"Squeakerboxxx" is the eighth episode in season 2 of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
Plot[]
SPOILER: Plot details follow.
The gang goes to an arcade to play the games. Eduardo plays Wack the Bee, Wilt plays the basketball game, and Coco plays the claw machine. Everyone wins lots of tickets except Bloo, who plays Skee-Ball incorrectly. Mac, who is playing Skee-Ball the right way, suggests that Bloo should trying rolling the balls, but Bloo stubbornly says that throwing is the new rolling and wins only one ticket. Bloo then becomes very interested in a prize that's worth 500 tickets: glow-in-the-dark Dracula teeth. Bloo wants everyone to give him their tickets so they can "share" the Dracula teeth, but when Wilt, Mac, and Eduardo all realize that they can't share teeth due to how unsanitary it will become (and since Dracula teeth wouldn't be practical for Eduardo who already has huge teeth), they get a rubber squeaking toy elephant, which Bloo wasn't interested in at first. As Mac, Eduardo, Wilt, and Coco fight over the toy elephant which Frankie decides they get a turn with the toy once a day for two hours. When Frankie tells Bloo to hold the toy, he gets an obsession with it after learning that it squeaks. Frankie decides Coco should have a turn first, then Eduardo, then Wilt, then Mac, and then Bloo.
Bloo keeps asking if it's his turn yet, and when it's his turn, he plays with it for the whole two hours. Frankie then locks the elephant in her room that night. Bloo sneaks into Frankie's room to get the toy elephant and escape with it. However, Bloo accidentally squeezes the elephant so hard that the squeaker comes out. Bloo fears for his life about it.
Bloo wakes up Frankie and says it's Coco's turn. Bloo doesn't want anyone to find out that he broke the toy, but when Mac overhears his plan, he makes him return to the arcade to earn enough tickets to get another one. He's about to get it, when he sees the glow in the dark Dracula teeth and gets them instead.
After Mac gets mad at Bloo for his selfishness and decides that Bloo is on his own, Bloo goes back to the arcade to win another rubber elephant again, but by the time he has enough tickets, the last one's already gone. He sees a little girl who won it and challenges her to a game of Skee-Ball to see who gets to keep it and his Dracula teeth. He loses to her, but he grabs both the rubber elephant and Dracula teeth and runs away with them. The girl later finds him and knocks him out unconscious, taking back the rubber elephant and Bloo's Dracula teeth.
Bloo later wakes up to Mac, who has a rubber elephant with him. Bloo thinks Mac stole it back from the other kid when he just bought it at a dollar store, and Mac tells him to get the elephant to Foster's on time.
They then head back into the house to go replace the first rubber elephant without anyone noticing, but Eduardo sees Bloo and runs towards him trying to take the rubber elephant from him, making it fly up into the air and end up in Bloo's mouth.
The episode ends with Eduardo taking his turn squeezing Bloo, who sounds like the squeaking rubber elephant due to him swallowing it.
Spoilers end here.
Characters present[]
Speaking:
Bloo, Coco, Eduardo, Frankie Foster, Mac, Mr. Herriman, Wilt
Non-speaking:
Boris the Florist, Jackie Khones, Myron Giant
Trivia[]
- This is the first and only time where Mac fights with Wilt, Eduardo, and Coco.
- Moral: Don't be selfish.
- Frankie refers to Bloo as "Blooregard" for the first and only time in this episode.
- The rubber elephant later reappears in "The Buck Swaps Here", "The Bride to Beat", and "Goodbye to Bloo".
- Here's what each of the friends do with the rubber elephant during their turn:
- Coco: putting it on display and watching it.
- Eduardo: nursing it.
- Wilt: playing basketball with it.
- Mac: teasing Bloo with it.
- Bloo: squeaking it as much as he can, tormenting Eduardo and annoying Mr. Herriman.
Cultural references[]
- The episode's title is a reference to the hip hop album, Speakerboxxx, by Outkast.
- The name Mac thought of for the rubber elephant, "Donald Trunk", is a parody of Donald Trump.
- The name Wilt thought of for the rubber elephant, "Harry Elephante", is a parody of Harry Belafonte.
Goofs[]
- Bloo won one ticket and he needed 500 for the Dracula teeth. The man at the Prize Hive tells Bloo to give him 498 more tickets for the teeth, when he should have said 499.
- When Mac, Ed, Wilt, and Coco fight over who gets the elephant, Coco's foot clips through the bus seat.
- When Mac says, "Actually, I can," and puts the elephant on the table, part of the elephant clips through the table.