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Considering that imaginary friends are typically made by children, moments like these are inevitable at Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.


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    Season 1 
  • In "Dinner is Swerved", Mac and Bloo are hungry and stuck on the top floor of Foster's when it's dinner time and the dining room is all the way back in the first floor, but they can't find their way back because Foster's is a complicated physics-defying house. They locate Duchess, and when she refuses to help them get back down to the first floor, Bloo grabs her telephone and threatens that unless he gets directions, he'll "do it", although Duchess complains she doesn't care if Bloo breaks it.
    You'd Expect: For Bloo to call Frankie for directions.
    Instead: Bloo calls the pizza delivery guy ("12 extra extra large pepperoni with extra sauce and extra cheese, to Foster's Home, thanks.") Even Duchess chides Bloo on his stupidity for not planning ahead on how he'll get his pizzas if he doesn't know his way back downstairs.
    • Next, Bloo then finds a chicken leg with feet and chases after it. The chicken leg, Charlie, turns out to be a food imaginary friend created by some kid in Fat Camp, but he offers to help navigate Mac and Bloo back down to the first floor if Bloo controls his urge to eat him.
      You'd Then Expect: For Bloo to wait until he reaches the dining room to attack and eat Charlie. That way, he'll get to eat both Charlie and whatever food's left in the dining room.
      Instead: Bloo resumes chase about 41 seconds after Charlie started guiding them, scaring Charlie away.
      The Result: After a while, Bloo does get to the dining room but all that's left for him to eat is a fried chicken drumstick (normal-sized). Well, at least he's satisfied.
    • Meanwhile, everyone else at Foster's is seated at the dinner table, but Mr. Herriman has a rule against starting dinner until everyone is seated. And considering Bloo has been late for a while now...
      You'd Expect: That said rule would have an addendum: if someone is significantly late, then dinner shall proceed without them, and if that someone should take offense, then it's their own fault for taking so long. Politeness (the very reason this rule is enforced in the first place) is a two-way street, after all.
      Instead: This addendum never once occurs to Mr. Herriman, who earnestly expects everyone to go hungry while their banquet gets cold right in front of them. At least Madame Foster sneaked everyone their food while Mr. Herriman wasn't looking.
  • In "The Trouble with Scribbles", it turns out that Mr. Herriman hides "scribbles", imaginary friends that have the body of 3D scribbled drawings inside a closet as he feels that they are a nuisance similar to a dust storm.
    You'd Expect: For Mr. Herriman to lock up the closet big time, just like Frankie suggested.
    Instead: He simply just keeps a sign on it saying "STAY AWAY — DO NOT ENTER" and defends his decision not to put up locks because he claims "self-restraint, Miss Francis, is the only lock that door requires".

    Season 2 
  • In "Partying is Such Sweet Soiree", Bloo throws a wild house party filled with sugary sweets. When Mac shows up, Bloo tries enticing him with sugar despite knowing Mac's not allowed to have it. Mac keeps telling him to stop.
    You'd Expect: Bloo to listen to Mac and get him sugar-free snacks or to leave him alone.
    Instead: He keeps insisting to Mac that the latter should eat sugar, causing him to panic and run away from Bloo.
    • Mac has another idiotic moment not long after. When he runs into Billy the Squid, who was carrying a huge bowl of fruit punch across the room, the punch bowl goes flying up in the air and drops of it come pouring down.
      You'd Expect: Mac to keep his mouth closed so he doesn't get any. Worst case is that he just gets drenched in punch and could easly clean himself off.
      Or: That Mac would move out of the possible area where it might pour.
      Instead: Mac screams "NOOOOOOOOO!" as a drop of fruit punch lands into his open mouth.
      The Results: Mac's sugar rush is triggered and he proceeds to ruin Bloo's party.
