Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (Original Title: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, a play on words with "foster home" to Germany " foster family ", " foster home " ) is an American children's animated series from 2004 it was by Craig McCracken. who is also the Powerpuff Girls created, designed. In America, the series is broadcast on Cartoon Network, the series ran in Germany from January 20, 2007 on Super RTL.
Content
The series takes place in a world that is real in the imaginary friends as soon as a child she imagines. Also, other people and even adults can see them and interact with them. After a certain age but children usually have no more desire, with their imaginary friends to play, or their parents demand that they give up their imaginary friends so they can finally stand on our own feet. What will become of these devised friends? They find shelter in "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" - an adoption house, part of the old Madame Foster. There, the friends are allowed to live until a new kid comes and they want to adopt; a child who can not invent your own imaginary friend.
In the pilot movie (English " House of Bloo 's") we learn that Mac's mother is the constant wrangles between him, Bloo and the older brother Terrance sorry and also is of the opinion that he is 8 years old too old for an imaginary friend. She wants Bloo disappears. Mac brings Bloo then for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Since there is only one problem: Bloo can indeed stay there, but would be free under the rules automatically for adoption, as well as all other imaginary friends also. So he agrees with Mr. Herriman and Madame Foster, that Bloo is not up for adoption as long as Mac to exactly 3 clock visited him every day in the afternoon.
Figures
People
Mac: Mac is a very smart, creative 8 year old boy. Since he has come up with Bloo, the two are inseparable. Most of the time he spends in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends with Bloo and tries mostly in vain to stop him, to make nonsense. Mac rarely breaks rules and is a very good student.
Terrance Terrance is Mac's older brother and very mean to him and Bloo. He tries "the blue thing" to get rid of his brother. He is incidentally the reason Bloo no longer allowed to stay with Mac. Terrance also has its own fantasy friend called Red
Frankie Foster: Frankie, always referred to by Mr. Herriman Miss Frances, is the 22 - year-old granddaughter of Madame Foster. For the fantasy friends she's like a big sister, for she is generally very laidback and often whistles on Herriman rules. Frankie but can also be used to fury when her something does not fit or is permanently annoyed by the other. It copies all the chores in the house that always grow over her head and she sometimes takes advantage of the Imaginary Friends, to do them, as seen resulted in 13 of Season 3, " Room with a Feud " ( German: " room with obstacles " )
Madame Foster: She is the founder of the Foster house. For her age she is still mopsfidel and loves other people to play pranks or to keep them for a ride. Your own fantasy friend is Mr. Herriman, whom she thought up as a child and has never left since. Madame Foster is also very adventurous.
Goo Goo Ga Ga Goo is a girl with an exuberant creativity. When they visited Madame Foster's house, she is so inspired that they have a myriad of new imaginary friends think up, which then fill the house. For this reason, it is not goo actually allowed to enter the house. Her parents wanted Goos creativity not set limits, which is why they allowed her as a baby to choose their own name ( " Goo Goo Ga Ga "). So she dresses in an unconventional manner, usually responds quickly and does not annoy the rare people in their environment. She wants nothing more than a true friend.
Imaginary Friends
Q. Kazoo Blooregard ( Bloo ): Bloo is Mac's best friend. He is charming, extremely self- fixed and exaggerates like to, but it's got a hint of helpfulness, especially when it comes to his own goals come one step closer. He is a blue blob only if he gesticulates, visible arms has. Mac always accompanied him, so that he can do not too much damage. He is a troublemaker and brings to Mac and the rest of the gang from Foster's often ridiculous, unfortunate and potentially criminal adventure. Nevertheless, it is always forgiven him by his friends because he is a good friend.
Wilt: Wilt is one of the largest and friendliest imaginary friends who live in Foster Home. It was originally a boy named Jordan Michaels ( of course, a nod to Michael Jordan ) came up, so he teaches him how to play basketball. After Wilt in a crucial game Jordan saved his life and thereby lost his left arm, rather than to win the game, he ran away and has since lived in the Foster Home. The only thing is his height might still exceeds his good nature and dedication gift. Wilt can anyone refuse a request and would (although, actually for everyone) do anything for his friends. When he brings his doubts but once or rejection expressed he apologizes immediately for it or ask if it's okay.
