Moving Targets

Moving Targets is an eddisode released on July 2, 2008. It involves the gang joining the army in hopes of getting a vacation.

Plot
The gang is stuck at home watching TV and trying to plan a vacation with little money. As they do so, they watch a British Army commercial, which lists the benefits of enlisting but also contains the message of likely falsehood, and decide to enlist. After signing a contract, everyone is in the army.

Edd quickly regrets his decision to join as Sergeant "Hillary" Hilarson drills them. The group goes through several training courses including target practice, chopper piloting, terrain climbing and crossing, and rifle assembly. They also go through changes such as Tom getting "Steve" (his hair) shaved off. The four go running over tires, crawling under barbed wire, hoisting themselves on a zipline over more barbed wire, assembling AK-47 assault rifles, and shooting at targets while a remix of "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" plays in the background. At their passing-out/graduation, Sergeant Hilarson states his proudness of them and in his vision, sees them as Ramboesque killing machines, when in reality, they're still the same old selves they had been the whole time.

They are then seen being flown into enemy territory in a Chinook Helicopter. Tom and Matt lament on how they're being sent to war so soon and how their training took only 1 minute, 34 seconds, which was how long the training scene was, minus Hilary's exaggeration. But as Edd tries to cheer everyone up with a motivational speech, he accidentally hits the cargo door button and the gang goes flying out. Everyone pulls their parachutes except Tord, who uses a jetpack and burns everyone in his way. They eventually land in the enemy base. They look for means of escape and find a tank. Everyone goes in and gets stuck inside the tank. Matt sits at the controls and sends the tank on a rampage.

They drive out of the base and meet up with Sgt. Hilarson. When Edd asks where all the bad guys are, he realizes the enemies and their base have already been destroyed. "Hillary" is quite surprised and most likely sends them all home right after.

Development
In a 2008 blog on eddsworld.co.uk, before the Eddisode's release, Edd made a blog post 5 minutes before its upload informing the viewers to "get their fill of Tord" while they can. This is because Moving Targets is the last episode Tord Larsson was involved in. According to Edd, Tord has almost no lines because it was difficult to get Tord Larsson to record his lines

In-Jokes

 * Edd asks Sgt. Hilarson if he can call him "Hilary"; he did the same to Lucifer to ask if he can call him "Lucy" in Hello Hellhole and his female counterpart did the same to Dazeem to ask if she could call her Daisy in Mirror Mirror.
 * The CDT-01 made three more appearances after this Eddisode: MovieMakers, The Snogre, and The End.

References to other media

 * When the advertisement on the TV comes on, the television brand is "Phony", a parody of Sony.
 * Sgt. Hilarson's introduction is similar to Gunnery Sergeant Hartman's introduction in Full Metal Jacket.
 * One of his lines, "From now on, you will only speak when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your ugly, filthy crusted pie-holes will be SIR! Do you worthless maggots understand?!", is also similar to Hartman's line "From now on, you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be SIR! Do you maggots understand that?!" from Full Metal Jacket.
 * Tord's army helmet is a spiked WW1-era German helmet, also known as a 'Pickelhaube'.
 * On the helicopter, it reads "Hella Copper" in the same font as "Coca-Cola".
 * When Edd was flying the helicopter, he hummed "Ride of the Valkyries", composed by Richard Wagner.
 * A Wilhelm Scream can be heard while the gang is rampaging through the enemy base.
 * Once the destroyed target hits the ground, the same iconic sound that the crowbar makes when striking a wall in Half-Life is heard.