscribes to A View Into Science.

Video
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