Talk:Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo/@comment-5350125-20120808040804/@comment-3242362-20140922011321

It's a fourth wall break for the sake of comedy.

Let me try to go into detail. If you want to make all specials canon, you have problems. The most obvious? The cul-de-sac got dragged into space at the end of The Eds are Coming. By proxy, they are not on earth, therefore the Eds can't run away from the kids in the movie, because there's nowhere to run to.

But, if you want to break the fourth wall, you have to admit "yeah, we filmed these episodes." That in turn means acknowledging that your in a TV show. So, put another way, the show has a "reality" in which the specials don't quite fit. However, the characters in it sometimes break the fourth wall of the reality for comedy. Plotwise, these don't affect anything; these are just throwaway jokes. Canonwise, as well, it means that something in an episode that doesn't fit with reality, when the episode has been acknowledged to be a special and thus not part of the regular production run, it can be ignored in terms of canon.