One Small Step for Ed is episode 32b of Edward and Eric. It premiered on Kids' WB on January 29, 2000.
Synopsis[]
Principal Walker has run out of cheese, so he drags Mr. Goodman with him to the sun to get more cheese by stealing a rocket, thinking the sun is made of cheese since "it's round and yellow". Over there, they encounter Buzz Aldrin, who has been left stranded there by aliens who want to blow up the sun.
Cast (WIP)[]
- Mike Pollock as Principal Walker
- Gary Sauls as Mr. Goodman
- Buzz Aldrin as himself
- Dee Bradley Baker as Old Man Esmond
- Neil Armstrong as himself
- Michael Collins as himself
Trivia[]
- This episode is available to watch on the There's No Place Like Home VHS and DVD, The Best of Walker VHS, and the Season 3 Volume 1 box set.
- Although this episode premiered in 2000, it was produced in 1999 according to the copyright date at the end of the credits.
- It took Principal Walker 20 seconds to run from the surface of the Sun to its core. This is a distance of 432,288 miles, meaning Walker had to run 21,614 miles per second, or 77,811,840 miles per hour.
- To sum it up, Walker is almost as fast as the speed of light.
- The title is a reference to Neil Armstrong's famous quote, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
- This episode premiered as part of the Kids' WB Cereal Bowl 2000 event.
- The plot is a tribute to the Wallace and Gromit short film, "A Grand Day Out", although there is a difference: Wallace and Gromit travel to the moon, and not the sun.
- Credits: Neil Armstrong is seen on the dark side of the Moon, camping out with Michael Collins.