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According to CartoonNetwork and CraigMcCracken, they come to Foster's, of course! A home for imaginary friends whose kids have outgrown them, Foster's is a place where friends can live together until they are adopted by a child who needs them. The show follows Mac, a shy and creative 8 year old boy, whose imaginary friend Bloo is thrown out of Mac's home and forced to come live at Foster's. Mac doesn't want Bloo to be adopted by another kid, so it's agreed that Bloo will not be put up for adoption, provided that Mac come and play with him every day. Bloo's egotistical, mischievous nature is the complete opposite of Mac's, and together the two cause all manner of chaos throughout the house.
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According to CartoonNetwork Creator/CartoonNetwork and CraigMcCracken, they come to Foster's, of course! A home for imaginary friends whose kids have outgrown them, Foster's is a place where friends can live together until they are adopted by a child who needs them. The show follows Mac, a shy and creative 8 year old boy, whose imaginary friend Bloo is thrown out of Mac's home and forced to come live at Foster's. Mac doesn't want Bloo to be adopted by another kid, so it's agreed that Bloo will not be put up for adoption, provided that Mac come and play with him every day. Bloo's egotistical, mischievous nature is the complete opposite of Mac's, and together the two cause all manner of chaos throughout the house.
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* CrossDressingVoices: Terrence is voiced by Tara Strong.
** Cheese is voiced by {{Candi Milo}}, who also voices Madame Foster and Coco. And [[{{Chalk Zone}} that other blue dude.]]
** Cheese is voiced by {{Candi Milo}}, who also voices Madame Foster and Coco. And [[{{Chalk Zone}} that other blue dude.]]
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** One of the Bloos in "Bloo's Brothers" resembles HomestarRunner!
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* ( The new pre-schooler cartoon on Sprout and NBC, ''Justin Time'', is about a little boy's misadventures with his imaginary friend.
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** (After trying and failing to glue Madame Foster's stone head back together with toothpaste) Bloo: "A bust ''this'' big needs adequate support!"
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** (After trying and failing to glue Madame Foster's stone head back together with toothpaste) Bloo: "A bust ''this'' this big needs adequate ample support!"
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Invoked as a subtle gag in "Neighbor Pains."
--> Mr. Herriman: "So, you wish to adopt Time-Travelling Tina. We shall sorely miss the [[PaintingTheFourthWall many fantastic weekly adventures]] we took with her through time..." ({{Beat}}) "But such is life!"
** Note that the show, which had a new episode weekly, never featured anything of the sort - the joke there is on the audience.
--> Mr. Herriman: "So, you wish to adopt Time-Travelling Tina. We shall sorely miss the [[PaintingTheFourthWall many fantastic weekly adventures]] we took with her through time..." ({{Beat}}) "But such is life!"
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* DiabolusExMachina: An occasional way to end episodes on a gag, used so often that in one episode where he's stuck waiting for Madame Foster to finish shopping Bloo intentionally makes sure to remember a tiny, totally forgotten detail important to the plot (the reason they were there, which the Madame quickly forgot in her shopping) [[LampshadeHanging so they won't have to go back and he can avoid a "wah-wah" moment.]]
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Berry.
** Interestingly, Mac and Bloo are like this for each other, to the point where one of them even thinking about having a new best friend will invariably cause the other to become immediately angry or depressed.
** Interestingly, Mac and Bloo are like this for each other, to the point where one of them even thinking about having a new best friend will invariably cause the other to become immediately angry or depressed.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Mac and Bloo sometimes, particularly in episodes where Bloo is especially obnoxious and Mac is especially mature. Other episodes show very well that they have more in common than they seem.
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*** There's also a brief scene in which we see Mr. Herriman popping out of a chimney next to several [[{{Mary Poppins}} silhouetted dancing chimney sweepers.]]
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* [[DependingOnTheWriter Depending On The Episode]]: ''Lots.'' How much of a jerkass is Bloo - is he a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk or is there a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold in there somewhere]]? How mature is Mac - is he an always do-gooding OnlySaneMan or is he a wise and sensible but still very childlike and rambunctious kid (sometimes this will change mid episode, with Mac doing something childish and then turning sensible to stop it from going to far)? How mature is Frankie - is she a laid-back CoolBigSis who's always getting dumped on from Mr. Herriman or is she not only very responsible but the only sane adult in the house? Etc, etc - all the different sides of the characters that can be shown at any given time make for a lot of interesting ways plots tend to go.
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* [[DependingOnTheWriter Depending On The Episode]]: ''Lots.'' How much of a jerkass is Bloo - is he a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk or is there a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold in there somewhere]]? How mature is Mac - is he an always do-gooding OnlySaneMan or is he a wise and sensible but still very generally childlike and rambunctious kid (sometimes this will change mid episode, with Mac doing something childish and then turning sensible to stop it from going to far)? How mature is Frankie - is she a laid-back CoolBigSis who's always getting dumped on from Mr. Herriman or is she not only very responsible but the only sane adult in the house? Etc, etc - all the different sides of the characters that can be shown at any given time make for a lot of interesting ways plots tend to go.
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* [[DependingOnTheWriter Depending On The Episode]]: ''Lots.'' How much of a jerkass is Bloo - is he a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk or is there a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold in there somewhere]]? How mature is Mac - is he an always do-gooding OnlySaneMan or is he a wise and sensible but still very childlike and rambunctious kid (sometimes this will change mid episode, with Mac doing something childish and then turning sensible to stop it from going to far)? How mature is Frankie - is she a CoolBigSis who's always getting dumped on from Mr. Herriman or is she the only sane adult in the house? Etc, etc - all the different sides of the characters that can be shown at any given time make for a lot of interesting ways plots tend to go.
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* [[DependingOnTheWriter Depending On The Episode]]: ''Lots.'' How much of a jerkass is Bloo - is he a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk or is there a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold in there somewhere]]? How mature is Mac - is he an always do-gooding OnlySaneMan or is he a wise and sensible but still very childlike and rambunctious kid (sometimes this will change mid episode, with Mac doing something childish and then turning sensible to stop it from going to far)? How mature is Frankie - is she a laid-back CoolBigSis who's always getting dumped on from Mr. Herriman or is she not only very responsible but the only sane adult in the house? Etc, etc - all the different sides of the characters that can be shown at any given time make for a lot of interesting ways plots tend to go.
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** The entire series may fall under this when compared to the other comedies on CartoonNetwork at the time of its premiere. When you consider that Wilt has the darkest backstory out of every character, and that Mac's life is a near living Hell, the show could very well be one of the most depressing shows CartoonNetwork produced.
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** The entire series may fall under this when compared to the other comedies on CartoonNetwork at the time of its premiere. When you consider that Wilt has the darkest backstory out of every character, and that Mac's life is a near living Hell, the show could very well be one of the most depressing shows CartoonNetwork produced.
* [[DependingOnTheWriter Depending On The Episode]]: ''Lots.'' How much of a jerkass is Bloo - is he a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk or is there a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold in there somewhere]]? How mature is Mac - is he an always do-gooding OnlySaneMan or is he a wise and sensible but still very childlike and rambunctious kid (sometimes this will change mid episode, with Mac doing something childish and then turning sensible to stop it from going to far)? How mature is Frankie - is she a CoolBigSis who's always getting dumped on from Mr. Herriman or is she the only sane adult in the house? Etc, etc - all the different sides of the characters that can be shown at any given time make for a lot of interesting ways plots tend to go.
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* OnlySaneMan: Mac and (to an extent) Frankie.Frankie most of the time - in situations where one of them is joining in on the craziness, the other will tend to be the sane man. If both are being immature, one of them will probably come to their senses by the end of the episode to fill the role.
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Mac.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Mac and Bloo.
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Mac, though he can be as childish as the rest of us.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Mac and Bloo. [[DependingOnTheWriter More prominent in some episodes than in others.]]
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Mac and Bloo. [[DependingOnTheWriter More prominent in some episodes than in others.]]
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Bloo after the pilot episode
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* BigBad: [[RealityWarper World]] in ''[[TheMovie Destination Imagination]]''. He's not actually evil, though, just a scared little kid whose got ''serious'' abandonment issues and just wants a friend.
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* BodyScreenFillUp: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bah2n3UNPE AN ENTIRE VIDEO WORTH]].
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Over the course of the series, two {{Made For TV Movie}}s have been released: ''GoodWiltHunting'' in 2006, and ''DestinationImagination'' in 2008. Both of them are noticably DarkerAndEdgier than the series itself.
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Over the course of the series, two {{Made For TV Movie}}s have been released: ''GoodWiltHunting'' in 2006, and ''DestinationImagination'' ''Destination Imagination'' in 2008. Both of them are noticably DarkerAndEdgier than the series itself.
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''Foster's Home for imaginary Friends'' was a animated television series, running from August 2004 to may 2009. A total of 79 episodes in six seasons. The premise is based on a simple question. {{In a world}} where imaginary friends are living, tangible beings, what happens to those friends when the kids grow up?
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''Foster's Home for imaginary Imaginary Friends'' was a animated television series, running from August 2004 to may 2009. A total of 79 episodes in six seasons. The premise is based on a simple question. {{In a world}} where imaginary friends are living, tangible beings, what happens to those friends when the kids grow up?
