History EdEddNEddy / TropesHToP

* OnlyOneName: Other than the Kanker Sisters and Nazz, whose surname and middle name are revealed in the movie, none of the characters seem to have surnames.
** The Eds have their ''middle'' names revealed, so presumably they ''have'' last names, we're just never told what they are. Also, it's a bit ambiguous as to whether Jonny has his last name given or not (though the fact that most official materials write it as "2x4" rather than writing out the words suggests it's a nickname given to him for constantly talking to a piece of wood).

* OutOfCharacterMoment: During the "Incredible Shrinking Day", Edd digs out a presumably dirty shirt from under his bed.

** Eddy. He's greedy and arrogant, but he does have [[PetTheDog his moments]] where he shows he genuinely cares about his friends. He rarely shows his softer side but it's there ("Momma's Little Ed", "'Tween a Rock and an Ed Place", "Jingle Jingle Jangle", "A Fistful of Ed"). He may have a HiddenHeartOfGold, if you think about it. He always tries to make money because he wants to buy the jawbreakers ''and'' share them with his friends, and that's why he scams. Also proven in 'Here's Mud In Your Ed', where he begins thinking of what he'll do when he becomes rich: the first thing he wants to do? Buy Double D a new hat, when you would expect his first thoughts to be of his own self. In "Hand Me Down Ed", where the boomerang seems to turn the holder into their most repressed traits. Ed becomes a genius, Double D loses all his inhibitions, and Eddy of all people becomes a doting mother. Makes you wonder how he really is inside without without his mask of a jerk.

** In TheMovie Kevin complains that the Eds are supposedly going to get away with their antics "again", [[OffscreenVillainy suggesting they have managed to get off scot free in some unseen incidents]]. Or he's just refering to one of the examples here.

* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: After the series was UnCancelled, the show's format suddenly shifted from being perpetual summer vacation to having the cul-de-sac kids finally in school.

* LeadIn: Every episode.

** Sarah usually gets a dainty piano jingle whenever she's on screen.

* LovingBully : The Kankers, of course.
** Sarah could count if one relies on FridgeBrilliance, that she has turned into a {{Tsundere}} towards Edd. Despite it rarely shown after "An Ed Too Many", Sarah still has a crush on him, but it doesn't save him from a beating.
* LowerClassLout: The Kankers.

* MiddleOfNowhereStreet: The cul-de-sac.

* MultiCharacterTitle

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Happens a lot.

* TheNapoleon: Eddy and Sarah.

* NightmareFetishist: Ed.

* NobodysThatDumb: In season 4, "Here's Mud in Your Ed", after Eddy realizes that Rolf and Jimmy scammed him with a fake money tree seed and bangs on Rolf's front door demanding he get his stuff back, Rolf offers that he will give Eddy the "real" money tree seed if he stops. Edd tells Rolf that Eddy wouldn't fall for the same trick twice but he's proven wrong when Eddy agrees to it and the "real" money tree seed he receives is just a bolt. Ed even comments that even ''he'' isn't that gullible.

-->'''Ed:''' Shush! My yeast is rising.
-->({{beat}})
-->'''Edd:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Nut loaf, Ed?]]

--->'''Edd:''' Why are Eddy's clothes on the floor? Is he running around naked ''again?''

--->'''Eddy:''' If [Sarah] told you to [[JumpOffABridgeRebuttal jump in a lake]], with a rock tied to your head, and wait for naked photos of you to develop, so she could hand them out to all the kids in the cul-de-sac, would you?"
--->'''Ed:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I had socks on, Eddy.]]

** Edd makes a sterling facial example in "Run For Your Ed", [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/edwikia/images/3/3b/Vlcsnap-2014-07-22-09h00m34s203.png/revision/latest?cb=20140722160058 as seen here.]]

--->'''Ed:''' [[CompletelyMissingThePoint I had socks on, Eddy.]]

-->''Ed, Edd, ‘n Eddy''
-->''Sittin’ in a tree,''
-->''K-I-S-S-I-N-G…''

-->'''Edd:''' Me… and Sarah?\\

-->''Ed, Edd, ‘n Eddy''\\
''Sittin’ in a tree,''\\
''K-I-S-S-I-N-G…''

''Sittin’ in a tree,''

** In the Kanker Sisters’ debut episode, they sneak up on the Eds in the woods, creepily chanting, “Ed, Edd, ‘n Eddy, sittin’ in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G…”

* KissingInATree: In "For Your Ed Only", Eddy steals Sarah’s [[SecretDiary diary]], and while reading it, they learn about her [[PrecociousCrush crush on Double D]], which prompts Ed and Eddy to do this.

** The cast of characters never expanded beyond twelve people throughout the show's five season run, making it one of the longest-running series (animated or otherwise) to have one.

