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Goofball John McGee is an imaginary friend who only appears in the episode, "Imposter's Home for Um... Make 'Em Up Pals." He is voiced by Tom Kenny. He also appears in the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friend's Leapster game as an imaginary friend you need to help find items for.

Personality[]

Goofball acts throughout the episode as an inconsiderate, obnoxious teenager just wanting to have things done for him. He mainly acts inconsiderate towards Frankie by making her job harder than usual. He comes off as a lazy slacker just wanting everything done for him. There is also a very subtle hint that he may have done things as payback for Frankie chastising Bloo, as his high five with Bloo proved they were in on it together. at the end when Frankie and Goofball both apologize when he is shown to be a true imaginary friend.

Goofball has a huge appetite and rationalizes his decision to have eaten all the food in the Foster's Home fridge by claiming that he's a growing adolescent boy. Or it could be because he has an elephant trunk for a nose, he is hungry all the time and eats just as frequently as an elephant.

Appearance[]

Goofball John Mcgee

Goofball without his clown nose on.

Goofball has red hair with two pieces of hair sticking up and has a trunk-like nose. He also wears clown shoes, clown nose (that hides his elephant trunk) torn shorts and Fake-Outs concert and freckles.

Trivia[]

  • Alongside Bendy, Goofball is one of the most hated characters in the series, due to his obnoxious attitude towards Frankie.
    • Goofball has also been criticized for his obvious humanoid appearance, alongside the way the episode dropped hints that he was actually human, but in the end ignored them when he is revealed to be an Imaginary Friend all along, making the reveal feel extremely forced.
    • Due to Goofball's negative response by many audiences and critics alike, he is attended as a one-time character only. Similar to Bendy's removal from the show's premises due to his negative response from audiences as well, Goofball stays with his creator in Canada, as he and the McGees are never seen or even mentioned again afterwards.
  • Goofball McGee's silver trading card statistics in the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Leapster game include:
    • Was named after his creator John 'Larry' McGee.
    • Also likes 'The Fake-Outs.'
  • Lauren Faust had stated on her Twitter page that the original storyboard and pitch to Goofball's story was intended to go in a much different direction. According to Faust, Goofball was originally supposed to be a strange human male in his 30s pretending to be an imaginary friend and leaching off the Foster's household. However, due to the direction it would be when aiming towards children (especially since having a strange, lazy, confused, crazy, and lonely 30-something-year-old man wouldn't really be seen as child friendly/appropriate), they were asked by Cartoon Network executives to make Goofball a teenager, and also to later be revealed to actually be a real imaginary friend with an owner. The executives thought that these revisions to Goofball's pitch would help to make his character more family friendly, and more relatable. Faust said that because of this, the original plan and expected plot of the episode was completely ruined.

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