* HairTriggerTemper: Sarah, full stop. Eddy, too.
* HereWeGoAgain: "The Ed-Touchables", "Ed, Ed, And Away", "Luck of the Ed", and "Thick As An Ed" all end this way.
* 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 of the Eds preparing to scam him at every turn. [[spoiler:His point of view changes after witnessing Eddy's own FreudianExcuse in TheMovie however.]]
-->'''Kevin:''' COME OUT, EDDY, SO I CAN POUND YA!!!
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Eddy's brother.
** Averted when he [[spoiler:finally appears in the movie.]]
* HiddenDepths: May, according to the Valentines day episode.
** [[spoiler:Eddy]] was revealed to have these in TheMovie.
** In one episode, Nazz surprises everyone by quoting the Workers Rights Act, saying "A babysitter's gotta know these things!" afterwards.
* HighPressureEmotion: In "Oath to an Ed", Sarah drives Eddy into this when he is trying to earn a badge.
** Marie has undergone this at least twice, in "May I Have This Ed" and the Valentines Day Special; both times when she sees Edd with another girl.
* HoldUpYourScore
* HumongousMecha: Double D has successfully built at least two of them--one in "One of Those Eds", and a T-Rex mecha in one of the flashback sequences in "The Good Ol' Ed".
* HyperspaceMallet: Rolf smacks Edd with the "Hat of Discipline", which is essentially a giant mallet-hat.
-->'''Edd:''' ...What is that, Rolf?\\
'''Rolf:''' The Hat of Discipline. DO YOU LIVE IN A CAVE?!
* HypnoFool: In one episode, everyone but the Kanker Sisters and Jonny. Yes, even [[CompanionCube Plank]].
** Jonny came around to it eventually.
* HypocriticalHumor: The first scene in "Know It All Ed", where the Eds find a box of turkey basters, er, Canadian squirt guns:
-->'''Eddy:''' ''(holding up a turkey baster)'' What we have here is a squirt gun.\\
'''Edd:''' Please, ''a squirt gun?''\\
'''Eddy:''' What? Yeah! A ''Canadian'' squirt gun!\\
'''Ed:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R78l6ZOPy9o Canadians are weird!]]\\
'''Eddy:''' Watch and learn, boys. Just fill...\\
'''Edd:''' Even if they were Canadian, Heaven forbid, I don't think they're...\\
'''Eddy:''' ''(squirts Edd)'' And squirt! Canadian style!
** The hypocrisy comes from the fact that this show was made by Canadians.
** Antonucci, the creator of the show, is an Italian immigrant to Canada.
** One episode focuses on Eddy trying to prevent Kevin from revealing his EmbarrassingMiddleName (Skipper). After it's outed, Edd tries to comfort Eddy by saying that he has one too (Marion). As soon as he learns it, Eddy shouts it out for all the cul-de-sac to hear.
** Jonny talks to a slab of wood, but is quick to call others crazy or weird.
* IdeaBulb: "High-Heeled Eds". While trying to think up a way to scam Sarah, Nazz and Jimmy, Eddy gets one, though it flickers out briefly until he adjusts it.
** Also in "It Came From Outer Ed". Ed gets an idea for a scam and holds up some turf over his head while saying, "Boing! It's a light bulb!"
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every title is a play on a popular phrase, or the title of a related work, with "Ed" replacing at least one syllable.
* IdiotBall: Everyone's held it at least once, but Eddy's the one who usually holds it.
* ImpossibleLeavening: In "An Ed Too Many", the Eds make pizza. Eddy ignores Edd's instructions for how much yeast to use for the dough, pouring in the entire container. The thing rises so much that Eddy's fist gets caught in the thing when he tries to punch it down. They have to have Ed belly-flop on the thing to press it down enough.
* {{Improv}}: A surprisingly notable ''AVERSION'' of this for the series in whole. Despite the completely random lines that Ed and some of the other characters say throughout the series, every last one of them was written into the script first. Ed's voice actor, MattHill, once explained that Danny Antonucci did not allow the actors to improv or ad-lib even the smallest amount. This once lead to a recording session lasting '''''FIFTY-SIX''''' takes before Danny finally thought that the delivery was perfect to use for the episode.
