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Disproportionate Retribution is not subjective. I'm also not sure about the Laser Guided Karma example, though I'll put it on the YMMV page under Unintentionally Unsympathetic.


* DisproportionateRetribution: It turns out the zombie apocalypse was all a prank everyone at Fosters was pulling on Bloo to get back at him for the snake in the can prank. Even if it is annoying, that hardly warrants making him fear for his life and life of his friends.



* LaserGuidedKarma: The residents of Foster's get beaten up by a sugar-crazed Mac after cornering him and Bloo in the latter's bedroom. Considering the fact that they pulled a ''horrible'' prank on Bloo, refused to drop the charade even after he was clearly getting desperate, and had the ''gall'' to act like it was Bloo's fault that Mac went on a sugar rush, they deserved it.



* SkewedPriorities: Bloo is more concerned about getting in trouble than the fact that he killed someone.

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* SkewedPriorities: Bloo is more concerned about getting in trouble than the fact that he (seemingly) killed someone.
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* TookALevelInKindness: While Bloo was being annoying people with his old "snake in the can" prank, and [[SkewedPriorities cared more about getting in trouble for supposedly killing Mr. Herriman]], the "ZombieApocalypse" that happens has noticeably brought out the best in him, as he tries to prevent as many friends as he can from becoming one of them, to unfortunately so little avail that he and Mac are the only "survivors" in the house. And speaking of Mac, he also refuses to leave the house without his creator (and best friend), knowing Mac's been tied up and rendered helpless against the "zombies". His buzzing Mac on sugar was not meant to cause chaos, but to make sure he had the energy boost he needed for both of them to escape unharmed. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Sadly, this act doesn't spare Bloo from punishment]].

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* TookALevelInKindness: While Bloo was being annoying people with his old "snake in the can" prank, and [[SkewedPriorities cared more about getting in trouble for supposedly killing Mr. Herriman]], the "ZombieApocalypse" that happens has noticeably brought out the best in him, as he tries to prevent as many friends as he can from becoming one of them, to unfortunately so little avail that he and Mac are the only "survivors" in the house. And speaking of Mac, he also refuses to leave the house without his creator (and best friend), knowing Mac's been tied up and rendered helpless against the "zombies". His buzzing Mac on sugar was not meant to cause chaos, but to make sure he had the energy boost he needed for both of them to escape unharmed. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Sadly, this act reasoning doesn't spare Bloo from punishment]].
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* TookALevelInKindness: While Bloo was being annoying people with his old "snake in the can" prank, and cared more about getting in trouble for supposedly killing Mr. Herriman, the "ZombieApocalypse" that happens has noticeably brought out the best in him, as he tries to prevent as many friends as he can from becoming one of them, to unfortunately so little avail that he and Mac are the only "survivors" in the house. And speaking of Mac, he also refuses to leave the house without his creator (and best friend), knowing Mac's been tied up and rendered helpless against the "zombies". His buzzing Mac on sugar was not meant to cause chaos, but to make sure he had the energy boost he needed for both of them to escape unharmed. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Sadly, this act doesn't spare Bloo from punishment]].

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* TookALevelInKindness: While Bloo was being annoying people with his old "snake in the can" prank, and [[SkewedPriorities cared more about getting in trouble for supposedly killing Mr. Herriman, Herriman]], the "ZombieApocalypse" that happens has noticeably brought out the best in him, as he tries to prevent as many friends as he can from becoming one of them, to unfortunately so little avail that he and Mac are the only "survivors" in the house. And speaking of Mac, he also refuses to leave the house without his creator (and best friend), knowing Mac's been tied up and rendered helpless against the "zombies". His buzzing Mac on sugar was not meant to cause chaos, but to make sure he had the energy boost he needed for both of them to escape unharmed. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Sadly, this act doesn't spare Bloo from punishment]].
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* TookALevelInKindness: While Bloo was being annoying people with his old "snake in the can" prank, and cared more about getting in trouble for supposedly killing Mr. Herriman, the "ZombieApocalypse" that happens has noticeably brought out the best in him, as he tries to prevent as many friends as he can from becoming one of them, to unfortunately so little avail that he and Mac are the only "survivors" in the house. And speaking of Mac, he also refuses to leave the house without his creator (and best friend), knowing Mac's been tied up and rendered helpless against the "zombies". His buzzing Mac on sugar was not meant to cause chaos, but to make sure he had the energy boost he needed for both of them to escape unharmed. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Sadly, this act doesn't spare Bloo from punishment]].
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* ZombieApocalypse: Mr. Herriman comes back to life and starts biting everyone in Foster’s Home, turning them into zombies as well.

