People hate this? Says it aged bad?
Well, no I'm shocked too. The taste of USA Cinemaphile people is awful. I can understand why they liked and keep liking Megas now.
I used to be a Fostergay, but within a few years I've realized that it's just bland and poorly paced, not to mention that only protagonists and select few major characters were given actual personalities.
Even shows like Gumball had a better take at the whole >whimsical freakshow
premise.
i rewatched it recently, it quickly becomes unbearable with Grey DeLisle doing the voices for half of the total on-time screaming (holy shit, the characters never fricking stop talking)
I don't think many people realize the Imaginary Friends are coded after non-White human races with Mac / Francine / Foster being the White people with the burden of taking care of them, never expect a sequel.
Wilt's character design was such a shameful waste: >come up with an immediately eye-catching concept >come up with an interesting basis that ties with show's concept >use Phil Lamarr's massive VA talent >squander all of it by giving Wilt one dimensional personality and shitcanning every character development that rubbed online crowd the wrong way until all that was left was an idiotic and unfunny doormat
Craig more than rehabilitated himself with Wander over Yonder, but DAMN - that still stings.
Except that was wasted as well and left no traces of character development.
Episode that pic related
Wilt's character design was such a shameful waste: >come up with an immediately eye-catching concept >come up with an interesting basis that ties with show's concept >use Phil Lamarr's massive VA talent >squander all of it by giving Wilt one dimensional personality and shitcanning every character development that rubbed online crowd the wrong way until all that was left was an idiotic and unfunny doormat
Craig more than rehabilitated himself with Wander over Yonder, but DAMN - that still stings.
comes from took place AFTER "Good Wilt hunting" and had Wilt not only cheerfully support chattel slavery, but also made him the ONLY imaginary friend who was happy as a slave, despite his 'job' being that of a spare flagpole.
I'd chalk that up to Craig being oblivious to how his characters are going to be perceived by an actual audience.
It's hard to believe that he wrote Bloo the way he kept writing him and thought "what a playful and lovable scamp!", but this is how it was.
One of the things I always wanted to know is how it was the design progress of eurotrish, I know there's stuff on how things worked for the episode next to her introduction, but I always wanted to know that
I liked it when it was airing, the premise was cool, and the designs are all 10/10, but every time I've tried to rewatch it it's been hard. As others have said I feel like it's aged really poorly, it has its funny moments but so much of it lands flat now.
You know how there are some things that historically made people absolutely bust a gut laughing and became sensations, but today don't even seem funny at all? I feel like Foster's is going to be a prime example of that for the 2000s.
>instead of whatever the frick the finale was
You weren't hyped for the regular continuity to be concluded with Cheese moving into Foster's full time? Shocker.
>Mac humiliated by everyone for surprise party >Frankie beaten by Goofball and misses concert and cleans whole house >Frankie driven mad by Cheese in that godawful aliens episode >Wilt spends the whole day helping people and misses his game >Mr. Herriman pushed down the stairs >Eduardo naked on live tv when they get locked out of the house
The show was incredibly mean spirited but at least it was dished out evenly?
Yeah as a kid I didn't notice it much, but when I revisited it as an adult, it was nowhere near the comfy surreal show I remembered it being.
Terrence alone was bad enough that I felt CPS should've gotten involved. Loads of characters came off as sadistic jerks.
But unlike Ed Edd n Eddy where the characters were almost uniformly unpleasant but still bizarrely likeable (and the slapstick was as unrealistic as you can get) or Billy and Mandy where the show didn't try to hide how psychopathic the characters and world was, FHIF hits the exact same feeling as the Loud House for me which also had a nasty problem with unwarranted meanspiritedness early on— not every character was a jerk. Many were downright loveable, and their "jerkishness" was entirely sympathetic because they're dealing with genuine unlikeable jerks. The show would have been perfect as a comfy slice of life where the conflict was mostly situational rather than because a certain character was the designated shithead who ruins everything or characters playing off each other.
