Take This Ed and Shove It

"Take This Ed and Shove It" is the 25th and final episode of Season 4. It's also the 102nd episode in the entire series, and the second two-part episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, Eddy find the Cul-de-Sac kids are all growing up and tries to make his career out of it. This was originally planned to be the last episode of the series, but due to popular demand, seasons 5, 6, and the movie Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show were made.

Plot
Eddy's new scam (a very cheesy children's show) fails after none of the kids are interested, since they're not babies anymore. Eddy is perplexed as to why the scam didn't work. Edd explains to him that the children are growing up and becoming mature, as he points out when Jimmy throws away his tricycle and starts to learn step by step on how to ride a two wheeler bike, and how Kevin has grown facial hair and how Rolf has grown back hair, a sign of them beginning to mature. Edd then says how they will soon start looking for jobs; etc. and that makes the gears in Eddy's head turning.

He then thinks of a scam in which the kids find out what their jobs are. He then gives each of the kids except Kevin a job. As a result, Jonny is a gopher, Jimmy a lumberjack, Sarah a traffic light and Nazz a dentist. Rolf was supposed to become a potato monger but he objected to this with a threat, so he becomes a barber, since the one who cuts hair is considered the "man among men" in the Old Country. The scam works very well and the Eds get jawbreakers and they then happily run out of the Candy Store, with Eddy holding their jawbreakers. However they run into Nazz, who introduces herself as Dr. Nazz. She then puts the jawbreakers in a cabinet drawer and wraps a chain around it before locking it as she says that jawbreakers are not good for your teeth.

Just as she is about to repair all of their teeth, she is distracted by lumberjack Jimmy, who falls from a tree and on to his teeth, and Nazz decides to help him. The Eds free themselves and try to free the jawbreakers. They then run to Eddy's house so that they can free them by using Eddy's Dad's power tools. They are delayed by traffic light Sarah, gopher Jonny who carries away the cabinet and the barber Rolf who uses the cabinet as a shampoo table (and gives Ed and Eddy new haircuts in the process). They manage to carry the cabinet to Eddy's garage and try to free the jawbreakers all the while talking what they want to be when they grow up. Ed wants to be rice, Edd an explorer and Eddy wants to scam kids forever and he says that he will be young, handsome and rich forever. Just then he is launched in to the garage ceiling by gopher Jonny burrowing underneath him. The roof breaks and Eddy falls down into the hole that Jonny created, and all the stuff from the ceiling fall on him, knocking him out unconscious.

Eddy wakes up in his room and sees a reflection of an old man in a mirror. At first he thinks that that is his grandfather and happily greets him, but to Eddy's shock, the old man is not his grandfather but him. He staggers to the door (throwing away a cane that somehow got into his hand) and opens it to find the equally old Edd and Ed,who have come to his house for a game of cribbage. Edd never stops talking and Ed can barely walk, and has grown an abnormally long white beard but he hasn't changed much. Edd than tells him that they haven't been kids in over 90 years. Eddy still in denial, sees the rest of the kids all old with very unusual traits due to their age. Jonny is senile, a bit deaf (he has to use a hearing aid), and has one eye blinded. Plank is very withered and has lost one eye and part of his mouth. Nazz spends the day feeding birds (but retaining her youthful attitude). Sarah is very ugly but she and Jimmy didn't change much (except they do a lot of knitting now). Kevin is still mean to him, but now he rides a small red, motor scooter and wears very thick glasses. Rolf has grown a long grey beard, has lost one eye, got a hunchback and constantly mistakes Eddy for other people such as Kevin, Jonny and Nazz. Eddy eventually goes back to his garage where he finds the jawbreakers still in the desk like Nazz left them. He then figures out that the jawbreakers might be the key to their youth. They try to pry it open but are too weak to lift any of the tools due to their age, so Eddy orders Ed to bust the desk open. Ed approaches the desk, but right when he is about to bust it open, he simply sneezes on it and he destroys it. The jawbreakers and the desk both disintegrate into dust.