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* ThePlan: ''I Only Have Surprise For You''.
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* XanatosGambit: ''I Only Have Surprise For You''.
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** Mac similarly does not appear in the comic book story "Block Rockin' Feats" (Cartoon Network Block Party #35).
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* TheMillstone: In "Berry Scary", Berry tries to convince Bloo that Mac is one.
* TheMovingExperience: The focus of the final episode.
* TheUnintelligible: "Coco!"
* TheMovingExperience: The focus of the final episode.
* TheUnintelligible: "Coco!"
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** Eh, not exactly, depending on how you look at it. For some, it's a DownerEnding. For others, it's LaserGuidedKarma because Bloo spent the whole day moping, ruining everyone else's fun, threw a tantrum and basically just wanted everyone else to be as miserable as he was just because he couldn't go to a water park.
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Foster's Home for imaginary Friend was a animated television series, running from August 2004 to may 2009. a total of 79 episodes in six seasons. Th premise is based on a simple question. {{In a world}} where imaginary friends are living, tangible beings, what happens to those friends when the kids grow up?
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Foster's Home for imaginary Friend was a animated television series, running from August 2004 to may 2009. a A total of 79 episodes in six seasons. Th The premise is based on a simple question. {{In a world}} where imaginary friends are living, tangible beings, what happens to those friends when the kids grow up?
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** In the pilot movie, three characters appear based on [[EdEddNEddy Ed, Edd, and Eddy.]]
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** The card for Mac in the last episode contains the signatures "[[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Yogi Booboo]]" and "[[{{Histeria}} Big Fat Baby]]".
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* MythologyGag: In "House of Bloo's", Bloo is shown at one point watching a ''{{Lassie}}'' parody. The boy in the show has the same character design as Mac's prototype appearance.
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* MythologyGag: In "House of Bloo's", Bloo is shown at one point watching a ''{{Lassie}}'' ''Series/{{Lassie}}'' parody. The boy in the show has the same character design as Mac's prototype appearance.
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{{In a world}} where imaginary friends are living, tangible beings, what happens to those friends when the kids grow up?
According to CartoonNetwork and CraigMcCracken, they come to Foster's, of course! A home for imaginary friends whose kids have outgrown them, Foster's is a place where friends can live together until they are adopted by a child who needs them. The show follows Mac, a shy and creative 8 year old boy, whose imaginary friend Bloo is thrown out of Mac's home and forced to come live at Foster's. Mac doesn't want Bloo to be adopted by another kid, so it's agreed that Bloo will not be put up for adoption, provided that Mac come and play with him every day. Bloo's egotistical, mischievous nature is the complete opposite of Mac's, and together the two cause all manner of chaos throughout the house.
The show averts NotSoImaginaryFriend in that everyone can see and hear the friends, not just their creators. Since almost all of the characters are imaginary friends dreamed up by children, the show's cast consists of an array of impossible creatures, sometimes bordering on the surreal. There's strong characterization throughout, however, even as the highly comedic plots tend to rely on Bloo causing ever-escalating mayhem. Is known to have loads of [[ParentalBonus Parental Bonuses]] as well.
Over the course of the series, two {{Made For TV Movie}}s have been released: ''GoodWiltHunting'' in 2006, and ''DestinationImagination'' in 2008. Both of them are noticably DarkerAndEdgier than the series itself.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AbsenteeActor: Mac doesn't appear in "Pranks for Nothing", even in the beginning. The events right at the beginning took place right after he left, or he was sick and couldn't come to Foster's anyway. It also could have been ''before'' he even came, considering that Mr. Herriman said the trip would be 7 hours long.
-->Bloo: Hey, Mr. Herriman! How long till we get there?
-->Mr. Herriman: 7 hours.
* AccentAdaptation: Hispanic imaginary friend Eduardo has an American accent in the Spanish dub.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism
* {{Adorkable}}: Mac is the biggest example in the series, but Wilt definitely qualifies during his more "awkward" moments.
* AffectionateParody: [[PunnyName Eurotrish]] is a spoof of [[AnAmericanTail Tanya Mousekewitz]].
* AlliterativeName: Francis 'Frankie' Foster
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Poor Wilt...
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Goo.
* AnthropomorphicFood: The food friends, who were apparently imagined by [[NightmareFuel hungry children at a weight-loss camp.]]
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Everything Mr. Herriman says.
* ApologisesALot: Wilt.
** Oh! I'm sorry, is that okay? I'm sorry!
* AreYouDoneYet
* ArtEvolution: While relatively minor, there are some color/appearance differences in the earliest episodes, which is seen mostly in Mac and Eduardo. Also notable in season five is that Mac's height increases slightly.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Eurotrish again. She's basically a relentless parody of this trope. She says she's from Europe, and seems to mean that literally...in that she wears clothes that combine stereotypes of at least six different European nationalities (Dutch clogs, a french beret, a shirt with the British flag, among other things) her accent keeps changing, and she always says she wants to go home to Europe, not to any specific country.
** At the end of the episode, we see her "back home in Europe" in a little stereotypical village that could be almost anywhere.
* AttentionWhore: Bloo.
* AWorldwidePunomenon: Most, if not all, the episode titles.
** [[NightmareOnElmStreet Nightmare on Wilson Way]]
** [[GoneWithTheWind Frankie My Dear]]
** Something Old Something Bloo
** Bad Dare Day
** Crime After Crime
* BalloonBelly: Frankie in one episode, Coco when she rather suddenly put on weight in another episode.
* BattleInTheRain: Spoofed.
* BedsheetLadder
* BigBad: [[RealityWarper World]] in ''[[TheMovie Destination Imagination]]''. He's not actually evil, though, just a scared little kid whose got ''serious'' abandonment issues and just wants a friend.
* BigBrotherBully: Terrence.
* BigEater: Bloo.
** Mac almost always averts this, except when he has ''[[GRatedDrug sugar]]''.
* BigFriendlyDog: Used in the beginning of episode 11. A couple mistakenly brings a stray dog to the house, and when Frankie opens the door she is promptly tackled and licked silly.
* BiggerOnTheInside: The titular building. It's so big you can get lost in it for ''days''.
** World's toy box as well. Though that's likely due to him being a RealityWarper.
* BilingualDialogue: Coco.
* BirthdaySuitSurpriseParty
* BlackComedy: In the last episode, Bloo's first idea to prevent Mac from [[spoiler:moving away]] was to '''kill him.'''
* BlindBlackGuy: STEEVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
* {{Blipvert}}
* BrattyHalfPint: Bloo.
* BreakTheCutie: Happens a lot to Eduardo.
** Mac also goes through this.
** Wilt in ''Where There's a Wilt, There's a Way.''
* BrokenTreasure
* BucketBoobyTrap
* BurpingContest
* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin
* CardboardPal
* CarFu
* CatchPhrase: Parodied.
* CelebrityIsOverrated: "The Sweet Stench of Success".
* {{Cloning| Blues}} [[AWorldwidePunomenon Bloos]]: In "Bloo's Brothers".
* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: Bloo tries to pull one of these on Mr. Herriman. It doesn't work.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: All the imaginary friends are like this to some extent, but Coco, Cheese, and Eduardo deserve special mention.
* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise
* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere
* ColonCancer: Parodied on ''One False Movie'', with Bloo's movie being called "Trexatron Alienwolf III: A Prequel In Time: The Unrelenting".
* ConspicuousCG
* ContinuityNod: "Bloo Tube" shows that the viral video from "World Wide Wabbit" is still wildly popular.
** In "Bad Dare Day" a "I *heart* FB (Funny Bunny)" cap can be seen in Madame Foster's room
** When Bloo and Madame Foster realize that they've lost some movie tickets right as they arrive at the premiere, he compares it to "that stupid trip to Europe that we never took".
* ControlFreak: Mr. Herriman.
* CoolCar: Madame Foster's car.
* CoolOldLady: Madame Foster.
* CreatorCameo: Craig [=McCracken=] makes an appearance in the episode "One False Movie"
* CrossDressingVoices: Terrence is voiced by Tara Strong.
** Cheese is voiced by {{Candi Milo}}, who also voices Madame Foster and Coco. And [[{{Chalk Zone}} that other blue dude.]]
* CrowningMomentOfIndifference: In "Frankie My Dear" when Prince Charming is trying to woo Frankie and she just goes on eating her pizza.
** After being freed from the toy box, World has this conversation with Mr. Herriman, who had previously wanted to keep him locked inside:
-->'''World''': I'm free, Mr. Herriman! \\
'''Mr. Herriman''': Splendid. \\
'''World''': And Frankie freed me! \\
'''Mr. Herriman''': Yes, I saw that.
* CurseOfTheAncients
* DarkHorseVictory
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Destination Imagination''. It was even rated TV-PG (usually TV-Y7)
** The entire series may fall under this when compared to the other comedies on CartoonNetwork at the time of its premiere. When you consider that Wilt has the darkest backstory out of every character, and that Mac's life is a near living Hell, the show could very well be one of the most depressing shows CartoonNetwork produced.
* DeadlyPrank
* DevilInPlainSight: "Everyone Knows It's Bendy"
* DirectionlessDriver: Gender-flipped; when Frankie gets lost, Mac complains about how she won't ask for directions.
