Foster's Goes to Europe (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends)
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Foster's Goes to Europe is the sixth episode of the third season and is overall the thirty-third episode of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends.
Plot
Mac wins a trip to Europe and decides to take his friends with him. However, as Mac tries to get everyone ready, things don't go as planned.
Why It Couldn't Go To Europe
- The main problem with this episode is that it is filled with wasted potential of what could've been a great episode. An episode with the tenants of Foster's going to a faraway country was a great idea and would have been clever with some jokes like a road trip scene and some European gags too. Instead, the entire episode is literally twenty-two minutes of Mac trying to get the cast ready for the trip to Europe, which also makes the title incredibly misleading.
- Everyone is very unlikeable as Mac tries to get them ready for the trip to Europe, most notably Bloo, who constantly changes his mind back and forth on whether he wants to go.
- Plot hole: Mac getting permission from his mother to go to Europe with his foster friends is a major continuity error, since she isn't supposed to know that Mac goes to Foster's to hang out with Bloo as she said that he's too old for him.
- Granted, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is not one of the more story-driven shows, but that still doesn't make it any better.
- Despite the title, the only scene of the episode that's in Europe is the mid-credits scene. Speaking of which...
- Eurotrish is a very annoying character and it's revealed at the end that her creator got rid of her because of her constant singing.
- Plus, her design is extremely bad and amateurish, as she looks more like a kid's nightmare instead of an imaginary friend.
- Although she’s annoying, she is mistreated by Bloo throughout the episode.
- Speaking of the ending, it's completely predictable as it ends with Madame Foster stealing Mac's tickets from his backpack and sneaking off to Europe with her friends, leaving Mac to get blamed for losing the tickets.
- This episode made a rather poor attempt to cash in on the success on Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (even though the film was made five years before this episode came out).
- Incredibly repetitive gags, one noticeable example is the running gag were Eurotrish sings a song that she's happy because she going to be going home thanks to her having the tickets, only for Bloo to snatch them out of her hand and say "Sorry, change my mind!", and they repeat this three times!
- A very cruel mid-credits scene where Eurotrish attempts to reunite with her owner, but she shoos her away due to her annoying singing.
- Madame Foster never gets punished for her ungrateful actions.
- At the beginning of the episode, Bloo made a false claim that Europe is a non-English-speaking country when he was completely incorrect about that. The United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta are the only three European countries that speak English as an official language, in fact, England is where the language originated from.
- Some countries in Europe such as the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark have very high populations of citizens that speak English.
- Bloo also claims he knows how to speak French when in reality, he was speaking English in a French accent.
- It is also important to note that Europe is not a country as Bloo stated to be, but rather an entire continent, which itself has 44 different countries.
- The Fosters never apologize to Mac for wrongfully accusing him for losing the tickets.
Redeeming Qualities
- At least nobody, except for Madame Foster, gets out of character in this episode.
- Grey DeLisle-Griffin's voice of Eurotrish is spot-on.
- The ending credits scene, as previously elucidated in WICGTE#9, can be somewhat funny.
Reception
This episode received very negative reviews by many critics and fans alike, due to numerous reasons.
Fans and critics were bothered and saddened by the harsh mistreatment Mac gets and the ending was Madame Foster swindles Mac's tickets. Fans and critics had claimed Madame Foster's actions as "way out of character" for her and suggested that while she may act a bit crazy and goofy, she wouldn't be as cruel as this.
Fans had also criticized the immense amount of mistreatment that Eurotrish gets as well as the cruel ending credits where it is revealed she was rejected all this time by her family and that her creator had wanted her gone.
Fans are also bugged by Mac getting permission from his mother to go to Europe with his foster friends, even though it was stated in the pilot movie, "House of Bloo's", that Mac's mother is never supposed to know about that, because if that were to happen, then Mac would get punished for lying to his mother and will never be able to visit Foster's again.
Critics and fans alike even complained about the fact that Mac, Bloo, and the rest of their group (excluding Madame Foster) do not end up going to Europe; when the episode, itself, is titled "Foster's Goes to Europe". Many fans and critics claimed that the title/title card used for this episode was misleading and false advertising on the part of the writers; especially since it's only Madame Foster going to Europe with her friends and Eurotrish... Not with Bloo, Mac, Eduardo, Wilt, Coco, Mr. Herriman, and Frankie.
Because of the huge negative reception by fans and critics alike, its been considered as one of the worst episodes in the Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends series, and much like the outcome of "Everyone Knows It's Bendy", "Bye Bye Nerdy", Imposter's Home for Um... Make Em' Up Pals and "Duchess of Wails" previously, its been made non-canon to the rest of the Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends series, thus making "Foster's Goes to Europe" the fifth episode to be non-canon to the series, with Madam Foster's actions as well as the huge mistreatment of Mac never chronological happen.
Trivia
- One of the things Bloo watches on the television is the Deo product he appeared on from the season 2 episode, "The Sweet Stench of Success".
- "Foster's Goes to Europe" is the fifth episode in the Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends series to be considered non-canon to the rest of the series, the first being "Everyone Knows It's Bendy", the second being "Bye Bye Nerdy", the third being "Imposter's Home for Um... Make Em' Up Pals" and the fourth being "Duchess of Wails".
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