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* AnAesop: You can't forcefully change someone. They have to ''want'' to make that change in the first place.
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* DownerEnding: It turns out Ed and Eddy never really reformed; they were faking it for fun. Matters are made worse for Edd when Kevin ends up going after him to beat him up with a broken handle bar after he sees the latter with a broccoli he uses to chase off Ed and Eddy, which led to Ed inadvertently destroying his bike in the process.

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* DownerEnding: It turns out Ed and Eddy never really reformed; they were faking it for fun. Matters are made worse for Edd when Kevin ends up going after him to beat him up with a broken handle bar after he sees the latter with a broccoli he uses to chase off Ed and Eddy, Eddy in revenge, which led to Ed inadvertently destroying his bike in the process.



* LaserGuidedKarma: After messing around with everyone in the cul-de-sac, Ed and Eddy get scared off by broccoli.
* MisplacedRetribution: The kids hold Edd responsible for Ed and Eddy's antics, stating that if he doesn't get them under control, ''he'll'' pay the price, with Kevin even threatening to tie Edd's legs like a pretzel for emphasis.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: After messing around with everyone in the cul-de-sac, Ed and Eddy get scared off by broccoli.
broccoli by an angry Edd.
* MisplacedRetribution: The kids hold Edd responsible for Ed and Eddy's antics, stating that if he doesn't get them under control, ''he'll'' pay the price, with Kevin even threatening to tie Edd's legs like a pretzel for emphasis. Then again up until this point, it has been shown that Edd enables the actions of his friends especially Eddy that the kids became aware of this which is the likely reason for this.
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* FromBadToWorse: Edd’s methods of making his friends nice only makes them much worse. Later, it's revealed that they were never "reformed" and were just messing with Edd. He is not amused when he learns this.

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* FromBadToWorse: Edd’s methods of making his friends nice only makes them much worse. Later, it's revealed that they were never "reformed" and were just messing with Edd. He is not amused when he learns this. This repeats when Edd tries to force Ed and Eddy to eat broccoli as payback but by doing so Ed while running away destroys Kevin's bike, making Kevin angrily go after Edd.
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* OhNoNotAgain: Double D's reaction when Ed [[ThereWasADoor walks through the screen door]] again.
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* NoodleIncident: Whatever the Eds did to Nazz to make her hide her face.


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* StockYuck: Ed ''really'' hates broccoli. Eddy chasing him with a stalk of the stuff makes him run in a blind panic, causing him to wreak havoc across the Cul-De-Sac. Then Ed gets a hold of the broccoli and Eddy is now the one running for his life. In the end, both of them are chased by Edd holding the offending vegetable.

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* ContinuityNod: Double D is annoyed that Ed destroyed his screen door, commenting his father [[Recap/EdEddNEddyS1E25ButtonYerEd hasn't recovered from the last time Ed destroyed it]].



* ContinuityNod: Double D is annoyed that Ed destroyed his screen door, commenting his father [[Recap/EdEddNEddyS1E25ButtonYerEd hasn't recovered from the last time Ed destroyed it]].
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* PainfulAdhesiveRemoval: Edd uses a Pavlov-style method of ripping band-aids off the back of Ed and Eddy's heads to curb their rude and destructive behaviors.
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* OhCrap: Double D gets one when he realizes that him pulling bandages off of Eddy have no effect.

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* OhCrap: Double D gets one when he realizes that him pulling bandages off of Eddy have no effect. He has another after his attempt at {{Revenge}} by chasing after Ed and Eddy with broccoli leads to Kevin having his bike wrecked again, which Double D was not expecting to occur, and he knows he's screwed now.

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%% * DeadSerious: A non-lethal example. Kevin ties Edd's hat into knots to demonstrate what he'll do to his legs if the latter didn't keep his friends under control.
* ArtisticLicense: Double D informs Rolf that he used Pavlovian conditioning to improve his friends' behaviors. But Pavlovian (classical) conditioning does not involve using punishments on a subject to force an ideal behavior. That would be ''operant'' conditioning.

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%% * DeadSerious: A non-lethal example. Kevin ties Edd's hat into knots to demonstrate what he'll do to his legs if the latter didn't keep his friends under control.
* ArtisticLicense: Double D informs Rolf that he used Pavlovian conditioning to improve his friends' behaviors. But Pavlovian (classical) conditioning does not involve using punishments on a subject to force an ideal behavior. That would be ''operant'' conditioning.


