One of Those Eds

"One of Those Eds" is the 8th episode of Season 4 and the 85th episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, one well stuck quarter causes the Cul-de-Sac carnage and conflicts all round.

Plot
Eddy's newest scam is selling beds. But not just any beds, old junkyard beds! Disguised as his very own 'Ed's Beds' ("with a coding of Eddy's very own 'They'll never know they're stinking junkyard mattresses' paint"), he hopes to get a quick buck or two. He almost fooled Jonny but luckily for him (and unluckily for Eddy) Rolf doesn't seem happy. See, he bought a wooden mattress that broke his back and now he gets to hit Eddy for it!

It's during the subsequent evasive maneuvers that - glory of glories - what should Eddy spy just lying there on the sidewalk but CASH! Yes, an abandoned quarter, a whole quarter, just think what he could buy at the candy store with it! However there's just one slight problem - Eddy can't budge the coin from the sidewalk, but maybe Double D will find a way. So begins a frantic game of disguise and determination as one by one the cul-de-sac kids each discover the money and then come to grief when they try to claim it for themselves only to be foiled by its amazing adhesive properties. Not to be outdone they then try to hide it away so that nobody else will find it but of course its a secret everybody knows so its not long before everyone's fighting for the right of removal! Unnerved by the squabbles Edd tries to bring a little order to the unseemly ranks but even when they're given a one-on-one chance with the money nobody's able to pocket the plunder. Luckily, Edd's been keeping his powder dry and later, under cover of darkness he brings out the big guns, or rather shovels but even his mega digging machine fails to come up trumps. Morning finds the Eds dazed and confused and witness to the arrival of jolly little Jonny who's come to collect his belongings, by gum!

Memorable Quotes
Jonny: [while being carried by Eddy] "Yep, I'm pooped, Eddy." Eddy: "Well, it's your lucky day Jonny-boy. We at Ed's Beds have a top variety of beds you can choose from." Jonny: [woozy] "Beds?" Edd: [sarcastically ignoring Eddy's sales spiel] "That's correct Jonny, all our mattresses have been fully reconditioned with a coating of Eddy's very own "They'll Never Know They're Stinking Junkyard Mattresses' paint". Rolf: [hobbling in] "Ed-Boys! Your mattress has ruptured Rolf's tail bone! Who is in charge of this double-crossing slumber flim-flammery?!" Eddy: "What's it to ya?!" Rolf: [furious] "Return Rolf's money!" Eddy: "Mommy!" [gets chased and beatened up by Rolf offscreen] "OW!" [walks back to the scam] "Of all the rotten, no good… How's a guy suppose to get ahead in life when he gives back all the way?" [Eddy turns back, sees the quarter on the sidewalk and picks it up, but failed]
 * Eddy: "Kinda running on empty, aren't you, Jonny?"

Rolf: "Who is responsible for this thing piercing Rolf's hot water sack?" [notices Kevin's hat on the sidewalk and picks it up] "Why would Kevin leave his hat on a paved footpath?"
 * Kevin: [notices Jimmy running to Sarah and picks up Mr. Yum Yum] "Looks like Fluffy forgot his stuffed rat." [looks at the quarter] "Cool." [whistles and tries to pick it up and falls on his back] "Ouch." [realizing he cannot pick up the quarter; takes out his screwdriver and attempts to remove the quarter that way] "Tough guy, huh?" [fails to remove the obstinate quarter from the ground with his screwdriver] "Man, that bites." [puts his hat on top of the quarter while he sinisterly laughs and walks away] "I'll be back." [tosses his bent-up screwdriver into the air and walks away for a while; Rolf comes out complaining who threw the screwdriver on to his "hot water sack"]