* DisappearedDad: Mac and Terrance's dad.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
* DontThinkFeel: Parodied.
* DorkHorseCandidate
* DownerEnding: The ending to '''Bloo Tube''', when the Monsoon Lagoon-obsessed Bloo has to stay at the home, in bandages and a wheelchair, while the rest of the cast gets to go to the aforementioned water park; the final shot shows the house as we hear Bloo crying hysterically.
** At the end of '''Foster's Goes to Europe,''' Eurotrish finally returns to her owner in Europe. Naturally, she must sing a song to express her happiness--only to be interrupted by her owner shouting out the window, "Stop the singing! Why do you think we sent you away in the first place?" Afterward, Eurotrish dejectedly sulks away, singing, "I'm-a going to America..."
* DropInCharacter: A rare protagonist DropInCharacter, Mac has to visit the home every day in order to keep Bloo from being adopted.
** Cheese and Goo are also {{Drop In Character}}s of the more standard kind.
* ElevatorFloorAnnouncement
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: [[TastesLikeDiabetes "I'm sowwy, Mistuh Hewwiman"]]
* EmotionallyTongueTied: Wilt has trouble saying "No" when someone asks him to do something.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Frankie and World in TheMovie. Frankie finally gets what she wanted all along, to be treated fairly and respected for all she does, Mr. Herriman finally fairly splitting the house work among everyone in the House instead of all on her. World, the BigBad of TheMovie and an emotionally unstable RealityWarper whose been sealed in a toy chest by himself for who knows how long, is finally freed from his prison and has the friends he'd wanted the entire movie. But both had to go a long way to get it.
* EpisodeTitleCard
* EveryoneKnowsMorse
* EvilTwin: Played with, sort of. See the image on the trope page.
* ExpospeakGag
* {{Expy}}: Mac is based on a one-time ''PowerpuffGirls'' character, Mike, who had an imaginary friend of his own. Also, his early design had a lot in common with [[{{Peanuts}} Linus van Pelt]], which is particularly telling when you remember that Bloo's design was based off a child's security blanket. And after the pilot premiered, Craig [=McCracken=]'s family told him Mac is pretty much what [=McCracken=] was like when he was little. His name's even "Mac".
** Also, Wilt's creator, Jordan Michaels.
** It's possible Mr. Herriman is one of the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, since he's a white rabbit with a waist coat and a penchant for being on time.
** Frankie was based on [=McCracken=]'s wife, LaurenFaust.
* ExtranormalInstitute
* FakeBrit: Kansas native Tom Kane as Mr Herriman. He mostly pulls it off, but certain pronunciations may give the game away.
* FantasticScience: Figmentology.
* FantasyKitchenSink, as well as FairytaleMotifs: Unicorns, giant monsters, superheroes, whatever the heck Coco is supposed to be, and countless other creatures.
** Coco's been explained, and it's kind of sad. [[TheWoobie Her creator]] was a girl who was trapped on a deserted island for a long time, and created an imaginary friend to keep herself sane. Coco is an amalgam of things that the girl could see around her: the crashed plane (Coco's body), the deflated life raft she tried to get off the island with (Coco's beak), a palm tree (Coco's head), and her own sunburned feet [[CaptainObvious (Coco's...feet)]].
* FashionableAsymmetry: Wilt.
* FawltyTowersPlot: "Bus The Two Of Us"
* FieryRedhead: Frankie.
* FirstNameUltimatum: And justified in the cases of some characters, like Mac, who well, [[OnlyOneName don't have a last name]]
* FiveManBand
** TheHero[=/=]TheSmartGuy: Mac
** TheLancer: Bloo
** TheBigGuy: Eduardo and Wilt share this role.
** TheChick: Coco
** SixthRanger: Goo
* FlatCharacter: Duchess is incapable of being anything other than a [[TheLoad whiny, demanding noblewoman]]... and she is ''literally'' 2-dimensional.
* ForbiddenFruit: "Secret door, secret door, '''''SECRET DOOR!'''''"
* FramedClue: How Mac and Bloo find the map to the Foster's treasure.
* GenkiGirl: Goo. And possibly Madame Foster and Coco.
* GentleGiant: Eduardo is a giant purple minotaur who appears frightening to Mac at first, but he turns out to be sweet and (to be honest) a coward - [[BerserkButton unless his friends are in danger]]. Wilt is a very, very tall fellow with one arm who is polite to the point of neurosis.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: '''Loads''' of it.
** (After trying and failing to glue Madame Foster's stone head back together with toothpaste) Bloo: "A bust ''this'' big needs adequate support!"
** In the episode "Affairweather Friends", the title is just the beginning.
** In the episode "Squeakerboxx", Bloo is inside of the men's room squeaking an elephant. Granted, it's literally an elephant and made of rubber, but still........
** Whenever you see inside Terrence's room, if you look carefully, you'll always see a box of tissues and a bottle of lotion.
** The grandaddy of all comes in the finale, due to a mistaken line reading. Cartoon Network '''kept it in'''. See PrecisionFStrike below.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Frankie. "Holy. Guac. Amolie."
* GrandFinale: ''Destination: Imagination'' and ''Goodbye to Bloo''
* GRatedDrug: Sugar to Mac.
** Cookies to Frankie in "Cookie Dough".
* GratuitousSpanish: Eduardo.
* GrowingUpSucks: The premise is that nearly all kids grow out of needing their imaginary friends, so Mac will likely end up leaving Bloo. [[AvertedTrope However]], we've seen some creators as adults, and they still care a great deal for their imaginary friends. Madame Foster says that Mac's imagination is the purest she's seen since her own, and ''she'' never gave up ''her'' imaginary friend...
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "Adoptcalypse Now".
* HandsOffParenting: Goo's parents.
* HangingJudge: "Go Cheese Go".
* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: "The Bloo Superdude and the Potato of Power".
* HeroicSociopath: Bloo.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Mac and Bloo.
* HiccupHijinks
* HighClassGlass: Mr. Herriman's monocle.
* HornyScientist
* HorribleCampingTrip
* HugAndComment: "Mac Daddy" has:
-->'''Bloo''': I love you, brother! ''(hugs Cheese)''\\
'''Cheese''': I pooted.
* HumansAreUgly: Duchess considers Frankie ugly. Then again, [[HypocriticalHumor she considers anyone who isn't herself ugly]].
* HumanMail: Bloo tries to send Cheese away through the mail. Cheese gets sent back due to insufficient postage.
* IdeaBulb: Spoofed.
* IdenticalGrandson: Frankie looks exactly like photos of a young Madame Foster.
* IHaveBrothers
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow
* ImaginaryFriend: Well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obviously]]. The twist here is that the friends kids imagine actually become real, and come to Foster's when their kids outgrow them.
* InAWorld: Parodied.
* InsaneProprietor: Madame Foster is a little more than eccentric.
* InsultBackfire
* InstantWebHit
* IntergenerationalFriendship: 22-year-old Frankie and Mac.
** Mac's friendship with the imaginary friends could be viewed as this too. Wilt, for example, is implied to be in his mid-thirties.
* InterruptedCooldownHug: Happens during ''Destination Imagination''. [[spoiler:Frankie had just calmed World down and made him friendly towards her friends when Mr. Herriman comes barging in and basically reinforces every one of his fears in one fell swoop before attempting to push everyone out of the toy chest. Cue the UnstoppableRage that literally tears the entire reality of the toy chest apart.]]
* IntoxicationEnsues / MushroomSamba: Mac on sugar. Enough said.
* InvisibleCelebrityGuest
* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: Averted.
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* JumpingTheShark: In universe. Referenced in a ShowWithinAShow and was literally attempted by Bloo in the SeriesFinale.
* KavorkaMan: Bloo for Berry. Her being completely insane might have something to do with it.
* KillerRabbit
* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: [[FlyingBrick Imaginary Man]] may seem tough, but all you have to do to make him lose his powers, is to throw flowers at him. Not that his designated ArchEnemy, [[DarkActionGirl Nemesister]], has it any easier. She loses her powers once you rough up her perfect hair a little.
* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Subverted; Bloo doesn't know what he means, either.
* LawOfDisproportionateResponse
* LawyerFriendlyCameo
* LegCling Parodied in "Imagination Invaders", by Bloo of course.
* LetsMeetTheMeat
* LimitedWardrobe: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]].
* LivingProp
* LizLemonJob: Frankie.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Berry.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Berry.
* MagicFloppyDisk: Played straight in one episode, averted in another.
* MassiveMultiplayerScam
* MathematiciansAnswer: The seeing-eye friend they try to help in one episode apparently discards any information not related to "this is a danger from which I must keep my child", because when he loses track of the kid, he can't provide a helpful answer; he was in a place when he lost Stevie, and as for Stevie himself, well, he's got arms, a face...you know, standard-issue human stuff.
* MayDecemberRomance: Mac's crush on Frankie
* MeanBoss: Mr. Herriman.
* MeatOVision: Parodied
* MilhollandRelationshipMoment
* TheMillstone: In "Berry Scary", Berry tries to convince Bloo that Mac is one.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Madame Foster.
* MinorInsultMeltdown: Goo in her introductory episode gets one at the hands of Mac.
