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Airdate: September 27, 2002

Part One

It's Friendship Day in the Cul-de-Sac. To celebrate, Jimmy, Sarah, Jonny, Plank, and Rolf have constructed a large heart as the center of the festivities. Kevin and Nazz come out to see and the latter enthralled by the idea. Despite some initial reluctance by the ever-bitter Kevin, he joins in on the festivities along with the others. After they sing a song, it is cut off due to Jonny bumping into Edd who had just arrived. Eddy and Ed then arrive with the former taking a jujube from Rolf and the latter being fascinated by the big red heart. Kevin is upset that the Eds showed up.

However the Eds aren't really up to anything. Eddy and Ed have a look at the heart and both of them note a description of the heart in their own opinion. Edd notes the heart is a wonderful addition to the Cul-de-Sac and Jimmy asks him if the heart is not precious. Jimmy then tells Eddy to stop being grumpy as it is Friendship Day. He tells Eddy to reach out and touch someone. Eddy then sarcastically says "Whatever you say, friend!" before he gives Jimmy a massive wedgie. All the other kids (with the exception of Sarah) then laugh away at Jimmy's humiliation, causing him to break down in tears. The laughter is quickly quelled when Sarah angrily yells at Ed for laughing at Jimmy's misfortune and this causes the Eds to run away due to Ed's fear of Sarah telling on his mom.

Strange crimes then start to take light on Friendship Day. First, the paintbrush that Sarah used to paint the heart is missing and she instantly blames Ed (which is odd since there was no likely or obvious proof that he did it). She grabs Ed and demands the paintbrush back, but Ed does not know what she is talking about. Eddy then makes Sarah drop Ed and tells her that Ed did not take her paintbrush. Then, Jonny painfully discovers that Plank's mouth had been wiped off. A stained rag is found in Edd's pocket and, despite his pleas of innocence and his known history of being a straight-shooter, he is implicated due to the evidence. Just when things can't seem to get worse, the heart at the center had been pierced by a hockey stick, one that, upon further inspection by Kevin, has Eddy's name written on it. Kevin asks why his name is on the stick, but Eddy does not believe he put that hockey stick there regardless that his name is on it. Eddy says to Kevin he may have done the pranks due to him hating the Eds, but due to how the kids see the events that had occurred they do not support or believe anything the Eds say even when they try to tell them they didn't do any of the pranks that had just occurred. Disgusted and angry, the others leave.

Eddy is angered by the accusations and rounds up his friends. They decide that in order to get their credibility back, they have to find the real culprit responsible and clear their names. After running through a list of possible suspects, all of which are discovered to have a personal grudge against them, they decide to try a different approach. A red footprint is found at the scene by Ed and he deduces to his friends that the perpetrator must have left this footprint behind. The Eds then take the cement segment off of the sidewalk and take it with them. They then try to match the footprint to their suspects, stealthily examining each one, to no success. Kevin, Sarah and Nazz are found innocent due to their feet not matching the footprint of the supposed culprit. The Eds run into a suspicious looking Rolf near the lane, who manages to evade the Eds before they could investigate his shoe size.

Their last stop is Jimmy's house. They break into his garage to find him practicing hockey. Eddy instantly declares Jimmy as the rat. However, Jimmy begins crying and tells them that his father makes him practice hockey and that he would never frame them. Seeing as his story checks out as well as the fact that his foot size doesn't match with the footprint, the Eds leave after Ed drops the piece of sidewalk on his feet. Ed then breaks the fourth wall and says to Edd that he will have all the feeling back in his feet after a commercial break and the Eds continue their search, unaware that there is someone that they forgot to check.

