Edward and Eric/Deleted Scenes

In **Edward and Eric**, there may be some scenes that were cut out or never made it past the storyboard. This page is a list of those scenes.

Scrapped plots/episode titles/air dates, episodes getting banned in other countries, or entire episodes being scrapped outright also count as a deleted "scene."

## Shorts

### Pranks for Nothing

* This short was originally titled "April Fools" during development.
* There was supposed to be a scene where Edward talked to Dallas before talking to Joey. This was removed for unknown reasons.

### Happy Birthday

* Eric was supposed to find a present at a tool store called Screw This. It never made the final cut, probably because of the innuendo.
	+ In a storyboard panel of Eric entering Screw This, there was a note that said "Make the cashier wear a gimp suit". Unfortunately, the cashier's character sheets are locked up in Chatterbox Productions' vault to this day.

## Season 1

### The Eddy Beginning

* The scene where Edward fell down the school’s stairs was shorter in the storyboard.

### The School Bully

* The working title for this episode was "Carver!".
	+ Another title that was in mind for this episode was "The Setup".
* There was a scene involving Joey being naked, but it was eventually cut out.
* In the scene where Edward was crying and telling Carver he wasn't ready to get beaten up, there were several frames of Edward turning red that eventually got cut out. Several animation cels of this cut scene have since been up for sale on eBay.

### A New Friend

* The original title for this was "Revenge on Carver Brutus".

### Break a Leg

* The thing that would've caused Esmond's appearance to turn back to normal is by getting hit by a truck. It was changed to (???) as it may have been too frightening to young viewers.

### The Wrong Side of the Bed

* In the original airing, the walrus puppet roared and squealed like a pig. This eventually was changed to the walrus puppet laughing in reruns as the original was deemed too scary. It has been said the Polish dub kept the initial audio, but this has yet to be verified, especially considering almost all of the dub is lost.
	+ In recent times, the existence of the original audio has been put into question, since the premiere hasn't been been uploaded anywhere online as of December 2021, despite most premieres being rather easy to come across. Sauls and Felker never answer anything about it on Twitter, one of the show's writers, (TBD), insists that the roaring and pig squealing were in the script, while the show's sound effects editor has no recollection of inserting them into the episode.
* This episode was banned in a few countries due to being considered too frightening for young audiences (understandably so).

### Monster Mania

* This episode suffered the same fate as its sister episode in some countries, as it was also deemed too scary for young audiences (again, understandably so).

## Season 2

### Comb On Over!

* After Joey got his haircut at the barber shop, there was supposed to be a disturbing closeup that has him with the design he has for the rest of the episode: bloodshot eyes, a bald head, and visible veins on his head.

### Cartoon Madness

* A closeup of a slice of pie was supposed to be used in this episode, but was ultimately left unused.

### Trouble at School

* There was going to be a scene where Mrs. White's dad would appear. His name is still listed in the credits for the episode, with Andrew Rannells voicing him.
	+ When asked about Mrs. White's dad in a Twitter Q&A from 2019, Gary Sauls stated that he doesn't remember anything about the episode's production.

### Babysitting

* Stanley's name is listed in the credits despite not speaking in the episode, and although he doesn't appear, Dallas is listed in the credits as well. This means Edward Felker and Dan Green had already recorded dialogue for them before being cut out.

### The Haunted Recliner

* The original airing had Constantinos asking, "Edward, can I sleep with you again tonight?". This was changed in later airings.

### That's Gonna Leave a Mark

* Joey was originally going to hurt himself by replacing the Gym's dodgeball with a bowling ball, as opposed to diving into a pool of PEGOs.
	+ This is kept in the final version of the episode to an extent, as near the end, Edward is seen repeatedly slamming a bowling ball into his leg.

### Sidekick the Bucket

* In the storyboards, there was a scene where Match Boy showed Eric a hole with a cork on it that protected Earth's atmosphere from the vacuum of outer space. Eric would then end up pulling it out, causing Earth to lose its air. This was likely cut out to save time.
* There are unused backgrounds of a jewelry store that was meant to be used at some point in the episode.

### There's So Much to Sea

* The original airing had The Narrator say "Ah, Coney Island. Where the sun is hot and the sunbathers are oh so sexy.". This was probably changed due to being inappropriate.

