Thick as an Ed

"Thick as an Ed" is the 15th episode of Season 4 and the 92nd episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, Ed's lucky chunk of cheese, Sheldon, starts creating big arguments between Ed and Edd. Eddy must now find a way to stop the arguments so that he can finally create his latest scam, a frog jumping derby.

Plot
Ed is fast asleep in his bed, but it seems a shame to wake him but of course that's not a fact that bothers to cross his little sister's mind. Ed's supposed to be walking Sarah to Jimmy's House but he can't even stay awake long enough to do that which is just as well for us though, because otherwise we'd never get to see what it looks like inside one of his dreams. Ed is then shown going through a counting rhyme in his dream. Sadly though, Ed's dream doesn't last very long either because Eddy slaps his face continuously, waking him up. Eddy is just bursting to get on with the scam he's convinced will make him his fortune - a frog jumping derby. After waking Ed up, all the Eds go out to the creek in the woods to catch some frogs.

Double D has all sorts of ideas for rounding up likely specimens but once he's downwind of Ed he suddenly loses the power of rational thought and you can't blame him either for Ed doesn't just smell bad in the way that he does every day, this time around he really honks and what's more he's proud of the fact. Tentative blue bottle-aided investigations uncover the fact that sitting inside Ed's pocket is a sizable chunk of cheese that's long since past its sell by date but however much his friends beg, threaten and cajole Ed is not going to give Sheldon up, after all - Sheldon is lucky! From here on in the episode is simply classic Ed, Edd n Eddy as Edd tries to take away Ed's smelly cheese-infected jacket while Ed refuses to cooperate and Eddy - still obsessed with the frog derby - tries to keep the peace between them and get them back to work.

As it goes on, the stench really gets to Edd and he becomes more and more neurotic before finally resorting to his dying swan act. Of course it doesn't work and neither does Eddy's request that Ed donate his jacket to be the national flag of a new country the zombie-filled country of 'Edtropia' because whatever they do, Sheldon seems to have a way of finding his way back to Ed as it fell out of his jacket and Ed noticed him.

After seeing this, Eddy can't take any of this anymore. Eddy then grabs Sheldon out of Ed's hands and flings the miscreant chunk into the pond (killing all the fish there in the process). Ed rushes over to the pond and is upset to see Sheldon go (he even refuses Edd's hand when the latter tries to comfort him). Edd tries to offer a lucky handkerchief to Ed as a token of comfort as well as something that they could use for their luck in catching the frogs. Eddy yells out they will need more than luck to get the frogs for their scam. Ed then states they should use Angus his more than lucky fishy to help catch the frogs. Edd can't stand the stench of the stinky fish skeleton and orders Ed to get rid of that carcass. Soon enough Ed and Edd begin arguing again, but this time on Angus. The episode ends with the two still arguing and Eddy getting annoyed by it to no end.

Memorable Quotes
Sarah [seeing Ed sleeping]: "Ah, who needs ya." [Sarah strolls to Jimmy's house without Ed's help] Ed: [in his own little world] "1, 2! Tie my shoe! 3, 4! Close the door!" [slams the door and the badly drawn house collapses] "5, 6! Grab some sticks!" [picks up two lampposts] "7, 8! Lay them straight!" [drops them on a bad doodle of Jonny and Plank] "9, 10! A big fat hen!" [hugs said big fat hen and flies away; hatches from falling eggs] "11, 12!" [Ed gets slapped by Eddy] Eddy: "Ed!" [Ed returns back to the real world and wakes up] "Get up, stupid! You're wasting time! Today's the day, buddy boy! The scam to end all scams, our Triple-E Frog Jumping Derby! After we charge the saps for a frog rental fee, they'll race for the grand prize - mittens!"
 * Ed: "Big brother is here, Sarah. Yep, just tying my shoes." [trying unsucessfully to tie his shoe while being half-awake] "Here we go!" [falls asleep while still standing]

Ed: "North to Alaska!" Eddy: [unimpressed] "Ed stink? So what else is new?!" Edd: "Not like this, Eddy. I think I'm gonna be sick!" [runs off]
 * Edd: [while holding his nose] "There's a horrible odor coming from you-know-who!" [Eddy looks at Ed in the wagon]

Ed: "Maybe his mommy called him." [Ed gets close to Eddy as he impersonates a mocking motherly voice] "Come home Eddward and pickle your feet!" [Eddy gets away from Ed while pinching his own nose] Eddy: "P.U., Ed! Did something crawl on you and die?"
 * Eddy: [watching Edd run off] "What about my scam?"

Eddy: "Quit yelling in my ear!" Ed: "Don't make me laugh, all that is here is my lucky cheese chunk." [Ed waves the chunk under Edd's nose] Edd: "Oh my lord!" Ed: "Say hello to Double D, Sheldon." Edd: "That's disgusting, Ed!" Ed: "No, that's Sheldon. He's lived in my pocket 57 days now!"
 * Edd: [panic-stricken] "There! In his pocket!"


 * Ed: "I am the frog wrangler, so you don't have to touch those slimy weasels."

