My Fair Ed is an episode from Season 3 of Cartoon Network's popular show Ed, Edd n Eddy.
Plot Summary: Edd attempts to remodel his friends into proper gentlemen after they create major problems for the other kids. Initially it works, but soon Ed and Eddy begin ruining everything in attempts to "help."
My Fair Ed contains examples of:
- An Aesop: You can't forcefully change someone. They have to want to make that change in the first place.
- Artistic License: Double D informs Rolf that he used Pavlovian conditioning to improve his friends' behaviors. But Pavlovian (classical) conditioning does not involve using punishments on a subject to force an ideal behavior. That would be operant conditioning.
- Brick Joke: Ed and Eddy cause a ruckus throughout the neighborhood by chasing each other with a stalk of broccoli. Later, when Double D finds out that his Pavlovian training never worked and his friends were messing with him, he angrily whips it out again to chase them off as payback.
- Brown Bag Mask: The reformed Eds did something to force Nazz to wear a paper bag over her head.
- Circus Brat: Double D comments on how he'd have to join the circus as "The Boy with Pretzel Legs". No salt.
- Continuity Nod: Double D is annoyed that Ed destroyed his screen door, commenting his father hasn't recovered from the last time Ed destroyed it.
- Dead Serious: A non-lethal example. Kevin ties Edd's hat into knots to demonstrate what he'll do to his legs if the latter didn't keep his friends under control.
- Downer Ending: It turns out Ed and Eddy never really reformed; they were faking it for fun. Matters are made worse for Edd when Kevin ends up going after him to beat him up with a broken handle bar after he sees the latter with a broccoli he uses to chase off Ed and Eddy in revenge, which led to Ed inadvertently destroying his bike in the process.
- Fake–Real Turn: Through Edd’s method of rendering them into polite gentlemen, Ed and Eddy at first seems like they changed by assisting in helping the kids. But it soon becomes worse when they become aggressively nice by these deeds:
- Ed using his teeth to pull down Johnny’s kite stuck in the tree, which ruins it.
- Eddy doing Rolf's washing chore for him, before washing the son of a shepherd himself in the bucket.
- Ed forcefully brushing Kevin’s teeth.
- Eddy tying Jimmy's shoes together with his hair.
- Nazz given a makeover (which makes her wear a paper bag)
- Foreshadowing: When Jonny takes Plank from Edd, even after the latter kindly offered to hand him over, the former says if he wasn't so peace-loving, he'd beat the Eds up all the way to Hell, though the latter implication is covered up with the stuttering I'd, I'd- hinting his eventual behavior change by the time of The Picture Show.
- From Bad to Worse: Edd’s methods of making his friends nice only makes them much worse. Later, it's revealed that they were never "reformed" and were just messing with Edd. He is not amused when he learns this. This repeats when Edd tries to force Ed and Eddy to eat broccoli as payback but by doing so Ed while running away destroys Kevin's bike, making Kevin angrily go after Edd.
- Gone Horribly Right: Double D's 'training' seems to have redeemed Ed & Eddy at first glance, but it in fact makes them worse than ever before.
- Jerkass Ball: Ed and Eddy are at their worst here when they cause trouble for the kids, are completely callous of what would happen to Edd if he didn't get them to stop, and were all the more willing to let him face a beatdown by the kids for something THEY did to them while casually shrugging it off as a joke, all with absolutely ZERO consideration on their friend's well-being in the hands of the angry mob of kids.
- "Just Joking" Justification: When Double D scares off Ed and Eddy with broccoli at the end of the episode after they reveal they haven't actually changed and did everything on purpose to mess with him, Eddy shout back "Can't you take a joke?!" as he runs off.
- Lack of Empathy: Even after Edd had told his friends what will happen to him if he wouldn't get them under control, Eddy gives him a rather flippant reply without a single qualm whatsoever.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After messing around with everyone in the cul-de-sac, Ed and Eddy get scared off by broccoli by an angry Edd.
- Misplaced Retribution: The kids hold Edd responsible for Ed and Eddy's antics, stating that if he doesn't get them under control, he'll pay the price, with Kevin even threatening to tie Edd's legs like a pretzel for emphasis. Then again up until this point, it has been shown that Edd enables the actions of his friends especially Eddy that the kids became aware of this which is the likely reason for this.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Edd blames himself for trying to change Ed and Eddy’s behaviors after he sees that they become worse when "helping" the kids.
- Noodle Incident: Whatever the Eds did to Nazz to make her hide her face.
- Oh, Crap!: Double D gets one when he realizes that him pulling bandages off of Eddy have no effect. He has another after his attempt at Revenge by chasing after Ed and Eddy with broccoli leads to Kevin having his bike wrecked again, which Double D was not expecting to occur, and he knows he's screwed now.
- Oh, No... Not Again!: Double D's reaction when Ed walks through the screen door again.
- Overturned Outhouse: While running from Eddy and the broccoli, Ed knocks over at outhouse in Rolf's yard. A few moments later, it's revealed that Rolf was in it.Rolf: Can't Rolf have one moment of peace?
- Painful Adhesive Removal: Edd uses a Pavlov-style method of ripping band-aids off the back of Ed and Eddy's heads to curb their rude and destructive behaviors.
- Rebus Bubble: Done with Eddy when Double D threatens to remove the bandages from the back of his head again: Double D's hand + Bandage = Pain
- The Scapegoat: Edd is blamed for his friends’ reckless behavior and wreaking havoc in the cul-de-sac, despite the fact it isn’t his fault at all.
- Stock "Yuck!": Ed really hates broccoli. Eddy chasing him with a stalk of the stuff makes him run in a blind panic, causing him to wreak havoc across the Cul-De-Sac. Then Ed gets a hold of the broccoli and Eddy is now the one running for his life. In the end, both of them are chased by Edd holding the offending vegetable.
- Unwanted Assistance: The newly "reformed" Eds do their part to help the Cul-De-Sac kids which either makes their problems worse and annoys them to astounding degrees.