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* ZombieApocalypse: Mr. Herriman comes back to life and starts biting everyone in Foster’s Home, turning them into zombies as well. Or so it seems...

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* CallBack: Mac has gone wild from sugar before (in [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS2E1PartyingIsSuchSweetSoiree “Partying Is Such Sweet Soiree”]] and [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS5E8AffairWeatherFriends “Affair Weather Friends”]]), so the rest of Foster’s knows by now to tie him up on Halloween to avoid his crazed sugar high.

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Mac has gone wild from sugar before (in [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS2E1PartyingIsSuchSweetSoiree “Partying "Partying Is Such Sweet Soiree”]] Soiree"]] and [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS5E8AffairWeatherFriends “Affair "Affair Weather Friends”]]), Friends"]]), so the rest of Foster’s knows by now to tie him up on Halloween to avoid his crazed sugar high.high.
** Bloo sings the "zombie fighters" song from [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS4E4SqueezeTheDay "Squeeze The Day"]].
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* GoneHorriblyRight: The zombie prank ends up being so believable that Bloo gets desperate enough to give Mac some candy so he can go on a sugar rush and fight them off.


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* LaserGuidedKarma: The residents of Foster's get beaten up by a sugar-crazed Mac after cornering him and Bloo in the latter's bedroom. Considering the fact that they pulled a ''horrible'' prank on Bloo, refused to drop the charade even after he was clearly getting desperate, and had the ''gall'' to act like it was Bloo's fault that Mac went on a sugar rush, they deserved it.
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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The CreativeClosingCredits scene has Mac wake up in the morning after his sugar-crazed frenzy, horrified to find himself in his underwear and wondering what he's done. Wilt arrives to put on his fake arm as Mac faints.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: It turns out the zombie apocalypse was all a prank everyone at Fosters was pulling on Bloo to get back at him for the snake in the can prank. Even if it is annoying, that hardly warrants making him fear for his life and life of his friends.


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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When a sugar-crazed Mac attacks all the zombies, Zombie!Eduardo is actually shown flinching and bracing himself for Mac’s attack, indicating that the zombie apocalypse was only a prank just before Mr. Herriman reveals the truth to Bloo.
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* CallBack: Mac has gone wild from sugar before (in [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS2E3PartyingIsSuchSweetSoiree “Partying Is Such Sweet Soiree”]] and [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS5E8AffairWeatherFriends “Affair Weather Friends”]]), so the rest of Foster’s knows by now to tie him up on Halloween to avoid his crazed sugar high.

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* CallBack: Mac has gone wild from sugar before (in [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS2E3PartyingIsSuchSweetSoiree [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS2E1PartyingIsSuchSweetSoiree “Partying Is Such Sweet Soiree”]] and [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS5E8AffairWeatherFriends “Affair Weather Friends”]]), so the rest of Foster’s knows by now to tie him up on Halloween to avoid his crazed sugar high.
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* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Bloo uses this combined with Puppy Dog Eyes when he asks Mr. Herriman to open his can of peanut brittle.

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* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Bloo uses this combined with Puppy Dog Eyes PuppyDogEyes when he asks Mr. Herriman to open his can of peanut brittle.

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In the HalloweenEpisode, Bloo accidentally gives Mr. Herriman a heart attack from his Halloween prank and he comes back as a zombie, thus making a ZombieApocalypse.

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In the HalloweenEpisode, [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2023_09_30_84306_pm.png]]

Bloo accidentally gives Mr. Herriman a heart attack from his Halloween prank plans to play the ultimate trick on Halloween, but things go awry and he comes back as ends up unleashing a zombie, thus making a ZombieApocalypse.zombie apocalypse.



* AccidentalMurder: Bloo believes he accidentally killed Mr. Herriman because his Halloween prank was so scary.
* AllJustAPrank: It turns out, Bloo never actually killed Mr. Herriman and there were never any zombies. It was just a trick they pulled in order to give Bloo [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine A Taste of His Own Medicine]].