* IronButtmonkey: Whoever's the ButtMonkey of the week becomes this, but it's usually the Eds.
* {{Irony}}: In "All Eds Are Off", when Ed Wins the bet and decided to spend the prize money on gravy.
-->'''Eddy:''' ''(angry)'' Oh come on! You're gonna spend the money on more gravy?\\
'''Edd:''' ''(happy)'' Irony, Eddy. Look that up in the dictionary.
* ItAmusedMe: The reason why Kevin popped the bubblegum bubble that Ed, Eddy, and Jonny were riding in at the time in "For Your Ed Only". [[spoiler:He gets a minor comeuppance later on when the Eds tie him to a tree after he eavesdrops on them over Sarah's diary.]]
* IWishedYouWereDead: G-rated variant in "See No Ed", where the Eds seem to have disappeared:
-->'''Jimmy:''' I have a confession: I've wished for this every birthday. Might it have come true?"
* {{Jerkass}}: [[{{Greed}} Eddy]], [[SpoiledBrat Sarah]] and [[JerkJock Kevin]]. And of course the Kanker sisters who act like jerks to the Eds, the kids and even to each other.
** [[spoiler: The biggest jerk of them all is ''Eddy's Brother'' who is the only one with no redeeming qualities.]]
* JerkassBall: Let's put this straight, '''everybody''' in this show has acted like a genuine jerk in at least one episode, including the most innocent characters like [[FragileFlower Jimmy]], Rolf, and Edd.
** For example, the beginning of [[Recap/EdEddnEddyS4E1IfItSmellsLikeAnEd "If It Smells Like An Ed"]]. Everybody sans Sarah laughs after Eddy gives Jimmy a wedgie. [[{{Hypocrite}} During the celebration of a Friendship Day]].
* JerkassFacade: [[spoiler:Eddy, who reveals in the movie that he was only acting like a jerk because he thought he'd be cool if he acted like his brother.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: All the ones mentioned above (see {{Jerkass}}) evolve into this in the movie, especially [[spoiler:Eddy ]]. However during the show:
** Eddy is this at times. He's greedy and arrogant, but he does have his moments where he shows he genuinely cares about his friends. These moments were more frequent in early seasons (due to {{Flanderization}}), but he also has a ''huge'' PetTheDog moment in "A Fistful of Ed", one of the last episodes.
** Likewise, BrattyHalfPint Sarah may be a total jerk towards the Eds (And downright abusive/manipulative towards Ed), but she shows genuine kindness and concern over her friend [[MoralityPet Jimmy]], she has a soft spot for Double D and, most of the time, she gets along well with Nazz. And deep down she does care about Ed, such as when, in one episode where the Eds were trapped in a "haunted" house and pretending to be attacked by ghosts, she squeals: "Somebody save my idiot brother!"
** And Kevin seems to have been somewhat of a not-so-nice nice kid either. However he's good friends with Rolf, and will lend him a hand when needed. He also sticks up for the other kids if the Eds do something to them and, with three exceptions, he seems to be pretty generous with the mountain of jawbreakers in his garage-- and it's worth noting that he was originally going to share some with the Eds before Eddy tried to pull his drawbridge scam on him. And in a couple of episodes, Kevin can be seen getting along with Double D (such as when Kevin strikes up a conversation with Double D while fixing his bike).
** May Kanker is mostly seen being a local bully along with her sisters. But unlike them, she's implied to be a real sweetie deep down and has true feelings for Ed, not just a creepy obsession (it was evident in the Valentine's Day special). She's really more naive and dimwitted than evil.
** Lee and Marie are this as well, though it rarely shows. As much as they like to pick on May, they still care about her. Such as when they capture Ed to apologize to May when they went too far with insulting her. And they are quite protective of her in the Valentine's Day episode (Marie: "Where's our May?!", Lee: [[BigSisterInstinct "Tell your stupid friend to stay away from our sister!"]])
