visual gags that are well made and smart
Maybe this is a bold statement and this wasn't even one of my favorite cartoons back then but there's honestly been very little television animation as alive and involved as Ed Edd and Eddie either before or since. John K's era of Ren & Stimpy still gets upheld by some of animation fandom as the most cartoonest cartoon ever cartooned but it's like stiff yogi bear tier animation when compared to any single minute of Eds.
Ed Edd n Eddie's slapstick and visual gags are god tier and they're only further enhanced by quite possibly the most unique sound design out of any cartoon, so much so that it's been made a meme in recent years.
While Ren and Stimpy was being incredibly by the books with its sound effects, Ed Edd n Eddy was adding stock burp sound effects to impacts or yodeling for offscreen characters moments before they crash into shot. It's incredibly surreal even to this day and nothing has ever quite come to match it!
