If you like this review and want to stay updated for what else I have in store, become a follower of this blog, click here to like the official Facebook page, and click here to follow me on Twitter. Now on with today's review:
One Size Fits Ed
Whatever happens with the Eds’ scams, they still have potential to be executed to an entertaining degree, and more often than not they are. This is the case for this cartoon where the scam in question is imaginative and out-of-the-ordinary to say the least as the comedy comes from how the different Eds go about it.
It begins with a wishing well scam that looks very convincing where it appears deep and authentic, but the appearance is just an optical illusion hiding how shallow it really is. The well’s appearance easily manages to fool Jimmy with a clear motivation to become a star, something that’s only been explored once in the past. After seeing him fall for the well, the Eds’ different points of view on things start becoming clear. Eddy only cares about the money they managed to get while Double D expects him to have taken notes on how the well looked so convincing. While Double D’s philosophy on the brain being fooled by what the eye perceives is true, it’s natural that he doesn’t get that the whole point was getting money. Eddy doesn’t care for the lesson, but does have the right idea to make Jimmy’s wish come true to hold up the believability of the scam.
Then Ed comes in with a truly out-of-the-norm getup where he acts as a sumo wrestler, and he really owns the role through his active state and uttering of fighting sounds. With that, the Eds have a basis to make Jimmy’s wish of stardom come true. It should be said that it can feel jarring to see him act all innocent and hopeful about his wish when he was portrayed as very despicable in the season premiere.
Anyway, he’s suddenly whisked into a diaper and put on an intense road to stardom courtesy of the Eds. It’s naturally overwhelming for young Jimmy, but the idea of being a star out of this makes the ordeal worth a try in his eyes. The first order of business is having Jimmy look the part by having him eat a lot, and Jimmy himself happens to have a huge stock of peaches and cream. There’s an exciting montage of getting that entire supply of food into him, and by the end of it, Jimmy has the appearance of a full-fledged sumo wrestler. Seeing him so obese brings the impression that he’s lost all hope of stardom, but he is easily convinced that becoming a sumo wrestler means becoming a star. He does seem to be majorly inconvenienced since he’s so fat he can’t move, but at least in Eddy’s mind, he has the means to reach great fame anyhow. Even when immobile, Jimmy wins a practice round between him and Ed who ends up in his huge mass of flesh and is flung out.
This doesn’t solve other issues with Jimmy’s obesity, but Eddy still believes he can find success, until Double D mentions that sumo wrestlers only receive great fame in Japan. With that, the next move is to get Jimmy there as Eddy utilizes some very wild attempts that each with a realistic outcome. He tries mailing Jimmy to Japan, but not only does the mailbox break when Jimmy’s stuffed in, but Eddy learns he would have had to pay $200 to ship the obese child.
Then Eddy and Ed plan to fling Jimmy to Japan with their own catapult made from a street lamp. This move proves to be the most misguided one of all where when Jimmy is flung, he doesn’t get very far at all no matter how grand the plan was staged to be earlier. In the end, Eddy, Ed, and Jimmy are humiliated with the former 2 in all body casts and the latter in an intense exercise program to lose all his weight. Despite that, Eddy still has a mind for scams, proving his perception of life as misguided as ever.
Thanks to execution through use of character and creative concepts, there’s solid entertainment to come from this misguidedness.
A-
Pain in the Ed
Looking at the nature of how the Eds go about their routine, it’s actually more complex than simply getting money from kids so they can get jawbreakers. A lot of their attempts also involve getting respect and popularity, although as usual, they can come off as misguided in the end. This is made clear at the start of this cartoon where Eddy believes people will think he’s mature by showing off armpit hair which is really just pieces of carpet glued to his pits. Nobody buys his act, and he’s made to look foolish when trying to be mature. While the following subject seems very disconnected, it does have something slightly in common with the idea of maturity.
As an example of Ed’s unfortunate and downright abusive treatment from his own family, he shows up with a violin he has to practice playing. Right from his expression and mood, he was clearly forced into it and is clearly unhappy. It’s an unhealthy showing of his relationship with his family where he has to play it to avoid their scorn. Nevertheless, he goes along with it the best he can while his friends share their views on Ed having to play the violin. While Double D is moved by Ed practicing an instrument of class and sophistication, Eddy sees violins as being for ‘sissies’ and that Ed should get rid of it.
Whatever his friends’ views are about violins, there’s one other big point against Ed playing it; he isn’t good at playing it as he produces more noise than actual music. He does put in the effort, but since he never achieves good results no matter how much he practices, there’s a major unfairness over him being forced into this. Along with Double D protecting his ears from Eds’ violin playing despite how much he likes the instrument, this makes Eddy seem in the right for wanting to get rid of it. It seems like Double D is with him as he suggests staging an accident to make it seem like it wouldn’t be Ed’s fault if the violin was destroyed. However, every time it seems like they’re alone so Eddy can destroy it, they turn out to be spotted by Jimmy who can easily rat out what they did to Sarah.
