Infect-Ed, also called Infect-Ed: The Tainted Jawbreaker Game, was a game on the Cartoon Network website. It is a platformer with retro-styled pixel graphics. The story was that Ed consumed a jawbreaker tainted with a virus. You play as a white blood cell working its way through Ed's digestive system, in order to defeat the virus.

Intro

• [Ed has eaten a jawbreaker.]
  Ed: "Ooh, my aching gut..."
  [Inside Ed's belly reside a jawbreaker and a white blood cell.]
  The Tainted Jawbreaker: "Ha-ha! I'm tainted! I shall give Ed viruses galore!"
  White Blood Cell: "Not if I can help it, fiend!"
  The Tainted Jawbreaker: "Wha? A white blood cell? Well, your healthy meddling is no match for my dirty germs!" [Three germs spring up out of nowhere.] "Go, my minions! Attack!"
  White Blood Cell: [drawing his sword] "Have at you, rancid rascals!"
  Tainted Jawbreaker's Germs: "Whatever, Mac."
  [The white blood cell swiftly cuts down his opponents, but while he's preoccupied, the jawbreaker escapes deeper into Ed's stomach.]
  White Blood Cell: "Now to slay that jawbreaker! Onward to Ed's innards. Ho!"
  [The white blood cell gives chase and lands on the first level of the game.]

Gameplay

Platforms

On the platforms, the object is to access the health endorphin, which will open the next level of the game. However, to access this, you'll often have to fight your way through the jawbreaker's germ army, which has set up camp on several of the platforms. In addition, it is suggested that you grab the red and blue blood cells, as this will make the final boss fight easier. There are 5 platform levels in all, and you are given five lives to complete them.

Boss Fights

There are two boss fights. The first one is against a giant blue germ. You have to stab the germ five times. Each time you stab it, it will teleport to another part of the level. If you touch it, you will lose a life. In addition, it is spitting out fireballs; if one of these hits you, you lose a life.

The second one is against the tainted jawbreaker itself. The jawbreaker floats in midair and spits out fireballs and occasionally red and blue blood cells. You have to avoid the fireballs and collect the blood cells. Each cell collected weakens the jawbreaker, causing it to fade. Once it has faded into nothingness, you have won the game. The Tainted Jawbreaker is arrested for his crimes, which includes having infected Ed.

Trivia/Goofs

• The jawbreaker in Ed's belly is whole. Later, in the episode "Brother, Can You Spare an Ed?", Ed is shown to eat a jawbreaker whole rather than sucking on it.
• This game was made as part of a cross-promotion with Osmosis Jones.
• This game plays similar to another Cartoon Network game, ThunderCats: Tomb of Mumm-Ra. The white blood cell says "Ho!" at the end of the intro. This could be a reference to what is said at the beginning, and after each level of Tomb of Mumm-Ra, "ThunderCats, ho!" The file for the main game music in this game is called "mummraloop" as well.
  • In addition, the idea of this game is similar to the final level of another five-leveled Cartoon Network Shockwave game, Toonami: Trapped in Hyperspace, where T.O.M. is infected by the computer virus antagonist Swayzak and the player, as TOM's AI companion Sara, must go inside T.O.M.'s brain to defeat Swayzak. The Toonami game is considered to be lost media.
• The game play instructions mention that there are four platform levels in the game, despite there being five.

Gallery

The first set of instructions.

The second set of instructions.

The first platform level.

The second platform level.

The third platform level.

The fourth platform level.

The fifth platform level.

The first boss fight.

The second boss fight.

Hooray! You win!

The game over screen.

Footage of the game seen in an ad for Osmosis Jones.

External links

• Infect-Ed on the Cartoon Network UK site