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"Partying Is Such Sweet Soiree" is the second season opener of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and the 14th episode of the series.

Plot[]


SPOILER: Plot details follow.


The episode starts with Frankie and Madame Foster leaving for the day, but before Madame Foster leaves, she gives a warning not to throw any wild parties while she is gone. Bloo hears this and begins to plan a party, although Mr. Herriman demands that he doesn't. Bloo realizes he needs to remove Mr. Herriman if he wants to throw the party and asks the other friends for ideas. Coco gets a plan and prank calls Mr. Herriman, asking him if his refrigerator is "running"; Herriman, in a panic, runs out of the house to catch it.

After Mr. Herriman leaves, the party starts, and everything goes as Bloo had planned. However, Duchess gets upset that Bloo is having a party and tries to get him to stop. Mac arrives and admits to Bloo that he's actually more inclined to agree with Duchess about the party, but Bloo insists that nothing bad will happen. Duchess decides to try and call Madame Foster, while Mac continues to try to reason with Bloo, until Bloo asks him if he wants some candy, causing Mac to panic and run away because he succumbs to the effects of sugar too easily.

While Mac is running away from Bloo, Coco and Sassyfrass are talking about Chick Cluckers, but when Coco seems interested in Cluckers, she ignores him and runs to a lamp, in which she spends quite a lot of company with throughout the episode. Mac, unfortunately, runs into Billy the Squid holding a bowl of super sweet punch, which, due to Bloo's request, needed more sugar in it. Mac and Billy collide with each other, causing the punch bowl to be sent flying into the air, spilling punch in every direction. A drop of it lands in Mac's mouth and suddenly turns him into a sugar-crazed maniac, causing him to go into a sugar rush.

Mac loses control of himself because he has the intake of sugar and begins to run around the house, consuming every bit of sugar he can get his hands on. Meanwhile, Wilt and another imaginary friend, Dancy Pantalonies, are having a dance contest because Dancy was made for the purpose of dancing, making him feel like he is being challenged by Wilt's dancing. Meanwhile, Mac continues to storm around the house, which causes the other imaginary friends to complain to Bloo about how he is ruining the party. Duchess decides to take advantage of Mac's temporary insanity by offering him chocolate in exchange for him calling Madame Foster, but Bloo stops him. Mac still wants his chocolate, so he grabs and eats it, becoming even more hyper.

Mac eventually ends up on a balcony above the main room of the party. He consumes an entire can of orange soda and a bag of pop rocks, which makes him even more crazy than before. He grabs a piece of the "Bloo's House Party" banner and begins to swing around the room. This causes Eduardo to literally lose his marbles by dropping them, which causes Wilt to start slipping on them and then makes him appear to dance in an incredible fashion, declaring him the winner of the dance contest. Unfortunately, Coco's lamp breaks because Mac was colliding with her in a Tarzan-like fashion, making her lose her one true love.

Mac then runs out of his clothes and out the door when Mr. Herriman returns to Foster's because he captured a refrigerator-based imaginary friend named Fridgy that was running outside of the house. After he scolds it for running away, he begins to figure out what happened while he was gone. Bloo convinces him that even though he broke his own word of not throwing a party, Mr. Herriman will be the one responsible for the party, since he allowed all this to occur while he was in charge, which causes him to nearly faint when realizing that he's right. As Mac is running through town in the nude, the gang gets in Madame Foster's car, and the chase is on to retrieve Mac. Eduardo ends up chasing after Mac with his tricycle, due to the fact that there wasn't enough room in the car.

The gang manages to find Mac, and Bloo coaxes him into the car by giving him a piece of gum, but the gum is sugar free, and it prevents him from getting the energy to escape. On the way back to the house, Bloo gets Wilt to halt the car at a stop light, but in doing so, Frankie and Madame Foster stop in the lane next to them. Frankie sees them, but before she takes a second glance, they put on disguises and manage to get away. However, Eduardo arrives and says hello to Frankie, which makes her decide to return to Foster's before Bloo and the others do.

