This is a list of main characters seen in the American animated television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
Humans
Mac
Mac (voiced by Sean Marquette) is a bright, somewhat shy, square-headed, precocious, nine-year old boy (except in I Only Have Surprise for You) who created Blooregard Q. Kazoo when he was three years old. Mac is unusually intelligent for his age, standing (according to his Coco Card) three feet, six inches tall and weighing 67 pounds with a sense of reason and somewhat large vocabulary to match. He tends to be the one to settle any mishaps that the imaginary friends (particularly Bloo) end up causing.
Even though they argue, Mac and Bloo are best friends. Mac often functions as Bloo's conscience, since Bloo's freewheeling egotism often gets him into trouble, even though in several episodes, Bloo acts as the conscience and Mac has been a troublemaker. McCracken states that "Mac is a more like me now: aware of others' feelings, quiet, shy, sensitive. Mac also seems to look more like me as a little kid, which was unintentional, but it just happened that way."
Away from the house, he lives in an apartment with his mother and his older brother, the bothersome bully Terrence. Mac isn't very popular at his school, as shown in "Bye Bye Nerdy", where Bloo tries to make him cool, but ends up embarrassing him in front of the whole city, and the outset of "Hiccy Burp", where he is incensed about Richie Wilderbrat and his friend, Blake Superior. It looks like the only kid he has as a friend is Goo. This may be related to his grumpiness, which as shown in "Go Goo Go" had him originally disliking Goo from seeing little worthwhile about her, although he completely befriends her when he realizes that, though extremely annoying, she has an extremely warm heart.
He also has a condition in which he gets hyperactive after eating only a small bit of sugar, as seen in "Partying is Such Sweet Soireé" (even though in "Squeeze The Day", Mac is seen raiding the refrigerator with Bloo, he eats a number of sugary foods, and doesn't go hyperactive. However, he does eat himself unconscious probabaly because the punch had about a full box of sugar and he is not seen eating much sugar the second time. Also, his sugar craze is mentioned in "I Only Have Surprise For You") He is very patient, but when he goes out of control, he gets really cranky, like when Bloo plans a surprise party for him, and he dislikes past surprise parties Bloo has thrown for him. Moreover, Mac has a strongly moral personality. He always avoids doing wrong things, but sometimes he is pushed to do otherwise, like capture an animal, jump in the bed, steal in order to complete his movie, etc.
Mac is usually very good-natured despite Bloo's continuing antics - no matter what happens to Bloo or any other member of the house, Mac is usually the one to bail them out. However, he has been known to snap; for instance, in the episode "Go Goo Go" when Goo's incessant imagining and unwanted prescence forces Herriman to ban Mac from returning to the house, Goo talks a mile a minute like she usually does and Mac finally goes ballistic (saying, with references to Goo's earlier comments, "I DON'T LIKE YOU!!! Don't you get it? Nobody likes you! You're annoying and weird, and you talk too much, and Bloo's name is not Chester! Mr. Herriman is not a badger, that's not how you play checkers, and protein doesn't come from bananas! It comes from nuts! Which you don't need to eat any more of, because you ARE nuts! You're chock full of nuts! You're so nuts, you drive ME nuts! Get it? Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, you get it? Everyone thinks you're a nuisance, and they all want you to just GO HOME!!!!!!!").
Mac doesn't often have the chance to be a kid, but when he does, he goes full out. In "Squeeze the Day", he was the one that pointed out that no adults were around and that he and Bloo could do whatever they wanted. Also, in "Bus the Two of Us", Mac and Bloo go on a joyride in the Foster's bus.
Click on link for concept art for Mac http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/737/2681/1600/Mac.jpg
Frankie
Frances "Frankie" Foster (almost always called Frankie for short by everyone except Mr. Herriman, voiced by Grey DeLisle) is (according to her license as seen in "Bus The Two of Us" and her Coco Card) the 5-foot-10 inch tall, 127-pound easy-going, 22-year-old granddaughter of Madame Foster who was born July 25, and in charge of everything at Foster's (once referred by Mac as "the estate manager"), from cooking to cleaning the house to doing the laundry. She occasionally feels stressed out from everything, letting Mr. Herriman get under her skin more often than not for sticking to his rules. We also learn that she's into punk rock, as discovered in "Everyone Knows It's Bendy".