Part Two

The Eds are still hot on the case in an effort to prove to the rest of the kids that it wasn't them who sabotaged Friendship Day. They soon notice an ominous trail of jujubes. After following it into an alleyway, they discover a jujube covered Jonny. A sign says "Giant Jonny Chew" and it appears to be a sadistic scam created by the same person who framed them (due to the identical red footprint on Plank's back). The Eds take the time to match-up Jonny's shoe to the red footprint template, but find that there is no match on his foot either. It finally looks like they're getting somewhere until the rest of the kids arrive at the scene & jump to the conclusion that the Eds had tied and gagged Jonny as part of a scam. The Eds try to explain that Jonny was already like this when they found him, and that they have evidence of their innocence (Rolf at this point is shown slyly listening in to the conversation behind a fence). The kids don't believe them and Kevin and Sarah are so angered by all of this that they decide to inflict violence on the Eds as punishment. The kids then chase them into the forest, but then Kevin sees Rolf and asks if he can help the kids beat up the Eds. However Rolf explains that he is busy eating jujubes while he has his mouth full of jujubes and Kevin tells him those are going to rot his teeth before going back to chasing the Eds. The Eds stealthily hide in a bush to give them enough time to lose the kids for a while. The Eds discover a trail of jujubes, and follow them.

The real culprit can't be too far ahead, so while the other kids angrily search for them, the Eds high tail it through the forest to catch the saboteur. The trail of jujubes eventually leads them to an old shed. Upon seeing this, the kids are soon converging upon their position, so they head inside. Posing as a cow to trick the kids when they look through the window of the shed, they buy themselves a little time. However, a shadowy figure looms in front of them. Edd figures that is the culprit. Ed greets the figure as Rolf due to the silhouette.

As Eddy angrily begins yelling at Rolf, Rolf's shadow slowly becomes three shadows. As it turns out, it wasn't Rolf and, unfortunately for the Eds, they are staring face-to-face with the Kanker sisters, who had been waiting for them. They attempt to leave the shed, but are discovered by the kids. They are now trapped completely with almost no way out of either situation as they will have to face the wrath of one of the groups. The Eds have to make a difficult decision on what they should do next. They choose to surrender to the kids instead of facing the Kankers.

Later the Eds are shown sellotaped to a fence in the lane. The kids have shown mercy and had decided to punish the Eds by throwing fruit at them rather than beating them up. As they all leave, satisfied, Jimmy stays behind after Rolf requests that he provide him with another tray of jujubes. The Eds see the transaction and ask where he got those Jujubes. Jimmy hides them claiming he doesn't know what they're talking about. Edd then notices a paint-spattered boot in Jimmy's back pocket. The Eds realize that it was Jimmy who was the culprit! Jimmy comes clean and confesses to the crime. He reveals that it was him who had framed them all for revenge. Eddy demands what did they do to Jimmy to make him want to get revenge on them and Jimmy angrily tells him he ruined a good pair of underpants. This makes Edd and Ed realize Jimmy is referring to the wedgie that Eddy did to him earlier on Friendship Day. Ed laughs due to the mentioning of this, but Jimmy yells at him to be quiet as he felt so angry and hurt when Eddy wedgied him and everyone laughed at him shortly after.

Jimmy reveals everything he did. He claims that Eddy's wedgie and everyone's laughter at his misfortune had pushed him over the edge. He explains that he wanted revenge against them for that, so he came up with a brilliant plan as his revenge. He explains his entire involvement with ruining his own Friendship Day, leaving the jujubes and a fake footprint as fake evidence to keep the Eds off his trail, baiting and trapping Jonny with an acorn to get the Eds in even more trouble and even making a reluctant alliance with the Kankers just for his final revenge. At this point, he states he has to fulfill the promise he made. He then snaps his fingers which causes the Kankers to show up at the last minute to claim their prize, as Jimmy had promised. The Eds scream with terror as their section of the lane fence is ripped off and dragged away with them by the Kankers.

As Jimmy walks away taunting the Eds at his victory, he slips on a stray banana peel, injuring himself. Jimmy then yells out to Sarah for help.

