”Affair Weather Friends” is the 8th episode of season 5 of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
Plot[]
SPOILER: Plot details follow.
When Bloo and Mac meet a rich kid named Barry Bling, Mac takes him on a tour around Foster's to help him decide on which imaginary friend he would like. Duchess is very eager to be chosen seeing as Barry is incredibly wealthy, but much to hers and Mac's chagrin, he chooses Bloo to be his friend. Mac refuses to give up Bloo and starts a tug-of-war between him and Barry over Bloo, despite Barry's bribing with money and even convincing Bloo to come - with a toy known as the "Automatic Paddle Ball Prototype," - but after seeing Mac about to cry, Bloo quickly refuses so as to protect his friendship with Mac.
However, the next day, Bloo goes back on his word and arrives at Barry Bling's house to spend some time with him. As Mac gets out of school, he spots Bloo coming from Barry Bling's house and is very angry. Bloo tries to apologize until eventually, Mac forgives him. However, Bloo keeps on visiting Barry, and Duchess becomes suspicious and jealous of Bloo's actions. One day when Mac comes to Foster's and can't find Bloo, Duchess tells Mac about Bloo's deception and Mac becomes both depressed and furious to the point of consuming massive quantities of sugary ice cream until he becomes crazed.
Eventually, the ice cream man tells Mac to go home, but Mac's sugar-crazed state causes him to wander to Barry Bling's house. As Mac tries to find Bloo, he discovers that Barry Bling's wealth is a big lie as another family that lives in his mansion are tied up and held captive in a room, much to Mac's absent-minded state to realize the truth. He then stumbles upon another room where he sees a shrine of Bloo, as well as a macaroni sculpture of Bloo and realizes that Barry Bling's identity is revealed to be none other than Berry, who reveals that she knew that Mac would figure out the deception the same way she knew that Bloo wouldn't be able to resist the Automatic Paddle Ball Prototype. Still madly in love with Bloo and jealous of Mac's relationship with him, Berry ties Mac to the same rubber-band ball she was strapped to and prepares to destroy him with a giant toy train. Bloo comes in and notices Mac and Berry. After some confusion, Berry distracts Bloo by tossing the Automatic Paddle Ball Prototype to him, forcing Bloo to decide if he wants the paddle ball or his best friend. Bloo picks up the paddleball, but at the same time saves Mac with it and Berry runs into the rubber band ball and bounces away. Bloo embraces Mac feeling guilty for what he had caused, and together, they both leave for Foster's. Mac tries to tell Bloo about who Berry is/was, but he still doesn't understand.
In the credits, the once-captive family looks at the hole left by the world's largest rubber band ball. Duchess then comes in and sniffs their clothes, saying "Ah! Money!"
Spoilers end here.
Trivia[]
- The episode title is a pun on the term "Fair-Weather Friends", a term for people who are only loyal to each other during easy times.
- Duchess references the very first episode "House of Bloo's" when she says, "Not again!" as Barry chooses to adopt Bloo instead of her.
- This is the second episode where Mac goes into a massive sugar rush, the first time being "Partying is Such Sweet Soiree". However, this time the reaction included more of a drunken reaction than a maniacal rampage and he was able to return back to normal more quickly than other episodes.
- An early draft of this episode's script was posted online. Said script reveals the name of Witch Itch, who doesn't appear in the final version.
- This episode marks the final appearance of both Berry and Suckallupagus.
- Snooty Girl and Richie Wildebrat make non-speaking cameo appearances at Mac's school.
- Frankie Foster, Madame Foster and Mr. Herriman are absent in this episode.
- This is the second and final episode where Wilt is absent, the first being "Frankie My Dear".
Cultural references[]
- When Bloo refuses to go with Barry, he quotes some lyrics from the song "My Guy", by Mary Wells in 1964, and covered in 1978 by Sister Sledge.
- When Mac is trying to tell Bloo that Barry is Berry, with Berry hearing the whole conversation, there appears to be a Godzilla toy in the background.
- Berry's last line in this episode is similar to the Wicked Witch of the West's from The Wizard of Oz.
- When Bloo is playing video games with Barry, Barry offers to play Immortal Wombat, a play on words of the video game Mortal Kombat.
Goofs[]
- The DVD release has many subtitle errors:
- When Mac says, "He's an amazing musician that collects scarves.", the subtitles read, "He's an amazing musician and collects scarves."
- After hearing that Mac wouldn't trade Bloo for all the money in the world, the latter says, "Wow", yet the subtitles omit it.
- The subtitles also omit the "Wow" Bloo says after leaving Barry's mansion for the first time.
- When Bloo says, "I (ouch!) made a (ouch!) terrible (ouch!) mistake!", the subtitles omit the first word.
- When Bloo says, "Oh no, I lost again. Boo-hoo.", the subtitles omit "Boo-hoo."
- When Mac says, "Oh, that was nice of you.", the subtitles omit the first word.
- When Berry fast-talks to Mac, the subtitles omit "but", "that", "just", and another "that", replace "wouldn't" with "couldn't", omit "be able to" and another "that", replace "your back" with "you", omit "or just", "that Bloo was cheating on you", "for him", "just like", "also", "and", another "that", "all along", another "and", another "that", and "right", in that order.
- Mac has flashbacks of Berry angrily yelling "That seat's taken!" and "It's Mac, Mac, Mac's the one!" even though he wasn't present around her when she said those things back in the episode "Berry Scary".