Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (simply known as Foster's) is an American animated television series created by Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network, who previously created The PowerPuff Girls. The series is about an eight year old boy named Mac who visits his imaginary friend, Bloo, at an orphanage mansion full of imaginary friends. The series premiered on August 13th, 2004 and ended on May 3rd, 2009.

## Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

### picture format:

4:3, fullscreen (Seasons 1-4)16:9, widescreen (Seasons 5&6)

## Characters

### **Major**

* Mac
* Blooregard "Bloo" Q. Kazoo
* Wilt
* Eduardo
* Coco
* Frankie Foster
* Madame Foster
* Mr.Herriman

### **Secondary**

* Terrence
* Cheese
* Duchess
* Goo
* Jackie Khones

### **Voice Cast**

* Sean Marquette as Mac
* Keith Ferguson as Bloo
* Phil LaMarr as Wilt
* Tom Kenny as Eduardo
* Candi Milo as Coco and Cheese
* Grey DeLisle as Frankie

## Merchandise and promotions

### **Video Games**

A video game based on the series was released in 2006 for GameBoy Advance, its name is exactly the same as the name of the series.

A second video game called Imagination Invaders was released in 2007 for Nintendo DS.

### **Toys**

Despite not having a strong influence like The PowerPuff Girls and Ben 10, Foster's had various merchandising and promotions back then.

characters from the series were featured as part of Mattel's Cartoon Network toy line:

* Bing Bang Boing (Bloo, Wilt, Eduardo, Coco)
* Dare off Duos (Bloo, Eduardo, Mac, Coco)
* Fling Dings (Bloo and Wilt, Bloo and Coco)
* Trouble making Blooregard

A set of figurines featuring Mac, Bloo, Wilt, Eduardo, and Coco was released most likely on the official Cartoon Network shop website.

A vinyl figure of Eduardo was released as part of series 1 of Titans Vinyl Figures' Cartoon Network series. A vinyl figure of Bloo was released as part of Series 3.

## Home media

The Complete first season of Foster's was released on DVD on March 2007. The complete second season was later released on DVD on September 2007. Season 3 was re-released on DVD on November 2014 from Warner Archive Collection. Seasons 4, 5, and 6 were never released on DVD.

All 6 seasons are available to purchase on iTunes and Amazon prime.

The series was re-released on Netflix from 2013 to 2015, along with other Cartoon Network shows such as Adventure Time and Codename: Kids Next Door. The series began to stream on Hulu as of May 2015. On May 27th, 2020, Foster's was re-released on HBO Max at launch.

## Appearances in other Cartoon Network media

A parody of Foster's called Fister's Home for Crazy Weirdo made up people appeared in the episode, Reap Walking. Wilt also makes an appearance at the end of the short, Dream Date.

Mac and Goo made brief cameos in the Billy and Mandy and Codename: Kids Next Door crossover special, The Grim Adventures of the KND, where both of them appeared popping out of the Delightful Reaper.

Mac's name appeared on a list in the Steven Universe crossover episode, Say Uncle.

Mac appeared as one of the audiences of the Uncle Grandpie awards in a segment of the Uncle Grandpa episode, Pizza Eve.

Frankie made a cameo appearance in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode, Crossover Nexus, as one of the Cartoon Network heroes that were summoned and turned into stone by Strike.

## Trivia

* The episode, Cheese A-Go-Go, first aired on the same day Marvel's Spider Man 3 was released on theaters.
* The series premiered two months after the launch of the CN City era, which was on June 14th, 2004.
* Season 3 reveals to be the only season of Foster's to have 14 episodes.