"If It Smells Like An Ed." contains examples of (YMMV goes here):

  • Agony of the Feet: When Jimmy was crying, Ed (who was carrying the slab of sidewalk) tried reaching into his coat pocket to pull out a handkerchief for him: dropping the slab onto his feet as he just freezes up. Cut to the next scene where he's walking on his hands with his feet bandaged up.
  • Anti-Villain: Jimmy comes off as this. His Disproportionate Retribution is a reaction to Eddy constantly antagonizing him every time.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: Jimmy succeeds in not only framing the Eds for a few misdeeds but selling them to the Kankers with only a minor punishment.
  • Bait-and-Switch Silhouette: Two examples when the Eds enter the shed.
    • The Eds pass themselves off as a cow by arranging themselves so when the kids look through the window, their silhouette assumes a bovine shape.
    • The Eds see what looks like Rolf in the shadows. But then they are shocked to see "Rolf" split into the silhouettes of Lee, Marie and May Kanker.
  • Banana Peel: Right at the end, Jimmy slips on one after selling the Eds to the Kankers.
  • Blatant Lies: At the end when the Eds are done getting pelted by fruits, Jimmy gets caught with a paint-covered boot by the Eds while saying "I have no idea what you're talking about!" At that point, it became obvious that Jimmy was lying and he was the perpetrator.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Jimmy. When his offer of his friendship to Eddy in celebration of Friendship Day is met with an unprovoked wedgie, Jimmy snaps from the humiliation and immediately concocts and enacts a complex plan to get revenge on all three Eds by framing them to alienate them from the other kids, leave false clues to make them run around in circles and further enrage the kids, and after having them undergo a Humiliation Conga all day leaves them to the Kanker Sisters. Double D is actually impressed by the level of genius (if underhandedness) of this plan.
  • Bound and Gagged: The fate of Jonny, whom the Eds find tied up, gagged, blindfolded and covered in jujubes.
  • Break the Cutie: The Eds ruin Jimmy's Friendship Day celebrations, with Eddy reducing him to tears after giving him a wedgie.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: Ed says he should get the feeling back in his feet after "this word from our sponsors." Double D responds by saying while carrying the heavy piece of sidewalk, "Curse broadcast commercialism!"
  • Butt-Monkey: Jimmy, at first, after getting humiliated by Eddy. The Eds at the end when they get pelted by fruits and dragged away by the Kankers.
  • Captain Obvious: A few moments after Eddy gives Jimmy a wedgie:
    Jimmy: I've been wedgied!
  • The Chessmaster: Jimmy orchestrates a revenge plot against the Eds by exploiting their willingness to chase a Snipe Hunt, manipulating the other kids in the Cul-de-Sac, and leaving a bunch of fake clues to throw them off his trail. If he hadn't revealed himself at the end with his Motive Rant, even Double-D wouldn't have been able to figure out it was him.
  • Create Your Own Villain: Eddy surely did this to Jimmy after he gave the latter a wedgie in front of the kids.
  • Crocodile Tears: Jimmy sheds theses when the Eds barge into his garage and catch him with a hockey stick.
  • Dinner Deformation: As the Eds follow the trail of jujubes, Ed is eating them by dragging his open mouth in the ground. He ends up gulping down a fallen log used as a bridge, thus taking its cylindrical form.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Although Jimmy was pushed too far, framing all three Eds seems too disproportionate. Also, see Revenge below.
  • Distracted by the Sexy: The Eds use a poster of Nazz in a bikini to distract Kevin while they compare his foot to the footprint.
  • Double Standard: Jimmy retaliated against Ed and Edd for laughing at his expense, yet he does nothing to the other kids who laughed at his expense too.
