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sistermagpie Jan. 21st, 2005 11:47 pm)
sistermagpie Jan. 21st, 2005 11:47 pm)Okay, I don't know how many people on my flist watch Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, but if you don't, you should. Or anyway, I love it. In a nutshell: Bloo throws a big party when the grown ups are gone. Bloo's friend Mac, who is always more sensible, tries to get him to stop. So Bloo slips Mac some sugar, even after Mac has warned, "You wouldn't like me when I've had sugar."
I can't believe this kids' show just did a really funny riff on what it's like to go to a party when somebody gets high and freaks out and goes crazy. Mac's diilated eyes rivalled anything in Requiem for a Dream. Especially after he does what must be the speedball of sugar high: pop rocks and soda pop. Naturally it all ends in a dark alley with Mac pale, naked, shivering, doing Gollum impressions, buck naked.
I wonder if I saw this first as a kid and then saw it as an adult it would play totally differently.
I can't believe this kids' show just did a really funny riff on what it's like to go to a party when somebody gets high and freaks out and goes crazy. Mac's diilated eyes rivalled anything in Requiem for a Dream. Especially after he does what must be the speedball of sugar high: pop rocks and soda pop. Naturally it all ends in a dark alley with Mac pale, naked, shivering, doing Gollum impressions, buck naked.
I wonder if I saw this first as a kid and then saw it as an adult it would play totally differently.
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Kids, don't do drugs.
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Bwahahaha!
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The tragic ending! It was like a twisted Law and Order flashback. *g*
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I wish I could remember the name of the guy who challenged Wilt to the dance contest--I remember it cracked me up.
Oh--and also I loved how Coco got Harriman out of the house. With Bloo saying, "He's gonna know it's you!" when she's calling him, and then Harriman doesn't recognize it's Coco because she disguises her voice, even though she still says nothing but "Coco coco coco coCO Cocococo."
So hysterical.
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when are we gonna catch each other
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Hopefully soon--had somebody staying here last weekend, and am currently snowed in with my new chair.
You have yet to see my new camera!
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Huh. Then again, maybe it's just Coke that does that. Ah well.
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I wonder if I saw this first as a kid and then saw it as an adult it would play totally differently.
Umm. Yes. But you’d end up amused either way. Kids may not get the rave reference, but they know more than you could possibly dread about the art of going feral after too much sugar (or red food colouring, or a few other things. :-)
This is being advertised here now, and without a doubt I will end up watching it.
(Do you remember the Winx? They’re finally here too. Oh joy!)
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Mac is a little boy whose Imaginary Friend Bloo lives there, but he hasn't given him up for adoption because he's one of those special kids who don't outgrow their Imaginary Friends. Bloo is so hysterical...I've been trying to figure him out since I started working for the show...he's kind of like the troublemaker teenaged friend a good guy might have. Very id like. Looks like a condom.
I would defintely recommend it. Glad to hear it's getting around.
I watched Winx this morning. Apparently we (my writing partner and I) just got our copies of the lifestyle books we did and they're awesome. We're talking major stickers and everything. I can't wait to see them.
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(And you don't just have a new chair, and new boots x 2, you also have a camera? WooT!)
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*dies laughing* Oh my god, he does.
My son hasn't entirely gotten into Foster's so we don't watch it much. It does look cute, though. I would rather he fixate on Foster's than Ed, Edd n' Eddy. Ack.
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I'm interested to know what age level the show appeals to. Apparently it's doing very well with adults, anyway.
I wonder if that's the Ed, Edd n' Eddy that my friend's sister's son is now insisting to be named after. (He's been Edward up until now, but has decided he prefers Eddy like the character.)
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But, that's just the kids I know. I'm not sure how the larger viewing population feels. :P
Oh no, he wants to be called Eddy?? Eek! :)) Too funny.
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My 8 year old son also adores Ed, Edd and Eddy, and I loathe it. Three Stooges is right – there is much slap and stick. And the characters are (to me) unattractive: loud-mouthed bully (Eddy); almost moronic but eternally happy (Ed); clever but whimpy (Edd). But what would I know! I can barely make out the dialogue (too fast, the vocal tone too strangled) and yet that seems to be what appeals to J. And he loves the kind of situations they get themselves into, and the really weird contortions their bodies do – the weirder they are the more he laughs. In fact, he absolutely cracks up laughing at it, but I’m at a loss to get the humour. (I’m so old :( )
Teen Titans is much better – I really love the Raven character :-) – she’s cool. It’s much darker story, and I think the animation quality is much better (clearer lines stronger colours) and the plot line is more discernible. Plus, being the grown-up that I am, I like it better if the characters have some likeable traits, and they’re not always being taken advantage of or being set up to be laughed at (in the mocking sense.) J watches it, but doesn’t laugh out loud or engage with it in nearly the same way as with Ed, Edd and Eddy.
Magpie, I’ll let you know about Fosters…and Bloo (“condom” *snort*)
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