Vert-Ed-Go

The first scene of this episode perfectly illustrated the rest of the story with the Eds working hard to reach their goal, just to have it taken away from them. The Eds spent almost half of the episode (about six minutes) building the clubhouse... and then the Kanker Sisters easily took it over off-screen for no reason aside from them being the "Cheap Antagonists" of the show.

Sure, there was a lot of good slapstick in it, but the plot of the episode itself kind of backed into a corner and needs to rely on the Cheap Antagonists to get them out. What did the Kankers want/need from the clubhouse aside from just screwing the Eds over?

It probably would've been funnier if the scam failed because the kids just didn't like their clubhouse and they all got into the clubhouse the Eds built, but it falls apart because the Eds did a poor job on it and it wasn't meant to hold all the kids in it.

The idea of a character or group of characters constantly failing is done well in this show, but this is one example where it isn't done well because really. Because, if the Eds just easily lose, the humour just falls flat and isn't as funny as usual. Though by the end, Eddy had come up with a new idea, so it's good to know that the Eds learned to roll with the punches relatively early compared to other cartoon characters.

It's interesting to note the clubhouse appeared only once more in the Season 3 episode "The Day the Ed Stood Still", and it got destroyed, pretty much a sign that nobody liked this episode.