The episode begins with Jonny and Plank roughhousing as they slip under the covers and relax with a bedtime story called "Conrad the Lonely Stump." Before they start however the Eds show up for a surprise visit- inside their wall. Jonny demands how they got in there and Eddy starts with the most important part: himself.
Eddy's story is an ego-stroking epic of how he was visiting his exquisite Jawbreaker Bank. As he walks down the street wearing his white formal wear suit and top hat and strutting around with his white walking cane, he bumps into Kevin, a dimwitted monkey on a tricycle. Kevin asks “Mr. Eddy” "Nice day for a walk isn't it, sir?" "Mr. Eddy", loving the power he has over him, tricks Kevin into crashing into a tree which Kevin congratulates him about (“Nice one Mr. Eddy! I’m such a dork!”). With his fan dealt with Mr. Eddy makes a visit to his International Bank of Jawbreakers, Inc, “just to rush the help”. As Edd finishes with the now pin-headed Rolf, Eddy opens the massive gold double doors and greets his fans, a parody of the rest of the Cul-de-sac kids. The fans start cheering for Eddy, with Jimmy cheering “he’s so self-absorbed”. The fans are of Jimmy in diapers with a retainer made of hand tools and twisted wire, Sarah, and Nazz in a bikini. Jimmy and Sarah then approach Eddy. Sarah, who yells at the top of her lungs, then asks if she can touch it, but Mr. Eddy slaps both Sarah and Jimmy away with his glove. Edd, who’s a massive kiss-up in the story, greets Mr. Eddy but Mr. Eddy tells him to “get back to work slacker”, to which Edd tries to make himself busy. Eddy then heads to his golden throne tells everyone to drop their jawbreakers and beat it, but come back tomorrow because “he loves [them]”. Ed and Double D have to push back the cheering crowd and slam the door shut onto their arms before the trio investigates the jawbreaker vault, which Ed unlocks with his own head. Inside are Jawbreakers from all around the world, from Japan to Los Angeles, to Chile. As Mr. Eddy takes the Ed-elevator (Ed’s neck stretching up into the air) up to the Japanese jawbreakers, Edd deals with the inventory. As Mr. Eddy (and Ed) tries to enjoy some Japanese Jawbreakers, they are interrupted by Edd, who claims that the numbers never add up. Mr. Eddy swoops in and explains it was a mistake “in the correlation between the gross revenues and the sum of the square root minus a piece of pie”. Edd then wonders what he was thinking and kisses Mr. Eddy’s foot in thanks. In reality, Edd stops the story because it’s nowhere near the truth. But as we learn, Double D’s story isn’t that truthful either.
Edd's story begins with a happy-go-lucky Jimmy sans retainer that arrives at Edd's "correctly designed jawbreaker bank". As Jimmy is about to deposit a jawbreaker, Ed and Eddy are eager to “take care of it”, and by that they mean “scam the sucker out of it”. Eddy acts like an overly excited Chihuahua while Ed drools over the jawbreaker like a hungry Mastiff. While Double D tries to deal with Ed, Eddy tries to be productive and bring Jimmy’s jawbreaker to the vault… his own mouth. Jimmy runs off as Eddy and Ed, give chase before Edd gives the dimwitted duo a verbal lashing. Eddy interferes and begins mocking Edd's appearance and traits while doing so. Jonny points out that Edd's story is boring and that he wants stories with stuff like “octopus' gardens, silver hammers, and Mr. Kite”! Ed then starts his part of the story and that’s where things fall apart and yet still make sense.
Ed's story is just as believable as Eddy's (or even Double D’s). Deep inside the trailer park, the Kanker Sisters slowly devour over-radiated mashed potatoes and then undergo a seemingly painful mutation that cracks apart their trailer like a tin can oyster. Meanwhile, Edd is blathering and yapping (which seems to show that Ed thinks Edd talks like this). The Cul-de-Sac kids start to flee as fast as they can as the earth rumbles beneath their feet. Jimmy is ultimately too weak to run anymore and is crushed beneath a giant foot as Sarah is flung away. As Ed is forced to watch his baby sister fly through the air (to Eddy’s glee no less), the Kanker Sisters return as giants. At the sight of the giantesses the brave Eds try to make it inside a house to escape. They're quickly stopped by a chicken armpit laser from Marie, turning the house into stinky soap, forcing the Eds to run away. Another beam and a house turn into deodorant (with hair on it). The Eds flee to the closest house only to find May hiding her head in it. The Eds then try to run away only for Lee to blow kisses that leave marks in the ground. In a brave effort to defend themselves, Eddy protects his friends with a garbage can lid as a shield. This is in naught as the Kankers literally put their heads together ("Ed, your story's getting weird!") and blow a powerful kiss that blows the Eds off their feet. Surrounded on all sides, Ed whips out his power! Ed begins to fly off, a loud buzzing filling the air. The Kankers give chase, wielding a flyswatter, to knock them down. Ed is eventually hit and the terrified trio plummets to the ground. With only a mouse hole as shelter, the Eds force themselves inside as Lee pulls at the screen as if it were paper."And stuck in your wall we are. The End." With the story wrapped up, now it's Jonny's to do the deal. But now Jonny's asleep and weird noises are coming out of the opposite wall. It's the Kankers and there's nobody to get them out! "It's smoochin' time" for the Eds but "it's a never-ending story" for them.