### Eric a la Mode

* In the storyboard, the scene where Eric falls into the giant sundae was shorter.

### Football Follies

* The episode title was initially "The Big Game".
* The episode was supposed to end with Carver getting arrested.

### The Hall of the Weens

* As seen in a few character model sheets for this episode, the episode was originally titled "Halloween".

### Snake Zone

* For several years, there was a rumor that in the original airing, the camera didn't immediately cut to black after Walker said "Uh oh.", and that it showed his head exploding in full detail. The "scene" was said to have been deemed "too gruesome for children".
	+ This was disproved when an archive.org user uploaded a tape consisting of everything that aired on Kids' WB on October 9, 1999 onto the site itself, which, of course, included the premiere of this episode. Sauls has also stated the explosion wasn't even drawn in the storyboard; he intentionally made the camera fade to black right away before we could see it. Additionally, he stated: *"I love humor like that as much as the next guy. But come on, the show was TV-Y7 FV, not TV-14."*
* In the storyboard, there are more scenes of Joey trying to get an eyelash from Principal Walker that were likely cut out due to time constraints:
	+ Joey writing a treaty politely asking Walker to give him one of his eyelashes, slipping it underneath the office door, and then getting zapped to dust by the Helping Hand 3000 Recliner.
	+ (WIP)

### Santa's Clause

* The episode was originally titled "Christmas is Here".

## Season 3

### Prehistoric Eric

* The episode originally had a different title and was supposed to be about Eric going to the future to see what Lakeside City would be like.
	+ Eventually, a later episode, Rip Van Edward, used the concept of time traveling to the future.

### Everyone's Cup of Tea

* An unused closeup of corks jammed up Eric's nostrils can be seen on one of the show's trading cards.
* This episode was supposed to premiere on January 1, 2000 with its sister episode, but it was delayed until September 2, 2000 for unknown reasons. On the latter date, it premiered with Hunt for the Gaboon Viper.

### One Small Step for Pearson

* The original title for this episode was "Zero Gravity", according to the original storyboard from March 1999.

### School Picnic

* The outline for this episode shows that a food fight in the cafeteria would've caused the school to be burnt down. However, due to the 7-minute length of the episode, it had to be cut out and reduced to a Noodle Incident. In the audio commentary, one of the writers said "it's kinda funnier this way anyway", so it wasn't a total loss for the crew.
* In the storyboard, Joey's fingers were set on fire while he was grilling hamburgers. This was changed in the final version because Warner Bros. executives feared they would encourage younger audiences to play with fire.
	+ Somehow, the crew at Chatterbox Productions was able to replace this with a more brutal scene where Joey gets stuck inside of the barbecue grill, and he begs Eric to get him out of it (to no avail), all while unfitting music plays.

### Lost and Found

* This episode was originally titled "Falling Asleep on the Bus".
* A scene in the episode has a plane exploding, which TV airings left intact until shortly after 9/11. However, the scene was eventually restored in 2009.
	+ After the plane exploded, "blood animals" were supposed to eat the remains of it.

### Hello, My Name is Ed

* According to the storyboards, the original name for Edward Stinks! was *Hey Edward!*. This means it was supposed to be a spoof of the Nickelodeon cartoon, *Hey Arnold!*.

### Crazy for Candy

* Sierra was supposed to make an appearance by singing at the apartment.

### Suckers!

* The storyboards show this episode was initially titled "This Episode Sucks", which is an obvious play on words with vacuums sucking up objects. It was likely changed for being deemed inappropriate.

### Eric Come Home

* Mrs. White and Sierra (again) were supposed to appear, but this was scrapped for unknown reasons.
	+ Despite this, they still appear in a chapter book that is based on this episode.

### Hunt for the Gaboon Viper

* Originally, the episode was going to revolve around Eric adopting an aggressive pet dog, instead of a gaboon viper. This was eventually changed when Sauls decided that the latter option would be more unique.
	+ Sierra's phone call to Bill was also slightly longer during development, and she would have made a physical appearance.
* For unknown reasons, My Slithery Little Friend is skipped over in the Italian dub.
	+ In the Russian dub, it does not have any lyrics.

