"The Little Peas" is the twelfth episode of season 5 of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
Plot[]
SPOILER: Plot details follow.
This episode is directly connected with the same events in "The Big Cheese" through the eyes of a pint-sized imaginary friend named Peas, detailing how he helped Frankie turn a negative into a positive.
The episode starts with Frankie telling the whole house about the upcoming news report when Cheese shows up. Meanwhile, Peas, a green imaginary friend wearing a thimble, shows a positive attitude about the situation and sets off to work. However, Peas sees that Cheese is still inside the house, so he tries to warn Frankie. He finds Frankie carrying laundry at the entrance when Mr. Herriman calls every imaginary friend outside to test out the new security system. Frankie drops the clothes basket with Peas in and goes outside. Mr. Herriman locks the door, and Peas is the only imaginary friend still inside. He tries and tries to open the front doors so everyone can get back in and eventually succeeds. When he gets outside, he convinces Frankie to turn the broadcast around and use it to ask for charity. They then use the charity money to fix up Foster's and get a new security system, which Cheese immediately bypasses.
Spoilers end here.
Characters present[]
Speaking:
Bloo, Cheese, Coco, Eduardo, Erin Peterson, Fluffer Nutter, Frankie Foster, Jackie Khones, Mac, Mr. Herriman, Peas, Wilt
Non-speaking:
Belly Bob Norton, Billy the Squid, Bloppy Pants, Boris the Florist, Burple Bear, Chief Hoseynose, Clambake, Crackers, Dennis, Don Lickles, Dusty, Galoot Palooka, George Mucus, Goo, Handy, Harold, Jambalaya, Jimmy Shoes, Keystone Blop, Mabel Licorice, Madame Mustachio, Moptop, Mr. Edmonton, My Pet Donkey, Myopic Patootie, New Guy, Nose Allison, One Eye Cy, Phineus B. Vurm, Piggy, Pisgetti, Pokey Toehair, Preparation Ape, Ringo Rango, Rodney Squiddlebeak, Sassyfrass, Scissors, Sloppy Moe, Socket Tubey, Spritz Coleman, Stoolie Dan, Sunset Junction, The Tortoise in the Air, Two Head Fred, The Unknown Friend, Witch Itch, Yogi Boo Boo
Trivia[]
- The episode was produced and aired during the 2007-08 Writer's Guild of America strike, which explains why most of it is recycled footage from "The Big Cheese".
- This is the last episode that premiered in 2007.
- This is Cheese's last major role in the series as well as the last appearance of Piggy.
- This is the only episode where Goo appears but has no dialogue.
- This is the only appearance of Handy and Scissors in season 5.
- This is Erin Peterson's final appearance in the series, even though it is a flashback from a previous episode.
- The elevator that Jackie and Fluffer Nutter ride appears to be the exact same one that Wilt and Eduardo tumbled into when they were racing to save Bloo in "House of Bloo's".
Goofs[]
- This episode's title card was never shown in the U.S. or prints of it on Hulu. It is shown on HBO Max, however.
- When the "written by" credit pops up, a block of text reading "itt en by" can be seen on the far right of the screen.
- This episode has some mistakes/goofs compared to the original version of "The Big Cheese":
- In the original version, when Frankie gives Mac the bucket, it is gray, but in this episode, the bucket is purple.
- When Peas was about to go outside after hearing Mr. Herriman's order, the sounds of the buttons of the security system can be heard when Herriman tries to unlock the door, but when he put in the wrong password, this activates the alarm of the security system and Frankie says calmly to Mr. Herriman that the door is still locked. In "The Big Cheese", when Mr. Herriman put in the wrong password, this doesn't activate the alarm, and Frankie never talked calmly when she said that the door was locked; she talked with an upset behavior and angry attitude. Adding that in the original episode, Mr. Herriman tried a second time to unlock the security system, while in "The Little Peas", he tried only once.
- The background crowd of imaginary friends seen before Wilt returns with the light bulbs is different from the crowd seen in the original episode.
- When everyone was imitating Cheese to get the password and he forced them to throw rocks at the mansion, the residents were throwing rocks for at least several minutes. In the original episode, the residents only throw one rock per person, making that this event only took roughly one minute or even less.
- When Peas was about to open the door with the rock, he fell from the upper part of the door by Frankie slamming the door because Cheese spoiled the password at the last second. However, the alarm wasn't activated. In the original episode, when Cheese ruined the chance to open the door, this activated the alarm.
- When Wilt sees the house destroyed in "The Big Cheese", the flag was not on the top of the mansion because it was broken off by Cheese, but in this episode, the flag is on the top of the mansion.
- When Erin Peterson is reporting on Foster's, there is a one-second pause before she says, "No.", unlike the original episode where says it immediately.
- The DVD release contains a few subtitle errors:
- When Peas says, "And it's all 'cause of Fran-", the subtitles say, "And it's all because of Fran-".
- The subtitles label Mr. Herriman as "[man over speaker]" when he talks through the intercom.
- The subtitles misspell "Geronimo" as "Geromino".
- At the beginning of Act 3, the captions read "[doorbell ringing]", when the noise actually came from the security system.