From all the stories provided, one can get the basic idea of what actually happened: the Eds came up with the Jawbreaker Bank scam, presumably Jimmy fell for it but Eddy and/or Ed ruined that and the Kankers showed up and started to chase the Eds, with them eventually hiding and getting stuck in Jonny's wall.
This episode provides examples of
- Achievements in Ignorance: Ed's story ends up being the one that puts Jonny to sleep.
- Art Shift: All three stories are a downplayed example. While the styles are still mostly in line with the show proper, each of the Eds have their own twist on it.
- Eddy's story has the characters resembling complete caricatures of themselves, flanderized to how Eddy sees them (Rolf is comically thin, Kevin is a half-monkey riding a tricycle, Jimmy is even more sickly, Sarah is even louder than she normally is and Nazz is in a swimsuit.) The colors of the background are also slightly brighter than usual.
- Double D's story has the background looking like a building schematics, with measurements littered everywhere.
- Ed's story is tinted with a greyish hue to give it a monster B-Movie feel.
- The Bad Guy Wins: See Downer Ending.
- Butt-Monkey: Jimmy in all three stories.
- In Eddy's Story, he is shown wearing nothing but a diaper and a retainer made out of tools and gets slapped in the face by Eddy, along with Sarah.
- In Edd's Story, Eddy swallowed both his Jawbreaker and hands.
- In Ed's Story, he gets crushed to death by, you guessed it, Lee Kanker.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Double D notes the implausibility of Eddy's claim to have advised him to correlate "the gross revenues with the sum of the square root, minus a piece of pie"...Double D: Your exaggerated tale can only be described as cockamamie.Ed: Tsk, tsk, tsk! I have never heard such language.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: All Mind Screw aside, Ed was the only one of the 3 to tell Jonnny how they got stuck in his wall, though the others' stories were interrupted before they could get to that point, albeit Eddy’s most likely not even leading to as much.
- Downer Ending: Thanks to Ed, Jonny has fallen asleep and now the Eds have no way out. To make matters worse, the Kankers show up to reveal that they got themselves stuck in the wall in order to get the Eds.
- Framing Device: Johnny's Bedroom.
- Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": All three Eds give themselves this treatment to one extent or another.
- Eddy is rich, owns jawbreakers from all over the world, smarter than Double D, and everybody worships the ground he walks on.
- Double D is more assertive than he is in real life, and is able to cow his friends with a scolding.
- Ed has superpowers and is the only one who can save the day.
- How We Got Here: The Eds tell Jonny the events leading up to how they got trapped in his wall.
- Implied Death Threat: "Hey, Plank! Ever take a tour of a toothpick factory?"
- It's All About Me: Eddy and Edd's stories. Eddy more so than Edd, obviously.
- Match Cut: As Eddy begins to tell the story, the camera focuses on a picture of a flower over Jonny's bed. The scene then cross-dissolves to the same flower... which is then trampled by Eddy as he struts down the street.
- Off-Model: When the Kankers first carve a hole in Jonny's wall, Lee's teeth are drawn as being white with the exception of her rotten blue one. They're depicted in their usual yellow in subsequent shots.
- Plot Device: The Jawbreaker Bank. As far as the stories can be taken apart, the Eds start a jawbreaker bank to "store" the kid's jawbreakers and the only kid they scammed was Jimmy before the Kankers show up.
- "Rashomon"-Style: The episode features each of the Eds giving his skewed explanation of how the three of them wound up in Johnny and Plank's bedroom wall.
- Self-Serving Memory: Edd's story and Eddy's story, especially the latter (unsurprisingly). Ed's story is more bizarre than self-serving.
- Shout-Out:
- This entire episode is one towards Rashomon.
- "Plank and I want a real story, with stuff like octopus' gardens, silver hammers, and Mr. Kite!"
- "Way to go, Hemingway!"
- "It's a neverending story!"
- A Tale Told by an Idiot: Ed's story shows his own perspective of the world, with the Kankers as giant monsters, Edd only able to speak gibberish, Eddy saying "Kankers!" a lot, and the other kids being flanderized in their brief appearance. His friends actually comment on his imagination and weirdness of his story afterwards and even during it. Ironically enough, Ed's story is the most accurate in regards to the personalities of everyone and is the only one to actually explain how they got trapped in the wall.
