"Adoptcalypse Now" is the sixth/twelfth episode in the first season of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. It's the sixth/twelfth episode, overall.
Plot[]
SPOILER: Plot details follow.
It's Adopt-A-Thought Saturday, an event that focuses on getting good imaginary friends adopted on the weekends when children are out of school. Mac and Bloo find out what Adopt-A-Thought Saturday is about, after their good friend Jokey gets adopted, and spend the day forcing the friends back into the house so that they won't be adopted.
Running gags[]
- Coco continuously ending up outside, much to Mac's annoyance.
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APM Music Identification[]
- Benny Hill chase scene - Bloo gets chased by the kids
Trivia[]
- The music that plays during the chase scene is reused in "Squeakerboxxx" when Bloo runs away from the little girl with the rubber elephant and Dracula teeth, and in "The Buck Swaps Here" when the Foster's gang chase Eduardo at the swap meet in their attempt to get their hands on the $100 bill he found.
- The music that plays in this episode when Bloo is dancing on the front steps also plays when he shows off his mittens in the episode, "Duchess of Wails".
- Mac is out-of-character in this episode, as he helps Bloo in one of his schemes in forcing the friends back into the house and stop them from being adopted. Mac usually loves helping imaginary friends find good homes and would never go along with Bloo's schemes or selfish attempts.
- This is probably because the episode was the sixth episode produced for the season, but it ended up airing as the twelfth.
- This episode marks the first appearance of Lemon Lenny and Gregory, the latter of whom wouldn't be named until "Everyone Knows It's Bendy", and the only appearance of Jokey.
Cultural references[]
- The name of the episode is a reference to 1979's Apocalypse Now, a movie set in the time of the Vietnam War and based on the book "Heart of Darkness".
- At one point, Mac makes the iconic Grinch smile from How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Goofs[]
- When Mr. Herriman tells Eduardo to stop his unacceptable behavior, the former does not have pants, but when Herriman begins chasing after Ed, he is suddenly wearing pants.
- If the scene where the imaginary friends burst out of the desk is played frame-by-frame, it can be seen that the same few friends fly out several times.