As it was, I couldn't understand why Mac wanted to associate with Bloo after about 10 episodes. It was more like the boy was in an abusive relationship and couldn't leave. He's putting on a little makeup to hide and cover up the shakeup, why'd he leave the keys upon the table?
I think that after a certain point, Mac kept going to Fosters less because of Bloo and more to keep seeing the few decent people that lived there, such as Wilt and Frankie, who are probably the best friends Mac has.
Funny you mention the Loud House. I hate Lynn for the same reason I hate Terrence: I had an aggressively shitty older brother growing up and these abusive ass older siblings remind me way too much of him. As a result, I despise these shows that have shitty older siblings in them to be "relatable." It's about as relatable as a tinnitus commercial. Frick you, give me the cool older sibling I didn't get to have, frick your relatable bullshit.
Terrence could actually go get murdered for all I care. Every episode where he was prominent was trash, even if he got karma at the end.
I think McCracken was going for a Fairly Oddparents thing where Mac had a miserable home life but something that made it worth it, but it doesn't work here.
>Wilt spends the whole day helping people and misses his game
This wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't for the fact that this was Wilt's focus episode that people had to wait until second season for, just to be treated to one overly drawn gag because FHFIF writers consider 11 minutes to be way too little of a time to make a meaningful and interesting story.
While focus episodes are helpful at providing a character with substantial development in a single go, "Where there is a Wilt there is a way" could only come up with >Wilt is a doormat who is unable to say no >Has to be put through hell (including being incarcerated twice) until he suffers a meltdown and screeches it out loud >Lesson doesn't stick and Wilt is back to square one as the episode concludes >This treat of an episode is paired with Bendy's episode that is reviled by most people who ever watched Foster's
Deceptive cartoon. It looks comfortable and sweet, but all I remember about it was how much everyone pissed me off. Even the main character, Mack. What was so important about that blue booger?
Funny you mention the Loud House. I hate Lynn for the same reason I hate Terrence: I had an aggressively shitty older brother growing up and these abusive ass older siblings remind me way too much of him. As a result, I despise these shows that have shitty older siblings in them to be "relatable." It's about as relatable as a tinnitus commercial. Frick you, give me the cool older sibling I didn't get to have, frick your relatable bullshit.
Terrence could actually go get murdered for all I care. Every episode where he was prominent was trash, even if he got karma at the end.
I think McCracken was going for a Fairly Oddparents thing where Mac had a miserable home life but something that made it worth it, but it doesn't work here.
Yeah as a kid I didn't notice it much, but when I revisited it as an adult, it was nowhere near the comfy surreal show I remembered it being.
Terrence alone was bad enough that I felt CPS should've gotten involved. Loads of characters came off as sadistic jerks.
But unlike Ed Edd n Eddy where the characters were almost uniformly unpleasant but still bizarrely likeable (and the slapstick was as unrealistic as you can get) or Billy and Mandy where the show didn't try to hide how psychopathic the characters and world was, FHIF hits the exact same feeling as the Loud House for me which also had a nasty problem with unwarranted meanspiritedness early on— not every character was a jerk. Many were downright loveable, and their "jerkishness" was entirely sympathetic because they're dealing with genuine unlikeable jerks. The show would have been perfect as a comfy slice of life where the conflict was mostly situational rather than because a certain character was the designated shithead who ruins everything or characters playing off each other.
As it was, I couldn't understand why Mac wanted to associate with Bloo after about 10 episodes. It was more like the boy was in an abusive relationship and couldn't leave. He's putting on a little makeup to hide and cover up the shakeup, why'd he leave the keys upon the table?
It's actually awful. "mean spirited" is an utter meme term when it comes to people discussing cartoons, but it actually feels like it applies to Foster's Home. I like the art, I liked the emotional hook in the pilot, I liked the character concepts, but it feels like so often it either wasn't funny or it boiled down to Bloo or another character being the absolute worst.
It really hasn't aged well
Back in the day, I thought it was kinda meh compared to PPG.
Today I think it's even worse.
I was shocked when I found out people hated this. I thought it was alright.
People hate this? Says it aged bad?
Well, no I'm shocked too. The taste of USA Cinemaphile people is awful. I can understand why they liked and keep liking Megas now.
