CNF Talkback: Fosters [3/11/05]

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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Cookie Dough


Friday, March 11th, 2005


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It's Once Again Time For a Cartoon Network Fridays Talkback

Mac, Bloo, Wilt, Eduardo and many more friends on CNF Tonight! (All Times are EST)

Time: 7:00pm

Reruns: 10:30pm

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Synopsis

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Later Tonight: Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a half century.
Next Week: Fosters and Dodgers again

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NOTES


Whoo Hoo! Only 1 episode....now please make it good.


Let's Begin!

[One Radical Dude]

I didn't really expect too much in this episode. I was happy to see a full, 22-minute episode again. It was a pretty good show, innovative, too. I say innovative... because of the different cookies Bloo introduced. The PPG reference in this episode was obviously easy NOT to miss, for those that are at least a bit familiar with the show. In this episode, Frankie really goes insane in this episode (not quite at the level of Mac's sugary craze in "Partying is Such Sweet Soiree", but definitely high). The episode went black at the latter part of the show. Did anyone see that? I thought something was wrong with my reception/signal.

Rating: B+/A-

Next week, "Frankie My Dear".

[Fan of Sponge]

Frankie must love those cookies.:sweat:

They did make a reference to Townsville on tonight's episode. Bloo must have gotten carried away with Madame Foster's recipe. You must know that you need love for those cookies and well the workers of Bloo used them for profit. Anyways it was a ok episode and they it is just not the best, but it does teach a lesson. I give the episode a B+, but did anyone else see that 5-10 second cut of the show towards the end when Bloo is selling lemonade in the summer?:confused:

[Tash]

Clear Cookies = Crystal Pepsi :sweat:

"It's the same, except you can see through it!" What an odd refrence...

[DocForbin]

I thought the funniest moment was Frankie's cookie high. I don't think we've seen someone get high on cookies ever since Latka Gravis made those cocaine-laced cookies on that episode of Taxi. :D I would have liked it if Frankie had given a description of the ingredients like Jim did with Latka's cookies. That defintely would have been over the top.

[One Radical Dude]

Fix your post, Doc. You misspelled "spoiler"

Second run corrected the apology scene (the one that showed the black screen for a few seconds), and the title screen was absent.

[DocForbin]

Fix your post, Doc. You misspelled "spoiler"

Consider it done. I had to go back and correct "Gravis" since I misspelled that as well. :eek:

[don Jaime]

I wasn't expecting a whole lot out of this one. I had it in my head there would be some sort of competion with another old lady with homade goodies, a la "The Big Leblooski." Instead, it's a fairly typical get-rich-quick scheme goes awry episode I've seen a lot of other places. Points for Frankie - she should have had more scenes - for Bloo's swag and attempts at baking, and for the psycho cookie formulas. But otherwise, pretty ordinary. I gave it a C. Still better than anything else on tonight.

Possible censored moment: Anyone notice that Bloo claims septuple chip is twice as much as triple chip? That's wrong. Six times is sextuple. Wonder why couldn't say that word on CN.

[One Radical Dude]

Possible censored moment: Anyone notice that Bloo claims septuple chip is twice as much as triple chip? That's wrong. Six times is sextuple. Wonder why couldn't say that word on CN.
Either that, or it was simply a mistake. If this was intentional, then I can understand why they didn't use the correct word (because of the "sex-" prefix). Then, again...Bloo isn't all that smart.

[N310DA]

This episode was pretty good. Frankie was almost as crazy on those cookies as Mac on sugar! Of course Bloo was stepping over the line of sanity as normal, he fit the part of a stereotypical CEO pretty well though.

Not a bad episode, pretty entertaining.

[I.R Joey]

Well I'll say this, it was better than last weeks episode for me. In fact I'll even go on to say that it was a really good episode. Blue was funny, Frankie was funny, Madam Foster was funny the friends played their roles well and everything played rather well.

On a technical, geeky level I thought this episode showed some really nice examples of what Flash is capable of in hands that really know how to use it. The scene with Blue out in the rain was some of the most beuitful Flash
animation I've ever seen.

Oh and the refrence to other Cartoon Network shows was nice. I heard Townsville (PPG), and Aron city (Johhny Bravo) and maybe even Endsville slipped by there without me knowing.

