Know it All Ed

"Know it All Ed" is the 5th episode of Season 2 and the 31st episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, the Eds discover a box of "Canadian Squirt Guns" and they sell the squirt guns for 50 cents each to the kids. Eventually everyone starts acting like they are in the Old West.

Plot
The Eds are playing around at the junkyard and generally having a good time when a chance tumble lands a box full of turkey basters in front of them. Edd recognizes these for what they are, but Ed and Eddy have different takes on the situation entirely, with Ed thinking that they're alien exploratory probes dropped off to conserve fuel during a mutiny of pulsating brain mutants and Eddy believing them to be Canadian squirt guns. Edd is doubtful, so Eddy fills one up and demonstrates its proper usage, and seeing this, Ed joins in. Delighted with this response, Eddy comes up with an idea: he and his friends will market the squirt guns to the kids of the cul-de-sac.

Thus the Eds find their way to the lane, where the kids are playing in a makeshift bowling alley. Eddy demonstrates the gun, showing off its power and accuracy, and all the kids are impressed. The advertising nearly done, all Eddy has to do is direct the kids to the sales counter at Double D's House of Import-Exports. When Eddy does this, the kids stampede the counter and pick up guns, along the way filling Eddy's money jar halfway full with quarters. Seeing this, Eddy realizes that today is his lucky day, and that they've got to keep the gravy train rolling.

To further this end, Eddy becomes "Marshal Eddy" and Edd "Double Deputy D". They then proceed to wander around the cul-de-sac, ticketing the cowpokes for the most minor offenses; Kevin gets a ticket for hitching his horse in a no-hitching zone, Rolf has to pay a fee for prospecting, Jimmy gets slapped with a railroad tax due to his retainer, and Sarah is fined for disturbing the peace when she yells at Eddy. Fed up, they declare that they won't pay their taxes, and Eddy is at a loss for what to do when Jonny and Plank's runaway wagon bounds through the lane and crashes into a tree. Jonny topples out, tied up, and says that they were set upon by something evil that sprayed them with perfume. Eddy suggests that maybe the kids should have paid their fees, and the kids quickly cough up some cash to cover it. Eddy is happy until his jar is ripped from his hands by Lee. He reaches into his pockets and finds that his squirt guns have been stolen. The Kanker sisters have arrived, and they are the outlaws who plagued Jonny and Plank. When the defenseless Eds make a break for it, the Kankers lasso them and spray them with perfume before leaving, happy with their haul.

Eddy swears revenge, however, and soon the Eds set out to get it. Along the way, they pass three grave-like holes in the ground, suggesting that the community hasn't much faith in their "law". Despite this, Eddy leads them onwards, and they make it to the construction site, where the Kankers are waiting for them.

What follows is an epic battle where the Eds do their best to defeat their nemesis. This includes novel techniques such as Ed firing five guns at once and Edd using a makeshift machine gun to fire at the Kankers. When the dust clears and the water stops flying, however, the Eds realize that they didn't hit a single shot, as the Kankers are still standing in front of them, dry and safe. The Eds are scared, as the Kankers ready their guns and fire. When the firing stops, however, Eddy realizes that the Kankers only hit their feet. Unfortunately, the guns were loaded with the Kankers' own brand of rubber cement, and the Kankers are going to do some "home cooking" with the Eds. It involves lipstick.

Memorable Quotes
Edd: "Certainly, Eddy." Eddy: "It's all in the technique, Sockhead. Pure talent." [tries to make a sound through the tube, but he screws up] "Wrong technique. Slight adjustment and…" [tries it again, but Ed blows into the tube, making an inflatable Eddy] Ed: "I am a whale, Eddy. An endangered mammal. Hug me."
 * Eddy: [seeing Ed try to make sounds out of the giant tube] "Boy Double D, you stink. Let a pro show you."

Eddy: "Whoa Nelly! They fell for it. Oh, today must be my lucky day. Come on, boys, let's keep this gravy train rolling." Edd: [with the fake moose head on him] "Coming Eddy." [Edd falls on the ground with the fake moose head on him] Ed: "I was a moose once."
 * Edd: "Help." [Eddy takes the jar of money from Edd]

Eddy: [looking at Ed with surprise] "I think that eyebrow's too heavy for his head."
 * Ed: [looking at the turkey basters] "Oh look! A whole box of alien exploratory probes, dropped off in an attempt to save fuel during a mutiny of pulsing brain mutants."

