Edd gets fed up with Eddy sometimes, though. The movie showed it the best.
EDI: I always found Eddy much likable in the pre-flanderization episodes. He was a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who didn’t bully anybody and he was a good friend.
Edited by MsCC93 on May 5th 2020 at 10:57:50 AM
Eddy gets a few Jerk with a Heart of Gold moments later on too, even if they are few and far between.
One is example is that when Double D believes that his parents wrote sticky notes with stupid instructions, Eddy allowed him to move into his bedroom.
Edited by Kickisan on Jul 3rd 2020 at 2:44:15 PM
Either:
1. Their unwanted advances are played completely seriously, with them not being comedic.
2. They get downplayed to mere loony stalkers with a crush on the Eds
Prettiest Meta Knight Gijinka, nglDefinitely the second. The first one is super not E En E at all.
I could definitely see the Kanker Sisters working in a Tootie from fairly odd parents/Panini from Chowder sort of way for sure.
It's mostly that they're not taken seriously and their actions are portrayed for laughs. Which also would make it worse if it aired nowadays
I will said the eds ARE bullies...is just that:
A) they are bullies in the same way bull and skull from power ranger were: inefective ones you laugh, you know, the team rocket, jack spicer, etc is just that it is THEIR show so they are seen sympathic
b) Indeed the kranks are the bully of the bullys and because the Eds are the symapthic and inefectual ones then the kranks take are mean oens, is the crazy bully-good bully trope.
And c) Like I said before the show use A LOT of violence and a lot of mean humor, that is why the kranks feel so....bad right now, I mean I was kind afraid of them when I saw the show before.
But I will said that if a remake ever get made(and I mean a IF) it have to be netflix or something like that because the show is baked with to many values dissoance: it have a very gratitude use of violence in exagerate ways, the chararter are scammer in the best of time and eddy indeed have bad boss tendency(probably pick from his brother) and the other were cruel to them, is kinda like try to adapt bug bunny and tom and jerry and you run into problems(as indeed it happen).
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"...You mean those things that Cartoon Network are fine with today? We have new Looney Tunes and new Tom and Jerry. Comic violence is probably never going away. Sexual assault as a joke might, which is why people talk about the Kankers, but nothing about Ed Edd 'N Eddy has aged in ten years. The setting and characters are pretty timeless, and nothing stands out as aging poorly.
It's not like the powerpuff girls with realistic blood, everythinf's exaggerated and wild. Nothing that would cause a problem.

I don't think Eddy is a bully. The impression I get is that he has a fear of rejection and has figured (perhaps subconsciously) that it's easier to be abrasive than it is to actually try to fit in and make friends and be rejected anyway.
For that matter, I wouldn't call Kevin a bully either. I think he thinks of the Eds as bullies. They are always trying to cheat the other kids out of their meager assets. The other kids probably think of Kevin as someone who defends them from the Eds.
Oh, and if Nazz got hit with the boomerang, I bet she'd become really boorish. Maybe like Lee or May Kanker. Just really gross and dirty. On the other hand, we've seen she has pretty bad table manners and Eddy likes her anyway.