Eddsworld


Eddsworld is a British Flash-animated web series created by Edd Gould. Since its premiere on 15 December 2004, the series has been published through Newgrounds, DeviantArt, YouTube, Albino Blacksheep, Tumblr, SheezyArt, and an official website.
The pilot was made in 2003, and was simply titled "Edd".
Following Gould's death on 25 March 2012, Thomas Ridgewell became the series' new showrunner, launching a crowdfunding campaign to continue the show titled Eddsworld: Legacy. Preceding the release of Eddsworld: Legacy's final episode, Ridgewell announced he was leaving the show and handing control of the series to Matthew Hargreaves and Gould's family. To this day, Hargreaves remains as the last original member of the quartet working on the series.
On 1 January 2017, the show's website went back online with new Eddsworld comics written and illustrated by Matt Hargreaves. On 1 August 2020, a new short titled "Fan Service 2" was released to kick off a new era of the show called Eddsworld Beyond, with Hargreaves as showrunner. Previously drawn and animated entirely by Gould, the Legacy and Beyond eras of the series employ a team of artists from around the world., the Eddsworld YouTube channel has more than 4 million subscribers.
At the time of Gould's death, his YouTube channel had the most subscribers in the comedian category for the United Kingdom and was the 4th most viewed comedian in the United Kingdom. Eddsworld was noticed by the organisers of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference who commissioned an episode about climate change, used in the opening ceremony of the conference.

Synopsis

Eddsworld follows the misadventures of a group of young adult "morons" living together in a house somewhere in London: Edd, an artist obsessed with Coca-Cola and telling puns; Tom, a jaded nihilist and alcoholic who lacks visible eyeballs ; Matt, a dim-witted narcissist; and Tord, a trigger-happy Norwegian addicted to hentai, a gun expert, and an interested communist. The series is generally episodic, and typically has little, if any, continuity between episodes. This results in many episodes featuring the characters dying, and then appearing in the next episode as if nothing happened, particularly in episodes before "Moving Targets".

Cast and characters

Overview

Main

The protagonists of Eddsworld are exaggerated parodies of series creator Edd Gould and his friends.
  • Edd – An adventurous artist with a green hoodie who tells puns and likes Coca-Cola and bacon.
  • Tom – A cynical, alcoholic bass guitarist with a blue hoodie and empty eye sockets. He frequently gets dragged along on Edd's adventures despite his protests. He had a rivalry with Tord prior to the latter's departure and owns a bass guitar named Susan.
  • Matt – A self-obsessed, dim-witted narcissist with a purple hoodie, green overcoat, and a distinct chiseled chin.
  • Tord – A trigger-happy, hentai-addicted Norwegian inventor with a red hoodie often seen smoking. He has a rivalry with Tom and dislikes "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows". Tord moves away in the episode "25ft Under the Seat" to pursue his own interests, and returns with malicious intent in "The End".

    Supporting

  • Eduardo – Edd's next-door Neighbour and rival. He is obsessed with one-upping him and enjoys rubbing his misfortunes in his face.
  • Jon – Eduardo's housemate and counterpart to Tom. He is extremely unintelligent, and is physically abused by Eduardo for petty reasons. He is killed in "The End " as an indirect casualty during the battle between Edd's friends and Tord.
  • Mark – Eduardo's housemate and counterpart to Matt. Like his friends, he takes pleasure in constantly rubbing his neighbours' failures in their faces. After Jon's death, Mark comforts Eduardo during the latter's depression. How he survived during the events of "The End " is yet to be revealed.
  • The Evil Director – A villainous film director who attempted to clone Edd and his friends to bolster the sales of his film in the episode "Spares". He is accompanied by his assistant Larry, who hardly tolerates his idiocy.
  • Zanta Claws – A zombie Santa Claus intent on destroying Christmas. He attacks and murders anyone who he sees as naughty, his frequent targets being Edd and company, and has a grudge with his successor.
  • Ell – The gender-swapped version of Edd.
  • Tamara – The gender-swapped version of Tom.
  • Matilda – The gender-swapped version of Matt.