Needless to say, viewers have increasingly sensed that this show is filled with assholes, or at least with those using serious amounts of a-hole energy. Some of them, however, are more than correct on their observations:
- Sarah displays this trope a few times in the series:
- There's an episode where Rolf needs Ed to babysit his farm animals. Ed ends up leading them into his (Ed's) house, tracking dirt all the while. Sarah yells at him that he can't keep the animals there. As obnoxious as she was about it, she was right that Ed should've kept them outside. Double D also agrees that Ed should take care of them elsewhere, and even adds that Sarah has a point.
- Sarah also has a point in the episode "Brother, Can You Spare An Ed." She's saved up her allowance to buy fudge, and asks Ed to go to the candy store for her to get it; Eddy convinces Ed to buy jawbreakers instead. While it wasn't an entirely smart thing to give Ed spending money, it was still hers, and she genuinely wasn't looking for the Eds' trouble in this particular episode, which means that her Hair-Trigger Temper is justified in this case.
- She has every right to be upset that the Eds (well, mostly Eddy) stole her diary in "For Your Ed Only".
- Her kicking Eddy out in "Jingle Jingle Jangle." Considering of how he ate Jimmy’s gingerbread house, she has every right to be angry.
- The kids in general are crueler in their response to the Eds as the show goes on, but by that time, they're not entirely wrong about the damage that the Eds cause with their shenanigans. The Eds also keep trying to scam them out of their money on a daily basis, goodwill only lasts for so long, and the Eds clearly aren't stopping when the kids try to be polite about it. The movie is basically the point the kids hit the breaking point when the Eds finally go too far.
- As much as a jerkass as Kevin was in "Ed in a Halfshell" when he insulted Eddy's scam, Edd comments on how Kevin was right about how ridiculous the scam was.
- Also in "Mission Ed-Possible", Kevin has right to be angry at Double D for stealing and destroying his bike when the latter was trying to deliver Ed and Eddy’s report cards.
- Jimmy became more prone to holding the Jerkass Ball and becoming a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing in later seasons, especially with his actions towards the Eds. He does, however, have good reasons for his contempt towards the Eds. The Eds constantly get him injured with their shenanigans and their scams, and Eddy constantly bullies him. It was even proven that the Eds were the reason why Jimmy was going through orthodontic treatment (they sold him a bowling pin masked as a treat).
- Eddy, despite being a Jerkass to the extreme, actually does manage to rightly call out others for their own stupid/Jerkass behavior.
- When Ed goes out of control in "The Day the Ed Stood Still" because of his overactive imagination, Double D tries to pin the blame on Eddy even though he had little to no control of the situation (And to be fair, Eddy would go on to spend the entire episode trying to find a way to profit off Ed's rampage). Eddy defends himself by rightfully pointing that it was Double D's idea to create the monster suit for Ed in the first place, not to mention Double D himself should've been aware of Ed's wild imagination, to begin with. Also at this point, Eddy had simply described what had happened to Double D, he hadn't been trying to assign blame or anything of the sort. Double D's immediate response once discovering this was to blame Eddy, which just makes the latter's rebuttal more fitting.
- In "It Came From Outer Ed" Eddy has every right to be pissed at Double D for encouraging Ed to plan out a scam, who, while being a lovable oaf, isn't really the best to plan a scam. It culminates in Eddy unrightfully being beaten up by Sarah and not making any money. Along with Ed seemingly causing a real curse on the gang.
- In "Ed or Tails" Double D decides they should split a Jawbreaker in half instead of leaving Ed out. Eddy rightfully brings up that it's Double D's fault the plan failed (mostly because it's really difficult to split up a hard piece of candy) but Double D acts like he wasn't the cause of losing the first Jawbreaker.
- He brings a good point to Ed with how unhealthy the latter's relationship with Sarah is, with Ed doing everything for his sister, while Sarah gives him nothing but abuse. Given the reveal of how much of a toxic relationship he had with his own sibling, Eddy is more likely looking out for Ed by experience.
- In "Eds-Aggerate," he makes up the lie about the "Mucky Boys" to Kevin to avoid getting punishment from him. When Edd calls him out for this, Eddy notes that if he told Kevin the truth, Kevin would just beat the Eds up since his go-to response to any slight is to thrash the offender regardless of apologies.
- When Edd asks them why he is always the only one working on their assignments, Eddy points out that if he and Ed did help, Edd's grade average would lower, which Double D would never allow.
- In "Truth Or Ed," when looking over the school newspaper, Eddy obnoxiously says that scandal sells. Given how people like to pay attention to scandalous things, he's actually right.
- In "Run for Your Ed", when Edd chides Eddy for encouraging Ed to sacrifice himself to the Kanker sisters to return them their Ship-Inna-Bottle, Eddy retorts that it was Ed taking the bottle in the first place that prompted the Kankers to go on a rampage in the cul-de-sac and break into Edd's house.
- When Edd enlists the Urban Rangers to rescue Ed in "Ed Overboard", Eddy calls them out for only being interested in saving Ed for a "Freeing of the Fool" medallion.
- During "Urban Ed" he chastises Ed for dropping an anvil during their "pigeon droppings" prank, telling Ed "You're gonna hurt somebody! This ain't a cartoon!"
- In "All Eds Are Off," while he is obnoxious about it, Eddy was correct in saying that he had an easier time of giving up his habit of yelling than everyone else, including Ed and Edd, who struggled without gravy and using big vocabulary words, respectively.
- While Eddy had brought it on himself to earn their hatred for him, Eddy in return has every right to hate both Kevin and Sarah, especially the former, as both of them are crueler to the Eds than the other kids, Sarah mistreats one of his best friends on a regular basis and is a spoiled, tyrannical, bossy brat, and Kevin, who constantly humiliated him and sometimes gives him and his friends a hard time when unprovoked.
- In the movie, Double D hits his Rage Breaking Point and angrily lashes out at Eddy for his irresponsibility, pride and never listening to him. Eddy fires back at Double D, however, pointing out that for all his supposed moral high ground, he still goes along with Eddy's schemes even against his better judgement and he's the one who built the machine that triggered the Noodle Incident that got them chased out of the cul-de-sac in the first place. It becomes a case of Both Sides Have a Point when Double D disputes that they wouldn't have been chased out of town had Eddy bothered to pay attention to him when he warned Eddy against pushing the red button that caused the whole scam to go haywire.