She can be quite charming, though, as seen in "Frankie My Dear", where Mac, Bloo, an imaginary Prince Charming (that later appeared in "The Big Cheese"), and a pizza delivery boy named Chris all fall briefly in love with her. Frankie can be skeptical at times, as seen in "Imposter's Home For Um…Make 'Em Up Pals", where she thinks Goofball John McGee isn't an imaginary friend because of his overly-human appearance. In fact, Goofball has an elephantine trunk hidden behind a red clown nose he had been wearing at the time. She also has an unhealthy addiction to Madame Foster's home-baked cookies, often driving her into a frenzy.
It's not a good idea to get on her bad side, as she gave Mr. Herriman all sorts of fits throughout "Busted", where she had to clean up various messes made when Mac and friends were trying to repair Madame Foster's bust, or in "Crime After Crime", where she tried making "It" (a smelly, stinky food concoction that Bloo likened to vomit) many times, only to have ceiling plaster fall in, which made Madame Foster smack her hand and tell her to make it again. When she finally manages to make the dish, Bloo is the only one left who hadn't been sent to his room without supper, so he was forced to eat it. She also won the election for president of the house in "Setting A President", but resigned when she found out the pay was worse than her old job. In the cold, dark autumn of 1984, Frankie was the first one to open the secret door containing the Scribbles, until Bloo accidentally released them in "The Trouble with Scribbles".
- Frankie is named after musician Frank Black, the character's look loosely based on series supervising producer (and real-life spouse of series creator Craig McCracken) Lauren Faust. She wears a stylized Powerpuff Girls T-shirt complete with versions of Buttercup (in green), Blossom (in pink) and Bubbles (in light blue) most of the time.
- According to the episode "Phone Home", Frankie's cell phone number is 555-6300.
- Frankie appeared in two Cartoon Network shorts, one where she struggles to find a parking space and another when Ben of Ben 10 bumps into her and she remarks "Smooth, WildBoy."
- According to her driver's license in the episode "Bus the Two of Us," her birthday is July 25.
Madame Foster
Martha Foster (voiced by Candi Milo) founded the home that bears her name. She's had a strange life, having once gotten lost in the labyrinth house for three days, eating nothing but acorns and toothpaste. She also spent forty-six days in the horse stables when her granddaughter accidentally let the Scribbles out from the forbidden door in the cold autumn of 1984. She also owns what looks like a late 1970's Pontiac Firebird sports car complete with the bird on the hood similar to the one shown in the Smokey and the Bandit movies, which she likes to drive around town. She has a long-standing feud with the neighbor across the street, Old Man Rivers. According to Foster, Rivers borrowed a cup of sugar from her "and did not return one single granulatory ounce!" She also possesses a chest of pirate treasure buried near a Hydrangea bush on her property.
Kooky and charming, and always wearing a smile for anyone to cheer them up as their surrogate grandmother, she's a fun-loving old woman who always finds a way to have a good time, even if she has to break Mr. Herriman's rules in order to do so, she is truly a kid at heart.. Mr. Herriman is never happy about this, but since it was Madame Foster who created him in the first place, he doesn't have much of a say about it. She often pokes good-hearted fun at others, like in "Mac Daddy" where she punned Mac and Cheese (referring to the popular pasta dinner macaroni and cheese) and "Bloo Cheese" (a type of cheese). She is quite sneaky and malicious when she needs to be, as seen in "Foster's Goes to Europe" when she purloined Mac's tickets to Europe with a rather long hug. She then went on vacation with her friends and a homesick imaginary friend named Eurotrish. She even bought the stuff Mac put up for auction on an internet auction web site (SchmeBay, a parody of eBay) in "One False Movie", not knowing that she was buying her own stuff or funding much of the movie that Mac and Blooregard were making. She also tricked Mac into a surprise party disguised as an imaginary friend named Artie who was four years old in "I Only Have Surprise For You."