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* DeadSerious: A non-lethal example. Kevin ties Edd's hat into knots to demonstrate what he'll do to his legs if the latter didn't keep his friends under control.


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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Jonny takes Plank from Edd, even after the latter kindly offered to hand him over, the former says if he wasn't so peace-loving, he'd beat the Eds up all the way to Hell, though the latter implication is covered up with the stuttering ''I'd, I'd-'' hinting his eventual behavior change by the time of [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow The Picture Show]].
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* JustJokingJustification: When Double D scares off Ed and Eddy with broccoli at the end of the episode after they reveal they haven't actually changed and did everything on purpose to mess with him, Eddy shout back "Can't you take a joke?!" as he runs off.
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*GoneHorriblyRight: Double D's 'training' seems to have redeemed Ed & Eddy at first glance, but it in fact makes them worse than ever before.
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* StopHelpingMe: The newly "reformed" Eds do their part to help the Cul-De-Sac kids which either makes their problems worse and annoys them to astounding degrees.

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* StopHelpingMe: UnwantedAssistance: The newly "reformed" Eds do their part to help the Cul-De-Sac kids which either makes their problems worse and annoys them to astounding degrees.

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* BrickJoke: Ed and Eddy cause a ruckus throughout the neighborhood by chasing each other with a stalk of broccoli. Later, when Double D finds out that his Pavolvan training never worked and his friends were messing with him, he angrily whips it out again to chase them off as payback.

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* ArtisticLicense: Double D informs Rolf that he used Pavlovian conditioning to improve his friends' behaviors. But Pavlovian (classical) conditioning does not involve using punishments on a subject to force an ideal behavior. That would be ''operant'' conditioning.
* BrickJoke: Ed and Eddy cause a ruckus throughout the neighborhood by chasing each other with a stalk of broccoli. Later, when Double D finds out that his Pavolvan Pavlovian training never worked and his friends were messing with him, he angrily whips it out again to chase them off as payback.payback.
* BrownBagMask: The reformed Eds did ''something'' to force Nazz to wear a paper bag over her head.
* CircusBrat: Double D comments on how he'd have to join the circus as "The Boy with Pretzel Legs". No salt.


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* OhCrap: Double D gets one when he realizes that him pulling bandages off of Eddy have no effect.


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* StopHelpingMe: The newly "reformed" Eds do their part to help the Cul-De-Sac kids which either makes their problems worse and annoys them to astounding degrees.
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* BrickJoke: Ed and Eddy cause a ruckus throughout the neighborhood by cjhasing each other with a stalk of broccoli. Later, when Double D finds out that his Pavolvan training never worked and his friends were messing with him, he angrily whips it out again to chase them off as payback.

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* BrickJoke: Ed and Eddy cause a ruckus throughout the neighborhood by cjhasing chasing each other with a stalk of broccoli. Later, when Double D finds out that his Pavolvan training never worked and his friends were messing with him, he angrily whips it out again to chase them off as payback.



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* BrickJoke: Ed and Eddy cause a ruckus throughout the neighborhood by cjhasing each other with a stalk of broccoli. Later, when Double D finds out that his Pavolvan training never worked and his friends were messing with him, he angrily whips it out again to chase them off as payback.
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* DownerEnding: For Edd, Kevin ends up going after Edd to beat him up after he sees the latter with a broccoli he uses to chase off Ed and Eddy, which led to Ed inadvertently destroying his bike in the process.

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* DownerEnding: For Edd, It turns out Ed and Eddy never really reformed; they were faking it for fun. Matters are made worse for Edd when Kevin ends up going after Edd him to beat him up with a broken handle bar after he sees the latter with a broccoli he uses to chase off Ed and Eddy, which led to Ed inadvertently destroying his bike in the process.
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* ContinuityNod: Double D is annoyed that Ed destroyed his screen door, commenting his father [[Recap/EdEddNEddyS1E25ButtonYerEd hasn't recovered from the last time Ed destroyed it]].

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** Eddy doing Rolf’s washing chore for him, before “washing” the son of a shepherd himself in the bucket.

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** Eddy doing Rolf’s Rolf's washing chore for him, before “washing” washing the son of a shepherd himself in the bucket.



** Eddy tying Jimmy’s shoes together with his hair.

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** Eddy tying Jimmy’s Jimmy's shoes together with his hair.



