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Just reading your thoughts on Season 1, I feel like you've missed the point of a couple episodes and rated them poorly on that basis, the biggest ones being Over Your Ed and Sir Ed-A-Lot.
In the case of Over Your Ed, it's all a big parallel to manufactured celebrities. The idea is that it's done cynically and cheaply, any old idiot can be made into a star with the right marketing, and that people, kids especially, will bandwagon for anything that's engineered to appeal to them. It doesn't matter that it's the same old Ed under the wig and cool clothes, he's selling them an idea, and they're all buying.
As for Sir Ed-A-Lot, Sarah and Jimmy are behaving pretty realistically. The Eds come in and they don't operate on the younger kids' wavelength and all their unspoken expectations and rules are broken, which frustrates both of them. And in Sarah's case, if not Jimmy', she knows that she can get away with basically anything when the Eds would be the ones subject to the proverbial three-shoe-beating for not being able to rein the younger kids in, even though they ought to know better.
Sarah is actually an unusually accurate representation of such a young kid, and their relationship to older kids. They decide they're supposed to have a crush on someone, so they just will it into existence on nothing. They get upset and raise all hell and the people charged with keeping them in line just don't know what to do about it.