Madame Foster sometimes makes rude jokes out of someone's unfortunate situations (most notably while Bloo was eating a horrible meal Frankie specially prepared) with a below-basic level of sarcasm. Madame Foster and Mac seem to be kindred spirits, as she has never gotten rid of her imaginary friend (Mr. Herriman) and Mac refuses to give up Bloo. Sometimes, Madame Foster's daily actions tend to change from morally good to psychotic (such as running with pointy objects inside the mansion, using exaggerated methods to solve many problems, or even performing semi-nudism), but most characters also suffer from her same personality disorder (Mr. Herriman for example: he always acts as a cultured refined imaginary friend, but in some critical cases he can go through spasms).
Terrence
Terrence (voiced by Tara Strong) is a typical thirteen-year-old bully, with much of that bullying often directed at his younger sibling, Mac. He has a mullet haircut, a case of bad acne on his face, wears a grunge style of plaid wool shirt, and is considered to be as bright as a wet match in a damp cave as seen during "Seeing Red", in which he imagines up a red block ("Red") and wanted to call "Green," only for it to end up with the exact opposite personality of his. In spite of his bullying attitude, he was seen watching a soap opera (The Loved and the Loveless) in "Berry Scary."
In the pilot, he conspires with Duchess to get rid of Bloo permanently, but fails and is punished with cleaning out the imaginary horse stables, where he was attacked by the unicorns, whom he had called "girly" earlier in the episode. In "Eddie Monster", he befriends Eduardo in a dumpster in the slums of the city and recruits him to fight in the Extremeasaur Battle circuit, but is caught when he brags to Mac about it, and in "Duchess of Wails", he tells Mac that because their next-door neighbors, the Applebees, have adopted Duchess, much to their chagrin, they plan to move to Singapore, which he mistakenly believes to be in Wisconsin (which Bloo also thought).
Imaginary friends
Blooregard Q. Kazoo
Blooregard Q. Kazoo (Bloo for short, voiced by Keith Ferguson) was the first character created by McCracken. Bloo is a six-year-old imaginary friend appearing as a blue, door-shaped blob. His trading card in "Cuckoo For Coco Cards" (shown at right) says that he is two feet tall and weighs 31 pounds when dry, but given the card's context, it may be biased information (although not without reason, even though he's been called on the card a "big, insensitive jerkface") he said sorry but he got a bobble-head that wasn't that hard to get. He doesn't have legs, either gliding or bouncing his way around (Mac even once quoted "you don't even have toenails"), and doesn't appear to have arms at first, but can produce them at will. He loves cranberry apple juice, and celery (as seen in "Fosters Goes to Europe") but is allergic to tomatoes (demonstrated in "One False Movie" when his movie is cut off by a special episode of Lauren Is Explorin', obviously a parody of Dora the Explorer) and flowers (seen in "Challenge of the Superfriends"). In "Bloo's Brothers," Frankie remarks upon his fondness for playing with Mac's chemistry set, shown at the start of "Imposter's Home For, Um…Make-'Em-Up Pals". When Bloo gets a cold, he gets a ghostly-white color as seen in "Blooooo!", as Wilt, Eduardo and Coco believed he was a cannibal ghost from a movie that they were watching.
In early episodes ("House of Bloo's" in particular), he was innocuous and good natured if goofy. However, he became increasingly selfish, immature and wild, perpetually scheming while playing pranks, and breaks a lot of rules. Also his voice has changed from a deep voice to a lighter voice. Bloo's behavior is often used as a MacGuffin; for instance, in episode "Land of the Flea," Bloo shears Eduardo because he wants Eduardo's fleas - simply because Eduardo has the fleas and Bloo doesn't.
Bloo is a very good bowler, unlike Mac. However, Mac excels at paddleball much to Bloo's jealousy. In "Room with a Feud" Bloo's only possessions are about 100 paddleballs. Bloo was the counter when he and Mac tried to beat the world record for paddleball. Bloo is horrible at paddleball yet loves it and thinks he can't get it because the paddle is broken.