** Not so minor. He basically said that she was better off dead, since no one even remotely liked her...which is a bit harsh.
* MissingTheGoodStuff
* MockMillionaire: In one episode, several charities compete for the attention of a character pretending to be a millionaire.
* MotorMouth: Goo.
* TheMovingExperience: The focus of the final episode.
* MundaneFantastic
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Bloo constantly forgetting Berry's name in "Berry Scary." He does, however, remember her as "Heather."
* MythologyGag: In "House of Bloo's", Bloo is shown at one point watching a ''{{Lassie}}'' parody. The boy in the show has the same character design as Mac's prototype appearance.
* {{Namedar}}
* NeverGrewUp
* NeverMyFault: Bloo refuses to accept it's his own fault Eduardo ran away in that episode.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Mac was eight when the show started, but he mentioned that Bloo's been living at Foster's for a few years, so wouldn't that make him twelve or thirteen for the last episode in 2009? Apparently not.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Madame Foster.
* OcularGushers: Eduardo gets these sometimes.
* OneWingedAngel: World, [[TheWoobie an emotional unstable]] RealityWarper, does this when Herriman threatens to leave him locked in his trunk alone again. He goes absolutely berserk and creates a chimera body for himself to destroy the ones who are trying to take Frankie away from him.
* OnlyOneName: Most of the cast.
* OnlySaneMan: Mac and (to an extent) Frankie.
* OperationBlank
* OrphanedPunchline
* OurFounder: Elwood P. Dowd, of ''Harvey'' fame, appropriately enough. The Home itself also has a bust of its founder, Madame Foster, which Bloo promptly... [[AWorldwidePunomenon busts.]]
* OutOfFocus: Coco, in Season 5.
** Also, most of the human supporting characters - Goo, Terrance and Mac's mom - in seasons 5 and 6.
** Merchandise makers don't like to acknowledge Mac's existence, and places Cheese on merchandise where he should be. This is also interesting when you realize that Cheese took the place of him on many junior girls' T-shirts...when Mac is actually the most popular with older female fans.
* OvenLogic
* OverlyLongGag
* ParentalBonus: A fair lot of it. Mac waking up next to Cheese and having to explain his "mistake" to Bloo qualifies.
* ParentalObliviousness: Mac's mom has no idea that he still goes to Foster's every day to visit Bloo.
* PassThePopcorn
* PokemonSpeak: Coco.
* POVSequel
* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision P Strike]]: [[WordOfGod Bloo's voice actor confirmed on a fansite]] that when reading for ''Destination: Imagination'' he misread the word "peeved" in the part where [[RealityWarper World]] [[OneWingedAngel freaks out]]. Thus:
-->'''Mr Herriman:''' Good heavens! What's happening?!\\
'''Bloo:''' You '''PISSED HIM OFF''', that's what happening!!!
** Though given the situation, it seems to be a perfectly reasonable response.
* PrecociousCrush: Mac and Frankie
* ProperlyParanoid: Madame Foster, about the old folks home.
* {{Rickroll}}: See Crowning Moment Of Awesome, above.
* QuicksandSucks
* QuirkyHousehold
* TheDitz: Cheese.
* RealityWarper: Goo has an overactive imagination, which means that she runs the risk of calling new Imaginary Friends into existence by accident (and somehow, she manages not to be creepy).
** Frankie's new friend, World, controls an entire dimension inside a toy box.
* RealTrailerFakeMovie
* RearWindowInvestigation
* RebelRelaxation
* RedOniBlueOni: Bloo and Mac.
* RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear: The only reason we know what Coco's saying.
* RepeatWhatYouJustSaid
* RhymesOnADime: Uncle Pockets.
* RickRoll: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i7B5aHafc0
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Mac and Goo.
* {{Schemer}}: Bloo.
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: Subverted.
* SealedEvilInACan: This is how the parents of the boy who created World viewed him when they locked him in his toy box, and apparently told Foster's such as they kept him in there. However, this is a subversion as World wasn't evil, just misunderstood and just wanted friends.
* SecondPersonAttack: A few examples.
** In one episode, when Bloo gets punched in the face by a young girl for taking some toy glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth.
** In another episode, Bloo is spying on who was supposed to be "the best imaginary friend ever", and he knocks out Bloo with a shovel this way.
* SelectiveEnforcement: Inverted as a SpringtimeForHitler in the episode "Crime After Crime". The episode's B-plot has Frankie [[LethalChef cooking something disgusting]] for dinner, so Bloo causes trouble in an effort to get sent to his room without dinner. Unfortunately the episode's A-plot was Mr. Harriman acting hyper-paranoid over someone discovering his addiction to carrots, leading him to punish everyone else in the house for relatively minor infractions due to thinking they're "on to him" while completely ignoring or even ''congratulating'' Bloo.
* {{Shaggy Dog Story}}: Many, many, ''many'' episodes.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Mac, concerning Goo (in the first episode she was in, anyway).
* ShoutOut: '''A LOT'''
** Plenty of shout-outs to ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' as well, though. For instance, the villain from the video game Bloo plays is called "Lord Beeblebrox" and the two nerdy scientists who study Coco are called Douglas and Adam, respectively. Adam wears a blue t-shirt with the number 42 on it.
*** There's also a scene in the episode in which Bloo steals the Foster's bus which has a hitchhiker wearing a bathrobe holding a sign that says "Magrathea." In the same episode, there is a Star Wars shout out when Mac throws money for a toll out the window and misses to which Bloo responds "Negative. It only impacted on the surface."
*** In yet ANOTHER (much more obscure) Hitchhikers reference, the friends unite together to rescue a cat from a tree using what Frankie calls "Plan Z-Z-9-Plural Z-Alpha".
** In Blooooo, Bloo's hallucinated reflection looks at him and says [[StarWars "Run, Bloo, run!"]]
** The episode ''Bye Bye Nerdy'' gives us this exchange between Bloo and Frankie:
-->'''Bloo:''' [[BluesBrothers It's a hundred and six blocks to Mac, I've got a full bladder, half a mind where I'm going, it's Tuesday and I'm wearing]] [[CoolShades sunglasses.]]\\
'''Frankie:''' ''* opens window* '' hit it!
** Frankie's T-shirt (that she wears 99% of the time) has a Stylized image of the PowerPuffGirls.
** In a Halloween episode, Bloo turns white (he's sick) and everyone believes that he's a ghost. Coco picks up a phone:
-->'''Wilt:''' Who ya gonna call?\\
'''Coco:''' [[GhostBusters Co Co-co!]]\\
'''Wilt:''' They've been out of business for years!
** The card for Mac in the last episode contains the signatures "[[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Yogi Booboo]]" and "[[{{Histeria}} Big Fat Baby]]".
** "Challenge of the Superfriends" contained some pretty blatant references to [[StarWars Revenge of the Sith]]. Bloo is clearly meant to be an expy of Darth Vader in this, with Nemesis an expy of Darth Sidious.
** In ''Destination Imagination'', the body Frankie creates for World looks very similar to [[ChalkZone Snap]].
** There's a resturaunt called "[[GoodBurger Nice Burger]]".
** In ''Go Goo Go'', Goo's letter is signed "[[SonicYouth Your Friend Goo]]".
** Someone on the team must really like Nintendo. Let us count the ways...
*** ''Neighbor Pains'' has a joke about Frankie being a "mother of 64". That same episode has a boy who looks strangely like Lucas from Mother 3 and Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Search "Mother 64".
*** ''The Buck Swaps Here'' has [[SuperMarioBros two mustached guys wearing red and green]]. The heights are there, and the mustaches are the same styles. It would be crazy to think of it a coincidence.
*** ''Affairweather Friends'' gives Barry a game console whose controller is awfully like the Wii's remote and nunchuk.
*** The pilot episode, ''House of Bloo's'' shows a GameBoy Advance in Mac's apartment.
*** In ''The Bloo Superdude and the Magic Potato of Power'', the magic potato (in real life) is... [[spoiler:a {{Nintendo DS}}--with mirrored button controls.]]
*** Foster's Home seems to have a Gamecube. It shows up in ''Fools and Regulations'' and ''Crime After Crime'', among others.
*** ''Destination Imagination'' has a game level suspiciously like in the [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] games. Complete with snails replacing koopas, piranha plants, a growth item that comes out when Mac jumps under a block, and an item that makes Eduardo invincible for a short while (complete with power up music)!
** A tall basket ball player named Wilt? C'mon guys, that's an easy one.
*** Quite interestingly, this basketball player also claimed to have sex with over 20,000 women...
** Two of Coco's former owners who adopted her to research her look suspiciously like [[DextersLaboratory Dexter and Mandark]], though their names are different, the concept and look is there.
** Another from ''Destination Imagination'' is the big gem. It's a lot like the old [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic games]], where you feel accomplished winning the emerald and freeing a cute critter.
** {{Peanuts}} references, galore!
*** An old man in ''Something Old, Something Bloo'' crying "Curse you Red Baron!" before promptly falling asleep.
*** The piano intro, as well as the decorated doghouse in ''A Lost Claus''.
*** When Bloo shares his story on how Uncle Pockets arrived in ''Bloo Done It'', he starts with "It was a dark and stormy night..."
