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Kids are very impressionable and Tv is a big enough avenue for them to pick up on things they'll one day have face in the real world. Let me emphasis that "The real world". Drake & Josh is a show not set in the real world, and as a sitcom it's still not set in reality.

Drake posing as a Doctor just to make out with some older woman?

Drake being told that he will go to prison for impersonating a doctor?

But what is most stupid of all. Josh's foot would have been amputated after that bell bar fell on it. In reality his foot would have gotten infected and he would've gotten sick and potentially die without proper medical attention. This episode turns that into a gross foot joke. When in reality it's far more gruesome and painful.

Considering how The Drake & Josh universe understanding of laws and reality is on the same level as if the US Constitution was written on a napkin in crayon, I'm surprise we haven't had more instances of teenage boys pretending to be doctor in order to make out with more older nurses, because according to drake "Their cute".

This show is so dumb it's completely sickening. A teenage boy can't be charged with impersonating a doctor, because he's not eighteen yet. Second why isn't the hospital being charged with statutory rape charges. Drake clearly admits to have made out with one of the nurses, and he's under age. This whole episodes is dumb, and it's logic is beyond anger enducing.

I'm all for pen-pals and long distant friendships. But why did the creators of Drake & Josh have to make up a country?

I like to think fictional made-up European countries have gotten better to write and create over the years. But in these early days it was pretty awkward and dumb.

This whole episode is awkward and dumb, because I seriously can't find anything to connect with, and because this show doesn't take place in the real world, there is nothing to build upon except nonsense phrases which just sound stupid and annoying and all so moronic.

If this were a cartoon episode maybe it could've worked. But as a live action tv episode, it feels really dumb and insulting.

But I'm not sure what is insulting.

That goats are sacred animal?

You can get married before age eighteen?

Someone from another country is actually rich enough to buy The Boston Red Sox?

What is so funny about any of that, it's ridiculous and makes no sense.

I'm not going to get angry at Miranda Cosgrove. She is a kid actor, she's just doing it for the experience. But man! Is the character of Megan annoying as sin.

The problem with Drake & Josh as characters is that they really are too dumb to be funny. It's not like The Three Stooges, or Laurel and Hardy, or even Abbott and Costello, because at least when they played dumb people, their was this level of wit and charm, and not to mention the comedy worked because the world around them wasn't the focus, so they were left to their own devices and were aloud to do funny things and not have to worry about something dumb or annoying get in the way of their comedy routine. Drake & Josh are just too stupid to be likeable, because the world they live in is already shallow and unbelievable that I can't find anything to connect with here.

Plus precocious kid characters are never fun to watch.

Just because there are some really bad shows, that doesn't mean that once in a while there is that one episode that does surprise you and actually is quite descent and fun. This is one of those episodes.

Drake & Josh running a bed and breakfast inn while spring break is going on, is actually funny.

Of course I do have one complaint: I just love how the parents see a wild and crazy party on Tv and they know think it's their house (because it actually is), and they drop their plans, cancel their expensive vacation, and the minute the get inside they rush right in like the house they saw was really their house. I don't know but is so stupid and ridiculous that I'm shocked that not many tv shows still do this stupid cliché. Because honestly it's both dumb and funny.

You know I would love to know more about how the minds of the creators of this show worked. Just from their writing, I bet they act like giggling nutcases who probably think a safe falling on a little girl is comedy gold, (if was a cartoon).

I can't stand shows that don't have a shred of irony and instead just care to have the situation be as cartoony and as over the top, like it's some how on the same level as you. So they create really jerky, stick in the mud antagonists who couldn't possibly be real with out consequences befalling their actions.

While I certainly am not going to get into a rant about how bad off public schools are across country. I will of course talk about teachers who say things like "I hate you drake", don't have a job for very long and probably shouldn't be teaching. Or you have slackers like Drake who clearly isn't being engaged enough or stimulated enough, because as mentioned before he's being held back and ruined by a teacher who is clearly out to get him, and is a total vindictive person.

I have had a lot of bad teachers in my life, but I've had just as much good teachers to say, "A bad teacher is someone who either hates themselves, their profession, and takes it out on the children their suppose to be helping".

All in all I hated this one.

But I have to admit. There are times when I do think wizards and magicians exist in this world and they leave behind magic items like a lucky shirt.

I am not a toxic person; Or at least I wouldn't consider myself one. But if I do come across as mean, harsh or even unfairly cruel and judgmental, I just want everyone to know, "It's not my intention to lay blame on anyone, or wish ill upon them, or insight violence or even demand that something terrible happen to someone", it's wrong to lay blame on kid actors for a bad performance. Because kid actors are just doing what their told because their young, and their being paid in experience.