Bloo has often demonstrated a hyper, albeit nonchalant personality. He is still incredibly naive. For example, he has no idea what sarcasm means in the episode "My So-Called Wife". He often misuses sarcastic inflections when he is in fact being earnest. He's also quite childlike, especially when confronted with a "cool" item he cannot have. Bloo often disregards the rules or finds loopholes in them easily, and often tells hyperbolic lies to achieve means to an end. Bloo, along with Mac, are usually the ones at the receiving end of the episode's morality tale, usually because Bloo's antics got them there in the first place - such as in "Sweet Stench of Success". Bloo often has a tendency to accept outrageous ideas as fact to explain seemingly-mundane occurrences, such as in "The Big Picture", where he develops numerous conspiracy theories about an unusual picture taken before Mac and Bloo arrived at the house. He also has a tendency to take pointless things seriously, such as when the friends were playing "Truth of Dare", he stopped Mac from keeping Eduardo quiet since, as Bloo put it, Mac would cause them to lose points.
Bloo, when going incognito, dons a moustache and a top hat, makes his voice deeper and claims his name is "Orlando Bloo," a clear pun on the popular actor Orlando Bloom, chosen by Bloo in the episode "Frankie My Dear" when he attempts to woo Frankie due to Bloom's popularity as a "celebrity hunk." According to Mac, he usually stands on Mac's shoulders during the ruse, concealed by a long trench coat that Bloo also wears, but in the episode "Neighbor Pains," he stands on Wilt's shoulders. Mac is hurt when he discovers this.
Mr. Herriman overtly despises Bloo and constantly tries to get him thrown out. Despite his hijinks and self-centered behavior, Bloo has managed to forge several close friendships with the other imaginary friends in the house, and often allies with Frankie against Mr. Herriman. Despite Bloo's popularity and good terms with most of the other imaginary friends, he is notorious around the house for his pranks and silly antics. He has shown to be a good comedian in "Beat With A Schtick". Bloo's early design resembled a walking, talking blanket (as seen on the original website).
Click on link for concept art for Bloo http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/737/2681/1600/Bloo.jpg
Wilt
Wilt (voiced by Phil LaMarr) is an optimistic imaginary friend who was created by a basketball fan, getting his name from the legendary center Wilt Chamberlain. He wears old school styled basketball sneakers - which make his footsteps squeak like he's on a basketball court when he walks around - a red, white and blue sweatband on his wrist, and the number one on his chest like a basketball jersey.
He has large stitches (or scars) on his head and has only his right arm to use in a normal manner as his left arm is a stump (although a stump, he can use his left to hold little things, as seen in "Where There's a Wilt, There's a Way" when he holds a bowl of chips with it). His eyes are on stalks protruding from his head, the left one being likely blind and quite probably false (it rattles when it moves and the eyelid doesn't open and close with his other eye). It has yet to be revealed what caused Wilt's many scars, although it seems likely his extremely non-confrontational personality is a by-product of some dark times in his past.
The tallest of the imaginary friends (according to his Coco Card) at ten feet tall and 130 pounds of lean muscle, Wilt prides himself on finding abandoned imaginary friends, making him a "helper friend," and is gentle to a fault, sometimes apologizing a lot; he just can't say no when someone asks him to do something, even if it's incredibly inconvenient, for example, in "Where There's A Wilt, There's A Way", in which he missed the entire basketball game doing favors for everyone who saw him. Bloo's laziness sometimes makes him take advantage of Wilt's niceness by pretending to be sad or hurt. In "Partying Is Such Sweet Soireé", we also learn that he's an excellent dancer, but tends to get nervous in front of large gatherings as seen at the County Imaginary Friends Talent Show Pageant in "Hiccy Burp", resulting in him flubbing his lines. Wilt also hosted the contest the previous year, apparently forgetting his lines and causing something horrible (which was mentioned but never explained). An upcoming episode — "Good Wilt Hunting" — will have Wilt searching for his creator after he didn't show up at a reunion picnic for the friends. Wilt is generally a pushover, although he does have his dignity and will stand up for himself past a certain point. In one episode, a new bedroom was available and he was quite insistent that he deserved it while in another episode he refused to help Bloo after he discovered he was making fun of tall people. Wilt is one of the oldest friends at Foster's, and the third oldest of the imaginary main characters (with Duchess and Herriman as second and first, respectively) as shown in the episode "The Big Picture" where he is seen in all but the first of the annual house photos.
