Talk:This Won't Hurt an Ed/@comment-5525892-20160225151253/@comment-1915803-20160227223852

My whole point is that there doesn't really need to be a justification. Things are not always just and fair in this series; in fact, they almost never are. Previous situations from older episodes typically don't carry over from one episode to the next unless it's required for the plot, as in "The Good Ol' Ed," or for a gag, as in the reference to "Ed in a Halfshell" in "Stuck in Ed." Therefore, saying "Character A did X for Character B in one episode, and now Character B has the nerve to betray Character A in this other episode" is not really a good way of gauging Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes. If plots carried over that easily and characters remembered everything from previous episodes to a tee, then the kids would fall for maybe three or four scams in the whole series and not 100+.

Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes are all variations on a basic skeletal structure: they typically begin with a scam, then an unrelated problem arises that must be dealt with over the course of the episode, and by the end of the episode the Eds (as a group, or individually) are hosed. Sometimes the preponderance of misfortune is on one Ed specifically, and it doesn't need to be 100% justifiable because by the time the next episode rolls around, things start with a clean slate again.

It sounds like a "satisfactory" episode ending to you is one in which the antagonists get their rightful comeuppance. If so, then you are watching the wrong series.