Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle

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"Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle"
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Airdate:	December 3, 2004
Credits
Writer(s):	Danny Antonucci Jono Howard Mike Kubat
Director(s):	Danny Antonucci
Storyboards by:	"Big" Jim Miller Scott "Diggs" Underwood Leah Waldron
Music by:	Patric Caird
Chronology
Previous	"Take This Ed and Shove It"
Next	"Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo"

Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle is the Christmas special of Ed, Edd n Eddy. This episode is about how Eddy, sick of getting clothes for Christmas, plans to get adopted by one of the neighborhood kids so he can mooch off of their presents. This is also the first of the four special half hour episodes.

Plot

Act I

It's Christmas Eve in the Cul-de-Sac, and all of the kids are joyously awaiting the arrival of Christmas Day. But Eddy, after a search through his house, finds the hiding place where his parents stored away his Christmas presents and unwraps them, only to be aggravated by the sight of the articles of clothing that he unwrapped. He rapidly continues to tear open his Christmas presents as a flashlight's beam hits a nearby mirror and the light bounces off into the night's sky.

Meanwhile, at the Park n' Flush trailer park, the Kanker Sisters are popping open "Krazy Krackers" and each one of them receives a paper crown. Right after Marie gets her crown, May notices the beam of light from Eddy's flashlight in the sky and is extremely curious about it. Curious to know where the light came from and why, the Kanker Sisters set out to follow the twinkling light.

Back at Ed's House, Ed is excitedly awaiting Santa Claus's arrival and prepares for it. He carries his house's chimney to his room and ends up awakening Sarah, who climbs out of bed and marches down to his room, demanding an explanation, only to be told by "Ed the Elf" that he's waiting for Santa's arrival. So Sarah thrusts her stocking at Ed and orders him to hang it up where Santa will see it and threatens to stuff him in the turkey if he doesn't. Ed nails Sarah's stocking to the chimney (with most of the nails blocking the opening) and waits for Santa Claus, when Edd stops by to give Ed a poinsettia to wish him a merry Christmas, only to embraced in a hug by Ed. The two are soon surprised when Eddy stomps over to tell them how he opened up all his Christmas gifts early and he only got clothes. After an argument with Edd, Eddy comes up with an idea to have one of the kids adopt him so he can have some of their presents instead, and leaves Ed's house shortly after.

First, Eddy walks over to Jonny and Plank's house, only to discover that all of the snow in their yard is missing. After being invited into the house by Jonny, Eddy learns that it's one of Jonny's family Christmas traditions to bring all of the snow into their house as a thanks to Mother Nature. All of the presents under Jonny's Christmas tree are frozen in ice blocks, and Eddy plans to try and crack them open. However, a trapdoor opens underneath him and sends him down an ice slide, which sends Eddy into Jonny's front yard. Jonny comes out of his house and tells Eddy that Plank knew that he was only trying to steal their Christmas all along, and does not adopt Eddy in the end.

Next, Eddy goes over to Rolf's House, only to find Rolf dressed in a lamb suit and his house decorated with all kinds of meat. Eddy is told by Rolf that every year, a troll named Yeshmiyek will come and deliver Christmas dinners to good children, and tells Eddy the story of Yeshmiyek in song. Rolf's Christmas traditions do not involve material gifts, so Eddy leaves after Rolf starts singing about Yeshmiyek again.

Ed and Edd are ashamed of Eddy's view of what Christmas is all about, and Edd formulates a plan to show Eddy the true meaning of Christmas.

Act II

Eddy's next stop is Nazz's House, and when Eddy is invited into the house by Nazz, he is charmed by the Christmas outfit she's wearing. She offers him one of her own Christmas gifts, as Eddy planned, and also offers him a glass of eggnog. But, when Nazz tries to get Eddy under the mistletoe with her, Eddy is so shocked he spouts eggnog at her. After that, Eddy's kicked out of Nazz's house.

Meanwhile, the Kanker Sisters continue their journey and come across a few bizarre items: sausages and pennies ("franks and cents"), a moldy slice of bread with mushrooms growing out of it ("mold"), and a beautiful fur coat ("fur"). Lee sees these items as "signs" of them getting closer to figuring out where the beam of light is coming from, and the girls continue to trudge through the snow.

While on his way to the next house, Eddy is lured into a trap set by Edd and Ed that leads him to a tree where Edd, dressed as an angel, is lowered down in front of Eddy by Ed, who appears behind the tree dressed as a shepherd. However, Edd's plans fail to show Eddy Christmas's true meaning, and Eddy rips the cardboard wings off of Edd's back and walks off with them as his friends assures him that it's not too late to find the true meaning of the season.

Eddy uses the wings to trick Jimmy into thinking he is a Christmas angel who picks a child to stay with every Christmas to show them the true meaning of Christmas, and the child must share some of their gifts with Eddy. Eddy's trick works on Jimmy, but first, Jimmy shows Eddy all of the Christmas treats he baked, including a gingerbread sailor village. Then Jimmy leaves Eddy alone in the kitchen to use the toilet, and when Jimmy comes back to show Eddy more decorative baking tips, he finds that Eddy devoured his entire gingerbread village. Enraged, Jimmy phones Sarah, who quickly shows up at his house and attacks Eddy, throwing him out of the house.

