Eddie the Mean Old Yeti
Eddie the Mean Old Yeti or just Eddie the Yeti or Eddie for short, is a recurring character on the Donkey Kong Country animated series.
The first appearance of Eddie on the show was in the episode "Barrel, Barrel, Who's Got the Barrel". In this episode, Bluster Kong, wanting to once again impress Candy Kong steals the Crystal Coconut. Unfortunately Bluster loses the coconut in a nearby barrel, before he can grab the barrel is shipped to Funky's Flights. Taking the barrel on board his plane, Funky ends losing in the White Mountains, where it is found by Eddie.
Donkey Kong and Diddy, looking for the coconut end up coming upon Eddie bashing repeatedly with his club. Tricking Eddie into giving them the coconut in exchange for a matchstick the Kongs take off leaving Eddie with his newfound "treasure".
Unfortunately due to complications involving Bluster Kong and Klump the Kongs end losing the coconut, which ends up back in the possession of Eddie; who promptly loses it to several Kritters who give it to their leader, King K. Rool (the Kongs luckily get it back though).
Eddie's next appearance on the show would be in the episode "Cranky's Tickle Tonic". In this episode Eddie's club banging has gotten so loud that all the inhabitants of Kongo Bongo Island can't get any sleep. It seems Eddie's club banging stems from rage, so as a solution to everyone's problem Cranky Kong and Funky Kong create a potion which will give Eddie a case of the chuckles.
Unfortunately the potion ends up being consumed by King K. Rool (who had come up the mountain to shut-up Eddie himself). The subsequent laughing fit K. Rool has, surprisingly makes even Eddie laugh.
After these two main appearances Eddie's role in the show was reduced slightly. In the episode "The Big Chill Out" Eddie is shown to be an employee for Donkey and Diddy's Coconut Chill business. Eddie also briefly appears in the episode "Ape-Nesia" where he is seen complaining after an amnesia struck Donkey Kong stole his favorite club.
The episode "I Spy with My Hairy Eye" shows that, like how Eddie's club-banging stems from his anger, Eddie's anger comes from loneliness. In the aforementioned episode Eddie ends up falling in love with K. Rool's Candy Clone. In the episode "It's a Wonderful Life" (based on the movie of the same name) Eddie, oddly takes on the form of Donkey Kong's guardian angel.
Eddie the Mean Old Yeti makes his final appearance in the episode, Message in a Bottle Show. In this episode, the ape is invited to a banquet to remember the times with Donkey Kong. At the banquet, Eddie announces that he thinks Donkey Kong is "cool," and then shows flashbacks of him and the ape.
During the entire run of the show Eddie was voiced by Andrian Truss.
Trivia
- Eddie's model is an obvious recolor of Donkey Kong's, for in terms of appearance without color or clothing, the two are identical.
- The episode "Follow That Coconut" reveals that Eddie has a journal which he has written down a genius soccer play Cranky Kong once described to him.
- Another Yeti like Eddie, named Sassy Squatch appears in the game DK: King of Swing.