My one gripe with this episode was how things seemed to slow down towards the end, I mean it got a little bit tired. And didn't Blue's line about baking the cake come from an episode of "Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi" (and maybe that from a show even before it), anyway it sounded totally ripped off, and I didn't like that to much.

Other than that gripe. I give it a B+.

[tucsoncoyote]

This episode of Foster's (Cookie Dough) is perhaps the best one for Season 2 so far.. and in fact I liked the Technical Merit as well.. but the story reminds me something along the lines of what is happening in today's "Real World" with *ahem* another Animation studio0..

but the High Points of this video were in fact funnier then heck, espeically the Scene where Frankie is consuming Triple Chip Cookies at an alarming rate..and having tht Milk around really woke me up..(Note to self.. Never divulge Cookie Recipie to Imaginary Friend.. They'll spoil it..)

but all in all Madam foster on a Segway.. Bloo acting funny and In fact "Blowing the Roof off the House" (by Cooking the Cookies at 2,500 degrees for 2 minutes.. was a laugh riot..(and then back to the Lemonade stand..

I have to agree not perfect but close.. a B+ as well from me.. just don't tell Frankie where the Secret Stash of Cookies are.. Oops.. Too late.. she found them!

:coyote:

[lostrune]

1. Wow, Madame Foster can really be crazy sometimes. A gold-plated safe for non-existent emergency funds? :D

2. Wow, Bloo was really greedy this ep, even worse than Duchess. It's a wonder the others haven't considered throwing him out yet. :sweat:

3. Frankie = scary crazy! At least we know she inherited Madame Foster's wackiness. :eek:

[Cactus Gunman]

I barely caught the PPG and Johnny Bravo references since Bloo said them so fast. I really laughed at the way Bloo splurged all the money on personal items like the jewel incrusted pizza or the 23kt statue of himself.

Frankie didn't go as nuts as Mac on a suger rush but she sure did pack away alot of cookies of course by the ending credits it finally caught up with her.

So this makes it the second time Bloo managed to destroy the entire house? Looks like it'll take forever to pay for the damages with his lousy lemonade stand.

[The Koopinator]

They need to give a little more imagination to the names of the other friends. I mean, come on, Flashlighty? They're all just [insert]y. I give this episode a B because it seems as it was missing something. I just don't know what.


But looking at the preview, the next episode looks to be good.

[lostrune]

But looking at the preview, the next episode looks to be good.
Yeah, the dreaded kiddie-crush-on-elder episode. :o

[The Koopinator]

Yeah, the dreaded kiddie-crush-on-elder episode. :oMaybe I don't watch cartoons much anymore, or maybe I just don't have a good memory, but I don't believe I've seen this sort of plot before. But I just know there was.

[Ultra Mike]

Maybe I don't watch cartoons much anymore, or maybe I just don't have a good memory, but I don't believe I've seen this sort of plot before. But I just know there was.
Well to name one example, Hey Arnold had an episode where Arnold was crushing on a subsistute teacher and ended up in one of those big "huge misunderstanding so I think I'm on a date" plots.

I have to agree that this episode was pretty good. I wasn't digging it so much when Bloo went into total jerk mode when he wanted to get rich off the Foster's cookies (There is only one good jerk on Cartoon Network. Shake From Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I will defend that up and down) and ignored all his friends. (They really did have a right to be angry with him at the end). This was still written fairly well though. I think they should of at least had an ending to the "Frankie goes on cookie overdose" plot. I mean, they didn't show us what happened with her at the end.

Favorite Moments: Madame Foster buying a Gold-Painted Safe for the house to put the money in which she used to buy the safe with, Mac having to explain to Bloo why selling Lemonade in the winter was a bad idea, Flashlight complaining about always being awake at night, the PPG/JB refrences, Bloo trying to flavor up the cookies and then charging 10 dollars for a straw from Mac.

GRADE: 3 Stars Out Of 5.

