Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends

Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends is an American animated television series created by Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network Studios. It ran from 2004 to 2009.

Plot
The series is set in a universe in which childhood imaginary friends coexist with humans. In the show's universe, imaginary friends take physical form and become real as soon as children think them up. Once children outgrow them, friends are relocated to the titular orphanage, where they stay until other children adopt them. The home is run by the elderly Madame Foster, its lovable, kind founder; her imaginary friend Mr. Herriman, the strict rule-abider and business manager; and her granddaughter Frankie, who handles day-to-day operations.

In the series' premiere episode, a young boy named Mac is pressured by his mother to abandon his imaginary friend Bloo, since she believes that he is too old to keep him. Bloo sees an advertisement on television about Foster's Home and tells Mac, who takes him there, only to find out the home is an orphanage and if Bloo were to reside there, he would be available to be adopted by another child. Mac then bargains with Frankie, Herriman and Madame Foster and they agree to guard Bloo from adoption so long as Mac continues to visit the center daily. During the series, Mac visits the home everyday after school. The show focuses on the escapades experienced by the mischievous Bloo, Mac, and the array of eccentric, colorful characters inhabiting Foster's, and the obstacles with which they are challenged.

Why It's Got a Very Active Imagination

 * 1) Great flash animation that has a nice, bouncy vibe that perfectly matches the imaginative and childhood-related premise of the show itself.
 * 2) Creative designs for the imaginary friends. Coco has her body made up of the final things her creator was exposed to after his plane crashed on a deserted island. Eduardo is an enormous purple minotaur. Wilt had extremely long legs that leave him standing at a towering height. And Bloo, while having the least inventive design of the friends (being little more than a simple blue dome cylinder with eyes), is still a decent one, as sometimes simplicity can be it's own art form.
 * 3) Catchy theme song.
 * 4) Memorable characters, good or bad, like Mac, Bloo, Wilt, Eduardo, Coco, Frankie, Mr. Herriman, Madame Foster, Goo, Jackie Khones, Uncle Pockets, and Cheese.
 * 5) Mac is a likable kid with a cool imaginary friend.
 * 6) Pays homage to pop culture, such as in their episode titles. The episode, "Store Wars", for example is a homage to Star Wars.
 * 7) It provides the talents of Candi Milo, Phil LaMarr, Grey DeLisle, Tom Kenny, Tara Strong, and Sean Marquette, who did an awesome portrayal as a deep voiced teenage boy that it was highly convincing.
 * 8) Funny moments, such as the "It's Hot In Topeka" scene in the episode "Squeeze The Day", the moving cacti toys scene in "Store Wars" and the "I. FOUND. A. CARROT!!!!" scene in the episode "The Big Cheese".
 * 9) Has so many great and memorable episodes/specials, such as:
 * 10) *House of Bloo's (which started the series on a high note)
 * 11) *Store Wars
 * 12) *Dinner Is Swerved
 * 13) *Bloooo
 * 14) *Partying Is Such Sweet Soiree
 * 15) *Bloo's Brothers
 * 16) *Frankie My Dear
 * 17) *Mac Daddy
 * 18) *The Sweet Stench Of Success
 * 19) *Bloo Done It
 * 20) *Cuckoo for Coco Cards
 * 21) *Go Goo Go
 * 22) *Good Wilt Hunting
 * 23) *Schlock Star
 * 24) *Squeeze the Day
 * 25) *Emancipation complication
 * 26) *Cheese a Go-Go (Depending on your point of view)
 * 27) *Destination: Imagination (A great way of ending the show, judging by production order)
 * 28) *Goodbye to Bloo (depending on your view, a decent way to end the show)
 * 29) *Nightmare on Wilson Way (the Halloween episode)
 * 30) *A Lost Claus (The Christmas special)
 * 31) It started off great with the first TV movie, "House of Bloo's". Which is one of the best examples of how to start a series. As it perfectly establishes the world it takes place in, the characters that live in it, and the premise of the show itself.
 * 32) The 48 minute special, "Good Wilt Hunting", is very good as it goes into detail about Wilt's tragic backstory.
 * 33) The second TV movie, "Destination: Imagination", is also great as it involves the gang encountering a mentally-unstable imaginary friend who refuses to let Frankie leave the pocket dimension that he created.
 * 34) Depending on how you view the final episode, "Goodbye to Bloo", it was a decent way to send off the series.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) It gets pretty mean-spirited, annoying, dumb, hypocritical, and nonsensical at times.
 * 2) As the series went on, Bloo turned into such an insensitive and obnoxious jerk, that the majority of the fans of the show heavily disliked or even hated him.
 * 3) *Some other imaginary friend characters are also unlikable, such as Duchess, Bendy (the most infamous), mh:loathsomecharacters:Goofball McGee, and Mr. Herriman.
 * 4) *There are also some unlikable human characters like Mac's older brother, Terrence, and Jamze Withazee.
 * 5) It has its fair share of bad episodes like:
 * 6) *"Where There's a Wilt, Theres a Way"
 * 7) *"Everyone Knows It's Bendy" (the most infamous)
 * 8) *"Bye Bye Nerdy"
 * 9) *"Imposter's Home For Um.... Make 'Em Up Pals"
 * 10) *"Foster's Goes to Europe"
 * 11) *"Duchess of Wails"
 * 12) *"I Only Have Surprise for You"
 * 13) *"Crime After Crime"
 * 14) *"The Big Cheese"
 * 15) *"Say It Isn’t Sew"
 * 16) *Likewise, the final episode, "Goodbye to Bloo", wasn't too great either. But as stated before, it depends on your view.

Trivia

 * 1) In the movie, “Destination: Imagination”, one of Bloo's lines are "You peeved him off, that's what's happening." However, Vitac, the closed captioning company who provided the said movie's subtitles, thought that the line was "You 'pissed' him off, that's what's happening."