Edward and Eric/Tropes

***Edward and Eric*** is an animated Kids' WB series, and the ninth entry for the aforementioned block. Not counting *Pokémon*, it is easily the longest-running and most iconic of them all. Initially airing as a series of shorts that lasted from May 4, 1996 to August 2, 1997, it officially premiered on September 5, 1998 and ended its run on December 31, 2011. The series was created by Gary Sauls, who originally thought of the roots for the series for a short he made in college. It remained untouched, until he decided to revisit the concept ten years later, feeling it had potential. The rest is history.

The series revolves around the titular pair of brothers, Edward and Eric Pearson. Sounds normal, right? Well, they are polar opposites. Edward is an easygoing and rather arrogant nerdy Neat Freak who regularly builds inventions that far surpass our world's technology. Eric is much more laid-back, but has a heart much bigger than his own brain. They have a small circle of friends, otherwise known as The Lucky 6, which consists of Joey Maldanado, the short-tempered (literally) egotist, Stanley Breault, the wealthy, father-like con artist, Dallas Jones, the wise muscle of the group, and Constantinos Gargano, the weak pushover who has things go wrong for him no matter what.

The characters live in Lakeside City, which is the only city in New York's sixth borough, Lakeside. While it may look like an average American major city, you should always remember looks can be deceiving; it is actually a Crapsack World. Lakeside is infested with high crime rates, abysmal "education" and a corrupt police force. In fact, it is so terrible that it's usually left off of official maps for New York. But it doesn't stop The Lucky 6 from going on adventures on an every day basis without adult supervision. However, these adventures are never immune to either spiraling out of control, or getting interrupted by supernatural phenomena.

They attend school at...Lakeside City School, which is officially regarded as the worst boarding school in the country. Since it's the only school in Lakeside, it holds every single grade. Fortunately, each student at the school stands out by having a unique personality. But what's not so fortunate is that it's run by the greedy, sociopathic Principal Walker, and the mild-mannered, albeit submissive vice principal, Mr. Goodman; by this point, it should be clear things aren't always pretty for The Lucky 6. They regularly have to deal with conflicts initiated either by Walker, or the local bully, Carver Brutus. Carver is almost always accompanied by his hilariously contrasting friend, Blake Jefferson, his slutty girlfriend, Lola Moretti, and Gurney Poundstone, the clumsy adult who acts much younger than his age.

With a 13-year run (15 if you count the shorts) consisting of 202 episodes (counting School of Hard Knocks and My Ed Academia), a theatrical movie, two made-for-TV movies, and even a Broadway musical, it is definitely the most successful cartoon from Warner Bros. The series has received acclaim from both fans and critics alike, although in recent years, it has received some flack from certain "cartoon reviewers" due to its "mean-spirited" humor of putting characters through hell, even if one (arguably) doesn't deserve it. That hasn't stopped the show from having a cult following, however. You know, unless you're a fan of Mr. Enter.

The continued popularity of the series has resulted in the creation of 3 spinoff shows. The first of which, Tony and Esmond, which debuted in 2018, shifts the spotlight away from the Pearson brothers, instead focusing on the exploits of Tony Gibbler, Old Man Esmond and Tamara Pound. The second spinoff, Edward and Eric: Dummies & Dragons, which debuted in 2022, puts a medieval twist on the Edward and Eric universe and its characters. The third spinoff, Edward and Eric: Before Lakeside, which debuted in 2023, focuses on the lives of Edward, Eric and Paul before they moved to Lakeside.

## Main Characters

### **The Lucky 6**

#### **As a Whole**

* **Five-Man Band** :
	+ **The Leader/The Smart Guy** - Edward
	+ **The Lancer/The Heart** - Eric
	+ **The Bully** - Joey
	+ **The Trickster** - Stanley
	+ **The Big Guy** - Dallas
	+ **Sixth Ranger** - Constantinos

#### **Edward Pearson**

**Voiced by:** Andrew Rannells

The main protagonist of the series. Edward is a well-mannered fourteen-year-old teenager who attends high school at Lakeside City School. He has a remarkable IQ and an undying love for science. He has been creating inventions ever since he was a fetus and always whips up a gadget whenever problems arise. He is the founder, leader and brains of his group of friends, The Lucky 6. The show revolves around Edward and his various adventures.

* **Amusing Injuries** - He's been dismembered, crushed like a pancake, beaten by all sorts of people (bullies, thugs, aliens, robots, etc), kicked in the nuts, burnt to dust, melted into a pile of liquid, blown to pieces, had his flesh ripped off, had the entire multiverse blow up in his face, and among others.
* **Action Survivor** - Survives countless of antics that would kill anyone in real life. Just like any other cartoon character, of course.
* **Arch-Enemy** - Edward has dealt with countless of villains throughout the years, but his biggest ones (in order from most threatening) are Snodgrass, Principal Walker and Carver.
* **Butt-Monkey** - Obviously nowhere near to the extent of Constantinos, but Edward regularly gets bullied at school and is incredibly prone to Amusing Injuries.
* **Catchphrase** - Catchphrases are practically non-existent in the series, but Edward tends to say "Oh dear", "Oh my", "Have mercy" or anything like that in distressing situations.
* **Collector of the Strange** - Collects dust mites and has an entire room filled with all sorts of clocks.
* **Companion Cube** - Before Oscar, he had a pet rock.
* **The Everyman** - This is what Edward's character is built off of. Despite his impossibly high intelligence, Edward still acts like how most normal teenagers would, has a relatively normal family, and goes through everyday situations just like anybody else in the real world.
* **Expy**:
	+ Edward gets compared to Izuku Midoriya from My Hero Academia a LOT.
		- Both are the main protagonists of franchises that take place in worlds filled with characters who have unique powers and personalities.
		- Both are highly intelligent, encyclopedic and optimistic teenage nerds with somewhat high-pitched voices who tend to come off as socially awkward, especially around girls.
		- They have Youthful Freckles.
		- Both have characters who despise them (Bakugou for Izuku's case, and too many to count for Edward), but neither of the two ever hate them back.
		- Their best strengths come from outside sources (inventions for Edward, and an inherited superpower for Izuku).
		- Both will always help out people in need no matter what it takes, and they regularly save the day from bizarre threats.
		- Both are huge Butt Monkeys, to the point where they have been bullied at some point in their lives (Izuku was relentlessly bullied during his childhood for being Quirkless, whereas Edward is a target of Carver's bullying at times).
	+ Fans usually compare him to Jimmy Neutron, as both are polite prodigies who regularly invent gadgets and get understandably irritable when said inventions are tinkered with. Both are also unpopular students who have a small friend circle, and they are accompanied by an intelligent pet incapable of speech.
		- It doesn't help that both of their shows have a surreal sense of humor, and are one of the (in E&E's case, *the*) longest-running shows on their respective channels.
* **Neat Freak** - Absolutely *hates* filthiness and is always extremely cautious when he's about to do an activity that involves getting his hands dirty. He also tries his best to keep things organized.
* **Out of Focus** - Despite what the show's name suggests, many of the later episodes tend to focus more on other characters, with Edward only appearing in the form of cameos. This slowly started in Season 3 before going into full effect once S4 rolled around. This isn't exactly a bad thing though, since that meant more Character Development for everybody else - even the least expected characters (e.g. Charles Munsen in Playing With Fire).
* **The Cast Showoff** - I mean, he's literally voiced by a goddamn Broadway star.
* **The Smart Guy** - In case you didn't notice it, Edward is easily the smartest character in the series. He has been inventing gadgets for all his life - starting from when he was a fetus - and compared to his peers, he possesses sophisticated vocabulary.
* **Youthful Freckles** - Has these, which go with his nerdiness.

#### **Eric Pearson**

**Voiced by:** Josh Peck

The deuteragonist of the series. Eric is Edward's younger twelve-year-old brother who is a kindhearted, clumsy and absurdly strong doofus. Although he has a small brain, he has a big heart. He is very lazy and dimwitted in contrast to his hardworking, intelligent older brother. The Season 3 episode Eric = mc2 reveals the reason behind Eric's lack of proper intelligence - a piece of a Frosted Puff is lodged in his brain. Without it, he is a genius, even more so than Edward.

* **Acrofatic** - Definitely not as strong as Dallas or Stanley, but Eric's strength is on top of Joey's. It's hard to remember Eric is chubby, but for someone who can lift up trees and even *an entire building*, he's far from your average, plump 12-year-old. His strength is more emphasized in his superhero form, The Bulk.
* **Big Eater** - Obviously not as much as Tony, but Eric consumes enormous amounts of junk food, especially late at night. This is emphasized in the Season 4 episode, Snack Attack.
* **Characterization Marches On** - View Too Dumb to Live below.
* **Don't Tell Mama** - Whenever he does something unruly in front of Edward, he might beg him to "not tell Mom" even though she's divorced.
* **Dumbass Teenage Son**
* **Too Dumb to Live** - Eric is portrayed this way in the first 2 seasons, to the point where he forgot how to breathe in one episode. Later seasons portray Eric as a Ditz instead.
* **Verbal Tic** - Sometimes speaks after a character does, repeating a key word or phrase from their sentence (such as saying "Happy!" and "Us!" in Retain Your Sanity).
	+ This is key evidence towards the popular "Eric has autism" fan theory.