*** Probably the most blatant of the examples is when Wilt pulls away Bloo--the football, from getting kicked by Mac in ''Fools and Regulations''. "Good grief" indeed. To Wilt's merit, it isn't done in malice.
** The show [[{{Lost}} Misplaced]] on ''Let Your Hare Down''.
*** There's also a brief scene in which we see Mr. Herriman popping out of a chimney next to several [[{{Mary Poppins}} silhouetted dancing chimney sweepers.]]
** A videogame called [[MortalKombat "Immortal Wombat"]] in ''Affairweather Friends'' and a movie called [[Film/SpaceJam "Astro Slam"]] (with [[OutOfJimmysHead Golly Gopher]] on the poster) in ''Good Wilt Hunting''.
** In the pilot movie, there's a bit where the now legless Extremasaur is chasing Bloo around the dump. It switches to an overhead view and looks like something out of Pac-Man.
*** Not to mention Bloo's ghost shape. But why is Pac-Man chasing the ghost? Well he's Bloo isn't he?
** The episode titled ''Squeakerboxx'' seems to be a shout out to the Outkast album ''Speakerboxx/The Love Below''.
** In the episode titled [[TheBigLebowski "The Big Lablooski"]] don't these guys look familar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50WvebOHjl8&feature=related
** When Mac has finally been tracked down after running naked through the town on a sugar high, he winces at the spotlights on him, rasping out "[[LordOfTheRings It burns us!]]"
** In ''Bloo Tube'', we see Bloppy Pants' band, Pizza Party, attempting to film a music video on treadmills. When Bloo distracts them and they fail, Yogi Boo Boo says, [[Main.OKGo "Okay GO... again."]]
** There's a [[PunnyName telegraph friend]] called [[{{Morrissey}} Morsey]] who talks in either Morse code, or lyrics from TheSmiths songs.
** One of the Bloos in "Bloo's Brothers" resembles HomestarRunner!
* SiblingRivalry: One-shot friends Imaginary Man and Nemesister were created by a boy and his sister as an extended outlet for their rampaging animosity. Their creators come back at the end of the episode to adopt them for their own kids.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Bloo
* SoapWithinAShow: ''The Loved and the Loveless''.
* SorryILeftTheBGMOn
** Sometimes people who are good at interpreting context clues and counting syllables can piece together what she's saying.
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Subverted.
* SpottingTheThread: Mac is forced to decide between Bloo and a near perfect impostor, and picks the real one because the impostor's friendship speech is ''too nice''. Mac knows Bloo is a {{Jerkass}}.
* SquishyWizard: Mac is highly intelligent for an 8-year old, but one drop of sugar and he goes from being the OnlySaneMan to making ''Goo'' look perfectly sane.
* StabTheSalad
* StalkerWithACrush: Berry.
* StartMyOwn
* StealthPun: Cheese. Mac created Cheese. You know, [[CaptainObvious "Mac and Cheese?"]]
** Cheese has a few of these: Bloo Cheese, Cheese Louise (Louise is his REAL creator.)
*** When Bloo tries to get Cheese adopted, he offers a package deal with a RidiculouslyCuteCritter named...Crackers.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: In "Bloo's the Boss" Bloo finds a cat and names him Chuck. Later when the cat's owner comes to collect him it turns out Chuck just happened to be his real name.
* StrawFeminist: Subverted with Nemesister, who doesn't really have a political agenda. She just likes to destroy or sabotage anything that guys like.
* SurvivalMantra: ''"A dog is not in the house presently."''
* SweetTooth: Inverted with Mac.
* TakeOffYourClothes: Invoked by name by Eduardo during the Funny Bunny crisis. Mac tries to hide all evidence of the Funny Bunny video, including the various clothing many people are wearing. Cue Eduardo running through the house, shouting, [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Take off your clothes! Take off your clothes!"]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The only person who unquestioningly complies is]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Madam Foster]].
* [[TalkativeLoon Talkative Loon]]: Goo and Cheese. Emphasis on "talkative" in Goo's case, and "loon" in Cheese's case.
* TandemParasite: Mr Herriman does it Bloo in "Let Your Hare Down".
* TheresNoBInMovie
* TheFaceless: Mac's mom.
* ThemeTuneCameo
* ThrowTheDogABone
* ThunderingHerd
* TomboyishName: Frankie Foster.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Bloo after the pilot episode
* TotemPoleTrench: Done by Mac and Bloo to the point of being a RunningGag.
** Wilt once substituted as a majority of Orlando Bloo.
* TrashTheSet
* TrueCompanions
* {{Tsundere}}: Frankie Foster.
* TheUnintelligible: "Coco!"
** "YES! Please! With Marshmallows!"
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Bloo.
* VillainousBreakdown: While he's not intentionally a bad guy, [[BigBad World]] has one at the climax of TheMovie when Mr. Herriman threatens to leave him sealed in his toy box alone again, causing him to snap and reduce his world to a white void and go OneWingedAngel. It takes Frankie's kindness to snap him out of it and calm him down.
* WelcomeTitles
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome
* WhatWereYouThinking
* WhiteGloves: Mr. Herriman wears a pair.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Mac.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Mac and Bloo.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: World from ''Destination Imagination''. Justified since it's ''[[RealityWarper his]]'' [[RealityWarper world]] anyway.
* XanatosGambit: ''I Only Have Surprise For You''.
* {{Yandere}}: Berry.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Mac is based on [[AuthorAvatar creator]] Craig [=McCracken=] as a child. Frankie, meanwhile, is based on his wife, LaurenFaust, as she is now.
* ZombieApocalypse: Subverted [[spoiler:It was only a Halloween prank meant to get back at Bloo. Pretty convincing though.]]
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{{In a world}} where imaginary friends are living, tangible beings, what happens to those friends when the kids grow up?
According to CartoonNetwork and CraigMcCracken, they come to Foster's, of course! A home for imaginary friends whose kids have outgrown them, Foster's is a place where friends can live together until they are adopted by a child who needs them. The show follows Mac, a shy and creative 8 year old boy, whose imaginary friend Bloo is thrown out of Mac's home and forced to come live at Foster's. Mac doesn't want Bloo to be adopted by another kid, so it's agreed that Bloo will not be put up for adoption, provided that Mac come and play with him every day. Bloo's egotistical, mischievous nature is the complete opposite of Mac's, and together the two cause all manner of chaos throughout the house.
The show averts NotSoImaginaryFriend in that everyone can see and hear the friends, not just their creators. Since almost all of the characters are imaginary friends dreamed up by children, the show's cast consists of an array of impossible creatures, sometimes bordering on the surreal. There's strong characterization throughout, however, even as the highly comedic plots tend to rely on Bloo causing ever-escalating mayhem. Is known to have loads of [[ParentalBonus Parental Bonuses]] as well.
Over the course of the series, two {{Made For TV Movie}}s have been released: ''GoodWiltHunting'' in 2006, and ''DestinationImagination'' in 2008. Both of them are noticably DarkerAndEdgier than the series itself.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AbsenteeActor: Mac doesn't appear in "Pranks for Nothing", even in the beginning. The events right at the beginning took place right after he left, or he was sick and couldn't come to Foster's anyway. It also could have been ''before'' he even came, considering that Mr. Herriman said the trip would be 7 hours long.
-->Bloo: Hey, Mr. Herriman! How long till we get there?
-->Mr. Herriman: 7 hours.
* AccentAdaptation: Hispanic imaginary friend Eduardo has an American accent in the Spanish dub.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism
* {{Adorkable}}: Mac is the biggest example in the series, but Wilt definitely qualifies during his more "awkward" moments.
* AffectionateParody: [[PunnyName Eurotrish]] is a spoof of [[AnAmericanTail Tanya Mousekewitz]].
* AlliterativeName: Francis 'Frankie' Foster
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Poor Wilt...
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Goo.
* AnthropomorphicFood: The food friends, who were apparently imagined by [[NightmareFuel hungry children at a weight-loss camp.]]
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Everything Mr. Herriman says.
* ApologisesALot: Wilt.
** Oh! I'm sorry, is that okay? I'm sorry!
* AreYouDoneYet
* ArtEvolution: While relatively minor, there are some color/appearance differences in the earliest episodes, which is seen mostly in Mac and Eduardo. Also notable in season five is that Mac's height increases slightly.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Eurotrish again. She's basically a relentless parody of this trope. She says she's from Europe, and seems to mean that literally...in that she wears clothes that combine stereotypes of at least six different European nationalities (Dutch clogs, a french beret, a shirt with the British flag, among other things) her accent keeps changing, and she always says she wants to go home to Europe, not to any specific country.
** At the end of the episode, we see her "back home in Europe" in a little stereotypical village that could be almost anywhere.
* AttentionWhore: Bloo.
* AWorldwidePunomenon: Most, if not all, the episode titles.
** [[NightmareOnElmStreet Nightmare on Wilson Way]]
** [[GoneWithTheWind Frankie My Dear]]
** Something Old Something Bloo
** Bad Dare Day
** Crime After Crime
* BalloonBelly: Frankie in one episode, Coco when she rather suddenly put on weight in another episode.
* BattleInTheRain: Spoofed.
* BedsheetLadder
* BigBad: [[RealityWarper World]] in ''[[TheMovie Destination Imagination]]''. He's not actually evil, though, just a scared little kid whose got ''serious'' abandonment issues and just wants a friend.
