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"Nightmare on Wilson Way" is the 62nd episode and serves as the Halloween special themed episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The episode premiered in 3-D on October 12, 2007 [1] at 7:30 PM EDT/PDT and had its first 2-D airing October 20 of that same year at 5:30 PM EDT/PDT.

Plot[]


SPOILER: Plot details follow.


Mac is tied to Bloo's bed by Bloo because of his problems with sugar rushes, and Bloo says that he will pull the ultimate Halloween prank: a can of peanut brittle with a snake inside, which was done year after year (although this prank seems childish, it has been proven that it can do a lot of damage). Meanwhile, the imaginary friends, led by house caretaker Frankie, are ready to go trick or treating, except for Coco (dressed as a chicken) and Wilt, who will be handing out treats for the kids, including a breakaway arm as a trick to scare some of them, Eduardo, who's scared of everything, and Mr. Herriman, who is in charge of the house. After trying and failing with just about everyone, Herriman falls prey to the trick that Bloo had done and drops dead due to a heart attack. Bloo has to think quickly on what to do, and he decides to bury the seven-foot-tall rabbit in the back. Suddenly, he becomes a zombie.

Meanwhile, Madame Foster returns through the back entry to get her witch wig, and she falls under Mr. Herriman's spell, scaring Bloo. Then, one by one, Wilt and Frankie - as well as the other imaginary friends - become the undead. Bloo, Eduardo, and Coco rush upstairs and Coco falls and the undead make her a zombie. Bloo and Eduardo are the only ones left, but Madame Foster fools Eduardo, turning him into a zombie. Bloo rushes to the bedroom where Mac is tied up, flies out the bedroom window and returns with two trick-or-treaters whose candy he steals. Bloo piles candy into his hands and feeds it to Mac, making him burst out of the room and through the door with a sugar rush. Mac attacks the zombies until he blasts himself out the door, and then, just as Bloo is about to become one of the living dead, Mr. Herriman says that it was all a trick to get their paybacks on Bloo's prank. Bloo congratulates Mr. Herriman and says he thought he was in real trouble. Frankie then tells Bloo that he is, because he hurt them and unleashed a monster: a nearly-naked, just wearing underwear Mac on a sugar rush, even though they were the ones who went too far on the prank and could have stop the charade sooner before the latter got desperate.

In the closing credits, we see the almost naked Mac waking up the morning after and seeing a hand, and Wilt recovers it, leading to Mac fainting.


Spoilers end here.


APM Music Identification[]

  • Super Shaker - "Zombie Fighters."

Trivia[]

  • This is the third time Mac's reaction when consuming sugar is shown, the first two being "Partying Is Such Sweet Soiree" and "Affair Weather Friends".
  • A flashback shows Wilt in his werewolf appearance. This was previously seen in the movie T-Rexatron Alienwolf III, A Prequel In Time: The Unrelenting in "One False Movie" and on a tabloid magazine in "Cheese a Go-Go".
  • When Bloo is searching the closet for weapons to fight the "zombies", he throws a pair of Funny Bunny slippers first seen in "World Wide Wabbit".
  • In one part of the episode, Bloo is dragging Mr. Herriman around the house (and trying to speak like him) to make him appear "alive" to the others. He begins spouting off a rant of "British" things; among them he says, "Bob's your uncle", which is British slang for "there you have it".
  • Mac doesn't wear his backpack in this episode.
  • The widescreen version of this episode spoils two scenes:
    • When Rodney Squiddlebeak calls Herriman (or so the viewer thinks) dead, Sunset Junction (whom Rodney was actually talking to) can be seen in the far right of the screen before the scene zooms out.
    • Before Bloo and Eduardo notice zombified Madame Foster in the closet with them, her nose can be seen before the scene zooms out and reveals her.
  • Despite Frankie chastising Bloo for giving Mac sugar and stating he is in trouble for doing so, Bloo would have a strong case for being justified. The group's actions in the last stage of the prank would reasonably place Bloo and Mac "in fear of imminent bodily harm or death," which is actually a crime (assault). No injury is required for assault, and merely being a "trick" isn't actually a legal defense, as many pranksters have found out the hard way. While using a strange and intentionally silly method, Bloo would have been acting in self-defense and defense of another (Mac). Indeed, Bloo acts quite selflessly to save Mac even though he could have escaped and left him behind. Mac would similarly be justified in his use of physical force to escape, though he'd still probably face some consequences for any harm he causes once out on the streets, depending how the authorities feel about his alleged condition involving sugar.

Characters' costumes[]

Cultural references[]

  • The title is a reference to the franchise of slasher movies A Nightmare on Elm Street.
  • Upon seeing Pizza Party's costumes, Madame Foster sings "Why, aren't you cute?" to the tune of "Y.M.C.A.".

Goofs[]

  • The DVD release contains many subtitle errors:
    • At the beginning, when Bloo says, "I made you a sandwich in case you get hungry," the subtitles read "Made you a sandwich if you get hungry."
    • When Bloo says, "You're gonna be missing out on all the fun.", the subtitles omit "all".
    • Bloo repeats "What to do" three times after "killing" Mr. Herriman, but the subtitles only say it twice.
    • Before zombie Mr. Herriman bites Madame Foster, the subtitles read "[Bloo screaming]", when it was actually Madame Foster screaming.
    • Bloo says, "No, no, no, no, no, silly Ed.", but the subtitles omit two "no"s.
    • When Bloo says "See, I killed Mr. Herriman with my Halloween trick and now he's come back as a flesh-eating zombie...", the subtitles omit "See", "and", "come", and "flesh-eating".
    • When Wilt says, "Well, better get that.", the subtitles omit the first word.
    • When Eduardo says, "They probably have made him a zombie already!", the subtitles omit "have".
    • When Eduardo says, "They es gone.", the subtitles omit "es".
    • When Bloo says, "Well, Ed is dead.". the subtitles omit the first word.
    • Bloo says "Zombies, Mac, they're out there...", but the subtitles omit "they're".
    • When Mac says, "I'm not strong enough to rip through these!", the subtitles omit "through".
  • When Mac tells Bloo that he can't open his can, Mac's legs are tied with rope, but the remaining rope that ties them to the bed is missing.
  • When Mac attacks Eduardo near the end and uses him to break the door, he throws Eduardo out of the house before running. Yet in the scene shortly afterwards where everyone is inside, battered, Eduardo is sitting inside among the others. He's also not seen going inside.
  • Mr. Herriman's gloves are seen ruined during the "zombie apocalypse", and at the end, his gloves suddenly look like new again. It could be that Mr. Herriman changed them, but in one shot, they're seen from going from being ruined to being good as new.
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Media Episodes and DVD releases
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Nightmare on Wilson WayRace for Your Life Mac & Bloo
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