History Trivia / EdEddnEddy

* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: When asked about Creator/RebeccaSugar's [[BleachedUnderpants infamous softcore porn art]] she'd done of Edd and Eddy, Danny Antonucci said that he didn't view it any differently than any other fanart and that he loves it.

*** Johnny and the Eds are around 12 or 13.

** Not much is known about Jimmy's actor Keenan Christenson, as he also retired from acting after the show. He's notably the only cast member to not be featured in the behind-the-scenes documentary for [[VideoGame/EdEddNEddyTheMisedventures the game]].

*** Jonny and the Eds are around 12 or 13.

** Of the three Eds, Creator/TonySampson (Eddy) is the only one who retired from voice work following the end of the show, eventually starting a new career in the oil sands industry. He disappeared from the public eye for a while (only having a few private social media accounts), but eventually resurfaced in 2021 for a reunion podcast with Creator/MattHill and Creator/SamuelVincent. He later explained in [[https://youtu.be/ysz2jFe1Tns?si=GGJtolwvndAPR6k9 a subsequent podcast]] that he left the acting industry due to a pay conflict.

* ReclusiveArtist: Of the three Eds, Creator/TonySampson (Eddy) is the only one who retired from voice work following the end of the show, eventually starting a new career in the oil sands industry. He disappeared from the public eye for a while (only having a few private social media accounts), but eventually resurfaced in 2021 for a reunion podcast with Creator/MattHill and Creator/SamuelVincent. He later explained in [[https://youtu.be/ysz2jFe1Tns?si=GGJtolwvndAPR6k9 a subsequent podcast]] that he left the acting industry due to a pay conflict.

** ''Junkyard Scramble'' was a rumored canceled puzzle game for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor. The game itself never existed and it's unknown where the rumor came from.

** In 2001, a rumor about a MissingEpisode known only as "The Scarecrow Boy Episode" surfaced. The story is that Sarah puts on a play - her own version of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' - casting herself as Dorothy, Jimmy as the Tin Man, Eddy as the Cowardly Lion (apparently he was also tied to a chair the whole time because he kept trying to walk out on Sarah), Ed as the Scarecrow, and Double D as the director. Sarah became outraged with Ed continuously blowing his lines, and ended up kicking and locking him out of the house (while still in costume); when Kevin and other kids in the cul-de-sac see Ed roaming around, they keep calling him "Scarecrow Boy", which somehow causes Ed to grow stiffer and stiffer each time he heard the name. Eventually, the episode ends with Plank nestled into the ground, and Ed standing on top with his arms straight out, as if he has become a real scarecrow. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that remotely proves such an episode exists, though many fans swear to have seen it, and that it only aired once.
** The infamous "Special Ed" episode. There's no concrete proof it exists or even what it could have been about if it was planned at one point. It was supposedly scrapped for being "too real". Many fans take this to mean it was about Ed's AmbiguousDisorder.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The episode "Here's Mud In Your Ed" seems to be more of an apology to fans who hated "If It Smells Like an Ed" due to the fact that Jimmy went too far with his retribution and framed all three Eds when it was only Eddy who humiliated him. In the former episode, Jimmy tells Rolf that only Eddy tricked him out of his money, and they both come up with a funnier, more harmless joke to play on Eddy, and only Eddy, in retaliation.

** Danny Antonucci confirmed that the series takes place on Earth and not in purgatory, debunking the famous ''Fanfic/CulDeSac'' theory.

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: The special "Boo Haw Haw" is Danny Antonucci's favorite. He also likes the episode "If It Smells Like An Ed". Ironically, both episodes are some of the polarizing with fans due to their {{Downer Ending}}s and being some of the few times [[MisplacedRetribution the Eds' suffering didn't feel justified.]] "If It Smells Like An Ed" in particular is often singled out as being [[MagnumOpusDissonance one of the show's worst episodes.]]

*** Johnny and the Eds are around 12 or 13.

** Johnny was based on a loner friend who carried around a blanket a'la [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Linus]].

* IKnewIt: Some fans accurately guessed [[spoiler:that not only would Eddy's older brother appear in the movie, but that he would end up being the antagonist.]]
* InMemoriam

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: The special "Boo Haw Haw" is Danny Antonucci's favorite. He also likes the episode "If It Smells Like An Ed". Ironically, both episodes are some of the polarizing with fans due to their {{DownerEnding}}s and being some of the few times [[MisplacedRetribution the Eds' suffering didn't feel justified.]] "If It Smells Like An Ed" in particular is often singled out as being [[MagnumOpusDissonance one of the show's worst episodes.]]

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: The special "Boo Haw Haw" is Danny Antonucci's favorite. He also likes the episode "If It Smells Like An Ed". Ironically, both episodes are some of the polarizing with fans due to their [[DownerEnding downer endings]] and being some of the few times [[MisplacedRetribution the Eds' suffering didn't feel justified.]] "If It Smells Like An Ed" in particular is often singled out as being [[MagnumOpusDissonance one of the show's worst episodes.]]

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode:
** Danny Antonucci's favorite episode to make was ''Ed, Edd n' Eddy's Boo Haw Haw''.
** Ironically, "If It Smells Like an Ed," considered by many fans to be one of the worst episodes of the series (if not ''the'' worst), is another of his favorite episodes.

* CreatorBacklash: Antonucci has made it no secret he hated having to switch to digital animation starting with season 5. He even snuck in a few hints of his displeasure, such as the infamous "uck digital" sign that could be found at the junkyard starting with the season.

* NoExportForYou: Surprisingly, this Canadian series didn't initially air in it's native Canada, as Cartoon Network wouldn't have a Canadian feed until 2012. a.k.a. Cartoon Inc. had to set up a satellite TV feed to watch episodes during the show's run.