* BigBrotherBully: Terrence.
* BigEater: Bloo.
** Mac almost always averts this, except when he has ''[[GRatedDrug sugar]]''.
* BigFriendlyDog: Used in the beginning of episode 11. A couple mistakenly brings a stray dog to the house, and when Frankie opens the door she is promptly tackled and licked silly.
* BiggerOnTheInside: The titular building. It's so big you can get lost in it for ''days''.
** World's toy box as well. Though that's likely due to him being a RealityWarper.
* BilingualDialogue: Coco.
* BirthdaySuitSurpriseParty
* BlackComedy: In the last episode, Bloo's first idea to prevent Mac from [[spoiler:moving away]] was to '''kill him.'''
* BlindBlackGuy: STEEVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
* {{Blipvert}}
* BrattyHalfPint: Bloo.
* BreakTheCutie: Happens a lot to Eduardo.
** Mac also goes through this.
** Wilt in ''Where There's a Wilt, There's a Way.''
* BrokenTreasure
* BucketBoobyTrap
* BurpingContest
* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin
* CardboardPal
* CarFu
* CatchPhrase: Parodied.
* CelebrityIsOverrated: "The Sweet Stench of Success".
* {{Cloning| Blues}} [[AWorldwidePunomenon Bloos]]: In "Bloo's Brothers".
* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: Bloo tries to pull one of these on Mr. Herriman. It doesn't work.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: All the imaginary friends are like this to some extent, but Coco, Cheese, and Eduardo deserve special mention.
* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise
* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere
* ColonCancer: Parodied on ''One False Movie'', with Bloo's movie being called "Trexatron Alienwolf III: A Prequel In Time: The Unrelenting".
* ConspicuousCG
* ContinuityNod: "Bloo Tube" shows that the viral video from "World Wide Wabbit" is still wildly popular.
** In "Bad Dare Day" a "I *heart* FB (Funny Bunny)" cap can be seen in Madame Foster's room
** When Bloo and Madame Foster realize that they've lost some movie tickets right as they arrive at the premiere, he compares it to "that stupid trip to Europe that we never took".
* ControlFreak: Mr. Herriman.
* CoolCar: Madame Foster's car.
* CoolOldLady: Madame Foster.
* CreatorCameo: Craig [=McCracken=] makes an appearance in the episode "One False Movie"
* CrossDressingVoices: Terrence is voiced by Tara Strong.
** Cheese is voiced by {{Candi Milo}}, who also voices Madame Foster and Coco. And [[{{Chalk Zone}} that other blue dude.]]
* CrowningMomentOfIndifference: In "Frankie My Dear" when Prince Charming is trying to woo Frankie and she just goes on eating her pizza.
** After being freed from the toy box, World has this conversation with Mr. Herriman, who had previously wanted to keep him locked inside:
-->'''World''': I'm free, Mr. Herriman! \\
'''Mr. Herriman''': Splendid. \\
'''World''': And Frankie freed me! \\
'''Mr. Herriman''': Yes, I saw that.
* CurseOfTheAncients
* DarkHorseVictory
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Destination Imagination''. It was even rated TV-PG (usually TV-Y7)
** The entire series may fall under this when compared to the other comedies on CartoonNetwork at the time of its premiere. When you consider that Wilt has the darkest backstory out of every character, and that Mac's life is a near living Hell, the show could very well be one of the most depressing shows CartoonNetwork produced.
* DeadlyPrank
* DevilInPlainSight: "Everyone Knows It's Bendy"
* DirectionlessDriver: Gender-flipped; when Frankie gets lost, Mac complains about how she won't ask for directions.
* DisappearedDad: Mac and Terrance's dad.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
* DontThinkFeel: Parodied.
* DorkHorseCandidate
* DownerEnding: The ending to '''Bloo Tube''', when the Monsoon Lagoon-obsessed Bloo has to stay at the home, in bandages and a wheelchair, while the rest of the cast gets to go to the aforementioned water park; the final shot shows the house as we hear Bloo crying hysterically.
** At the end of '''Foster's Goes to Europe,''' Eurotrish finally returns to her owner in Europe. Naturally, she must sing a song to express her happiness--only to be interrupted by her owner shouting out the window, "Stop the singing! Why do you think we sent you away in the first place?" Afterward, Eurotrish dejectedly sulks away, singing, "I'm-a going to America..."
* DropInCharacter: A rare protagonist DropInCharacter, Mac has to visit the home every day in order to keep Bloo from being adopted.
** Cheese and Goo are also {{Drop In Character}}s of the more standard kind.
* ElevatorFloorAnnouncement
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: [[TastesLikeDiabetes "I'm sowwy, Mistuh Hewwiman"]]
* EmotionallyTongueTied: Wilt has trouble saying "No" when someone asks him to do something.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Frankie and World in TheMovie. Frankie finally gets what she wanted all along, to be treated fairly and respected for all she does, Mr. Herriman finally fairly splitting the house work among everyone in the House instead of all on her. World, the BigBad of TheMovie and an emotionally unstable RealityWarper whose been sealed in a toy chest by himself for who knows how long, is finally freed from his prison and has the friends he'd wanted the entire movie. But both had to go a long way to get it.
* EpisodeTitleCard
* EveryoneKnowsMorse
* EvilTwin: Played with, sort of. See the image on the trope page.
* ExpospeakGag
* {{Expy}}: Mac is based on a one-time ''PowerpuffGirls'' character, Mike, who had an imaginary friend of his own. Also, his early design had a lot in common with [[{{Peanuts}} Linus van Pelt]], which is particularly telling when you remember that Bloo's design was based off a child's security blanket. And after the pilot premiered, Craig [=McCracken=]'s family told him Mac is pretty much what [=McCracken=] was like when he was little. His name's even "Mac".
** Also, Wilt's creator, Jordan Michaels.
** It's possible Mr. Herriman is one of the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, since he's a white rabbit with a waist coat and a penchant for being on time.
** Frankie was based on [=McCracken=]'s wife, LaurenFaust.
* ExtranormalInstitute
* FakeBrit: Kansas native Tom Kane as Mr Herriman. He mostly pulls it off, but certain pronunciations may give the game away.
* FantasticScience: Figmentology.
* FantasyKitchenSink, as well as FairytaleMotifs: Unicorns, giant monsters, superheroes, whatever the heck Coco is supposed to be, and countless other creatures.
** Coco's been explained, and it's kind of sad. [[TheWoobie Her creator]] was a girl who was trapped on a deserted island for a long time, and created an imaginary friend to keep herself sane. Coco is an amalgam of things that the girl could see around her: the crashed plane (Coco's body), the deflated life raft she tried to get off the island with (Coco's beak), a palm tree (Coco's head), and her own sunburned feet [[CaptainObvious (Coco's...feet)]].
* FashionableAsymmetry: Wilt.
* FawltyTowersPlot: "Bus The Two Of Us"
* FieryRedhead: Frankie.
* FirstNameUltimatum: And justified in the cases of some characters, like Mac, who well, [[OnlyOneName don't have a last name]]
* FiveManBand
** TheHero[=/=]TheSmartGuy: Mac
** TheLancer: Bloo
** TheBigGuy: Eduardo and Wilt share this role.
** TheChick: Coco
** SixthRanger: Goo
* FlatCharacter: Duchess is incapable of being anything other than a [[TheLoad whiny, demanding noblewoman]]... and she is ''literally'' 2-dimensional.
* ForbiddenFruit: "Secret door, secret door, '''''SECRET DOOR!'''''"
* FramedClue: How Mac and Bloo find the map to the Foster's treasure.
* GenkiGirl: Goo. And possibly Madame Foster and Coco.
* GentleGiant: Eduardo is a giant purple minotaur who appears frightening to Mac at first, but he turns out to be sweet and (to be honest) a coward - [[BerserkButton unless his friends are in danger]]. Wilt is a very, very tall fellow with one arm who is polite to the point of neurosis.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: '''Loads''' of it.
** (After trying and failing to glue Madame Foster's stone head back together with toothpaste) Bloo: "A bust ''this'' big needs adequate support!"
** In the episode "Affairweather Friends", the title is just the beginning.
** In the episode "Squeakerboxx", Bloo is inside of the men's room squeaking an elephant. Granted, it's literally an elephant and made of rubber, but still........
** Whenever you see inside Terrence's room, if you look carefully, you'll always see a box of tissues and a bottle of lotion.
** The grandaddy of all comes in the finale, due to a mistaken line reading. Cartoon Network '''kept it in'''. See PrecisionFStrike below.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Frankie. "Holy. Guac. Amolie."
* GrandFinale: ''Destination: Imagination'' and ''Goodbye to Bloo''
* GRatedDrug: Sugar to Mac.
** Cookies to Frankie in "Cookie Dough".
* GratuitousSpanish: Eduardo.
* GrowingUpSucks: The premise is that nearly all kids grow out of needing their imaginary friends, so Mac will likely end up leaving Bloo. [[AvertedTrope However]], we've seen some creators as adults, and they still care a great deal for their imaginary friends. Madame Foster says that Mac's imagination is the purest she's seen since her own, and ''she'' never gave up ''her'' imaginary friend...
