Stop, Look and Ed (Ed, Edd 'n Eddy)

Stop, Look and Ed
Also known as, "cartoon really should've listened before making this episode."
Series: Ed, Edd n Eddy Part of Season: 2 Episode Number: Season: 16 Overall: 42 Air Date: July 21, 2000 Writer: Danny Antonucci Jono Howard Director: Danny Antonucci Previous episode: "Urban Ed" Next episode: "Honor Thy Ed"

"Stop, Look and Ed", is the 16th episode of the second season of Ed, Edd 'n Eddy, and the 42nd episode in the series, overall. It first aired on Cartoon Network on July 21, 2000.

Plot

After stepping in the contaminated grass, despite the sign's warning, Eddy thinks rules are unnecessary to the point where he convinces almost everyone in the cul-de-sac, save for Edd, to disobey the rules.

Why It Didn't Stop, Look and Listen

1. Absolutely terrible moral: Eddy and Ed, and eventually most of the kids in the cul-de-sac, believed that nothing bad happens when they break rules and get away with it. In other words: this episode encourages rule-breaking!
   • And by the way, you can get arrested for violating the rules and law.
2. Edd is treated as a punching bag in this episode, sound familiar?
3. Eddy is very unlikable, as he ignores rules, and Edd's warnings, and eventually convinces the kids to do the same.
4. The kids' rule-breaking are no better:
   • The kids playing around in the wet cement.
   • Rolf lazing around, not doing chores.
   • Kevin breaking dishes so he doesn't have to clean them.
   • Nazz belching without excusing herself after drinking soda.
   • Jonny streaking around, which is extremely inappropriate for a kid's show, not to mention pedophilic! Now where have we heard about this before?
   • Sarah and Jimmy eating a mountain of ice cream and getting fat, despite the fact that eating too much ice cream will give you an upset stomach, and a brain freeze.
5. Several goofs and animation errors, such as:
   • The cement being on Eddy's feet at one point, but then suddenly disappeared at the other point.
   • The spine of one of Edd's books having a typo reading, "ameoba", instead of, "amoeba"
   • Eddy's feet disappearing before the kids punish the Eds.
6. Misinformation: Jimmy warns Eddy that swimming after eating gives people cramps, even though it's a debunked urban legend.
7. Similar to what happened in Eddy's room in, "Momma's Little Ed", the part in which Eddy and Ed vandalize Edd's room is considered as a criminal mischief for these reasons:
   • Eddy rearranging Edd's books from an alphabetical order, to a randomized order.
   • Eddy closing the, "Joys of Rules", book on a fish.
   • Ed throwing garbage around Edd's room.
   • Eddy tearing a tag off of Edd's mattress.
     • In real life, though, you can only take tags off of furniture if you're the consumer who bought them.
   • Ed dropping an ant farm on the floor, setting Edd's ants loose.
8. It's one of the episodes in which the Eds don't do any scams, though to be fair, their jawbreaker surveillance satellite scheme failed, early on.
9. Hypocritical title: It's supposed to be a reference of the phrase, "stop, look and listen", and yet the characters didn't bother listening to Edd throughout most of the episode.
10. Eddy, Ed, and the kids don't get any karma for breaking rules until the end, see redeeming quality #2.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Edd is the only likable character in this episode, despite what he's gone through.
2. Good ending: Edd phoned everyone's parents about their rule-breaking, which forced them to follow the rules again.
   • Eddy and Ed even got karma by being locked in a cage, even though Edd's also in it.
3. Some funny moments.

Trivia

• Ed hitting his head on the ground, saying, "I'm a woodpecker! 'Cept on dirt.", became an internet meme.
• The total amount of Edd's ants seemed to have increased by 402, since the series premiere, "The Ed-Touchables", going up from 4,837 to 5,239.

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