The Day the Ed Stood Still

"The Day the Ed Stood Still" is the 22nd episode of Season 3 and the 74th episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, Ed "pretends" that he is a monster and inevitably creates mayhem throughout the Cul-de-Sac.

Plot
The Eds' money-hungry selection of traditional carnival games don't look exactly up to much, especially when Ed starts throwing his weight about. But you can't blame the poor lad, he so much wants to be a monster that he just can't control himself. This could be a money spinning idea for Eddy to be getting on with.

Well, before you can say "movie good for Ed", the big lug has been taken off to Edd's garage and transformed by the addition of a homemade monster suit. However its soon apparent that everybody has vastly underestimated the sheer force of Ed's overactive imagination, he's not just pretending to be a monster, he truly believes that he has become one and the whole cul-de-sac is soon fleeing in fear from his acid-drooling reign of terror. With shades of the Alien movies, Ed steadily picks off the hopeless kids and cements them to his basement wall with a mess of chewed and spit up Chunky Puffs - it's downright nasty and somebody has to stop him! So step forward two heroes in the shape of Edd and Eddy out to save the world, although when the kids find out just who's in the monster suit, they soon find themselves right back as zeros yet again.

Memorable Quotes
Eddy: [annoyed of not being able to whack Ed] "Hold still, lumpy, so I can hit you!" Edd: [sarcastically] "Bravo! Well done, Eddy. You've convinced me. Your skill and expertise in mundane, misleading and moth-ridden carnival games make me want to throw caution to the wind and give you all my money." Eddy: [pause] "You're making fun of me aren't-cha?" Ed: [excited over the painting face hold attraction] "MONSTER! I WANT TO BE A MONSTER!" [bursts through the monster portrait] "LOOK AT ME! I AM A MONSTER! BLAAH! GRRRRRR! RAAAAH! I am just a monster in a boy's body." Edd: "If only for a day could I experience the serenity of Ed's world." Eddy: "Hey!" [walks over toward Ed with an angry look] Ed: "RAAAAH!" Eddy: [calmly then angrily] "Why do you always have to WRECK EVERYTHING?!" [savagely attacks Ed] Ed: "But Eddy, I just want to be a monster!"
 * Ed: [evading all of Eddy's whackings] "Whack me! Whack me! Whack me! Whack me! Whack me!"

Eddy: "Ed's an animal." Edd: [questioning Eddy] "Ed?" Eddy: "Who else?! That idiot attacked me and busted through the garage growling like a monster!" Edd: "I told you of Ed's overactive imagination, Eddy. Ed's prone to overstimulation, he can't control himself!" Eddy: "You're the one who dressed him up!"
 * Edd: [holding a mirror, then seeing the mess of his garage] "I'm back! Father's garage! Oh, dear, oh dear, oh dear. Curse the consequences of an only child."

Kevin: "I don't know, man. So get off me!" Nazz: [tripping over Plank] "Guys, I just found Plank without a Jonny!"
 * Rolf: [frantically leaping onto Kevin] "What is this sound that makes Rolf soil his trousers?"

Eddy: "Relax, will ya? I always keep a couple of months' worth of supplies for when the heat gets turned up. They'll forget about us in no time. Did you see a can opener?" Ed: [bursts out of the can] "I AM CAN OPENER MAN!" Eddy: "What the-?!" Edd: "Please, Ed. Calm down." Ed: "No no, wait!" [grabs tissue box] Eddy: "Give me the stupid can opener, Ed!" Ed: [extends arms and smacks Edd and Eddy] "I AM TISSUE HEAD!" Edd: "We've lost him, Eddy!" Ed: "I WILL BLOW YOUR NOSE!" Eddy & Edd: "ED, STOP!" Ed: "No no wait!" [rips through Eddy's bed] "I AM BED BUDDY! SLEEP ON ME!" Eddy & Edd: "ED!"
 * Edd: "Eddy! Hiding underneath your bed isn't gonna save us from harm's way once the children eventually flake off of Ed's wall!"

Kevin: "Hey, Fluffy!" Rolf: "Fluffy? Is it not Jimmy? Who is Fluffy?"
 * Nazz: "Jimmy!"

Rolf: "Rolf is confused! Is it Jimmy or this Fluffy who is lost?"
 * Nazz: "Jimmy!"

