After witnessing Jonny 2x4 annoying Kevin, the Eds decide to hire him to be a pest to the other kids and earn money to get rid of him.
Examples:
- Anchovies Are Abhorrent: Double-D's reason for feeding it to Jonny, claiming that whoever invented the "smelly, salty dish" should've gotten life imprisonment.
- Animal Stampede: Jonny triggers one when he spooks Rolf's animals with his Knuckle Cracking.
- Annoyingly Repetitive Child: Invoked, where the Eds make Johnny more annoying for a scam to get people to pay them to take him away from them. Eddy tells Johnny that people like it when he says, "why" all the time. Most explicitly shown when he annoys Sarah and Jimmy.Sarah: Jonny, get out of our birdhouse!Jonny: Why?Sarah: 'Cause I said so!Jonny: Why?Sarah: 'Cause you're bugging us!Jonny: Why?Sarah: 'Cause you're stupid!Jonny: (beat) Why?
- Asshole Victim: Kevin gets his bike stolen, then totally obliterated by Jonny for being such a constant bully to the Eds and getting away with it.
- Big Word Shout: "YEE-HAW!!!"
- Brick Joke: Also counts as Hypocritical Humor, but at the beginning of the episode, Eddy demands a quarter for keeping Jonny out of Kevin's hair, while Kevin only wants to pay a nickel. At the end of the cartoon, Eddy and Jonny are bargaining, with Jonny wanting a quarter to let the Eds out of the box they're stuck in while Eddy stalwartly wants to give him just a nickel, with Jonny raising his price and riling up the animals the Eds are stuck with every time Eddy refuses.
- Brown Note: Jonny's Knuckle Cracking is this to everyone to varying degrees but especially Rolf's animals.
- Calvin Ball: Rolf shows Jonny a game he plays with his pigs that involves them licking his feet. He asks Jonny if he's keeping score and states that the pigs have yet to win at the game, claiming they're amateurs.Jonny: I don't get it, either, Plank.
- Captain Obvious: Ed, as usual:Ed: I glued a block of wood to Jonny's foot.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Jonny, even moreso than usual."I'm the bike pixie! Catch me if you can!"
- Comically Small Bribe: From Eddy: "Jonny! I'll give you a nickel if you let us out!"
- Constantly Curious: Eddy inspires Jonny to do this ("People really like it when you say 'why?' all the time!"), and we later see Jonny inflicting this on Sarah and Jimmy.Sarah: Jonny, get out of there!Jonny: Why?Sarah: 'Cause I said so!Jonny: Why?Sarah: 'Cause you're bugging us!Jonny: Why?Sarah: 'Cause you're stupid!Jonny: (beat) Why?
- Create Your Own Villain: The Eds transform Jonny into an annoying pest for the pursuit of profits.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- Ed, despite being quite the Cloud Cuckoo Lander himself, finds Jonny's antics annoying thoughout the episode, describing him as a bad itch. He also seems to find Jonny's anchovy breath mildly disgusting, even though he himself is practically the epitome of The Pig-Pen.Ed: (While Jonny is crawling onto his head) Boy, are you a pain in the neck, Jonny.
- Rolf may tolerate most of Jonny's annoying quirks, but even he couldn't stand his bone-cracking sounds (or at least what it causes his animals to do).
- Ed, despite being quite the Cloud Cuckoo Lander himself, finds Jonny's antics annoying thoughout the episode, describing him as a bad itch. He also seems to find Jonny's anchovy breath mildly disgusting, even though he himself is practically the epitome of The Pig-Pen.
- Evil Laugh: Parodied. Ed laughs maniacally as he plays The Igor when lowering the chain hoisted table Jonny is on.
- Funny Foreigner: Most of Jonny's obnoxious behavior doesn't Rolf due to his culture embracing such antics. However, even he doesn't find Jonny's Knuckle Cracking endearing.
- Going Commando: If Ed is to believed at the start of the episode.Ed: I forgot to wear underwear, guys.
- Gone Horribly Right: Eddy's scheme to turn Johnny into the most annoying kid in town ends up working too well, which then becomes Laser-Guided Karma when the episode ends with him begging Johnny to get him out of the stuffed cage for a nickel and Johnny keeps driving the price up by making his gross-knuckle cracking noise over and over, causing Rolf's animals to keep rioting.
- Hell Is That Noise: In-Universe. Jonny cracking his knuckles (and, later, his other body parts) is depicted as the single most sickening noise in the universe.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Happens to Eddy, as in most episodes. His scam to exploit people out of their money by unleashing Jonny on them horribly backfires and gets him locked up inside a cage full of rampaging farm animals.
- Idiot Ball: Jonny has never been the brightest, but he somehow completely falls for the Eds encouraging his annoying tendencies by saying all the other kids love when he acts out.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction:Rolf: RUN FOR YOUR NO-GOOD LIVES!
- It Amused Me: Ed gluing a block of wood to Johnny's foot, done just because he could.
- Jerkass Ball: Jonny towards the end, when the Eds are locked in the cage and crushed by the animals. Jonny decides to extort them and his initial offer is a quarter, even if Eddy is only willing to pay a nickel to get out of the cage. Eddy keeps insisting for a nickel, but Jonny keeps raising the price by a quarter each time. However, it's deserved on Eddy for intentionally making Jonny this annoying to the other kids for money.
- Literal-Minded: Jonny, when Eddy says "Let's get crackin'!"Jonny: No problem, Eddy! [Loudly cracks his knuckles]
- Knuckle Cracking: Jonny does a particularly loud one that scares Rolf's animals.
- Out-of-Character Moment: Ed being harassed and annoyed by Jonny's Cloudcuckoolander antics, particularly when Jonny is goofing around. In any other episode, he would just be happy to play with Jonny. This was likely done to show that Jonny was just being that annoying.
- Running Gag: Double-D is forced to keep a close eye on Ed to prevent him from swiping Rolf's chickens.
- Shout-Out: The cage that the Eds built to keep Jonny in resembles the Velociraptor container in Jurassic Park.
- Skewed Priorities: Eddy preferring to keep most of his money (that only comes out to 55 cents) he scammed kids for removing Jonny rather than being freed from the cage he's trapped and suffocating in along with Ed, Edd and Rolf's rampaging farm animals due to Jonny's unpleasant cracking noises, only willing to give him a nickel.
- Suddenly Shouting:
- Kevin, having to put up with Jonny near the start of the episode.
Kevin: Chill, and hang with me. OVER THERE!!- Eddy also does it when he's trying to make Jonny into a pest.
Eddy: Johnny! People really like it when you SAY WHY ALL THE TIME!! - You Need a Breath Mint: To make Jonny extra annoying, Edd feeds him a whole tin of anchovy paste.Ed: (Waving his hand in front of his nose after smelling Jonny's breath) Low tide!