Click here for concept art for Wilt http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/737/2681/1600/Wilt.png
Eduardo
Eduardo (voiced by Tom Kenny) is a seven-foot tall (to his horns), 542-pound "protector friend" and is as gentle as anyone in the house, despite his menacing appearance. He resembles a mixture of a minotaur and the creatures from Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are, with his purple fur, horns, fangs and skull-shaped belt buckle and commonly speaks "Spanglish", which means he often calls Bloo "Azul." Despite being a protector friend, he's something of a coward, as noted in "House Of Bloo's" by Wilt that he wouldn't hurt a fly, because, as Eduardo pointed out, he's too scared of them. During "Cuckoo for Coco Cards," on Coco's imaginary friend trading cards, Eduardo is classified first as "a big fat baby" (offending Big Baby) then a "chicken" (offending a chicken), then a "scaredy cat" (of which the Big Baby got the last laugh) before being finally upgraded to "crazy idiot" after much trying. He has shown great strength when he is frightened too much, often involuntarily injuring whoever or whatever is scaring him. This caused him to be a favorite contender in an imaginary friend fighting contest (he would get scared and end up throwing the opponent out of the ring). It has also been implied that he can be quite intimidating when he is angered (usually when his friends are under what he perceives to be a threat). He also nurtured a pink elephant squeak toy like a baby in "Squeakerboxxx," even going as far to name it Paco. He also has many Beanie Baggies (a Beanie Baby parody).
His favorite food is potatoes and he was imagined up by a young girl who lived in a tough neighborhood before coming to Foster's, who will be seen in the hour-long episode "Good Wilt Hunting". During "Who Let The Dogs In?", he is shown to be fond of dogs (particularly puppies) and he also owns a dog, Chewy (or "Chuy", a Hispanic nickname usually given to children named Jesus). He allegedly has the brain of a three-year old, best demonstrated in "Bye-Bye Nerdy" when Bloo asked him which way is up, to which he responds "I don't know." In "One False Movie", we learn that one of his favorite TV shows is "Lauren is Explorin'", an obvious spoof of "Dora The Explorer".
- In the Latin American dub of the series, Eduardo speaks with an exaggerated American accent.
- Conceptual character design drawings for Eduardo (copy and paste link to view)
Coco
Dreamed up by a young girl who was stranded on a desert island, Coco (voiced by Candi Milo) is a sanity-challenged imaginary friend. Ever since leaving her creator, she has seemingly gone slowly insane, as illustrated through "My So-Called Wife". She was apparently studied by scientists before coming to Foster's, which likely contributed to her insanity. The hour-long episode "Good Wilt Hunting" will explore this aspect of her past. Though she is insane, she seems, however, to be intelligent, as shown in several episodes. She has the head and neck of a palm tree, the body of an airplane, the beak of a bird that uses a deflated raft as her mouth, and sunburned human legs and feet. Because of that, she has been called a "bird, airplane, plant-thing" by some of the residents. Despite being part bird and plane, we learn in "Foster's Goes to Europe" that she's afraid of flying.
