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–The Plot:
It’s Valentine’s Day and love is in the air at Peach Creek High – or at least it is for May Kanker, for while she and her sisters wait outside Principal Antonucci’s office May busies herself with a hand-drawn valentine for her sweet baboo, Big Ed, the bestest boyfriend ever!
Or is he? Down another hallway Ed is less than enthused at the prospect of Valentine’s Day and all those scary, mushy girls – never fear though for he’s thought ahead and is armed with a full battery of anti-girl defences! Meanwhile Edd and Eddy have made Valentine’s Day preparations of their own, which in Eddy’s case means coming up with a way to cash in on all that gushy stuff while Edd in turn embraces the holiday as a chance to conquer that ‘upchuck of apprehension’ and proclaim one’s feelings to that special someone. He’s even got valentines for his best pals, those Great Minds of Science cards aren’t just for girls, you know!
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But while Ed is duly impressed with Double Dee’s card his reaction when May shows up to deliver hers isn’t quite what she’d hoped for and before long Ed is nowhere to be seen while Hall-Monitor Kevin is handing out detentions to Eddy AND Edd. Poor Edd’s as upset as you’d expect at this first-ever detention and to make matters worse, on his way to class he comes across May crying in a closet and of course he just CAN’T leave her like that no matter how late he’s going to be. His soft side takes over long enough to hand her a hastily-amended valentine to make up for Ed’s not-so-amorous ways but it’s too bad for him that he rushed off to class just then or he might’ve at least had advance warning, for between that card of his and a little help from some suspiciously familiar Cupids May has soon forgotten all about Big Ed and now has her heart set on a certain Head-in-Sock Ed-boy!
Back in science lab Edd’s trying to learn and getting no help at all from Ed and Eddy who are of course too busy with their own fun to take an interest in the day’s assignment. That leaves the perfect opening for May to float on up to Edd and ask to be his lab partner – Edd’s more than a little alarmed and even an unexpected burst of intellect on May’s part doesn’t seem to be putting him at ease, but wouldn’t you know that’s just when those darned mischievous mountain imps show up to shoot him with a heart-tipped arrow of his own and before you know it Edd too is wallowing in the hearts-and-flowers depths of true Valentine’s Day luurve.
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–Top Scenes:
The opening scene, our first-ever look at life outside Ed, Edd n Eddy’s usual boundaries – Peach Creek High just happens to be run by a rather familiar-sounding principal, and between that and signs like ‘Funny Hat Day Friday,’ ‘You’ll love our meatloaf,’ and ‘4-H Club Valentine’s Day Hoe-Down’ it sounds like a fun place to go, don’t you think? Admit it, you’d like to be a Peach Creek Cobbler too!
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Ed’s elaborate Valentine’s Day defences. He chows down on onions (“Girls do not like stinky breath!”), hides his face beneath the first of many paper-bag disguises he uses throughout the show (“Camouflage so girls cannot see you!”) and even pulls out a spider for his shirt (“A spider, girls hate them – Sarah said so!”) What squishy, mushy girl could ever make it past all that?
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Ed’s reaction to his spider defence: After spending a few beats in contented chuckling as it crawls up his shirt (“Ha-ha-ha, giggly!”) his brain kicks in with the sudden warning that – egads! – there’s a SPIDER on his shirt and he flies into a wild panic as he tries to wash it off. Lucky thing Edd’s there to rescue Ed and spider both!
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The drawings on Ed’s camouflage bags, which remain a running joke throughout the show: in this part we get a goofily-grinning face and a Cyclops eye, while later on he’s sporting a picture of a person picking his nose, a man fishing in a boat, and a duck (complete with “Qwack” caption in case anybody had any doubts).
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Eddy’s Valentine’s Day preparations – sighing how V-Day’s just the same ol’ same ol’ for a cool stud like him he opens his locker to unveil his latest scam: a ‘Kiss the Hunk’ kissing booth – get in line girls! And of course it comes complete with flashy disco ball that puts that certain sparkle in the air while the background music is classic Eddy and just as tacky as it gets!