** There's also [[ImaginaryFriend Jib]], if he counts.

** And throughout the series, it never occurs to the Eds that they could raise money by washing cars or something similar instead of creating all sorts of scams running on NoOSHACompliance just to earn money for some jawbreakers.

* OnlyChildSyndrome: Ed and Sarah are brother-and-sister, Eddy has an older brother, and the Kankers' are sisters. All the other characters are presumably only children. However, Edd is the only one specifically stated to be an only child (in the episode "Rambling Ed") while all the other kids never mentions any siblings.

* MacGuffin: Jawbreakers.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Subtle suggestions are made throughout the show that Kevin's {{Jerkass}} behavior is a result of constant harassment from the Eds. In "See No Ed" he becomes increasingly suspicious after the Eds disappear for an extensive period time, to the point of becoming a paranoid wreck convinced the Eds are preparing to scam him at every turn. [[spoiler:His point of view changes after witnessing Eddy's own FreudianExcuse in TheMovie however.]]

** Eddy. He's greedy and arrogant, but he does have [[PetTheDog his moments]] where he shows he genuinely cares about his friends. He rarely shows his softer side but it's there ("Momma's Little Ed", "Jingle Jingle Jangle", "A Fistful of Ed"). He may have a HiddenHeartOfGold, if you think about it. He always tries to make money because he wants to buy the jawbreakers ''and'' share them with his friends, and that's why he scams. Also proven in 'Here's Mud In Your Ed', where he begins thinking of what he'll do when he becomes rich: the first thing he wants to do? Buy Double D a new hat, when you would expect his first thoughts to be of his own self. In "Hand Me Down Ed", where the boomerang seems to turn the holder into their most repressed traits. Ed becomes a genius, Double D loses all his inhibitions, and Eddy of all people becomes a doting mother. Makes you wonder how he really is inside without without his mask of a jerk.

** Edd himself has a minor one in "Mission Ed Possible" when he willingly gave Eddy and Ed's report cards to their parents, not caring whether or not they would be subjected to physical or mental abuse afterwards. This is the guy who'd wipe Ed's drooling mouth and nurse Eddy whenever he gets hurt. He gets repercussion at the end by Kevin, [[NoRespectGuy as usual]].

* LighterAndSofter: Season 1 (and maybe a little bit of 2) by a ''long-shot''. The Eds were a lot more cohesive and very well put-together team (with Ed having more SmartBall moments, Edd being completely willing to go along with scams coupled with his expert engineering skills and Eddy being more generous and a lucid and competent leader, not to mention [[{{TrueCompanions}} much closer with each other and more down-to-earth. The kids were a ''lot'' nicer to the Eds and each other and less violent than they would later become [note]consider the episode Eds-aggerate, where even after Eddy lies to Kevin about the "monkey boys" breaking his window, the worst Kevin does to them is simply trap them in a cement block, and "A Boy and His Ed", where, while he does grow more and more annoyed at the Eds trying to "befriend" him for jawbreakers, not once does he lay a finger on them; his only retribution for them is a series of harmless slapstick gags[/note], with Johnny even helping the Eds out at times and Sarah being a tamer, mean little sister to Ed rather than outright abusive and hostile. The Kanker Sisters were simply generic DistaffCounterpart bullies to the Eds rather than the sexual harassers they'd become in Season 2, and the characters' personalities generally stemmed from ChildrenAreInnocent, with many plots involving the Eds playing around with each other and hanging out, and the other kids playing together at the playground or in the lane and welcoming the Eds into their activities with open arms, while Season 3 would make an abrupt shift to the KidsAreCruel dynamic, with many of the characters (Kevin, Sarah, Jimmy, and ''especially'' Eddy) becoming sadistic, loud, violent bullies and even the most innocent characters picking up the JerkAssBall.

* LighterAndSofter: Season 1 (and maybe a little bit of 2) by a ''long-shot''. The Eds were a lot more cohesive and very well put-together team (with Ed having more SmartBall moments, Edd being completely willing to go along with scams coupled with his expert engineering skills and Eddy being more generous and a lucid and competent leader, not to mention [[{{TrueCompanions}} much closer with each other and more down-to-earth. The kids were a ''lot'' less violent than they would later

* TheLoad: Eddy, the leader of the Eds, has ironically played this role sometimes as a result of his {{BadBoss}} tendencies. Ed is also this due to his stupidity ruining Eddy's scams on a few occasions.

* NiceGuy: Edd, Ed, Rolf, Jimmy and Jonny, and Eddy [[{{EarlyInstallmentWeirdness}}in early episodes]]. Nazz is the only female character who fits the trope.

* NiceGuy: Edd, Ed, Rolf, Jimmy and Jonny, and Eddy in early episodes. Nazz is the only female character who fits the trope.