  • In "Where There's a Wilt There's a Way", Wilt keeps getting forced to do demeaning tasks for the ungrateful people of his home city and he is unable to refuse because he can’t say no no matter what circumstances. Wilt is sent to go get potato chips for Bloo to eat while watching the basketball game, but each time he fills Bloo's bowl with chips back up to being full, he gets interrupted by someone asking him for a favor. The first time he realizes that the friends who asked him for the favor eat up Bloo's chips, and so he has to constantly refill the bowl.
    You'd Expect: Wilt to ensure next time no one eat Bloo's chips, or better yet just bring the chip packages with him.
    Instead: He keeps giving the chips into the hands of the favor requesters!
    Later: Wilt gets framed by a bank robber who dumps the huge bag of money onto Wilt's hands, and so police corner Wilt and suspect he's the criminal.
    You'd Expect: For Wilt to ask the police to interrogate the witnesses who were present at the crime scene to confirm he's not the robber.
    Instead: Unable to say "No", Wilt can't defend his innocence and the police lock him up before he gets forced by his fellow cell mates to tunnel their way out of jail.
  • The episode "Everybody Knows It's Bendy", such that even the writer Lauren Faust publicly apologized for writing the episode.
    • For starters, the eponymous Bendy is dropped off at the house for his constant trouble-making. However, Frankie and Mr. Herriman come to believe that that Bendy's kid was framing him for it. Whether that is or isn't the case, Bendy certainly is a troublemaker, causing mischief for no other reason than to frame Bloo, Wilt, Eduardo, and Coco.
      You'd Expect: Frankie and Mr. Herriman to, at any point, question why three longtime friends who have generally been honest and well-behaved are suddenly at the epicenter of a rash of bad behavior and pointing fingers at this newcomer. Plus while he may be a troublemaker, Bloo doesn't usually go around framing other people for what he's done and if the three aforementioned people are vouching for his innocence, that speaks for evidence in his favor. If Bendy's sob story was that convincing, they could at least declare both parties innocent until proven guilty.
      Instead: They believe Bendy over Wilt, Ed, and Coco and punish them.
    • Bloo's foolishness and impulsiveness do not help matters. At one point, Bloo catches Bendy writing on the walls.
      You'd Expect: Bloo to hightail it before Bendy can blame him and hope Frankie and Mr. Herriman catch him this time.
      Instead: Being the thoughtless guy he is, Bloo tries to confront Bendy, snatching the marker as he does so, leaving the evidence against him.
    • Bloo and the gang make a plan to prove Bendy guilty of these crimes, leaving a baseball and bat next to a large window. They duck and cover, waiting to take pictures. Bendy smashes the window, but heads out before they can incriminate him.
      You'd Expect: Them to also leave the scene of the crime and hope they can avoid further trouble.
      Instead: Bloo, for no real reason, picks up the bat while wondering how Bendy can get away so quickly. Coco’s tongue (which was holding the camera in her mouth) then slips and takes pictures of Bloo holding the bat near the broken window (which begs the question of why they didn't put someone more dexterous in charge of the camera). Frankie and Mr. Herriman then enter the room with Bendy and see the broken window and the photos of Bloo holding the bat, getting him in further trouble.
    • Later they hear Bendy mocking Frankie and Mr. Herriman over the intercom but Wilt warns Bloo to not go stop Bendy, hoping the latter could get in trouble.
      You'd Expect: Bloo to heed Wilt's warning and stay put.
      Instead: Bloo feels the need to rush down to the intercom just so he can confront Bendy once and for all, and even goes so far as to summon Frankie and Mr. Herriman down there as if he thought him saying "Ha, I caught you" would ensure Bendy would stay put and not leave Bloo to take the blame. You can practically tell by Bendy's grin that Bloo got ahead of himself and played right into his hands.
    • Bloo's final plan to frame Bendy by taking a picture of him in the Tempting Cookie Jar is actually a success, although the steps to keep him from destroying the evidence caused the house to flood. Luckily, this is when Frankie and Mr. Herriman confront Bendy when it seems as though he's at the epicenter of the trouble for once.