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "Adoptcalypse Now".
* HandsOffParenting: Goo's parents.
* HangingJudge: "Go Cheese Go".
* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: "The Bloo Superdude and the Potato of Power".
* HeroicSociopath: Bloo.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Mac and Bloo.
* HiccupHijinks
* HighClassGlass: Mr. Herriman's monocle.
* HornyScientist
* HorribleCampingTrip
* HugAndComment: "Mac Daddy" has:
-->'''Bloo''': I love you, brother! ''(hugs Cheese)''\\
'''Cheese''': I pooted.
* HumansAreUgly: Duchess considers Frankie ugly. Then again, [[HypocriticalHumor she considers anyone who isn't herself ugly]].
* HumanMail: Bloo tries to send Cheese away through the mail. Cheese gets sent back due to insufficient postage.
* IdeaBulb: Spoofed.
* IdenticalGrandson: Frankie looks exactly like photos of a young Madame Foster.
* IHaveBrothers
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow
* ImaginaryFriend: Well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obviously]]. The twist here is that the friends kids imagine actually become real, and come to Foster's when their kids outgrow them.
* InAWorld: Parodied.
* InsaneProprietor: Madame Foster is a little more than eccentric.
* InsultBackfire
* InstantWebHit
* IntergenerationalFriendship: 22-year-old Frankie and Mac.
** Mac's friendship with the imaginary friends could be viewed as this too. Wilt, for example, is implied to be in his mid-thirties.
* InterruptedCooldownHug: Happens during ''Destination Imagination''. [[spoiler:Frankie had just calmed World down and made him friendly towards her friends when Mr. Herriman comes barging in and basically reinforces every one of his fears in one fell swoop before attempting to push everyone out of the toy chest. Cue the UnstoppableRage that literally tears the entire reality of the toy chest apart.]]
* IntoxicationEnsues / MushroomSamba: Mac on sugar. Enough said.
* InvisibleCelebrityGuest
* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: Averted.
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* JumpingTheShark: In universe. Referenced in a ShowWithinAShow and was literally attempted by Bloo in the SeriesFinale.
* KavorkaMan: Bloo for Berry. Her being completely insane might have something to do with it.
* KillerRabbit
* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: [[FlyingBrick Imaginary Man]] may seem tough, but all you have to do to make him lose his powers, is to throw flowers at him. Not that his designated ArchEnemy, [[DarkActionGirl Nemesister]], has it any easier. She loses her powers once you rough up her perfect hair a little.
* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Subverted; Bloo doesn't know what he means, either.
* LawOfDisproportionateResponse
* LawyerFriendlyCameo
* LegCling Parodied in "Imagination Invaders", by Bloo of course.
* LetsMeetTheMeat
* LimitedWardrobe: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]].
* LivingProp
* LizLemonJob: Frankie.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Berry.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Berry.
* MagicFloppyDisk: Played straight in one episode, averted in another.
* MassiveMultiplayerScam
* MathematiciansAnswer: The seeing-eye friend they try to help in one episode apparently discards any information not related to "this is a danger from which I must keep my child", because when he loses track of the kid, he can't provide a helpful answer; he was in a place when he lost Stevie, and as for Stevie himself, well, he's got arms, a face...you know, standard-issue human stuff.
* MayDecemberRomance: Mac's crush on Frankie
* MeanBoss: Mr. Herriman.
* MeatOVision: Parodied
* MilhollandRelationshipMoment
* TheMillstone: In "Berry Scary", Berry tries to convince Bloo that Mac is one.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Madame Foster.
* MinorInsultMeltdown: Goo in her introductory episode gets one at the hands of Mac.
** Not so minor. He basically said that she was better off dead, since no one even remotely liked her...which is a bit harsh.
* MissingTheGoodStuff
* MockMillionaire: In one episode, several charities compete for the attention of a character pretending to be a millionaire.
* MotorMouth: Goo.
* TheMovingExperience: The focus of the final episode.
* MundaneFantastic
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Bloo constantly forgetting Berry's name in "Berry Scary." He does, however, remember her as "Heather."
* MythologyGag: In "House of Bloo's", Bloo is shown at one point watching a ''{{Lassie}}'' parody. The boy in the show has the same character design as Mac's prototype appearance.
* {{Namedar}}
* NeverGrewUp
* NeverMyFault: Bloo refuses to accept it's his own fault Eduardo ran away in that episode.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Mac was eight when the show started, but he mentioned that Bloo's been living at Foster's for a few years, so wouldn't that make him twelve or thirteen for the last episode in 2009? Apparently not.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Madame Foster.
* OcularGushers: Eduardo gets these sometimes.
* OneWingedAngel: World, [[TheWoobie an emotional unstable]] RealityWarper, does this when Herriman threatens to leave him locked in his trunk alone again. He goes absolutely berserk and creates a chimera body for himself to destroy the ones who are trying to take Frankie away from him.
* OnlyOneName: Most of the cast.
* OnlySaneMan: Mac and (to an extent) Frankie.
* OperationBlank
* OrphanedPunchline
* OurFounder: Elwood P. Dowd, of ''Harvey'' fame, appropriately enough. The Home itself also has a bust of its founder, Madame Foster, which Bloo promptly... [[AWorldwidePunomenon busts.]]
* OutOfFocus: Coco, in Season 5.
** Also, most of the human supporting characters - Goo, Terrance and Mac's mom - in seasons 5 and 6.
** Merchandise makers don't like to acknowledge Mac's existence, and places Cheese on merchandise where he should be. This is also interesting when you realize that Cheese took the place of him on many junior girls' T-shirts...when Mac is actually the most popular with older female fans.
* OvenLogic
* OverlyLongGag
* ParentalBonus: A fair lot of it. Mac waking up next to Cheese and having to explain his "mistake" to Bloo qualifies.
* ParentalObliviousness: Mac's mom has no idea that he still goes to Foster's every day to visit Bloo.
* PassThePopcorn
* PokemonSpeak: Coco.
* POVSequel
* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision P Strike]]: [[WordOfGod Bloo's voice actor confirmed on a fansite]] that when reading for ''Destination: Imagination'' he misread the word "peeved" in the part where [[RealityWarper World]] [[OneWingedAngel freaks out]]. Thus:
-->'''Mr Herriman:''' Good heavens! What's happening?!\\
'''Bloo:''' You '''PISSED HIM OFF''', that's what happening!!!
** Though given the situation, it seems to be a perfectly reasonable response.
* PrecociousCrush: Mac and Frankie
* ProperlyParanoid: Madame Foster, about the old folks home.
* {{Rickroll}}: See Crowning Moment Of Awesome, above.
* QuicksandSucks
* QuirkyHousehold
* TheDitz: Cheese.
* RealityWarper: Goo has an overactive imagination, which means that she runs the risk of calling new Imaginary Friends into existence by accident (and somehow, she manages not to be creepy).
** Frankie's new friend, World, controls an entire dimension inside a toy box.
* RealTrailerFakeMovie
* RearWindowInvestigation
* RebelRelaxation
* RedOniBlueOni: Bloo and Mac.
* RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear: The only reason we know what Coco's saying.
* RepeatWhatYouJustSaid
* RhymesOnADime: Uncle Pockets.
* RickRoll: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i7B5aHafc0
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Mac and Goo.
* {{Schemer}}: Bloo.
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: Subverted.
* SealedEvilInACan: This is how the parents of the boy who created World viewed him when they locked him in his toy box, and apparently told Foster's such as they kept him in there. However, this is a subversion as World wasn't evil, just misunderstood and just wanted friends.
* SecondPersonAttack: A few examples.
** In one episode, when Bloo gets punched in the face by a young girl for taking some toy glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth.
** In another episode, Bloo is spying on who was supposed to be "the best imaginary friend ever", and he knocks out Bloo with a shovel this way.
* SelectiveEnforcement: Inverted as a SpringtimeForHitler in the episode "Crime After Crime". The episode's B-plot has Frankie [[LethalChef cooking something disgusting]] for dinner, so Bloo causes trouble in an effort to get sent to his room without dinner. Unfortunately the episode's A-plot was Mr. Harriman acting hyper-paranoid over someone discovering his addiction to carrots, leading him to punish everyone else in the house for relatively minor infractions due to thinking they're "on to him" while completely ignoring or even ''congratulating'' Bloo.
* {{Shaggy Dog Story}}: Many, many, ''many'' episodes.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Mac, concerning Goo (in the first episode she was in, anyway).
* ShoutOut: '''A LOT'''
** Plenty of shout-outs to ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' as well, though. For instance, the villain from the video game Bloo plays is called "Lord Beeblebrox" and the two nerdy scientists who study Coco are called Douglas and Adam, respectively. Adam wears a blue t-shirt with the number 42 on it.
*** There's also a scene in the episode in which Bloo steals the Foster's bus which has a hitchhiker wearing a bathrobe holding a sign that says "Magrathea." In the same episode, there is a Star Wars shout out when Mac throws money for a toll out the window and misses to which Bloo responds "Negative. It only impacted on the surface."
*** In yet ANOTHER (much more obscure) Hitchhikers reference, the friends unite together to rescue a cat from a tree using what Frankie calls "Plan Z-Z-9-Plural Z-Alpha".
