| “ | Lazlo, we're standing here in Prickly Pines naked and the moose we thought was our scoutmaster had just got hauled off as a deranged lunatic to a funny farm. | „ |
| ~ Edward to Lazlo in the ending of Camp Lazlo after learning Lumpus wasn't a real scoutmaster. |
Edward Platypus is the secondary antagonist and anti-hero in the 2005 animated television series Camp Lazlo.
He was voiced by Doug Lawrence, who is well known for voicing Plankton in SpongeBob SquarePants and Filburt Shellbach in Rocko's Modern Life.
Personality[]
Edward is a smart, intelligent, cynical, sadistic, ill-tempered, selfish and not completely sane platypus who sleeps in Pinto Cabin with Chip and Skip. He enjoys watching the suffering of others and is constantly coming up with schemes to spoil any fun that Lazlo and his friends might have. He has a severe hatred for Lazlo and Camp Kidney, though that has lessened over time.
Despite his intense dislike of Lazlo, Edward is usually seen as a friend/ally of Lazlo and often associates and joins forces with him usually for a common goal. He's often shown grateful to Lazlo whenever he performs any acts of kindness towards him.
Edward is the smallest member of Camp Kidney, and, as evidenced in Movie Night, he's the youngest as well. He was the only camper who could not watch the horror movie because everybody thinks that he was not a "big boy" yet according to the Bean Scout handbook. Despite his age, he often acts more mature than the other scouts at Camp Kidney and his voice is more like an adult than the rest of the campers. He even has his own credit card.
As opposed to his aggressive and bitter attitude, Edward secretly loves playing with dolls, his favorite being a doll named Veronica that he got for Christmas, and he liked it so much, he told his mom (Susan) to give the rest of his presents to charity. He would also really like to own a "voodoo drum".
He has a tendency to panic and overreact when something really upsets him. Due to his spoiled attitude, Edward is constantly needy for attention at all costs. He won Camp Kidney's mascot contest with his "Duke of Lice" costume by using a blackmail drawing of the Jellies who were certain to win but the prize was not as good as it originally seemed. A similar twist of fate occurred when Edward wins the go-kart race, yet his trophy is the smallest of them all.
Edward is close friends with Samson as the two are quite often seen with each other, although Edward sometimes picks on him as the series progresses. Perhaps because of their similar personalities, Gretchen from Acorn Flats has a crush on Edward, which Patsy finds amusing. Edward (and later, Gretchen) is terrified when he finds out his needs to compete with Lazlo in checkers. When he is confronted by McMuesli over his anger issues, Edward mutters a single word, "loser", which is a stark allusion to the insecurities Edward feels. He also has a few aspects in common with Scoutmaster Lumpus, and the two worked together to stop Edward from going to Tomato Camp in Tomato
He has no imagination when it comes to names. In Hello Dolly, when he received Veronica for Christmas, he said, "I think I'll call you... Veronica!" and in Ed's Benedict he named the egg he supposedly laid after himself.
Edward is very deceitful, and hardly an episode goes by without some scheme of Edward's failing to induced the worship Edward so much desires. He ordered a number of phony merit badges to make himself feel better, which almost has him attending Tomato Camp. This was one of the traits he had in common with Scoutmaster Lumpus. In Being Edward, he tried making everyone worship him on "Edward Day", only for everyone to misunderstand and so they light-kindheartedly decided to be as rude and obnoxious as him (basically, being Edward for a day).
Edward has a horrible tendency to bite off more than he can chew. When he faked a yeti attack in Radio Free Edward, he claimed that he handled the situation when really it was just a ratings stunt and he claimed that he would be ready next time they attack. However, when they broke into the radio station, he was reduced to a trembling, screaming wreck and is still cowering in a corner when the yetis turn out to be more or less harmless.
Edward has four older brothers who also attended Camp Kidney and look down on him due his being the youngest. It's because of this bullying that Edward has developed an aggressive personality. He finally stood up to his four older brothers after they used him as a tether ball and accidentally sent him hurtling towards two other campers who had been bullied, teased, and harassed by them four years prior.
