Also, they appeared in a small crossover poster during the credits of "The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door" entitled Ed, Edd n Mandy.Ĭartoon Network has also produced shorts, some involving the Eds during commercial breaks. They have appeared in a Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode using Foster's styled animation, and made a short cameo in The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door.
There have been other produced works in which the Eds would appear apart from their regular series airings. In a Cartoon Network podcast interview, Antonucci hinted at the Kanker sisters being based on someone from his personal life, as well.Įpisodes Main article: List of Ed, Edd n Eddy episodesĪdditional works File:The main characters from Ed, Edd n Eddy and Dexter's Laboratory Make a cameo, Foster's style.jpgĮd, Edd and Eddy look-alikes in the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Eddie Monster". He also stated that Rolf is strongly based on himself and his cousins, since he was part of an immigrant family, and grew up in a first generation foreign household with different customs and ways of living, compared to those born in Canada.
Antonucci also stated that he believed it was important to add Plank to the show, stating that he "thought it would be really cool to do the show with Plank taking on a character of his own" and to cause Jonny to do things he would usually never do. The cul-de-sac kids were based on kids he grew up with. The Eds also held personality traits of The Three Stooges, who were a comedy trio whose various characters they portrayed in each short subject film often try to create money-making schemes, but their plans end up backfiring near the end of their films. The personalities of Ed, Edd, and Eddy are based on personal traits of himself, and the activities of his two sons. Ĭharacters Main article: List of Ed, Edd n Eddy charactersĪccording to an interview with Danny Antonucci (a special feature on the Season 1 DVD set), the characters were based on real people in his life. Danny Antonucci calls it a "wobble", and likens it to cartoons of the 1930s where the film tended to be unstable and cause a similar effect.
Katz, Professional Therapist, but are still visible. The crawling lines are not nearly as active as those in Dr. To give the impression of movement, Ed, Edd n Eddy uses shimmering character outlines similar to Squigglevision. The cels are shipped to Korea for creating the initial animation, and then later edited back at a.k.a.
Įd, Edd n Eddy was animated using cel animation until its fifth season, with the cels colored digitally. Most of the episodes begin with something completely unrelated to the storyline of the episode this is to emphasize the spontaneity of childhood. The kids have multi-colored tongues, because, as Danny Antonucci stated, kids are almost always eating something that turn their tongues different colors.
Cartoon), frequently appear in the show on license plates. In addition, the letters AKA, the abbreviation for the name of the company that produces the show ( a.k.a. The show frequently makes meta-references and breaks the fourth wall. Starting with its fifth season, the characters were shown going to school. For the first four seasons the show took place during a perpetual summer. Take the 'Edd's parents' factor, their means of communicating with him via sticky note, my parents worked long hours and they left me written messages in much the same way." There is no given timeline for the show.
Creator Danny Antonucci stated that the absence of adults was intentional explaining, "throughout the long days of summer you simply didn't see anyone else's parents about and sometimes you didn't even see your own. Beyond these partial exceptions, Eddy's brother is the only adult to appear on the show.
Until the debut of the movie "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show"-where Eddy's adult brother was shown for the first time-no other characters besides the main cast were ever seen however the show started to hint at the presence of other people in its fifth season, occasionally showing the silhouettes of people and in one episode the arms of Eddy's father and Ed's mother. The number of characters in Ed, Edd n Eddy is fixed at twelve. The series takes place within the fictional town of Peach Creek and new locations are rarely introduced. Ed, Edd n Eddy revolves solely around the Eds, the other cul-de-sac children, and the Kanker sisters.