One of the worst thing's you can do to an actor is hate them for acting in a terrible written movie or show. Because it's not their fault, it's the writers.

Th biggest problem with Drake & Josh is that it is so over the top and outlandish, that just imagining that it takes place in real world, is totally insulting and anger inducing that this is what the creators want kids, (or more accurately pre-teens) to get out of reality.

This is a trend I've notice in a lot of kids and family based tv shows I've watched growing up, including (Drake & Josh), they seem to think that their audience is stupid, ugly, and cartoonishly selfish. I'm pretty sure that there are former kid actors out there that did face hardships because of these badly written shows. Because even though Drake & Josh is by design meant to be over the top, it instead becomes more of a reminder of everything (kids like me who clearly weren't like the ones on this show) hate. I'm of course talking about spoiled, precocious and annoying kid characters. Drake & Josh best exemplifies that with the character of Megan, (even though her actress Miranda Cosgrove, would go on play much better and relatable kid characters). A precocious, and annoying little sadist who isn't charming or likeable, no matter how much the writers or creators want her to be. Seeing Miranda Cosgrove play Megan, and then seeing her play another character is like night and day. Because you can clearly see when she is clearly working with better material. But on this show, (and with a lot of other ones I can list) all the kids are either cruel, sadistic, dumb, annoying, and are basically a personification of everything adults hate about children. Not all kids are like that, and it's really sad because I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people who like to be reminded that there are good people in elementary schools you go to or on those ground. But there is no grasp of reality what so ever to be found.

There is a scene in this episode where in a local doctor gives the "Little Diva" Ashley Blake, sleeping pills without fixing the wound on her head and then charges a ridiculous bill for it. First off: this character drugged a child, second: the title characters don't call a ambulance, three: this is so asinine and ridiculous that I can't believe people actually found this funny.

I really shouldn't let shows like this bother me. I shouldn't take it hard, or let this show become the bane of my existence. But never in my life have I ever seen a show that was so stupid, witless, and completely mute of any kind of charm, irony, or anything resembling reality.

I know what so many people are going to say, "It's suppose to be silly and goofy, like a cartoon, it's not suppose to take seriously". Then why isn't it a cartoon then?

I admit that I find this show less stupid and moronic if it were a cartoon. Because at least with a cartoon, I'd get the logic and can see the humor. But as a live action show?, never in my life have I been insulted as far as my intelligence goes with episodes like these.

Now I don't hate the actors, I don't wish ill on any of them. It's wrong.

There is no humor. Everything is insultingly dumb and moronic, to the point that I'm repulsed believing that this was ever conceived in a writers room.

Also I know I shouldn't be mean to a baby, but to quote Jerry Seinfeld, "Is it me? Or is that the ugliest baby you had ever seen?". I just like to apologize to Jonas & Ashton St. Thomas-Love who played the baby Max.

I Think Robocop 3 is actually an unfairly dismissive film in the franchise. Now I'm not saying this movie is "great" or be like "oh how can nobody see the awesomeness behind this". Because I do agree this movie is very flawed and it's not perfect. But I don't think it's terrible either. In fact, I love this movie. This is one of those films I love but everyone seems to hate. I think a big reason why so many people hate this movie, is just how ridiculous the story is, with Robocop going from being a cyborg that upheld the law, to suddenly a freedom fighter in a war on capitalism. Although me personally, I think this is a situation that been escalating since the very first movie. I do admit that it's kinda difficult talking about Robocop in time where the police force is very polarizing and very corrupt. I can't compare or relate to any of the actual horrors of violence and death that occurs with actual police. But what I do know is that people genuinely want to do good and be good people. It's also important to remember that film series like Robocop aren't to be taken seriously. Just say the title "Robocop" is a an extreme and nonsensical idea for a character, and it always will be. But I'm here to talk about that. I'm here to deliver my opinions on the third film, which honestly I feel has been given too much hate by it's own fanbase.

I will admit there are a lot of plot holes in this movie that do start too add up. But I blame that on the movie's screenwriter Frank Miller. If you don't know who that is. Google him and you'll discover he's written a lot of hardcore, violent, and gritty things. But the point is, he's a guy with a lot of "okay boomer", ideas and opinions. That killing criminals is something we should be applauding and cheering on from our heroes. Which again isn't something that most people (including me) don't condone. Especially since police officers like Robocop are meant to protect us. It's clear Frank Miller wants his opinions to be heard, while of course struggling with the films co-writer and director Fred Dekker, who clearly doesn't care to make a political satire or drama like Frank wants too.