I used to be a Fostergay, but within a few years I've realized that it's just bland and poorly paced, not to mention that only protagonists and select few major characters were given actual personalities.
Even shows like Gumball had a better take at the whole
>whimsical freakshow
premise.
i rewatched it recently, it quickly becomes unbearable with Grey DeLisle doing the voices for half of the total on-time screaming (holy shit, the characters never fricking stop talking)
i always assume the awful cartoon opinions are are from the shit bags that enjoy /a but won't stay on /a
I don't think many people realize the Imaginary Friends are coded after non-White human races with Mac / Francine / Foster being the White people with the burden of taking care of them, never expect a sequel.
1. Terminally online moron
2. There's already a reboot in the works so your schizo interpretation is wrong
Wilt's character design was such a shameful waste:
>come up with an immediately eye-catching concept
>come up with an interesting basis that ties with show's concept
>use Phil Lamarr's massive VA talent
>squander all of it by giving Wilt one dimensional personality and shitcanning every character development that rubbed online crowd the wrong way until all that was left was an idiotic and unfunny doormat
Craig more than rehabilitated himself with Wander over Yonder, but DAMN - that still stings.
At least he got his own TV movie that gave him some depth
Except that was wasted as well and left no traces of character development.
Episode that pic related
comes from took place AFTER "Good Wilt hunting" and had Wilt not only cheerfully support chattel slavery, but also made him the ONLY imaginary friend who was happy as a slave, despite his 'job' being that of a spare flagpole.
I only watched it to see Frankie
Why? She's unappealing.
She's the cool big sister type (like Wendy)
how is that lower half even possible
Mac overrated her to an extent that he convinced the audience that she was attractive.
Have you seen what Cinemaphile considers fap bait? This is at least mid tier.
You know for a show with the word "friends" in it, everyone was an butthole to each other. Guess the friendship was imaginary too.
Maybe the real friends were the treasure we found along the way
I'd chalk that up to Craig being oblivious to how his characters are going to be perceived by an actual audience.
It's hard to believe that he wrote Bloo the way he kept writing him and thought "what a playful and lovable scamp!", but this is how it was.
>never malicious
He wanted to literally kill Mac in the last episode.
>never malicious
Bloo goaded Mac into selling Madame Foster's stuffs to finance his film.
One of the things I always wanted to know is how it was the design progress of eurotrish, I know there's stuff on how things worked for the episode next to her introduction, but I always wanted to know that
i always assumed his name was spelled Blu
True. Berry was best girl
>Guess the friendship was imaginary too.
Holy shit
Best thing to ever come out of the show
HATEFUL
It's weird that Billy and Mandy was a Cartoon Cartoon but lived long enough to mock Foster's.
These ARE my glasses.
yes
Fricking loved it as a kid
Yeah
It didn't have the bite of other Cartoon Network Originals
Did not know co disliked this show. Though admittedly I didn’t have any strong opinion on it when it was airing.
Why the frick would they be crying? This is like every adolescent boys dream.
yes but it had some annoying moments
/tv/'s current userbase has done more damage to the quality of this site then anything in its history.
I liked it when it was airing, the premise was cool, and the designs are all 10/10, but every time I've tried to rewatch it it's been hard. As others have said I feel like it's aged really poorly, it has its funny moments but so much of it lands flat now.
You know how there are some things that historically made people absolutely bust a gut laughing and became sensations, but today don't even seem funny at all? I feel like Foster's is going to be a prime example of that for the 2000s.
It was decent to good in the early seasons, never great. Destination Imagination was the only good thing after season 3.
>Destination Imagination
should've been the finale instead of whatever the frick the finale was
>instead of whatever the frick the finale was
You weren't hyped for the regular continuity to be concluded with Cheese moving into Foster's full time? Shocker.
