One Of Those Eds - Alternate/Deleted Scenes
Thanks to Scott "Diggs" Underwood for sharing these in this interview he did for Concept Art Empire!
'One of Those Eds' is one of my favorite season 4 episodes, and a while back, Scott Diggs posted these lost scenes that reveal quite a different early interpretation of the episode's outline!
First up, an incredibly different approach to Eddy's mattress scam. Eddy is in some sort of an exaggerated doctor outfit, directly acknowledges that he kidnapped Jonny, and tries harder to do a bit with Jonny about how tired Jonny is. In this version, Jonny is not ready for his 3pm nap and is instead wide awake. I prefer the aired episode's much simpler interpretation, but Doctor Eddy is cute.
Eddy sits Jonny on a shopping cart or something.
Eddy: "Sorry for the kidnap but it's an emergency."
Eddy: "You've got all the symptoms... (drapes handbags over Jonny's eyes) You've got bags under your eyes."
Eddy does bits sometimes, but this feels pretty heavy-handed, lmao. Jonny having a sarcastic response feels very out of character, sounds more like an Edd response to Eddy's joke.
The handbag handles effectively lower Jonny's eyelids.
Eddy: "Eyelids gettin' heavy..."
Eddy: "Why, you can barely walk!"
Jonny: "These bags are heavy!!"
Eddy: "Denial is the last symptom."
Eddy looks woefully as Jonny walks forward until the bags falls off his eyes, Jonny looks at Plank.
Again, Doctor Eddy is an adorably design, and a scene focused on Jonny's walk cycle has a nice season 1 feel to it, but this is all a bit much for this dumb scam, and Jonny's backtalk continues to feel out of character and a little too obvious of a bad idea for deception.
On this page, we learn that 'One of Those Eds' originally had the much more straight-forward title, 'Eds-Calibur'. Come to think of it, I guess this is another parody episode in a way... Guess season 4 was loosening up on the non-parody rule from the series bible.
We also learn specifically why Edd arranged the kids' Quarter Removal lineup in the order he did...
Edd: "You have been placed in a lineup in the fairest way possible... Namely, of course, brain mass to cranium girth ratio."
Eddy to Ed: "So how come YOU'RE in front of ME?"
Ed: "Swelling, Eddy!" (points finger... up Eddy's nose)
Edd: "It appears you're..." (starts to open the rope for Jimmy)
Edd was trying to low-key put brains ahead of brawn, even when it put his friends at a disadvantage... Also that's an extremely troubling gag that Ed is apparently suffering from cerebral edema, pretty glad that's cut, hehe.
Edd: "It appears you're first, Jimmy."
[Kev and Rolf speak off screen while Eddy watches Jimmy nervously]
Rolf: "A sour chance at best."
In this version, we see Jimmy's attempt-- hard to tell from the sketch but I think he's still using his eyelash curler. However, the outcome is less interesting in this one, it doesn't injure him, he just runs home crying over his failure.
In the aired episode, we don't see his attempt at all, and it's implied his curler curled some part of him that required an ambulance. The cut to his house would've felt a little out of place, since that episode's camera is notably pretty fixed on the location of the quarter. I believe the beginning with the mattress scam is the only departure from that stretch of sidewalk between the cul-de-sac and the playground the entire episode.
Rolf: (offscreen) "Idiot Box." (I believe that's the end of dialogue that is still in the episode?)
(Rolf squeezes open a miniature barrel of beets and chomps 'em)
Now we skip ahead to Rolf's turn and Eddy's very worried. Rolf does a Popeye parody and I think that's why Danny wasn't into it. He likes a Popeye reference as much as the next guy, but this is a bit specific for this show.
Edd: "Um... Rolf? If we could just quickly review current copyright law."
(Rolf's arms become goat heads and DING Edd away, Rolf's tongue flexes a big muscle with a little animated tractor imagined within it)
Eddy: (pressing down the rope in stress) "AAAH..."
Rolf: (gears up for attack) "SHASHBYATROT!!"
Rolf's tongue with the tractor image in its muscle is a pretty funny switcharoo from how Popeye's gag goes, but Rolf's arms randomly turning into goat heads for one moment just to bop Edd is a bit far to take the surrealism. That art of Rolf's reflection in the quarter is awesome though, they should've found a way to put that in.
