This is a list of main characters seen in the American animated television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
For a list of secondary characters, see List of secondary characters in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
In early episodes ("House of Bloo's" in particular), he was innocuous and good natured if goofy. However, he became increasingly selfish, immature and wild, perpetually scheming while playing pranks. Bloo's behavior is often used as a MacGuffin; for instance, in episode "Land of the Flea," Bloo shears Eduardo because he wants Eduardo's fleas - simply because Eduardo has the fleas and Bloo doesn't.
Bloo is a very good bowler, not like Mac. However, Mac is good as paddleball and Bloo feels jealous about it. In "Room with a Feud" Bloo's only possesions are about 100 paddleballs. Bloo was the counter when he and Mac tried to beat the world record for paddleball.
Bloo has often demonstrated a hyper, albeit nonchalant personality. He is still incredibly naive (he has no idea what sarcasm is in episode "My So-Called Wife" even though he uses it all the time) and childlike (especially when confronted with a "cool" item he cannot have). Bloo often disregards the rules or finds loopholes in them easily, and often tells hyperbolic lies to achieve means to an end. Bloo, along with Mac, are usually the ones at the receiving end of the episode's morality tale, usually because Bloo's antics got them there in the first place - such as in "Sweet Stench of Success". Bloo often has a tendency to accept outrageous ideas as fact to explain seemingly-mundane occurrences, such as in "The Big Picture", where he develops numerous conspiracy theories about an unusual picture taken before Mac and Bloo arrived at the house.
Bloo, when going incognito, dons a moustache and a top hat and claims his name is "Orlando Bloo," a clear pun on the popular actor Orlando Bloom, chosen by Bloo in the episode "Frankie My Dear" when he attempts to woo Frankie due to Bloom's popularity as a "celebrity hunk." According to Mac, he usually stands on Mac's shoulders during the ruse, concealed by a long trench coat that Bloo also wears, but in the episode "Neighbor Pains," he stands on Wilt's shoulders. Mac is hurt when he discovers this.
Mr. Herriman overtly despises Bloo and constantly tries to get him thrown out. Despite his hijinks and self-centered behavior, Bloo has managed to forge several close friendships with the other imaginary friends in the house, and often allies with Frankie against Mr. Herriman. Despite Bloo's popularity and good terms with most of the other imaginary friends, he is notorious around the house for his pranks and silly antics. Keith Ferguson is the voice of Bloo.
On BLOGregard Q. Kazoo, the official blog for the show, Craig McCracken explains Coco's design. Interview about Coco
"The idea behind Coco is that she was created by a lonely kid trapped on a desert island. Her design elements are made up of the kids thoughts/surroundings. Her tree head = the palm trees on the island, Her airplane body=the dream of being rescued and nightmare of how the kid ended up on the island, Her red beak=the deflated rubber raft that brought the kid to the island, Her shoeless sunburned feet=all the kid stares at all day, and her name Coco= Coconuts, what the kid lived on. As you can tell I think too much about this stuff."
Her only verbal utterances and written means of communication is "coco" (with each syllable pronounced "co"), which most of the imaginary friends, Mac, Frankie, and Madame Foster can understand. This can lead to strange conversation, such as in "House Of Bloo's", when Bloo repeatedly said yes every time Coco said "coco?", until Wilt explained that that's all she ever says. When Bloo asked what she was really asking them, Wilt replied "You want any juice?" She also has had to be heard by many people in "Hiccy Burp" (taking over for Wilt as the talent show pagent's host) and in "Cuckoo For Coco Cards" as she led Mac's classmates on a tour of the home. She usually is understandable to all, but may not be, depending on what jokes are needed. She also seems unable to write anything but "Co Co Co," with similar rules applying to whether or not people can read it (Mr. Herriman once read a ransom note from her in "Crime After Crime", but was unable to figure out who sent it despite the obvious clue, while Mac read her diary, unable to decipher it in "Squeeze The Day"). In the episode The Big Picture, one of the clues Bloo thought to why all the imanginary friends disappeared was when Coco actually said something besides "Coco," which caused everyone to run off ("Cheese.").
When she is excited, scared, or needs the attention of others, she has the ability to lay plastic Easter eggs, similar to those found in arcades, that can contain anything from Ming vases to tickets for redemption of prizes to money or even auto parts, but in the aforementioned "Cuckoo for Coco Cards", she made trading cards inside the eggs, and later bobble bodies. Often, these seem to fulfill whatever need the person opening them has at the time, though she won't take requests, as seen in "Camp Keep A Good Mac Down," when she creates many canned foods for dinner, but no can opener when asked. She also had a love affair with a floor lamp during "Partying Is Such Sweet Soireé", took three jobs — a fast-food employee, a mall courtesy desk clerk, and a security guard, all in the same day — to pay for a massage chair for Madame Foster's birthday gift in "Store Wars" and also reportedly has a vacation home away from Foster's, having to pay for that in "A Lost Claus" by playing a Mall Santa, much to the disbelief of Mac, who accidentally exposes her, getting her fired, which was settled out of court after her wrongful termination suit was filed. Candi Milo provides the voice of Coco.