  • Downer Ending: The Eds were accused of ruining Friendship Day, and tried to clear their names. Unfortunately, Act II has the Eds accused of bounding and gagging Jonny when actually, they found him this way. The kids refused to believe the Eds and chased them into the woods. The Eds hid in a shed, only to run into The Kanker Sisters. The cowardly three are then trapped between the kids, who are practically wishing for the Eds to die, and the Kankers, who demand the Eds to make out with them. The Eds preferred to have fruit pelted at them by the kids. It was then revealed that Jimmy, of all people, set them up. His motive? The wedgie (and subsequent humiliation) given to him earlier that day by Eddy. He then has the Kankers take the Eds away after Eddy refuses to acknowledge what he did to Jimmy. The blow is softened somewhat after Jimmy slips on a Karma-placed banana peel, but still...
  • Dude, Not Funny!: Sarah is the only one not laughing along with the kids when Jimmy gets a wedgie. She even goes as far as to call Ed out and say she'll tell their mother.
  • Enemy Mine: Jimmy forms one with the Kankers to get his revenge on the Eds. When he first arrives at their trailer, they immediately "greet" him by pounding the heck out of him. But in-between their beating, Jimmy manages to tell them his plan and how it involves the three of them getting time with their "boyfriends", which causes them to cease beating up Jimmy and agree to his deal.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Even though Jimmy plotted against the Eds, he seemed genuinely concerned when Ed dropped the heavy block of concrete on his feet.
  • Exact Words: Played straight. Jimmy tells Eddy to "reach out and touch somebody." Eddy does just that and gives the latter an atomic wedgie.
  • Foreshadowing: Eddy was framed for piercing the Heart of Friendship with a hockey stick. When Ed breaks down Jimmy's garage door, the latter is caught holding a hockey stick, which is enough for Eddy to suspect that Jimmy implicated the Eds (although his foot never matched the one on the cement block). Near the end of the episode, it is revealed that Jimmy was indeed the one who implicated the Eds.
  • Frame-Up: the whole plot of the episode is about the Eds attempting to find out who framed them for ruining friendship day. Turns out it was Jimmy to get back at them for a wedgie.
  • Guilt by Association Gag: What did Ed and Edd do to deserve their crime? They simply stuck by Eddy, AKA the cause of Jimmy's humiliation in the beginning. Granted, they laughed at Jimmy, but the other kids laughed at him as well and nothing happened to them.
  • Hypocrite: The kids (bar Sarah) laughed their asses off when Eddy gave Jimmy a wedgie, yet they act all indignant and defensive towards him near the end of the episode after he claims that the Eds "made [him] cry."
  • Hypocritical Humor: When helping the others chase the Eds, Kevin warns Rolf who refuses to join him and the others that eating too much of the jujubes will rot his teeth, yet Kevin like everyone else has a sweet tooth for jawbreakers and it is also rich coming from someone who a garage full of jawbreakers.
  • Jerkass: Eddy for giving Jimmy the wedgie for no reason when the latter just wanted to be nice to him.
  • Jerkass Ball:
    • The kids wrongfully blame the Eds for various crimes and abuse them as punishment. They also laugh at Jimmy when Eddy wedgies him but still have the nerve to call Eddy out on this later on.
    • Jimmy targets Ed and Edd as a part of his revenge scheme, even though it was Eddy, and only Eddy, who humiliated him.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Sarah may be a jerk, but she was right to want to snitch to her mom about Ed joining in on the laughing when Eddy gave Jimmy a wedgie.
  • "Just Joking" Justification: Eddy's reason for cruelly giving Jimmy a wedgie and getting him humiliated in front of everybody is just a joke when Sarah threatens to tell on Ed.
    Eddy: Aw, lighten up. It was a joke.
  • Karma Houdini:
    • Downplayed with Jimmy. Although he gets away with what he did to Ed and Edd, he slips on a banana peel at the end. Considering this is Jimmy, the injury must have had a huge impact.
    • Eddy was the cause of Jimmy's humiliation. Ed and Edd were also laughing at Jimmy and get punished for it... except that all the kids (except Sarah) were laughing at Jimmy but they get away with it.
    • None of the Cul-de-sac kids receive any punishment for falsely accusing the Eds for any wrong doings and tormenting them.
  • Kick the Dog: Eddy giving Jimmy a wedgie when the latter offered the former friendship is a very dick move.
  • Kids Are Cruel: The kids not only torment the Eds, but they (sans Sarah) laughed at Jimmy's expense when the latter got wedgied by Eddy (and yet still have the nerve to call out Eddy for this).