      You'd Expect: For Bloo to stay silent and watch Bendy get his well-deserved comeuppance, potentially basking in the irony of him getting in trouble for something he actually didn't do this time.
      Instead: Bloo, seemingly under the impression that he has some really strong Wrongful Accusation Insurance, inexplicably yells out the entire plan in front of Frankie and Mr. Herriman.
      The Result: Bloo gets in huge trouble and Bendy spray paints the camera. The end. Roll credits.
  • In "Cookie Dough", heavy rain occurs and they leak into the Foster's home because the roof is full of holes. Madame Foster then asks Mr. Herriman to check and see how much money they stored in their emergency fund inside their safe.
    You'd Expect: That Madame Foster would have saved at least some money and hid that in the safe. But then she shouldn't probably have spent 100% of the emergency fund money on the safe in the first place. Was putting all that money in a bank not an option?
    Instead: It turns out she spent the entire emergency fund on a golden plated safe that is designed to store the emergency fund! Even Mr. Herriman who is not too bright can tell Madame Foster has poor decision making skills.
  • In "Frankie My Dear", Mac and Bloo suspect that Frankie is really in love with a pizza guy, although the two are after Frankie's affection themselves and so Mac and Bloo pelt the pizza guy (Chris) with paper balls to scare him away, and as Chris flees to drive away in his pizza car Bloo yells at him not to steal Frankie ever again. Chris then gets confused since he wasn't in love with Frankie and asks Bloo to elucidate on that.
    You'd Expect: For Bloo to realize the mistake he just made.
    Instead: Bloo "clarifies" that Frankie is in love with him, and so Chris returns and his melted heart makes him immune to Mac and Bloo's paper balls and so he asks Frankie for a date.
    Then: Mac, Bloo, and the pizza guy share a Totem Pole Trench to get Frankie's true love interest, Dylan. Their position is that Bloo will be the head, Mac will be the chest, and Chris will be the legs. However, Mac finds his position stupid and wanted to be the head of the disguise.
    You'd Expect: Bloo would find Mac has a point and let him lead.
    Instead: He ignores his suggestion and insisted on being the head all because he thinks he's older than Mac which itself is Insane Troll Logic.
    As a Result: Frankie isn't fooled by the Paper-Thin Disguise.
  • In "Squeakerboxxx", when Mac and the Imaginary Friends go to the Game Hive arcade, they pool their tickets together and use them to buy a rubber elephant that squeaks when squeezed, which costs 500 tickets. Frankie decides that since they're going to share the elephant, each of them will play with it for two hours per day. First Coco, then Eduardo, then Wilt, then Mac, then Bloo. While Eduardo treats the elephant like his baby, Wilt plays with it like a basketball, and Coco and Mac stare at it, Bloo becomes addicted to squeaking it, to the point where after Frankie takes it away the end of the day, he sneaks into her bedroom and squeezes it too hard, accidentally pushing the squeaker out and leaving it unable to squeak as a result. When Mac finds out, he takes Bloo to the Game Hive to win a new rubber elephant before Coco's turn is up and Eduardo finds out that the old one is broken.
    You'd Expect: Bloo to listen to Mac and raise 500 tickets.
    Instead: Bloo wastes most of his time at the Game Hive doing such things as riding the bee kiddie ride, playing mini-golf, eating pizza, and playing in the ball pit.
    As a Result: He only has fifteen minutes left to earn the tickets. Mac then takes him to Skee-ball to ensure he can't goof off any longer. Bloo tries to talk Mac into doing it for him, but Mac insists that Bloo do it himself since he was the one who broke the elephant in the first place.
    You'd Then Expect: Bloo to roll the balls, like Mac told him earlier in the episode, so he can easily reach the middle target and win 500 tickets.
    Instead: Bloo throws the balls, which end up going into the lowest target, only allowing him to get one ticket at a time.
    Fortunately: He still manages to save up enough tickets eventually, and takes them to the prize counter to redeem them.