#### **Joey Maldanado**

**Voiced by:** Wayne Grayson

A self-absorbed thirteen-year-old whose height is in contrast with his ego. Joey pursues the gang's adventures with determination that borders on his selfishness.

* **Acrofatic** - It's not really noticeable when he has clothes on, but Joey has been shown to be quite chubby for someone his age. Despite this, he is one of the most agile members of the group (only behind Dallas and Stanley), usually performing parkour and jumping over fences and whatnot. He is also capable of lifting up objects that would be impossible for a regular human to carry. Also, whenever the gang is seen running, he is usually one of the members seen in the front.
* **Attention Whore** - Almost always joins whatever the gang is up to, just for the sake of his ego.
	+ Sometimes averted (hence the "almost"), as there are moments where he'll actually be concerned about the safety of his friends.
* **Berserk Button** - It's not difficult at all to piss off Joey, but making fun of his height or his near-baldness really sets him off.
* **Bratty Half-Pint** - He's short, and definitely a brat.
* **Brilliant, but Lazy** - Joey's more talented than his shitty grades and aggressive attitude show.
* **Book Dumb** - Joey may be creative in coming up with schemes, but outside of that, not so much. In Escape from Detention, when he was shown a colored map of the world's continents, he thought the continents were "a bunch of PEGOs mashed together". He also thought San Francisco was a city in Italy in one episode, and whenever his handwriting is shown...it's certainly not the best. Same can be said for his grammar.
* **Born Unlucky** - Even in episodes where he hasn't done anything, he is still the victim to a *lot* of slapstick.
	+ To a lesser extent than Constantinos, of course.
	+ On that note, Sauls himself has stated that there is a clear difference between Joey and Constantinos facing bad luck. When Joey faces bad luck, it's for humor, but when Constantinos faces bad luck, the audience is meant to sympathize.
* **The Bully** - It's no secret that Joey is sour towards anybody in his path, but the friends he loves to tease the most are Edward and Constantinos, which usually leads to him getting punched in the arm by Dallas.
* **Bullying a Dragon** - Does this to the King Wasp in Frantic Sensations. He calls it names and even throws rocks at it. Unsurprisingly, this ends up in him getting stung very, *very* badly.
* **Bully Magnet** - While he can be The Bully in his circle of friends (and in general), Joey has been cruelly picked on for his height, his Charlie Brown Baldness, his spot at lunch time (near a trash can), his unpopularity at school, etc.
* **Catchphrase** - "Shut up, (name)!"
	+ Also tends to say "Mother?" when he's about to endure loads of pain.
	+ His nicknames towards other characters (e.g. "Four Eyes" to Edward, "Einstein" to Eric, "Muscles"/"Junior" to Dallas, and so on) could count as catchphrases as well.
* **Charlie Brown Baldness** - He only has a few tiny strands of hair on his head.
* **Expy** - Is compared to Joey Wheeler VERY frequently. Aside from the fact that they share the same first name, they both have arrogant, loud-mouthed personalities. They both have Brooklyn accents, and are one of the best friends of their show's respective main character. Not to mention, they're both voiced by Wayne Grayson.
	+ Sometimes gets compared to Squidward Tentacles as well, given that they're bald (or nearly bald, in Joey's case), pessimistic, selfish, manipulative, have gone through the worst injuries imaginable, will go through bad luck as part of their comeuppance, believe themselves to be "misunderstood" artists, and tend to overestimate their intelligence, talents and maturity overall.
* **Hypocritical Humor** - Likes to call Constantinos "Short Stack", even though he's the shortest member in the gang.
	+ Also prone to calling Tony "Jughead", "Pork"/"Porkchop", "Bacon" or "Piggy" even though he's sometimes shown to be rather chubby whenever he's shirtless.
* **Large Ham** - Oh god. He may as well be the main example of this trope.
	+ It gets funnier when you realize he's the shortest Lucky 6 member. Speaking of which...
* **The Napoleon** - Joey is easily the shortest member of The Lucky 6, standing at only 5'4. He also has a temper to match.
* **The Nicknamer** - Joey has insulting nicknames for everybody he knows (Except for Stanley), including "Four-Eyes" for Edward, "Neanderthal" for Eric, "Junior" for Dallas and "Noodle Arms" for Constantinos
* **Throw the Dog a Bone** - It's rare (probably more rare than Squidward having moments of success), but Joey does have a few episodes ending well for him.
	+ In Opposites Day, he manages to prove Eric isn't him by eating an entire basket of evergreen blackberries, which Eric can't resist. Although he does go through an allergy reaction due to completely forgetting he's allergic to them, at least the episode ends with him happy.
	+ Snake Zone has Joey believing he's going to get eaten alive by cuddly stuffed snakes after Mr. Goodman exaggerates a tale about them (it is eventually revealed he did so to get Walker out of his recliner). The episode ends with everybody cheering for him and happily walking away with him. After having to deal with Joey's shit for two seasons, you'd think they wouldn't be happy to see him...
* **Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist** - In most episodes centered around him.
* **Vitriolic Best Buds** - With Stanley.

#### **Stanley Breault**

**Voiced by:** Edward Felker

A cunning and slick-talking fifteen-year-old who takes great pride in scamming greedy people out of their money and/or success. Underneath that exterior, however, Stanley a trusting, loyal friend who often serves as a father figure to those around him.

* **Characterization Marches On** - In The Haunted Recliner, Stanley acts wildly out-of-character by being a remorseless egotist. This was acknowledged in the episode's audio commentary, with Sauls stating that this "was an experiment, since this was during the first season".
* **Only Sane Man** - He frequently ends up as the victim of this, although not nearly as often as Dallas does.
* **Out of Focus** - Despite being one of the show's main characters, he has the least amount of focus episodes compared to The Lucky 6's other members.
* **The Trickster** - Stanley is known to have a natural talent for flawlessly scamming greedy people out of every cent they own.
* **Vitriolic Best Buds** - With Joey.

#### **Dallas Jones**

**Voiced by:** Dan Green

An athletic, rational and loyal sixteen-year-old who is easily the strongest member of the group - actually, that's an understatement: THE strongest character in the series. Dallas is extremely protective of his loved ones and is willing to do anything for the safety of his friends. He has an undying rivalry with Carver, though it has been implied they were friends as kids.

* **Academic Athlete** - Of course, he's not as smart as Edward, but Dallas is very wise with giving advice and knowledgeable in several sorts of subjects. His report cards mostly consist of As and some Bs.
* **Action Hero** - Dallas isn't your average sixteen-year-old. He is monstrously superhuman and is never afraid to get physical. He is highly trained in all sorts of martial arts, as well as parkour and sports. Claims to have been wrestling bears, wolves and alligators ever since he was ***an infant***.
* **Berserk Button** - Mess with his friends and he'll be out for your blood before you know it.
* **Beware the Nice Ones** - There's no doubt Dallas is kind and willing to help out people, but if you mess with his friends or if your name is Carver Brutus, then you're done for.
* **Deadpan Snarker** - This is definitely his brand of humor.
* **Death Glare** - Literally. In one episode, he glares at Carver in anger, and the glare alone immediately kills Carver.
	+ What makes this even better is that he isn't seen again for the rest of the episode afterward.
* **One Man Army** - Whether it's Carver, a gang of thugs, or hordes of zombies, Dallas always comes out on top.
* **Only Sane Man** - Often ends up as the victim of this.
* **We Used to Be Friends** - It's been implied that Dallas was friends with Carver at some point in the past.

#### **Constantinos Gargano**

**Voiced by:** Gary Sauls

An extremely nervous thirteen-year-old, who is not only the weakest character in the show, but he is also notoriously unlucky. However, Constantinos is also fairly intelligent, and is always willing to give some wise advice to his friends.

* **Amusing Injuries** - See the above example of Edward. In Constantinos' case, it's WAY worse.
* **Born Unlucky** - Oh god. Constantinos isn't the trope namer, but definitely he should be.
* **Butt-Monkey** - Jesus Christ is he the living incarnation of this trope. He is NEVER immune to getting bullied by Carver, and he is extremely accident-prone. He attracts more slapstick and Amusing Injuries more than anybody else in the ENTIRE series. Even if Carver isn't around, the world always finds a way to maim, maul, spit on, mock, and kill Constantinos.
	+ Don't worry; he'll be back by the next episode completely unscathed.
		- But of course, he'll go through his usual routine of getting screwed over again.
* **The Everyman** - Other than being a Butt-Monkey, he certainly classifies as this. A very, very, ***very*** unlucky one, at that.
* **Expy** - Often compared to Charlie Brown, as both are EXTREMELY unlucky and pessimistic kids who never have things go their way no matter what. They never stand up for themselves, and as a result, they get bullied on an everyday basis.
* **They Killed Kenny Again** - A common running gag involves Constantinos dying toward the end of the episode, only to return in the next episode as if nothing happened.