  • Lesser of Two Evils: How the Eds view getting fruit thrown at them rather than being kissed by the Kankers.
  • Major Injury Underreaction: Ed accidentally drops a slab of concrete on his feet hard enough to render him unable to walk on them, but his response is to freeze up rather than scream in pain.
  • Minor Injury Overreaction: Jimmy begins bawling like a baby when he slips on a Banana Peel.
  • Misplaced Retribution: Downplayed. While Jimmy did target Eddy for being the one who humiliated him, he also targeted Ed and Double D for it as they laughed at him despite the fact that all of the kids except Sarah did that too.
  • Never My Fault: The Eds (except for Edd) can qualify as well at the end. While it was wrong for Jimmy to frame all three Eds for Eddy’s actions, Eddy doesn’t admit that what he did to Jimmy was wrong. Even Ed claimed the wedgie Eddy gave Jimmy was funny. Edd, however, makes no comment aside from how he should have known that it would come back to bite them. After Jimmy explains his actions, Eddy just simply blows it off, has the nerve to act like he is the victim, and angrily demands to be let free. This just vindicates Jimmy's actions that he callously allow the Eds to be taken away by the Kankers in response.
  • Produce Pelting: The kids tie up & throw fruits at the Eds when they capture them
  • Red Herring: Rolf. He's just as unware as everyone else that Jimmy is the real culprit, at most just acting suspicious on his orders in exchange for jujubes. The Kankers near the end at first seem to be the true culprits as part of a ploy to force the Eds into a Scarpia Ultimatum, until The Reveal happens after the Eds' Humiliation Conga. The paint footprint is also a fake clue Jimmy left to throw them off his trail.
  • Revenge: Jimmy frames all three Eds, gets them humiliated, and captured by the Kankers in retaliation of a wedgie Eddy gave him.
  • Sadistic Choice: Near the end of the episode, the Eds are faced to either endure the wrath of the neighborhood kids or the Kankers. They choose turning themselves in to the kids.
  • Scarpia Ultimatum: The Kankers put a G-rated version of this on the Eds as their Sadistic Choice. Seeing that the Eds are "wanted men" with the kids after them, the Kankers set their "bail" at 200 kisses, and are seen waiting for the Eds to plant the kisses on them. However, the Eds choose to be captured by the kids instead of endure this from the Kankers.
  • Selective Obliviousness: The kids do this when they find the Eds next to a tied-up Jonny with jujubes stuck to his body. When the Eds try to explain themselves, the kids ignore their explanations, deem the Eds guilty of what they did to Jonny despite not having any evidence, and eventually capture the Eds and have them glued to the fence while pelting them with fruits.
  • Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The Eds spends a bulk of the episode trying to clear their names, instead they are further led to false clues, antagonized by the neighborhood kids to a point they formed an angry mob to punish them and did not know who the culprit was after undergoing a Humiliation Conga before being sold out to the Kankers for further torment.
  • Spit Shake: The Kankers agree to Jimmy's deal with this, all three of them spitting into their hands and offering them to Jimmy to solidify their deal. Jimmy looks on in disgust at this, but accepts it non the less.
  • Temporarily a Villain: Jimmy. It's justified towards Eddy at least, but the other Eds are innocent.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Chessmaster skills was not expected from a character like Jimmy.
  • Trail of Bread Crumbs: The Eds find a trail of jujubes (with Ed eating them on the way) and follow it to an abandoned shed. Unfortunately, it leads them to the Kankers.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Rolf became this for Jimmy when the latter takes advantage of Rolf’s fixation of ju-jubes and uses him to help frame the Eds.
  • Villain Ball: Jimmy, all thanks to Eddy.
  • Wedgie: Eddy gives Jimmy one, which led to the latter doing his Evil Plan against the Eds.
  • Who's Laughing Now?: Jimmy's motivation is revenge for being publicly humiliated.
  • Woodland Creatures: A group of them briefly shows up during the friendship song.

 
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