Ed: "A boot?" Eddy: "There, see it? What is it?" Ed: "Kind of looks like Abraham Lincoln, Eddy." Eddy: "What are you talking about?" [Eddy sticks his face in the water while Double D tries to remove Ed's stinky jacket by stick] [Ed pulls Edd into his jacket] Ed: "Comfy?" Edd: [popping frantically out of Ed's jacket] "FILTHY! CRUDDY! SMELLY!" [runs off into a shower that is somehow in the woods] "Ed! I insist you remove that jacket immediately!" Ed: "Okay. If you'll give me your hat." Edd: [getting dressed] "My hat? Why, that's the silliest thing I've ever heard. Absolutely not." Eddy: [frustrated] "Give him the stupid hat so we can get some frogs!" Edd: [ignoring Eddy and going head-to-head with Ed] "The point here is my hat doesn't smell." Ed: "Oh, yes it does." Edd: "No, it does not! You're just saying that because I said your jacket stank." Ed: "Stinky hat!" Edd: "You've got a repulsive, fermenting detachment of cheese in your pocket, Ed!" Ed: "STINKY HAT!" Edd: "ODIFEROUS CURDY COAT!" Ed: "STINKY HAT!" Edd: "RANCID ROQUEFORT WRAP!" Ed: "STINKY HAT!" Edd: "PUNGENT PARMESAN POCKET!" Ed: "OH, YEAH!? STINKY HAT!" Edd: "COAT OF CANTANKEROUS CAMEMBERT!" Ed: "STINKY HAT!" Eddy: [getting in between to break it up] "SHUT UP! BOTH OF YOU!" [Edd & Ed glare at each other and turn away] "Aww, come on. WE GOT A SCAM TO RUN HERE!"
 * Eddy [peering into the water]: "Is that a frog or a boot?"

Eddy [to Edd]: "You owe me." [evaluating Ed's frog bait progress] "Try showing some more leg, Ed!" [Ed is seen dressed up as frog bait and shows some more leg]
 * Ed: "Frogs are so stupid! Hooray!" [Ed jumps out of his stinky clothes]

Eddy [impatiently]: "Good. Now can you and Ed kiss and make up? 'Cause we've got my retirement to think of!" Ed: "Aha! That's my lucky cheese chunk!" [snatches the jar with the stinky cheese inside] Eddy: [yelling] "We're never gonna get any frogs!" [Ed puts on his shirt] Edd: [jumps onto the jar lid] "I beg you, in the name that is decent, please don't open this jar, Ed!" Ed: "No go, Joe!" [twirling the lid and Edd] "It might spoil!" [opens jar, green odor charges to Edd's face] Edd: "Defile! Soily! Profane!" [runs away; Ed kisses Sheldon and puts him back in his pocket] Ed: "Home sweet home, huh, Sheldon?" [Edd vomits in a bag and starts moping about the Sheldon issue again]
 * Edd: [inhaling and exhaling deeply] "Success."

[Eddy climbs on the top of the tree and waves Ed's jacket.] Eddy: "Now how about them frogs, ha? [to Edd] You too, de Niro!!"
 * Ed: "Cool, zombies. Wave the flag Eddy!"

Trivia/Goofs

 * Where does Sheldon the lucky cheese chunk get his name? Possibly from the head of AKA's overseas animation Sheldon Arnst! And so what about Angus the more-than-lucky fishy? Maybe we should look no further than AKA's inker Angus Bungay!
 * After chasing Ed and falling into the water, Eddy was soaking wet. However, seconds later, Eddy was all dried.
 * While he was dressed as a frog; Ed was wearing a collar similar to that of Kermit the Frog; of the Muppets.
 * In this episode, Edd has a serious objection to being dirty, while in previous episode, like in "Dawn of the Eds" and "Know it All Ed", Edd is seen playing with garbage. Though it's possible that he was having too much fun in those episodes, and didn't want to ruin it. Besides, the things Edd was touching weren't that dirty.
 * Ed now has three known lucky objects: a lucky potato, a stale cheese chunk, and a fish corpse.
 * We learn that Ed has had Sheldon for 57 days in his pocket.
 * Ed's new lucky cheese chunk, Sheldon Jr., appears in the episode "May I Have this Ed?"
 * 11th time Rolf is absent.
 * 16th time Kevin doesn't appear.
 * 21st time Nazz doesn't appear.
 * 7th time Jimmy is absent. He is only mentioned by Sarah.
 * 66th time the Kanker Sisters don't appear.
 * Jonny and Plank only appeared briefly in Ed's daydream and Sarah only appears breifly at the start.
 * The title, "Thick as an Ed", is a play on words of Thick as a Brick, a 1972 concept album by the rock band Jethro Tull.
 * Running Gags:
 * 1) Edd being unable to work with Ed's stinky jacket (and furthermore his cheese chunk, Sheldon).
 * 2) Edd and Ed arguing over the cheese chunk, Sheldon (and later the fish carcass, Angus) and Eddy getting annoyed with it.
 * 3) Edd calling Ed's stinky lucky objects names.
 * 4) Ed calling Edd's hat "Stinky Hat!"
 * 5) Eddy wanting to get on with their scam already.
 * Apparentely, Edd carries a portable shower with him.

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