### **The 6's Family Members**

#### **Paul Pearson**

**Voiced by:** Mark DeCarlo

The Bumbling Dad of Edward and Eric.

Nah, just kidding. Paul is the hardworking, responsible and courteous father of Edward and Eric. He is the owner and manager of Lakeside's most popular restaurant, Pearson Pizza. Although he may seem strict, he cares deeply about his children and will not hesitate to punish them when need be.

* **Bumbling Dad** - ***COMPLETELY*** averted. Paul is one of the very few competent and intelligent fathers in western animation, and as a result, he is often considered the "deconstruction" of this trope.
* **Family Man** - Always looks after and supports his children, and would never do anything to cause harm to his family.
	+ Although most western animation fathers are oblivious to their genius children owning laboratories, this is averted with Paul as he is totally fine with Edward owning a lab and inventing gadgets. The only thing is that he does regularly remind Edward to be careful with his surroundings and know what he's doing.

### **The 6's Enemies**

#### **Principal Walker**

**Voiced by:** Mike Pollock

The headmaster of Lakeside City School. Originally starting off as an oblivious principal who always meant well to others and simply didn't know any better on how to run his school, he then transitioned into a Psychopathic Manchild starting from Trouble at School, with the events of Eric for Principal hinting to be his breaking point. He has zero tolerance for everybody he knows, and just as little competence with being a principal.

* **Asshole Victim** - No matter what happens, he will always get what's coming to him by the end of the episode.
* **Bad Boss** - A full list of his shittiness would take ages to go over, but to keep it simple: He never pays the faculty, he blames his wrongdoings on others, he expects Mr. Goodman to do his job as a principal, he's a bad role model on his own children, and overall, he's a stingy egotist with no remorse.
* **Evil Principal** - Obviously.
* **Jerk with a Heart of Jerk** - There are little to no redeeming qualities about him at all. Emphasized in Tripping Down Memory Lane, where he panics about Eric's disappearance...only because he didn't want to get his job revoked.
* **Psychopathic Manchild** - Oh god. Walker is an immoral Jerkass with homicidal tendencies who did manage to take over Lakeside City once, but he is actually immature to high degrees. He throws tantrums when things don't go his way, he still plays with toys (even owning a bath toy - a ship - which he calls "Mr. Tuggy"), and Diane often grounds him by sending him to their bedroom, which he never fails to comply to. In Hard-Boiled Ed, it's revealed that one of his favorite foods are dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets, which he refers to as "chicken tendies".

## Recurring Characters

### **School Faculty**

#### **Mr. Goodman**

**Voiced by:** Gary Sauls

The mild-mannered, deadpan vice principal of Lakeside City School, although 'vice principal' is just a synonym for 'Principal Walker's unwilling assistant'. Mr. Goodman is forced to do every single thing Principal Walker orders him to do and is never treated right by him, but despite this, he still keeps a very calm demeanor.

* **Characterization Marches On** - He was much less expressive in Season 1.
* **The Dog Bites Back** - Has stood up against Walker a few times, such as That's a Record!/Snake Zone.
* **Expy** - Of Waylon Smithers Jr. from *The Simpsons*, only not so much attracted to his boss.
* **Extreme Doormat** - Often lets himself get ordered around without standing up for himself.
* **Last Name Basis** - His first name, Timothy, is very rarely brought up, although this is justified with how a majority of the students give him respect.
* **Nice Guy** - Arguably the kindest character in the entire series.
* **Only Sane Man** - When you're the assistant of Principal Walker, this is expected.
* **Shorter Means Smarter** - Now, he is of average height, standing at 5'10, but compare that to Principal Walker, who is a lumbering 6'4.
* **Yes-Man** - Constantly follows Walker's orders without any questions or hesitation.

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## Sauls & Felker

If it wasn't for them, you wouldn't be viewing this page right now.

#### **Gary Sauls**

The creator himself. (WIP)

* **Berserk Button:**
	+ It doesn't make him furious per se, but it's best to not ask him to release anything from Chatterbox's vault. He has a long history of fans pestering him to do so.
	+ If you're a fan of The Loud House, and you decide to criticize Edward and Eric, prepare to get roasted hardcore by him. No exceptions.
		- If you have a Picrew profile picture, prepare to get roasted into next week as well.
			* You're also not safe if you have "ACAB"/"Eat the Rich" in your Twitter bio.
* **Breakthrough Hit** - Edward and Eric for him.
* **Hatedom** - He and Felker absolutely **hate** *The Loud House* (it pained me to link that) and its completely unnecessary spinoff (shoot me). They both agree they are easily one of the worst TV shows of all time.
	+ However, Sauls' hate for TLH is nowhere near as intense as his hatred for OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, which he believes is "the worst show [he] has ever seen". It may seem shocking at first, but he does have a good way of summing it up: *"The Loud House can produce a few decent episodes when the crew actually puts effort into their work, such as The Sweet Spot and A Tale of Two Tables. OK K.O, on the other hand, is irredeemable dumpster fire unless you're a fan of bad executions of a creative premise, awful storytelling with baby levels of predictability, amateur facial expressions, and tons of pretentious references. That's all the show has."*
* **Heterosexual Life Partners** - With Felker.
* **Manly Tears** - Sauls has stated it's very rare for him to cry. So when something causes him to tear up, "then that's an accomplishment right there".
* **Mister Big** - Sauls is approximately 5'8, but is the shortest of the male voice actors.
* **One of Us** - While he isn't exactly a gigantic intellect of anime, he is incredibly fond of three of them: My Hero Academia, Hunter × Hunter, and Fullmetal Alchemist. In fact, MHA's characters have been one of the inspirations for Lakeside City School's Wacky Homerooms (see Write Who You Know below for the other influence).
* **Reclusive Artist** - Sauls is very open with his fans on Twitter and Lakeside City Forums, but apart from that, he is highly introverted and secretive. The latest picture of him taken was in the mid-2000s, when Mr. Enigma's Factory was still in production. Virtually nothing is known about his personal life other than him living in Queens. His only other social media account is on Discord, which he has chosen to keep to people he personally knows. He very rarely does physical interviews or appears at conventions; in fact, he prefers to do interviews through ways where only his voice is heard.
* **Saw Star Wars 27 Times** - Claims he has watched SpongeBob SquarePants so much that he can quote, and even "watch and hear", entire episodes from memory.
* **Shrug of God** - The Wrong Side of the Bed's ending will likely remain a mystery forever, because not even *he* knows whether the episode was a dream or not, as well as The Lucky 6's fate.
* **Trolling Creator** - He isn't the main example of this trope, but he definitely should be.
	+ Back in 2019 on Twitter, Sauls claimed that an uncensored version of The Big Word in crystal-clear quality *does* exist, but it's locked in Chatterbox's vault, and he wishes to not upload it "out of fear of getting hassled by Warner Bros." However, not only has the show long since ended, meaning WB has a slim chance (if at all) of ever breathing down his neck, but almost all of the show's fanbase is now an adult.
	+ In a 1998 interview, he said two characters would get permanently killed off in Season 2. It turned out to be minor characters, Mac Donald and Bo Wilson.
	+ Whenever he is asked about the authenticity of the deleted scene for The Millennium's a-Comin' on Twitter, he will NEVER reply no matter what, even though he's very open to answering questions about the production of episodes. Some may say he never says a word about it because it may be fake, but there's one thing about that theory: Sauls is always quick to disprove false rumors. So it's very likely the scene is completely real.
	+ There is a high chance Sauls may have been lying about the reason behind Bloom of Youth's delay (its sister episode being considered "too scary for younger audiences" by executives), since there have been arguably far worse episodes in the past that made their premieres without a single hiccup.
	+ In September 2017, he made a tweet stating he was going to reveal "a valuable belonging" from Chatterbox's vault. As a result, everybody's excitement went through the roof, anticipating what it was going to be. But then a week later, it turned out to be a picture of the walrus puppet from The Wrong Side of the Bed, which had been (it still is) deteriorating after being in storage for over 20 years. Many people were disappointed, but since then, he and Felker have made it a Halloween tradition to take pictures of the puppet's rotting state each week in October.
* **Word of God**:
	+ Rip Van Edward wasn't always going to be a simulation. This was eventually changed after Sauls realized that it would've been a HUGE middle finger to the *true* series finale, the movie.
	+ "Torture episodes" of E&E do not exist. It's either simple slapstick, or the character in question did something awful to warrant it (*especially* Joey).
	+ Everything currently stashed inside the Chatterbox vault will never be shown to the public in our lifetime. Only a few special exceptions have been made, such as the entirety of School of Hard Knocks, and the rotting walrus puppet from The Wrong Side of the Bed.
	+ While crossovers are generally considered non-canon, Sauls has stated all of the E&E crossovers are canon. Especially Are You There, Sauls? It's Me, Ed.
	+ The show will never get rebooted (not counting the comic book series) no matter how much fans beg, or plead, or cry.
	+ The title, Edward and Eric, is only one letter away from being spelt as Edward Elric (obviously ignoring the "and"), who is the protagonist of Fullmetal Alchemist. Sauls has stated that, despite being a fan of FMA (see One of Us above), this was completely unintentional.
	+ Most, if not, all of the Accidental Innuendos are actually fully intentional.
	+ A cheese pizza from Pearson Pizza tastes like one from Domino's. Or in his words, a "heavenly cheese-induced orgasm".
	+ No matter how much they suffer from Early Installment Weirdness, the shorts are canon to the series. Any short with Carver- oops, I mean, Simon, in it simply take place after The School Bully.
		- Don't rely on him giving a proper explanation on why Carver was named Simon, though.
* **Write Who You Know** - Most of Lakeside City School's students are based on his high school classmates.