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Edd’s Valentine’s cards, which are just too gloriously cheesy for words. Of course they come from the Great Minds of Science series, what else would you expect from Double Dee? We don’t get to see what Ed’s says but it seems to have something to do with the A-Bomb, and while Eddy is less than sparked by his Nicola Tessla “You Electrify Me” offering it doesn’t take long for love to evolve after May gets that “Naturally I Select You” Charles Darwin valentine. Those cards just had to be fun for AKA to come up with, don’t you think?
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Getting to sneak a peek at what’s in Ed and Eddy’s lockers, which unsurprisingly bear a strong resemblance to their rooms. Ed’s locker is overflowing with all sorts of smelly debris – he’s got everything in there from fungal sandwich and dead fish to pungent gym bag, not to mention an empty pizza box and chicken bucket, a bowling ball, model rocket, rope, and “Mega Zombie” poster – and is that a chicken picture peeking out from behind that “Psycho Tiki” poster? Meanwhile Eddy’s locker is the very height of happening with that Disco Hits album, Tom Jones belt, “I (heart) $” sign, mirror, hairbrush and – of course – photo of Eddy himself. What a guy!
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The sweet moment between Edd and May in the janitor’s closet as Edd tries to console her when she’s been spurned by Ed. Double Dee can’t help but fret about being late for class but he’d never leave anybody – not even a Kanker – in such an obvious state of distress. You’d think he’d have learned the dangers of casually handing anything remotely romantic to a girl after that flower incident with Sarah in An Ed Too Many, but apparently there are some lessons even the brightest of Ed-boys don’t pick up on very quickly!
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Marie and Lee giggling over the pictures in their Anatomy book – what ever could they have been looking at?
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Edd’s obvious unease as he senses something’s not quite right with the way May’s looking at him in science lab. That way she’s violating the laws of gravity just cannot be good, and no matter how much he tries to bury himself in his studies she just isn’t going away. And what better way to punctuate May’s lovelorn request to be Edd’s lab partner than with Ed’s explosion of catastrophic proportions – the shock conveyed by that brief animation is worth all the words even Edd could have come up with in response. You’ll have to see it for yourself if you haven’t already as description just can’t do it justice!
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–Top Lines:
Eddy: “Let’s learn! Last one to class is a – (suddenly snapping back to reality) What am I saying?”
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Ed: “Yucky, squishy, mushy girls, Double Dee!” (pulling Edd in close) “The fish have chips, my fine friend!”
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Eddy: “Ah, you babies got it light – yep, Valentine’s Day is just the same ol’ grind to this chick magnet.”
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Eddy: (explaining why no girls have yet rushed to line up at his kissing booth) “They must be freshening up in the can.”
Edd: (unimpressed) “‘In the can‘…right-o.”
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Eddy: (sourly examining the valentine Edd’s just handed him) “‘You electrify me’? Who the heck is this guy?”
Edd: (blithely enthusiastic) “Nikola Tesla, Eddy! It’s part of my Great Minds of Science Valentines series!”
Ed: (eying his A-Bomb valentine with newfound awe) “It has a mind, Eddy!”
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Eddy: (facing off against Hall Monitor Kevin) “Don’t let your brains go to your head, Mister Hall Monitor!”
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Ed: (strutting across science lab wearing the classroom skeleton): “Boy am I parched!”
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Rolf: “Rolf smells the impish scent of mountain sprites come to make mischief among us!”
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May: (whirling on Ed after he’s blown up the science lab) “Stupid! Don’t you know never to mix baric oxide with an aqueous suspension?”
Edd: (shocked) “May? I’ve never seen that side of you.”
May: “I develop a mean bathroom deodorizer, too!”
Edd: (alarmed and backing away) “Well, perhaps that’s a conversation best had in a very busy public area, yes?”