- Title Drop: Ed begins his portion of the story with, "But little did Ed, Edd and Eddy know...!"
Eddy's Story provides examples of
- The Ace: Basically a Marty Stu fanfic where everyone worships and grovels at Eddy's feet.
- Actually Pretty Funny: Kevin laughs at being tricked by Eddy and calls himself "such a dork" for it.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Eddy has every Jawbreaker from all over the world to himself.
- Butt-Monkey: Kevin, who is literally drawn to look like a monkey.
- Call-Back: Kevin is a monkey once again, though he now looks like an actual monkey rather than being hypnotized into one.
- The Dog Bites Back: Could be seen as this for Eddy considering all the shit he gets from the other kids.
- Egopolis: Statues of Eddy are everywhere throughout the Cul-de-sac.
- Elongating Arm Gag: Ed stretches out his neck to act as an elevator for Eddy as he checks on his jawbreaker collection.
- Flanderization: Played for Laughs in Eddy's story. Everyone, save for Ed, is reduced to a joke. Rolf is a thin, pin-headed simpleton, Double D is a neurotic sycophant kiss-ass, Jimmy wears a diaper and a retainer crudely made of tools and a bent wire, Sarah has a foghorn for a voice, Nazz wears a swimsuit, and Kevin is a monkey who rides around on a tricycle and calls himself a dork.
- Funny Background Event: Among Eddy's jawbreaker haul are ones from Kuwait that are black and ones from Chernobyl that are a radioactive green.
- Get Out!: Eddy tells this to everyone so that he can keep their Jawbreakers all to himself.
- Glove Slap: Eddy does this to Sarah and Jimmy when they try to touch his suit.
- Hidden Depths: It's subtly implied that Eddy actually has a working knowledge of world affairs such as the Kuwait oil fires and the Chernobyl disaster.
- I Kiss Your Foot: To kiss up to Eddy, Edd kisses his shoe.
- Insane Troll Logic: Apparently, the reason that Edd couldn't add up the Jawbreakers was that he "made a mistake in the correlation between the gross revenues and the sum of the square root minus a piece of pie". Double D, outside the story, lampshades the absurdity.
- Mean Boss: Eddy towards Edd.
- Noodle People: Rolf.
- Pet the Dog: For how flanderized everyone else is, Ed is the only one Eddy see as actually himself and not a ridiculous caricature. At worst he imagines Ed's neck being able to extend to a ridiculous length, which given Ed's Toon Physics, isn't too far a stretch.
- Small Name, Big Ego: However highly one might have believed Eddy to think of himself is nothing compared to his story, where we literally see it.
- Villain with Good Publicity: The kids love Eddy, despite just how badly he mistreats them, with Jimmy saying "he's so self-absorbed" as if it were a positive.
- Visual Pun: Eddy's story turns Rolf into a literal pinhead and Kevin into a Butt-Monkey.
- Walking Swimsuit Scene: Nazz wears a bikini for no reason other than the fact that this is Eddy's story.
Edd's Story provides examples of
- Adaptational Attractiveness: The characters look more idealized in Edd's story. For example, Jimmy doesn't wear braces.
- Breather Episode: Compared to Eddy's Story and Ed's Story, this is the story that's closest to normal.
- Flanderization: Eddy is far more impatient and Ed is way dumber than usual. Eddy is also as dumb as Ed.
- God Does Not Own This World: In-Universe example when Eddy ends up taking over the story at the end.
- Hope Spot: Just when it looks like Jimmy might get lucky in this story, Eddy swallows his Jawbreaker and hands.
- Hostile Show Takeover: A minor case when Eddy interrupts Edd's chiding towards the other two, complete with him transforming into an unflattering, yet hilarious-looking caricature of himself
:Edd: Take note, as I am a-
Eddy as Edd: -stupid sockhead, and a babbling dweeb who can't lift a butterfly. I wish I was as good-looking as Eddy! - Jerkass Has a Point:
- Considering how amazing the scam went, Edd's bossiness wasn't without merit.
- While Eddy hijacking his story to make fun of him was a jerk move, he did have a point that Double D was going up on a soapbox and wasn't portraying him and Ed in a positive light.
- The Leader: In this version, Edd is the leader and both Ed and Eddy are submissive to him and easily cowed by his wrath.
- Not So Above It All: Edd clearly shows in this story that he can be just as bossy as Eddy. Also, as conceited as Eddy's story was, he at least saved the least offensive portrayals for his friends; Edd gave everyone except his friends positive portrayals.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Double D certainly has a higher opinion of the Cul-de-Sac kids if how he sees Jimmy (a Cheerful Child without his retainer) is anything to go by... At least, so long as it doesn't involve Ed or Eddy.
