Look Before You Ed

"Look Before You Ed" is the final episode of Season 6 and so far the show as well. It is also the 126th episode of the series. In this episode, Edd and Jimmy create a safety club to help people avoid injuries during the winter season.

Plot
It's wintertime in Peach Creek, and while this means fun for many kids, it's no fun for accident-prone Jimmy, who within just a few minutes of stepping out of his front door is caught in a snowball ambush and then pulls his funnybone trying to make a snow angel. This isn't helped any when "Hibachi Man", aka Ed, starts playing with his friends and ends up running into Jimmy while trying to escape the "Celery Stalk of Justice". When Ed, Sarah and Jimmy fall off of a cliff, Jimmy is naturally the one to take the worst punishment, as he lands on a fire hydrant that erupts, encasing him in ice. Double D feels the worst about this, especially as he values safety so much, and he takes the time to remind everyone about his safety club idea, something which Eddy recollects interested nobody at all as the others move on to school. Of course, this year there is one interested party, and Jimmy wants to hear more about a club dedicated to preventing wintertime owies.

Soon, Jimmy and Edd have joined forces to patrol the schoolyard and make sure everything is safe as can be. They start with Ed and Eddy, who are about to use cafeteria trays as sleds, and enlist the two as backup. Soon, Eddy is reluctantly going along with the patrol on a sled pulled by Ed as Edd and Jimmy scan for signs of danger. All seems to be going well until Edd sees Sarah and Nazz playing on the ice. Fearful, Edd and Jimmy leap out to help, not realizing that Sarah and Nazz are in no danger whatsoever and can simply step off of the slick frozen water. As soon as those two are "rescued", however, the Safety Club has no time to rest, as Jonny has been coerced into becoming a snowman by Plank. Of course, Edd and Jimmy see the inherent danger of hypothermia, and help him out by swaddling him in plushy stuffed animals. When Jonny is fully wrapped up, though, Ed leaps in with the intent of helping, and stuffs Jonny's mouth with the teddies. Double D naturally doesn't want to hurt his friend's feelings, so he compliments Ed while surreptitiously leading him away so that Jimmy can pull the toys out of Jonny's mouth. Jimmy is angry at the incompetence of Edd's friends, but he holds his tongue and helps Jonny.

The work of keeping people safe is never over, however, and who better to prove this than Kevin, who is snowboarding on the side of the school? Of course, Edd and Jimmy have to step in, and they try to outfit him with a helmet. Eddy isn't helpful in this case either, however, and after a joke about Kevin being dead from the neck up, Kevin begins to chase after them with an intent to violence and an outboard motor strapped to his snowboard. Ed and Eddy are able to escape his grasp, but this is not without its problems, as along the way Kevin ends up knocking the main Peach Creek Jr. High building upside down.

Double D still hopes to finds some usefulness in his friends, however, and so he puts them on snow-clearing duty. What the two are supposed to do is clear the footpaths to the school using a nifty deicing machine. Of course, intent is far different from actual usage, and soon Eddy is instead using the machine to serve up snow cones at the meager price of 25¢. Edd starts to lecture Eddy on proper usage, but Eddy is of course not going to fall prey to Double D's anger, and is in fact even able to disarm his irate friend with a well-placed joke. Jimmy won't be so easily calmed, however, and after calling out the club as a farce, a joke, and a house of mad fools, he angrily tells Edd that he's quitting the club to form his own, and this club will certainly succeed where Edd's Safety Club failed.

By the end of the school day, Jimmy's Owie Go Kapowee Club has proven its worth, as not only is it now safe for Rolf to appear in this episode, but the biggest threat to safety–the Eds–are trapped behind icy bars in a cage. The kids happily leave the school, and all is right with the world, as long as your name doesn't start with "Ed". Unfortunately, Eddy's does, and he has to pee, but for once the powers of Hibachi Man are put to good use, as Hibachi Man is able to set Eddy free of the cage, even if Eddy isn't exactly dry at the moment.

Memorable Quotes

 * Ed: "Hibachi Man makes his daring escape, The Barbecue Belly Slide!"


 * Eddy: [after being pelted with a snowball by Ed] "Better make a will, Ed!"

Eddy: [unimpressed] "Yeah, like a faucet leak!"
 * Jimmy: [enjoying the Safety Cadets patrol] "Isn't this exciting?"

Edd: [off-screen] "Deputy?" Jonny: "I told you I would make a good snowman. So there!" Edd: "Jonny, what on Earth were you thinking?" [putting a thermometer in Jonny's mouth] "Are you aware of hypothermia?"
 * Jonny: [after making himself a human snowman] "Quit laughing at me, Plank!"

Eddy: "Hah! Box-head don't need no helmet, he's already dead from the neck up!" Kevin: [angry] "Oh yeah? "How 'bout I box your head, dorky?" [He places a motor on the back of his snowboard.]
 * Edd: [to Kevin] "The Safety Club highly recommends you wear a helmet when executing such extreme activity."

Rolf: "Yes, Rolf finally feels safe enough to appear in this episode."
 * Kevin: [seeing the Eds in their prison] "Ha ha, it's dorks on ice, right on!"

Trivia

 * This is the fourth episode to be set in winter. The first was Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle, the second was "The Eds are Coming", and the third was "May I Have this Ed?"
 * See anyone you know from Double D's Safety Club snowflake spotting chart? Well alongside the Umbrella, the Solid Beggar, and the Split Leaf there's the Hexagonal Jim, Simple Diggs & the Hollow Zoe, who are of course senior storyboard artist Jim Miller, senior storyboard artist Scott Underwood, and production assistant Zoe Borroz!
 * For anyone who might be wondering what a hibachi is, it's a cheap little portable barbecue grill, hence "Hibachi Man"'s melt-all abilities.
 * When Rolf walks out of the school in the end, he says: "Yes, Rolf finally feels safe enough to appear in this episode." This is a direct and obvious 4th-wall break.
 * This episode is dedicated to Paul Boyd (1967 - 2007), who was shot dead on August 13, 2007.
 * This is the second episode of the series to be dedicated to someone. The first was "Dim Lit Ed" which was dedicated to Shawn "Wilfrid" Godin.
 * This is the final episode.
 * This episode, along with "May I Have this Ed?", are known as the lost episodes in the U.S.
 * Jimmy once again shows how weak he is as he struggled to make a snow angel.
 * 89th time Lee and Marie don't appear.
 * 88th time May doesn't appear.
 * We learned that the Safety Club, led by Edd, was not successful in the past, as Eddy claimed "Nobody wanted to hear that idea last year or the year before!"
 * There are quite a few captioning errors in this episode:
 * Rolf: "Kaplowie!" – it was Jonny who said this at the beginning of the episode; Rolf was not present at this time.
 * Edd: "WHAT?!" – it was Sarah who said this during the "slipdrop" scene, not Edd, decipherable from the female voice; not male voice.
 * Sarah: "What was that about?" - it was Nazz who said that when she and Sarah were leaving because of Edd and Eddy arguing before.
 * When Kevin is in midair with his snowboard, the scene is in slow-motion.