Tinker Ed (Ed, Edd n Eddy)

Tinker Ed
You definitely TINKERED this monstrosity of an episode!
Series: Ed, Edd n Eddy Part of Season: 5 Episode Number: Season: 14 Overall: 119 Air Date: August 14, 2006 Writer: Danny Antonucci Rachel Connor Director: Danny Antonucci Previous episode: "This Won't Hurt an Ed" Next episode: "The Good, The Bad and The Ed"

"Tinker Ed" is the 14th episode of Season 5 and the 119th episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, Jimmy's love for fairytales is shattered thanks to one of Eddy's scams. Under Sarah's threat, it's up to the Eds to help Jimmy love fairytales again.

Why It's a Load of Baloney

1. To get the elephant out of the room first, this episode insults fairytales and it can also corrupt children's beliefs in them.
2. Much like "If It Smells Like an Ed", this episode makes most of the characters very unlikable and it's also yet another undeserved torture episode for the Eds, which was poorly executed and completely uncalled for, further summarizing the many problems the last two seasons of the show had in general.
3. It does a very poor job of trying to make the viewer feel sorry for Jimmy because Kevin tells him that fairytales aren't real (or in his words, "a load of baloney") in the beginning of the episode. But maybe if Jimmy hadn't been running around the library, shrieking in joy when Kevin was minding his own business and trying to study, then the latter wouldn't have messed with him in the first place. What makes it worse is that Kevin had already asked Jimmy and Sarah to tone it down because he had an important essay to write, only for Sarah to begin loudly reading the fairytale book just to irritate him further.
4. Kevin is also hypocritical in this episode as well, despite being rightfully justified in the beginning. He said earlier that he doesn't believe in fairytales, but later helps Jimmy and Sarah in their "fairytales are real" scam in order for them to get revenge on the Eds.
5. The infamous, hard-to-watch scene in which Sarah (while confronting the Eds for ruining Jimmy's love for fairytales with Eddy's scam) batters Eddy by violently punching him, sending him flying into a nearby garbage dumpster, then repeatedly slams him on Ed's back, before tripping Ed over to fall on Eddy after she yelled at Edd and all the while she threatened to turn the Eds into dog meat by removing their will to live so they get the consequences if they don't make things right for Jimmy letting Kevin get off the hook for what he started. What did you expect from a character like Sarah?
6. Sarah and Jimmy's flanderization is noticeably shown in this episode:
   • Sarah's (MOST HEAVILY, with her being the short-tempered, violent, vicious, controlling, mean-spirited bully she's been flanderized into) beats up the Eds (mainly Eddy) and THREATENED to turn them into dog meat only if they didn't make Jimmy believe in fairytales again.
   • Jimmy, when he acts like such a whiny crybaby (and while it's understandable when his beliefs get crushed, it's still annoying and hard to watch, which makes Spongebob's crying sound more delightful in comparison). And of course like in any other episode of this season, gets pampered to almost no end by Sarah and later plots a revenge scheme against the Eds with her, which is exactly what he does just like in "If it Smells like an Ed".
     • Like in "Ed In A Halfshell", Jimmy acts like a tattletale in this episode (at least for the last time).
7. This episode basically shows how much of Karma Houdinis Sarah and Jimmy are (and also Kevin to an extent).
8. There was a deleted scene that was going be at the very end of the episode that had no reason to be deleted at all (read Trivia).
9. As already mentioned in WIaLoB#5, Sarah not only threatened to turn the Eds into dog meat, but she also threatened to KILL the Eds by removing their will to live, which, of course, is the main reason this episode gets banned if it was aired again on Boomerang.
10. As stated in WIaLoB#3 above, this entire episode could've easily been avoided if both Sarah and Jimmy had listened to Kevin by being quiet like he simply had asked them to in the first place or if Jimmy hadn't been running around the library, screaming at the top of his lungs in a place where you're supposed to be quiet!
11. Bad Moral: In order for fairytales to be proven they are real, it's by blackmail. Especially when Sarah took a humiliating photo of the Eds (explained below) in order to please Jimmy instead of confronting Kevin by blaming the Eds for nothing.
12. Like the episode "Your Ed Here", Kevin gets off the hook for what he did twice and got himself even further off in "Smile For The Ed".
13. In fact, this episode can trigger more Teen Titans Go! episodes by giving Cartoon Network a death penalty to their own shows if this episode hadn't got banned.
14. Rolf, Nazz and Jonny 2x4 serve no purpose to the entire episode except filler.
15. Horrible ending: In order to retrieve his quarter, Jimmy screws Eddy over with a golden horseshoe (which was really a golden polished retainer). It was also implied that he was never depressed and also made Sarah take a photo of the Eds dressed up as fairytale characters and gives the camera to Kevin to show everybody.

Redeeming Qualities

1. The Eds are the only likable characters and were at least trying to do something nice for Jimmy, despite Eddy only doing so just to scam him.
2. To be fair, anyone would feel upset, hurt and angry if their love for something was ruined, so at least Jimmy's situation is relatable.
3. The load of bologna gag is pure genius.

Trivia

• The title name of the episode is a reference of Tinker Bell from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan.
• There is a deleted scene for this episode where after Rolf engulfs his entire collection of bologna and gets fat, he hallucinates that Nazz is a mermaid, Jonny is a gingerbread man and Plank is a fairy.

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