Her only verbal utterances and written means of communication is "coco" (with each syllable pronounced "co"), which most of the imaginary friends, Mac, Frankie, and Madame Foster can understand. This can lead to strange conversation, such as in "House Of Bloo's", when Bloo repeatedly said yes every time Coco said "coco?", until Wilt explained that that's all she ever says. When Bloo asked what she was really asking them, Wilt replied "You want any juice?" She also has had to be heard by many people in "Hiccy Burp" (taking over for Wilt as the talent show pageant's host) and in "Cuckoo For Coco Cards" as she led Mac's classmates on a tour of the home. She usually is understandable to all, but may not be, depending on what jokes are needed. She also seems unable to write anything but "Co Co Co," with similar rules applying to whether or not people can read it (Mr. Herriman once read a ransom note from her in "Crime After Crime", but was unable to figure out who sent it despite the obvious clue, while Mac read her diary, unable to decipher it in "Squeeze The Day"). In the episode "The Big Picture", one of the clues Bloo thought to why all the imaginary friends disappeared was when Coco actually said something besides "Coco," which caused everyone to run off ("Cheese."). Coco has another bird-like friend that appears in "Partying is Such Sweet Soireé".
When she is excited, scared, or needs the attention of others, she has the ability to lay plastic Easter eggs, similar to those found in arcades, that can contain anything from Ming vases to tickets for redemption of prizes to money or even auto parts, but in the aforementioned "Cuckoo for Coco Cards", she made trading cards inside the eggs (similar to the one shown on the right), and later bobble bodies. Often, these seem to fulfill whatever need the person opening them has at the time, though she won't take requests, as seen in "Camp Keep A Good Mac Down," when she creates many canned foods for dinner, but no can opener when asked. She also had a love affair with a floor lamp during "Partying Is Such Sweet Soireé", took three jobs — a fast-food employee, a mall courtesy desk clerk, and a security guard, all in the same day — to pay for a massage chair for Madame Foster's birthday gift in "Store Wars" and also reportedly has a vacation home away from Foster's, having to pay for that in "A Lost Claus" by playing a Mall Santa, much to the disbelief of Mac, who accidentally exposes her, getting her fired, which was settled out of court after her wrongful termination suit was filed. She can also alter her own coloring scheme, as seen when she makes herself appear sick (and frequently switches back) in "Bus the Two of Us".
On BLOGregard Q. Kazoo, the official blog for the show, Craig McCracken explains Coco's design. [1]
"The idea behind Coco is that she was created by a lonely kid trapped on a desert island. Her design elements are made up of the kids thoughts/surroundings. Her tree head = the palm trees on the island, Her airplane body=the dream of being rescued and nightmare of how the kid ended up on the island, Her red beak=the deflated rubber raft that brought the kid to the island, Her shoeless sunburned feet=all the kid stares at all day, and her name Coco = Coconuts, what the kid lived on. As you can tell I think too much about this stuff."
- Conceptual character design drawings for Coco (copy and paste link to view)
Mr. Herriman
Mr. Herriman (also known as "Funny Bunny" or "Mr. H." for short, voiced By Tom Kane) is an anthropomorphic rabbit (like Harvey) who wears a top hat, a monocle, a vest, and a mustache while speaking in an English accent in a personification of the Edwardian era. He is the president of the house (or as Mac called him, "the head of business affairs" in "Cuckoo for Coco Cards") that he runs for Madame Foster, who created him, thus making him the oldest friend in the house, which is something he is quite sensitive about.
Standing six feet tall (seven feet with his top hat on) and weighing in at 210 pounds according to his Coco card, Mr. Herriman is a stickler for rules, having made many silly and impractical rules in an attempt to keep everything running smoothly, and is also an inviting target of jokes around the house by the others, especially in "World Wide Wabbit", when Bloo and Mac accidentally shoot a video of him performing for his creator, which Frankie and the others had a hard time believing. He usually refers to characters in a very "proper" manner - for example, calling Bloo "Master Blooregard" or Frankie "Miss Frances;" he has on occasion dropped this during points of stress, saying simply "Coco" once and another time "Master Bloo." In many episodes, we have seen that he has a disdain for Bloo, often wishing that he would be adopted. In "Camp Keep A Good Mac Down", he had to go back to his primitive state while suffering from hunger, until Frankie paged him with a phone call after he befriended some smaller rabbits who gave him a carrot, which was later illustrated in "Crime After Crime", as he is shown to have an addiction to carrots (which he will go to great, even desperate, lengths to hide), despite his best attempts to ignore or get over it. He is phobic of dogs and made a rule that no dogs are allowed in the home. When he lost the election in "Setting A President", he was forced to work as a grocery bagger, and when Frankie felt sorry for him (and saw how little the presidential job paid), Frankie resigned and gave the job back to him, telling him that he "deserves every penny of it" also is the same episode we see an example of his rule-bound, no exceptions behavior (e.g. he made the friends sort the trash alphabetically and refused to give multi-headed friends an extra pillow for each extra head. He also gives nocturnal creatures a P.M. curfew). Herriman is surprisingly old fashioned, even believing that the internet is an actual net. It is believed that Madame Foster created him during the 1930s, making him believe the 2000s are still full of "pick-up" telephones. Also throughout the series he seems to have obsessive compulsive disorder.