Edd states time has reduced it to dust, but Eddy protests that he is a kid and Eddy then starts trying to wake himself up by hitting himself with his cane (who has once again somehow returned) screaming "I'm not old!" over and over. Eddy wakes up on the garage floor, happy that he is still young and that that was all a horrible dream. Ed has freed the jawbreakers and they proceed to eat them. Just as Eddy says "I don't ever wanna grow up!" he wakes up as an old man again. Edd tells him that he fell asleep during one of their nostalgia induced stories about their adventures as kids. Ed notes Eddy remembers the good stuff, but he can't give an example of that. Eddy realizes all of his memories were simply dreams of his childhood and that all three of them really are old. Eddy then smashes his head on the table causing it to break and fall down. Ed remembers something and tries to pull the "Pull my finger" joke on Eddy but he farts before Eddy even pulled his finger. Ed laughs to himself and Edd tells him that that joke is older than them. Eddy yells at him "Grow up you shriveled up, petrified lump!" and they all start to laugh for a while. Just as the episode is about to end, Eddy says "I still wish I was a kid!" and the episode ends there.

Deleted Scenes
There were two deleted scenes from "Take This Ed and Shove It" that did not make it into the episode. These were first shown at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con.

First Deleted Scene
300px|rightAfter Eddy looks in the mirror and sees he is a old man he thinks it is just a joke that is seen only in old cartoons. He then tries to tell Danny Antonucci to wake him up. When he doesn't answer, Eddy says he will give him a new quarter. But when he takes it out it is really a jar of Aunt Bonni's prunes.

Second Deleted Scene
After Ed turns the desk to dust Eddy starts to sob over it. Then Lee Kanker comes in to see who it is and reveals that she and Eddy have been married, had their honeymoon at the junkyard and had lots of babies (Or these may possibly be grandchildren considering the ages of the characters) and they all look the same for each couple. It is also revealed that May Kanker married Ed and Edd is married to Marie Kanker (who has become obese). It then cuts to the main scene with Eddy hitting himself with the cane. Oddly, the audio track of Edd saying "Time has reduced it to dust, Eddy" still plays even when the scene where the desk crumbles has been passed by a few scenes. It is possible that the line was later added in when the previous scene was cut and that the clip played at Comic-Con used the aired scene rather than the production scene.

Memorable Quotes
Edd: "Well, you see--" Rolf: "Rolf wishes to be a barber." Edd: "A barber?" Rolf: "In the Old Country, he who cuts hair is viewed a man among men." Edd: "But Rolf he--" Rolf: [showing muscle] "Rolf is a barber!" Ed: "Party at Rolf's house!"
 * Rolf: [after receiving his career results] "A potato monger!?"

Eddy: "You-mean-maturing?-You're-maturing-I-am-maturing!"
 * Edd: "This day has simply been the most gratifying day I can remember, Eddy! Yet I can't help but ponder our own past into maturity-"


 * Old Jonny: "Hey Eddy! Nice day isn't it? Whatcha' staring at? Did Nazz forget her pants again?"

Old Jonny: [refering to Nazz] "She still got it, huh, Eddy?" Old Eddy: "Got what? Liver spots? I can't take this anymore!" [trips over on a chess playing piece] "Ow! My hip!"
 * [Eddy has woken up to find himself and other people in the Cul-de-Sac as senior citizens]

Old Eddy: [confused] "Huh? I'm not Kevin." Old Rolf: "Who is this Kevin you speak of?" [pause] "ROLF'S TRACTOR IS NOT FOR SALE!" [Shows Rolf's tractor with a "FOR SALE" sign] [smiles and grabs Eddy] "YOU FOOL!" [places Eddy on Old Wilfred] "Rolf does not love you, Nazz girl." Old Eddy: "Okay." Old Rolf: [shouting at Eddy] "YOU TAUNT ROLF'S TURNIP, JONNY THE WOOD BOY?! GET OFF ROLF'S PROPERTY BEFORE ROLF GETS HIS BEATING STICK!"
 * Old Rolf: "Hello, Kevin."

Old Eddy: "It was all just stories? Memories from the past?! We really are old!"
 * Old Ed: "You remember the funniest things, Eddy. Like… uh, I forget."