* {{Kaiju}}: Ed's a small-scale one of these in "The Day The Ed Stood Still", with some [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]] for flavor. The Mis-Ed-Ventures game would later feature a level with Ed's monster "form" playing this straight.
* KarmaHoudini: The kids and the Kankers can do ANYTHING they wish to do and NEVER get punished for it. The Eds, meanwhile, CantGetAwayWithNuthin.
** Edd gets a minor one in "Smile For the Ed" when Eddy gets a week's detention for impersonating the principal, which Edd actually did (though Edd was trying to help).
** 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]].
* {{Keet}}: Jimmy.
* KickMePrank: Eddy to Edd in "A Case of Ed", Kevin to Rolf in "Out with the Old, In with the Ed".
* KickTheDog: Eddy, Ed, Marie and Lee forcefully separating Edd and May, respectively, in the Valentine's special. While it's technically the right thing to do, it hard to see such a happy pair split apart like that (neither of which done anything to each other).
** 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. Keep in mind 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]].
* KidsAreCruel: Everyone on the show has been known to treat each other like total crap. No one on the show is safe from teasing, bullying, getting beat up or even sexual harassment (which is always from the Kanker sisters).
** This is taken to the nadir in "Out With the Old, In With the Ed" when Rolf chops down Edd's door with an ''axe'', and the kids rob his school supply closet bare. [[WhatTheHellHero What The Hell, Neighborhood?]]
* {{Kidanova}}: Eddy tries, as does Kevin, who's only slightly more successful.
* KnightTemplar: The kids in TheMovie, [[spoiler:especially Jonny.]]
* LampshadeHanging: And how!
** In response to Edd's suggestion to go to his house to watch a movie, Eddy responds with "What? [[JustEatGilligan And ruin the plot?]]"
-->'''Eddy:''' You're supposed to be the smart one, Double D; you're messing up our group dynamics!
** After slipping on a banana peel in another episode:
-->'''Kevin:''' ''Man'' [[OverusedRunningGag that's old]]!
* LargeHam:
** Ed has shades of this in Season 5 and the movie, though he still retains his Funny line generator.
** Rolf. He's as a large a ham as a ham can get.
** It's not just these two characters. Everybody on the show had at least one LargeHam moment each throughout the series.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The Eds get struck down by this nearly all the time.
* LeadIn: Every episode.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Not a music example, but the makers seem to like giving Eddy the sound of someone shuffling across a basketball court when he's running.
** Ed sounds like a horse galloping most of the time when he runs. When he's not sounding like a car with a faulty clutch. Actually, Ed makes a lot of horse sounds come to think of it...
** Whenever Double D starts sweating, little farting sounds can be heard.
** Sarah tends to get wildcat noises, especially when enraged.
** For actual musical examples, the Eds get an excerpt of their theme song whenever they're up to one of their (well, Eddy's, really) schemes. Sarah usually gets a dainty piano jingle whenever she's on screen.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Double D actually lampshades this in one episode, where the Eds open up a hula school, and he is lassoed into setting the mood by playing traditional hula music on his steel pedal guitar; once Sarah and Jimmy interrupt the lessons, he then switches the mood to sound more like the show's style of music scoring, that is until Eddy shouts at him, "Give it a break, will ya?!"
* LethallyStupid: The Eds, but especially Ed.
* LightningBruiser: Kevin is perhaps the fourth physically strongest character in the series, but his prime trait is riding his bicycle at ludicrous speed.
** Ed as well in Mis-Ed-Ventures when using Batter-Ed.
* LiteralMetaphor:
-->'''Eddy:''' Keep your shorts on, Ed! No seriously, keep your shorts on. ''(pulls up Ed's trousers)''
* LongBusTrip: This is how the episode with Ed's imaginary friend Jib is resolved.
* LustfulMelt: Performed by Eddy and Kevin in "Pop Goes the Ed", when they first see Nazz in her bikini.