[Freedom Fighter]

- Interesting how Madam Foster bought that gold-painted safe, but still there had been at least a month... unless she and Hairyman are the only ones who have access to it, you'd think at least a small portion of that 'rainy day' fund would've been made up.
- Bloo's always been a jerk, but at least this was one of his funny, amusing, and misguided jerk schemes. He's such a persuasive (albeit shrewed) salesman, too.
- Madam Foster sure spoiled that granddaughter of hers... but at least she had enough common sense to make those cookies only once a year (until Bloo got a hold of the recipe). Now Frankie'll never get back to normal. ;)


And didn't Blue's line about baking the cake come from an episode of "Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi" (and maybe that from a show even before it), anyway it sounded totally ripped off, and I didn't like that to much.I believe the line you're referring to is this (rough reprisal, not exact):

"Well, if you can bake cookies in 20 minutes at 250 degrees, then it can be done in 2 minutes at 2500!"

Yeah, I do remember that being used in a AmiYumi episode too (though I don't remember who the culprit was in that show). Cooking's one of those professions where certain bits of math don't do you any good! Less time than normal + higher temperature than normal = asking for explosion! :sweat:

8 out of 10 for "Cookie Dough." As for next week... well, whomever made that topic about a Bloo-Mac-Frankie pairing earlier this week was onto something. There better be a good explanation for this mismatch of romance.

[DanniB]

This was a good episode, not the best, but enjoyable nontheless (Bloo's increasing greed and silly attempts to "update" the cookies)

My main complaint is really for the series as apposed to the episode. The imaginary friends we see in the background and throughtout the episodes seem to be more and more used soley for sightgags instead of being something a child would actually imagine. I mean, what kid would think of talking cups? (unless they saw disney's beauty and the beast one time too many?)

And secondly, the names they've been coming up with lately are hardly inspired. lately it's been (what they are here)-Y like Oveny and Flashlighty. for some friends this is cute. for others it feels like they aren't even trying. Some pun related names have been done better. Like last week, Ivan the seeing -eye friend (Eye-van). Some of the best names aren't even real puns (Wilt for instance is named for Wilt Chamberlan. Charlie in "Dinner is swerved" was a vietnam reference.) And earily on in the series, alot of the characters had normal "human" names like Dennis (a furry monster) and Harold (the balloon friend) or they had funny names a kid would actually make up like Zacksnore and Rumpledumple. The writers for the show need to remember that Imaginary friends come from kids and fill the roles kids need to be filled whether that purpose is compainonship, protection, a scapegoat, or surrougate parent. The sight gag friends are cute sometimes but when overdone the show looses some of its whimsy.

[One Radical Dude]

I'm not bothered by the names (including Oveny) of the minor characters in this episode. I'm sure the targeted audience (at least most of them) don't care, either. Can the writer(s) come up with better names? Possibly.

Of course, Bloo acts like a jerk. He is self-centered and a mischievous character. After watching Friday's episode, I believe that he isn't as ignorant as some people believe (although he's still not so brilliant). When he mentioned 'dioxins' and defined it (dioxin), he defined the word correctly (unless I heard wrong). The role as a stereotypical CEO was great.

Anyhoo, does anyone wanna eat clear cookies? No......COOKIE ROLL-UPS!!!! :p

[Candi]

I thought this was a pretty cute episode. I personally would love see-through cookies...:p I liked how Frankie acted with the cookies. It's like me with those girl scout cookies...I only buy them once a year, and when I do I go crazy and buy like a dozen boxes. Bloo (like always) was hilarious, opening a lemonade stand while it was raining. I give it an B. :)

[CaptainGame]

I'm giving it an A. Bloo's greed, combined with Frankie's scenes, which speak for themselves, makes for comedy gold. The only thing I can pick out as blaringly lousy was the unoriginality of the non-main friends names. (I.E. Flashlightie, Ovenie, etc.)

[NozeNuggets]

Does anyone have chocolate chip cookies?

[Sailor Chibi Otaku]

I'm curious.

Is it for young people? Teletoon airs it pretty early in the morning and I notice that it's on during the evening on CN.

I'm just wondering if it's too early for Teletoon.

[NozeNuggets]

I think they're only doing this for the holiday break for Easter/Spring if you catch my drift.

[Steve Sapphire]

About the uncreative names: Are you forgeting that these friends were imagined by children? Not many children are good at coming up with creative names.

[Steve Sapphire]

Does anyone have screencaps of Frankie in the credits?