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#### **Edward Felker**

The OTHER creator. (WIP)

* **Berserk Button** - Any mention of *The Loud House* can be this for him.
* **Heterosexual Life Partners** - With Sauls.
* **Saw Star Wars 27 Times** - To a much lesser extent than Sauls, but he too claims to have seen watched SpongeBob SquarePants so much that he can quote entire episodes perfectly from memory.
* **Trolling Creator** - In 2017, he mentioned on his Twitter account that Edward and Eric: Field Trip Fiasco has "mountains of unused content" waiting to be found. However, the only major unused aspect of the game turned out to be the remnants of a level taking place on a mountain.
* **Word of God** - When asked about whether or not Monster Mania really happened, Felker suggested that the entire episode's events could've simply been a nightmare Mandy had, "after she heard some strange noises coming from the Boys' Dorm".

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## General

### A

* **Absentee Actor** - Most of the main characters have their fair share of not appearing in episodes. There's even a few episodes where Breault Burgers appears, but Stanley and/or Bill don't.
	+ The only episode where Edward doesn't appear in any sort of way whatsoever, is Law and Disorder. According to creative director and supervising producer Edward Felker, this is because he was at school throughout the episode's events, as well as the other adolescent characters.
* **Abusive Parents** - The only reason Constantinos was sent to America was because his parents wanted him out of their life.
	+ Bill is another example of this. He almost always neglects his own children and sometimes even threatens them with "The Paddle".
* **Adored by the Network** - *Edward and Eric* was Kids' WB's top show from the moment the pilot premiered, to the moment Kids' WB died. It was a lot more popular than *Pokemon*, which seemed like an utterly impossible feat at the time. *Edward and Eric* aired every single day on the block, and it would also air each evening on The WB for a full 4 hours.
	+ It was the only Kids' WB series (apart from *Pokemon* and *Yu-Gi-Oh!*, of course) to ever receive a theatrical movie. Speaking of which, there was a three day-long marathon in 2003 that was intended to celebrate the release of the film.
	+ It is one of the *very* few Kids' WB shows to transition to The CW4Kids after Kids' WB discontinued, and the only one from the 1990s to migrate there. Unlike the other shows that made the move, E&E lasted on the block until 2010.
	+ The show was renewed for a second season before it even premiered.
	+ Any kid back in the day didn't have to worry about missing a new episode, as they always had a chance to catch it on The WB either the same afternoon AND evening, or the next morning.
	+ Whenever Cartoon Network would air a movie and it didn't fill up its entire time slot, any 11-minute episode would be guaranteed to air in order to fill in the remaining 15 minutes.
	+ Shortly after the pilot premiered, reruns immediately began airing even though there was only ***ONE*** episode.
	+ E&E was one of one of the very few Kids' WB shows to have aired on Disney XD.
		- The other shows in question are Jackie Chan Adventures, Pinky and the Brain, Static Shock, Superman: The Animated Series and X-Men Evolution. However, the catch is that E&E lasted longer than any of them, as reruns aired until 2012.
	+ Kids' WB was always empty on Sunday mornings until Edward and Eric came into the scene. Shortly afterward, Sundays became a full morning for reruns.
	+ Kids' WB's weekday morning schedule was discontinued on September 3, 2001. So what did that mean? Two full hours of Edward and Eric reruns every school morning. This went on even when The WB became The CW in 2006, continuing as far as 2010.
		- The same can be said for its weekday afternoon block. It was discontinued on December 30, 2005, but E&E reruns refused to die there. So as a result, two hours of reruns were put in the block's original place.
	+ From 1996 to '98, the shorts aired during almost every commercial break. In fact, the shorts were made as a way of persuading Warner Bros. to pitch the series.
	+ Even the movie fits under this trope. Cartoon Network and Disney XD loved to air the movie any chance they got.
	+ In April 2020, Cartoon Network temporarily brought back reruns of the series. At 6 and 6:30am. On weekdays. Reasons why is unknown, but it could have been the network's way of promoting the show's upcoming (at the time) release on HBO Max, or trying to Win Back the Crowd, or entertaining insomniacs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Or maybe a bizarre clash of all three.
* **Aerith and Bob** - Most of the characters have normal names...but then there's names like Tuna Fish and Chip.
* **Ambiguous Time Period** - Inverted. The show is clearly set in the 1990s. But *where* in the 1990s?
* **An Aesop** - Several episodes have this, but unlike cheesy 80s cartoons, they aren't shoved into your face. All of them are pretty important lessons to teach your children, such as:
	+ Pranks for Nothing - Harmless pranks are funny, but don't take them too far.
	+ Happy Birthday - Gifts are good, but sometimes, all a person needs is their family.
	+ Spice of Life - Don't overwork yourself.
	+ My Fair Kimberly - Don't rush into the dating scene, and don't overwhelm your crush.
	+ The School Bully - Most of, if not all the time, teachers/counselors do a poor job at handling bullies, so more often than not, physically dealing with a bully is the only proper way of taking care of them.
	+ Missing Pieces - Never take your loved ones for granted.
	+ Break a Leg - Pretending to know something you don't will never end well.
	+ Sold Out - Always plan ahead.
	+ New Singer in Town - You may think you're good at something, but other people might think the exact opposite, and that might be because they're true.
	+ Eric for Principal - Never abuse your power.
	+ Truancy - If you intentionally skip something, it may end up being something you will regret missing out on.
	+ Like Father, Unlike Son - Breaks are always important. If you feel your boss is overworking you, speak up.
	+ The Haunted Recliner and Needle Little Help? - Face your fears.
	+ That's Gonna Leave a Mark - Jealousy is inevitable in life, but don't make it worse than it is.
	+ Just about any Snodgrass episode - Not everybody in your life will like you.
* **Aspect Ratio** - Edward and Eric is the very first cartoon in history to be naturally produced in the 16:9 widescreen format. Most people hardly notice this, but once you watch any recordings from its days on Kids' WB, you may start to realize how characters can get awkwardly cropped out at times. This is because episodes had to be cropped in the 4:3 fullscreen ratio due to the show premiering long before HDTV was the norm.
	+ If you didn't grow up with the DVDs and/or VHSes back then, chances are you may have first witnessed the show's widescreen glory through either of the three:
		- Cartoon Network, after it fully switched to HD in 2009
		- Vortexx
		- Disney XD

### B

* **Batman Can Breathe in Space**: None of the characters ever suffer any problems in regards to breathing in space, except for Constantinos. This trope is mocked in One Small Step for Ed.
* **Big Applesauce** - The show is produced in New York City.
* **Big Little Brother**: Much to Walker's embarrassment, his younger brother, Nicholas, is leagues taller and slimmer than him. Exaggerated even further at how Nicholas' voice is much deeper than his.
* **Black Dot Pupils** - Applies to every character in the series. The only exception is in grotesque closeups.
* **Black Sheep** - In a meta example, this is perhaps the best way to describe Season 3. Compared to the seasons before, it's WAY more experimental in terms of its approach towards plot ideas and humor. It's almost as if the season is its own entity, and there's plenty of good reasons why, apart from the season basically saying "Let's toss shit at the wall and see what sticks".
	+ There is a three-episode format highly prominent here, which, surprisingly, the show never returned to. This lead to tons of innovative episodes the show wouldn't be able to properly tell underneath the standard 11-minute duration.
	+ Although arguably not to the extent of Season 4 and the seasons after that, this is the season that started to focus on characters other than the main ones.
	+ Sit down for a hot second and take a glance at the plots from this season. Then try to tell someone they're *not* batshit insane. The flu (an easily-curable, common disease) severely infecting Lakeside, Edward dressing up as the Tooth Fairy, and the gang dressing as completely random figures, just so Eric won't run away to Kidney World, Osborne refusing to give up candy despite Walker being on the verge of literally exploding, two bizarre takes on typical stranded plots, Edward trying to reverse Constantinos' luck, and eventually visiting The Real World with him, a parody of "baby" spinoffs, etc.
* **Bloodless Carnage** - No matter what sort of antics the characters go through, they never bleed (even in Season 4, where grossout is taken Up to Eleven).
	+ The only time blood is featured in the series is during Visiting Hours, where Walker has his taken.
* **Breather Episode** - There are a few episodes where nothing particularly crazy happens, with one of the most notable examples being Like Father, Unlike Son. Episodes like that are still jam-packed with jokes, but again, they don't feature any supernatural phenomena.
* **Brick Joke** - Good god, the show LOVES this trope. According to Sauls, he would place these since he views it as a good way to encourage children to pay attention towards minor details. Just about all of them are important to the plots of the episodes they're in. If we were to list them all, it would probably destroy the site's database, so here are some selected, trademark examples.
	+ At the beginning of Opposites Day, Eric makes it Evergreen Blackberry Day. Near the ending, when Eric is copying Joey in front of the cafeteria, Joey tells himself in his mind "That moron's already had his day with the blackberries." This immediately gives him the idea of eating the blackberries to prove to everyone that Eric really ISN'T him. Although it turns out Joey is allergic to the blackberries, at least he gets his rare happy ending.
	+ During the riot in Dakesile School, Dallas can be seen repeatedly slamming Carver's head into the school's thermostat, causing the temperature to rapidly increase. Seems like harmless slapstick at first...until the school explodes in everyone's faces at the end, as the boiler couldn't handle the ever-increasing heat.
* **Bullying a Dragon** - In Frantic Sensations, Joey lashed out on the King Wasp and shouted at it by calling it names and telling it how it ruined his, Edward and Eric's day. He even threw rocks at it. Trust me, it went REAL smoothly.

