Surf & Turf Wars (Part 1)

Surf & Turf Wars (Part 1) is an eddisode of Eddsworld Beyond, released on September 15, 2022. It is the first two-part eddisode of this era.
==Plot==
The eddisode opens on Edd, Matt, and Tom watching TV in Edd's apartment, sweltering due to a heatwave sweeping all of England. Edd attempts to make a witty jab at Tom, but loses his train of thought due to the heat. Matt opens a window, causing his hair to catch on fire. An advertisement for Cold Cola plays on TV, giving the gang the idea to go the beach. They get in their car and start driving as the opening credits play.
The gang arrive at the beach and Tom and Edd set up an umbrella and inflatable couch. Matt steps out of the car covered from head to toe in protective gear to shield himself from the sun. He takes one step onto the sand, only for his clothes to burn off immediately. Unfazed, Matt douses sunscreen all over his body, puts on an umbrella hat, and begins walking towards the shore while knocking people over.
Meanwhile, a tanker is cruising along the coast of the sea. The crewmates of the ship begin asking their captain about the suspicious oil drums they're hauling. The captain initially dismisses the crew because he claims he "doesn't ask questions", but makes a call to figure out where the boat is heading. The ship hits a bump, causing the captain to ask what happened, only to be sent to the brig by the crew due to him asking a question. One of the barrels falls overboard and begins drifting towards the beach.
Back at the beach, it looks like Matt is burning people with a blowtorch, but he is actually playing a video game called "The Beach: Sun, Sea, and Doom" on a flatscreen TV. An extension cord plugged into the TV stretches all the way from the beach, throughout the city, to Edd's apartment. A scientist who claims he has just found a cure for all diseases nearly trips over it before being mauled by a tiger. A random onlooker trips over the cord, unplugging the TV and breaking the scientist's formula.
Matt gets angered that his game was shut off, but Tom and Edd argue that there are plenty of other fun things to enjoy at the beach. Tom drinks a beverage called a "sea breeze", while Edd drinks his signature Cola. Irritated, Matt storms off. A man walks up to Edd and Matt to ask if they've signed up for the "Fun-petition," but the two immediately dismiss him due to it not being a real word. The man is trampled by one of the beach bullies, angering Edd. Edd and the beach bully exchange insults, before agreeing to fight in the Fun-petition, with the losing group being forced to leave the beach forever.
The referee announces the first event of the fun-petition will be a sand eating contest. Tom immediately drops to his knees and stuffs as much sand in his mouth as possible. The referee realizes his clipboard actually said watermelon eating contest, to Tom's dismay. Edd begins to eat a balloon that looks like a watermelon, only for it to pop. Edd realizes it was a prank set by the beach bullies, and declares war on them.
Meanwhile, Matt finds a quiet rocky area of the beach, brimming with sea life. He begins collecting fish in a bucket. Unbeknownst to him, the oil drum which fell off the boat gets lodged between the rocks nearby. Matt picks up a lobster which tries to grab his nose. Matt smugly remarks he doesn't have a nose, only to be stabbed in the eye by it's claws. In a panic, Matt trips over the bucket and his chin pierces into the side of the oil drum. He dislodges himself from the barrel which starts leaking black goo. Matt appears to be fine at first, but when he turns around, he begins to transform into a massive lobster-human mutant. 
==Trivia==
*"Surf & Turf Wars" is the first two-part eddisode since "The End", as well as the first two-parter of Eddsworld Beyond.
*This is the first eddisode to be released in 4K.
*This is the first eddisode to be released in 2022.
* This eddisode marks the first time we see the exterior of Tom's Apartment Complex.
*Tom's shirt now says "SKA BAND" with a checkerboard pattern instead of "STAY SAFE" with an asdfmovie character's head. 
**This is likely due to the departure of asdfmovie creator, Thomas Ridgewell.
*Many references can be seen in the background of the Edd's Apartment, including:
**Eddsworld Cereal from "Ruined".
**Matt's keys and a bowling ball, Tom's mother, from "25ft Under the Seat"
**A poster of Edd with the caption "When you're good, you're me" from "Zombeh Nation".
**A framed picture of the gang in their early teenage years. However, Tord's picture has been ripped off, most likely due to the events of The End (Part 2). 
***Tom's shirt in the photo has an Angry emote from Newgrounds.
**Tom's shovel from "Zombeh Attack".
**A framed photo of Edd and Tom wearing masks of each other's faces, similar to a panel in The Best of the Worst #2. This picture was even drawn in Edd's 2004 style.
**Edd's lucky can from "WTFuture" and "Trick or Threat".
**Matt's "groceries" from "Hammer & Fail (Part 1)".
**A poster for Space Cats from "MovieMakers".
**Tom's Apathy Man costume from Comic 317 hanging out of a backpack.
*Audio from "Slippery Slope" can be heard playing on the TV.
*Matt's shirt possibly references Edd's shirt in the funny shirt day picture from Behind the Scenes of Eddsworld.
*Tom saying "It's so hot!" and Edd saying a comeback, "You're so hot!", but then tries to change it so it sounds more like an insult is a reference to the pre-opening title sequence in "WTFuture". He does this again later in the episode to Matt, calling him a simple thing, and one of the bullies, calling him an insult.
