So something unique about Ed, Edd, and Eddy occured to me today.

 So I was thinking about cartoon casts, how shows like LPS constantly have new characters show up to help incite the plot, then about how much that happens in other cartoons. You have your core cast, maybe some side characters, and then there’s these one or two episode characters that show up for the inciting the plot of a particular episode.

 Then it occured to me. Ed, Edd and Eddy never did that. They established 13 characters ( including plank, I hope I counted right) and never had to introduce anyone that actually shows up again. They were sure they could do every plot they could ever need with just these 13 people. It had  such a solid routine for an episode they never needed to. And when it wasn’t that routine they used some sort of event or object (like that boomerang) to incite a plot. That’s really unique among cartoons, and even tv shows in general. I can’t really think of any other shows that managed to go through with ought ever adding to the cast or having one off characters.

 You could argue that some things count like Edd’s parents who only appeared through sticky notes or plank’s parents, but that would be a bit nitpicky.