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Post by Sparky on Aug 12, 2006 20:25:29 GMT -5
(I totally like Klown's avatar too.)
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Post by Bloo2daMacs on Aug 12, 2006 20:26:39 GMT -5
Yes, I agree as well
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Voxxyn
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Post by Voxxyn on Aug 13, 2006 17:13:20 GMT -5
I didn't become a fan until late last year... but I actually knew about it from the very beginning.
I had a couple of brushes with this show in August 2004; aka the month in which it debuted. The first was me browsing the Cartoons & Animation section of the GameFAQs boards, reading a thread about some upcoming show about imaginary friends, and all I remember from it was everybody saying it would "suck" and "be cancelled within a few months", and one poster said that one of the characters was a "nice" version of Vicky from The Fairly Oddparents. The other was a few weeks later, when my family was vacationing at a hotel. I remember waking up to seeing the television set left on(by my mother), and it was on Cartoon Network... and the pilot was airing. I saw some of it before I said "meh" and changed the channel.
I just moved on and forgot about it. At this point, I had completely abandoned Cartoon Network, as all the shows I liked were either cancelled, mistreated by the execs or jumped the shark, and the new ones really didn't do much for me. For a while, I thought that I had "grown up" and that cartoons were no longer for me.
I was a fool. In the final months of 2005(Just as I began recovering from Star Wars-inflicted fever), I began watching Cartoon Network again, mainly because of a very brief obsession with Teen Titans(Which was only because I absolutely loved Terra, and still do >_>), but I decided to watch some of the new shows, which of course included Foster's. I quickly saw that it was actually a pretty good show.
But, more importantly(And no surprises here), I became more and more attracted to Frankie. It was hard to explain, but she had this "can't help liking" personality that I liked for some reason, especially in contrast to the psycho babysitter she strongly resembled. But it wasn't really love at the beginning, it was just a gradual appreciating of her character as I watched more episodes.
And then it blew up into outright obsession with two particular episodes.
The first was "Hiccy Burp". I'm talking about the scene where Frankie comforts the crying little friend. That bit may be trivial to most of you, but for me, THAT DID IT. I went from liking Frankie as a "cool down-to-earth character" to loving her and seeing her as the kind, loving, beautiful-inside-and-out girl she really was.
And the other? "Imposter's Home For, Um... Make 'Em Up Pals". Oh, dear. This episode was a masterpiece in ways completely opposite to the silly and adorable show that Foster's usually is. It's been a loooooooooooooong time since I've been so attached and so rattled by what happens to fictional characters, IN ANY MEDIUM. It pretty much turned me into a permanent Frankie fan, and it's gotten to the point that with EVERY new episode, I always tell to myself "I hope nothing bad happens to her..."
It's safe to say I became a fan at that point. I mention Star Wars because it's been my biggest obsession for all my life, and as far as entertainment and the fictional world goes, I only thought about the final movie as I entered 2005... and I left 2005 with Foster's displacing it as my new all-time obsession.
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Post by Cassini90125 on Aug 13, 2006 17:57:24 GMT -5
You're very right about that moment in "Hiccy Burp". It was a really beautiful thing to see, watching Frankie's caring and compassionate side shine like that. For me it was the high point of the episode. I'm smiling about it even as I write this. As for "Imposter's Home", don't ask.
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Kzinistzerg
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Post by Kzinistzerg on Aug 14, 2006 11:42:13 GMT -5
My oldest brother's friend was over for a weekend, and when we were flipping through channels, she pointed out fosters and said it wasn't bad. So when I was at my grandmother's house at the end of july, where I always stock up on my cartoons (we have cable at home and we get cartoon network but my grandma has nick too) I watched a few episodes. Instant hit. It's more amazing though, that you can look at it in several layers- first just a kids cartoon, but then there's also more interesting and 3d characters than you normally find and then there even more stuff going on than you think. Anyway I like cartoons, even though my parents don't (my dad is amused by spongebob, so I told him eduado's voice-actor does spongebob too) so this one was great. First one I saw was Infernal Slumber, but I think I'd seen bits of other ones previous to that.
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Post by lucyrocks73 on Aug 14, 2006 11:55:50 GMT -5
My very first encounter with the show was in summer 2004 when I was reading National Geographic Kids (okay, I was a geek child). On the back, there was an ad for Foster's. I thought it sounded stupid, and muttered, "Ew" under my breath. Being the idiotic twelve year old I was, I thought that Mac's name was actually "Foster". The thought going through my head as I threw the magazine in the trash: "Who the heck names their kid Foster?" How completely unthoughtful and oblivious I was (I wish I would have kept that magazine now). I went on and forgot about the show for a while. In June of 2005, I was woken up fairly early by my insane four-year-old brother, who wanted to watch TV. So, I turned it on. In my half-asleep stupor, I forgot that my brother wasn't allowed to watch CN (long story). I watched PPG when I was little (I LOVED it), and stopped watching when the PPG movie annoyed the crap out of me so much. Well, the episode of Foster's that was on was "The Sweet Stench of Success". It was love at first Deo. And I had a bizarre hankering to make sure that I had enough deodorant on afterwords. Ha. And then I started reading Foster's fanfiction (because I'm one of those people who thinks that the fandom's fanfiction makes up 10% of how good the show actually is). THERE IS NO TURNING BACK!!! -Marty
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Post by BlooCheese on Aug 14, 2006 14:35:08 GMT -5
When did I first start liking Foster's? I guess from the moment I saw the first commercial on WB. (I don't have cable.) I can still remember it so clearly... I think Bloo was the one who made me want to watch Foster's.
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Post by Cheesecake Recipe on Aug 15, 2006 2:33:12 GMT -5
I caught the show on Cartoon Network earlier this year (around March, I think. It's been a long while, I remember that much) while over at a friends house. Bloo's Shenanigans instantly had me hooked, and has been my favorite character ever since. Although I didn't see the show for some time after that, I was able to catch up when I got a Digital Cable box to catch the episodes that would Air while I was out. It's become a part of my regular TV viewing program.
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Post by fostersfriend on Aug 15, 2006 5:22:03 GMT -5
Well thanks to my two friends they couldn't stop talking about Cheese and his comments. It made me laugh alot. So I went on the net and found the episode and downoaded it. I fell in love with all the characters in MacDaddy its also great to be brought to the fosters world by watching a very funny episode. So thanks to my friends I got hooked and never stopped watching it.
*cough visit my blog *cough
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Kzinistzerg
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Post by Kzinistzerg on Aug 15, 2006 16:37:31 GMT -5
I have to add on an addendum to my previous post, which is this:
There have been exactly two times in my life that I've felt pity for a character in a book or movie or similar. The first time was in a book that I can't remember the name of- something with chrestomanci or similar, in which this little boy is born with nine lives, seven of which are selfishly stolen by his sister, who then plans to kill him. The other, most recent time, was watching Mac get locked in the closet in the pilot (he really does sound like a small child- at first I didn't like it but now I realise the characters really have evolved). So that definitely wins me over. It's incredibly rare that something should be so well written. And the voice actors are really, really, really good, they can put genuine emotion in things.
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