### C

* **Comically Missing the Point** - The show sure does love using this trope.
	+ In one episode, Gurney and Carver are taking a night drive in the former's car (an ice cream truck). They unknowingly pass by Officer Owen and Cop Chris, who are on a night shift, and since the latter thinks an ice cream truck driving around at night can only mean one thing, he reports the vehicle. This causes Carver to receive an AMBER Alert from his pager. Both believe this means Gurney's car is "so cool, that [he's] receiving a special shoutout". They proceed to dance to bass-boosted rap music, even when they're busy getting arrested.
* **Cross-Dressing Voices** - Carver, the most dangerous teen ever known to Lakeside, is voiced by... wait for it... Veronica Taylor.Yes, THE Veronica Taylor.
* **Crossover**: The show has nine of these (Shaggy Dog Story, School of Hard Knocks, An Onix-pected Adventure, Primitive Behavior, Are You There, Sauls? It's Me, Ed, Back in Action, Edward and Eric vs. Ed, Edd n Eddy, Check Yourself Before You Shrek Yourself and My Ed Academia - if you can even count the fifth episode listed as one). Two more crossovers, Yu-Gi-Ed! and Nerds Collide, were also in production, but never made it past the storyboard stage.
	+ The comic series is no stranger to crossovers either.
		- Firstly, there's the crossover comic with The Avengers, where it begins with Eric picking up a "valuable diamond" from the dumpster...until it turns out to be a Reality Stone, which then prompts Thanos to take over Lakeside. It makes as much sense as the Superman & Bugs Bunny comic; in other words, it's a must-read.

### D

* **Drunk on Milk** - The show has root beer serve as a substitite for, well, beer. So basically, whenever characters drink it, it looks like they're actually consuming beer, when they're really not.
	+ The writers don't even try to make this subtle, as Edward or Dallas normally refuse to drink it. Dallas only prefers to drink it at parties "in moderation" due to his bodybuilding lifestyle, while Edward is...Edward, although there are some exceptions.

### E

* **Early Installment Weirdness** - Season 1 has this in spades, and anybody can concur it feels like a foreign planet from the rest of the series.
	+ The animation was a lot more rough even for something animated in cels - rough enough to make The Simpsons' and Family Guy's first seasons weep in jealousy.
	+ The voice acting is more relaxed, which is especially noticeable with the brothers and Joey.
		- The show in general was more relaxed (but that's if you ignore this season's plethora of Nightmare Fuel, which you can see more on right below), mostly because it was still trying to find its footing.
	+ This season notably has a lot more Nightmare Fuel than any other one. I Can't Stand It, The Wrong Side of the Bed and Monster Mania are easily the trademark examples.
	+ Edward's favorite food was originally peanut butter ketchup and tuna sandwiches, only to be quietly replaced with frog legs and almost never heard from again outside of a cel-animated nightmare sequence in the movie.
		- It is also mentioned as one of the questions in Edward and Eric's Trivia Game: *"What was Edward's original favorite food?"*
	+ Eric is a lot more dumber, but starting from sometime during the middle of Season 2, he became more of a Ditz and even acknowledged and made up for his mistakes WAY more often.
	+ Principal Walker was initially an oblivious, friendly principal who was highly unaware of the fact his school was the worst in the country, rather than the sadistic psychopath we all know and love today. Trouble at School ended up introducing the latter, with the events of Eric for Principal hinting to be his "breaking point."
		- His office also looked drastically different, with the most prominent example being a glass ceiling only appearing in The School Bully.
	+ Igor's lisp was hardly noticeable and he was also slightly shorter. Some episodes didn't have him wearing glasses as well.
	+ The brothers fought way more often, and as a result, Edward was a WHOLE lot meaner, which is quite an understatement. Case in point when he nonchalantly punched Eric in the nose in The School Bully.
	+ Mrs. White was a lot more meaner, even giving her class a month's worth of homework in one episode, although once Season 2 rolled around is when her I'm-only-rough-because-I-want-all-my-students-to-succeed personality debuted and stuck to her.
		- Speaking of which, her voice would drastically deepen after getting badly wounded. This trait never made it past the first season.
	+ Missing Pieces shows a staircase in the Pearson apartment, which is never seen again afterwards.
	+ Edward's glasses were actual glasses, as opposed to serving as his ***eyeballs***.
	+ The first two seasons either focus on the brothers, or give the audience proper introductions to the other main characters. Season 3 is where experimentation slowly settled in, as not only did it introduce a three-episode format that only stuck around for that season and the first half of the next one, but it begins to build up lore by featuring more Day in the Limelights compared to the previous two seasons, such as Eric Come Home, which introduces all of the Pearson's extended family, or School Picnic, which is the first episode that brings an entire class together.
		- Season 4 and onwards takes the focus for other characters Up to Eleven by having a lot more episodes centered around them. In fact, it goes to where Eric is absent more often, and Edward only appears as a cameo in certain episodes.
* **End of an Age** - Edward and Eric is the last of the Kids' WB shows from the 1990s decade to end, concluding in 2011.
* **End-of-Series Awareness** - The last few Season 4 episodes are filled with this because the staff at Chatterbox were suspicious the show was going to get cancelled afterwards. It was supposed to... had it not been for the movie and the show's immense popularity. Sauls reluctantly agreed to make a fifth season shortly after the movie concluded production.
	+ Season 5's last few episodes have this as well, but the show was still highly popular and generating millions of dollars. Eventually, Sauls agreed to have Edward and Eric renewed for more seasons, but eventually, he strongly insisted that Season 9 be the last one for good. As a result, Season 9 has this trope in spades.

### F

* **Family-Friendly Firearms** - Averted to the high heavens. Unlike every other Saturday Morning Cartoon, Edward and Eric features REAL firearms, and it's not afraid to show characters getting shot by them. As expected, though, there is no blood and gore, so basically, they work like how they do in Looney Tunes, where characters will be covered in burns as opposed to blood.
* **Fan Nickname** - People like to call the show "My Hero Academia if it was a comedy", due to how both franchises take place in worlds where characters have completely unique powers and personalities. It doesn't help how both also have schools as one of their primary locations.
* **Funny Background Event** - In the movie, The World's Slowest Tugboat Parade serves as this. At the end of the car chase, the parade is only starting. And by the time the brothers return to Lakeside, it's STILL going on. The same can be said for the very end of the credits; in fact, it's only BARELY commencing by that point.

### I

* **Irony** - Warner Bros. cut Chatterbox's budget starting from late Season 3, and Season 4 was hit the hardest with it, but ironically, S4 is filled with the most grossout any season has ever had.

### L

* **Long Runner** - Easily the longest running original Kids' WB series, lasting 13 years (15 if you count the shorts).

### N

* **Negative Continuity** - Unlike 95% of Kids' WB's shows, Edward and Eric is a huge middle finger to continuity. Episodes have ended with characters being killed/severely injured/stuck in a situation/erased from existence/exiled/arrested/under mind control/eaten/burnt to dust/turned into something, the entirety of Lakeside being destroyed (or sometimes Earth or even *the entire multiverse*), buildings being trashed (if not, completely destroyed), and just about everything that falls under this trope. Certain characters may also not recognize each other despite encountering them several times in previous episodes.
	+ Although there are occasional Continuity Nods, they are kept brief and are not intended to interfere with the plots. Hell, a newcomer to the series could probably watch the Suckers! trilogy in an incorrect order and still get the gist on what's going on.
	+ In one episode, we see a flashback of a younger Carver bullying Constantinos for his lunch money, even though they clearly never crossed paths prior to A New Friend.
* **Never Trust a Title** - A lot of the episodes that are structured to toss shenanigans at the viewer each second, such as School Picnic, Going Camping, and Eur-op-ope and Away, have misleading (or even generic, such as the first two) titles that suggest everything goes normally. They never do.
* **Noodle Incident** - At the beginning of Heavy is the Ed, Stanley reminds Joey that he and the rest of The Lucky 6 already did what Joey wanted to do the previous day, and he then remarks that Constantinos probably isn't ready for another round. After Stanley says this, Constantinos is seen pulling cactus thorns out of his hand.

