Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Ed

"Eeney, Meeney, Miney, Ed" is the first episode of Season 2 and the twenty-seventh episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, Eddy tricks Ed into thinking that Edd is a lizard man who is turning the kids into animals.

Plot
To their dismay, the Eds' latest cash-magnet, a mini golf course is soon reduced to dust by an excited Ed. A soured Eddy, looks for something to soothe his anger and decides to play on Ed's love of science fiction by telling him that Double D isn't really human.

Instead, he suggests Edd is the hybrid result of some fantastic alien experiment born in the laboratory beneath his house. Ed falls for this hook, line and sinker and becomes Edd's shadow, desperate to catch a glimpse of his tail--or better still, the gills Edd's hiding under his hat.

This unnerves poor Edd greatly. Eddy, keen to extract the most from the joke, tells Ed that Edd has performed strange insect experiments on the other kids and he fears for his own safety. Later, a stricken Ed finds Eddy's clothes on the floor, has his buddy become a beetle?

While Eddy masquerades as a cockroach, Nazz confuses Ed more by inviting him to join with her and Edd at a barbecue apparently just for "their kind". Not wanting to miss out on a free meal, Eddy doesn't want to be a cockroach now but he's wedged too firmly in the pail. Ed then finds Eddy and believes Eddy has become a cockroach. Eddy wants him to get him out of the bucket and Ed tries to. When Nazz comes to offer some drinks, she thinks Ed is holding a bug. Ed confused says where is the bug and while his head is turned, Nazz swats Eddy out of Ed's hand. The mentioning of a bug gets the other kids' attention. Eddy quickly runs off and hides in the basement. Some of the kids decide to go in the basement to hunt it down. Sarah, Jimmy, and Plank are so scared that they want to stay and let the others handle it. The others go into the basement to search for the bug with Rolf leading them with a flashlight. After searching for a bit they see Eddy run off and hide, Rolf then leaps to where Eddy is and puts his foot down with alarming consequences. Edd then turns on the lights and Rolf surprised says that this is no bug. They are shocked that it was Eddy who has been the thing that scared them. Ed claims Edd turned Eddy into a cockroach. Edd embarrassed says to the kids he honestly has no clue on this. While Ed and Edd try to free Eddy, the other kids leave back upstairs. Rolf then asks Kevin if the Eds are of this planet. Kevin shakes his head and says they're from the land of the dorks before turning the lights off and closing the door.

Memorable Quotes
Edd: "Why are Eddy's clothes lying on my floor? Is he running around naked again?"
 * Ed [finds Eddy's clothes lying on Edd's floor]: "Oh no! Not Eddy! Take me, Lizard Man!"

Nazz: "Is that Eddy?" Kevin [crazily happily]: "Hit him again!"
 * Rolf [finding out the cockroach is really Eddy]: "Huh? This is no bug."

Eddy: [to Ed] "What'd I tell ya?"
 * Edd [seeing the time]: "Ooh! My cocoons need tending!"

Edd: "Wait, Ed! I can make you a sandwich."
 * Ed: "Am I the only human left? I am alone! I am hungry!"

Edd: "Yes! Join us Ed." Nazz & Edd [in unison]: "Join us, Ed! Join us, Ed! Join us, Ed!" Ed: "OKAY, I GIVE UP! It's no fun being the only human left. So can I be a bumblebee?"
 * Nazz [inviting Ed and Double D to her barbecue]: "Lots of food."

Ed: "I picked a mosquito. As I am ready to be transformed and join your colony!" Sarah [eating her hot dog]: "What an idiot." Ed [imitating a fly]: "Buzz, buzz, buzz." Eddy [whispering]: "Psst! Ed, come here." Ed: "Eddy! You look good for a cockroach." Eddy: "Knock it off, just get this bucket off me!" Nazz: "Hi, Ed. Would you like a-" [panics upon noticing Eddy as a "bug"] "BUG!" Ed [startled]: "Huh? Where?! Get it off!" Nazz: "Crush it!" [swings plate over Eddy]
 * Edd: "Jonny, have you seen Ed?" [Ed pokes Double D on the back of his head several times] "Oh, hello, Ed."

Kevin [shakes head]: "Nope. They're from the Land of the Dorks." Edd: "Can someone tell me what's going on here?" [Kevin turns off the lights] "Well?" Ed: "Basement!" Eddy: "Foot!" Ed: [disgusted sound]
 * Rolf [looking at Edd & Ed pulling Eddy out from the bucket]: "Are they from this planet?"


 * Eddy: "What planet are you from?"

Trivia/Goofs

 * Look closely at the golf machine; after Edd turns it on for the first time, the machine has two menacing, intimidating eyebrows, but right before the golf club that Ed threw hits it, the eyebrows are gone.
 * When Edd turns on the light switch to Nazz's basement, he flips a switch on the bottom floor of the basement, but when Kevin turns off the lights, he does so with a switch at the top of the basement. However, it's entirely possible the basement had two switches.
 * There is a sticky note located in Edd's bathroom (next to the toilet, behind the door) that says "Don't touch the wall."
 * Eddy has a green tongue now. In the previous season he had a yellow tongue.
 * This is the first episode to use the second title card song which went from seasons 2-4 before being changed again in season 5.
 * The golf machine monster's teeth change in number during the show.
 * The Kanker Sisters do not appear in this episode at all.
 * The jaws of the monster mini golf obstacle block the the ramp leading into its mouth, rendering extremely difficult to shoot.
 * "Eeney, Meeney, Miney, Ed" is the name of the episode, but "Eeney" is incorrectly spelled "Eeny".
 * A running gag in this episode is that Ed believes almost all of Eddy's claims that Edd is not really human as well as the other kids in the Cul-De-Sac.
 * Apparently, Eddy has ran around naked before since Edd questioned to Ed if he was running around naked again when he questions why Eddy's clothes were on the floor.
 * Rolf was shown with four toes in this episode, but all the other characters have three.

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