### Bloom of Youth

* This episode was supposed to premiere on September 2, 2000. There were even promos for the episode that date back to August in that same year. However, it ended up being delayed several times. It was scheduled to premiere sometime during November 2000, and then June 2001, and even October 18, 2003 at one point, but it finally premiered on September 14, 2002 during the Scoob-tacular Saturday event.
	+ Despite this, the episode was available on the An Onix-pected Adventure DVD before it was broadcast on television.

### An Onix-pected Adventure

* There was going to be a scene involving Eric eating a Pokeball.
* On Amazon Prime and in the original airing, the Andrew scenes are cut out.
* In some countries, the episode is split into two parts.
* This episode wasn't always going to be a crossover with *Pokémon*. Gary Sauls' original plan was to make Edward and Eric have a crossover with Detention, another Kids' WB cartoon, since he said it would "make the most sense". It was fully complete and ready to premiere, but due to nonstop Executive Meddling, the crew at Chatterbox had no choice but to turn the tables by changing it into a *Pokémon* crossover.
	+ For years, it was rumored the *Detention* crossover was stashed in Chatterbox's vault, until it was officially released on Edward and Eric: The Complete Series.
	+ The crossover itself *did* make its "debut" during the Every Edward Edder marathon in 2003, but since it "premiered" at 4am (not to mention *Detention* had long since faded into obscurity by that point), the chances of someone managing to record it was incredibly slim.
* Monster Bug (a) and The Girl I Left Behind Me were supposed to play where Dramatic Impact 3 and Camptown Races play in the episode, but Sauls changed them as he felt the latter tracks were funnier choices.

### Comic Relief

* There was supposed to be a scene of Sebastian walking in on a dispute between Principal Walker and Diane, which involved Walker not wanting to go to Diane's mother-in-law's house (who is basically a mummy).

### Mystery Meat

* In the past, there was a long-time rumor of a deleted scene that showed Esmond gruesomely turning into a zombie onscreen. A common piece of "evidence" for this supposed deleted scene is that right after Esmond is bitten, the camera immediately cuts to him as a zombie. Some said this was a remnant of the edit, while others thought it was just poor transition placement.
	+ Some said that this "deleted scene" was left intact in the Polish dub, but since most of the dub is considered lost, this was most likely said just to frustrate people even more.
		- At some point in 2016, a YouTuber uploaded the scene from the original airing, which contained proof that this "deleted scene" is indeed fake.

### Eric in Love

* The storyboards show Eric wearing his formal wig and suit from Valentine's Day in Lakeside to his date with the young woman's portrait. In the final version of the episode, the colors of his suit have changed, whereas his wig was removed entirely.

### Eric = mc2

* According to the storyboard, this episode's original title was "Flowers for Eric".
* At the party, there was a scene involving a mother talking to her sister about "the birds and the bees".

## Season 4

### The Millennium's a-Comin'

* At first, Principal Walker said the evidence of the "asteroid" was "damning". When the episode aired again on the following Monday (as opposed to later that day on the Saturday it premiered), it was changed to "convincing".
	+ The cast and crew are divided on this matter. Andrew Rannells has recalled the line initially having "damning" in it, whereas Mike Pollock has denied recording "damning". Gary Sauls, on the other hand, always hastily changes the topic whenever it's brought up in interviews, while Edward Felker straight-up never responds to Twitter users asking about it. Jacob Krarup, who was one of the episode's writers, said the following about the matter: "I don't really remember if we put it in the script, but I wouldn't be too surprised considering how stuff like that occurred a lot behind the scenes. Not to mention I ended up writing *Bully* after all."
	+ The existence of the dialogue change has long been questioned, with no consolidated proof of it ever existing.
		- How Andrew recalls the line having "damning" in it but not the own voice actor for Walker is unknown, and what's even more unknown is the debate on whether one of them has a fuzzy memory regarding the matter or not, since they were asked about it long after the episode premiered.
		- There is also the fact the line got away scot-free for a day, when the episode would have been reviewed by the Broadcast Standards and Practices prior to premiering. However, this can be argued with how *The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie* - which released in theaters 3 years after - also has a line containing "damning" and was left untouched by censors.
		- As stated before, Sauls and Felker never answer anything regarding the fiasco, even though they're very open with answering questions about the production of episodes. The fanbase and lost media community often reflect on this to think about the possibility that they know full well the dialogue change is real.
	+ In April 2017, a user on YouTube stated he had the full original airing in "mint condition". However, just seconds after uploading it, his account was terminated by Warner Bros. for copyright, and he was never heard from again. Another person tried to download the video right when it was uploaded, but he accidentally clicked out of the tab, which caused extreme frustration.
	+ On January 21, 2019, another user, though this time on an Edward and Eric fansite (Lakeside City Forums), claimed to have the original airing, and uploaded it to Google Drive. However, the recording abruptly cut to static right before Walker could be heard saying "damning", and after two minutes, it cut to black, ending the video. The user shortly deleted their account afterwards for unknown reasons.

