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"Camp Keep a Good Mac Down" is the third episode of Season 3 of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

Plot[]


SPOILER: Plot details follow.


Mac and Bloo are begging Mr. Herriman to let them go camping, but Herriman refuses to let them go due to his paranoia of cleanliness and for their protection against any sort of dangerous animal in the wild. Madame Foster, however, thinks it's a great idea, and so everyone prepares to go. Wilt, Coco, and Eduardo come as well and Frankie is left in charge of the house until they return, to her delight. Things start to turn sour when Herriman's stinginess demands perfection in setting up the tent over and over again, and Bloo has eaten all the food for the trip. When Bloo must pick some blueberries for the group which are surrounded by quicksand, Wilt winds up stuck in the quicksand by helping him. With Wilt stuck, Coco decides to set up camp around him, and also manages to lay some food for everyone. However, all the food that Coco lays is in cans, and she is unable and unwilling to lay a can opener. Mr. Herriman decides to go out in the wild to find some food but quickly gets lost.

The next day, Herriman is still lost and so Bloo is left to catch fish in order to feed everyone, but winds up passing that duty on to Coco, who gets swept away by a giant fish shortly after. Mac and Eduardo are left to try and save Wilt, who has sunk up to his chest in the quicksand, but are forced to abandon helping him after Bloo, who stole some honey and used it to make a beard, gets attacked by bees. Shortly after the bees are driven away, the honey attracts a bear who attacks the group, but is fended off by Madame Foster, leaving Ed, Mac and Bloo on their own. With no other option, the group tries to catch an animal with a trap, but Mac is unable to bring himself to hurt a nearby deer, and so Bloo activates the trap, catching Eduardo by accident. However, before Mac and Bloo can help him, they are scared away by a mysterious roaring nearby, leaving Ed alone in the tree.

The next day, Mac and Bloo are searching for aloe to treat the bee stings on Bloo's face, but they are forced to flee after being chased by the source of the roaring getting closer. Mac and Bloo are thus forced to use an unstable bridge, but it is too weak to hold them, and it collapses. Fortunately, the duo land on top of Coco, who is still holding onto the fish she caught. While holding on, the trio is then launched into a tree where they reunite with Eduardo. Resuming their escape from the roaring, everyone gets stuck in the quicksand pit with Wilt, who is now sunk up to his eye stalks. Fearing that they're all going to die, Mac tells everyone, except Bloo because the mess they're in is all his fault, that they were the best friends he ever had. To everyone's surprise, it turns out the roaring is coming from Mr. Herriman, who has reverted to a primal state from interacting with the wild. Luckily, the group is rescued by Madame Foster, who has made herself one with the wild as well and uses the bees from before to rescue the group from the quicksand.

Suddenly, just as Madame Foster and the wild Herriman are about to fight, Frankie appears to inform Herriman of a phone call. It is revealed that everyone was in the Foster's back garden the whole time. Herriman quickly returns back to normal, and Mac and the others head back to Foster's, vowing never to go on another camping trip again. Herriman is persuaded by the rabbits to go, but after they ask to come live with him, he rudely declines (even though they're the ones who saved him) and returns to Foster's. The rabbits then reveal that they stole his wallet and head off to the mall.

Running gags[]

  • Bloo eating all the food the gang packed for the camping trip, as well as eating the ones in the wild, such as berries.
  • Bloo performing a rain dance.
  • Bloo manipulating the friends to do his work, such as Wilt carrying his backpack or Coco taking over fishing.
  • Bloo drinking the tears from Eduardo's crying.
  • Mr. Herriman not accepting the slightest mistake in the tent set-up.
  • Mr. Herriman calling the wild rabbits "savages".
  • Mr. Herriman and Madame Foster talking to animals.

Spoilers end here.


Trivia[]

  • This is the first time both Mr. Herriman and Madame Foster are seen naked; However, Madame Foster's hair censored most of her body.
  • It is revealed in this episode that Mac's favorite sandwich is bologna.

Cultural references[]

  • In the credits of the episode, there are images of Mr. Herriman parodying the story of Peter Rabbit.

Goofs[]

  • As Eduardo is walking with Mac, Mac says he's eight years old, and Eduardo says "Ocho, ocho, ocho", which is Spanish for "eight." However, the closed captions read "Trouble, trouble, trouble".
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