No
CN cartoons went downhill starting with it
It had a god-tier concept ruined by a completely mid execution
I wouldn't mind a reboot that made Bloo less assholish and did more with the idea of imaginary friends being real and easily creatable
>Mac humiliated by everyone for surprise party
>Frankie beaten by Goofball and misses concert and cleans whole house
>Frankie driven mad by Cheese in that godawful aliens episode
>Wilt spends the whole day helping people and misses his game
>Mr. Herriman pushed down the stairs
>Eduardo naked on live tv when they get locked out of the house
The show was incredibly mean spirited but at least it was dished out evenly?
Yeah as a kid I didn't notice it much, but when I revisited it as an adult, it was nowhere near the comfy surreal show I remembered it being.
Terrence alone was bad enough that I felt CPS should've gotten involved. Loads of characters came off as sadistic jerks.
But unlike Ed Edd n Eddy where the characters were almost uniformly unpleasant but still bizarrely likeable (and the slapstick was as unrealistic as you can get) or Billy and Mandy where the show didn't try to hide how psychopathic the characters and world was, FHIF hits the exact same feeling as the Loud House for me which also had a nasty problem with unwarranted meanspiritedness early on— not every character was a jerk. Many were downright loveable, and their "jerkishness" was entirely sympathetic because they're dealing with genuine unlikeable jerks. The show would have been perfect as a comfy slice of life where the conflict was mostly situational rather than because a certain character was the designated shithead who ruins everything or characters playing off each other.
As it was, I couldn't understand why Mac wanted to associate with Bloo after about 10 episodes. It was more like the boy was in an abusive relationship and couldn't leave. He's putting on a little makeup to hide and cover up the shakeup, why'd he leave the keys upon the table?
I think that after a certain point, Mac kept going to Fosters less because of Bloo and more to keep seeing the few decent people that lived there, such as Wilt and Frankie, who are probably the best friends Mac has.
Funny you mention the Loud House. I hate Lynn for the same reason I hate Terrence: I had an aggressively shitty older brother growing up and these abusive ass older siblings remind me way too much of him. As a result, I despise these shows that have shitty older siblings in them to be "relatable." It's about as relatable as a tinnitus commercial. Frick you, give me the cool older sibling I didn't get to have, frick your relatable bullshit.
Terrence could actually go get murdered for all I care. Every episode where he was prominent was trash, even if he got karma at the end.
I think McCracken was going for a Fairly Oddparents thing where Mac had a miserable home life but something that made it worth it, but it doesn't work here.
>Wilt spends the whole day helping people and misses his game
This wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't for the fact that this was Wilt's focus episode that people had to wait until second season for, just to be treated to one overly drawn gag because FHFIF writers consider 11 minutes to be way too little of a time to make a meaningful and interesting story.
While focus episodes are helpful at providing a character with substantial development in a single go, "Where there is a Wilt there is a way" could only come up with
>Wilt is a doormat who is unable to say no
>Has to be put through hell (including being incarcerated twice) until he suffers a meltdown and screeches it out loud
>Lesson doesn't stick and Wilt is back to square one as the episode concludes
>This treat of an episode is paired with Bendy's episode that is reviled by most people who ever watched Foster's
Deceptive cartoon. It looks comfortable and sweet, but all I remember about it was how much everyone pissed me off. Even the main character, Mack. What was so important about that blue booger?
The first two seasons were the best, even with Bendy and Beat With A Schtick. Always the seasons I revisit the most.
The rest of the show was hit-and-miss. There were some fantastic episodes but others were either annoying, cynical, or boring.
What's your worst episode
Yeah i liked it
MrEntergays cry over meanspiritedness but the show was fun and imaginative (pun intended)
>Entergays hate it, therefore I must love it, no matter how shit it is
Yep, Cinemaphile is short for Cinemaphilentrarian, alright.
https://strawpoll.com/polls/bVg8ova9NnY
It's actually awful. "mean spirited" is an utter meme term when it comes to people discussing cartoons, but it actually feels like it applies to Foster's Home. I like the art, I liked the emotional hook in the pilot, I liked the character concepts, but it feels like so often it either wasn't funny or it boiled down to Bloo or another character being the absolute worst.
What do they do with all the Santas?
They put them in the Santa dungeons
>That 'tattoo'
BLOO'D
>No panties
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS