growing up there was a point where i lived next to but not in a cul-de-sac every day i would spend my
time playing in the cul-de-sac with other kids who actually did live there whether it was basketball
tag riding bikes and skateboards whatever it was the cul-de-sac was something special
that's definitely a factor into why i love ed nettie the feeling of being on the precipice of
the rest of your life with how forever those feelings would be it felt like a lifetime
and now it's just a fleeting memory ed edd netty however brings me back to those days
not for the schemes and the over-the-top cartoon violence but just being in the mix
of the cul-de-sac even if i technically didn't live in it anyway eden eddie is something we
have discussed before i've made my love for it very clear and it's something i still return
back to nearly on a weekly basis before i drift off to sleep at night and one thing
that i thought would be fun to talk about would be the way in which the show almost ended came
back with a few specials afterwards another full season and then a tiny part of a season counting
as a supposed season six oh and of course the movie the big picture show if you didn't catch
all that there's a bunch to go over there but yeah originally the finale of season four was
planned to be the end of the show and it's kinda kinda grim after that they came back with a mixed
variety of everything that made the ending of the series a weird yet memorable time in
cartoons so let's look back on what could have been what actually was and how it all happened
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sponsoring today's video so with ed and nettie i just got lost in how fascinating this whole
ending debacle was and i have enjoyed doing this shockingly weird way shows ended series and i hope
you have as well so to start it off let's take a look at the almost ending season 4's finale take
this ad and shove it a two-part episode taking up the full run time rather than splitting it
between two segments the eds more specifically eddie find it hard coming to terms with all
the kids or starting to grow up i mean check out kevin's sick beard pretty manly huh so naturally
rather than dwell on more childish schemes they all put on a scam career aptitude test of sorts
putting in motion career paths for the other kids for a fee of course and a small fee this
funny enough works and the ed boys quickly spend that money that they earned on some jawbreakers a
nice rare win for them is what i would say if they didn't run into dr naz who knows the jawbreakers
would be bad for their teeth and locks them away in her desk see i always knew curry aptitude
tests would lead to trouble this then results in them stealing the desk and trying to safely
take it back to eddie's place and somehow get the jawbreakers out we now enter into the second half
of the episode where they're all still struggling to get inside the desk and double d ponders the
excitement of his future and wants eddie and ed to think of theirs but eddie doesn't want to grow up
he doesn't want anything more than the life that he has now and maybe a few jawbreakers to boot but
thanks to a freak gopher johnny incident eddie falls into a pit where a bunch of heavy objects
fall on him causing the screen to morph into something else as we hear eddie's echoes of saying
when eddie awakes however he is now an older version of himself 90 years in the future as
he mistakes himself for his own grandpa when looking in the mirror ed and double d come over
old as well while eddie is having troubles coming to terms with being old he finds the desk with the
jawbreakers in them still locked up from back then as everyone in the cul-de-sac is also in
their senior years as well eddie reverts to trying to open the desk again as when they do try it ends
up turning to dust eddie exclaims that he's just a kid as he repeatedly bashes himself in the face
until he wakes up back as a kid in his bed once he realizes he's back he runs around on excitement ed
finally got the desk open and they can all now enjoy the jawbreakers he yells once more i don't
ever want to grow up as we hard cut to 90 years in the future once more as the eds sit around playing
cards and eddie recounts all these memories as just being stories unlike the other clip
this one seems to cement it as they are actually 90 years in the future as after having a rousing
laugh with friends one final time wishes that he could be a kid again i still wish i was a kid kind
of grim yet still a funny way to end the show on as originally intended trust me i understand the
fears of mortality and aging as well as letting life pass you by it's a place that can get dark
and something that causes nothing but anxiety when trying to understand that in which you are not yet
but still knowing it is coming having eddie be our vessel into this existentialism is a smart choice
because of his kid-like nature and dependence on his adolescence all in all it works in the
spirit of what eternity was as a show to end something like this with this it also could have
been slightly different too danny antonucci the creator of the show showed off two deleted scenes
a few years later at san diego comic-con one of the deleted scenes is an alternate take on when
eddie wakes up old for the first time and mistakes his mere reflection for his grandpa saying
after acknowledging antonucci directly and offering him money to wake up from this nightmare
he reaches for his wallet only to find a jar of prunes the second deleted scene gets a little
bit more crazy now going to the scene when the desk turns to dust eddie this time starts to
break down and cry over it lee canker then comes running to see what is going on and
then it's revealed that eddie and lee canker at some point got married and had a bunch of babies
and spent their honeymoon at the junkyard but it didn't just end right there okay
ed married mate canker and double d married marie canker these two scenes are pretty
funny and would work fine as an extended cut of this episode regardless i am happy that we
were told about them and saw what could have been it's a rare treat to see that
but once again as much as this was supposed to be the finale of the show in general it wasn't
while that originally was intended to be the end of the series in 2004 the show was still in
peak popularity the fans wanted more and so did the network so that's exactly what would happen
two new seasons would be ordered as well as three holiday themed specials to start