Now Eddy decides to try one last time to get adopted, and he even goes over to Kevin's House to get him to adopt him. Kevin gives Eddy a gift, but when Eddy unwraps it, it turns out to be Kevin's fist punching him and giving him a slight black eye. Eddy leaves Kevin's house and trudges through the cold, snowy winter's night. Shivering, Eddy soon comes across a Christmas tree with a bunch of gleaming, colorful lights strung around it. But one of the bulbs, Eddy notices, has gone out, and he takes the new bulb that Ed had dropped into his pocket earlier. Eddy replaces the bulb, and the tree starts glowing beautifully and intensely, so beautifully that all of the other kids stop by to admire the tree. Edd congratulates Eddy for his selfless act, and Eddy realizes that he feels good about being generous and that getting good gifts isn't the true meaning of Christmas, and instead it's about kindness and generosity. Suddenly, a large red sack drops out of the sky, and it turns out to be Santa's bag of presents for the Cul-de-Sac kids. Although it seems that Eddy has completely forgotten all about his selfish ways, he quickly steals the sack of gifts all for himself, and Ed and Edd chase him into Rolf's shed. Ed tries to take the bag away from Eddy and give it back to the other kids, but Eddy tries to take it back, resulting in a tug-of-war that ends up sending the sack through the roof of the shed and back to the other kids, much to their joy. Eddy has fallen into the manger, and part of Edd's angel costume gets caught on a jagged point made by the sack when it was sent through the shed roof. Ed is knocked over and stands by the manger, just as the Kankers, with their paper crowns, enter the shed, carrying the items they found on their journey, introducing them as mold, franks and cents, and fur. Apparently, the gifts weren't enough to give to the boys, because the Kanker Sisters quickly grab the Eds and make out with them, hanging a sign on the shed door reading, "DO NOT OPEN UNTIL NEXT X-MAS." In the distance, the kids are standing on a cliff, singing Christmas carols.

Trivia

• Goofs:
  • In the attic, Eddy ravenously tears into his final present, yet the wrapping paper remains intact.
  • When Eddy leaves Rolf's house, Ed's house is across the street from him (as viewed by Ed and Edd). This placement is wrong, as Eddy's house is supposed to be there instead of Ed's.
  • When Nazz opens her door to greet Eddy, the door opens inward. When she hastily kicks him out, it opens outward.
  • Jimmy calls Sarah on a rotary phone, but the sound it makes is akin to a push button phone.
  • Eddy wears his red winter gloves for about the first two thirds of the special, but starting where he gets evicted from Jimmy's house by Sarah, they are gone.
  • Eddy's mouth doesn't move when he yells "Jackpot!"
• The episode title is a reference to the song Jingle, Jangle, Jingle, made popular by Kay Kyser.
• Ed recalls being an elf from "Fa-La-La-La-Ed."
  • In the same episode, Eddy mentions that he always gets clothes for Christmas. That prediction is shown to be true.
  • Also in the same episode, Kevin promised to give Eddy a knuckle sandwich. That prediction is also shown to be true.
• This is the first episode in the series to be produced with digital inking techniques. With this process, the characters are hand-drawn, scanned into a computer, and colored digitally. The backgrounds, however, are still hand-painted.
• May shouts out "Do you see what I see? Something twinkling in the sky!" This is a reference to the Christmas song Do You Hear What I Hear?
• Eddy replacing the bulb on the Christmas tree may be a reference to A Charlie Brown Christmas, where Charlie Brown (and later, the rest of the Peanuts gang) decorates an ugly tree, making it beautiful.
• The end scene in Rolf's shed resembles a nativity scene (the birth of Jesus Christ). Ed is the shepherd, Edd is the angel, and Eddy is Jesus. The Kankers are the 3 kings who brought presents. Edd points this out by saying "Well, this image certainly has the Christmas spirit."
  • The three presents the Kankers brought to the Eds are spoofs of the gifts The Three Wise Men brought: mold (gold), franks and cents (frankincense), and fur (myrrh).
• Eddy's line of "A dickie? They still make these?" became an internet meme; mainly due to its sexual connotations.
• In an interview with What's In My Head Podcast, Peter Kelamis claimed that Rolf's song number was recorded in a mere two takes, even though he had expected it to require far more than that.
• Yeshmiyek is mentioned again in Ed, Edd n Eddy - Scam of the Century, in the mini-game "Yeshmiyek's Bounty of Meat".
• This is the first time an adult speaks in the series. That adult would be Santa Claus, who only appears as a silhouette.
• This episode is included on the North American DVD release Cartoon Network: Christmas Rocks. It is also included on the first disc of Cartoon Network Candy Capers, a cartoon and PC game compilation released in the United Kingdom.

See also

• Angel Costume
• Eddy the Christmas Angel
• Eddy the Christmas Angel (scam)
• Yeshmiyek
• Yeshmiyek (song)
• Jimmy's Holly Jolly Christmas Village