Ed, Edd n Eddy is a 130-episode animated television series featuring a cast of characters created by Danny Antonucci. Taking place in the fictional town of Peach Creek, its number of characters is fixed at 12 (13 if Plank, a board of wood who acts as one character's imaginary friend, is included).
The show revolves around best friends Ed, Edd, and Eddy, collectively referred to as "the Eds", who live in a cul-de-sac with neighbors Kevin, Rolf, Nazz, Jimmy, Sarah, and Jonny. Three antagonistic teenage girls, known collectively as "the Kanker Sisters", live in the nearby "Park 'n' Flush" trailer park. Eddy's brother, who is mentioned throughout the series, is seen exclusively in the movie Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show. With the exception of Eddy's brother, all other characters are children or adolescents.
The series' characters have received awards and nominations at the 2002 Fancy Anvil Awards, a fictional award show broadcast on Cartoon Network. Antonucci stated the personalities of the Eds are based on personal traits of himself, and the activities of his two sons, and that the other characters are based on children he grew up with.
According to creator Danny Antonucci, the characters are based on real people from his life; the personalities of Ed, Edd, and Eddy are based on his own traits, and the activities of his two sons while the cul-de-sac children and the Kanker sisters are based on children he grew up with.[1] Rolf is based on himself and his cousins, since he grew up in a first-generation foreign immigrant household with different customs and ways of living, compared to those born in Canada.[2] Jimmy is based on one of his cousins, who spent most of his time playing with girls than boys and was rather feminine.[3] Jonny and Plank are inspired by one of Antonucci's childhood friends, a loner who spent most of his time outside with his blanket.[3] He stated that he believed it was important to add Plank, a board of wood, to the show, and that he "thought it would be really cool to do the show with Plank taking on a character of his own" and to cause Jonny to do things he would usually never do.[1] Some wanted Plank to be able to talk, smile and blink as if he was alive, but Antonucci insisted that it should be treated as a piece of wood, brought to life by Jonny's imagination.[3]
Antonucci said that the idea of children having multicolored tongues came after he saw his son and his friends with different-colored tongues because of eating different candy while he was working on a storyboard.[3] The characters went through a number of "walking cycles", a process used to determine how each character should walk or run, turn around, blink, etc. before the crew came up with the final product.[3]
Ed (Matt Hill) is the strong, airheaded, dimwitted, and considerate of the three who has very short hair. He wears a red-and-white striped shirt, a green jacket with two white stripes on each sleeve and purple-blue jeans. His skin is yellow, unlike the other characters, and he is known to laugh a lot and is happy most of the time. Ed has amazing physical strength, which is humorously worked into many of the show's plots.[4] He has no chin and a prominent unibrow (which has led to the nicknames of "Funnelhead" and "Monobrow" by Eddy). His mind is a subculture grab-bag full of comics and monster movies,[4] which he often confuses with reality, and which leads him to speak in non sequiturs almost all the time. Ed (to the misfortune of many people) is utterly at the mercy of his tyrannical younger sister Sarah and is an easy target of her manipulations, with Sarah threatening to tell their mother if she does not get her way.