"One False Movie" (episode number 37) is the 11th episode in season 3 of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
Plot[]
SPOILER: Plot details follow.
Mac is assigned by his teacher to make a home movie for class about his friends at Foster's. Unfortunately, he lets Bloo advise him on it, and Bloo edits it into a humorous film with flatulent sound effects. Surprisingly, Mac's peers and even the school principal find it funny and advise him to enter an upcoming film festival using a theme of friendship. Mac shows his class project to the other Foster's residents, but Eduardo, who thought the fart noises came from him instead of from the sound effects, feels embarrassed when the other friends laugh at him, so he writes a fan letter to a children's television show for advice.
Bloo, Coco, Wilt and Camcordy help Mac to make T-Rexatron Alienwolf III, A Prequel In Time: The Unrelenting. Bloo starts throwing the budget around though, which leads Mac to sell all his collectible toys and steal from Madame Foster in order to keep paying Bloo. Bloo spends the last of the money on a party and leaves the VHS tape of the film near Eduardo. Eduardo has trouble hearing his advice show over the party, so he steals the tape and records over the ending of the film. At the film festival, most of the film has very little to do with the topic of friendship, and Eduardo's show taped over the ending causes Mac to lose the contest.
Back at Foster's, Mac tries to explain to Madame Foster what he did, but it's revealed that Madame Foster bought all her things that Mac sold. Mac then puts a coin the piggy bank he once sold stating that he's been punished without an allowance until he's thirty. Outside, Bloo is upset that they lost and states that they couldn't lose. Mac then reveals to Bloo that the movie didn't have an ending, with Bloo explaining that audiences don't care about endings, then the episode ends just as he is talking.
During the end credits, Mac and his friends are on the couch watching Lauren is Explorin' with Eduardo, when Ed suddenly farts and says, "Excuse me", making everyone else grossed out.
Spoilers end here.
Characters present[]
Speaking:
Bloo, Camcordy, Coco, Cuffy, Eduardo, Explorin' Lauren, Frankie Foster, Mac, Mac's Teacher, Madame Foster, Mr. Herriman, Ryan, Wilt
Non-speaking:
Belly Bob Norton, Big Fat Baby, Boris the Florist, Dusty, George Mucus, Handy, Jackie Khones, Madame Mustachio, Oscar, Pinecone Cola, Ringo Rango, Sunset Junction, The Tortoise in the Air, Vic Trolla
Trivia[]
- This was the first episode produced in 2006.
- The director of Lauren is Explorin' is drawn to resemble (and is also voiced by) the creator of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Craig McCracken.
- Lauren is Explorin' is named after Craig McCracken's wife, Lauren Faust.
- Lauren is Explorin''s creator calls for Lauren in the office when he realises that he has to make the best episode yet. This is an in-joke and compliment to McCracken's wife that she has produced the best work on his shows.
- According to Craig McCracken on Twitter, the “Lauren” line wasn’t in the script. He stated that he was asking Lauren Faust how the take was. They thought it was funny, so it was left in.
- When Mac shows Bloo's edited version of his class assignment to the other imaginary friends, Mr. Herriman, who is usually big on rules and proper manners, finds the fart noises humorous and laughs at it. This is one of the rare times in the series where Mr. Herriman is shown out-of-character.
- This is the only 22-minute episode in the series to have a "The End" card after the episode, as they were only otherwise used in the 11-minute episodes.
- The Season 3 DVD labels this episode as "One False -Movie-", matching how the title is stylized on the title card.
Cultural references[]
- Bloo casts Tom Hanks, a real-world actor, in a minor part in his movie, though his face is not seen, and his dialogue is muffled.
- Eduardo's favorite TV show is Lauren is Explorin', an obvious spoof of Dora The Explorer.
- Rexatron Alienwolf III, A Prequel In Time: The Unrelenting spoofs numerous cliches used in movie trailers.
- While making the film, Camcordy is seen shooting a scene referencing the bullet-time effect of The Matrix.
- During the scene of Bloo's movie where Wilt and an unnamed alien (presumably an alien-like imaginary friend) dance, the music is a thinly-veiled pastiche of Smash Mouth's "All Star".
- Bloo buys a megaphone that was supposedly owned by the famous director of the classic Hollywood era, Cecil B. DeMille.
- The online auction website Schmebay is a spoof of eBay.
- The Dumb Angel poster in Craig McCracken's office contains a host of references to the surf rock band The Beach Boys:
- The "Dumb Angel" name comes from a scrapped placeholder title for their unfinished album SMiLE.
- The design of the poster, the font used for the text, and the color scheme of the poster are all references to the cover art of their 1966 album Pet Sounds.
- The face on the poster bears a striking resemblance to this image of band member Brian Wilson.
- Right underneath the Dumb Angel poster, a Yellow Submarine statue can be seen. This is not the first reference to Yellow Submarine in Craig's work, as the version of the Beatles from the movie made a cameo in the Powerpuff Girls episode "Meet the Beat-Alls".
Goofs[]
- When Mac puts in the movie at school, he isn't wearing his backpack. After he says, "It isn't what it looks like", he has his backpack on. After the camera pans back to him, he isn't wearing it. However, after the teacher gives the tape to the principal, he is wearing it again.