× Ed Edd N Eddy ( pt. 2 )

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Ed, Edd n Eddy are dead.

Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy was one of Cartoon Network's original programs created back in the late '90s.

It's a pretty simple, wholesome show about three kids (all named some variation of Edward) who ... really, they just spend a lot of time trying to scam the other kids on their block.

They're kind of assholes.

OK, so maybe it's not so wholesome.

You know what else isn't wholesome? 

Dead kids.

This theory proposes that all the children on the show are actually dead, and the neighborhood they live in is purgatory.

For one thing, some of these kids already look like they're dead: Pretty much everyone in this neighborhood has weird skin tones or odd-colored tongues, like corpses might have.

But then there's the fact that there are no adults in the show: They're mentioned, but never seen.

You do see vague silhouettes of adults on a few occasions, but they never move (yeah, that's not creepy or anything).

The closest thing to an adult we ever see is Eddy's older brother, whom they meet the only time in the entire show's history when they leave their neighborhood/purgatory.

However, the guy turns out to be a complete piece of shit, meaning that it's totally feasible that they were simply visiting him in hell.

This would also explain why the setting of the show is so hard to pinpoint: In one episode, the kids are seen using a typewriter, despite having been shown using a computer in another, and they seem to know what a cassette tape is, unlike most teens of the 2000s.

The theory holds that this is because each one came from a different period in American history.

Rolf, the weird kid with the inexplicable Eastern European accent, died in the early 1900s in a farming accident.

Johnny, the one whose best friend is a plank, comes from the 1920s, when owning a piece of wood with a face painted on it made you the most popular kid on the block.

Jimmy, the sickly kid with yellowish skin, died of leukemia in the 2000s, and so on.

The theory also alleges that there's one set of characters who aren't dead, but not alive either.

The antagonistic Kanker sisters, who frequently abuse and berate all the other kids on the show, are actually demons placed in purgatory to torture them.

Coincidentally, they are the only regular characters who have pink tongues ... just like non-dead people do.

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