Ed: [offscreen in the background] "I AM A MONSTER!" [savagely attacks defenseless Eddy and bursts through the garage door]
 * Eddy: [waiting for Edd to come back with a mirror] "What's he doing? Making a mirror? What's with you?"

Edd: [sarcastically] "Hahaha, very funny, Eddy. But in order to attract a crowd, one must demonstrate the use of these archaic arcade games."
 * Eddy: [to Double D while sticking his head through the bikini beach girl painting face hold attraction] "Hey useless, put those rings down and get a load off your eyes."


 * Eddy: [struggling to open a window] "What's with these stupid windows?!" [Edd opens door] "I hate it when you do that."

Edd: "Overwhelming fear is not an excuse for rudeness, Rolf."
 * Rolf: "Out of the way, oaf!" [pushes Edd to the side]


 * Eddy: [after seeing the remaining kids run away] "Did you see that?" [laughs] "Ed scared the pants off of them!"


 * Edd: [after being trampled upon by the scared kids] "Gullibility can be so painful."


 * Eddy: "Look, Ed's got a chin!"

Jonny: "Right on! Ed had me going too, buddy!" Kevin: "The dork's twisted, I swear." Nazz: "I'm off cereal forever."
 * Rolf: "The beast is no more than foolhardy Ed Boy."

Eddy: "Hey, if you find any teeth laying around, they're mine."
 * Edd: "My apologies, Nazz! He's just being the best monster he can--"

Trivia/Goofs

 * This is the first and only appearance of Edzilla on the TV series. However, he reappears in the video game, Ed, Edd n Eddy - The Mis-Edventures, as a playable character in the first bonus level.
 * A important plot element is that we do not actually see Edzilla until after Kevin is taken. The scene when the Eds have dressed him up is from Ed's point of view, we see his shadow, and we only see his tail when he attacks Jonny.
 * Club Ed makes its last appearance in this episode and is therefore destroyed.
 * Edzilla's costume sort of resembles a Xenomorph from the Alien movie series.
 * When Ed is dressed in his costume, he is much bigger than he usually is. Also, he (somehow) gets a chin.
 * The episode is an obvious parody of the movie Alien mostly noticeable when Ed kidnaps his victims and sticks them to a wall. Edd did mention that it's probably from a sci-fi movie Ed saw.
 * After Ed blows down the treehouse, Rolf gets eaten by Ed, however, he appears on the wall coated in Chunky Puffs.
 * When we see Ed's appearance as a monster he is strangely moving all his arms and tail at the same time.
 * We learn that during Edzilla Ed relies on instinct rather than brains (Just like the real Ed).
 * When Edzilla sticks Nazz to the wall, right above her is Gertrude, the chicken Edd used to distract Edzilla.
 * Ed retains his love for chickens and Chunky Puffs as Edzilla.
 * Double D shows some bravery in this episode as he was willing to give Edzilla a "time out" and to yell at him in front of the kids.
 * The name The Day the Ed Stood Still is a parody of the 1950s movie The Day the Earth Stood Still and its 2008 remake of the same name.
 * This is the first time when Nazz kisses one of Eds (this time it's Edd).
 * Edzilla bears some resemblance to the monster from the movie Cloverfield.
 * Notice when Edd and Eddy look at the playground the swingset is crumbled in the shape of a chicken.
 * When Kevin is taken by Edzilla, his hat falls off his head, but when he is stuck to the wall later in the episode, his hat is on his head again.
 * Notice Kevin's door opens on left, when Edzilla took Kevin, it opened right instead of left.
 * Arcade booths at the second Ed Land:
 * 1) Ring Toss
 * 2) R U Tall?
 * 3) Whak An Ed
 * Apparently, the only weakness to Edzilla is toss a chicken aside and let him catch it to get him distracted since Ed would still go for chickens in Edzilla form.
 * Rolf doesn't even know Kevin refers Jimmy as Fluffy, which he has a difficult time differenciate between those two names.
 * The Kankers were absent in this episode.
 * When Double D and Eddy are hiding underneath Eddy's bed, notice the magazines next to them. They say "Chix" and "Jiggy Jiggy" on the title, meaning probably those similar magazines from "The Luck of the Ed"!