A long-running - seemingly endlessly iterated, in fact - conflict between enemies known as Tom and Jerry. Where else have we seen this? That's right, the First World War, in which the Brits were known collectively as "Tommy Atkins" and they called the Germans "Jerries" (well, when they weren't calling them "Huns"). Interesting, then, that it's with Jerry - the historical loser - that our sympathies lie. Revisionist propaganda? Perhaps. Perhaps. Come to think of it, weren't the majority of these cartoons produced during and shortly after the second World War, in which Jerry (if you will) was once again the enemy? Posited: a subversive attempt to counteract the "all Germans are Nazis are Evil" propaganda then current - a sort of Don't Let's be Beastly to the Germans, without Noel Coward's sarcasm.
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Ed, Edd and Eddy's entire cast of kids as all being dead and living in a purgatory of an eternal childhood cycle (originally an eternal summer, but then they started going to school), thusly the complete lack of any adult agents in the purgatory. They're are a number of explanations for their deaths, ranging from an explosion due to a gas-leak in the neighborhood to apocalyptic ones such as nuclear explosion or the spread of a deadly disease that killed most of middle-America. Another theory suggests that the kids in the cul-de-sac are dead children from the neighborhood, each from different times (Johnny and Rolf from the 40's, Kevin from the 90's, Naz from the 60's, Jimmy from the 00's, and so on).
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