Hand Me Down Ed

Hand Me Down Ed is a season 4 episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, 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 football 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 and the next victim on its agenda is Sarah. Currently she has just one thing on her mind - namely pounding 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, 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.

Quotes

 * Ed: [in 'intellectual mode'] "What an inane, inchoate and in inefficacious journey this has been." 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. There is a 'moment'.] "That's the ticket!" Eddy: "Not in front of the baby please! Casey, you cover your eyes!" Ed: "Distasteful dullard!"


 * Rolf: [startled then enraged by the boomerang sticking out of his underpants] "Hello? ... Who threw this watchmadoohickey at Rolf's posterior?"


 * Ed: [in 'intellectual mode' & hunched over typewriter] "Chasing batons, a dissertation on unifying field theory and its effects on leptons and quasars. By Edward."

Trivia

 * During this episode Ed is shown with four toes on his foot. In all of the other previous episodes, all of the characters only have three toes.
 * Things the kids became while possessing the boomerang:
 * Jimmy: a rough and tough muscle man.
 * Sarah: a strangely nice girl.
 * Rolf: a loud and arrogant opera singer (Rolf is the only one who remembers its affects).
 * Ed: a really intelligent genius.
 * Edd: a cool laid-back person.
 * Eddy: a mother.
 * For some reason, Rolf is the only on who remembers the boomerange's affects.
 * 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 the boomerang.