Nevertheless, Bonus Toon: The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy in "Nursery Crimes" is pretty neat.
Just like the free bonus chapters in paperback novels, I'm always wary of free episodes of other shows on television DVDs they just seem like extended advertisements to me. A very funny music video and well worth a watch. It's actually got some catchy lyrics and surreal situations (Plank playing on a swing set while everyone else is trapped in place). A 70s-style music video (including purposefully bad footage) is a ballad to Plank. The show is much better in full episodes as opposed to one-shot scenes, so this featurette is just as boring as the last.
An aristocratic voice narrates the rules of Club Ed while a montage of scenes plays on the screen. It's not really that great a feature and feels somewhat hastily thrown together. Despite the cool premise, it basically shows funny clips of each character in the show and points out why they're funny. Score: 6 out of 10 Packaging and Extras Plank's Perspective is an animated feature narrated by Johnny from the perspective of his wooden two-by-four friend, Plank. Voices and music come through clear enough, but for a show that has a lot of background action and noises, a 5.1 mix would've added a bit of extra humor to the show. This show sounds exactly the way it did on television. It's nice that Cartoon Network went the extra mile with languages, considering they skimped in a lot of other areas with this set. Score: 3 out of 10 Langauges and Audio The show comes in Dolby Digital 2.0 in English, Spanish, and French with subtitles in the same languages. The show actually looks worse here than it does on cable television. Compression artifacts and washed-out colors also make this transfer extremely weak. Interlacing problems are obvious throughout every episode. Compared to other Cartoon Network transfers, this set is lacking. Score: 3 out of 10 The Video Ed, Edd n Eddy comes in the standard format it was broadcast in. Although Ed, Edd n Eddy isn't a bad show by any means, I just can't imagine this meager set being worthwhile to anyone but the biggest and youngest fans of the show. Therefore you're actually only getting about three episodes worth of footage, a mere 83 minutes. While Warner bills this as six episodes, Ed, Edd n Eddy is the type of cartoon that fits two shorter stories into one standard 30-minute show. Unfortunately, the box is a also bit misleading. Younger viewers might not get old of this, but tweens and above will quickly tire of the show's formulaic setup. Yet all these gags get repeated episode after episode. Or the joke that the Eastern-European Rolf is consistently delighted by mundane American activities. As does the fact that Ed's little sister picks on the three guys. The fact that Johnny's best friend is a wooden board gets old really fast.
Storylines rarely change from Eddy having some stupid plan that causes the three to get in trouble. They simply go wild and allow regular childhood adventures turn into comedic epics, very over-the-top, but still linked to the way that kids act and react to strange situations.ĭespite its entertaining nature, the show does become repetitive. An episode in which the three become sailors in the local creek is a good example of how the animators developed a clever, surreal environment that most kids could probably relate to. Every bit of the show is played for the maximum comic effect, and the interactions between the characters are usually very fun. Although it lacks the genius of SpongeBob, the show still appeals to most kids. Constantly pursuing the glory of treasure and candy, the three fight against evil sisters, obsessed girls, and idiot neighbors.
In each episode, the trio interacts with the other kids in their neighborhood, usually on some harebrained scheme thought up by Eddy. The three jawbreaker-loving friends Ed (the big dumb one), Edd (the smart one), and Eddy (the brave one) fit this bill in the slapstick kid's show Ed, Edd n Eddy. As opposed to the sexually-charged comedy and action of its mature material, Cartoon Network's original shows for children rely more on traditional sight-gags and the common animated trope of two or three different characters bouncing off each others' comical personalities. While most of the praise Cartoon Network now receives for its original programming comes from the excellence of Genndy Tartakovsky and Adult Swim, there are a few lesser-known gems aimed at a younger audience.