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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
2004 · TV series · 22 min episodes · 6 seasons
Created by Craig McCracken
KidsAnimationFamilyScience FictionFantasyComedy
What happens when a child outgrows his trusty Imaginary Friend, the pal that stuck with him through all of the highs and lows of growing up? Well, these creations pack up and head for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends! Foster's is a one-of-a-kind Victorian mansion filled with hundreds of unique characters from all over the world, thought up by completely different children for completely different reasons. These creatures all live together in this vast, sprawling home with more rooms than you could ever dream possible! Mac, a clever but somewhat shy 8-year-old boy, discovers Foster's when his mom tells him he's too old for his Imaginary Friend Blooregard. Not ready to part with his trouble making best buddy, Mac takes Bloo to Foster's with the hope of giving him a safe place to live, while still being able to visit every day.
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I don't know anybody that had an imaginary friend either. It would be really funny if having an imaginary friend and being a creative type that makes TV shows were highly correlated, so that everybody working on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (a cartoon series) thought imaginary friends were completely normal, while the people who don't grow up to be writers wonder why everyone on TV has imaginary friends.
You know how business people on TV are always stressed out about the next big presentation? In part that is due to the fact that writers work job-to-job, and everything hangs on the next big pitch. In a way I wonder if American TV culture is just different parts of the life of a TV writer expressed over and over again in different settings, complete with idiosyncratic childhood developmental tendencies that are exclusive to tomorrow's scriptwriters.