Eventually, they come up with an elaborately staged accident where they have Ed practice in a target below their interpretation of the Statue of Liberty. It being in the center of the cul-de-sac in front of everyone definitely seems like enough to make it look like the violin’s potential destruction is not their fault. There’s even an amusing Rube Goldberg device out of this involving a stretch of chewed gum, scarring Jonny, and using him to catapult a bowling ball through a funnel. It’s big on creativity and staging all in the name of destroying a violin.
What’s more, the sequence has a twist where Double D, who came up with the stunt, sabotages the plan where a pig who’s eaten a magnet moves Ed’s sheet music stand. By doing this, the violin is saved from harm much to Eddy’s frustration all because Double D couldn’t forsake his love for the sophisticated musical instrument. It’s after this though when there’s another twist to audience expectations where in an attempt to save the violin from Eddy, Double D is the one to break it with a trip. As he mourns the loss while Eddy celebrates it, there is a legit cause for worry on Ed’s part. For his sake though, it’s good that he’s able to convince Sarah he’s practicing by substituting Eddy’s hairs for violin strings.
It’s all well-executed entertainment of the daily lives of the Eds as they tackle attempts at improving their reputation and the antics that come with them swiftly escalate.
A
Series Ranking
1.
An Ed is Born
2. One
+ One = Ed
3.
The Day the Ed Stood Still
4. A Glass of Warm
Ed
5.
It Came from Outer Ed
6. Rent-A-Ed
7.
Once Upon an Ed
8. Fa
La La La Ed
9. Urban
Ed
10.
Ed…Pass it On
11. Laugh
Ed Laugh
12. Dawn
of the Eds
13. Don’t
Rain on My Ed
14.
Wish You Were Ed
15.
Dueling Eds
16. Mirror,
Mirror On the Ed
17.
Gimme, Gimme Never Ed
18. Ed-N-Seek
19. Keeping
Up With the Eds
20. Who
Let the Ed In
21. Avast
Ye Eds
22. Flea
Bitten Ed
23. Fool
on the Ed
24. Ready
Set Ed
25. The
Ed-Touchables
26. Who
What Where Ed
27. Dear
Ed
28.
Momma’s Little Ed
29.
Brother, Can You Spare an Ed?
30. Hot
Buttered Ed
31.
Ed or Tails
32. Stop
Look and Ed
33.
See No Ed
34. Shoo
Ed
35.
Rock-a-Bye Ed
36. Ed
in a Halfshell
37. Scrambled
Ed
38.
Pain
in the Ed
39.
O-Ed Eleven
40. Vert
Ed Go
41. Oath
to an Ed
42.
Ed, Ed, and Away
43. Button
Yer Ed
44.
An Ed in the Bush
45. Read
All About Ed
46. Rambling
Ed
47. Home
Cooked Ed
48. Honor
Thy Ed
49. Floss
Your Ed
50. Quick
Shot Ed
51. Look
Into My Eds
52.
The Luck of the Ed
53.
Is There An Ed in the House?
54. Knock,
Knock Who’s Ed
55. A
Boy and His Ed
56. Eds-Aggerate
57.
Three Squares and an Ed
58.
One
Size Fits Ed
59.
Will Work for Ed
60.
Boys Will Be Eds
61. High
Heeled Ed
62. Know-it-All
Ed
63.
For Your Ed Only
64.
Dim Lit Ed
65. Cry
Ed
66. Eeny
Meeny Miney Ed
67. A
Pinch to Grow an Ed
68. Pop
Goes the Ed
69. Hands
Across Ed
70. An
Ed Too Many
71. Sir
Ed-a-Lot
72. Over
Your Ed
73.
From Here to Ed
74. A
Key to My Ed
75. Once
Bitten Twice Ed
76.
X Marks the Ed
77. It’s
Way Ed
78. In
Like Ed
79.
My Fair Ed
80. To
Sir With Ed
81. Nagged
to Ed
82. Tag
Yer Ed
83. If
it Smells Like an Ed
The next review follows Eddy and Double D team up with the Urban Rangers to rescue Ed from the Kanker sisters, and there's a fun challenge of the neighborhood kids trying to retrieve a quarter stuck on the sidewalk.
Next time is the Amphibia Christmas special, "Froggy Little Christmas."
If you would like to check out other Ed Edd n Eddy reviews on this blog, click here for the guide made especially for them.
No comments:
Post a Comment