Like his older brother Cheesly, Edward can be very sycophantic, especially towards the Scoutmaster. However, unlike his four older brothers, Slinkman knows how to handle the platypus.
As a result, Edward is very insecure and concerned with being 'macho' in order not to be humiliated by everyone, in spite of the fact that in Hello Dolly, Lazlo is very accepting of the fact that he plays with dolls (much to his older brothers' disgust). It's revealed in Movie Night that despite his attitude, he is actually the youngest camper in Camp Kidney.
Villainous Acts[]
- In "Parasitic Pal", he tries to forcefully remove a sea lamprey Lazlo named Lamar from the former's head due to their friendship "grossing [him] out", only for him to fail when he cannot get Lamar unstuck.
- In "The Weakest Link, he tricks Lazlo, Raj, and Clam into leaving camp to save a rock that's endangered", giving them a map that would leave them running in circles. However, the only reason he does this is prevent Camp Kidney from failing Commander Hoo-Ha's inspection after it failed the previous year due to the antic of Jelly Bean Cabin.
- In "The Nothing Club", he forms a club made up of every scout in Camp Kidney, but intentionally excludes Lazlo from it as it is an Anti-Lazlo club. He tries to get the other campers to state what it is they hate about Lazlo, but they cannot find a reason, which aggravates him.
- In "All Campers Pull Pants", he humiliates every bean scout by pantsing them (with the exception of Clam who enjoys it and asks Edward to do it again). He agrees to a deal Lazlo makes with him in which the former to everyone about having pantsed the latter, but calls him a coward afterwards for being scared. After Lazlo decides to no longer be afraid, he ends up fighting Edward and they both end up pantsing each other simultaneously.
- In "Over Cooked Beans", he steal Jelly Bean Cabin's new air conditioner for himself and later rallies the other scouts into take it from Lazlo, Raj, and Clam when they try to convince them to share the air conditioner with each other.
- In "Mascot Madness", when he loses the contest to be the mascot for Camp Kidney, he tricks Lazlo (the contest's judge), Raj and Clam (the contest's winners) into entering the marshmallow shack and blackmails them into making him Camp Kidney's mascot or reveal their trespassing to Lumpus with a crude drawing depicting their action.
- In "Hard Days Samson", he pays Chip and Skip with food vouchers to have them help the Squirrel Scouts find Samson after seeing them chase after him due to his resemblance to a teen idol from a magazine.
- In "Beans in Toyland", he makes Samson act as a ventriloquist doll.
- In "A Job Well Dung", he drops a metal wall separating his side of the pinto bean cabin from the other half that Lumpus and Slinkman are forced to sleep in after Commander Hoo-Ha takes up residence in Lumpus's cabin.
- In "Hold it Lazlo", he loses a lemonade drinking contest to Lazlo and decides to get revenge by preventing Lazlo from being able to urinate after the latter consumed a large quantity of lemonade. When this fails, he comes up with another idea in which he tricks Lazlo into wearing a diaper, claiming to be something astronauts wear called a "tinkle-tog". This also fails when the other campers believe it to be true.
- In "Tour Wars", he decides to create his own tour of Leaky Lake for the bean scouts after having gone on the tour led by the Jelly beans, deeming theirs to be boring. His tour in more impressive by comparison, until Lazlo goes on it and ruins it for everyone.
- In "The List", he intentionally trips Lazlo causing the latter to break his leg.
- In "Camp Complain", he becomes part of a group of scouts that takes the complaints of the bean scouts and are provided with their own clubhouse and pinball machine. When he and the other cabin leaders find this to be overwhelming, he comes up with the idea of having the cabin leaders hearing what the scouts have to complain about without actually doing anything about it so that they can spend time in their clubhouse.
Gallery[]
External Links[]
- Edward Platypus on the Heroes Wiki
[]
 Villains
| ||
|
Camp Kidney Acorn Flats Others | ||
 Villains
| ||
|
Black Hat Organization Other Villains Other Villains | ||