Ed's Story provides examples of
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The Kankers turn into giant monsters from eating "over-radiated mashed potatoes".
- Bad Vibrations: A classic trope is used as a signal of the arrival of the Kanker Sisters.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: The Kankers shoot rays from glowing chickens in their armpits.
- Bizarro Episode: "Gracious Ed, what an enchanted world you live in."
- Blah, Blah, Blah: What Edd's speech is reduced to in Ed's story.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Eddy in the story says “Ed your story’s getting weird.”
- Clothing Damage: The Kankers suffer a mild version of this when they turn into giants. Their shirts shrink well above their waists, the bottom of their pants are ripped, and their shoes are ripped during the process.
- Deliberately Monochrome: The backgrounds are in black and white in keeping with the story's B-Movie vibe.
- Deus ex Machina: What else do you call Ed's ability to fly?
- Faux Horrific: The Kankers taunt Ed by materializing giant bars of soap and deodorant.
- Flight: A power Ed magically developed to evade the Kankers. Unfortunately for him, they just so happen to have a fly swatter on hand.
- Fusion Dance: Downplayed, as The Kankers just hit their heads together at once to become a mishmash of eyes and a huge pair of lips. This is the point where Eddy breaks the fourth wall to acknowledge how weird the story is getting.
- Giant Eye of Doom: Eddy tries to hide from the Kankers by going into a house, but finds an enormous eyeball on the other side of the front door. It belongs to the giant May Kanker, who hid her head inside the house.
- Giant Woman: What the Kankers turn into after eating "over-radiated mashed potatoes".
- Hysterical Woman: Nazz but she's Laughing Mad instead of screaming.
- Impact Silhouette: When the Giant Kankers blow kisses at the Eds, their lipstick marks leave huge lip-shaped holes on the sidewalk.
- Kindhearted Simpleton: Ed's story doesn't lift himself up or put others down. Instead, he focuses on their minor quirks; Edd's tendency to babble a lot, Kevin overusing the word "dork", and Nazz giggling. This shows that while Ed has a hard time understanding his friends, he doesn't look down on them.
- Little Did I Know: How Ed begins his part of the story.
- Made of Iron: The Eds were sent plummeting down from at least a hundred feet in the air and down to the earth with enough force to dig them through several feet of dirt and were unharmed as a result. This being Ed, Edd n Eddy, it's no surprise.
- Makes Just as Much Sense in Context: Everything that happens in this story!
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": Understandably, the Kankers invoke this reaction in the neighborhood kids.
- Medium Awareness: Eddy is the only person in the story questioning the insanity going on around him, starting with him giving the blank smiling Ed a deadpan look in the story as Double D babbles, as if to say even he understands at least half of what is said. Particularly with this line after the Kankers shove their heads together to make one giant head.Eddy: Ed, your story's getting weird!
- Mind Screw: You don't know the half of it...
- Mirthless Laughter: During the aforementioned Mass "Oh, Crap!", Nazz is so terrified that she only giggle in hysterics. Apparently Ed thinks that Nazz giggles a lot.
- Mutants: The Kankers get mutated by radioactive potatoes.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: Flying Ed.
- Now It's My Turn: Ed flat out says this right before he flies.
- Painful Transformation: The Kankers are heard screaming in pain as they transform.
- The Pig-Pen: Besides Ed himself, the Kankers are portrayed as being even more trashy than they usually are with jutting belly fat, chicken armpits symbolizing lack of grooming, and noticeably unshaven leg hair.
- Projectile Kiss: The Kankers have this ability in the story, blowing wet kisses at the Eds that block their path, and landing one on all three that traps them in a kiss crater.
- Refuge in Audacity: In spite of all the insanity, this story does at least explain the Eds being stuck in the wall.
- Say My Name: Outside of a couple of lines, the most Eddy says throughout the story is KANKERS!!
- Shout-Out: To B-Movies, but mostly to Godzilla. Nazz makes a reference to the 1954 original film of a woman screaming and pointing at Godzilla's arrival.
- Smurfing: Kevin overuses the word "dork" a lot more than he usually does.Kevin: I'm dorking, man!
- Trampled Underfoot: Lee Kanker does this to an unfortunate Jimmy and Sarah early in the story.
- The Unintelligible: Edd. Justified since the story is told from Ed's point of view, and knowing Ed, Edd's verbosity comes off as little more than incoherent babbling in Ed's perspective.Edd: Blah! Blah, blah, blah! Blah, blah, blah! Yap! Yap! Blah! Blah! Drivel, drivel, drivel!
- Verbal Tic: Much like Edd's babbling, Eddy's use of the word "Kankers" is used more prominently in Ed's story than in any other episode featuring the Kanker Sisters.
- Would Hurt a Child: Lee Kanker, at least, who implicitly kills Jimmy and injures Sarah early in the story.