** The Movie didn't air in the United States for months... long after Australia, all three Scandinavian countries, and parts of Asia got their hands on it.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://ed.wikia.com/wiki/Ed,_Edd_n_Eddy_Wiki Here you go.]]

** Kevin is voiced by Creator/KathleenBarr, [[TalkingToHimself the same actress who voices Marie Kanker]]--this seems rather ironic, given that he's generally the toughest and most masculine out of all the male characters on the show.

* TalkingToHimself:
** Nazz and May, [[CrossDressingVoice Kevin]] and Marie, Sarah and Lee, respectively.
** Ed and Eddy in the Swedish dub. Then it's talking to herself with the case of Kevin, Nazz and Lee in the same dub.
** Edd and Rolf in the Brazilian dub.

** During the first season, Nazz was first voiced by Creator/TabithaStGermain. However, when Tabitha was unavailable to continue recording the show, it was decided that someone already within the cast would take over on the character. Creator/ErinFitzgerald, the voice of May Kanker since the beginning of the show, was intended to take over on Nazz. But since she had just moved to the United States, the part went temporarily to Jenn Forgie. However, series creator Danny Antonucci was so much loved by Erin's performance on the roles, that she flew back to Canada for the rest of the series.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** It's hard to believe, but this show was originally pitched to Nickelodeon as a Nicktoon. While Nickelodeon has a lot of risqué shows, they don't go as far with it as Cartoon Network does (possibly because they don't want another ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' on their hands). Even when pitching it, Antonucci knew that if Nickelodeon accepted the show, a lot would have to be changed for content. He was proven right when their first demand was [[ExecutiveMeddling complete creative control]].
** [[http://comments.deviantart.com/1/66770313/2446959492 A comment]] by one of the show's storyboarders says there was an unused campfire scene in TheMovie that would have divulged on the characters' HiddenDepths.
** In an interview with storyboard artist Scott Underwood, the episode "One + One Equals Ed" was supposed to include a scene where the Eds were randomly dressed as WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones with Eddy as Fred, Double D as Wilma, and Ed as Dino.
** Concept art pages featuring Rolf, Jimmy, Sarah, Jonny, Nazz, and Kevin labeled them as "Pals of the Eds." While Rolf, Jimmy, Jonny, and Nazz are generally friendly with the Eds unless provoked, Sarah and Kevin were [[SitcomArchNemesis anything but pals to the Eds]]. This implies that the two were nowhere near as antagonistic towards the Eds during development than they would be.
** According to Tomasz Bednarek (Rolf's Polish VA) in [[https://youtu.be/mtuCoeGsGnQ?t=330 an interview]], Rolf was originally supposed to be a Latino speaking with a Mexican accent, and had a different name. After the network's representatives came to Sonica studio in Warsaw, Poland (who provided the show's Polish dub) pretty early into show's production process, they've realised that such concept (and jokes based on it) wouldn't work in the country due to Poland not having a Spanish-speaking minority, so at that point it was decided that Rolf would be a foreigner from Northern Europe instead.
** If an old promo is to be believed, Sarah originally had a big scary dog that she sicced on the Eds. Whether or not this dog is the same one that appears in ''The Mis-Ed-Ventures'' is unknown.
** On the topic of early promos, almost all of them seem to put emphasis on the Eds just being a bunch of kids who were troublemakers getting up to random shenanigans in their local neighborhood, overall promoting the series as a more typical 'joys of childhood' like series than what it would become. The {{Tagline}} for most of these promos was even "maybe it's just a phase?" As if to imply that it was going to be more a focus on the Eds just getting up to shenanigans in general. While the Eds would remain something of troublemakers in the series proper, much of the episodes would put focus on the Eds trying to make money through scams than whatever random shenanigans that might interest them. [[Recap/EdEddNEddyS1E7DawnOfTheEds Dawn of the Eds]] is likely the closest to this original concept as advertised by the promos.
** The poorly-edited third edition of The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons may have accidentally preserved some scrapped ideas for the series. Published in 2009, it refers to the other cul-de-sac kids as the Eds' friends, including "the more grown-up girl-next-door Nazz, and her nitwit skateboarding fiend younger brother, Jimmy." (Notably, those are the only two supporting characters mentioned by name.) While the encyclopedia is riddled with errors and omissions throughout, one specific mistake may lead one to believe that there is some sustenance behind this false information: it claims the show premiered on November 16, 1998, which was its scheduled premier date before production issues pushed it into 1999. Notably, the second edition of the encyclopedia was published in 1998, when the show was in initial production but had not yet premiered; it's not impossible that such a sloppy work got teaser information about the show in 1998 and simply did not correct the now-untrue information in the 2009 edition.
** In the early 2000s, when Cartoon Network decided to enter the movie business after Nickelodeon's success with ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'', an ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' theatrical movie was fairly high up on Cartoon Network's priorities. But after ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'' was a BoxOfficeBomb and made CN backpedal on their movie plans, the Eds getting a theatrical movie was nixed.
** The production of the previously ordered sixth season of the series was replaced by the 90-minute television film, ''Big Picture Show'', not because of a lack of interest in new episodes, but rather because the entire a.k.a. Cartoon staff was occupied with the making of the film. Cartoon Network agreed to Antonucci's decision to make a film rather than the sixth season. Two sixth-season episodes were already in production, though, so Cartoon Network aired them as a special event in June of 2008.

** Ironically, "If It Smells Like an Ed," considered by many fans to be one of worst episodes of the series (if not ''the'' worst), is another of his favorite episodes.

* DawsonCasting: Jimmy was the only one of the characters to be [[ChildrenVoicingChildren voiced by an actual kid]]--the rest were all voiced by adults.