Keeping up with the Eds

"Keeping up with the Eds" is the 15th episode of Season 1 and the 15th episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, the Eds find out Edd has to mow his lawn much to his shock and dismay. Ed helps Edd with that chore, but he destroys the lawn in the process. Eddy, after figuring out something that will fix up the grass on the lawn, soon gets the idea of mowing lawns for cash. However when the Eds try to make the grass taller in order for them to mow lawns for cash, all the grass in the Cul-de-Sac become the height of a house. The Eds must now find a way to get rid of the gigantic grass.

Plot
Ed and Eddy are calling Edd to hang out and do their usual scamming. Edd, invites them in after Ed rings the doorbell several times too many. As Edd's house rules go, shoes must be removed as usual. Eddy has no problem, but Ed slides across the room. A free style floor skate is declared, ending with the Eds colliding into Edd's refrigerator. Several sticky notes are knocked off, and one in particular lands on Eds nose. He peels it off and it is read by Eddy. Eddy soon notices that there are not one, but hundreds of sticky notes! These are Edd's parents' way of communication (as they, and all other adults, are off at work or on daily errands). Eddy starts to read more, as Edd takes one out of his hands and reads it. To Edd's shock, his father needs him to mow the lawn! He notes that he detests doing that. But cutting the grass is easy, as long as you've got a powermower with a side grab bag, that is. Unfortunately Edd only has an old style push mower.

Eddy points out to Ed that it looks very similar to the "thermo-destructo wibble-whacker" from Space Leech IV, and Ed runs off to destroy the wibbles, thus mowing the lawn. But the lawn isn't the only place the wibbles are hiding, Edd's garden, his fence and patio furniture all get mowed over by Ed on his quest to terminate the wibbles as Ed takes the mission he is given too seriously. Once Ed is done "destroying the wibbles", it is shown that he had made things a whole lot worse for Edd's lawn. A closer look reveals that the whole fence is mangled, the patio furniture is destroyed, and there are some spots where there is no grass! ("This is worth another ten sticky notes!" remarks Edd).

Eddy however has the quick fix to the situation, Montezuma's Free Range Manure. The manure quickly grows the fungi on Ed's foot when the Eds decide to test it out first, which shows that the manure works better than Eddy had originally thought. An idea is quickly sparked: Throw the manure on everybody's lawn, and then mow it for cash! Ed quickly covers the Cul-De-Sac with it by shoveling it away to almost everywhere around the Cul-de-Sac.

The manure works, but way too much than expected and the grass rises to the height of the roof tops! Big grass means big cash, until Ed finds out that Sarah and Jimmy are lost in it. He quickly rushes in to find them, but is thwarted by two trees. Edd takes him and Eddy back to the streets via a guideline he set up. Ed cannot bear it, he starts to eat at the grass, desperate to find his sister. This reminds Edd that Rolf has a goat! The Eds run to go get it. Rolf invites the Eds to lunch, but they cut to the chase: they want to borrow the goat. Rolf tells them they must sign for The Passing of The Goat, a stable export of Rolf's home country if they wish to use Victor. As Edd signs away, Eddy and Edd try to get Victor to leave. He only responds to Rolf letting him know that he is 'out of here', to which he quickly takes off while eating away at the grass.

Victor runs and eats far too fast for Eddy to handle, so Eddy pulls his ears to make him stop. However Victor does quite the opposite, munching down the grass in overdrive mode, clearing the entire Cul-De-Sac of grass in four seconds! Since the grass has been cleared out, Ed looks for Sarah, finding only her dolly which is slightly chewed up, he quickly thinks that Victor ate Sarah. Pounding Victor's belly, he yells for Sarah, to which he gets a reply. Ed thinks it is from inside Victor, but Sarah is really in the window on the other side of Victor. Sarah then takes back from Ed her dolly and leaves. Ed tells his friends that Sarah is okay

With the threat of owing two bags of beans, five pigs, and a turnip to Rolf if Victor is not returned, the Eds start to push Victor back to Rolf's home (Eddy wasn't willing to until Edd pointed out how big the payment is for Rolf if Victor is not returned to him). But things take a turn for the worst when Victor is rolled down hill! The Eds, stuck atop a run away goat, are thrown into the mud where Rolf's house is thus returning him as promised. Victor lands on top of them, and starts to snap at their heads. The episode ends with the Eds yelling for Rolf's assistance and ducking below the mud to avoid Victor biting them in a somewhat never ending pattern.

Memorable Quotes
Ed: "Yes, Eddy?" Eddy: [pointing to Edd's old fashioned lawnmower] "Check it out, doesn't that lawnmower look like the thermo-destructo whibble-whacker from Space Leech IV?" Ed: "Yeah!" Eddy: [whispering] "Attack the Whibbles." Ed: [shouts] "THE WIBBLES!" [pushes the pushmower at an insanely high speed] "Attack the Whibbles!" Eddy: "And you don't even have to clean up after him."
 * Eddy: "Oh, Ed?"

Ed: "Heh." [happily watches Victor eat grass]
 * Rolf: "The Passing of the Goat continues to be a stable export of my country."

Eddy: "Goats like leafy vegetables."
 * Ed: [laughing in the mud as Victor bites his hair] "Victor likes me!"

Ed: "Because I am simple!"
 * Eddy: [trying to reassure Edd] "Don't worry! Mowing the lawn is simple! Even Ed here can do it!"


 * Ed: [frantic] "Victor? The goat ate Sarah! The goat ate my sister!"


 * Eddy: [after getting on Victor's back] Okay, goat! Time to work!" [Victor doesn't move] "Quit stalling, goat! [Victor still doesn't move, Eddy groans]

Eddy: "And you kiss your mother with that mouth?"
 * Edd: "We're constrained by the intimacy of our situation."

Trivia/Goofs

 * Running Gags:
 * 1) Ed running into trees and getting lost while searching for Jimmy and Sarah in the grass.
 * 2) The Eds trying to get rid of the tall grass.
 * Rolf's customs in this episode: The Passing of the Goat (a stable export) is through contract, but if the goat is not returned after an unknown amount of time, then the borrower owes the owner 2 bags of beans, 5 pigs and a turnip.
 * 3rd time Kevin doesn't appear.
 * 4th time Jonny is absent.
 * 5th time Nazz and the Kankers don't appear.
 * Eddy's fertilizer grows mushrooms on Ed's shoe, but in the following shots, the mushrooms are gone.
 * This is Victor's second appearance in the series, this first was in "Quick Shot Ed."
 * When Eddy was sitting on Victor, the red stripe on his shirt was missing. This mistake has happened previously in "The Ed-Touchables" and "Sir Ed-a-Lot."
 * When Ed cuts the grass with the push mower, a trail of dirt can be seen next to the patio where Eddy is lazing off. When Ed finishes cutting the grass, however, the trail disappears.
 * When Eddy is riding on the fat Victor and screams, "HILL!", his mouth doesn't move in the flow with what he's saying.
 * When Eddy grabs Edd's note and reads it, he grabs it in a way so that he is reading it upside down.
 * This is the first time Ed says "Nice shoe!". He says this again in "One of Those Eds."

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