Episode Talkback: "The Big Picture"

[pitbulllady]

Since this one airs tonight, I'm gonna go ahead and start a thread for it. I just HOPE I actually do get to see it; we have severe storms forecast for much of this evening, and radar is showing a line of really nasty ones marching out of Georgia towards us. We usually lose power during such storms, or the satallite will be blocked by the high clouds. Anyway, I can hardly wait to see what the big fuss is over this "strange picture" taken at Fosters years ago!

pitbulllady

[kageri]

Only halfway through and I can already say Mandy makes a cameo and Frankie looks hot in green.

The End

EDIT:

Dear Goo,

STOP BEING ANNOYING.

Hate,

Kageri

[pikabloo]

WONDERFUL!!! So many great moments, among others, the return of Goo and Cheese, Mandy's cameo, the ''Where's Waldo?'' spoof, and Coco speaks (!) It got a little fast-paced toward the end, and I had slight difficulty following along, but a great episode nonetheless!

[kageri]

pikabloo said:

and Coco speaks (!)

That was super weird (as was seeing Madame Foster shrink...).

I love how they alluded to Frankie's skinniness (although she is still cute and spunky), and Wilt's been at Foster's for pretty much ever. The return of Cheese and Goo, both in the same episode.... just.... wah?

[kaytea]

OMG I cant wait till it comes on
it sounds so cool.

[Vivi]

^.^ oh, it was so awesome! I felt so bad for wilt! and he was so cute! he's the cutest one! *he's* the one who shoulda *really* been in the picture! >> how I sympathize him.

[pitbulllady]

Thank goodness I kept my laptop battery charged, and kept my dial-up down here at my grandparents' house. As expected, there's no electricity, though the storm was not that bad. It hit JUST as "The Big Picture" ended, and about ten minutes later, somebody hit a utility pole with their car. The power company says it will take another six-seven hours to restore power, so it will be a loooooong night.

Be that as it were, this was one STRANGE episode, but a good one! I loved seeing Goo return, and she was not anywhere NEAR as annoying or hyper as before(must be the Ritalyn). It was also fun to see Cheese's little cameo; I KNEW as soon as Bloo mentioned "chocolate milk" what was coming, though! The best part for me, of course, was the running gag with Wilt trying to make sure his face was in THIS picture, poor guy. Did anyone manage to count how many years he's actually been there, as seen by the number of photos with him(or his legs and torso, anyway)in it? I'm really now thinking that Wilt MUST have indeed been created in the same year that his namesake scored that 100 points in a single basketball game, which makes him a '62 model...a VERY good year, I might add. He's really been there a long, long time, though.

Coco actually speaking a freaking everyone else out in Bloo's theory, Duchess giving Ed the makeover so he wouldn't make HER look bad by standing next to him(Duchess is starting to remind me of Edna Mode, now, for some reason), Coco having her "fat complex" and needing "comfort food", and Bloo being the one to figure out the REAL reason why no one but Frankie and Madame Foster were in that one picture, all really came together well. I also applaud my dear Wilt in his decision to let Mac and Bloo solve the mystery on their on, and THEN tell them if they got it right-helps develope those all-important higher-level thinking and problem-solving skills. Wilt would have MY vote for our Superintendent of Education!

pitbulllady

[Duchess]

I cannot WAIT to see this episode . . . hopefully Teletoon will air it this weekend, or I'll be able to download it soon. I need my Duchess fix!

[CG]

Dude. 62? Wilt's 44 years old then! Now that's interesting to say the least.

Come onnn MySpleen. Gimmie something good!

[Duchess]

cgaussie said:

Dude. 62? Wilt's 44 years old then! Now that's interesting to say the least.

Come onnn MySpleen. Gimmie something good!

I know, please don't let it be six days like last time! I don't think I can handle waiting for a Duchess episode that long.

Also . . . thinking of Wilt middle aged cracks me up for some reason.

[CG]

It probably will be six days. Man, and there's japanese kids who upload Keroro to the net two DAYS after it airs then! C'mon America, put a boot up yer bum and upload Foster's for those of us who can't watch it on TV! ...or at least the same time as you.

And yeah, seriously. He's looking pretty good for a middle aged Friend. Still got game.

[and happy 100 posts to meeee!]

[pitbulllady]

cgaussie said:

Dude. 62? Wilt's 44 years old then! Now that's interesting to say the least.

Come onnn MySpleen. Gimmie something good!

Yeah, and I oughta know. Seriously, though, there must have been close to 20 years' worth of Annual photos of the Foster's residents, with him in it, so he's been at Foster's that long, and probably had been on his own for several years between winding up at Foster's and being abandoned by his creator's family, and I have to assume that he spent several years with his creator before abandonment. I mean, he WAS named after, and based upon, someone whose career height WAS the '60's, and whose greatest career achievement-the thing that brought him into the spotlight and made him a household name and made professional basketball a respectable nationwide sport-was in 1962. OUR Wilt might not be quite that old, but he's got to be at least 40 or awfully close to it. He's old enough to have learned the pointlessness of arguing with someone like Mr. Herriman, when Herriman said what he did about Wilt being even taller if he stood on a chair, after Wilt requested one to SIT on.

pitbulllady

[CG]

Or he could just be based on Wilt Chamberlain, long after his career rocketed sky high in the 60's. I mean it's a well known name amongst Basketball fans in America, obviously. Like Shaq. And Michael Jordan. I mean that rubber chicken fella with the bag on his head and obvious Groucho Marx glasses and voice was based on Groucho Marx. But are we to asume he's been around since the 40's? I doubt that.

But he's obviously older then 20, given that's how many photos were with him in. Aparantly. I've yet to see the episode.

[pitbulllady]

cgaussie said:

Or he could just be based on Wilt Chamberlain, long after his career rocketed sky high in the 60's. I mean it's a well known name amongst Basketball fans in America, obviously. Like Shaq. And Michael Jordan. I mean that rubber chicken fella with the bag on his head and obvious Groucho Marx glasses and voice was based on Groucho Marx. But are we to asume he's been around since the 40's? I doubt that.

But he's obviously older then 20, given that's how many photos were with him in. Aparantly. I've yet to see the episode.

Actually, VERY few basketball fans under 30 in this country have any clue whatsoever who Wilt Chamberlain was, unless they've learned that much from watching Fosters! I teach in a very ethnic school district, and most of the kids I teach practically eat, sleep and drink NBA basketball, yet I have only encountered ONE kid, out of more than 300, who'd even HEARD of Wilt Chamberlain, and that was because his grandfather had told him! For some reason, basketball superstars do not tend to stay in the public mind very long after retirement. Charles Barkley was a big superstar of the '90's, not so long ago, yet very few of my kids have heard of him, either, and I heard one tell another that Kareem Abdul-Jabar was a BOXER! It's like with basketball fans, if they were not around to actually remember seeing a guy play, they have no idea who he is. That's why it's very likely that our Wilt WAS created back when Wilt Chamberlain was still playing, unless he was created by an adult or teen creator, who would still have remembered Chamberlain's heyday even though he was already retired. If Wilt was created by a younger child, it's unlikely that this kid would have known anything about Wilt Chamberlain if he was no longer in the public spotlight. That's just how it is with professional basketball players, unless they manage to land a later career as an actor or something(Chamberlain didn't, by the way).

pitbulllady

[CG]

Well I knew who he was. Even before Fosters, and I'm not even IN America.