Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is a very interesting piece indeed. It is extremely creative and funny, a combination of wit and humor. The storyline follows an eight year old boy named Mac (yes, he's eight, mistakes in the plot section) must give up his beloved imaginary friend, Blooregard Q. Kazoo, because his mother believes he has outgrown him, and Mac's older brother Terrence treats Mac like a baby. Mac stumbles across a large house belonging to Madame Foster, a childish old lady and her imaginary rabbit friend, Mr. Herriman, who keeps the place in schedule.

Bloo realizes that if he is put in Foster's, he would be up for adoption like the rest of the Imaginary Friends at Foster's, but in the end, Madame Foster allows him to stay in Foster's without being adopted, as long as Mac visits him every day.

Bloo meets many friends, such as tall, helpful Wilt, the injured one-eyed, one-armed 'basketball player' imaginary friend who always has a smile despite his painful past, Eduardo, a large, purple beast imaginary friend with a skull buckle, fangs, and large horns, but is afraid of everything that moves, and Coco, a strange bird-plant-airplane imaginary friend that only says Coco, but lays strange colorful plastic eggs that contain prizes.

In short, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is extremely creative and fun for the whole family, each episode has some strange wacky mix-up and a whole lot of laughs. The creativity of Foster's is unbelievable- Imaginary Friends coming to life as you think them. In my opinion, Foster's deserves a 10-10.

This reviewer remembers very fondly the times where Cartoon Network was one of her most watched channels as a child, along with Boomerang, like it was only yesterday. With so much pleasure gotten out of watching gems such as 'Dexter's Laboratory', 'Courage the Cowardly Dog', 'Ed, Edd and Eddy', 'The Powerpuff Girls' as well as the Scooby Doo franchise until it aired instead on Boomerang. Those days were long gone after they gradually aired less frequently and then stopped being aired, and when scheduling was in recent years dominated by abominations like 'Johnny Test', 'Uncle Grandpa' and the reboots.

Absolutely loved the premise for 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends', one of the most creative ones that Cartoon Network ever did along with 'The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'. Was a bit unsure of the way it was advertised at first, this is though going from memory, where it didn't come over as very imaginative, but there are plenty of shows out there that are a bit ehh in advertising but turn out to be very good and more. 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends' is one of the very good cartoons, in fact most of the time it was a great show and in its best days one of the last properly great ones that Cartoon Network did. One of their all time best? Not quite. Well worth watching? Yes.

It is not a flawless show. It did lose its way around 2007-2008, which was around the time where Cartoon Network became nowhere near as good, where the plots lost freshness and became a little repetitive and some of the humour was too mean spirited and childish.

Do agree as well that the latter episodes went too far in making Bloo a jerk by overdoing the selfishness, cynicism and arrogance, some of it coming too out of the blue and sometimes with not much learnt in terms of mistakes.

However, 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends' does a lot right. The animation is great, am not always keen on Flash but along with 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' this is how to do Flash in a vibrant, imaginative and meticulously detailed way. The music has energy and always felt at one with what happens, very catchy theme song too. The voice acting is top notch from all, and apart from reservations with Bloo later on the characters are great. Really loved their well fleshed out, individual personalities that contrast so well with each other. Loved the nice characters Wilt and Eduardo, who were immensely likeable and nice without being passive. Mr Herriman is strict and very funny and Coco is hilarious. Personally had no problem with Cheese and when the show was in its prime Bloo's point of view was understood and his behaviour was understandable. Mac and Frankie are relatable human characters.

The writing is incredibly funny and smart, personally do think there is more than enough for adults as there are actually references throughout that adults are a lot more likely to get and find funny. The concept is such an imaginative one and pre-2007 the storylines were colourful and inventive, admittedly very random and bizarre but that is what childhood imagination is like. In fact, what was so good about 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends' throughout its run was how well and truthfully it captured the essence/spirit of childhood imagination.

Overall, very good and often excellent. 8/10.

I am 25 and I have to say, I cannot wait for this show to come out on DVD. I LOVE IT! It is perfect for kids and even better for adults...as we all know, those cartoons today mean something totally different to adults than children. I recommend this to ANYONE who likes a chuckle...plus, all the characters are so cute...how could you not wanna watch...well...coco is annoying, but every show has to have at least one. This show makes me remember my childhood as I had a couple imaginary friends who I totally believed were real. The only problem I see is advocating imaginary friends as being real. THis could be a disaster to parents. Although, telling kids they are not real is like telling them Santa does not exist. Try that one out...the kid will hate you forever!

They get so many emotions out of such a simply drawn character ( bloo ). What a fabulous idea to do a cartoon about our imaginary friends. I think young and older alike will enjoy this toon. I'm almost 50 years old and enjoy this cartoon. The design of the characters, back-rounds and props is wonderful and creative. It's flash animation at it's best. It's whimsy with a touch of reality. I think kids and adults will love it and have turned many a friend on to it. I like cartoons that show kids that your brains count, that when your clever and smart you can achieve anything. I love the music as well. thumbs up for a great new show and congrats on the Emmy nomination.

Let me tell you what sold me on this show: The title. "Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends" the TV listings said. Obviously, it was a show about a retirement-like home for imaginary friends who had, for some reason or another, worn out their usefulness. Then I turned it on and saw the pilot movie one afternoon. I thought it was the best new cartoon show I'd seen since "Invader ZIM" (although the shows are about as different as night and day).

Kids shows should look cute. That's just a rule. And this one brings fond memories of "Fairly Odd Parents" "Dexter's Laboratory" and other recent additions to the Hall of Cartoon Fame. The main character, Bloo, is just a blue blob, but he's a great character.

But the best part of the show is it's imagination. Obviously, a show about imaginary friends is going to have a lot to do with that, but I've always thought that a kids' show should be imaginative. And this show is very original.

Anyway, it's on Fridays at 7 on Cartoon Network. I hope you enjoy it. I think you will.