* BrickJoke: Oscar (The big green friend) decides to go Trick or Treating as Blossom from WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls, Frankie decides to go Trick or Treating as Blossom as well, which leads to Oscar walking away muttering "I should have gone as Bubbles..." In all later scenes he appears in, he's dressed as Bubbles.
* ContinuityNod: [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS2E1PartyingIsSuchSweetSoiree This isn't the first time Mac went crazy on sugar]].
* DeadlyPrank: Mr. Herriman appears to die of a heart attack from Bloo surprising him with a can of spring-loaded fake snakes and ends up coming back as a zombie, but it's then Subverted when it turns out in the end that Herriman wasn't dead and that the zombie invasion was all an elaborate prank to get back at Bloo.
* NeverMyFault: The rest of the house act like it's Bloo's fault for unleashing a sugar-crazed Mac on trick-or-treaters, but Bloo only did that because they went too far in making him think he and Mac were trapped in a Zombie Apocalypse.
* PetTheDog: Upon remembering Mac's still tied up, Bloo immediately forgets about escaping the building and goes back in with Eduardo and Coco to rescue Mac.
-->'''Bloo''': We leave no man behind! Especially my best friend!

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* BrickJoke: Oscar (The big green friend) One Eye Cy decides to go Trick or Treating trick-or-treating as Blossom from WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls, Frankie decides to go Trick or Treating as Blossom as well, ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 The Powerpuff Girls]]'', which just so happens to be Frankie’s costume [[DressesTheSame as well]]. This leads to Oscar Cy walking away muttering "I should have gone as Bubbles..." In all later scenes he appears in, he's dressed as Bubbles.
* ContinuityNod: [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS2E1PartyingIsSuchSweetSoiree This isn't CallBack: Mac has gone wild from sugar before (in [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS2E3PartyingIsSuchSweetSoiree “Partying Is Such Sweet Soiree”]] and [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS5E8AffairWeatherFriends “Affair Weather Friends”]]), so the first time rest of Foster’s knows by now to tie him up on Halloween to avoid his crazed sugar high.
* ChainedToABed: In a non-romantic variation, Bloo ties
Mac went crazy on sugar]].
to a bed to keep him from eating a bunch of Halloween candy and going into one of his crazed sugar highs.
* DeadlyPrank: Bloo thinks his JumpScare prank scared Mr. Herriman appears to die of so badly that it gave him a heart attack from Bloo surprising him with a can of spring-loaded fake snakes and killed him.
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ends up coming back as a zombie, but it's then Subverted being [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when it turns out in the end that Herriman wasn't dead and that the zombie invasion was all an elaborate prank to get back at Bloo.
* DeathGlare: Mac gives Bloo one after Bloo asks if he can bring him anything and everything he lists has sugar in it.
* DoorHandleScare: When Bloo is alone in the house, the handle on the front door starts shaking before it bursts open to reveal…Wilt and Coco coming back in from handing out candy.
* DwindlingParty: Bloo’s friends all get turned into zombies one by one.
* EatTheCamera: Mac does this while screaming as Bloo is about to force-feed him candy.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Bloo uses this combined with Puppy Dog Eyes when he asks Mr. Herriman to open his can of peanut brittle.
* TheExecutioner: Bloo dresses as one and raises a giant ax above his head, making it look like he’s about to execute a tied-up Mac. In a BaitAndSwitch however, it’s revealed that he was just using the ax to cut a sandwich.
* FailedAttemptAtScaring: Wilt tries to scare some trick-or-treaters by wearing a fake arm and having it fall off when he hands them their candy, but they’re far from impressed.
* FurnitureBlockade: Bloo, Coco, and Eduardo barricade themselves in a room, only to find that they’ve locked themselves in with the zombies.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: While Eduardo is having a breakdown and speaking in Spanish about how he doesn’t want to be a zombie, Bloo slaps him and tells him to get a hold of himself - he even does so [[BilingualBonus in Spanish!]]
-->'''Bloo:''' ''Controla te hombre!''
* HalloweenEpisode: Bloo thinks one of his Halloween pranks has killed Mr. Herriman and that he’s come back from the dead.
* NeverMyFault: The rest of the house act like it's Bloo's fault for unleashing a sugar-crazed Mac on trick-or-treaters, but Bloo only did that because they went too far in making him think he and Mac were trapped in a Zombie Apocalypse.
being attacked by zombies.
* PetTheDog: Upon remembering Mac's NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Bloo refuses to leave the house and escape the zombies without going back for Mac, who is still tied up, Bloo immediately forgets about escaping the building up and goes back locked in with Eduardo and Coco to rescue Mac.
-->'''Bloo''': We
a bedroom.
-->'''Bloo:''' ''We
leave no man behind! Especially my best friend!friend!''
* OfCorpseHesAlive: Bloo has to pretend that Mr. Herriman is alive as he takes his body through the house in order to bury him in the backyard.
* OminousKnocking: The zombified imaginary friends pound on the door of the room Bloo and Mac have locked themselves in before Mr. Herriman finally punches through it.
* OverlyLongGag: Of Bloo and Eduardo taking turns screaming after they scare each other by hiding in the same closet.
* PerplexingPlurals: Bloo can’t quite figure out what the plural of zombie is:
-->'''Bloo:''' ''Zombies? zombi? zombeses?''
* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: A play on ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet A Nightmare on Elm Street]]''.
* ThePrankster: Bloo’s favorite part about Halloween isn’t the treats, but rather the tricks.
-->'''Bloo:''' ''How can I pass up a chance to trick all I want and not get in trouble?!''
* RaisedHandOfSurvival: After Bloo does a poor job of burying Mr. Herriman, he leaves to go trick-or-treating and Mr. Herriman’s hand shoots up out of the dirt.
* RunningGag: The other characters having flashbacks to the last time Bloo used his peanut brittle can prank and all the chaos it caused.
* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: Wilt thinks he’s finally scared some trick-or-treaters with his fake arm prank, but really they were afraid of the Mr. Herriman and Madame Foster zombies creeping up behind him.
* ShoutOut:
** Bloo’s Halloween costume in a {{Flashback}} was Mojo Jojo from ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 The Powerpuff Girls]]''.
*** Frankie is going as Blossom for the current year’s Halloween. To One Eye Cy’s dismay, he also chose Blossom as his Halloween costume and has to switch to Bubbles instead.
** Mabel Licorice is dressed as ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batman]]''.
** Pinecone Cola is dressed as ''[[WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow Huckleberry Hound]]''.
** Wilt opens the door to three trick-or-treaters who are dressed as the Tin Man, Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion from ''[[Film/TheWizardOfOz The Wizard of Oz]]''.
** In a flashback, Madame Foster is dressed as Yoda from ''[[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars]]'' and Frankie is dressed as ''[[ComicBook/TankGirl Tank Girl]]''.
* SkewedPriorities: Bloo is more concerned about getting in trouble than the fact that he killed someone.
* SugarCausesHyperactivity: Hyperactive would be an understatement for what Mac becomes after he eats sugar.


