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"Bus the Two of Us" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

Plot[]


SPOILER: Plot details follow.


Frankie is running errands in the bus, but Bloo wants to go on a road trip instead. When they return to the house, Frankie asks Bloo to close the bus door. When Bloo goes to do so, he sees that Frankie has left the keys inside. After initially resisting the temptation, Bloo takes the bus and drives around the block twice, before driving to Mac's school to pick him up. Mac becomes terrified when he sees that Bloo cannot see over the steering wheel whilst he is driving (with the sound of various screeching brakes and crashes in the background). At a gas station, Mac phones Wilt and explains the situation, before asking Wilt to cover for them until they get back. Wilt is reluctant to do so, as it would involve lying, but eventually agrees, on the condition that they return as quickly as possible. When Mac tells Bloo, he decides to drive onto a freeway rather than head back to the house, claiming that they "now have some time".

Meanwhile, Eduardo sees an advert on television for a mattress sale, which lasts for only one day, and asks Frankie to drive him to the mattress warehouse. Frankie notices the bus keys are missing, but she finds a spare set. In a desperate attempt to distract her, Wilt asks Coco to feign illness, and she does so, forcing Frankie to stay home and take care of her, making her unable to get Eduardo's mattress. Eduardo decides to get the mattress himself using his tricycle. Wilt then encounters Mr. Herriman, who asks him why the bus is not parked outside. After blindly stating Bloo took it, Wilt unconvincingly claims Frankie took it to re-run an errand, before pushing Mr. Herriman into the basement to avoid him seeing Frankie.

Back on the road, Bloo stops at a pizza restaurant because he needs the toilet, but finds they are for employees only, so he takes a job as a pizza delivery guy. On the freeway, Bloo tries to drive through a tollbooth he saw with Frankie earlier. Mac manages to find change but can't get it through the bus window, and they end up crashing through the barrier and being pulled over by the police. Back at the house, Wilt struggles to explain Mr. Herriman's absence, leading Coco to phone Goo and ask her to come over.

Goo arrives, and, after many unsuccessful attempts to create a clone of Mr. Herriman (including a badger), manages to successfully create a copy of Herriman. However, when Frankie attempts to speak to him, "Mr. Herriman" can only respond with gibberish, leading Wilt to claim that he is delusional and get Frankie to take care of him as well as Coco. Back at the tollbooth, Bloo gives a police officer Frankie's driver's license before speeding off whilst the officer is checking it. Later, Mac phones Wilt and asks him to cover for them for a little bit longer. Wilt accepts, but he is beginning to crack under the strain.

On the road, Mac and Bloo encounter an exhausted Eduardo and pick him up, with Eduardo asking them if they can get his mattress. Back at the house, Frankie receives a call from her friend Cathy, who explains that she is at a mechanic after being rear-ended by an "idiot in a bus". Frankie asks Wilt to look after Coco and Mr. Herriman. Wilt hesitates, but finally agrees when he sees Goo walk in with Mac and Bloo. Frankie says she will be leaving in two minutes once she changes her clothes and leaves to get changed. Wilt receives a phone call from Mac; Wilt expresses surprise at hearing Mac on the phone, and it is revealed that the Mac and Bloo at the house were not the real ones and are in fact just imaginary friends that Goo imagined ("Mac" has a long purple tongue with orange spots and "Bloo" speaks Japanese).

At this point, Wilt snaps and informs Mac that they have two minutes to get back before Frankie leaves the house, and he can't cover for them anymore. Mac, Bloo and Eduardo are at the mattress warehouse buying Eduardo's mattress, and despite many delays with buying the mattress, they manage to speed back to the house before Frankie leaves. Frankie leaves the house and sees the three standing by the bus, along with several damaged cars and police officers, among others, and shouts "BLOO!" Bloo casually remarks "Best road trip ever." as Mac faints.

Over the end credits, Frankie is reciting the illegal actions (driving without a licence, lying on a job application, destruction of public/personal property, etc.) Bloo has done, only for Bloo to respond in Japanese that he's innocent, making Frankie instantly realize that this is the Bloo Goo imagined. Meanwhile, the real Bloo goes joyriding in the bus again, to which Frankie again screams "BLOO!””Ending the episode.

Running gags[]

  • Wilt trying to distract Frankie from learning that Bloo has stolen the Foster's bus.
  • Somebody (Eduardo or Goo) saying "Oh…"
  • Wilt saying that someone is delusional.
  • Coco pretending to be sick.
  • Eduardo trying to get his mattress that is on sale for one day only.
  • Mac calling Wilt to cover for him and Bloo so Frankie doesn’t find out that Bloo took the bus.

Spoilers end here.


APM Music Identification[]

  • Ternation Stranger - "You smashed my piggy bank"
  • Ternation Fates - Coco becomes sick
  • Foster's Scenery (c) - Eduardo rides on a bike to "One Day Only Mattress Sale"!
  • Super Flash - Goo knows the answer.