Edd: "Your attention please. People! I may have a solution to everyone's dilemma." Jimmy: "Hey, everybody, let's be nice! Shush! Double D's got something to--" [Jimmy gets knocked over by Rolf and Kevin's fight] Rolf: [fighting with Kevin] "May the onion of agony soil your macaroon!" [Rolf realizing Kevin fixed his back] "Rolf's back, it has been healed! Thank you, Kevin. But you are a nincompoop as the coin is mine!" [Rolf dives back in the fight for the quarter] "Badaboom!" Kevin: [jumps back into the quarter fight] "Hey, lay off, it's mine!" [Double D puts on cotton in his ears and blows the air horn to get the others' attention; everyone else recoiling from the sound of the air horn] Kevin: "Dude..." Sarah: "What are you trying to do? Blow our heads off?" [Double D takes out the cotton from his ears] Edd: "Crude, yet effective. Let's begin, shall we?" [scene changes to second shot of civil coin removal] "I've taken the liberty of arranging you in a civil and organized manner."
 * Ed: "Shoes for the taking, Double D!" [Ed joins in the clobbering, but only for the others' shoes]

Eddy: [to Ed and Double D] "I'm telling you, it's just stuck there hard as a rock. What do you think?" Ed: "Oh, look, a shoe!" [pushes Double D and Eddy aside while focusing on Eddy's shoe on top of the quarter] "Do you think it'll fit me?" [Eddy smacks Ed's face on to the ground and picks him back up] Eddy: "Forget the shoe! It's the quarter that I want!" Edd: "At which point, every attempt would be made to return to its rightful owner." Eddy: "In your dreams! Finders keepers, losers weepers!" Ed: "Nice fit, huh Eddy?" Eddy: "Give me back my shoe!" Edd: [while observing at the obstinate quarter on the sidewalk] "Hmm…" Ed: [offscreen in the background while fighting with Eddy for his shoe] "Nice shoe!"
 * Rolf: [looking at the quarter] "A gift from the gods!" [puts Kevin's cap on and tries to pull the coin off the ground] "Obstinate coin from where I don't know, prepare yourself for an unmerciless beating by Rolf's shoe!" [throws a shoe at the quarter] "Had enough? No?" [Rolf takes off his other shoe] "Perhaps a two shoe beating is more of your vocation." [Rolf smacks the quarter three times with both of his shoes] "Is this a test? Tell me, lost in the red cent." [Rolf picks up Eddy's shoe in the corner with his teeth] "Have you ever experienced the all might three shoe beating?!" [Rolf begins smacking the quarter again multiple times] "Take this! And that! And one for the road!" [Rolf taps the quarter several times with his toes to check it] "Aah!" [Rolf walks away with his walking stick and spits back Eddy's shoe to the quarter]

Edd: "I've been watching you, and if you think--" [Eddy stuffs Double D's mouth with his legs; Kevin's bike ran off on its own] Kevin: [after seeing his bike ran off and chases it] "My bike!" Eddy: "Aha! My turn!" [Rolf smacks Eddy on the head with his fist after he tricked him] Rolf: "Rolf is next!" Ed: [with two shoes on his teeth] "Yay, Rolf!" Rolf: [before beginning an attempt to dislodge the stuck quarter] "You have messed with the rest now the best will make a mess! Piece of worthless coin of commercial enterprise!" [begins to bend over] [grunts] "Ai! Rolf's back is cricked! Yet again!" Eddy: "My turn!" [Eddy laughs and kicks Rolf's back] Edd: [after seeing Eddy kick Rolf's back] "Well, that can't be good for Rolf's back." Ed: [sporting Rolf's shoe on his head] "The light doesn't get any greener, Double D!" Eddy: [mounting an attack on the obstinate quarter] "You're as good as spent after I scrape you off with my shovel of doom!" [attacks the quarter but failed to budge the obstinate quarter on the sidewalk]
 * Eddy: "Uh, front? What are you talking about?" [points at a different direction to trick Rolf] "The front's that way, yeah." [Double D notices Eddy cut in line]

Edd & Eddy: "ED!"
 * Ed: [being chased by Eddy] "What can you do when you live in a shoe and you ain't got no sole?" [soul, get the pun?]

