3 Squares and an Ed

"3 Squares and an Ed" is the 6th episode of Season 3 and the 58th episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, Ed is grounded and Edd and Eddy try to bust him out.

Plot
The episode starts out with Edd and Eddy at Edd's house by the laundry chutes. Edd tells Eddy that his laundry chute has the fastest slide to the basement. In other words, it would be a great ride! Edd gets a pillow from his closet and says you need to ride with a pillow for safety reasons. But Eddy is so excited that he already went down the laundry chute. Eddy lands in a basket of clothes, followed by Edd landing in a bucket of clothes with his pillow. Edd then takes his ladder and begins his weekly inspection on Mildrid. Along the way Eddy stumbles upon Edd's cabinet of failed inventions. The cabinet is organized with labels and shelves. Eddy takes a volcano from the cabinet. He presses a button on the volcano by accident and the volcano sucks his head in. Edd starts laughing at Eddy. Mad at Edd for laughing at him, Eddy uses the volcano, still over his head, to attempt hurting Edd.

Afterwards Eddy chases Edd all the way to Ed's house. They come across Sarah and Jimmy guarding the window to Ed's basement where Ed is grounded. Sarah and Jimmy make Edd and Eddy to step away from the window. Later, Plank appears from a bush with cardboard leaf clovers around him. Then Jonny jumps out of the bush with Plank. Jonny is dressed up like a leperchaun and he dances on Jimmy's head. Then Jonny runs away but Jimmy chases after Jonny because he wants a pot of gold. Then Sarah chases after Jimmy telling Jimmy to come back. Eddy and Edd then appear from behind the house, the latter revealing he bribed Jonny with a handful of granola. Eddy convinces Edd to help break Ed out.

In Ed's room, Ed crys over a picture of his TV, the actual TV having been taken by his parents because he's grounded. Edd and Eddy make their way out from the drain in Ed's room. Ed becomes happy and hugs Edd and Eddy. When Eddy says they are there to break Ed out, Ed acts reluctant because he doesn't want to get in even more trouble.

At the fake rainbow in the Cul-de-Sac, Jimmy wants the pot of gold but Jonny says up to the rainbow is all he gets for one handful. Jonny discards his beard and leaves. Sarah catches up with Jimmy and drags him back to his post.

Edd created a fake dummy of Ed using Ed's clothes, a vacuum cleaner, and a pineapple. Edd puts a book near Ed so that the dummy looks more realistic. Since Ed doesn't have his normal clothes, he changed into a Hawaiian shirt with red shorts. The Eds squeeze their way through a sprinkler to get outside. But Ed doesn't want to get in trouble so he runs back into the house through the window (Revealing it was open the entire time, making sneaking through the pipes unnecessary, much to Edd's disbelief. Sarah and Jimmy arriveThen Sarah and Jimmy look through the window and actually think that the dummy is the real Ed! The Eds were hiding on a handebar that was on top of the ceiling. Then Eddy drags Edd and Ed to the stairs. Except that there aren't any stairs! Ed says that his parents took the stairs out because he's grounded. But then Eddy uses a device that Edd made to catapault them upstairs. They were about to open the door to freedom but Sarah opened the door knocking the Eds into another room. Then the Eds quickly go upstairs and go into Sarah's room. Then Sarah and Jimmy go to the room where Ed was grounded. They find out that the Eds tricked them! Then Edd uses the stuff in Sarah's room to make a kite. The Eds use the kite to fly away. Then Sarah enters her room. The Eds are flying away but the kite loses all the leather that keeps the kite afloat and the Eds fall on top of Jimmy. Sarah goes outside and tells the Eds that they're BUSTED! (Eddy stating "Oh great! Now we're going to get it.")

When the Eds are talking on the phone there's a rope attached to each phone. So whenever they're talking Sarah and Jimmy pull the rope witch makes the Eds hit there wall. However, Ed seems to actually be enjoying this. The episode ends with a repeating gag of them being hit against the wall over and over to no end.

Memorable Quotes

 * Edd: [to a sour-faced Eddy] "Try to contain yourself, Eddy. The adrenaline of irreverence can be quite overwhelming!" [in a hushed whisper] "We're soooo bad!"

