Why in the hell was Edd friends with Ed and Eddy? He only gets shit from the other kids by being with them...

Why in the hell was Edd friends with Ed and Eddy? He only gets shit from the other kids by being with them, but when not, barely anyone minds him.

Without them he would be bored af 24/7.
None of the other kids are smart enough or dumb enough to entertain him.

wasnt there an "origins" style episode about this?

Probably partially this. None of the other kids have a reckless enough nature to let Double D let loose on his tinkering intellect.

And possibly a nurturing instinct making him make sure they don't get themselves killed.

He's friends with them so they can all get jawbreakers.

he could've easily be friends with Kevin for that seeing how it's been shown the latter is only wary of him because of being with Eddy

Why didnt he just fuck Nazz?

He, like Ed and Eddy, has an insatiable lust for jawbreakers.

Because he likes hanging out with them.
Why is anybody friends with anybody?

because his name is Edd

I swear I've seen this same thread with almost the exact same wording if not the same

Even the replies seem similar

>Hanging out with Kevin
>"Haha dorks dorks dorks Nazz vagina dorks muh bike dorks dorks".
>Hanging out with the retarded kid who's friends with a piece of wood
>Hanging out with Sara and her beta
>Hanging out with Rolf who smells like manure
>Hanging out with the disgusting Kankers
>Too much spagett to hang out with Nazz

>Not hanging out with the people who have the same name as you and the same lust for jawbreakers as you.

Plus eddy let's double d experiment the shit out of things.

None of the other kids in the neighborhood have a weekly need for elaborate mechanisms. Edd doesn't really have the ambition to do anything with his own skills, so he latches onto someone that does.

hanging out with Eddy and Ed allows him to create stuff that he enjoys through Eddy's schemes. the other kids don't do things that call for it

They are 3 losers without friends. Do you think Ed would hang out with Sarah and Jimmy? No fucking way. Maybe Ed would prefer Johnny and Plank, which probably wouldn't entertain Ed.

Who would Eddy hang out with? Fucking Rolf? Fat chance.

Eddy's wild plans give Ed something to be excited over and Edd something to use his brains for. The 3 of them fit pretty well, given the small cul-de-sac of kids they could pair with.

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The Ed crew are a great bunch of engineers and Edd would be bored to tears without the other two. Naz, Jimmy et al. don't build shit.

Kinda weird that this show never introduced new characters, or even had one off characters. Kinda seemed to limit the stories that could be told.

It was still decent though. Edd was the best of the three.

>why didn't he abandon his friends to hang out with more popular people when he could

This.


I really can't see DD interacting alone with any of the others for much time. He could be that guy that most people like to be next to, but he would never develop a deep friendship with them, same goes with Ed.

Weirdly, I think that Eddy is their glue, and also the one that gives them a bad reputation.

>Eddy's wild plans give Ed something to be excited over and Edd something to use his brains for. The 3 of them fit pretty well, given the small cul-de-sac of kids they could pair with.
This is really the crux of their dynamic, and speaks to how well they work together. Eddy gives them direction, Edd has the smarts to make it work and Ed has the brawn to actually put it into motion. If you remove one element, the other two fail to come into being.

It's also important to think of it this way when looking at Eddy's value to the group. Out of the three, he has the most "people skills". Even if the cul-de-sac doesn't trust him worth a shit, they still at least look at his scams because he's a phenomenal showman and is able to make something out of nothing in fucking moments. Upon seeing the radiator removed from Johnny's kitchen, do you honestly think either Ed or Edd would have thought to create a spa for the kids? Probably not, because neither one think the same way as Eddy. That isn't to say his resource-driven mentality is flawless (and ties into what is perhaps one of his worst attributes: at times seeing his friends as tools to be utilized instead of people), but it is important to who he is as a character.

Honestly, if Eddy stopped being hilariously short-sighted and also didn't regularly get fucked over by the universe for a cheap laugh he'd be on his way to being a pretty successful Businessman. Or Conman, which probably pays better.

bump

Kill yourself

He was the new kid on the block and a big nerd

That's why it was so good. Not being filled with people who are in one episode

There are even episodes that display what happens when one of the three are out of commission

Well his dad is a car salesman so we know where that comes from

That episode where Ed goes back too far that Edd was the new kid and met Ed and Eddy first

which ones?

misfits attract misfits

There was the one where eddy lost his voice

>He only gets shit from the other kids by being with them, but when not, barely anyone minds him.

Without them
>barely anyone minds him

That's the problem, he's too autistic to seek for the other kids attention, whether he even needs that or not as entertainment, notice how it was usually Eddy n Ed ringing his doorbell for him to come out and play.

I don't think the others would've ever bothered and perhaps that's why, while associating with the two Eds usually brings him in trouble due to Eddy's money scamming obsession and thirst for being the center attention of the cul de sac, it is easier for him to socialize, even if it's just a little, through Eddy's forwardness and Ed's simpleness, he probably has read one too many books to figure out his own capabilities and success at becoming friends with them on his own, parents probably told him he should go outside and make friends, Eddy & Ed seek him and he gets something out of it too, it's why he never ditches them despite having reached numerous times to the conclusion that those two are bad influences throughout the show & movie.

At the end of the day, it's all he got when it's not sticking labels around his house or reading more books.

There is also one where Ed becomes the leader and he makes them to remake some kind of demonic ritual he read in a comic book

There was also one where Eddy had a bad day and didn't have any good ideas for a scam.
There were actually a lot of episodes where Eddy was out of comission, but I can't remember any for the other two.

Maybe the one where Ed was grounded but I don't remember how that played out.

>possibly a nurturing instinct making him make sure they don't get themselves killed

pretty much this. The reason why the Ed boys aren't dead is because of Double D. In the movie he objected to Eddy's brother being a prick because he wasn't being a good role model of all things.

this tbhfam. It's not as though he's the Butters of the group and just suffers constant abuse. They clearly enjoy one another's company. Even Eddy realizes the value of their unit.

>You're supposed to be the smart one, Double D! You're throwing off our dynamic!

pretty sure the episode where Sara went to the jawbreaker factory and ate them all inadvertently made me a furry

Because in Season 1 they actually liked each other. You can see them hanging out and doing shit, reading comics and building a clubhouse and playing make-believe in the junkyard.
Their personalities kinda got warped later on. Eddy became a Jew that sold out his cohorts for personal gain, Double D got all anal retentive and worried about Ed and Eddy affecting the other kids' opinion of him, and Ed became too stupid to notice anything happening around him. It stopped being a trio of misfits-turned-comrades and became a greedy asshole bossing around a spineless, bitchy wimp and a retard.

They're just friends bruh, not every group gets along perfectly. You don't need to analyze that shit.

When did that happen?