### O

* **Or Was It a Dream?** - In The Wrong Side of the Bed, Constantinos wakes up from his nightmare absolutely frightened, and he goes to tell the rest of The Lucky 6 about it. Edward tells him he doesn't need to worry, since it was only a dream. Dallas also reassures him, until it turns out he was giving Constantinos a wedgie and a noogie while doing so. Constantinos becomes terrified as the rest of the gang begins giggling, which then turns into maniacal laughter. And then immediately after the camera irises out, we hear everybody screaming bloody murder, and we never get to know what happened to them.
* **Out of Order**:
	+ The Haunted Recliner is actually a Season 1 episode (the last one in production order, as a matter of fact), but it aired as part of the second season instead for unknown reasons. Other Season 1 holdovers are Locked Out, New Singer in Town, Comb On Over!, Skating on Thin Ice and Where Did That Hair Come From?!.
* **Overly Long Gag** - The series is in love with this trope, but it shouldn't be a surprise considering Seth MacFarlane is one of Sauls' inspirations.
	+ The name of the elevator you need to use in order to reach The Animator in the Sky is "the really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really long elevator".
	+ "Good night, Edward."
	+ Season 4 happens to have the most of these.
	+ The short, Loading..., is just FOUR whole minutes of Edward starting up his lab computer and waiting for it to finish loading. As he does mundane tasks while waiting (clipping his nails, adjusting his workspace, taking sips of water, etc), there is nothing to keep the audience occupied. No background music, no dialogue (except for near the very end), no Funny Background Events, no change in pacing, *nothing*. When it finally looks like the computer is finish loading, you think maybe, just *maybe* the short will turn the tables. But that's not the case, because the computer ends up receiving an error screen.
		- Could double as Truth in Television for those who grew up in the 1990s and early 2000s, as accessing the Internet was infamously slow back then.

### P

* **Poor Communication Kills** - In Playing With Fire, Mr. Goodman should've been more direct with Charles about maintaining his anger instead of outright telling him to stop yelling altogether.
	+ While this aspect of the episode is often criticized by, well, Mr. Enter, it is usually seen as pretty good realism, as it shows even the smartest people (Goodman in this case) can make mistakes slip by like that, not to mention anyone who has been in this situation almost always feels like Charles by feeling like they're not allowed to even vent their own frustrations.
* **Public Domain Soundtrack** - The show's soundtrack mostly consists of tracks from Associated Production Music.

### S

* **Series Fauxnale** - The movie certainly qualifies. When Warner Bros. renewed the series for more seasons, Gary Sauls officially stated that it's still the series finale - in chronological order.
* **Short Runner** - Averted. The show *sure* did dodge a bullet here. Shortly after pitching the series to Warner Bros, the company did not immediately accept it, but unlike the other companies Sauls pitched it to, they informed him they would keep the packet. Sauls feared this was their way of saying "We'll throw it in the trash later". The following day, they ordered the show for only one season. Fortunately, everything quickly changed once Gary Sauls was able to show the executives the pilot episode.
* **Shown Their Work**:
	+ Whenever Oscar flies, there is no "whooshing" sound, unlike other cartoon characters who can fly. This is because real-life owls have silent flights due to their unique leading edges of their feathers.
		- Oscar also usually unintentionally sneaks up on people due to his natural owl physiology; in fact, Edward tends to jump in fright whenever he lands on his shoulder.
	+ Whenever Lakeside's nature is shown (whether it be Lakeside Forest, Death Mountain, etc), it is very accurate to New York landscape.
	+ Throughout the series, the adolescent characters owned pagers, with the exception of Stanley, who had his very own Nokia 3210-like phone. During the late 90s, pagers were quite cheap compared to cell phones. Whenever an adolescent character not named Stanley needs to use a phone, they either resort to their apartment's landline phone, or a payphone.
		- Speaking of, the show's setting is a perfect example of this trope. From the beginning, Sauls made it so that the show would be entirely set in the late 90s, even when the 2000s rolled around, with stuff such as pay phones, pagers, landline phones, VHS, VCRs, cassettes, cartridges, CRT televisions, boxy computers, dial-up Internet, Saturday morning cartoons, cable (including game shows and family sitcoms), libraries, record players, violence regarding video games and cartoons, phonebooks, trading cards, Walkman devices, writing letters, and many others too long to list, being prominent throughout the series.
			* In fact, in one episode, Edward is shown an NES-like game. He proceeds to say "Those games became obsolete two or three years ago". The NES was discontinued in North America on August 14, 1995.

### T​​​​

* **Take That!**:
	+ Due Tomorrow, Do Tomorrow is pretty much a giant middle finger to the United States' education system.
	+ On a related note, Everyone's Cup of Tea pokes fun at America's healthcare system as well.
	+ Are You There, Sauls? It's Me, Ed is a huge jab at The Mysterious Mr. Enter, his fanbase, and basically everyone else who views the show as "mean-spirited" and takes it too serious.
* **The End** - Always shown at the end of each episode (it was even shown in the movie) as soon as the camera irises out.
* **They Killed Kenny Again** - Nearly all of Esmond's appearances end with him dying, only for him to come back in the next episode as if nothing happened. Constantinos also has his fair share of deaths. Same for Wi Tu Lo and Andrew.

### V

* **Vocal Evolution**:
	+ While not necessarily distracting, this is a tiny bit noticeable in My Ed Academia with some of the E&E characters if you pay close enough attention, though to be fair, that's because the original series wrapped up production back in ***2011***. Edward's voice is the same since Andrew Rannells' hasn't even changed a bit throughout the years (it helps Edward's voice is just Andrew's natural speaking one), but with Sauls and Felker being one of the oldest of the main cast, there's Constantinos and Stanley...
	+ Eric went through this during the show's initial run sometime around 2000, when Season 4 entered production, but he does get hit hard with this in the last few episodes of Season 6. Surprisingly, unlike almost every other child actor in cartoons, his actor Josh Peck wasn't replaced until The Birds and the Eds, which was produced in 2005.

### W

* **Wacky Homeroom** - Good lord, Lakeside City School lives and breathes this trope. Not only do you have a genius teenager who can make inventions that far surpass modern technology within a quick timespan, but there's also a guy who's always on fire, someone who always shouts no matter what, a morbidly strong baby, a school-skipper who literally skips all the time as opposed to walking, a guy who can run much, much faster than the time before you even started reading this, a football player who has yet to reach puberty, a guy who has electricity all over his body all the time, and among others.
	+ Even better is that all of them have unique personalities that help them stand out even more.
* **Weird Crossover** - An Onix-pected Adventure is usually considered this because the only things Edward and Eric and Pokémon remotely have in common are serving as the Cash Cow Franchises of Kids' WB. But you can't blame Chatterbox; they had no choice but to make it after being hassled by Warner Bros. A crossover with Detention was originally set to be in its place, until Warner Bros. ordered them to make a Pokémon crossover instead, as "kids would be way more interested in that". Had Chatterbox refused to comply, who knows what would've happened to the show...
* **What Could Have Been**:
	+ The series was originally going to have the adolescent characters attend summer camp instead of school. This premise went far enough to where Sauls brainstormed on how Christmas episodes would work, but eventually, he claimed the setting "didn't really take off", so it was scrapped as a result. It was somewhat revived in the actual series to a minor extent, as there are occasional episodes that take place at Boy Scouts.

(WIP)

## Laconic

The day-to-day adventures of a cheerful, optimistic teenage prodigy, his ditzy brother and their loyal group of friends. It gets weird a lot.

(The unabridged version is a world of comedy.)