Trivia[]

  • Frankie's driver's license reveals that she was born on July 25, 1984. With the information that she is 22 years old, the episode takes place in 2006.
    • Her photo is the same one of her making an awkward face that Bloo and Mr. Herriman placed over a pig in their campaign ad in "Setting a President".
  • In this episode, Goo finally realizes that Mr. Herriman isn't a badger.
  • This is one of the few times Wilt lies. He briefly lied in the pilot, "House of Bloo's", when trying to convince the bratty girl not to adopt Bloo by saying he smells bad. He also lied in "The Trouble With Scribbles" about himself, Eduardo and Coco not knowing anything about the secret door.
  • While Goo's Bloo can speak Japanese, only to appear briefly, there was a Japanese dub version of the Original Bloo and was voiced by the same actor who voiced Sasuke from Naruto and Ishida from Bleach, Noriaki Sugiyama.
    • Interestingly, this is Sugiyama's first CN role. His second was Kevin Levin from Ben 10.
  • The fact that Wilt trusted in Coco and Goo to cover Mac and Bloo, but not in Eduardo, could be a reference of the events of "The Trouble With Scribbles", where Eduardo accidentally spills the information about the secret door, making Wilt not trust in Eduardo to keep the secret about Bloo taking the bus.
  • Here are some of Bloo's crimes that he commits in the episode:
    • Grand theft auto (stealing the Foster's bus)
    • Joyriding in a stolen vehicle
    • Driving without a license
    • Reckless driving
      • Speeding
      • Street racing
      • Tailgating (Rear ending one of Frankie's friends)
      • Moving violations (skipped many red lights)
      • Hit and Run (bumping into other drivers)
      • Distracted driving
      • Illegal U-turn (done when picking up Eduardo)
    • Property damage (wrecking people's yards)
    • Fraud (lying on job application)
    • Resisting arrest
    • Identity theft (showing someone else's I.D. to an officer)
    • Slanders (lying to an officer)
    • Illegal usage of toilet plungers (according to Frankie)
    • Toll Violations
    • Assaults (throwing pizzas at people)

Cultural references[]

  • When Bloo comes to collect Mac from school, the latter is playing with toy cars with a fellow boy in the sandbox during recess. After Mac makes common engine sounds with his mouth, the boy says to him "No, no, it sounds more like this.", and tries to imitate the sound of a car, but is drowned out by the tire squeal of the bus coming as he does it. This is a reference to the Dr. Seuss book Gerald McBoing-Boing, which is about a boy who can imitate any sound imaginable.
    • This is also a nod to the Gerald McBoing-Boing TV show that was on Cartoon Network at the time for its educational programming block Tickle U.
  • When Mac searches for the toll road fee, finds it, tries to throw it out of the bus window and fails, Bloo says: "Target's coming up." "Almost there!" "It's away!" "Negative. It didn't go in. Just impacted on the surface." This is a reference to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope during the Battle of Yavin, when Garven Dresis, aka Red Leader's proton torpedoes, fails to enter the exhaust port to destroy the Death Star.
  • The hitchhiker standing on the road is holding a sign that says "Magrathea". Magrathea is the name of a planet in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series of books by Douglas Adams. He's also wearing sleepwear, like the main character Arthur Dent did throughout the first several books.
  • Frankie references the song "The Best Things In Life Are Free" by Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson. When Bloo states that, "Oh, Frankie, everybody knows that the best things in life aren't free!", she responds with, "No, everybody knows that the best things in life ARE free."
  • One of Goo's unsuccessful attempts to imagine a Herriman clone results in a resemblance of Bugs Bunny.
    • One of the other clones resembles the Trix Rabbit.
  • Mama Joan's is a parody of pizza chain Papa John's.

Goofs[]

  • At the mattress store, Eduardo asks for a purple sheet, but receives a blue one instead. It is possible the store did not have any purple sheets in stock.
  • When Mac is giving Bloo directions on how he usually gets to Foster's, Bloo is sitting on the driver's seat. At that point, however, he was not wearing the plungers, meaning he would not be able to reach the pedals.
  • Right when Bloo and Mac pull over after losing the drag race, they are shown walking on a sidewalk, but then when the camera pulls out as Mac screams, "WE'RE LOST!!!", they're shown to be in the middle of an unpopulated area and the sidewalk isn't there. Also, why would they pull over in the middle of an area where there's nothing but the road?
  • Bloo drove into a highway that had a toll booth, but a green sign designated it as "Freeway Entrance".
  • After Bloo uses the bathroom at Mama Joan's, the bathroom door he opens has a sign saying, "Employees May Wash Hands". Legally speaking, it should read "Employees Must Wash Hands"; it is not optional, as it is required in all 50 states of the United States.
  • When Wilt tells Mac that he is no longer going to cover for him and Bloo, he hangs up the phone. Then, he quickly picks it back up to say "Sorry" and hangs up again. In real life, Mac wouldn't hear his apology, due to the fact that the call already ended after Wilt hung up. Wilt would have been speaking to the dial tone and not Mac.
  • Frankie's friend Cathy says she was rear-ended by someone driving a bus. It is implied that Bloo was the one who rear-ended Cathy given that he spoke to her on the phone and is the one driving the Foster's bus, however the bus does not have any damage to the front end. In fact, the bus does not seem to have any damage despite Bloo's reckless driving.
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