### Bleeding Heart

* The boys' dorm is listed in the credits, with Josh Peck voicing it, but it never talks in the episode.

### To Serve and Protect

* In the storyboard, Constantinos had a grenade in his hand when he was learning how to set up a decoy.

### Tripping Down Memory Lane

* After he got a lump on his head, Edward said, "I better not hit my head again. That might cause a concussion." It is unknown why this was removed, but it may have been deemed pointless.
* In some countries, the episode is split into two parts.

### Hard-Boiled Ed

* The scene of Constantinos getting stung by the wasp was shortened, or even outright removed, in several countries. This was likely done to prevent the risk of seizures.
* Walker's remark about hoping the airplane blows up was cut out in early airings due to the episode premiering three months after 9/11. Felker stated this was completely unintentional, as the episode was produced several months before.

### Pure as the Driven Snow

* According to the original script that was seen in an interview from January 2002, the original ending for this episode was the entirety of Avenue A Apartment falling on Joey.

### The Pink Panthedward

* This episode was originally titled "SpyEd". It is still used on some TV guides, as well as iTunes.

### A Visit to Grandma's

* As seen in the original storyboard, the episode was supposed to end with Edward and Eric eating cookies.
* Carver was originally going to ask the brothers "Who do you two think you are? A bunch of babies?". However, this was changed to "Who do you two think you are? The Rugrats?" after the Chatterbox crew got permission from Nickelodeon.

### Red Ed Redemption

* The Outlaw from Lakeside is skipped over in Italian airings.

### Fore!

* According to the original storyboards from 2001, the original title for this episode was "Sunday Drivers".
* In early airings, the bus that hit Old Man Esmond was filled with tourists.
* In the storyboard, Constantinos was originally hit in the eye by the golf ball that Eric hit. However, he gets hit in the groin in the final version because Sauls thought this would be funnier.

## Season 5

### Watch Your Back!

* As seen in the storyboards (the animatic can be viewed on the Coulrophobia DVD), the episode was supposed to end with a closeup painting of Joey's bloodshot eyeballs.

### Insomnia Insanity

* The original plot was Bill having a nightmare and turning into a mustard dispenser.

### Batteries Not Included

* A working title for this episode was "Assault and Battery".

### Lemon-aid

* There was supposedly a "deleted scene" that consisted of Eric saying, "I wish my nuts were lemons." This was eventually proven to be fake by Edward Felker, and he also said it wasn't even drawn in the storyboard.
	+ However, he did give kudos to whoever made up that rumor, since he said it felt like an actual joke from the show.

### Every Ed Has Its Day

* Joey was supposed to sigh after reading Lakeside Forest's sign. This was then changed to "What's so great about forests?", which Warner Bros. originally deemed as "rude".

### Attack of the 50-Foot Joey

* A working title for this episode was "Joey's Tall Tale".

### There Will Be Heck to Pay

* The episode was originally titled "Angel May Laugh", a reference to Capcom's *Devil May Cry* video game franchise.

