Fun for the Whole Family: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

As a father of two young boys I find it hard sometimes to find kid's/family shows that I can tolerate watching with my boys. Sure, they love the National Geographic type stuff, as I do. But the real challenge is animated shows. The cartoons out there range from animated Japanese card playing games to the usual robotic tedium. Thank goodness a show like Foster's came along.

My wife and I actually find ourselves DVR'ing episodes, not just so the boys will have something to watch, but because we enjoy the episodes!

The main story behind Foster's is that of an imaginative young Anglo-Saxon boy named Mac. Mac is your usual little boy that imagined himself a friend, one Blooregard Q. Kazoo, better known as Bloo. Bloo looks like the classic sheeted-ghost with big eyes and a bigger smile, except that he is a striking cobalt blue color.

Mac finds that Bloo can't stay with him and his single mom in their apartment as there simply isn't room. He goes to the local imaginary friend orphanage and makes a deal with the establishment, namely one Madame Foster, a kindly eccentric little-old-lady that runs Foster's. If Mac comes and visits Bloo daily then Bloo won't come up for adoption and Bloo can stay there indefinitely.

Bloo shares his new home with an amazing host of characters, all imagined by someone at some point in time, bringing them into existence. There seems to be hundreds at Madame Foster's, but the main ones are these:
Wilt: an extremely tall, lanky, red basketball-player'ish character. Wilt has one lanky arm and a stub for the other, a shaggy face, big smile and two stalk-like eyes, although only one seems to be controlable. Wilt's most noticeable trait is his extreme niceness, using "I'm sorry, but…" in most of his dialogue. Wilt is also polite to a fault, if such a thing is possible.

Eduardo: Eduardo is the classic beast under the bed, with certain catches. He appears as a big, shaggy, toothy, horned and hoofed Latino monster. Ed's main personality trait, however, is that he is timid beyond reason to the point of being afraid of everything. Even with his fears, Ed will defend his friends to the death.