Eddy can't come up with a scam due to having a mental block, so he hires someone who can help him come up with a scam. That someone would be Jimmy.
Stuck in Ed contains these following tropes:
- Call-Back: The kids go directly to Kevin to buy his dad's jawbreakers.
- Continuity Nod: Double D mentions how Eddy taught Jimmy everything about scams.Eddy: Oh yeah! Didn't we win an Emmy for that episode?Double D: Hardly.
- Giant Food: Jimmy's Scammy Whammies are revealed to be large ice pops with intact fruit inside.
- Here We Go Again!: After seeing Jimmy walk away with loads of cash, Eddy orders Ed to hit him in the head for inspiration.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Invoked. Eddy orders Ed to beat the living shit out of him so he could finally come up with a scam. Ed obliges. He has Ed do it again at the episode's end.
- Start My Own: Even though Eddy insults his scam, Jimmy decides to go through with it on his own and proves to be incredibly successful.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Eddy doesn't even bother giving Jimmy's ice pop scam a try and derides it as being stupid and beneath him.
- Writer's Block: Eddy is unable to come up with a scam, which sets up the plot for the episode.