** In Blooooo, Bloo's hallucinated reflection looks at him and says [[StarWars "Run, Bloo, run!"]]
** The episode ''Bye Bye Nerdy'' gives us this exchange between Bloo and Frankie:
-->'''Bloo:''' [[BluesBrothers It's a hundred and six blocks to Mac, I've got a full bladder, half a mind where I'm going, it's Tuesday and I'm wearing]] [[CoolShades sunglasses.]]\\
'''Frankie:''' ''* opens window* '' hit it!
** Frankie's T-shirt (that she wears 99% of the time) has a Stylized image of the PowerPuffGirls.
** In a Halloween episode, Bloo turns white (he's sick) and everyone believes that he's a ghost. Coco picks up a phone:
-->'''Wilt:''' Who ya gonna call?\\
'''Coco:''' [[GhostBusters Co Co-co!]]\\
'''Wilt:''' They've been out of business for years!
** The card for Mac in the last episode contains the signatures "[[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Yogi Booboo]]" and "[[{{Histeria}} Big Fat Baby]]".
** "Challenge of the Superfriends" contained some pretty blatant references to [[StarWars Revenge of the Sith]]. Bloo is clearly meant to be an expy of Darth Vader in this, with Nemesis an expy of Darth Sidious.
** In ''Destination Imagination'', the body Frankie creates for World looks very similar to [[ChalkZone Snap]].
** There's a resturaunt called "[[GoodBurger Nice Burger]]".
** In ''Go Goo Go'', Goo's letter is signed "[[SonicYouth Your Friend Goo]]".
** Someone on the team must really like Nintendo. Let us count the ways...
*** ''Neighbor Pains'' has a joke about Frankie being a "mother of 64". That same episode has a boy who looks strangely like Lucas from Mother 3 and Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Search "Mother 64".
*** ''The Buck Swaps Here'' has [[SuperMarioBros two mustached guys wearing red and green]]. The heights are there, and the mustaches are the same styles. It would be crazy to think of it a coincidence.
*** ''Affairweather Friends'' gives Barry a game console whose controller is awfully like the Wii's remote and nunchuk.
*** The pilot episode, ''House of Bloo's'' shows a GameBoy Advance in Mac's apartment.
*** In ''The Bloo Superdude and the Magic Potato of Power'', the magic potato (in real life) is... [[spoiler:a {{Nintendo DS}}--with mirrored button controls.]]
*** Foster's Home seems to have a Gamecube. It shows up in ''Fools and Regulations'' and ''Crime After Crime'', among others.
*** ''Destination Imagination'' has a game level suspiciously like in the [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] games. Complete with snails replacing koopas, piranha plants, a growth item that comes out when Mac jumps under a block, and an item that makes Eduardo invincible for a short while (complete with power up music)!
** A tall basket ball player named Wilt? C'mon guys, that's an easy one.
*** Quite interestingly, this basketball player also claimed to have sex with over 20,000 women...
** Two of Coco's former owners who adopted her to research her look suspiciously like [[DextersLaboratory Dexter and Mandark]], though their names are different, the concept and look is there.
** Another from ''Destination Imagination'' is the big gem. It's a lot like the old [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic games]], where you feel accomplished winning the emerald and freeing a cute critter.
** {{Peanuts}} references, galore!
*** An old man in ''Something Old, Something Bloo'' crying "Curse you Red Baron!" before promptly falling asleep.
*** The piano intro, as well as the decorated doghouse in ''A Lost Claus''.
*** When Bloo shares his story on how Uncle Pockets arrived in ''Bloo Done It'', he starts with "It was a dark and stormy night..."
*** Probably the most blatant of the examples is when Wilt pulls away Bloo--the football, from getting kicked by Mac in ''Fools and Regulations''. "Good grief" indeed. To Wilt's merit, it isn't done in malice.
** The show [[{{Lost}} Misplaced]] on ''Let Your Hare Down''.
*** There's also a brief scene in which we see Mr. Herriman popping out of a chimney next to several [[{{Mary Poppins}} silhouetted dancing chimney sweepers.]]
** A videogame called [[MortalKombat "Immortal Wombat"]] in ''Affairweather Friends'' and a movie called [[Film/SpaceJam "Astro Slam"]] (with [[OutOfJimmysHead Golly Gopher]] on the poster) in ''Good Wilt Hunting''.
** In the pilot movie, there's a bit where the now legless Extremasaur is chasing Bloo around the dump. It switches to an overhead view and looks like something out of Pac-Man.
*** Not to mention Bloo's ghost shape. But why is Pac-Man chasing the ghost? Well he's Bloo isn't he?
** The episode titled ''Squeakerboxx'' seems to be a shout out to the Outkast album ''Speakerboxx/The Love Below''.
** In the episode titled [[TheBigLebowski "The Big Lablooski"]] don't these guys look familar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50WvebOHjl8&feature=related
** When Mac has finally been tracked down after running naked through the town on a sugar high, he winces at the spotlights on him, rasping out "[[LordOfTheRings It burns us!]]"
** In ''Bloo Tube'', we see Bloppy Pants' band, Pizza Party, attempting to film a music video on treadmills. When Bloo distracts them and they fail, Yogi Boo Boo says, [[Main.OKGo "Okay GO... again."]]
** There's a [[PunnyName telegraph friend]] called [[{{Morrissey}} Morsey]] who talks in either Morse code, or lyrics from TheSmiths songs.
** One of the Bloos in "Bloo's Brothers" resembles HomestarRunner!
* SiblingRivalry: One-shot friends Imaginary Man and Nemesister were created by a boy and his sister as an extended outlet for their rampaging animosity. Their creators come back at the end of the episode to adopt them for their own kids.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Bloo
* SoapWithinAShow: ''The Loved and the Loveless''.
* SorryILeftTheBGMOn
** Sometimes people who are good at interpreting context clues and counting syllables can piece together what she's saying.
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Subverted.
* SpottingTheThread: Mac is forced to decide between Bloo and a near perfect impostor, and picks the real one because the impostor's friendship speech is ''too nice''. Mac knows Bloo is a {{Jerkass}}.
* SquishyWizard: Mac is highly intelligent for an 8-year old, but one drop of sugar and he goes from being the OnlySaneMan to making ''Goo'' look perfectly sane.
* StabTheSalad
* StalkerWithACrush: Berry.
* StartMyOwn
* StealthPun: Cheese. Mac created Cheese. You know, [[CaptainObvious "Mac and Cheese?"]]
** Cheese has a few of these: Bloo Cheese, Cheese Louise (Louise is his REAL creator.)
*** When Bloo tries to get Cheese adopted, he offers a package deal with a RidiculouslyCuteCritter named...Crackers.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: In "Bloo's the Boss" Bloo finds a cat and names him Chuck. Later when the cat's owner comes to collect him it turns out Chuck just happened to be his real name.
* StrawFeminist: Subverted with Nemesister, who doesn't really have a political agenda. She just likes to destroy or sabotage anything that guys like.
* SurvivalMantra: ''"A dog is not in the house presently."''
* SweetTooth: Inverted with Mac.
* TakeOffYourClothes: Invoked by name by Eduardo during the Funny Bunny crisis. Mac tries to hide all evidence of the Funny Bunny video, including the various clothing many people are wearing. Cue Eduardo running through the house, shouting, [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Take off your clothes! Take off your clothes!"]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The only person who unquestioningly complies is]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Madam Foster]].
* [[TalkativeLoon Talkative Loon]]: Goo and Cheese. Emphasis on "talkative" in Goo's case, and "loon" in Cheese's case.
* TandemParasite: Mr Herriman does it Bloo in "Let Your Hare Down".
* TheresNoBInMovie
* TheFaceless: Mac's mom.
* ThemeTuneCameo
* ThrowTheDogABone
* ThunderingHerd
* TomboyishName: Frankie Foster.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Bloo after the pilot episode
* TotemPoleTrench: Done by Mac and Bloo to the point of being a RunningGag.
** Wilt once substituted as a majority of Orlando Bloo.
* TrashTheSet
* TrueCompanions
* {{Tsundere}}: Frankie Foster.
* TheUnintelligible: "Coco!"
** "YES! Please! With Marshmallows!"
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Bloo.
* VillainousBreakdown: While he's not intentionally a bad guy, [[BigBad World]] has one at the climax of TheMovie when Mr. Herriman threatens to leave him sealed in his toy box alone again, causing him to snap and reduce his world to a white void and go OneWingedAngel. It takes Frankie's kindness to snap him out of it and calm him down.
* WelcomeTitles
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome
* WhatWereYouThinking
* WhiteGloves: Mr. Herriman wears a pair.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Mac.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Mac and Bloo.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: World from ''Destination Imagination''. Justified since it's ''[[RealityWarper his]]'' [[RealityWarper world]] anyway.
* XanatosGambit: ''I Only Have Surprise For You''.
* {{Yandere}}: Berry.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Mac is based on [[AuthorAvatar creator]] Craig [=McCracken=] as a child. Frankie, meanwhile, is based on his wife, LaurenFaust, as she is now.
* ZombieApocalypse: Subverted [[spoiler:It was only a Halloween prank meant to get back at Bloo. Pretty convincing though.]]
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