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* TimeForPlanB: Bloo moves on to plan B after he can’t bring himself to give Mr. Herriman CPR. His plan B consists of beating on Herriman’s chest and yelling at him to live.


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* ZombieApocalypse: Mr. Herriman comes back to life and starts biting everyone in Foster’s Home, turning them into zombies as well.
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* WorthyOpponent: Upon learning that the whole zombie apocalypse was a prank by the house orchestrated by Mr. Herriman, Bloo admits that it was well-played and congratulates Herriman.
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In the HalloweenEpisode, Bloo accidentally gives Mr. Herriman a heart attack from his Halloween prank and he comes back as a zombie, thus making a ZombieApocalypse.

!!This episode provides examples of:
* BodyWipe:
** When Eduardo hears Frankie come back in the house, he runs screaming her name
** Then Bloo and Coco follow him.
** Ed, Bloo, and Coco altogether as they run to the foyer.
* BrickJoke: Oscar (The big green friend) decides to go Trick or Treating as Blossom from WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls, Frankie decides to go Trick or Treating as Blossom as well, which leads to Oscar walking away muttering "I should have gone as Bubbles..." In all later scenes he appears in, he's dressed as Bubbles.
* ContinuityNod: [[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS2E1PartyingIsSuchSweetSoiree This isn't the first time Mac went crazy on sugar]].
* DeadlyPrank: Mr. Herriman appears to die of a heart attack from Bloo surprising him with a can of spring-loaded fake snakes and ends up coming back as a zombie, but it's then Subverted when it turns out in the end that Herriman wasn't dead and that the zombie invasion was all an elaborate prank to get back at Bloo.
* NeverMyFault: The rest of the house act like it's Bloo's fault for unleashing a sugar-crazed Mac on trick-or-treaters, but Bloo only did that because they went too far in making him think he and Mac were trapped in a Zombie Apocalypse.
* PetTheDog: Upon remembering Mac's still tied up, Bloo immediately forgets about escaping the building and goes back in with Eduardo and Coco to rescue Mac.
-->'''Bloo''': We leave no man behind! Especially my best friend!
* ThreeDimensionalEpisode: The way the episode originally aired.
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