Jackie Khones

Jackie Khones

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Jackie Khones
Nickname(s)	Señor Khones The Talking Broccoli
Character information
Species	Imaginary Friend
Gender	Male ♂
Personal Status
Creator(s)	Unnamed girl in striped green sweater seen in "Good Wilt Hunting"
Friend(s)	Mac Bloo Fluffer Nutter
Media
Voice Actor	Phil LaMarr Keikou Sakai (Japanese)

Jackie Khones is a recurring character who makes numerous background appearances throughout the show and is even featured in a couple of episodes.

Appearance

Jackie Khones is a green, small, furry, one-foot-tall, one-eyed stick figure with tiny, black arms and legs and ten hairs on his head. Despite his tiny statue, Jackie speaks with a very low-pitched voice.

He is shown to hold a grudge towards Wilt on multiple occasions, but the reason for this remains unknown.

History

Jackie first appeared in the pilot movie "House of Bloo's", offering some comments of some of the residents of the home. His name was never directly stated until the season 3 episode "Setting a President", where his first name was revealed.

His creator, although never really referenced or even named in the series, is shown (in "Good Wilt Hunting") as being a slightly overweight, glasses-wearing, serious- and shy-looking female wearing a dual green patterned shirt, which could explain in a somewhat funny way most of the physical behavior exhibited by Jackie like a really thin body, a strong affirmative voice, somewhat stubborn selfish manners and the ability to see with only one eye.

Jackie had remained a minor background character until season five's debut episode "Cheese A Go-Go", where he successfully won a lawsuit against Madame Foster over a tuna sandwich, albeit due to Frankie Foster failing to testify on behalf of the latter. His love of sandwiches has become his trademark, so much that stealing one of his sandwiches is considered to be a death wish, as stated by Wilt and Jackie himself in "Bad Dare Day".

In "Better Off Ed", he lets Eduardo make a sandwich as payment for helping him in a scheme, and received his biggest role in the Season Six premiere episode, "Jackie Khones and the Case of the Overdue Library Crook", where he parodied Mike Hammer and other hard-boiled gumshoes, trying to help Mac discover who stole his library card and used it to borrow a long-overdue book, with his detective pay being two sandwiches. It turns out it was Jackie himself that did the deed and decided from then on to ask for payment of sandwiches in advance in the future. In the later episodes, his gastronomic love for food is expanded to hot dogs. In the second Bloo Superdude episode, he tricks Bloo into stealing Duchess' stack of hot dogs, referring to them as "sweet ambrosia", and in "Bad Dare Day", Mac dares Jackie to eat a hot dog without mustard, to which he immediately refuses.

Love Life

Jackie Khones is shown to share a romantic relationship with Fluffer Nutter, which was seen first in "The Little Peas". Fluffer Nutter was also his secretary in "Overdue Library Crook". Fluffer Nutter is often embarrassed by her relationship with Jackie and often tries to keep it a secret from others. However, in "Read 'Em and Weep", Fluffer Nutter reveals her true feelings for Jackie after learning that he was in danger.

Episode Appearances

Season 1

• "House of Bloo's"
• "The Trouble With Scribbles"
• "Dinner is Swerved"
• "World Wide Wabbit"
• "Phone Home"
• "Who Let the Dogs In?"

Season 2

• "Partying is Such Sweet Soiree"
• "Everyone Knows It's Bendy"
• "Cookie Dough"
• "Squeakerboxxx"
• "Beat with a Schtick"
• "Bloo Done It"
• "My So Called Wife"

Season 3

• "Hiccy Burp"
• "Imposter's Home for Um... Make 'Em Up Pals"
• "Duchess of Wails"
• "Crime After Crime"
• "Land of the Flea"
• "A Lost Claus"
• "One False Movie"
• "Setting a President"
• "Room with a Feud"
• "Cuckoo for Coco Cards"

Season 4

• "Challenge of the Super Friends" (cameo)
• "Squeeze the Day" (cameo)
• "Neighbor Pains"
• "I Only Have Surprise for You" (cameo)
• "The Big Cheese" (cameo)
• "Bloo's the Boss" (cameo)
• "Emancipation Complication"
• "Good Wilt Hunting"

Season 5

• "Cheese a Go-Go"
• "Say It Isn't Sew"
• "Something Old Something Bloo"
• "The Bloo Superdude and the Magic Potato of Power!" (cameo)
• "Schlock Star"
• "The Bride to Beat"
• "Affair Weather Friends" (cameo)
• "Ticket to Rod"
• "Nightmare on Wilson Way"
• "Better Off Ed"
• "The Little Peas"
• "Let Your Hare Down"

Season 6

• "Jackie Khones and the Case of the Overdue Library Crook"
• "Mondo Coco"
• "Pranks for Nothing"
• "Bloo Tube"
• "Race for Your Life Mac & Bloo"
• "Destination Imagination"
• "The Bloo Superdude and the Great Creator of Everything's Awesome Ceremony of Fun That He's Not Invited To"
• "Bad Dare Day"
• "Read 'Em and Weep"
• "Fools and Regulations"
• "Goodbye to Bloo"

Trivia

• According to his Coco Card, Jackie is 12 inches, or 1 foot, and weighs 8 ounces. Also, it says that he likes/dislikes "stuff" and "other stuff"; also, he is described as a Blunt, Succinct One-Eyed Visionary.
• His name is a spoonerism and inside joke on the name of Khaki Jones, a former Cartoon Network executive who was in charge of the production of Foster's.
• As the series continued and Jackie was featured more often, he "became this deep complicated character" and a backstory was created for him:
  • "It was 1982 and Billy Dee Williams just found out that he was going to get to pilot the Falcon in Jedi and realized he was in need of a co-pilot. So he thought long and hard about who his ‘Chewy’ might be and in a flash of inspiration he created his own hairy friend, Jackie Khones. The two were a powerful duo and they were set to take on the galaxy but unfortunately it wasn't to be. George Lucas was tight with this guy called Nien Nunb and the rest is history. The let down caused Jackie to fall into the dark side of Hollywood where he lived a fast, wild and dangerous life before stumbling into Foster's one day. Jackie claims that there's test footage of he and Billy blasting through hyper space but I've yet to see it.
• His creator is a clever reference to social pressure and the stereotype that young teenage girls usually experiment going throughout childhood and young adult life. Jackie and his creator is another fine example of Foster's strong and subtly imaginative colorful satirical painting of a more down to earth reality, showing a girl who creates a friend aimed at balancing her perceived shortcomings.
• Jackie seems to have a thing for blaxploitation films. In "Nightmare on Wilson Way", he wears a Halloween costume inspired by the outrageous fashion of pimps in blaxploitation films like The Mack (1974) or Willie Dynamite (1974). "Jackie Khones and the Case of the Overdue Library Crook" features a scene referencing the iconic theme song from Shaft (1971). His room, seen in the second Bloo Superdude episode, also references the funky lifestyle of blaxploitation films.
• At the end of "Room With A Feud", his voice sounds different, possibly due to the fact he has a different voice actor in that episode.
• His golden trading card statistics in the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Leapster game are:
  • Height: 12 inches or 1 foot tall.
  • Is a one-eyed visionary.
  • Has been known to say, "Booyah!"
  • Speaks the truth.

External links

• Khones at Answers