His favorite food is potatoes and he was imagined up by a young girl who lived in a tough neighborhood before coming to Foster's, who will be seen in the hour-long episode "Good Wilt Hunting". During "Who Let The Dogs In?", he is shown to be fond of dogs (particularly puppies) and has a collecton of beanie baggies (a parody of Beanie Babies). He allegedly has the brain of a four-year old, best demonstrated in "Bye-Bye Nerdy" when Bloo asked him which way is up, to which he responds "I don't know." In "One False Movie", we learn that one of his favorite TV shows is "Lauren Is Explorin'", an obvious spoof of "Dora The Explorer". Tom Kenny voices Eduardo.
The tallest of the imaginary friends at eight feet tall and 165 pounds, his eyes are on stalks protruding from his head, the left one being a bit wonky and likely blind. He prides himself on finding abandoned imaginary friends, making him a "helper friend," and is gentle to a fault, sometimes apologizing a lot; he just can't say no when someone asks him to do something, even if it's incredibly inconvenient, for example, in "Where There's A Wilt, There's A Way", in which he missed the entire basketball game doing favors for everyone who saw him. Bloo's lazyness sometimes makes him take advantage of Wilt's niceness by pretending to be sad or hurt. In "Partying Is Such Sweet Soireé", we also learn that he's an excellent dancer, but tends to get nervous in front of large gatherings as seen at the County Imaginary Friends Talent Show Pagent in "Hiccy Burp", resulting in him flubbing his lines. Wilt also hosted the contest the previous year, apparently forgetting his lines and causing something horrible (which was mentioned but never explained). An upcoming episode — "Good Wilt Hunting" — will have Wilt searching for his creator after he didn't show up at a reunion picnic for the friends. Phil LaMarr plays Wilt.
Mr. Herriman is a stickler for rules, having made many silly and impractical rules in an attempt to keep everything running smoothly, and is also an inviting target of jokes around the house by the others, especially in "World Wide Wabbit", when Bloo and Mac accidentally shoot a video of him performing for his creator, which Frankie and the others had a hard time believing. He usually refers to characters in a very "proper" manner - for example, calling Bloo "Master Blooregard" or Frankie "Miss Frances;" he has on occasion dropped this during points of stress, saying simply "Coco" once and another time "Master Bloo." In many episodes, we have seen that he has a disdain for Bloo, often wishing that he would be adopted. In "Camp Keep A Good Mac Down", he had to go back to his primitive state while suffering from hunger, until Frankie pages him with a phone call after he befriended some smaller rabbits who gave him a carrot, which was later illustrated in "Crime After Crime", as he is shown to have an addiction to carrots (which he will go to great, even desperate, lengths to hide), despite his best attempts to ignore or get over it. When he lost the election in "Setting A President", he was forced to work as a grocery bagger, and when Frankie felt sorry for him (and saw how little the presidential job paid), Frankie resigned and gave the job back to him, telling him that he "deserves every penny of it" also is the same episode we see an example of his strict, cruel, and stupid behavior(e.g. he made the friends sort the trash alphabeticly and refused to give multi-headed friends an extra pillow for each extra head). Herriman is surprisingly old fashioned, even believing that the internet is an actual net. It is believed that Madame Foster created him during the 1930's, making him believe the 2000s are still full of "pick-up" telephones. His voice is provided by Tom Kane.
In the pilot, she and Terrence conspire to get rid of Bloo after a spoiled, bratty daughter wants him (and, in the process, rename him "Tiffany") instead of Duchess, who was chosen by her mom and father. As punishment for trying to get rid of Bloo, she has to stay at the house and is no longer eligible for adoption. She has no liking for unauthorized parties as shown during "Partying Is Such Sweet Soireé" because it disturbs her twenty-three hours of beauty sleep (and Bloo would like to see her make it twenty-four). During that party, she tried to bribe a sugar-crazed Mac into calling Madame Foster by offering Mac "stupid gourmet chocolates."
Despite supposedly being uneligible for adoption, she was adopted by the Applebee family in "Duchess of Wails", and needless to say, she was not happy about it. Neither was Mac, who lives next door to the Applebees. The noise almost drove Mac's mother to move, which Terrence used to scare Mac into thinking that they'd be moving to Singapore. Mac and Bloo returned her to Foster's to prevent this, after an unsuccessful attempt to sabotage everything in the Applebee's apartment in an attempt to have them do it for them. In "The Big Picture", she gave Eduardo an "extreme makeover" that made Eduardo look more like Duchess. Grey DeLisle provides Duchess' voice.