* The shot of a dehydrated Edd saying "Yay" bears a strong resemblance to a popular meme of SpongeBob SquarePants from "Tea at the Treedome".
*Edd saying "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" and Tom thinking about something else is a reference to the near-beginning and near-end of "Fun Dead".
** The opening title sequence that plays afterward is another reference, showing the names of Edd, Tom and Matt in the same order in a creative way before Edd drives past them.
*Tom's thinking sequence is similar to a recurring segment in BBC's The Generation Game.
*The license plate on Edd's car reads "130985 SMB-D", referencing the release date of the original Super Mario Bros. game.
*Many references are hidden in the background of the beach, including: 
**An advertisement for "Jabba's Huts", referencing Jabba the Hutt from the Star Wars franchise.
**A poster for the band Red Rocket 7.
**Bluth's Frozen Banana Stand from Arrested Development.
**Chris and Zach from Hellbenders.
**Jess and Shirley from Inconsistent, a comic series created by Wayne Degen
**Fadman, the title character of a series created by Wayne Degen.
**The numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42, a frequently recurring string from the series Lost, drawn in the sand.
**A volleyball resembling Wilson from Cast Away.
**SpongeBob and Patrick's dried out/realistic forms from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
***Additionally, they were wearing SpongeBob and Patrick's clothes, and a kid resembling SpongeBob can be seen near the rockpool.
**Two people resembling Banjo and Kazooie from the Banjo-Kazooie series.
**Online artists/animators, including Steve Dorian (who passed away from COVID-19 about a year before this eddisode was released), Sr Pelo, TheAMaazing, Sydney Campbell and CommanderCat.
**A washed-up Atlantean from "25ft Under the Seat".
**Jhon from the series Work in Progress by Penny Bogert.
**Rosa (although her face is unseen), Maria and Maricela from the comic series Rosebuds by SuperDee.
**The vampire from "Matt Sucks".
**A bell bag, a message in a bottle, and froggy chair from the Animal Crossing series.
** F.L.U.D.D., graffiti of a red M, and a sand drawing of a Shine Sprite from Super Mario Sunshine.
**A pile of Garfield phones.
**Some kids from "Beaster Bunny".
**The girl from the comic "Junk Sale Part 3" and "Beaster Bunny".
*This is the first time that Edd has worn the DIR hat since "The End". He is also wearing a "Suns Out, Puns Out" shirt, possibly referencing the Instagram original from 2019, "Heatwave".
*Tom probably doesn't want to eat watermelons because his father was a watermelon according to "25ft Under the Seat".
**However, in "Fun Dead", his father is revealed to have actually been a pineapple.
*Matt being afraid of the sun, burning up and briefly having fangs possibly references him becoming a vampire in "Matt Sucks".
*The newspaper of the guy sitting on the toilet has a picture of a frog, similar to the ones seen in the Instagram original "Save The Frogs Day".
*The crew of the tanker is comprised of caricatures of the Eddsworld Beyond animators, with Penny Bogert, Billy Crinion and David Kalev-Roy voicing themselves, respectively.
*When Edd says "This means war", it might be a reference to Tord's Adventure.
*The colors of the umbrella hat worn by Matt represent him, along with Edd and Tom.
*When Tom looks up the word "this", he has a smoking pipe that blows bubbles, referencing Comic 148.
*Matt saying "This is the worst thing to happen to anyone ever!" is possibly a reference to "Hammer & Fail (Part 1)", where he says "This is the best thing ever created by anyone ever!".
* A shot of Edd opening his mouth widely to drink cola and to eat a watermelon bares a strong resemblance to a popular gif of someone laughing from an NRJ Mobile commercial.
*The fire that burns up Matt was originally going to be red and last longer.
*One of the beach bullies' designs is based on Wayne Degen
*The multi-outlet surge protector is similar to the one seen in "Climate Change".
*The straws in Tom's drink spell out his name. Also, the colors of the straws represent him, along with Matt and Edd.
*There are posters featuring Madotsuki from Yume Nikki and Ana Palomino's Zombie-Chan character on the side of the apartment complex. 
**There is also a Cool S, and some small text saying "the crabs know" and "AC 4 RC", as well as "Bacon Cola" graffiti.
*Matt befriending a lobster and later merging with it is a likely reference to Matt Hargreaves' online username, "Matt Lobster".
**Since the black goo from the NM-8 barrel merged Matt and the lobster he found, it might be capable of merging anything.
*This eddisode was originally going to be simply called "Surf and Turf".
==Development==
The eddisode was first revealed to be in production from a Patreon post in November of 2021. A short teaser called "HOT UPDATE" was released on August 26th, 2022. The teaser features an extended version of the Cold Cola commercial sequence, and a short animated update from Matt Hargreaves.
The eddisode was released on September 15th 2022, but was taken down minutes after release due to the upload containing a technical error.https://web.archive.org/web/20220916000938/https://twitter.com/Eddsworld The video was reuploaded less than an hour later.https://twitter.com/Eddsworld/status/1570486064875438080?s=20&t=3QxIU7rUqLDfiXe2Hqt9OQ
== References ==
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