Kicking off this month of spooks and scares, the Eds are on a hunt for "Spook-E-Ville" while Ed struggles with visions of monsters all around him. We open on Double D waiting for Eddy to get out of detention; he filled the teacher's desk with processed cheese. They head out amongst the autumn leaves as Eddy says he's got a surprise to make it the best Halloween ever, and we get a perfectly spooky credit montage. The duo set out for Ed's house, where the oafish character is sitting in his dark basement room, entranced by a horror movie we hear playing on his tv. Eddy fails to get his attention, as Ed seems to be in a complete stupor, and when Double D snaps on the night we see the room is filled with stacks of horror movies. He takes a look at a few, an obvious sign they'll be important later: Medusa's Hair Salon, the Headless Horseman, and the Curse of the Witches. Double D snaps Ed out of his daze by unplugging the tv, and Ed gushes about it being Halloween. Eddy barrels through this excitement, explaining he has a map to a place called "Spook-E-Ville," where the people give out buckets of candy on Halloween. Double D takes a look at the map Eddy got from his brother, expressing his doubt upon seeing the crudely drawn instructions. Annoyed, Eddy manipulates an agreement by suggesting Double D could ruin Ed's Halloween, and the goofy Ed switches to extreme joy. Cut to later that night, and the boys gather together in their costumes: Eddy is Zombie Elvis, Ed the viking Lothar, and Double D confuses the other two as the Bubonic Plague. They head out to trick-or-treat, but Ed wanders off when he hears the Kanker Sisters giggling, roasting marshmallows around a fire. When he looks at them, his eyes suddenly crackle like a tv, and he sees the trio as witches who put a curse on him and the other Eds. He rushes off in fear, and though Marie wonders about Ed's screaming, May simply reminds them that toasted marshmallows give her gas. Ed makes it back to the others as they look for a dented stop sign, and he quickly grabs them to reveal what he believes he saw: the Kankers have sent monsters after them with their jinx. Eddy humors him, asking Ed to protect them so they can find Spook-E-Ville, and the latter readily agrees, his formidable spatula held aloft. Ed shushes them when he hears Jimmy, whom he sees as a grotesque alien with a ray gun. He moves in and Jimmy compliments his costume, but in his movie-fied gaze, Ed sees an attack and slams Jimmy with a stop sign while Eddy cackles. Ed comes back with Jimmy's flashlight and candy, but Sarah, skipping along as a princess, is horrified when she stumbles upon her mangled friend. Double D worries about Ed, but becomes incredulous when Eddy points out the stop sign Ed dented while attacking Jimmy as their sign. Sarah arrives demanding Jimmy's candy, and Ed suddenly sees her as a vampire, who immediately attacks him. He defeats her with a steak and buries her, so as he and Eddy take off for Spook-E-Ville, Double D waters the ground, causing Sarah to sprout just before he rushes off. He bumps into Nazz, dressed as Medusa, who offers him some candy and invites him to trick-or-treat with her, causing him to blush and stutter. Eddy becomes jealous upon seeing them, and Ed again enters his movie world, seeing Nazz as the true Medusa. He turns to stone momentarily but breaks out of it and defeats Nazz by encasing her in a cement block with a mixer. Ed ignores Double D's horrifed reaction and speeds off with him and Eddy using Jimmy's wagon. They slam into a car, where Double D starts berating Ed for his actions, only for the viking to silence him and begin looking for monsters. Double D turns to Eddy with his concerns, only to be ignored again in favor of the next clue, which he says is an abandoned hearse, exactly what they crashed into. Shocked, he is about to move on to the next clue when Kevin arrives to egg the gang, and Eddy calls out to Ed. Ed looks up to see Kevin as the Headless Horseman, and after taking an egg to the face, he declares that Kevin is too strong and they must retreat. He tosses Eddy and Double D over a ledge and turns just in time to catch and fling back another egg, then hurls Kevin's bike back before diving off the cliff, causing it to fall apart. Double D and Eddy complain initially, but the former's assertion that they head back to see help for head prompts Eddy to reaffirm his need to find Spook-E-Ville. When Double D says the next clue is a tall oak tree, Eddy complains as they face a forest, so Ed announces that his spatula will lead them on the right path. As they follow, he suddenly stops for another vision, seeing Johnny as a horrific spider creature in one tree. He stops Double D from greeting Johnny, saying the wrong words could set him off, and offers the loner Jimmy's bag of candy. Double D's suggestion of having one's parents check their candy first goes unheeded and Johnny points them to a path, requesting that they send Plank his way if they see him, because he's tired of waiting. After they cross an odd cavern that crosses the road, they come across Rolf and his pig Wilfred, whom Ed sees as a cyclops and his monster pet. He stops them from trying the mushrooms Rolf has gathered, and while attempting to free his spatula from a tree, accidentally blinds the son of a shepherd. The trio heads across a bridge, and they stumble upon "Franken-Plank," whom Ed beats with a twig until Eddy tells them to get back on the path. As the trio comes closer and closer to Spook-E-Ville, they make a discovery as the kids from the cul-de-sac plan for revenge.
This is a personal favorite of mine for Halloween specials, as I've watched Ed, Edd, n Eddy for as long as I can remember. Seeing characters in a holiday setting always provides the opportunity for creative storytelling and imagery, and we definitely get that here. The use of the vhs tapes to set up Ed's condition is a good way of matching both the 90s setting and Ed's lose of 50s era movies. In the normal series, there are episodes where Ed expresses his love for black and white monster movies, and it makes sense that on Halloween he'd go overboard. Unlike the series, where the monsters were all created for the show, this episode has Ed facing classic monsters that all fit the character dressed as them somehow. As a big fan of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, seeing Kevin as the horrifying Headless Horseman is both fitting to me, due to his bike love, as well as just a great way to do a new version of a classic character. Adn although he is defeated atop the cliff, we also see a covered bridge over a river as the trio escapes Rolf, fitting with the classic tale. Like Double D says, Nazz dressing as Medusa is also a creative way of approaching Halloween, and is actually fitting. In some mythology, Medusa was incredibly beautiful, but was punished with her Gorgon physiology. Therefore it makes sense for Nazz to play the character, as all the guys in the cul-de-sac have crushed on her at some point except Jimmy. More logic comes with Johnny being described as a lonely, misunderstood creature, since his only real friend is a plank of wood, and said plank also has a fitting costume, appearing as a brute who is often depicted as never talking. Another positive aspect is that, unlike some tv specials, which are obviously completely non-canon and add some kind magical element that wouldn't normally exist, this special fits right into its world and could be an average episode. We see monsters throughout the episode, but it's all in Ed's head; in reality he's just attacking the other kids, doing so with his usual abnormality. For fans of the show and even maybe some younger viewers who didn't grow up with the series, the Boo Haw Haw can be a good, lighthearted way of getting into the Halloween spirit with typical Ed humor.
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