Hand Me Down Ed

"Hand Me Down Ed" is a season 4 episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy, in which strange things begin to happen as a mysterious old boomerang flies into the Cul-de-Sac, reversing the kids personalities.

Plot
It's a bright sunny day in the Cul-de-Sac and Jimmy is trying to find his center. Unfortunately he doesn't get to keep his concentration for long though as Kevin's basketball rudely shatters his karma as well as taking away both dolly and fifty percent of Mr. Yum Yum. Life is tough for Jimmy but there's not much he can do about it, or at least not until he finds an innocent looking boomerang whose touch instantly transforms him into a seething mass of muscle bent on Kevin's destruction.

Having caused suitable strife, the boomerang soon slips away from Jimmy (which he reverts back to normal, causing him to run in fear of a furious Kevin) and the next victim on its agenda is Sarah. Currently she has just one thing on her mind - namely maiming Ed, but as she touches the boomerang it transforms her into the perfect little sister, sweet, loving and oh-so cuddly. Ed is delighted, his friends are disturbed though not as disturbed as Ed will be when the boomerang's effects wear off.

Trying to set up a scam on Rolf's doorstep the Eds soon find that he's been next in the line of fire when he comes to the door unable to stop singing (Rolf also seems like the only one who is aware of the changes but simply can't stop it), which is where they come into contact with it. Edd of course knows all about boomerangs and how in the country they originate from they are believed to have supernatural power. Ed finds it fascinating, Edd thinks its a quirky fabrication and yes, Eddy's just not listening although very soon all three are paying close attention as one by one the mysterious boomerang changes each of them into something far from natural.

Ed suddenly finds his intelligence and whilst Eddy is again not listening, Double D can hardly contain his rapture as the big guy spouts scientific theories left, right and center before the boomerang moves on to Eddy himself and turns Mr Selfish into Mr Mommy. Double D just can't explain his friend's behavior while Ed can't wait to babysit and seconds later its all change again as Edd himself is transformed from fidgety neurotic to a so-laid-back-he's-horizontal chilled out dude who just loves to be his natural self. By now the Eds have realized there's something strange about that boomerang but try as they might they can't seem to get rid of it and just like Mother's Brussels sprouts it just keeps coming back.

Memorable Quotes
Eddy: [in 'mommy mode'] "Casey Jr's all alone! Mommy's here sweetie, don't cry!" Edd: [in 'laid back mode'] "I'm getting the need to feel the breeze between my knees…" [takes off his underpants] "That's the ticket!" Eddy: "Not in front of the baby please! Casey, you cover your eyes!" Ed: "Distasteful dullard!"
 * Ed: [in 'intellectual mode'] "What an inane, inchoate and in inefficacious journey this has been."


 * Rolf: [startled then enraged by the boomerang sticking out of his underpants] "Hello?" [looks around] "Who threw this whatchmadoohickey at Rolf's posterior?!" [Rolf's personality gets reversed and started singing in gibberish]

Edd: "Eddy, come quick, you're not gonna believe this!" Eddy: "What the heck are you doing over there?! The scam's over here!"
 * Ed: [in 'intellectual mode' and hunched over typewriter] "Chasing Phantoms, a Dissertation on Unifying Field Theory and its Effects on Leptons and Quasars. By Edwin." [Double D blankly stares at Ed being smart; Double D heads over to Eddy]

Edd: [arranging the toothpaste for the scam] "Misrepresenting toothpaste as a character enhancing ointment is far beyond my scope of vocabulary, Eddy." Ed: "And I haven't a clue what's going on here, Eddy!" Eddy: "I said 'shut it', stupid!" [clears throat and waits for a moment; no response and rings the doorbell again until Rolf comes out singing in front of the Eds; Eddy gets annoyed and pushes Rolf back inside and the boomerang drops on the ground] "Sheesh. Since when did Rolf turn into one of those blow-hearted singer type? The guy gave me a headache. Next house!" Edd: "Odd. Isn't that the boomerang Sarah had earlier today?" [Ed bumps into Double D's head and questions it] Ed: "Boomerjigger?" Edd: [recoiling from the bump] "Ow. Certainly you've heard of a boomerang, Ed. Its magnificient aerodynamic properties allow it to rotate it into the air and return back to where it was thrown."
 * Eddy: [ringing Rolf's doorbell] "Double D, act natural, Ed, shut up, and I'll do all the talking."

Ed: "Inky-dinky parlez-vous!" Eddy: "Where'd the scam go?" Ed: "Here it comes now, Eddy." [charging towards the flying boomerang he threw and gets caught on the neck and propels towards Double D] Edd: "I'm so confused!" [gets hit by the boomerang with Ed on it and gets caught and propels toward Eddy] Eddy: "Who did this to my hair?!" [gets hit with Ed and Double D on it and propels toward the tree branch]
 * Edd: "What's happening to us?!"

Trivia

 * Things the kids became while possessing the boomerang:
 * Jimmy: a very aggressive muscle man (Just like in the episode "Look Into My Eds").
 * Sarah: a strangely nice, yet creepy girl.
 * Rolf: a loud and arrogant opera singer (Rolf is the only one who remembers its effects).
 * Ed: an extremely intelligent author.
 * Edd: a cool laid-back person who does not like to wear clothes.
 * Eddy: a mother (and talks in a womanly voice while dressing up like one).
 * For some reason, Rolf is the only one who remembers the boomerang's effects and even tries physically to stop himself from singing.
 * All the kids seemed to become the opposite of what they act like.
 * Kevin, The Kanker Sisters, Nazz and Jonny are the only ones in the episode that don't use nor get affected the boomerang's effects.
 * If you look close at the ending you see Edd's buttocks.
 * This is the second time Jimmy is a big, strong, and selfish muscle man. The first was "Look Into My Eds."
 * When Ed is using the typewriter, he claims that his full name is "Edwin", but in most other episodes when his full name is mentioned by Double D, it's "Edward".
 * When Jimmy is seen with the yoga class, Mr. Yum-Yum is acknowledged as the purple bear instead of the rabbit, which is yellow instead of its regular purple.
 * Casey Jr. first appears in this episode.
 * Coincidentally or in reference, Casey Junior is the name of the train in Disney films such as Dumbo.
 * One of the frowning faces in the title card is wearing a black, sock-like ski cap similar to Edd's.
 * The Kanker Sisters, Nazz and Jonny did not appear in this episode.

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