Ed or Tails

"Ed or Tails" is the 14th episode of Season 3 and the 66th episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, Ed realizes three Eds into two Jawbreakers won't do.

Plot
Eddy's 'yuk it up' brand of rent-a-clown humor fails to have any impression on the rest of the Kids and he has to admit to another failed scam. However the day quickly takes a neat turn with a parcel arriving in the mail for Ed. Yes! His long-anticipated, special order of Slovak Brand Jawbreakers has arrived and he can't wait to share them with Edd and Eddy but... but... but... there's three of them and only two sweets!

An agonizing decision must be made, three Eds into two jawbreakers just won't go so it means that one of them is going to miss out. Poor noble Ed is quite prepared to give up his beloved treat for the sake of his friends' enjoyment which naturally suits the moral-less Eddy fine but Double D on the other hand feels so bad he just can't allow it, much to Eddy's dismay. What to do next? Can they break the Jawbreakers into equal shares? Apparently not although the outcome works for Jonny and Plank but now the Eds have just one candied sphere left and Eddy is desperate to have it. Luckily, or perhaps not, Rolf intervenes and enthroned upon his wheelbarrow in a Caesar-like stance he declares that the Eds must race each other to decide who gets the sweet. Naturally some people bend the rules, some people break the rules and some people don't even get over the start line but it works out pretty well in the end, especially for Ed who contentedly slurps on his hard won prize. Strange that the others don't want a taste though! Because Ed's really eating a big slimy alive snail! Ewwww!

Memorable Quotes
Jimmy: "Gee, Eddy, I--" Eddy: "Boring. Good!" [checks "boring" off of a list on a clipboard he is holding] "Do you lack a life?" Jimmy: "I… I… I've really got to--" Eddy: "Check!" [checks off "lackalife" off of a list on the clipboard] "Pay attention, Curlicue! Are you unconshee… unconch-eye…ahem." [shows the clipboard to Double D, who is dressed like a clown, while pointing at the word "unconscious"] Edd: "Unconscious, Eddy." Eddy: "Dead from the neck up?" [a brief pause] "Check! Congratulations, you're dull! Why strain to be funny?"
 * Eddy: "Are you boring?"

Kevin: "You're kiddin', right?"
 * Rolf: "Rolf comes from a long line of village buffoons, Kevin. Do not mock the clown."

Ed: "It is OK, enjoy them. I will just find a rock."
 * Edd: "But, Ed, we couldn't. They're your jawbreakers."

Ed: "Could you pull my finger, Rolf?" Rolf: [recoiling from pulling Ed's finger] "No." [Ed cries off-screen in the background].
 * Rolf: [seeing the Eds fighting and separating them] "Excuse me Ed-boys, but Rolf must discipline the nanny goats!" [Rolf grabs all three Eds and smack them together on the head] "You make Rolf sick! If you must toil over the orb of rapture it must be done with honor, a competition of shrewdness!"


 * Rolf: [watching the Eds benevolently] "Balancing eggs in the ladle of honor is not easy, I tell you, as they must skedaddle down, circle the goat of maturity, skedaddle back and claim the ball of sweetness."

Jonny: "Yeah! They're breaking the rules!" Rolf: [ignoring the others' complaints while chewing grapes] "Yes. A fine performance."
 * Sarah: [all the kids looking at Rolf] "Hey, Rolf, are you blind?!"

Eddy: [turns his head around] "What?!" Ed: [sitting at a table with a turkey dinner] "I got cranberry sauce!"
 * Ed: [yelling offscreen] "Oh, Eddy!"


 * Edd: [unscathed by Eddy's attempt to cheat] "Cliché cartoon antics, Eddy? Is that all you've got?"


 * Eddy: [Ed is about to eat his jawbreaker but eats Eddy's head by accident ] "Ed, remind me to lend you some floss."

Trivia/Goofs

 * Ed is declared the winner of the race, even though Rolf spoke the rules and saw Ed cross the finish line illegally. Though, since Eddy was only oh-so close to the finish line not knowing he actually had to grab the jawbreaker, and Edd was tangled in the tree, they technically never crossed the line at all, which means none of them actually really "won".
 * When Jonny yells "Eddy's on the homestretch!", the soles of his sandals are missing.
 * We learn that Jimmy is afraid of clowns.
 * Jonny was the only person that ate one of the jawbreakers in this episode.
 * The Eds were cheating but Rolf, oddly enough, let them to make it more fun to watch.
 * This episode proves how mentally slow Ed is, because it takes him a whole night to figure out Eddy's problem.
 * According to Ed, a snail tastes like a chicken.
 * Running gag: The Eds fighting over the jawbreaker.
 * We learn that Rolf comes from a line of village scatterbrained schnooks.
 * Before Ed and Edd go into their miniature wind-up car, they had their clown costumes on. But when Ed and Edd get out of the wind-up car at Ed's house, their clown costumes are gone and they were back in their regular clothes.
 * The Kankers were absent in this episode.

Video
Ed or Tails - Video