releasing as soon as the month after the show was supposed to end with jingle jingle jangle
a christmas special which we already covered here on the channel last year a valentine's day
special titled hanky panky hullabaloo and the final special boo haha centered around halloween
with the latter being one of antonucci's favorite edinetti episodes to work on now there was another
special but in relation to the timeline we will mention that a little bit later in the video with
more edda and eddie on the horizon with specials filling in the gap between season 4 and now the
new season 5 the future couldn't look better for the ed boys could it it is now november 2005 and
all the specials had recently finished coming out and season 5 is here 12 episodes as opposed to the
usual 13 would fill the season but something was different something was just a bit off one thing
that made eddie and eddie unique was that there were essentially no adults fully seen in the show
it was just the kids the cul-de-sac with parents having a presence mainly felt off-screen that do
cause certain worries or actions of the kids on screen with the show being thought to take place
primarily in the summer as quoted by antonucci himself when speaking about the lack of adults
that's intentional too throughout the long days of summer you simply didn't see anyone else's parents
about and sometimes you didn't even see your own it simply did just have a specific feeling to it
all but when season 5 comes around and we get to the episode aptly titled out with the old
in with the ed we enter upon the cul-de-sac once more where eddie tries to keep the summer going
as he spends his time trying to convince everyone that the summer has not ended yet only problem is
that it has and school starts back up tomorrow once tomorrow comes we are at school and the
ed's have to deal with being in different home rooms another thing that was out with the old
and in with the new was the process of how the show was made itself the show had originally
been done using traditional cell animation something we covered on the channel in my
original edenetti video but now the series would transition from those techniques to digital ink
and paint throughout season 5 we would follow the ed boys as they deal with school rather
than the scheme of the day in the cul-de-sac from report cards to football the focus clearly shifted
while there were still episodes that had nothing to do with school sprinkled in it definitely gave
the show a newer feeling i'm all for trying new things in fear of something great becoming stale
so even if it was a bit different for this season i didn't hate it it's not my favorite
season of the show but i appreciate the effort in at least going for something different reception
wise it did take its toll that's all subjective though but there was a noticeable decrease in the
love for the season compared to the original four now as far as season six of the show i'd ask you
what season six the random singular episode that makes up all of season six or the alien special
that we're about to cover that some may count as an episode for season six i'm not kidding
season six is literally just the last episode that technical final regular episode features
the segments may i have this ed and look before you add the first being about the peach creek
junior high school dance and the second part focusing on jimmy and his safety club
for sure that would be a pretty lackluster note to go out on especially compared to how season 4 was
about to end but it wasn't the end it was the end of the show sure but the series had a final card
to play before the ed boys sang farewell back in 2006 it was announced that a feature-length
90-minute special was in the works as the production of that continued to get pushed back
as the show was taking precedence and tanucci and his team had some tough choices to make ultimately
deciding one episode into season six that in order to put all their focus for this 90-minute special
they would need to step away from making season six thus why it ended so abruptly
we'll touch slightly more on that a little bit later this 90-minute feature-length special
would finally come to fruition in 2009 as edda nettie's big picture show a television movie
event that would serve now as the true finale to the beloved series now before we get into
the big picture show i wanted to talk about the weird alien invasion special i've mentioned a few
times here in 2007 cartoon network started a special tv crossover event that would span
through many of the popular franchises at the time throughout the month of may right around 15 years
ago right now wow time is just flying i vividly remember when all of this was actually airing on
tv this storyline regarding the aliens weaved its way through foster's home for imaginary friends
my gym partners a monkey camp laszlo the groom adventures of billy and mandy and of course
eden nettie now for the proper order to watch them technically eden eddie would be listed as
part two and titled the ends are coming and would focus on the kids of the cul-de-sac being weary of
potential aliens wreaking havoc with rolf being involved as well as by the end of it the whole
cul-de-sac getting ripped out of the ground and taken to outer space it's a strange little episode
that culminates inside of the billion mandy special the fifth part and final part of the event
where at the end it's cameo galore after the day is kind of saved and there's a lot of cheese in
fact the whole event was full of cheese yes also this cheese but cheese in general apparently the
original plan was that kraft cheese was sponsoring this big event but pulled out before the airing so
now there's just a bunch of episodes revolving around cheese randomly this information coming
from the creator of billy and mandy maxwell adams so thanks for that what a wee what a weird concept
but but a fun one there is no cheese here that's the cheese rate bar where does cheese have to go
also the little connections between them were cool like in my gym partners a monkey where
the cul-de-sac being abducted makes front page news and is that napoleon dynamite trying to use
a local ham radio to contact deep space cartoon network really like milk in this joke either way
this episode would be counted as a random honorary season six episode and this whole invaded five
part event was pretty fun maybe we should cover that sometime soon here on the channel i have
difficulties with abandonment good to be back it's like underwear straight from the dryer all right