    You'd Then Expect: Now that he has enough tickets, Bloo could buy a new rubber elephant, get back to Foster’s, and things can go back to normal.
    Instead: He gets distracted by a set of glow-in-the-dark Dracula teeth, costing the same as the rubber elephant, and impulsively buys it.
    As a Result: Mac quickly finds out and tells him off for his selfishness. Bloo, determined to prove Mac wrong, eventually manages to save up enough tickets to buy another rubber elephant. Unfortunately for him, the manager just gave the last one away to a little girl. When Bloo finds the litte girl, he challenges her to a game of skee-ball, with the winner getting both her rubber elephant and his Dracula teeth.
    You'd Expect: Again, for Bloo to roll the balls so they can easily reach the middle target.
    Instead: Bloo throws the balls again.
    As a Result: He loses to the little girl. When he tries to take her prizes by force, it results in her catching up to him and beating him up.
    Fortunately For Him: Mac decides it's not worth his time to wait for Bloo to learn his lesson, and buys a new rubber elephant from the dollar store.

    Season 3 
  • In "Duchess of Wails", Duchess finally gets adopted, but the family that adopts her (the Applebees) just so happens to be Mac's next-door neighbours, and Mac's mother is so fed up with Duchess's screaming that she threatens to move unless it stops. Bloo and Mac realize this would render Mac unable to see Bloo anymore, and so the two tie up and kidnap Duchess.
    You'd Expect: Mac and Bloo to dump Duchess as far away as possible. That way Mac's family won't have to move and Foster's won't have to worry about Duchess ever again.
    Instead: They decide to return Duchess to Foster's, even though they know she's the last imaginary friend they want to take in.
    In their defence: At the beginning of the episode there were numerous failed attempts to find a family for Duchess, only one weird family accepting her. Duchess is so annoying, it would be probably impossible to find a place for her to stay without resulting in her being kicked out. Considering Foster's is the only known home for imaginary friends and that it is pretty much forced to accept every imaginary friend that enters it due to its policy, chances are Duchess would've ended up there again anyway.
    • Terrence notices a Bound and Gagged Duchess with Mac and Bloo and asks what they're doing.
      You'd Expect: Mac to keep his mouth shut or just lie.
      Instead: Mac tells the whole plan to Terrence, and so Terrence beats them to Foster's to warn everyone about Duchess's return.
      As a Result: Madame Foster, Terrence and the imaginary friends wage war upon Mac and Bloo over where Duchess does not get to live.
  • In the episode "Go Goo Go", Frankie and Herriman are angry with Mac and try to confront him about Goo always showing up in the house and plan on barring him from Fosters.
    You'd Expect: For Frankie and Herriman to let Mac explain his side of the story and why Goo always pops up.
    Instead: They keep interrupting him as he tries to explain and drive off.
    The Result: When Goo keeps on talking, Mac snaps and gives her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
    Luckily: In the end, Mac realizes what he's done, and apologizes to her.
  • In the episode "Crime After Crime", Bloo is trying to get Mr. Herriman to send him to his room with no supper because Frankie is making a disgusting gruel called "it". However, his actions only end up helping the rabbit, who is trying to hide his carrot addiction—and is extremely grateful to Bloo for it, to the latter's annoyance.
    You'd Expect: For Bloo to simply ask Mr. Herriman to send him to his room with no supper as compensation for "helping" him.
    Instead: He never even considers doing this.
    Result: Eduardo, who blames Bloo for getting him in trouble with Mr. Herriman, takes him downstairs and forces him to eat "it" all by himself.
  • In the episode, "One False Movie", The school principal is impressed with Mac's film about Foster's (which Bloo added armpit fart sound effects into) and enters Mac to represent his school in the Annual State-wide Elementary School film festival. He gives Mac a $500 budget and the idea for the film, which Bloo helps make into a movie called "T-Rex-A-Tron Alien Wolf III: A Prequel In Time". After putting a lot of effort and money into the film note , the film is finally complete and Bloo throws a party to celebrate its completion.
