It was an ordinary and sunny day. There was a boy in the neighborhood who had a new baby brother. His parents called the baby "Eddy" because it seemed cuter than his full name. Eddy was introduced to his older brother, but the latter seemed to care less about the baby. He wasn't jealous of Eddy, but he thought he might set an example for him.
One day, the boy showed a dollar bill to Eddy. "Look," he said. "A dollar bill. Bet you wish you had one too, huh?" Eddy reached out for the dollar, but his brother pulled it away from his reach.
"Oh, but I'm sorry," the boy taunted him. "This one happens to be mine. You can have your own when you're older. I'm going to teach you so you can be like me." When he left the room, the snake entered. It climbed up the bassinet and readied itself to bite Eddy.
Outside, the grown-ups heard Eddy cry in distress. They rushed to the bedroom to see that Eddy had been bitten in the ankle. They assumed a snake bit him, but it was nowhere to be found. They rushed him to the hospital, but the tests for venom came back negative. Since there were supposed to be no snakes in Peach Creek, the adults decided that something poked Eddy. This led them to assume that his brother had been playing with the staple puller again. The boy got punished for a week.
Over some time, Eddy began to act weirdly. When he sat up for a while, he grabbed all the toys within reach. Eddy's brother got him to say his first word: "Mine!" As soon as his parents got him to eat solid food, he always shouted, "More!" It wasn't until Eddy was almost two when he wanted to be just like his brother. The latter took this opportunity to teach him about scamming people. This led Eddy to launch his first scam when he was three years old that also resulted in befriending Ed and Edd.
As Eddy and his friends got older, his scams mostly failed, even after his brother left. Now, Eddy was on the verge of his biggest scam ever…