The Luck of the Ed is an episode from Season 3 of Cartoon Network's popular show Ed, Edd n Eddy.
Eddy being forced to clean up his room by his overbearing mother needs to hide his magazines from her, and in a hurry he picks Ed, the most unqualified person for the task, to hide them. Hilarity Ensues.
The Luck of the Ed contains examples of:
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Ed got distracted by a bug while he was holding Eddy's magazines.
- Beautiful Singing Voice: Edd hums to himself as he prepares the equipment and his singing is quite lovely.
- Berserk Button: Eddy when his magazines get lost. Nobody is safe from his wrath.
- Comically Missing the Point: Ed when he fails to learn Edd's lesson about gravity at the beginning.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Eddy attacks Ed with giant clothespins for losing his magazines.
- Downer Ending: Eddy still doesn't get his magazines back when the episode irises in. By now Edd and Eddy may have or already lost hope that Ed will ever remember where he hid them.
- Eye Pop: When Eddy stares down Edd accusing him of working for Kevin, his eyes grow huge.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: When Edd uses a microscope to look into Ed's nose, teeth and hair that turns out to be densely populated by bacteria, dust mites, dandruff and other various contaminants. He does not react well.
- Hammerspace: How else were Eddy's pockets big enough to store three giant clothespins each the size of Ed's head?
- Here We Go Again!: Even though it failed the first time, the end of the episode has Ed retracing his steps and working to recollect his memory yet again.
- I Always Wanted to Say That: Edd get's the opportunity to say "Time's a-wastin'".
- Insane Troll Logic:
- Eddy for thinking Edd and Ed would willfully steal his magazines.
- Edd for thinking Kevin would help him out when Eddy steals his hat.
- Interrogation by Vandalism: Eddy takes Edd's hat and Ed's unibrow and threatens to throw them down a sewer grate if he doesn't get his magazines back. When Edd and Ed try to call Kevin for help and he refuses, they resort to taking Kevin's bike to lure him out.
- Lampshade Hanging: When Eddy steals Ed's eyebrow, Ed invokes this trope upon the show's animation and art.Ed: BUT, EDDY! I CAN'T MAKE FUNNY FACES WITHOUT THAT!
- MacGuffin: The primary one is Eddy's magazines, while Ed and Edd also desire their eyebrow and hat back along with mercy from Eddy's wrath.
- Misplaced Retribution: Edd didn't do anything with Eddy's magazines, yet Eddy keeps accusing him of stealing them and goes as far as to steal his hat as ransom.
- How Eddy confronted Jimmy can also count as this.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Once Eddy starts attacking Ed with giant clothespins for losing his magazines, Edd rushes to Ed's rescue by offering to help track down the magazines. Edd's method didn't work, and so Eddy decides Edd is equally to blame as Ed for his missing magazines, and steals his hat to blackmail him.
- Sanity Slippage: As Eddy continues to look for his magazines, he grows increasingly paranoid. First, he suspects Kevin or Jimmy stole his magazines, then he becomes so paranoid that he blindly accuses his own friends of stealing them.
- Scars Are Forever: Ed worries of this trope after Eddy strikes his face with 3 giant clothes pegs.Ed: Eddy, will these leave marks?Eddy: (angrily) Big ones, Ed.
- Torture Always Works: Averted. When Eddy uses clothespin torture as an interrogation technique on Ed to fess up where the magazines are, Ed does nothing but say "OUCH!" or scream that he forgot.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Ed and Double-D help Eddy try to find his missing magazines and Eddy spends the whole time yelling at them before accusing them of helping Kevin steal them. He then steals Double-D’s hat and Ed’s unibrow and threatens to drop them into the sewer if they don’t get Kevin. However, he’s partly justified in being hostile to Ed, since it was his fault his magazines went missing in the first place.
- The Unreveal:
- It's not stated what kind of magazines Eddy had, but because he said he cared about the pictures and they were mature content that he wanted to hide them from his mother (also he tried reading Ed's magazine Chicks Galore! just for its title), it's heavily implied that they were either soft or hardcore pornography.
- Once again, Edd's hat is removed but we still don't see what's underneath; Edd first hides under Ed, then wears a bucket.
- Wild Take: Eddy does one when he thinks that Edd is secretly conspiring against him.