    You'd Expect: For Bloo to keep the tape in a safe place until the contest begins so that nothing bad happens to it, especially considering he put a lot of effort and money into the film.
    Instead: He leaves the tape on the table during the party. Also during this party, Eduardo is trying to watch his favorite show, "Lauren is Explorin'", and the noise from the party is making it hard for him to hear.
    You'd also Expect: For Eduardo to go into another and much more quiet room. Surely one of them must have a working TV that he can watch "Lauren is Explorin'" on.
    Instead: Eduardo finds Mac and Bloo's tape and uses it to record the "Lauren is Explorin'" episode.
    The Result: When Mac shows the movie to everyone in the festival, the ending is recorded over by Eduardo's "Lauren is Explorin'" episode, and everyone (save for Eduardo) boos and jeers, and some people even throw tomatoes at Bloo.

    Season 4 
  • In "Neighbor Pains", Bloo gets a little too carried away with bothering Old Man Rivers, a cranky neighbor who hates imaginary friends, on "Adopt-A-Thought-Saturday" by using the adoption forms to trash his yard. Wilt and Bloo are the only ones who know about this.
    You'd Expect: Wilt and Bloo to tell the crowd of people waiting to adopt imaginary friends that there has been a delay and to wait patiently while they explain the situation to Frankie and Mr. Herriman. After that, the latter can either print out new forms for the applicants, or tell them that recent circumstances have forced them to cancel the adoption process for today and come back tomorrow. Smooth sailing indeed.
    Instead: Wilt and Bloo attempt to retrieve the forms from Old Man Rivers themselves, merely telling Eduardo to wait until they return, and informing no one about what has happened.
    As a Result: Disastrous confusion breaks out, with unhappy customers, wrongful accusations, characters misinterpreting information passed to one another...and Mac missing out on an Orlando Bloo charade.
  • In "Bus the Two of Us", Frankie and Bloo return at Foster's after running errands. Frankie's arms are full with the groceries.
    You'd Expect: For Frankie to keep the bus keys on her person.
    Instead: Frankie, being too occupied with the groceries, leaves the keys in the ignition. When she asks Bloo to close the bus doors, Bloo gets the bright idea to take the bus on a joyride.
    As a Result: Bloo goes on to commit grand theft auto, causing vehicular damage to people's houses and cars, reckless driving, running bumping into other drivers, resisting arrest, lying on a job application to deliver pizzas (then getting hired based on the false information) and refusing to pay a highway tollbooth.
    Later: Bloo is forced to pull over for a highway cop mad at him for busting the tollbooth bar and not paying toll. Bloo gives him Frankie's ID, and of course since Bloo looks nothing like Frankie, Bloo comes up with mediocre lies that he is the woman on the ID's photo, only that now he's lost lots of weight and went bald.
    You'd Expect: For the cop to see that Bloo is lying, order Bloo to get out of the bus and arrest him.
    Instead: The cop simply tells Bloo "Let me go run this" and asks him to sit tight. When he comes back, Bloo has already fled the scene.
    And After All Is Said And Done: Frankie now has to explain to the dozens of police officers waiting at the front gate how an imaginary friend stole her bus and license and went on a joyride.
  • In "The Big Cheese," Mr. Herriman installed a security system on Foster's. However, the instruction manual suggested to pick a code at random.
    You'd Expect: For him to simply input a code he can remember.
    Instead: Not only does he input a long code at random, he also closed his eyes while doing so, causing the entire household to get locked out.
    Then: They realize that Cheese remembers the code and try unsuccessfully to extract it from him. When Goo shows up, Mac tells her everything, and she finally gets Cheese to cooperate by dance. However, Cheese wants Frankie, and eventually everyone else, to repeat his moves, including destroying the house.
    You'd Expect: For them to repeat the dances, but without them destroying the home.
    You'd ALSO Expect: Someone to realize that they could just break one of the house's windows, go inside through there and unlock the door.