* MacGuffin: Jawbreakers.
* MadeOfIron: ''Every single character'' are able to survive things from being crushed by a ''house'' to ''having their own face ripped off''.
** Averted with [[spoiler:Eddy's Brother. He delivered a pretty sickening NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Eddy and Eddy survived with bruises and marks. In his brother's case, one hit with a door and he was out cold.]]
* {{Malaproper}}:
** In one episode, Ed pretends to be Eddy, Edd pretends to be Ed, and Eddy pretends to be Edd, with hilarious results. Trying to use a larger vocabulary like Edd, Eddy has a few of these.
** In another episode:
-->'''Ed:''' Allow me to re-irritate.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Sarah and Jimmy. Also, Marie and Edd.
* MattressTagGag: In one episode, Eddy torments goodie two shoes Double D by ripping a tag off his mattress (while Double D's hat was tied to the cieling light).
* MickeyMousing: Almost every episode does this, often uninterrupted in its entirety.
** Played with in one scene of "Brother, Can You Spare An Ed?", where Edd provided Mickey Mousing on his pedal-steel guitar until Eddy told him to knock it off.
* MiddleOfNowhereStreet: The cul-de-sac.
* MindScrew: "Don't look now, but there's a cow hovering just overhead..."
* MinimalistCast: One of the longest-running series (animated or otherwise) to have one!
** Finally ended in TheMovie/Series Finale with [[spoiler:Eddy's brother.]]
** There's also [[ImaginaryFriend Jib]], if he counts.
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: After the Eds wrongfully accuse Jonny of being a "serial toucher" and sentence him to rolling down a hill in a giant tire, Eddy justifies it by citing the trope. [[spoiler:Given his rather shocking history of abuse from his older brother he might justifiably believe it.]]
* MisplacedADecimalPoint: Edd seems to have made this error on a few occasions.
* MisplacedRetribution: Frequently done by the cul-de-sac kids. No matter which of the Eds have wronged them, they are almost always punished as a group. Sarah excuses this at least once:
-->'''Sarah:''' Double D looked so innocent, but it's like they say, give 'em an inch, and they'll take a mile.
** On the Halloween special, Ed goes around beating up people and ''EDD AND EDDY'' are beaten up instead and Ed goes unharmed, and in the episode "All Eds Are Off", Ed contaminates the pool with gravy and ''Eddy'' receives detention for it instead.
* MissingEpisode: Three "Special Ed", which was finished but never aired due to (depending on who you ask) being either too surreal or "too real" for television. Not much else is known about it other than the fact that it might of been ADayInTheLimelight for Ed. The other two, "Luck Be an Ed Tonight" and "A Room and an Ed" may have never even left the planning stages.
* MouthCam: In one of the episodes, they're filming a video, Ed randomly swallows the camera (shouting "Man the helms! DIVE, DIVE!"), ending up in a shot from inside his stomach as Edd digs it back out.
* MultiCharacterTitle
* MurphysLaw: The Eds are frequent victims of this.
** Jimmy even acknowledges this trope in "Cry Ed":
--->'''Jimmy:''' Murphy's Law, do your stuff!
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Ed, Sarah, and Rolf have virtually no muscles but are incredibly strong, but Rolf does when he flexes or becomes enraged.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Happens a lot.
* [[NameAndName Name, Name and Name]]
* NauseaFuel: InUniverse: when Ed gobbles all the food in the Cul-De-Sac, Eddy makes a scam of selling it back to the hungry neighbors: he roots around in Ed's stomach and yanks out the requested item. Edd is noticeably sick.
* NoExportForYou: TheMovie, which didn't reach the United States until November 8th, 2009.
** {{Inverted}}, then, as this is an American show. (Well, it's made in Canada, but it doesn't air over there, which is another inversion I suppose.)
* NoFourthWall: If the series didn't drive this home, then TheMovie most certainly did, with a glaring example at the start of it: When the Eds try to escape from the kids in the beginning, they find a emergency glass in Eddy's brother's room, reading "Break Glass in Case of Movie".
