Release Date: April 13, 2007
Eddy tries to get a good school picture, so he'll inherent his brother's room. However, Kevin insults him, resulting in an ugly picture. Soon, copies are shown to everyone, resulting in everyone laughing at him.
Tropes from this episode include:
- Adults Are Useless: Despite the kids harassing Eddy in the cafeteria, none of the adult staff do anything to stop it. In fact, they only punish Eddy for apparently impersonating the principal (which was really Edd's doing).
- Bittersweet Ending: Eddy is about to get another picture taken by Edd. However, Kevin butts in and puts Eddy's ugly picture in front of the camera, thus ruining his chance to get a better picture. Then the copy machine explodes, Eddy gets in trouble for Edd's wrongdoing (impersonating the principal), and now just has to use a simple drawing to show to his mother. However, Eddy is satisfied and hopeful even with that drawing and seeing Eddy happy at the end of an episode is pretty rare.
- Butt-Monkey: Eddy throughout the episode at his worst.
- Exploding Closet: Eddy hides all the copies of the bad photo in his locker, but he also hides the copier used to make them... and still is! By the end of the episode, all the extra copies explode out of the closet and flood the entire school.
- Felony Misdemeanor: Eddy is given detention by the school for allegedly impersonating the principal.
- Fiction Isn't Fair: The kids should have been suspended from school or sent to detention for what they did to Eddy (who gets punished instead).
- Jerkass: The staff not only refuse to stop the kids from picking on Eddy, but they punish Eddy over something he didn't do.
- Jerkass Ball:
- Kevin is far nastier than usual in this episode. He not only deliberately ruins Eddy's photo shoot, but he has the other kids tease him into a nervous breakdown and then ruins Eddy's retake photo.
- As mentioned, the kids themselves (even Rolf and Nazz) grab this with their treatment of Eddy during the cafeteria scene.
- Downplayed and unintentional with Edd. When he finds out Eddy has two weeks detention because the school staff thought he impersonated the principal (it was actually the former who did), Edd backpedals and lets Eddy take the fall for it. While this doesn't exactly make him a Jerkass per se since he only did it to help out Eddy and had no intentions to get him in trouble, it was still a somewhat sleazy move on Edd's part to keep silent about it.
- Karma Houdini:
- Kevin and the other kids never receive any form of punishment for tormenting Eddy despite committing it on school grounds.
- Edd also got away for impersonating the principal, which is somehow a bigger concern for the staff than a classmate harassing another, and in fact lets Eddy take the blame for what he's done.
- Kick the Dog: Kevin having other kids harass Eddy in the show is one of the nastiest stunts he's ever pulled.
- Kids Are Cruel: The Cul-De-Sac kids are at their worst here, ridiculing Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where the latter has a breakdown.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Edd can't believe that Eddy is willing to pass off Ed's drawing as his school photo, claiming that "the lines are all wiggly". This is a little nod to the show's signature art style.
- Misplaced Retribution: Eddy gets detention for impersonating the principal, which was something that Edd did (though he only did it to save Eddy from the torment the kids gave him).
- Picture Day: The episode takes place on the day Peach Creek Elementary has the class photos taken. Eddy makes himself look nice because his mother promised to let him move into his brother's room if he took a nice picture. But when Eddy's time comes, Kevin calls him a dork just as the picture is taken, resulting in him taking a bad photo. The rest of the episode deals with Eddy's attempts to hide all copies of the photo and have Edd retake the photo (only for Kevin to ruin it again).
- Powder Gag: Ed applies "makeup" on Eddy by hitting him with a chalkboard eraser so hard Eddy goes through the chalkboard. At the end of the episode, Ed hits himself with the eraser, covering the screen in chalk powder.
- Rule of Funny: You'd think that Kevin insulting Eddy during the latter's photo shoot would prompt Eddy to glare angry, not look like he's going to throw up.
- Selective Enforcement: None of the staff stop the kids from harassing Eddy, yet they are quick to punish Eddy when they mistakenly believe he impersonated the principal.
- Skewed Priorities: The staff members seem to be more concerned over somebody impersonating the principal than their students tormenting a classmate into a nervous breakdown.
- Stop Hitting Yourself: Played with; when all the kids are wearing a copy of the photo as masks in the cafeteria, Lee wears one too, drags Eddy under a table, and continuously kisses him while keeping him pinned. Each time she kisses him, she pauses just to say "stop kissing yourself" before kissing him though her makeshift mask again.
- Sucky School: While Peach Creek Junior High was already presented as one from the start, this episode really exemplifies it. Not only does the staff openly ignore the bullying Eddy receives from his peers, but they also punish him for something out of his control.
- "Take That!" Kiss: Lee does this to Eddy while wearing one of his embarrassing photos as a "mask" to make him "kiss himself".Lee: Muaah! Stop kissing yourself. Muaah! Stop kissing yourself. Muaah! Stop kissing yourself. Muaah! Stop kissing yourself. Muaah! Stop kissing yourself.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: The ending for Eddy. He likes Ed's drawing of him and happily claims that it will work for a school photo. It's unknown if his mom will like that, but at least it gives Eddy hope again.
- Trauma Conga Line: This is what Eddy experiences in this episode. Kevin ruins his photo, his peers bully him for it, Kevin ruins his retake photo, and Eddy himself ends up in detention for something he didn't do. At the very least, he does become hopeful at the end.
- With Friends Like These...: Downplayed. Double D lets Eddy take the blame for his actions, nor does he confess or apologize. Granted, he only did it to help out Eddy from being tormented by the kids and never intended to get him in trouble, but it was still rather shady for him to keep silent about it.