    Instead: They all repeat every single nonsensical move Cheese makes, caking the house with mud and destroying it in the process.

    Season 5 
  • In the Halloween Episode "Nightmare on Wilson Way", the whole Fosters gang has gotten sick of Bloo's constant Halloween pranks and decide to get back at him by making him think he started a zombie apocalypse after seemingly killing Mr. Herriman with the old snake in a can. Thinking that the entire house has turned into zombies, Bloo panics and goes to the room where he had Mac tied up, loads him up with sugar, and has him break out of his restraints and running across the hall which ends with Mac escaping and Bloo at the mercy of Herriman and friends.
    You'd Expect: For all the friends to realize that they've gone too far and break character for at least a few of them to slip into the room through the holes that they made in the door and stop Bloo from giving Mac (who was unaware of the prank) the candy and explain to them that it wasn't real and then have a good laugh.
    Or: Even if they were too late in stopping Bloo from giving Mac the candy, one of them could still break character, take Bloo aside and tell him it was all a prank while the rest could stop Mac from running out of the house. It was all the residents of Fosters against one kid on a sugar high, no doubt they could easily overpower him.
    Instead: Everybody allows Mac and Bloo to knock them down as they are running down the halls. Just as Mac is darting out the front door Herriman grabs Bloo (while Bloo still thinks he's a zombie and is begging for his life) and 'then' tells him it was all a prank. And to top it off, Frankie tells Bloo that he is in trouble for feeding Mac sugar while he thought that he and his friend were about to die. Meanwhile, Mac is again running around town in his underwear and terrorizing some kids.

    Season 6 
  • In the TV Movie Destination: Imagination, we have World, an imaginary friend that is a face, who can move everywhere, except things that already have faces, and he can take control of the thing on which he stays. This friend lives in a toy box in which there is a magical world that the friend can control. Because he seemingly locked the kid who created in the box with him, the kids parents take their son from there and lock World in the box using chains then send him to Foster's with a note that says "Do not open". Frankie finds the box and takes it in the attic, then opens the box to help the friend inside. She ends up inside the box and quickly befriends World and after a while she decides to stay there, because he respects and her and helps her relax and have fun like a good friend, while at Fosters she works really hard without receiving enough respect. Without her Foster's is a mess and her friends, Mac, Bloo, Coco, Eduardo and Wilt get worried about her and go inside the box to search for her. World doesn't want them to take Frankie away from him, because he doesn't want to be alone again, so he tries multiple times to stop them. Eventually, they manage to find Frankie and find out that she wasn't held captive as they thought and they tell her she must come back, because they need her to do her chores. She believes that they only came to save her, so that she will work for them and that they don't care about her, so she gets mad, tells her she doesn't want to return, then walks away. World knows what happened and he wants to get rid of them.
    You'd Expect: World to get them out of the box. Frankie doesn't want to return, so if he gets them out he has them off from his back at least for now.
    Or: If he wants to keep them locked inside, to lock them somewhere they can't escape. If he wants to keep it a secret from Frankie, he would lock them somewhere she can't find them. Considering he can use magic he could try turning them into stone or something.
    Or Even: Him to ask Frankie what he should do to them. As stated, she doesn't want to leave with them, so she might come up with an idea what to do, World knows she's smart and likes to make her happy.
    Instead: He shrinks them, then locks them into a small replica of Fosters, then gives said house to Frankie. She looks at the house, turns it around, causing the gang to get thrown from place to place. Frankie isn't able to see or hear them, so this wouldn't have been stupid if it wasn't for the fact that the house door was able to get opened.
    As a Result: Frankie's friends manage to find the door and get out by simply opening it. Then Frankie finds them and they tell her what World did to them. He gets angry because he got caught and tells Frankie that she is now going to leave him and he'll be alone again.
    Luckily: Frankie understands why he did what he did, forgives him, calms him down and convinces him to turn the gang back to normal.

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