-->'''Double D:''' In Case Of Movie, Break Glass?!\\
'''Eddy:''' Bingo! [[CrazyPrepared My bro's always prepared!]]\\
(Item turns out to be a peanut. Beat)\\
'''Eddy:''' A peanut?\\
'''Ed:''' [[SelfDeprecation "Cheap movie."]]
** Done again in TheMovie [[spoiler:at the end when Edd, commenting on how they finally got a favorable outcome, says it only took them "a hundred and thirty episodes, four specials and a movie" to do so.]]
*** Let's sing a song!
** And before that, references are made to the time left in the movie and getting to the Eds/Eddy's Brother before it runs out.
** Also, during TheStinger, [[spoiler:Plank tells Jonny they can't go through with their revenge scheme because there's no time left in the movie.]]
** An example in which Edd referred to the events of "Ed in a Half-Shell", in which Eddy "took Jimmy under his wing". Eddy's response? "Oh yeah! Didn't we get an Emmy for that episode?"
** Played insanely straight in the episode "One Plus One Equals Ed", where the trio finds multiple quirks about the animated scenery before turning into some major Nightmare Fuel.
** Near the end of "Momma's Little Ed", Eddy blames his rudeness on Kevin, despite being told by Edd "Kevin wasn't ''in'' this episode, Eddy."
** Oddly averted in an early episode where Eddy loudly declares "[[ThisIsReality This ain't a cartoon!]]" after Ed drops an anvil.
** In 'Brother, Can You Spare an Ed?' Edd asks, "O, what dastardly seed have we sown?" leading Eddy to comment, "[[WhoWritesThisCrap Who writes this guy's stuff?]]"
*** Earlier in that same episode, Eddy offers to take some money off of Ed's "poorly-drawn fingers".
** In "Ed Overboard", the Urban Rangers are enlisted in rescuing Ed from the Kanker Sisters, but they ask that the Eds be temporarily sworn in, leading to the line:
-->'''Eddy:''' I'd swear, but [[MediaWatchdog Standards]] won't let me.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The Eds usually receive these from the Kids.
** Jimmy dished one to Edd in "A Fistful of Ed."
* NoIndoorVoice: Eddy and Sarah.
** Rolf and Ed sometimes.
* NoNameGiven: Eddy's Brother is never given a name [[spoiler:even in the movie, where credits even state him as "Eddy's Brother".]]
* NonSequitur: Ed has [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny the attention span of a goldfish,]] often lost in his own world, so much of his dialogue makes no sense whatsoever to anyone around him.
-->'''Ed:''' Shush! My yeast is rising.
-->({{beat}})
-->'''Edd:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Nut loaf, Ed?]]
* NoodleIncident: The plot of TheMovie centers around this. It was evidently so horrifying, so far beyond what the Eds usually do, that the kids aren't looking for their money back, they want to '''kill''' them.
** Also, whatever Plank did in the election episode.
* NotActuallyTheUltimateQuestion: {{Inverted|Trope}} in "One + One = Ed":
-->'''Edd:''' I feel we're getting closer to answering that all-important question!\\
'''Eddy:''' "Is Eddy rich yet?"\\
'''Ed:''' "Can Ed go to the bathroom?"
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Subverted in "Take this Ed and Shove It" which implies that the entire series is childhood memories being told by aged versions of the Eds. While playing cribbage, no less.
-->'''Old Ed:''' CRIBBAGE GIVES ME GAS!
** Interestingly, that episode was originally meant to be the series finale, but ultimately wound up as just another episode.
* [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Not So Harmless]]: Jimmy turned out to be quite the MagnificentBastard after being trained by the Eds.
** How badly he pwned Edd in "A Fistful of Ed".
** Also in ''[[Recap/EdEddnEddyS4E1IfItSmellsLikeAnEd If It Smells Like an Ed]]'' constructs quite the EvilPlan seemingly on the fly.