Old Sarah: "Skip rope? What do we look like!? A couple of babies!? We're knitting, you idiot!" [Shows Jimmy knitting] Old Jimmy: "And, no. You can't have one. I made this bedpan cozy for Sarah" [Shows a pink bedpan with white flowers] Old Sarah: "So get lost, paps!" [Hits Eddy in the head]
 * Old Eddy: "Leave you to what?" [stares at a yarn with a skip rope handle] "Skip rope? Ain't you too old to skip rope?"

Trivia/Goofs

 * If we take into account that in the episode "Your Ed Here," Eddy is 12, then in this episode he would be 102 years old in the future.
 * This episode was originally the last episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy, until production started again in 2005.
 * In the first deleted scene, Eddy pulls out a jar from his pocket that says "Aunt Bonni's prunes". Aunt Bonni could be a reference to Bonni Reid, who is the color designer of the show!
 * When Ed is on the desk you can hear same tone that is in Ed, Edd n Eddy - The Mis-edventures when you do Batter Ed.
 * In the first deleted scene, Eddy breaks the fourth wall by saying "You can wake me up now, Mr. Cartoon Director!" and then later "HEY, ANTONUCCI, WAKE ME UP!".
 * Old Ed and Hot Dog Ed (in the gag, he's a real hot dog!) were both seen again in Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show when Ed was zapped with the electric gum.
 * When Rolf rips off his shirt for Kevin, Kevin's chin hair is showing. In the next scene, it is not there. It then reappears in the career counseling scene.
 * Kevin was the only kid who didn't get a job at Eddy's Career Counseling.
 * Jimmy, Nazz and Rolf were the only ones that got actual real life jobs, but Rolf is the only one who professionally knew what he was doing. (Jonny got a job as a gopher which is just an animal and Sarah became a traffic light which is just a machine to keep cars driving orderly in an intersection).
 * At some point in 90 years, Rolf would put his tractor for sale after it broke down somehow. (Though he yelled at Old Eddy that the tractor is not for sale)
 * In the first deleted scene, the chair next to Eddy is transparent.
 * Jonny has some hair in this episode when he is shown as an old man.
 * This was also the last episode produced with traditional ink and paint. AKA Cartoon switched over to digital color starting with Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle. Because Ed, Edd n Eddy are considered to be the last major animation production to use the traditional process, Take this Ed and Shove It can be considered, beside "Hair High (2004)" which was released months before this episode, to be the last cartoon in history to be completely done in Traditional Cel animation right down to the ink and paint.
 * When the kids are getting their Career, there were only 5 quarters in Eddy's jar. Jonny usually pays for Plank, but the reason for this could be that Plank did not get a career.
 * It was revealed that Jonny 2x4's favorite color is magenta, his pant size is about 12 and his favorite vegetables are sprouts.
 * It was also revealed when Edd is old he has a cat named "Neils Bohr", named after a Danish nuclear physicist who won a nobel prize for physics in 1922.
 * Almost all the characters appeared and spoke in this episode, but the Kankers were seen only in the deleted scenes of the episode, which were not shown in the full episode.
 * A running gag in this episode is that every time Old Eddy gets rid of his cane, it somehow always comes back to him like magic.
 * Ed said "Magellan!" while evaluating Jonny's profile for a career. Magellan is known as Ferdinand Magellan, a well-known Portuguese explorer who made an expedition of sailing from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean and has a strait with his name entitled known as "Strait of Magellan".
 * Eddy calls Ed "Figaro". This is a possible reference to the popular Pinocchio cat of the same name.
 * Goof: When Edd and Eddy were chasing the desk, Eddy jumps over a bush, but he is later shown covered in brambles.
 * This episode was featured on the Ed, Edd n Eddy Vol.2: Fools Par-Ed-Ise DVD.
 * In One + One = Ed, Rolf tells the barnyard animals not to burn the candle at both ends, as it leads to the life of a hairdresser. However in this episode he wants to become a barber despite what he said in the former episode.
 * This is the only episode with deleted scenes released.
 * Ed says "Yummity Yum Yum" when he's about to eat a jawbreaker in Eddy's dream that he's still a kid. This line was paraphrased as "Zappity Zap Zap" 3 times in the season 5 episode "Every Which Way But Ed."

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