An Ed is Born

"An Ed is Born" is a season 4 episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy, in which Eddy makes a home movie of himself to show to his brother that he is NOT a "Pipsqueak" anymore.

Plot
Rolf is sniffing around for something, and his nose leads him straight to Ed's bedroom. Ed is in his happy place as he teaches his own swimming class to none other than Rolf's chickens! Rolf is NOT happy. He angrily demands his chickens back. Same time tomorrow, guys! As Rolf is about to yell at them, he is knocked to the side by a huge packing crate. Who should appear behind it? None other than Eddy, who happily states that this big box is a gift from his brother. But when he opens it, he gets a shock as he realizes that the box is full of baby stuff! (And a rattle that Ed claims as his own) Eddy is fed up with his big brother thinking he is a baby. He has decided to send his brother a home video of how much he has changed.

They start the video in front of Eddy's garage. Eddy swings in on a vine wearing an orange stach. But things turn... hairy quickly. Now, Eddy, you know that a person cannot OWN a planet. Eddy tells his bro that he is stinking rich and brags about all the bags of money sitting right next to him. But then, the camera pans to Ed gluing money signs onto bags of trash from the garbage can! He sure is stinking rich! (Sorry for that lame joke).

In the next scene, Eddy strolls down the sidewalk casually. Now Eddy tells his big bro that he is Mayor of the Cul-de-Sac and that Kevin has now become the neighborhood dork! Kevin, overhearing this, decides to give Eddy a super wedgie by tying his underwear to the back of his bike and speeding off down the street! Eddy tells his bro that Kevin collects underwear and gives it to the poor. (Pretty stupid huh?)

They continue the film in the playground that Eddy claims he owns. Eddy tells Jimmy and Sarah they MUST pay to ride the swings. But he forgot one thing: this is Sarah. Say something like that and she'll lose it. So Ed, out of fear, forces Eddy to step aside in a manner most painful.

Guess what Ed does next? He's talking to the camera. Then, he swallows the camera! Then we get a disgusting shot of the inside of Ed's stomach. Double D fishes the camera back out and reminds Ed of what it could have done to his digestive track. Then the Eds see Nazz and tells Eddy's brother that Nazz is his girlfriend. Eddy moves in to "put the moves" on her, but he ends up getting karate chopped into a fire hydrant! As Ed retrieves Eddy, someone takes the camera from Edd. Who is it? Old Melonhead Jonny. Then Jonny is attacked by Eddy, who half-buries him in the ground. Look, Rolf is back! He's... Eddy's jet setter? Oh no. That's just Ed in Rolf's clothes. But guess who happens to be a little ways away: Rolf himself, and he's still not too happy about Ed's Swimming School for Chickens and chases the Eds with a rake.

They go to The Junkyard next, where Eddy shows Big Bro two things: A car and, what Eddy claims to be a hard-boiled egg boiler (It looks like it's just a water heater). But there's something other than eggs inside: Kankers! The Kankers attack Eddy for some smooching, but he is then rescued by Ed and Edd.

They all high-tail it back to Eddy's room, where cardboard replicas of the Kids are eagerly waiting to see Eddy and get his autograph. But the real Rolf is back and he is searching for the chickens again. Know where they are? Holding up the cardboard! Rolf is sick of this, and there is a huge fight. Rolf threw Eddy to a wall then he starts chasing Ed and Eddy while Edd was knocked down by a chicken. The video finally ends when the little camera that could, dies out due to a low battery. The episode end with Eddy screaming.

Memorable Quotes

 * Rolf: "Silence! Rolf must brood!"

Ed: [grabbing a handful of chickens] "It was their idea, Rolf. As they wanted to be the best chickens they could be! Bless their little giblets." Rolf: "Is that so, Ed Boy?" [camera focuses on Eddy's appearance outside the window, and then outside Ed's basement door] [Rolf becomes angry] "You have squeezed an orange rind in the eye of Rolf! Return the chickens or Rolf will-" ''[Gets rammed by Eddy's box that was pushed down the stairs. Rolf is thrown out the basement window]''
 * Rolf: [motioning for Edd to stop] "Let Rolf understand this. I suppose disgracing Rolf is okay to you, Ed Boy?" [Pupils enlarge pretending to be understanding of Ed, then return back to normal size] "Walking off with Rolf's chickens like a fine howdy-do?"


 * Eddy: [defensive of the 'Pipsqueek' label on the crate] "Yeah? So, that means head honcho in our house."

Ed: "Can I lick the bowl?"
 * Eddy: "Let's make a movie!"


 * Ed: [sticking labels on bags of garbage to make them look like sacks of money] "Boy, being rich really stinks."


 * Eddy: [talking about Kevin] "He collects underwear and gives it to the poor. Pretty stupid, huh, Bro?"

Eddy: [irritably] "Over here Spielberg."
 * Edd: [nervously panning around for Eddy] "Eddy, where are you?"

Edd: [nervously] "Why, of course not, Rolf! Whatever gave you that impression?" Rolf: "Rolf will release his rage now!" ''[Rolf attacks. Edd falls and sees the camera's battery is dying]'' Edd: "I think your brother's got the picture, Eddy."
 * Rolf: "You have vandalized Rolf's face! And you have…" [Sees chicken and Rolf cardboard cutout] "…And you have stolen Rolf's chickens yet again?!" [Sees camera] "Are you stealing Rolf's soul with your film box?"

Edd: "Look natural. Stay with me." Eddy: "Uh, thus rendering the egg-" [fuzzy again then to different view] "-for all to enjoy." [Looks at Edd, annoyed] Edd: "I'm creating dynamics, Eddy." Eddy: "Don't get hardy on me, Double D." [opens "egg boiler" revealing the Kanker sisters]
 * Eddy: "By simply tossing your-" [camera switches to fuzzy, then to a different view of Eddy] "-the combustion soon-" [looks up at Edd]

Transcript
An Ed is Born (transcript)

Trivia

 * The music from Eddy's bedroom can be heard from the season one episode Quick Shot Ed.
 * Ed cannot lift a box with Eddy in it up the stairs in this episode, but he can lift much heavier stuff in other episodes.
 * When the sky is first seen, the clouds are light yellow. But in later shots, they aren't.
 * When Eddy digs through his box, the wall behind is violet instead of blue.
 * Eddy throws the rattling toy onto Rolf's head, but when the Eds are being chased right after, Ed is holding it again.
 * Eddy references movie director Steven Spielberg when joking about Edd's camera technique in the playground.
 * At the foot of Eddy's bed, there is a Barry White record. He is a Grammy Award winning record producer. You can read more about him here.
 * The title is a reference to "A Star is Born"
 * Running gag: The Eds make Rolf angry, especially the third time.
 * A lot of this episode parodies the movie, The Blair Witch Project, such as the camera view, and how Double-D, when they were in the playground, said, "Eddy, w-where are you?" The purpose of Eddy's camera is to show his Brother how cool he is, while in The Blair Witch Project, it was to show the existence of the Blair Witch in a Maryland forest. Like the ending, Double D drops his camera like Heather drops her camera because something attacks them. For Double D, Rolf and the chickens attack him, while in The Blair Witch Project, Heather is attacked and eaten by the Blair Witch.
 * Ed's camera is seen again in the episode "A Town Called Ed".
 * This is the only episode (excluding the specials) to have a different end credits theme.
 * This is the only time Ed cleaned out his tub of gravy for Rolf's chickens to swim in.

Video
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