-->'''Jimmy''' Yes! It was me! And I'd do it again!
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: There are times when it seems that Plank is more than just a piece of wood.
** Ed's imaginary friend Jib is a straighter example. No one believed he existed until he beat up Eddy.
* OhCrap: Double D gets one [[spoiler:immediately after the reveal of Eddy's brother as a jerk]] and then ''everyone else'' gets one when [[spoiler:Eddy's brother uses Eddy to beat Double D. And that "everybody" includes Ed, all of the Cul-De-Sac kids ''and'' the Kanker Sisters.]]
** And before any of that, Eddy gives one when [[spoiler:His brother asked him to play Uncle.]]
** In an earlier episode, where Rolf gives his cursed phone to Eddy, a runaway ice cream cart bursts into his room, bounces off a chair, bounces off the ''ceiling'', and lands squarely on Eddy. The look on his face before contact can only be described as this.
** Double D makes a sterling facial example in "Run For Your Ed", [[http://images.wikia.com/ed/images/f/f7/Freaked_out_Edd.jpg as seen here.]]
** During the climax of 'If It Smells Like an Ed', the Eds share an expression best described as pure terror [[spoiler:when they are faced with the SadisticChoice between the AngryMob of kids and the affections of the Kanker Sisters.]]
** A recurring example is the Eds screaming in unison upon seeing or hearing the Kankers.
-->'''The Eds:''' [[SayMyName KANKERS!]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Sarah and Jimmy are apparently old enough to attend middle school.
* OncePerEpisode: Jimmy has a bandage in a different spot in EVERY episode. This is to show (outside of the episodes) that he's extremely accident prone.
** Every episode opens with one or more of the Eds doing something strange, or some sort of scam, that has almost nothing to do with the rest of the episode and only occasionally setting up a completely different plot.
* OneSteveLimit: As we can see in the episode title, this has been averted, leading to:
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Double D" (Edd)
** Although in a single instance in the first episode, Eddy does say Edd's name as announced in the title, when complaining about having to wear bunny slippers into Edd's room.
* OnlyChildSyndrome: Ed, Eddy and the Kankers are the only characters with siblings.
* 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.
* OnlySaneMan: Edd.
* OvenLogic: In "Oath to an Ed", Eddy did this with a microwaveable burrito, five seconds after he'd already delegated the task to The Smart Guy. It ended up imploding on them. No burrito merit badge for them.
* PantyShot: Nazz in "Boom Boom, Out Goes The Ed" and "A Town Called Ed."
* PassThePopcorn
-->'''Eddy:''' What do I look like, some popcorn fairy!?
** In an earlier episode, where Ed {{sleepwalk|ing}}s and eats the entire Cul-De-Sac's food supply.:
-->'''Eddy:''' Take a seat Sockhead, to the greatest show on Earth! *whips out some popcorn*\\
'''Edd:''' ...Are you gonna share those?
* PeelingPotatoes: "Will Work for Ed". Ed's first job on Rolf's farm.
-->'''Rolf:''' Behold the potato! Bow to this fruit of the earth, and then peel it as if it were the last task of your miserable life!
* PersonalRaincloud: Jimmy had one in "Tinker Ed" after he found out fairy tales aren't real.
* PerspectiveMagic "One + One = ED".
* PianoDrop: To get to the candy store, Eddy takes a shortcut through Jimmy's yard and runs under a ladder. Jimmy's "garden in the sky' then falls but misses Eddy. Eddy then starts to run, only to have a piano fall on him.
-->'''Kevin:''' That's for gobbling all over my bike, dork!
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Sarah and Jimmy. Sarah wears a pink tank top while Jimmy wears a blue shirt.
* PowerTrio:
** ComicTrio: The Eds form one, with Eddy as the {{Schemer}}, Ed as the DumbMuscle, and Edd as the NoRespectGuy.
* ProWrestlingEpisode: "Tag Yer Ed"
* PrankInjuries: in TheMovie when the trio were in the gag factory.