Trivia/Goofs

 * When Jimmy is seen close-up, there is a band-aid and bandages on his pants, instead of his legs. Why would he have them there?
 * When Edd and Eddy go to get the supplies for the machine to remove the quarter, the small barriers Edd used to keep everyone in line to get the quarter are still there, but disappear when Edd and Eddy return late at night.
 * Eddy is beaten up by Rolf at the start of the show, but once he notices the quarter, his injuries are gone.
 * The position of the quarter disappears and reappears during the entire episode.
 * Due to an animation mistake, Ed and Eddy are missing for a couple of frames, when Jimmy is driven away in the ambulance.
 * The ambulance that picked up the injured Jimmy literally came out of nowhere, making it seem like no one summoned any emergency operator.
 * In what could be a mistake, Rolf says, "Prepare yourself for an un-merciless beating by Rolf's shoe!" Rolf should have just said "merciless" without the "un," since he was about to show no mercy.
 * Apparently Rolf and Jimmy are the only kids who don't wear socks under their shoes.
 * Running gags:
 * Everyone trying to remove the quarter from the pavement.
 * Everyone fighting over the quarter.
 * Ed stealing everybody's shoes, including his own.
 * Ed saying puns throughout the episode, like "If you smelt it, you dealt it!"


 * We learn that Double D's thoughts are placed on regular paper.
 * This is the third time Kevin's head is exposed.
 * Scams: Ed's Beds.
 * Kevin removes his hat in this episode revealing he only has three hairs, the same three that stick out of his hat.
 * The ones who got a chance of getting the quarter, but failed and how were:
 * Eddy: Tried various techniques, one of which included swinging from a rope while scooping it up with a shovel, but failed at each shot.
 * Jimmy: Tried peeling it off with his eyelash curler, but somehow injured himself gruesomely before being transported to the hospital via an ambulance.
 * Kevin: Tried peeling it off with his bike and a chain, but his bike rode off and he had to chase it.
 * Sarah: Tried biting it off the cement, until Eddy claimed to see her underwear and she walked off, embarrassed and mad.
 * Rolf: Tried beating it up with his shoes, but broke his back again when about to perform his second attempt to remove the quarter.
 * The ones who didn't get a turn and why were:
 * Edd: Although he built a machine that failed to get the quarter for Eddy, he never wanted it.
 * Ed: He was more interested in everyone's shoes than the quarter.
 * Nazz and the Kankers: They weren't even there.
 * Jonny and Plank: They got the quarter, but really wanted the gum under it.
 * It was Jonny who got the quarter off the sidewalk at the end of the episode.
 * How did Jonny get that roadblock sign on his head when he and Plank walked up to the quarter? (It could be possible the Eds put the roadblock signs around their contraption to avoid any disasters.)
 * This is a parody of The Sword in the Stone. All of the kids in this show competed to grab the quarter from the sidewalk, as for the men in The Sword in the Stone, they competed to be the first to remove the sword from the anvil.
 * Nazz and the Kanker Sisters were absent in this episode.
 * After Eddy got beaten up by Rolf, his right shoe disappeared, but when he finds the obstinate quarter, his right shoe is back on.
 * At the start of the episode, Jimmy had bandages on his head, but later they're on his pants.
 * When Double D suspects Eddy was cutting in line, Eddy stuffed Double D's mouth with his hand and if you look closely, Double D's legs can be seen through his hat, possibly meaning past through his skull.
 * It didn't show Ed taking Double D's shoes, but when Double D steps on a small puddle of water, his shoes are not there. It's possible that Ed took Double D's shoes while Double D was sleeping on the job.
 * When Jonny walked past by to pry the chewed gum under the quarter, if you look closely, Double D has his right shoe on while his left is missing. But when Double D stepped on the puddle, his right shoe was gone.
 * When Eddy was fighting with Ed over Eddy's right shoe, his left shoe disappeared. It's possible Ed took Eddy's left shoe when Eddy wants his right shoe back.
 * The shoe beating (one, two, three, etc.) is possibly a torture/punishment in Rolf's culture.
 * If you look closely when Rolf lifts Kevin's hat off the sidewalk, you can see Kevin writes his name inside his own hat and his hat size is medium (you wouldn't be able to see it since Rolf pulls Kevin's hat off the sidewalk real quick).
 * When Ed was fighting over everybody else's shoes, you can notice on one scene he took his own shoes too.
 * This is the second time Ed said "Nice shoe!". The first time was "Keeping up with the Eds".
 * Kevin tryed with his bike to get the quarter, Sarah with her mouth and everyone doning whatever is possible but Jonny removed it with his own hand not even that hard?

Video
One of Those Eds - Video