She can be quite charming, though, as seen in "Frankie My Dear", where Mac, Bloo, an imaginary Prince Charming, and a pizza delivery boy named Chris all fall briefly in love with her. Frankie can be skeptical at times, as seen in "Imposter's Home For Um…Make 'Em Up Pals", where she thinks Goofball John McGee isn't an imaginary friend because of his overly-human appearance. In fact, Goofball has an elephantine trunk hidden behind a red clown nose he had been wearing at the time. She also has an unhealthy addiction to Madame Foster's home-baked cookies, often driving her into a frenzy.
It's not a good idea to get on her bad side, as she gave Mr. Herriman all sorts of fits throughout "Busted", where she had to clean up various messes made when Mac and friends were trying to repair Madame Foster's bust, or in "Crime After Crime", where she tried making "It" (a smelly, stinky food concoction that Bloo likened to vomit) many times, only to have ceiling plaster fall in, which made Madame Foster smack her hand and tell her to make it again. When she finally manages to make the dish, Bloo is the only one left who hadn't been sent to his room without supper, so he was forced to eat it. She also won the election for president of the house in "Setting A President", but resigned when she found out the pay was worse than her old job. In the cold, dark autumn of 1984, Frankie was the first one to open the secret door containing the Scribbles, until Bloo accidentally released them in "The Trouble with Scribbles". Grey DeLisle provide's Frankie's voice.
Away from the house, he lives in an apartment with his mother and his older brother, the bothersome bully Terrence. Mac isn't very popular at his school, as shown in "Bye Bye Nerdy", where Bloo tries to make him cool, but ends up embarrassing him in front of the whole city, and the outset of "Hiccy Burp", where he is incensed about Richie Wilderbrat and his friend, Blake Superior. It looks like the only kid he has as a friend is Goo. This may be related to his grumpiness, which as shown in "Go Goo Go" had him originally disliking Goo from seeing little worthwhile about her, although he completely befriends her when he realizes that she is nice. He also has a condition in which he gets hyperactive after eating only a small bit of sugar, as seen in "Partying is Such Sweet Soireé" (even though in "Squeeze The Day", Mac is seen raiding the refrigerator with Bloo, he eats a number of sugary foods, and doesn't go hyperactive.) He is very patient, but when he goes out of control, he gets really cranky. Moreover, Mac has a strongly moral personality. He always avoids doing wrong things, but sometimes he is pushed to do otherwise, like capture an animal, jump in the bed, steal in order to complete his movie, etc. In "Frankie My Dear", Mac falls in love with Frankie, and fights with Bloo, a pizza delivery guy and an imaginary man for her love. Sean Marquette voices Mac.
Kooky and charming, and always wearing a smile for anyone to cheer them up as their surrogate grandmother, she's a fun-loving old woman who always finds a way to have a good time, even if she has to break Mr. Herriman's rules in order to do so, she is truly a kid at heart.. Mr. Herriman is never happy about this, but since it was Madame Foster who created him in the first place, he doesn't have much of a say about it. She often pokes good-hearted fun at others, like in "Mac Daddy" where she punned Mac and Cheese (referring to the popular pasta dinner macaroni and cheese) and "Bloo Cheese" (a type of cheese). She is quite sneaky and malicious when she needs to be, as seen in "Foster's Goes to Europe" when she purloined Mac's tickets to Europe with a rather long hug. She then went on vacation with her friends and a homesick imaginary friend named Eurotrish. She even bought the stuff Mac put up for auction on an internet auction web site in "One False Movie", not knowing that she was buying her own stuff or funding much of the movie that Mac and Blooregard were making.
However, she sometimes makes rude jokes out of someone's unfortunate situations (most notably while Bloo was eating a horrible meal Frankie specially prepared) with a below-basic level of sarcasm. Madame Foster and Mac seem to be kindred spirits, as she has never gotten rid of her imaginary friend (Mr. Herriman) and Mac refuses to give up Bloo. Sometimes, Madame Foster's daily actions tend to change from morally good to psychotic (such as running with pointy objects inside the mansion, using exaggerated methods to solve many problems, or even performing semi-nudism), but most characters also suffer from her same personallity disorder (Mr. Herriman for example: he always acts as a cultured refined imaginary friend, but in some critical cases he can go through spasms). Candi Milo provides her voice.
In the pilot, he conspires with Duchess to get rid of Bloo permanently, but fails and is punished with cleaning out the imaginary horse stables, where he was attacked by the unicorns, whom he had called "girly" earlier in the episode. In "Eddie Monster", he befriends Eduardo in a dumpster in the slums of the city and recruits him to fight in the Extremeasaur Battle circut, but is caught when he brags to Mac about it, and in "Duchess of Wails", he tells Mac that because their next-door neighbors, the Applebees, have adopted Duchess, much to their chagrin, they plan to move to Singapore, which he mistakenly believes to be in Wisconsin (which Bloo also thought). Tara Strong voices Terrence.
Because Foster's is now being seen worldwide on Cartoon Network affiliates in their home countries, as well as on Teletoon/Télétoon in Canada, there are some slight changes to the names of the characters in those countries. Here are some examples:
Main characters
Minor characters
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