the big finale to ed nettie the big picture show going back to this replacing season six of the
show cartoon network supported antonucci's and the team's decision to shift their efforts and focus
from the show to the movie during san diego comic con in 2007 we learned some plot details as the
movie would have a focus on eddie's brother someone in the series we have heard a lot about
from the room in eddie's house to the one-off lines about him he was an off-screen character who
had an extreme presence looming in the background we also learned that this would be the official
end to the show now the movie would then finally premiere on cartoon network november 8 2009
literally starting the film in the middle of another ed boyce scheme which of course caused
things to go terribly wrong and the cul-de-sac was never the same after getting a good look at
a quiet cul-de-sac we quickly see the aftermath of some horrific event clearly being a result of
the eds as all the heads are frantically packing their things being extremely paranoid like ray
liotta and goodfellas the viewer still unaware of what really happened the trio are clearly running
from something major that they have caused as they sneak into eddie's brother's room steal the parked
car that he's had in there and hit the road to escape the mob of angry kids that are shown to
be badly injured and affected by whatever they had done rolf literally has a huge piece missing from
his torso must have been one heck of a scheme barely making their way out of the neighborhood
blasting off like team rocket all we are left with is the aftermath of the cul-de-sac destruction and
ed's now on the road to find his older brother for protection against the incoming onslaught of kevin
nas rolf johnny and plank the journey that they embark on really tests the relationship
of the trio and eddie especially with him being the catalyst of most everything that
has ever affected anyone as well as stretching the truth and outright lying about everything his
inconsistencies finally catch up with him as he doesn't know where his brother actually lives nor
the person he portrays him to be to his friends or to anyone for that matter truly breaking down
eddie as a character why he is the way he is and him coming to terms with himself we do find his
brother even at first being the brother eddie has always bragged about but we quickly find out that
the relationship between eddie and his brother is far from those tales everyone from the cul-de-sac
is left with their jaws a gape as eddie's brother is physically and emotionally abusive towards
eddie but the revenge that all the kids wanted to get on the eds and more specifically eddie
isn't met with joy at this moment seeing what his brother has done and is doing to them despite all
their differences they stand up to eddie's brother in an attempt to defend eddie but before anything
can happen ed knocks him out with the trailer door eddie here in his most vulnerable moment opens up
about his sorrow towards what he has done not just for the stuff that had happened to cause all of
this but for everything ever all the schemes scams and pranks from the past going further he admits
his lies that he told about his brother throughout the years as it being a form of social acceptance
from his peers all of the kids forgive eddie double d and ed and embrace them now as friends
uniting the cul-de-sac that is until johnny shows up late as melon boy not hearing or seeing
anything and begins to attack the edds luckily the other kids got their back and attacked johnny for
attacking their friends sorry about that touching afterwards they all head over to kevin's for some
jawbreakers seeing a reprisal of your friends are there to help you from earlier in the
show as double d places a label on a black screen saying the end and just before we truly end we get
a post-credits scene teasing the return of johnny as melon boy ready for his revenge the movie does
everything you'd want from an ed edd nettie movie or finale a satisfying end that directly impacts
the characters in ways that elevate a long time coming payoff the focus shifting to making this
movie over a season 6 or trying to do both at once was the smart decision as this film is so
fine-tuned with the precision of danny antonucci and the team working on it that it didn't just
benefit from all the attention focused on it it needed the attention focus on it for it to turn
out this good the journey they take in this film isn't about eddie finding his brother it's eddie
finding himself as to not become his brother the person he's idled his whole life all rapping in
the fun of the others from the cul-de-sac and then figuring out their own situations as well for the
other ends double d finds the strength to kind of loosen up a bit and even stand up for him and his
friends even if it may be in the face of getting hurt over it ed well he just has a good time
yeah i bet your sweet bippy i did and does something that actually helps out thanks for
taking the ball out of that door it's a beautiful way to wrap up a series that meant so much to me
and so many others i would also like to add earlier on the scene in which eddie and double d
get into a boiling point argument nearly causing them to end their friendship we finally see eddie
start to break sharing his emotions and taking the blame for what had happened instead of passing the
buck as he usually tends to do it's a nice character moment my personal favorite from
the movie as it diverts from the friends break up and get back together by the end trope by
having the characters deal with these emotions and problems right then and there it felt vulnerable
and impactful towards who these characters are and how they view each other i do find the whole
ending of the show particularly fascinating from having an original end that felt kind of bleak to
seemingly coming back instantly with a different in style season five followed up by a season six
that contained an episode to then finally ending with a movie that perfectly wrapped up the series
in such a fantastic way the road to that movie ending may have been a bit rocky but the journey
that it took and that end result made it so memorable i have gushed about this show so many
times on this channel at this point and i'm sure i will gush about it many more times in the future
but for now i'm glad we could all spend some time today and look back at the shockingly weird way
ed and eddie ended i definitely want to know your thoughts on all of this in the comments as well
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