Eddy: "A comedian huh?" Edd: [as he starts running]"Oh dear!"
 * [Edd laughs after Eddy's head gets sucked into a volcano model and is stuck]

Edd: [after sliding down the "father" shute] "And arachnids." Eddy: "You have peanuts in your basement, Double D?" Edd: "Spiders, Eddy. Basements make an excellent home to spiders and Mildred is in for her monthly inspection." [talking to Mildred, his pet spider] "Aren't you, Mildred? Did you just winked at me? Yes, you did."
 * Eddy: [after sliding down Edd's laundry shute] Bottom floor: dryer lint, paint cans, maoldy socks, and mildew!


 * Eddy: [smug] "Jonny'll do anything for a handful of granola."

Sarah: [to Jimmy] "Look at him sitting there reading his little book." [figuring out Ed doesn't read regular books and then attacks "Ed"] "Book? Where'd you get the book, Ed?"[ the pineapple head falls off of the fake Ed]
 * Jimmy: [recoiling in confusion at Ed's dinner] "Buttered toast with gravy? Do people eat this?"


 * Eddy: [seeing Ed panicking] "Keep your shorts on." [sees Ed's shorts are around his ankles] "No, seriously, keep your shorts on." [puts Ed's shorts back on him]


 * Ed: "Why is Ed sitting in a box?"

Ed: [gasp] "OUTSIDE ED?! But I am grounded, Eddy!" [runs through his window, which Edd thought to be locked] Edd: [about the window that was supposed to be locked] "Has that window been open this whole time?"
 * Eddy: "How does it feel to be back on the outside, Ed?"

Ed: "My parents took 'em down because I am grounded." Edd: [shocked] "That's disturbing."
 * Eddy: "Now all we have to do is get you up the- [notices that the stairs up are gone] WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STAIRS?!"

Jonny: "Nope. Up to the fake rainbow, that's all you get for one handful, pal." Jimmy: [devastated] "My fantasy. Crushed by an imp!" Sarah: [grabs Jimmy] "Back to your post!"
 * Jimmy: [gleeful] "It's the end of rainbow, leprechaun! Hand over that pot of gold!"

Eddy: "Geronimo!" [lands at the front door] Edd: "Gracious!" [lands at the front door]
 * Ed: "Alley-oop!" [lands at the front door]


 * Eddy: [while launching a kite] "Houston, we have liftoff!"

Trivia/Goofs

 * When Double D and Eddy are preparing to go down the laundry chutes, you can see Double D's name on his, spelled "E d war d ," with only two "D"s. However, in other episodes prior to this one, when Double D wears a name tag or something with his full name on it, it reads "E dd war d ", with three "D"s.
 * The scene where the Eds use the giant safety pin to hop up the missing stairwell was used as a bump for the channel when it still used the full "Cartoon Network" logo. The scene was extended to include the logo jumping in on the Eds after Eddy jumped out. .thumb|right|200px|Cartoon Network Eds with Logo ID
 * There is a coloring mistake towards the end of the episode. After the Eds fell on top of Jimmy, they were all coughed out of Ed's mouth. If you look at the little clip of Ed's shirt that can be seen during this part, you will see that it is green like his normally worn jacket. However, Ed was wearing a tourist shirt at this time. Finally, while Sarah is yelling to Ed that she'll tell Mom, the small bit shown of Ed's shirt is back to white.
 * The Elevation Boots in the episode "A Pinch to Grow an Ed" were destroyed. In the episode "In Like Ed," one of them was repaired, but now they're destroyed again, which means that they were used again between In Like Ed and this episode.
 * When Sarah hits Eddy in the head with her pop gun he gets a bump, but in the next shot the bump is gone.
 * At the end of the episode, Edd is seen reading a book called Behavior Modification at his desk.
 * It is revealed that Jonny would do any task for anyone if given a handful of granola.
 * Kevin, Rolf, Nazz and The Kanker Sisters did not appear in this episode.
 * Eddy: "Houston, we have liftoff!", a common line used when a shuttle launches from the platform into outer space.
 * Running gag: Ed panicking/crying and claiming he's grounded when Double D and Eddy try to break him out throughout most of the episode.
 * Edd created a decoy of Ed to place in Ed's room so Sarah and Jimmy won't know that he is gone. Sarah then messed with the decoy and the decoy completely fell apart. This could be an allusion to the 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz where near the end of the film, a security guard discovers that three of the inmates had escaped after the head of one of their decoys fell off the bed.
 * Eddy claimed he was grounded "forever". This is mostly likely an exaggeration because nobody can be grounded forever. A normal grounding would last only for a certain amount of days or weeks.
 * Edd was grounded for 3 days and had to spend some quality time with his aunts.

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