Eduardo: Because of his somewhat intimidating appearance could be mistaken Eduardo for a terrible monster, but in reality this love fantasy boyfriend would do no kill a fly - namely because it himself terrified of them has ( also: spiders, darkness, broccoli, shoes, etc.). He 's quite a coward and corrupts so mostly the fun of the other imaginary friends, but when his friends are in trouble, he shows great courage and strength. His creator, Nina Valarosa, is now a police officer.
Coco: What Coco is supposed to represent exactly, no one is really clear, which is why it is often called " Palm Bird - plane thingy ". She speaks only in their own "Coco" language that is surprisingly understandable for everyone. She walks around like the whole house and puts her colorful plastic eggs, which hatch different things, sometimes useless and sometimes helpful. Despite their funny appearance and language, she is probably one of the most mature imaginary friends in the house. Who invented it, it remains in the dark, in the 40- minute special " Good Wilt Hunting", we learn that she was found on a little-studied island of the two biology students and geeks Douglas and Adam.
Mr. Herriman: Mr. Herriman is Madame Foster's own fantasy friend. He is a great rabbit with a mustache who always wears a top hat, smoking jacket, a yellow vest and a monocle. To perfect the Butler appearance, he also speaks in the original version with an English accent. However, Herriman is not the butler of the house: He is the administrator who manages the daily happenings of the house with strict rules. Under his " rule " has to suffer in particular Madame Foster's granddaughter Frankie. He seems to have his eyes and ears everywhere, as all things in Episode 6 (English title " Busted " ) is clear when he constantly tries Bloo drumming into the house rules.
The Duchess (English " Duchess" ): She is one of the villains of the series, because even in the first episode she tries to sell Bloo by all means out of the house. She wishes nothing more than to finally move out of the house. The Duchess, as Bloo, very self-centered. The world should be practically turn only to them - in the episode " Duchess of Hearts" is shown, for example, as every morning from Frankie and the others awaken, bathe and dress can be. Their appearance is reminiscent of a painting by Pablo Picasso.
Cheese (English " Cheese" ): This yellow colored imaginary friend was devised by Macs neighbor Louise, with Mac though initially assumed he must have thought him accidentally in her sleep. He has all cheese making his first appearance in the series. He gives most of the time full of nonsense is repeated sentences several times ( "I like chocolate milk ", although he is lactose intolerant or " again " if he likes something ) or just breaks without warning in deafening shriek. Although he does not live in the Foster house, he always comes back and drives its inhabitants to madness.
Red: is a thought out of Terrance fantasy friend and almost the complete opposite of Bloo. He's a big, red cube can only move by hopping, where he usually unintentionally generated an earthquake. He is very aggressive and was conceived only by Terrance so he can beat up Bloo, as Terrance realized that he can do alone against Mac and Bloo nothing. Red seems to be a mixture of Bloos contradictory actions and terrances aggressiveness and stupidity. He always speaks of the 3rd person about himself and is very leichtgläugig and, ironically, actually very nice. Because he realized that Mac and Bloo are no bad personalities he straightened himself against his Creator Terrance. Later he was taken in the house.
Construction and Technology
The first episode or the pilot is a 60 - minute special. All other episodes are 22 or 11 minutes, two of the latter are getting together to form a double episode. Fosters is fully animated in Adobe Flash, background edited in Adobe Illustrator and then both component in Adobe After Effects are joined together.
Awards
Foster was able to reap four Emmy Awards: 2004 won the pilot "House of Bloo 's " two Emmys for directing (Mike Moon ) and character design ( Craig McCracken ). " World Wide Wabbit " won a trophy for the best storyboard ( Ed Baker). The fourth Emmy brought Shannon Tindle in 2006 as the character design supervisor. The title theme, which is described by McCracken and Venable as " psychedelic ragtime " was nominated in 2005 for Best TV Show Theme, but lost to Danny Elfman's theme to Desperate Housewives. In addition, the episode " Go Goo Go" was nominated for Best Animated Program Under One Hour.
The series was also nominated for a total of fourteen Annie Awards, of which were won five: in 2005 for Best Original Music and Production Design, and in the following year as Best Animated Television Production, Best Original Music in a TV Series and Production Design in a TV Series.
Synchronization
Others
From 21 to 22 July 2006, Foster a booth at the "Comic Con 2006" in San Diego. Craig McCracken, Lauren Faust, as well as the American voice actor gave autographs, and T-shirts and trading cards were distributed.