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"Bloo Tube" is the fourth episode of the sixth season of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

Plot[]


SPOILER: Plot details follow.


As a thunderstorm's going on outside Foster's, Frankie informs Wilt, Coco, and Eduardo that the house will have to postpone their trip to a local water park called "Monsoon Lagoon", which is closed due to the storm. Bloo, who was going to the park as well, is very persistent about going to the park despite the weather conditions. Once Mac arrives, Bloo tells him to talk sense to the others to go to Monsoon Lagoon, but not happening. Mac instead persuades the group to do some other indoor activities such as playing hide-and-seek, building blocks, and various board games, but Bloo's stubbornness ruins the games for them all, he was still bitter about not going to the water park, and his childish behavior forces everyone into attending a "pity party," about him not going to Monsoon Lagoon and he feels betrayed by his friends. The others, however, are too busy watching hilarious videos on ViewTube, and thus Bloo kicks them out so that he may continue wallowing in his "loss."

Motivated by the funny videos they watched, Mac and the others decide to use Frankie's video camera (without her permission) to shoot and upload their own videos to ViewTube, the likes of which include Wilt's basketball skills, Eduardo singing about Explorin' Lauren, and Coco juggling her eggs (while laying them upside-down simultaneously). After trying out some of their own videos, the gang shoots a monster movie and thus prepare to upload their video until they notice a happier Bloo watching videos of Monsoon Lagoon and thinking that the storm is over even though it’s still stormy outside; Mac tells him that these are the clips of the water park from a year ago and asks him to move so he and the group can upload the videos, but Bloo won’t stop saying the water park is open, so he and Mac have a tug of war over the computer. After Mac and the gang kick him off, Bloo tells Frankie that the others took and "abused" her camera. On the contrary, Frankie's delighted because Mac and the others' video-making idea would be an ideal indoor activity for the other friends of the house.

The house decides to do a contest to see whose video will get the most views on ViewTube. Everyone at Foster's starts making their own videos, and some of them have Bloo coming into the shot, carrying tools and lumber. Bloo ends up stealing the spotlight with his creation: a monstrous, indoor water slide called the Undertow, made solely out of "used lumber, almost fifty nails, and lots of tape and super-glue" (for the places where he ran out of nails). Bloo's ride down his slide is disastrous and caught on camera by all the friends at Foster's.

Sometime later, Mac and everyone at Foster's prepare to go to Monsoon Lagoon now that the weather has cleared up. Bloo, however, is stuck at home in a full body-cast because of his injuries and is very upset, not only because of the physical pain he's in, but also for being humiliated that his disastrous video, called "the Bloo Buffoon", is now a hit on ViewTube with over twenty million likes. Bloo starts weeping hysterically and has a "pity party" on his own when Mac and the rest of the house leave for Monsoon Lagoon without him.


Spoilers end here.


Trivia[]

Cultural references[]

  • ViewTube is an obvious parody of the popular video site, YouTube, which at time of the episode's release was about only 3 years old and was experiencing rapid growth around that time but was less widely used then in the present time. The episode's goal of having the most views on a video may be reflective of more common earlier attitudes on YouTube of people producing singular videos with the goal of earning the most views rather than the more creator-based focus of modern YouTube today.
  • This episode features a few YouTube References:
    • 1.) During the gang's monster film, Eduardo makes a look that parodies the Dramatic Chipmunk.
    • 2.) In one of the videos, Gary the cat plays the piano, parodying Keyboard Cat.
  • Eduardo sings about Explorin' Lauren, a Dora the Explorer-esque TV show he was first seen watching in "One False Movie".
  • Mac and the gang's monster film is a parody of several giant monster films such as Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and Cloverfield.
  • During the contest, the band Pizza Party (Yogi Boo Boo, Bloppy Pants, Billy the Squid and Fluffer Nutter) makes a video referencing the music video for OK Go's "Here It Goes Again". After Bloo messes up the video, Billy says, "OK Go... again."
  • Darbie from Dexter's Laboratory appears in the middle of the episode.
  • At the top of the gang's block tower is a log cabin, a nod to Lincoln Logs building toys.
  • The mashed-up board games that the gang are seen playing are parodies of The Game of Life, Monopoly, Sorry!, and Mouse Trap.
    • Despite this, the Sorry! parody's board bares more of a resemblance to Trouble.
  • At one point, Don Lickles and a yellow friend are seen battling with lightsabers ala Star Wars.

Goofs[]

  • When Mac picks up the Darbie doll and says, "It's too late...", his arm is not connected to his body.
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