So, um, there is an Ed Edd n Eddy movie on TV right now. I am not sure why I am watching it, but it is like pure nostalgia hitting me right now.
This is one of the few cartoon shows from elementary school that I still like to watch from time to time. I guess it ages well– a lot of the dialogue and premises are really ridiculous, but at the same time they can be fairly clever and original. I can sigh and say “Ah, it’s all just rude humor,” but a lot of it is hilarious in a wacky way.
I have to say, the trio together is a great relationship to sit back and watch. It’s not rocket science put together, but it is like– they’ve got a friendship and it will overcome petty differences or whatnot.
For this movie special– the goal is to find Eddy’s semi-legendary older brother– it’s the continuation of wacky hijinks–
AND OMG I FORGOT ABOUT THE KID WITH THE PLANK. And he has a… superhero alter ego, what the heck?
I think back when I watched it, it was the Forever Summer tv show. I couldn’t really identify when it was supposed to take place either, because there would be no mention of the internet or video games. And when I was a kid, I thought that no one read comic books anymore, and that could be a big part of the series sometime. It was like built-in nostalgia of the early era of American suburbia if you thought of it as a neighborhood from the 70s.
Yes, it was plot based (c’mon, it was a Cartoon Network show) but weirdly enough they had room for character development. It’s really hard to tear your eyes away from an episode if it’s on. The animation style is not picture perfect; in some ways I would even call it sloppy, but it is fun to watch. Life in that neighborhood was always unexpected and strange.
I stopped watching it a long time ago and I’m not sure why I’ve decided to pick it up again. A lot of the shows on channels like Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon seem really foreign now, with all of my favorite cartoons canceled or off the air. I had heard they had shown the last of the Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes a few years ago, but it must be popular enough to bring it back for a two hour movie.
In a lot of ways, it’s even better to watch now because I can appreciate just how weird and bizarre that TV show really was. Crap that made sense when I was watching it as an 8 year old are now truly mystifying.
So there it is, my cartoon stand by.
