49 Fun Facts About Ed, Edd N Eddy

Which other new series shared the Eds' 1999 marathon?

The Powerpuff Girls. Post-production delays had pushed the Eds' debut from November 1998 to January 1999, so the two shows arrived seven weeks apart and were billed together as the network's newest.

Ed, Edd n Eddy was produced at its creator's own studio in which Canadian city?

Vancouver. Its founder chose to stay there when most of the industry sat in Los Angeles, saying he wanted to use the local talent and was "just not into all that Hollywood fakery".

What is the name of the fictional town where the Eds' cul-de-sac is located?

Peach Creek. The series rarely leaves it until the finale film, when a scam goes so badly wrong that the Eds flee town to escape their neighbours' revenge.

What do the Eds want to buy with the money from their scams?

Jawbreakers. After a decade of failed scams the Eds are finally offered them for nothing: the finale film ends with one of the neighbourhood kids inviting the trio over for some.

Which network lost Ed, Edd n Eddy after refusing to give its creator creative control?

Nickelodeon. It loved the faxed drawings but wanted control, so the creator took the Eds to Cartoon Network, which signed them only after agreeing to leave him alone.

What nickname does Edd go by to avoid confusion with Ed?

Double D. The Eds began as a doodle: the creator drew three goofy boys, faxed the sketch to a network with the line that they were friends because they shared a name, and built the show from there.

Which of these is Ed terrified of in Ed, Edd n Eddy?

Soap. He loves the other three, and his refusal to wash is a constant trial for his friend Edd, the trio's germ-fearing neat freak.

How do Edd's parents communicate with him?

Through sticky notes. The creator took the idea from his own childhood: his parents worked long hours and left him written messages in much the same way.

Eddy has exactly three of what on his head?

Hairs. For all his swagger, the trio's self-appointed leader admits in the finale film that he made up his big brother's legend because he wanted the other kids to like him.

Which secret about Eddy is found in his lost wallet in the episode "Your Ed Here"?

His middle name. It is Skipper, and the rival who finds it blackmails Eddy into obeying his every order to keep it quiet.

Which cul-de-sac kid has a garage full of the Eds' favourite candy because his father works at the factory?

Kevin. The jock spends the series calling the Eds dorks, then ends the finale film by inviting them over to share the hoard.

What is the name of Jonny 2x4's imaginary friend in Ed, Edd n Eddy?

Plank. Jonny is based on a loner from the creator's childhood whose constant companion was a blanket; Peanuts' Linus had got there first, so it became a board.

What superhero identity does Jonny adopt to fight Eddy's alter ego Professor Scam?

Captain Melonhead. The name borrows Eddy's insult for the bald boy, and after the finale film's ending leaves him an outcast he swaps it for a villain's, The Gourd.

What is the name of the scouting group that Rolf leads in Ed, Edd n Eddy?

The Urban Rangers. Eddy holds a grudge against the troop, and in one episode challenges Rolf for its hardest badge in a bid to humiliate it once and for all.

Rolf's pig, who turns on him in Big Picture Show, is named what?

Wilfred. Tired of his master's rough handling, he attacks Rolf and bolts, and ends up carrying Sarah and Jimmy the rest of the way to the film's showdown.

On whom did the creator of Ed, Edd n Eddy base the character Rolf?

Himself and his cousins. His parents were Italian immigrants "right off the boat", and he said that, like Rolf's, they still lived in the past, with strong traditions and strange cooking.

Why does Jimmy wear a retainer around his face?

He bit a bowling pin in a scam. The series leaves it a mystery until a flashback episode, in which the Eds stumble back to the very moment his teeth were ruined.

Sarah, Ed's spoiled younger sister, secretly has a crush on which Ed?

She still abuses him by association with the other two, and only makes peace with the Eds at the end of Big Picture Show.

What is the name of the trailer court where the Kanker Sisters live?

Park 'n' Flush. Its sisters came from life: the creator based them on a pair of girls from his schooldays whose hunt for boyfriends frightened him and his friends.

Which Kanker sister has blue hair and wants Edd?

Marie. In the finale film she and her sisters turn rescuers, charging off to save their "boyfriends" from the neighbours' revenge.

Whose sprinkler party do the Eds crash in the episode "Pop Goes the Ed"?

Nazz. The party came from the creator's own childhood: talked into a pool party he did not want to attend, he was handed a far-too-small swimsuit that burst off mid-party.

In Ed, Edd n Eddy, which possession does Kevin prize above everything else?

His bike. In the finale film he fusses over it so much during the chase that the girl riding with him finally loses patience.

Who provided the voice of Ed in Ed, Edd n Eddy?

Matt Hill. Ed was the hardest of the three to cast, because the creator refused to settle for the stock dumb-guy "duh" voice.

Kevin, the cul-de-sac's jock, was voiced by which actress in Ed, Edd n Eddy?

Kathleen Barr. She also voiced one of the Kanker sisters, so the jock and one of the bullies he dreads were the same actress.

Until 2004, Ed, Edd n Eddy was still painted by hand onto what?

Clear plastic cels. The creator wanted the show made the old-fashioned way, as a nod to the cartoons of the 1940s to 1970s, and held out against digital paint until after The Simpsons had switched.