## Trivia

* **Banned Episode** - The Season 1 episodes, The Wrong Side of the Bed/Monster Mania are banned in a few countries due to their material being considered too frightening for younger audiences. Can't really blame them.
	+ There's So Much to Sea was also banned in a few countries because of the shark attack scene for the same reason.
* **Creator's Oddball** - Edward and Eric's humor and art style feel more at home on Nickelodeon, as the vast majority of Kids' WB's entries were either action cartoons or anime once *Pokémon* debuted on the block.
	+ Of course, there were other comedy cartoons during the rise of *Pokémon* (such as *What's New, Scooby-Doo?*), but they weren't in large portions, and most of them were short-lived.
* **Beam Me Up, Scotty!** - A few people usually insist "Oh, the agony!" is Edward's catchphrase, even though that was only said in a few of the shorts, and never again afterwards.
* **Dueling Works**: With Detention, and arguably SpongeBob SquarePants.
	+ For Detention, both shows revolve around adolescents in a friend group attending the worst school in their hometown and getting involved in misadventures. It helps that both shows aired on Kids' WB. The winner? Edward and Eric by several light years. Despite ending its run in 2011, it is perhaps the most successful cartoon to come out of Warner Bros. Animation, it served as the cornerstone of WB's empire, and is widely remembered in general. Detention only lasted one season and is relatively obscure.
	+ For SpongeBob, both shows have eternal optimists as their main protagonists, who are accompanied by a Ditz, an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist, an Action Hero, and an intelligent pet that only communicates by making their respective animal sound. The sense of humor for both shows are also ones you wouldn't find elsewhere. The winner? Well, both shows are fondly remembered by both 90s and 2000s kids, and they share a loyal fanbase. However, it should be incredibly obvious SpongeBob takes this by a long shot. It impacted the animation industry on a more major scale, it is a more recognizable franchise, and it remains ongoing.
* **Fan Nickname** - The show is usually called a "kid-friendly *Family Guy*" due to their similar over-the-top, "mean-spirited" humor and lampshading Negative Continuity. It helps that, as stated above, Seth MacFarlane is one of Sauls' inspirations.
* **He Also Did** - Andrew Rannells is best known for providing Edward's voice (as well as other characters too long to list), but he has also portrayed Elder Price in the 2011 musical, *The Book of Mormon*.
	+ Prior to gaining massive fame on Broadway, though, Andrew also voiced Archie Andrews for *Archie's Weird Mysteries* and a bunch of characters in numerous 4Kids dubs.
* **No Budget** - The show started suffering from budget cuts starting from late Season 3. The staff were just barely finishing up a crossover with Detention, where everything was going all fine and well, but then it all went downhill when, without warning, Warner Bros. forced everybody at Chatterbox to scrap the episode and produce a crossover with Pokémon instead. Not only did this mess with Edward and Eric's budget given how Pokémon was a gigantic craze at the time, but they never got their money back from the Detention crossover.
	+ As a result of having budget cuts, every single episode starting from Comic Relief was animated through the digital ink and paint method, as opposed to cels. The animation of late Season 3 and basically the entirety of Season 4 was off compared to the rest of the series, although the former certainly wasn't as bad as the case for the latter.
		- Most of the late Season 3 episodes after An Onix-pected Adventure had incomplete outlines and parts of characters not being filled in properly, but as said before, the budget cuts weren't as bad as Season 4's.
		- Season 4, on the other hand, had inconsistent character outlines (either too thin or too thick, or some weird clash between the two, and like late Season 3, they'd sometimes be incomplete or wouldn't exist at all). Lip syncing can also be very off, frames can be missing causing a "jump" in animation, facial expressions are more restricted, characters can be drawn incorrectly (such as their heights randomly changing), and the coloring is extremely variable (some episodes have Edward's skin being pale, while others have perfectly fine coloring).
		- Strangely enough, while Season 4 did go through major budget cuts, the people at Chatterbox could still somehow afford to make it the season with the most grossout scenes. Seriously, I dare you to watch all of Season 4 and showcase someone an episode where the following isn't shoved up in your face for no reason: Characters having their skin ripped off in a brutal fashion, pulsating veins, extremely grotesque closeups, or characters having overly-detailed wounds/fractures.
* **Out of Holiday Episode**:
	+ Brotherhood of Stanley is set on Thanksgiving, yet it premiered in September.
* **Production Posse**:
	+ Well, since the show IS produced in New York City, the cast primarily consists of voice actors from 4Kids Entertainment. Could double as Hilarious in Hindsight, because this means Ash Ketchum is partners-in-crime with Brock, and Sonic the Hedgehog has Dr. Eggman as his coach.
	+ Wanna know why some episodes from the first three seasons have characters crying for absolutely NO reason (and even if they do have a good reason, the tears are still overly detailed)? That's because Sean Dempsey used to work as an animation director for the show. He's the same guy whose SpongeBob episodes fall under the same case.
* **Release Date Change** - The movie was scheduled to release in theaters on May 30, 2003, but due to Warner Bros. fearing competition from Finding Nemo, it was pushed back to June 27 the same year.
* **Series Hiatus** - Was hit hard by this from November 2002 to October 2003 due to production on the movie, as well as Season 5. Technically speaking, though, the hiatus began around early 2001, as that's when Season 4 wrapped up production.
	+ Watch Your Back!/Six Minus Six are notably the only episodes to premiere in 2003, airing as part of the 2003 *Halloween Duel of Screams!* event.
* **Short Run in Peru** - The Season 3 episode Bloom of Youth premiered in Latin America ***two years*** before it did in the United States (Latin American countries first aired it on October 7, 2000, but the US didn't make it premiere until September 14, 2002). It would later air in several countries in 2001 as well, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. It was even released on DVD eleven months before its televised premiere. By the time it premiered, only one Season 4 episode had yet to premiere.
* **Sleeper Hit** - Back in 1998, people would've believed you if you said Edward and Eric wasn't going to be a popular show. The exact opposite happened, even if the show did still stand out from the rest of other Kids' WB shows.
* **Vindicated by Reruns** - Edward and Eric was already popular throughout its run, but if you were born in the mid-2000s, chances are you were introduced to it through its reruns on either Boomerang, Disney XD, or Vortexx. Or maybe all three.
* **Voices in One Room** - Episodes were always recorded this way (not counting Los Angeles actors for obvious reasons). Sauls said this was so conversations between characters could feel "more real".