Edd: [doubtful of Eddy's idea] "Puhlease! A squirt gun?" Eddy: "What? Yeah! A Canadian squirt gun!" Ed: [with Canadian squirt guns sticking to his face] "Canadians are weird!"
 * Eddy: "What we have here is a squirt gun!"

Eddy: "Double D! Double D! Relax, will ya? It’s a toy - from Canada - geez, how embarrassing."
 * Edd: [freaking out with his powerful weapon] "Oh, I feel it! I feel the adrenaline, Eddy baby!"


 * Ed [appreciatively sniffing the perfumed Plank]: "Plank reminds me of fresh cut spring flowers spewed across a babbling brook with a hint of lemon."

Ed: "Oh no, something ate my head."
 * Eddy: "Attack the lump!" [Eddy jumps on top of Ed, covering his eyes]

Rolf: "But I am washing dishes, no brain Ed-boy." Eddy: "25 cents or 25 days in the pokey!" Edd: "Ahem, wrong cartoon, Eddy."
 * Eddy: "That's a 25 cent prospecting fine!"

Edd: "This is desperate Eddy. What if... we're captured and forced to clean their gutters!?" Ed: "I don't know what a gutter is Eddy!" Eddy: "You'll be living in one if you don't COME ON!"
 * [The Ed's are hiding behind a sign at the Construction Site before calling the Kankers for a duel]

Trivia/Goofs

 * This is the first time the Eds have attempted to thwart the Kankers, but failed. The later episodes have achieved some degree of success as shown in in "Home Cooked Eds", "Momma's Little Ed" and "A Twist of Ed".
 * The donkey in the title card is reading a book called "DE."
 * When Eddy says the line, "Twenty-five cents, or twenty-five days in the pokey!" Edd corrects this statement (which in the process breaks the fourth wall) by saying, "Wrong cartoon, Eddy!". The cartoon Edd was referring to is Hanna-Barbera's Quick Draw McGraw.
 * The rotating squirt gun machine Edd uses is based off a Gatling gun, which were common around Wild West times.
 * When the squirt gun stand fell apart, the writing on the 50 cents sign turns red for one second.
 * The Kankers had purple perfume in the Eds squirt guns, but when Lee said "And who's gonna help him?" they are shown with water. After that, when the Kankers are about to squirt the Eds, they have orange liquid in their squirt guns.
 * It seems that Krankshaft No.5 is the Kanker Sisters' favorite perfume, more so than their other option, "Eau de Wood Rot".
 * Ed apparently doesn't know what a gutter is.
 * When everyone was paying Marshall Eddy their fines, someone had put half a button into the money jar.
 * The tie that Ed wears in this episode is later seen in "Dear Ed" with Eddy wearing it.
 * Throughout the episode, the Eds made comments about Canada (the turkey basters and "Canadians are weird!"), the birthplace of AKA Cartoon.
 * The Eds' comments about Canada also indicate that Peach Creek might not be in Canada.
 * Kevin is dressed like a Mexican Bandito in this episode, while Jimmy is dressed like a cowboy.
 * It is unknown how the squirt guns were missing when the Kankers took Eddy's jar of money. Perhaps the Kankers snatched the squirt guns when nobody was looking. But later, after the Kankers sprayed the Eds with the Krankshaft perfume, they reappeared back on the Eds.
 * Nazz, Jonny and Rolf were not seen holding or using a squirt gun in this whole episode.
 * All the characters appeared and spoke in this episode.
 * Rolf usually has one pig, which is Wilfred. In this episode, he is shown possessing three pigs instead of one.
 * This episode was featured in the Edifying Edventures DVD.
 * The Canadian Squirt Gun is seen again in "The Good Ol' Ed". It even still had water in it.
 * When Eddy was demonstrating how to use the gun on Ed, we can clearly see Ed being as thin as cardboard when he turns after being shot. However, during the final shot, which pans across the characters as the water shoots through their ears, thus rendering Ed off-screen for the duriation of the scene, upon hitting Ed, he is once again 3D.
 * Subsequently, during the duriation of cardboard Ed, his hair is replaced by a spiky scalp. This may have inspired his design for "The Incredible Shrinking Day."
 * This is the second episode in which the Kankers give a makeover to one or some of the characters. This happened for the first time in "Quick Shot Ed" and this happens again for the third time in "Ed Overboard." The first time this happened to was to the Eds, this time it was Plank and for the third time, this happens to the Urban Rangers.