- Mr. Herriman is named for Krazy Kat creator George Herriman, with a pun on "hare."
- Mr. Herriman and the Mayor of Townsville in The Powerpuff Girls have several similarities:
- They both wear black top hats and waistcoats.
- They both have a monocles over their left eye, although it has become a running joke in Foster's that Mr. Herriman's monocle has been switched between his left and right eye often many times, such as in "Hiccy Burp", where it changes three times in one scene alone. He does, however, seem not to be able to see very well without it.
- They have thinning white hair just above their temples.
- Mr. Herriman is more comparable with The Fat Controller from Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends.
Duchess
Her Royal Duchess Diamond Persnickety, the First, Last and Only (almost always called Duchess for short; only referred to by her full name in the TV movie, voiced by Grey DeLisle), this imaginary friend is a scheming, arrogant Picasso-like pain in the neck, who is actually two-dimensional when she turns in certain directions. She's considered a "high-maintenance" friend, not wanting to do anything for herself, and is so lazy that she needs somebody to open her eyelids when she wakes up.
In the pilot, she and Terrence conspire to get rid of Bloo after a spoiled, bratty daughter wants him (and, in the process, rename him "Tiffany") instead of Duchess, who was chosen by her mother and father. As punishment for trying to get rid of Bloo, she has to stay at the house and is no longer eligible for adoption. She has no liking for unauthorized parties as shown during "Partying Is Such Sweet Soireé" because it disturbs her twenty-three hours of beauty sleep (and Bloo would like to see her make it twenty-four). During that party, she tried to bribe a sugar-crazed Mac into calling Madame Foster by offering Mac "stupid gourmet chocolates."
Despite supposedly being uneligible for adoption, she was adopted by the Applebee family in "Duchess of Wails", and needless to say, she was not happy about it. Neither was Mac, who lives next door to the Applebees. The noise almost drove Mac's mother to move, which Terrence used to scare Mac into thinking that they'd be moving to Singapore which Terrance and Bloo believed to be in Wisconsin. Mac and Bloo returned her to Foster's to prevent this, after an unsuccessful attempt to sabotage everything in the Applebee's apartment in an attempt to have them do it for them. In "The Big Picture", she gave Eduardo an "extreme makeover" that made Eduardo look more like Duchess. The snooty, Hungarian voice of Duchess is done as a tribute to June Foray's Natasha Fatale from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
"Adoption" online
In 2005, Cartoon Network Latin America website gave viewers a chance to adopt an imaginary friend online, with Bloo, Wilt, Coco, and Eduardo as their choices. Similar to the Neopets site, the web surfers gave their friends food to eat (some good, some not so good) and games to play to keep their imaginary friend happy. At the end of the promotional period, the adoptees got a certificate thanking them for participating.
In September 2005, a similar month long game was launched in the United States on Cartoon Network's official site, along with a separate link at FostersFriends.com. In addition to the four previously mentioned friends, players could adopt Berry, Uncle Pockets, Cheese, or Ivan. This updated version also used the voice actors associated with those characters, improved graphics, and increased use of Flash animation. Until December 10, 2005, those who made adoptions were able to keep an eye on them. Many of the character reactions have been incorporated into bumpers since May 29, 2006 on Cartoon Network.
See also
- Big Fat Awesome House Party, an online game that features many of the Foster's cast.