What is the name for the constantly wobbling outlines of Ed, Edd n Eddy's characters?

Boiling lines. Each drawing is traced three times and never comes out quite the same, which the creator summed up as using human error: "animation by mistake".

Ed, Edd n Eddy was the first Cartoon Cartoon made outside which studio?

Hanna-Barbera. The Eds were the first of the line made outside its system, and a network executive wrote that the fate of working with independent studios rested on them.

Which show overtook Ed, Edd n Eddy in 2024 as Cartoon Network's longest-running series?

Teen Titans Go! The Eds held the record thanks to a reprieve: the network tried to end the show after four seasons, but demand brought two more, three holiday specials and a film.

Who was the first character from outside the regular cast to appear in Ed, Edd n Eddy?

Santa Claus. He flies over as a silhouette in the 2004 Christmas special to drop a sack of presents, and is the first adult ever heard to speak in the series.

Which Ed, Edd n Eddy special, first shown in February 2005, is set on Valentine's Day?

Hanky Panky Hullabaloo. Sarah and Jimmy play cupids firing arrows of love around the school, and one shot leaves a Kanker sister smitten with the wrong Ed.

After four seasons of endless summer vacation, Ed, Edd n Eddy's fifth season finally sent the kids where?

Junior high. The season opens with Eddy trying to convince the other kids that it is still summer on the very day before school starts.

"The Eds are Coming" (2007) was one chapter of which five-show crossover event?

Cartoon Network Invaded. Five series each told part of one alien invasion, and the Eds' chapter aired two weeks after an episode the network had billed as their last ever.

How does Edd end Big Picture Show?

Labels the screen. His label reading "The End" closes both film and series, moments after the neighbourhood kids finally accept the Eds as friends.

In Big Picture Show, where do the Eds finally find Eddy's brother?

The Mondo A-Go Go amusement park. A postcard he once sent matches the park's sign, and the Eds track him to a trailer there shaped like a whale.

Terry Klassen, who played Eddy's brother, held which other job on the show?

Voice director. His character arrives as the legend Eddy always described, then turns on his little brother, and the shocked neighbourhood kids side with the Eds for once.

Which mocking nickname does Eddy give Edd in Ed, Edd n Eddy?

Sockhead. It mocks the black ski hat he almost never removes: his two friends see beneath it twice, but the viewer never does, even in the finale film.

Ed, Edd n Eddy won a 1999 award for television animation from a national society of which professionals?

Cartoonists. Their society honoured the show in its first year, months after a trade magazine panned it; so many readers wrote in to defend the Eds that the magazine reviewed it again.

Which 2007 release was the last video game based on Ed, Edd n Eddy?

Scam of the Century. Its plot turns the tables: the neighbourhood kids get hold of Eddy's book of scams, realise how long they have been fleeced and come after the Eds for payback.

What is unusual about every kid's tongue in Ed, Edd n Eddy?

Its colour. The creator was at work when he noticed a group of children, his own among them, with tongues stained bright colours by candy, and he gave every kid in the cul-de-sac a tongue to match.

Before Ed, Edd n Eddy, its creator Danny Antonucci made which short-lived series for MTV?

The Brothers Grunt. It was quickly cancelled, and he said he was tired of being pigeonholed by its gross-out humour when he took a dare to make a children's cartoon instead.

In January 2026, Ed from Ed, Edd n Eddy became a playable character in which video game?

Fortnite. The crossover carried all three names but sold only one of them as a skin: Edd and Eddy were left out of their own show's collaboration.

Which 1987 short film first made the creator of Ed, Edd n Eddy notorious?

Lupo the Butcher. The three-minute short about a butcher swearing at his meat made its maker a name among animators, and he later said simply that Lupo opened all the doors.

In Ed, Edd n Eddy, Rolf proudly calls himself the son of a what?

Shepherd. He was minding the flock as a small boy when a rustler in a wolf mask attacked one of his sheep, which is why wolf-themed gifts later send him into a rage.

In Ed, Edd n Eddy, Ed often confuses real life with the plots of his favourite what?

Monster movies. It drives whole episodes: dressed up as a monster by his friends, he decides he really is one and terrorises the cul-de-sac.

Composer Patric Caird built the score of Ed, Edd n Eddy mainly on which style of music?

Swing-era jazz. He recorded live musicians for every episode, and described the sound as two big-band tour buses colliding in the desert, with the Eds' band made up of the survivors.

In the first episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy, the Eds hunt a thief they call the serial what?

Toucher. The Eds pin it on Jonny, who falsely confesses under interrogation; the missing things had only been mislaid, and the trio spend the reward money anyway.

What was the name of the 2007 marathon that aired every Ed, Edd n Eddy episode in order?

The Best Day Edder. It ended on a new episode billed as the last ever, but another special followed two weeks later and the finale film two years after that.

In one Ed, Edd n Eddy episode, Ed and Eddy try to stop Edd delivering what to their parents?

Report cards. Their grades are so bad that the school sends Edd to hand them over in person, and the chase ends with two furious parents hauling the pair away.

In "Take This Ed and Shove It", once meant to be the finale, how does Eddy find the other kids?

As old people. Eddy sees the cul-de-sac 90 years on; the episode was made to end the series, until the show's popularity won it two more seasons.