### Rip Van Edward

* This episode wasn't always going to be a simulation. In the original ending, the time machine began to malfunction (similarly to the ending we ended up with), but right when it was about to explode, the present day Edward woke up. He briefly gets into a panic, thinking he's still in the 30th century, but becomes absolutely ecstatic upon realizing he's still in the 20th century. Dallas reminds him he's been hallucinating for "at least 22 minutes" due to the apple hitting his head.
	+ However, once it looks like things are looking good for Edward, or perhaps TOO good, the camera becomes fuzzy, but it eventually clears out. We see an elderly Edward, who wakes up exactly like his 14-year-old self. He raises his eyes, and the audience sees him in a retirement home with the rest of the gang, who is also now elderly. Dallas tells Edward he's blabbering about their days of youth "again" (implying this isn't the first time this has happened).
		- Eric tells Edward "You remember such funny things, like, uhh...uhh...", and his dementia causes him to fall asleep on the spot. Edward replies with "Well, so much for our game of bingo." However, it's all downhill from there. An elderly Carver enters the retirement home, who has barely returned home from China (due to the events of the movie). He starts giving Edward a noogie, and that's when the room's monitor walks out. Dallas tries to beat up Carver, but breaks his hip and collapses in the process. He then tells Carver, "I guess not everybody changes, eh?", and vows to beat him up later.
			* As Carver prepares to beat the crud out of Edward, the latter starts crying, and he pleads "I wish I was a kid again!".
				+ Had it not been scrapped, this ending would've revealed every single episode, plus the movie, were just childhood stories told by an elderly Edward. However, both Sauls and Felker agreed that, if they went down this road, the episode would just be a HUGE middle finger to the true finale, the movie.
					- Despite this, the original ending can be viewed on Edward and Eric: The Complete Series' 15th disc, as it was fully storyboarded and voiced before getting scrapped.

## Season 6

### The Big Word

* In an interview, Andrew Rannells stated there are actually audio files of the characters swearing. Originally, he and the rest of the cast were ordered by Warner Bros. to use substitute words for the swears while recording their dialogue. However, everybody found it too difficult to pull off, so they asked Sauls if they could actually swear, and much to their luck, he was completely accepting of it. However, said files are buried deep in Chatterbox's vault and will thus never see the light of day.

(WIP)

## Scrapped Episodes

### Yu-Gi-Ed!

At some point during Season 4's production cycle, Warner Bros. approached the Chatterbox crew for a potential *Yu-Gi-Oh!* crossover in order to promote the series, as it debuted to American audiences in 2001. They reluctantly agreed, but on one condition: they retrieved their budget money from the disastrous development of An Onix-pected Adventure.

The episode never made it past the storyboard stage due to Warner Bros. making a bigger, better deal: the movie. Despite this, the full animatic can be viewed on Disc 20 of the Edward and Eric: The Complete Series box set.

A VHS and DVD release was being made in the midst of the episode's production, but was scrapped with the episode itself.

### Untitled *SpongeBob SquarePants* crossover

Not much is known about this episode, hence the lack of a page, other than the fact it was conceived during Season 5 when Edward and Eric resumed production following the movie. The only traces of it are concept art due to Stephen Hillenburg himself saying he hated the idea of *SpongeBob SquarePants* crossing over with another cartoon. This is because of the series taking place underwater and SpongeBob being considerably smaller compared to other cartoon characters, as he is only four inches tall.

Needless to say, the Chatterbox crew respected his wishes, and it didn't take too long for them to scrap the crossover.

"I'd have to look through my office's filing cabinets, but I think one plot idea we had in mind was Principal Walker getting a partnership with The Chum Bucket to promote his Walker Wings, and they would try to take over Lakeside together," one Edward and Eric writer said when asked about the crossover on Tumblr in 2016. "But none of our ideas were final since we wanted to abide by Mr. Hillenburg's wishes, and we were near-instant with cancelling the episode altogether."

### Nerds Collide

At the beginning of Season 7's production cycle, Warner Bros. approached the Chatterbox crew to discuss a potential crossover with one of Cartoon Network's original shows, as Edward and Eric was set to migrate there due to Kids' WB declining in viewership. They were ultimately unable to pick between doing a crossover with *Dexter's Laboratory* or *Ed, Edd n Eddy*, so Warner Bros. gave them the go-ahead to begin work on both crossovers, and the one to receive a more positive reaction would be the one that they could finish.

Ultimately, Edward and Eric vs. Ed, Edd n Eddy received a more positive reaction from Cartoon Network, and thus was approved by Warner Bros., while Nerds Collide was shelved. Despite this, the full animatic can be viewed on Disc 20 of the Edward and Eric: The Complete Series box set.