## YMMV

* **Awesome Art** - Edward and Eric's animation is absolutely phenomenal, as it provides colorful backgrounds and smooth character movements. But there are definitely two unforgettable parts about it:
	+ How expressive the show is. Every single episode has some form of godly expression that are either used to aide jokes, or add life to scenes that would otherwise be mundane. Exaggerated faces became WAY more commonplace starting from Season 5, which only puts the cherry on top of the sundae. Sure, facial expressions temporarily became a lot more restricted in Season 4 due to budget cuts, but the other good parts about the animation are still there.
	+ The fact that it's the first cartoon to ever be produced in widescreen, and is also one of the last cartoons to have been animated with pencils and papers.
* **Better on DVD** - Most people don't know that the show was actually produced in the 16:9 widescreen format because back in the day, HDTV was nowhere near as common as it is now (it took until at least 2007 for it to become the norm), and as a result, Kids' WB cropped episodes into fullscreen. Due to this, the DVDs and VHSes were the only true ways of experiencing the show's widescreen glory during the early 2000s.
* **Broken Base**:
	+ Is Season 4's excessive usage of grossout humor unnecessary, or is it a good way to aide jokes?
	+ Constantinos' abuse being funny or not.
	+ There are people who view the series as "mean-spirited" due to the endless "torturing" of the characters, whereas none of these arguments matter to the other half because 1) it's simple slapstick, and 2) sometimes - but not all the time - a character will do something to warrant it. Especially Joey.
		- Sauls and Felker themselves agree with the latter, to the point where the criticisms about the show being "mean-spirited" serve as an important plot point in Are You There, Sauls? It's Me, Ed.
		- Some people are so against the "mean-spirited" humor that they often consider it one of the worst shows to come out of Kids' WB, even going as far as to say its debut was when the block jumped the shark.
	+ Was Rip Van Edward a huge insult to Edward as a character, or is it one of the best episodes in the series, with a meaningful message behind it?
		- Fans also debate on which ending is better.
	+ Was it right for Sauls to have ended the series, or should it have been an ongoing franchise like how Warner Bros. wanted it to be?
	+ The change in the animation style starting from Season 5 is a heavy topic in the fanbase. Some say it's too wacky, whereas others say it's a breath of fresh air to see a cartoon go all out with facial expressions. The criticism has even went far enough to where a lot of social media users (mostly on Twitter) have stated cartoony faces are the post-movie era's "only source of humor". Sauls himself acknowledged these complaints when S5 was still in production, so what did he do? Made Season 6 and beyond's expressions wackier than ever.
		- When pestered about the style change by a fan on Twitter in 2019, he responded with, *"Thank you for politely telling me you prefer S4's stiff animation. Hopefully its issues with having incomplete outlines and missing frames per episode inspires you to become a better animator than me."*
* **Ear Worm** - Everybody loves my slithery little friend, he's my playful pet. Hobbily-hoo, ziggily zee...
* **Friendly Fandoms** - The E&E and SpongeBob SquarePants fandoms are very friendly with each other. Hell, Sauls and Felker are avid SpongeBob fans themselves.
* **Fridge Brilliance**:
	+ Edward is painted as one of the weakest characters in the series. However, if you consider this from a realistic standpoint, he would be WAY too powerful for our world's own good if he were a real person. For one, nothing in our universe could ever hope of killing him, let alone make him flinch, because he has survived a beating from Mandy that turned him into a live-action version of himself AND sent him into outer space, being in the epicenter of a burp that rapidly pushed the Moon out of orbit AND formed a constellation, the entire state of New York exploding (on too many occasions to count), and many others.
		- Not helping is how he is capable of harming characters with similar durability, which would mean his own physical strength would scale to his durability. So with that in mind, he could realistically destroy our own planet with something as simple as sneezing.
	+ Edward and Eric debuted at perfect timing. It premiered at a time Kids' WB's iconic comedy shows (*Animaniacs*, *Pinky and the Brain*, etc) were being cancelled in favor of *Pokémon* (which was on its way to the block), as Warner Bros. found it cheaper to invest in something as cheap as an anime dub. E&E, however, proved to be a success, even though Warner Bros. initially only wanted it to last one season. It got to where, for a few years, this and *What's New, Scooby-Doo?* (as well as reruns of the other, older *Scooby-Doo* shows) were the only comedy shows on Kids' WB, as during the stretch from 2000 to 2005, Kids' WB heavily focused on action cartoons and anime.
* **Fridge Horror** - Ok, maybe it's not *that* scary, but if the series ended up being a one-season wonder like how Warner Bros. originally intended it to be, the second version of Now You've Done It would have likely never been heard to the public. For context, it was originally recorded sometime in 1995, but for unknown reasons, it wasn't used in an episode until Season 2.
* **Harsher in Hindsight** - Any episode involving Edward's former crush on Kimberly might become harder to watch when viewers learn that Sauls based Kimberly on one of his own manipulative exes.
* **Heartwarming**:
	+ One of the most significant moments is in Are You There, Sauls? It's Me, Ed, where the brothers are bidding farewells to their past selves. Edward begins crying, and when Eric notices this, he covers it up with a lame excuse ("I have something in my eye"). However, Eric uses his brainpower for once by telling Edward it's ok to cry.
	+ Any instance where Joey calls someone by their real name (usually Edward's; e.g. the ending of Every Ed Has Its Day) as opposed to any of their usual nicknames is a sign he's showing genuine care.
	+ In Tripping Down Memory Lane, everybody thinks Edward has been knocked unconscious and given amnesia. It turns out he was completely fine - he just always takes power naps after working in his lab. Eric doesn't hesitate to give him a hug, telling him he's glad he's alright. Edward asks Eric if he "told the story with the bear again", implying this isn't the FIRST time this happened. Eric offers to tell it again, and the episode ends there.
	+ All of the jail breakout scenes in Edward and Eric: Lakeside City Stories that have a random chance of playing after getting busted by the cops are pretty heartwarming, as it shows how much The Lucky 6 cares for each other.
		- An honorable mention goes to one of the cutscenes for when you're playing as Edward. Both Joey and Stanley blow up a wall and threaten Officer Owen and Cop Chris to release Edward. Upon escaping, Stanley says "it was all Joey's idea". Now that's some good proof in regards to no matter how much of an asshole he is, Joey loves his (only) friends no matter what.
* **Hilarious in Hindsight** - This isn't the first animated series from 1998 that revolves around two polar opposite brothers living in a Crapsack World where they're constantly treated awfully.
* **Never Live It Down**:
	+ Bleeding Heart may as well be called "the episode where Joey gets shaved down from his flesh and skull", even though the scene in question doesn't even exceed 15 seconds and isn't important to the plot to begin with.
	+ A meme in the E&E fanbase is Joey being the "true antagonist" of the series due to Tripping Down Memory Lane, where it is revealed his bitterness towards the brothers grew from Eric burning his hair. He goes from trying to get Eric lost in the wilderness by making bear noises, to exaggerating Eric's "death", showing no concerns about him going missing.
	+ Eric tends to get demonized for his moments where he is either fully aware of his stupidity (e.g. Fish Out of Water), or unknowingly rude towards other characters.
	+ Social media users (especially Twitter users) **LOVE** to assume that the post-movie era's (Season 5 and above) only sense of humor is exaggerated facial expressions.
		- Sauls himself is aware of these complaints. One good point he made on Twitter was, "I don't know why the cartoon community blows up my inbox over the post-movie era's wacky expressions, while also giving the worst TV show I've ever seen a free pass."
	+ In a meta example, this is how Sauls is towards Warner Bros. temporarily cutting the show's budget after An Onix-pected Adventure wrapped up production. While he has stated numerous times that he loved working for the company, he's still never going to "get over" how a crossover like that could have literally killed production money for a while.
* **Nightmare Fuel** :
	+ The ending to An Onix-pected Adventure is considered this to some. Not only does Andrew get beaten so badly that he states he can feel his grey matter "oozing out" (which we can ***hear***), but he nonchalantly laughs the pain off.
		- Hell, most of Andrew's deaths are considered this, though if you realize how his segments are intentionally made to look cheap, this consideration could make his scenes less dark for some.
			* Well, except for when he got Killed Off for Real in the movie.
* **Squick** - In Bleeding Heart, Joey gets his sideburns brutally shaved, to the point where *he gets shaved down to his flesh, and then his skull*.
	+ In Strike Up the Band, Cal rips off Joey's tonsils in an attempt to make his singing better, but then ***they suddenly come to life and eventually slither away to "grab a bite", never to be seen again***. This scene isn't mentioned by anybody afterwards, either.
	+ Season 4 is filled to DEATH with Squick moments.
		- Ironically, the season's animation suffers from extreme budget cuts, yet its grossout moments are the most detailed the series has ever had.
	+ In the only time blood is featured in the series, Walker goes in to have his blood taken. Sounds normal, but in the middle of the appointment, Dr. Feelwell gets a phone call, which turns out to be an entire conversation. Eventually, he is so distracted by it that he doesn't even notice the blood bag filling up the entire room. It ends up exploding, but at least we don't get to see the mess...
		- A common debate among the fanbase is whether this scene makes all of Season 4's grossout look tame, or if it's not as gross as people claim it is since not only are blood tests natural, but we don't get to see the explosion.
* **Tear Jerker**:
	+ In One Small Step for Ed, Buzz Aldrin's line about Neil Armstrong "not being so lucky" can be viewed as this, since he unfortunately passed away in 2012, twelve years after the episode premiered.
	+ Rip Van Edward has this in spades. Edward is left unconscious for ten centuries, and not only was Oscar the only one who noticed his absence throughout that time, but upon awakening, he realizes that everybody he has ever known has forgotten who he is. Why? Snodgrass tells him it's because he's simply a forgettable person. Edward, a normally optimistic person, is left depressed upon the realization.
	+ The ending of the movie. When Stanley nonchalantly tells the trio school starts tomorrow, they don't even react in a devastated manner; they share a genuine laugh about it with the rest of The Lucky 6. Eric suggests they sing a song "they all know", and they proceed to sing Friends Are Always There for You. Afterwards, Andrew receives the electric chair, and the first half of the credits start, where the gang is singing the song again. Such an impactful cartoon had such a dignified ending, which is more than a lot of cartoons can say, but in the end, it's pretty sad to see that the adventures of a group of kids you've likely grown up with is finally over.
		- Edward and Eric is also the last Kids' WB show from the 1990s to end, and Edward himself is one of Andrew Rannells' last major animated roles before he became a Broadway actor.
* **They Copied It, So It Sucks!** - A certain "online reviewer" has compared Edward and Eric to SpongeBob SquarePants "if it were to take place at school", even though while Lakeside City School is an important location, it's not THE main one. So as a result, his fanbase has been unfairly comparing it as well.
	+ In his review for E&E, he said Edward is SpongeBob "if he were a genius", as both are eternally optimistic, cheerful, free-spirited, and happy-go-lucky characters with somewhat nasally voices who take passion in those who absolutely despise them.
	+ And of course, he compared Eric to Patrick (more specifically, Patrick's "post-movie self", even though Patrick has always had his Jerkass moments), as both are dimwitted deuteragonists and sidekicks (Patrick is SpongeBob's best friend, whereas Eric is Edward's younger brother) who occasionally show moments of brillance.
	+ He also compared Joey to Squidward, as both are assholish Grumpy Bears who are extremely egotistical and frequently get angered by the character's antics. And we can't forget how Enter said "both always get tortured", even though 1) both usually do something to warrant it, and 2) even if they don't, it's simple slapstick.
	+ But the cherry on top of the sundae is Mr. Enter also comparing Edward and Eric to CatDog, as both shows feature two polar opposite brothers who live in Crapsack Worlds where "bad things happen to those who don't deserve it".
* **Unpopular Popular Character** - Joey is nowhere close to being liked In-Universe, but he is popular in the fanbase, and Gary Sauls himself said he is probably his most favorite character to write.
* **Win the Crowd** - When My Ed Academia was first announced, a few fans feared the special's animation wouldn't live up to the original style of E&E's due to the major changes in animation technology throughout the years (just look at all the long-running cartoons that have switched from traditional to Flash). Fortunately, if anybody knows Sauls for 5 seconds, they'll know he is an avid lover of traditional animation.
	+ Not only does the special have brighter colors, as well as facial expressions that are a lot more expressive than the post-movie era's (which is saying a ***LOT***), but just like with the original crossovers, the animation manages to blend in perfectly with My Hero Academia's.