When the gang gets back to Foster's, they find that Frankie and Madame Foster are already there. Bloo tries to put the blame on them, but it doesn't work, and when Madame Foster is about to punish Mr. Herriman for breaking her rules, she states that the real rule was not to throw any wild parties without her, because she loves wild parties, much to Mr. Herriman's shock. The party continues on, with Frankie and Madame Foster joining the fun and Coco having now fixed the lamp she fell in love with. Duchess comes downstairs to inform Madame Foster that Bloo threw a wild party against house rules but is disgusted to see that Madame Foster is enjoying the party and heads back upstairs.

In the end credits scene, Fridgy is seen running out in the town streets.

Running gags[]

  • Bloo acting like he knows what he is going to do, but then admitting he doesn't.
  • Wilt and Eduardo commenting about someone losing their marbles, either figuratively or literally.
  • Bloo and Mac rhyming when Bloo tries to get Mac to eat sugar.
  • Mac running around the house after eating sugar.
  • Bloo saying, "You always say that" when someone comments on Mac's behavior.

Spoilers end here.


Trivia[]

  • This is the first episode to premiere in 2005.
  • This is the first episode where Mac is seen naked. He would later appear in the nude in "Infernal Slumber" and "I Only Have Surprise for You".
  • Beginning with this episode, Bloo's voice becomes a little higher and remains this way for the rest of the series.
  • This is the second episode to have a purple title card, the first being "Bloooo".
  • This is the first episode where Bloo is seen driving.
  • This episode reveals that even the smallest bit of sugar makes Mac go hyper.
  • This is the first episode where Frankie appears but doesn't speak.
  • This is the only appearance of Phineus B. Vurm and Dusty in season 2.
  • The scene where Bloo tries to get Mac to eat sugar and where Mac starts undergoing his sugar rush can be purchased in Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion.
  • Mac has three more sugar-fueled instances: in "Affair Weather Friends" after Bloo befriends Barry Bling, in "Nightmare on Wilson Way" where he and Bloo attack the zombie residents, and in "Race for Your Life, Mac & Bloo" when Mac drinks an energy drink in an attempt to beat Bloo in a race back to Foster's.
  • It is discovered that Mr. Herriman is not responsible enough to take care of the house by himself.
  • According to an interview on the Animation Insider website, Sean Marquette, who voiced Mac, said this was his favorite episode to voice in because he got to run around and scream like a maniac for several hours.
  • When Mac is in the middle of the outset of his sugar rush, he jumps and grabs some candy from a giant baby imaginary friend, much like the cliché "taking candy from a baby".
  • Mac has sharp teeth in most scenes when he's on his sugar rush.
  • Although this episode was released in 2005, "Copyright 2004 Cartoon Network." is seen at the end of the credits. This means that the episode was produced in 2004.

Cultural references[]

  • The title is a pun of the Romeo and Juliet quote "Parting is such sweet sorrow" said during the famous balcony scene.
  • Mac's sugar-crazed behavior in the episode is similar to that of Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, specifically when Bloo and the others catch up to him.
  • During his candy-fueled mania, Mac rhythmically shouts, "Pour some sugar on Mac!", a nod to the song "Pour Some Sugar On Me" by 80's British metal band Def Leppard.
  • A reference to The Beastie Boys’ "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" is made when Bloo states to Mac, “Do I have to fight for my right to party?”
  • In one scene, Bloo is wearing a striped stovepipe hat similar to The Cat in the Hat's.
  • Madame Foster's car that Bloo and the other friends take to track down Mac is actually a late '70's Pontiac Trans Am, though it's drawn in a very stylized way.
  • In several scenes, there appears to be an imaginary friend that greatly resembles a Teletubby.
  • Periwinkle from Periwinkle Around the World, from the Sunday Pants anthology series, makes a Cameo.

Goofs[]

  • It is unknown how Frankie managed to arrive at the mansion before Bloo and his friends, considering that Madame Foster's car is faster than Frankie's bus and Bloo was speeding to the mansion even before Frankie chose to return after seeing Eduardo.
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