History EdEddnEddy / TropesAToG

* EveryoneIsGoneEnding: In Laugh Ed Laugh, all the other kids in the neighborhood simultaneously come down with the chicken pox. Without anybody to scam, Eddy quickly goes a little nuts, attempting to scam squirrels out of their nuts and start eating fire hydrants, thinking they're jawbreakers.

** In the end of "For Your Ed Only", Edd says that "Team Eds is blasting off again". José Antonio Macías also voiced [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} James]].

** The earlier seasons were a lot more fantastical with their plots and revolved less around scamming the kids than the later seasons would, with plots revolving around the Eds just messing around and/or playing pretend being more common. ''[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS1E7DawnOfTheEds Dawn of the Eds]]'' had the Eds playing pretend space rangers, ''[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS1E13LookIntoMyEds Look Into My Eds]]'' had Eddy hypnotizing the entire Cul-de-Sac, ''[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS1E17ItsWayEd Its Way Ed]]'' revolved around the Eds trying to keep up with the break neck pace of changing fads in the Cul-de-Sac, and ''[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS2E9OnePlusOneEqualsEd One + One = Ed]]'' is basically ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'' redone with the Eds. Later seasons would make scamming the kids the focus of most episodes, and the ones that didn't focus on that tended to be far more grounded than the first or second season.

** Jimmy was generally nice at first, but he was a big case of BewareTheNiceOnes. Later, he becomes a BitchInSheepsClothing.

* GuiltByAssociationGag: Regardless of his level of actual involvement, Double D will always get beat up just as much as the others.

** One episode has Rolf punishing Double D just for [[ItMakesSenseInContext dressing Wilfred up in a suit]] by hitting him with the "hat of discipline" (an incredibly giant hammer worn on one's head). Sure, putting a suit on somebody's pig may be weird, but being flattened by a giant hammer for it? (Especially considering that Double D was merely following what he thought was his parents' orders. ''[[NotSoDifferent Rolf even admitted he respected the fact that Edd obeys his parents, but clobbered him anyway!]]'')

* AllCrimesAreEqual: A very frequent criticism of the show.
** All too often, Eddy's antics will net Ed and Edd the same punishment/retribution, no matter if they were unwitting accessories or if they tried to stop him. This is a major reason why some fans don't like the other kids.

%%** Lee and Marie Kanker to their younger sister May.

%%* BlindingBangs: Lee
%%* BlindingCameraFlash: There's an episode revolving around this.

%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Rolf, Ed, and Jonny on occasion can come off as very eccentric.

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "[[EdEddnEddyS4E8YourEdHere Your Ed Here]]", "Take This Ed and Shove It".

** Ed averts this trope and even then he's at worst ObliviouslyEvil as he can cause some carnage with his idiocy. His most evil was when he became lost in his fantasy world in [[Recap/EdEddNEddyS3E22TheDayTheEdStoodStill Season 3's "The Day The Ed Stood Still"]] and becomes an alien monster or in [[EdEddNEddyS4E8LittleEdBlue Season 4's "Little Blue Ed"]] where he rampages over a pebble in his shoe, attacking everyone near him with no mercy.

** The Cul-de-Sac kids, in general, were a lot less openly hostile to the Eds in season 1 and early season 2 than the later seasons, at most being annoyed by their presence and only really going after them when they actively deserved it. A few of the early episodes even have some of the kids inviting the Eds to join them in whatever they were doing or even offering them stuff with no strings attached, and a few of the kids (most notably Rolf) could genuinely feel like a part of their gang when they joined the Eds in their hijinks. It wouldn't be until mid-to-late season 2 would the kids start to start to go out of their way to exclude the Eds in whatever they did.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The Eds in the later seasons are almost unrecognizable in personality compared to how they were earlier. Ed was presented as a slightly smarter, but more absentminded goofball than outright stupid or nonsensical like he is later, and he initially lacked the SuperStrength that became a major part of his character. Edd was also ''much'' more relaxed and low-speaking, and far more willing to go along with Eddy's scams--contrast to how neurotic he is later on, as well as being the "Moral Compass," so to speak, of the trio. Eddy in the early seasons wasn't the greedy, narcissistic, Jerkass with a Hair-Trigger Temper that we know in later ones, and was instead a laid-back, stoic {{Cool Loser}} who enjoyed playing relatively harmless pranks on the other two Eds.

* BeeAfraid: The Eds start a beehive extermination business in one episode. It doesn't end well.

** Nazz is a dim, awkward DumbBlonde who's very sweet and has a cute giggle to boot.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In one episode, Double D gets hold of a boomerang and begins to sweat because of how hot it is outside, and then proceeds to strip pretty [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sensually for a kid's show]], clinging on to a pole, and shakes off his pants with no shame whatsoever. This stops when Eddy yells at him and takes the boomerang away from him.

* BaitAndSwitchSIlhouette: In the episode "If It Smells Like An Ed", the Eds see a silhouette in an old shed that seems to look like Rolf. When Eddy starts yelling at "Rolf" for apparently framing them, "Rolf" breaks apart into three separate figures, revealing it to have actually been the Kanker Sisters standing in front of each other.

* DownerEnding: The endings of 90% of the episodes, in the vein of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''. And they are always PlayedForLaughs.

** Ed was a lot less terrified of Sarah. In ''Pop Goes the Ed,'' he rather smugly defied her when she ordered him to leave the pool and he would try to calm her down whenever she misbehaved, like in ''To Sir With Ed.''
** Ed and Double D were a lot meaner and intruding on par with Eddy's personality in the older episodes (although Double D himself was always a neat freak). For instance, in "Ed Touchables" and "Pop Goes the Ed", both Ed and Double D scared Jonny, while in later episodes, they're rather friendly. Eddy, inversely, was a lot nicer and generous in early episodes, sometimes to the point of having to talk Ed and Double D out of being mean. In later episodes he's a self-centered greedy {{jerkass}}.

** Sarah and Jimmy. The former is a BigSisterBully to Ed and in general is very temperamental and aggressive, while the latter is sensitive, meek, and ProneToTears.

** Ed and Double D were a lot meaner and intruding on par with Eddy's personality in the older episodes (although Double D himself was always a neat freak). For instance, in "Ed Touchables" and "Pop Goes the Ed", both Ed and Double D scared Jonny, while in later episodes, they're rather friendly. Eddy, inversely, was a lot nicer and generous in early episodes, sometimes to the point of having to talk Ed and Double D out of being mean. In later episodes he's a self-centered greedy JerkAss.

** Ed and Double D were a lot meaner and intruding on par with Eddy's personality in the older episodes (although Double D himself was always a neat freak). For instance, in "Ed Touchables" and "Pop Goes the Ed", both Ed and Double D scared Jonny, while in later episodes, they're rather friendly.

** On the bright side, karma catches up with him, depending on whether you count slipping on a banana peel full punishment (Being Jimmy, that probably counts as a serious casualty).

** Sarah is an abusive spoiled brat, but she shows huge concern for [[MoralityPet Jimmy]], and she has a soft-spot for Edd as well--it's also been shown at times that she truly does care about her brother.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The Eds in the later seasons are almost unrecognizable in personality compared to how they were earlier. Ed was presented as a slightly smarter, but more absentminded tweenager than outright stupid or infantile like he is later, and he initially lacked the SuperStrength that became a major part of his character. Edd was also ''much'' more relaxed and low-speaking, and far more willing to go along with Eddy's scams--contrast to how neurotic he is later on, as well as being the "Moral Compass," so to speak, of the trio. Eddy in the early seasons wasn't the greedy, narcissistic, Jerkass with a Hair-Trigger Temper that we know in later ones.