Hand Me Down Ed

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[It is a peaceful summer day in Peach Creek; the sun is beating down, birds are chirping, and everything seems to be just as it should. As we view the skyline, a boomerang whizzes past. It circles over the cul-de-sac, slowly going lower and lower.]

[In a yard, Jimmy is sitting on a pillow. He stretches his legs into an awkward position behind his head.]

Jimmy: "Are we ready, class?" [His class consists of a doll, a stuffed rabbit, and a teddy bear.] "Good. Let's begin, shall we? Let those nasties loose from your body. Ooh, doesn't that feel good? Now cuddle the tranquility. Snuggle the–"

[Jimmy hears a noise and opens one eye. A basketball is bouncing towards a stand-alone mailbox. The ball hits the box. The mailbox teeters over and collapses onto a doll and half of the teddy bear. The bear is ripped in half, whereas the doll is crushed beneath the box.]

Jimmy: "MR YUM-YUMS!" [Not bothering to untangle himself, he hops over to the destroyed bear.] "SPEAK TO ME!" [The bear's head just lolls over. Crying] "Dolly and I will miss you so! Dolly?" [realizing there's another casualty] "DOLLY!" [Jimmy struggles to lift the mailbox, but cannot accomplish it.] "It's no use! I'm so inadequate!" [He starts bawling. Kevin comes over, picks up his ball, and easily sets the mailbox upright.]

Kevin: [looking at the wreckage] "Rough. Kiss those baby toys goodbye!" [walking away] "Huh, Fluffy?"

Jimmy: [setting the wrecked toys and the bunny on the pillow] "If only I wasn't such a weightless weakling, I'd give him what for!"

[Jimmy moves to carry the pillow away, but spots something in the bushes. The something is the boomerang, which has apparently finished its descent and settled there. Jimmy picks it up and stuffs it in the back of his shirt, making him appear to actually have muscles.]

Jimmy: "Look at me, I'm a bruiser!" [He giggles, but suddenly he feels a strange transformation overtake him. Jimmy is now indeed a muscleman. He growls, and then his sight lands on Kevin, who is practicing his dribbling, unaware of Jimmy. This blissful ignorance does not last for long, as Jimmy swats Kevin's cap off his head and spins Kevin around to face him.]

Kevin: "Hey–" [He sees the musclebound Jimmy, the offending mailbox raised over his head.] "Whoa."

[Jimmy throws the box down on Kevin, crushing the boy into the cement.]

Jimmy: [standing on the mailbox] "I am Jimmy. Hear me roar!"

[Kevin pokes his head out from underneath the metal contraption and coughs out a letter. Jimmy looks at him, clenching his shoulders together to make himself appear wider. The boomerang can't stand the strain, and flies out of Jimmy's shirt. Jimmy instantly reverts to normal and takes in the scene.]

Kevin: "You are so dead."

Jimmy: [running away] "Aah! Don't hurt me! Don't hurt me!"

Kevin: [not chasing Jimmy] "Man! What's with him?" [He picks up his cap and leaves.]

[The boomerang finds its way through the cul-de-sac and through an open window. The window leads to Sarah's room. The boomerang lands in the toy box.]

Sarah: "My room!"

[Sarah's room is indeed a disaster area. There are various food remnants and a comic book on the floor. Running down her dresser is a strange blue ooze. The camera moves up to show that there is a dripping carton of milk on top of the dresser, along with an empty box of Chunky Puffs and a banana peel. Perhaps the strangest thing is the bone in a vase of flowers. She growls, knowing who the culprit is all too well.]

[In Ed's basement, the Eds and Nat are getting a scam ready.]

Ed: [holding up a tube of Smile-O-Dent] "See? My favorite toothpaste, Eddy. Fresh as the day my mom bought it."

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