"Bloo's the Boss" is the 9th episode of season 4 of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
Plot[]
SPOILER: Plot details follow.
Bloo announces that a one-eyed cat-like imaginary friend is in trouble. No one wants to help him at first because they think it might be a trick, but Madame Foster forces Frankie, Coco, Wilt, and Eduardo to help him. They find that the imaginary friend is stuck in a tree and try to help by climbing on each other, but Bloo climbs on top of them, causing them to fall. Madame Foster pitches in and uses a large, brown stick that gets her up there and rescues the friend. Now, reporters from a news network arrive at the scene and acknowledge Madame Foster. Bloo whines that he does good deeds all the time, so to prove his point, Camcordy films him waxing the floor, but everyone who walks on it slides and injures themselves. Bloo sends the film to the news channel, and instead of congratulating Bloo, they embarrass him. Bloo tries another tactic to prove that he can do good deeds: building another home for imaginary friends, made from cardboard boxes, called Bloo's Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Mac, who believes Bloo is building a fort, does the hard work building it while Bloo drinks soda. Mac doesn’t believe Bloo is responsible enough for caring for imaginary friends. Mac knows that Bloo is alone and he wants him to come home to Foster's where he belongs, but Bloo stubbornly refuses. Everyone at Foster's except Frankie, who is happy the place is quiet, misses him. Mac says that nobody appreciates him for the good deeds he does, and he and the others visit him to award him for his good deeds he's trying to do, but it's Madame Foster's award much to his disappointment, and Bloo vows that his business is more successful than Foster's. Later at night, Bloo befriends a stray cat named Chuck who needed a home. Mac visits Bloo to try to talk more sense to him. Bloo accuses Mac of being jealous, but Mac points out to him that he lives out there with puppets and animals in a cardboard box, and he doesn't know anything about finding homes for imaginary friends. When a family adopts Chuck when Bloo unwittingly lets them, Mac explains that Bloo ruined a chance for a real friend to find a home. Bloo realizes his mistake, and sneaks into the family's house to get Chuck back and escape. Mac goes to apologize to Bloo, but realizes he is gone and tells everyone at Foster's. Mac and the gang go to find Bloo and try to rescue him, and Madame Foster rescues him. Mac apologizes to Bloo, but Bloo apologizes to him for going too far as usual. Just then, Chuck's actual owner, Phyllis, arrives and takes him home. Seeing the other family upset, Bloo lets them adopt the cat-like friend from earlier. This leads to Bloo getting a short congratulations from his friends. But it is a short one, and he says he is not flushing the toilet anymore.
Spoilers end here.
Characters present[]
Belly Bob Norton, Bloo, Bloppy Pants, Boris the Florist, Brock Bachman, Burple Bear, Chuck, Coco, Eduardo, Frankie Foster, George Mucus, Jackie Khones, Keystone Blop, Mac, Madame Foster, Madame Mustachio, Mr. Herriman, Myron Giant, One-Eye Cat, One Eye Cy, Phyllis, Purple, Sharkhead, Spritz Coleman, Stoolie Dan, Vic Trolla, Wilt
Trivia[]
- This is the first time a "clapper" gag is used.
- This episode and "Phone Home" are very similar, as they both involve Bloo and his goal to rescue imaginary friends in order to benefit his own self-image.
- The one-eyed cat-like imaginary friend appears briefly with another girl in the episodes "Adoptcalypse Now" and "Phone Home".
- News reporters Erin Peterson and Todd do not appear in this episode; different reporters, named Tabby and Brock Bachman, do, and this is their only appearance.
- This is the first episode since "Neighbor Pains" to premiere on a Friday.