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Edd blames himself for trying to change Ed and Eddy’s behaviors after he sees that they become worse when “helping” the kids.

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Edd blames himself for trying to change Ed and Eddy’s behaviors after he sees that they become worse when “helping” "helping" the kids.


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* RebusBubble: Done with Eddy when Double D threatens to remove the bandages from the back of his head again: '''Double D's hand + Bandage = Pain'''
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* OverturnedOuthouse: While running from Eddy and the broccoli, Ed knocks over at outhouse in Rolf's yard. A few moments later, it's revealed that Rolf was in it.
-->'''Rolf:''' Can't Rolf have one moment of peace?
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* FakeRealTurn: Through Edd’s method of rendering them into polite gentlemen, Ed and Eddy at first seems like they changed by assisting in helping the kids. Then it becomes worse when they become aggressively nice by these deeds:

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* FakeRealTurn: Through Edd’s method of rendering them into polite gentlemen, Ed and Eddy at first seems like they changed by assisting in helping the kids. Then But it soon becomes worse when they become aggressively nice by these deeds:



* MisplacedRetribution: The kids hold Edd responsible for Ed and Eddy's antics, stating that if he doesn't get them under control, he'll pay the price. Kevin even threatens to tie Edd's legs like a pretzel, which would have certainly left him a paraplegic.

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* MisplacedRetribution: The kids hold Edd responsible for Ed and Eddy's antics, stating that if he doesn't get them under control, he'll ''he'll'' pay the price. price, with Kevin even threatens threatening to tie Edd's legs like a pretzel, which would have certainly left him a paraplegic.pretzel for emphasis.
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'''''My Fair Ed''''' is an episode from Season 3 of Cartoon Network's popular show ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''.

'''Plot Summary:''' Edd attempts to remodel his friends into proper gentlemen after they create major problems for the other kids. Initially it works, but soon Ed and Eddy begin ruining everything in attempts to "help."

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!!''My Fair Ed'' contains examples of:

* AnAesop: You can't forcefully change someone. They have to ''want'' to make that change in the first place.
%% * DeadSerious: A non-lethal example. Kevin ties Edd's hat into knots to demonstrate what he'll do to his legs if the latter didn't keep his friends under control.
* DownerEnding: For Edd, Kevin ends up going after Edd to beat him up after he sees the latter with a broccoli he uses to chase off Ed and Eddy, which led to Ed inadvertently destroying his bike in the process.
* FakeRealTurn: Through Edd’s method of rendering them into polite gentlemen, Ed and Eddy at first seems like they changed by assisting in helping the kids. Then it becomes worse when they become aggressively nice by these deeds:
** Ed using his teeth to pull down Johnny’s kite stuck in the tree, which ruins it.
** Eddy doing Rolf’s washing chore for him, before “washing” the son of a shepherd himself in the bucket.
** Ed forcefully brushing Kevin’s teeth.
** Eddy tying Jimmy’s shoes together with his hair.
** Nazz given a makeover (which makes her wear a paper bag)
* FromBadToWorse: Edd’s methods of making his friends nice only makes them much worse. Later, it's revealed that they were never "reformed" and were just messing with Edd. He is not amused when he learns this.
* JerkassBall: Ed and Eddy are at their worst here when they cause trouble for the kids, are completely callous of what would happen to Edd if he didn't get them to stop, and were all the more willing to let him face a beatdown by the kids for something ''THEY'' did to them [[JustJokingJustification while casually shrugging it off as a joke]], all with absolutely ZERO consideration on their friend's well-being in the hands of the angry mob of kids.
* LackOfEmpathy: Even after Edd had told his friends what will happen to him if he wouldn't get them under control, Eddy gives him a rather flippant reply without a single qualm whatsoever.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After messing around with everyone in the cul-de-sac, Ed and Eddy get scared off by broccoli.
* MisplacedRetribution: The kids hold Edd responsible for Ed and Eddy's antics, stating that if he doesn't get them under control, he'll pay the price. Kevin even threatens to tie Edd's legs like a pretzel, which would have certainly left him a paraplegic.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Edd blames himself for trying to change Ed and Eddy’s behaviors after he sees that they become worse when “helping” the kids.
* TheScapegoat: Edd is blamed for his friends’ reckless behavior and wreaking havoc in the cul-de-sac, despite the fact it isn’t his fault at all.

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