Cartoon
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Animal
Salad Fingers

Outfit: pressed curd of milk / age; seasoning / googly eyes

Tagline: "I LIKE CEREAL! "

Plot summary: When a child imagines an imaginary friend, that friend becomes real. Unfortunately, children outgrow them, and when that happens they're left to fend for themselves. Thankfully the world also has a magical program called Macromedia Flash, allowing each friend to be imagined as a shrieking, primary-colored half-animated blobbish thing with the aestetic beauty of a Tetris block in "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends." Foster's takes care of over 1,300 imaginary friends, boasting that it is "Where good ideas are not forgotten." Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is located just down the block from Trogdor the Burninator and across the street from Juggernaut calling people bitches.

"Cheese" is the imaginary friend of (I believe) Darla from "Finding Nemo" and takes the form of, well, Amanda Bynes. You know how when she was on All That (or on anything else) her entire schtick was to just stand still, then scream a sentence fragmant and flail around wildly? If you haven't seen Amanda do it you've seen SOMEBODY on Nickelodeon do it, because they all do it now. Somebody writes Amanda a letter saying "dear amanda im picken my nose what i do." Amanda reads it in a sweet voice, then goes RAAAAAH STOP PICKEN YER NOOOOOOSE and falls through a plate glass window. Anyway, that's what Cheese does. Basically. He's the break-out star of the show. The yellow, nutsack-lookin' Fonzie, if you will. Go figure.. (more)

User Comments: Thank GOODNESS that there is FINALLY a show for children that provides smarmy inside-asides for we adults who are watching! I swear to God I once watched a Tom and Jerry cartoon for eight minutes and saw ZERO references to drug abuse or fucking or something that is popular in culture. Can you believe it? No Britney Spears, no Saved by the Bell, no antiquated top 40 hits reworked into Keatonesque slapstick sequences. Nothing. They just entertained kids for, I don't know, like 50 years. What the fuck was WRONG with people back then?

Foster's is pretty much the best Cartoon Cartoon cartoon we've gotten since the Powerpuff Girls, which is a notable accomplishment in that uh, context. I'm not saying that Beagle-Puss Rubber Chicken is the next coming of Daffy Duck or anything, but next to Codename: Kids Next Door, the Home for Imaginary Friends feels like friggin' Sergei Eisenstein. Like Tarkovsky is going to introduce Creaky Pete via twenty minutes of reeds floating in a stream. But it's all "okay," and that's all we've got. "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" are our okay flash animation show for kids. Cheese stands alone..

User Rating: 6.6/10 (1 vote over and over)