According to a lot of fans of Robocop franchise, this movie is nothing but an "asinine film with too many retreads and not a hint of irony". I don't think.

It's important to remember that the Urban Rehabilitators or the "Rehabs" in the movie are mercenaries hired by OCP to forcibly drive people out of their homes, so the company can finally begin construction on a "Brand new city i.e. Delta City". While that doesn't sound bad on the surface. It kinda is, because where are these people suppose to live, what type of homes and opportunities is OCP providing? They never say, and anyone with a brain in their head would indeed tell you that the point of capitalism is to "get the job done and worry about these problems later". Too me that sounds like a real issue and scenario that has always been relevant. While it would've been just easy to have this be a commentary on race or something like that, it's does show that class warfare affects everyone. Big businesses don't care about the individual, there loyalty isn't to us, it's to the stockholders.

Another complaint I hear fans make is that "the villains are the over-the top and cartoonish". You should never doubt the existence of crazy and outlandish villains in the real world. Quite frankly The Robocop movies have given some of the most evil, depraved, and downright hatable villains of any franchise that I've seen. I say this film kept the streak going. Because everyone, from the main to the side antagonist are out of control and evil to the point you want them all to die. Which can said to the same with the other villains, and that's exactly what we get here. The villains exemplify everything honest and hardworking people hate, and that's typically scummy, cynical, cruel and bigoted jerks who operate under the idea "Screw you got mine", or "I'm untouchable and powerful, and I will lie to make you look like the real villain, and continue to be a criminal myself".

But the biggest complaint is Robocop becoming a lower-class freedom fighter. To which I have this to say: When a individual who's sworn to protect and serve the people, becomes corrupted and dirty, they have broken the contract that labels them a servant or an agent of the law. It's very true in todays world, where individuals who aren't emotionally sound, or are being dictated and bride with money, suddenly chose that over responsibility and loyalty. In my opinion this movie has one of the best climax's I've ever seen in any action movies. The regular cops give up their position as police officers because they will no longer be an agent for a corporation that is unrepentant and corrupt, and they decide to stage a blockade with the citizens of Cadillac heights, knowing they are out numbered and out gunned, and aren't strong enough to take down a big corporation like OCP, who has let the Rehab's bring in actual murderers and thieves from off the street into their ranks; even though they have all reason to surrender, they don't because they want to show how "Real cops act", and that is to "Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, and Uphold the law". The scene that brings tears of joy to my eye every time I watch may be ridiculous in hindsight, but I don't care because it's so inspiring and hopeful, when Robocop comes flying in with the jet pack and takes down the criminals and even a tank, saving the cops and the citizens. It's an epic moment. And I know so many people can't accept this. But the point about fictional heroes (even cyborg police officers) is that they aren't supposed to be flawless or to be full on representations that look as though they've stepped out of real life, and have anger and hatred in their hearts. All throughout this movie violence, corruption, and watching the under dogs get slaughtered for the sake of big business has been the main focus. Robocop was still a product of big business, and more than likely the regular people wouldn't have never stood a chance if it hadn't been for him. I do see the weird irony of the whole thing, "A creation by OCP turns on them, so really people can't protect themselves unless they're a cyborg", that's not how I see, Alex Murphy was able to break the connection to OCP and not become a full on machine, because that was a plot point in this movie which ultimately led to him leading to join the underdogs, when Doctor Lazarus decided not follow orders by putting a chip in his brain which would've erased the last bits of Alex Murphy's humanity. Because of simply human kindness and compassion, and one person smart enough to figure out that "this company is evil and insane so best not to give them what they want". Corruption in the real world is people doing terrible things regardless if they know if it's bad or not, as long as they are enriched and rewarded at the expense of people suffering. But not everyone is like that. If big corporations really did want to take over the world, they would've done it head on and try to hide it, they would've taken over everything and not give a crap who they had to hurt. But that's irony about big business, they ultimately create the thing they dread, and therefore create what ever it is that will bring them down. That's what happens here, as ridiculous as it is seeing Robocop flying in on a jet pack, it's just proves the point I've been trying to make here, "Ultimately people create the thing they dread, and it will bring them down in the end". But from a story perspective, some people would still find this stupid, to which I say, "Escapist fiction is suppose to be that way, it takes place in a hokey and sillier version of our world. Having ridiculous and optimistic moments is great", stories of cops, and good guys are meant to be optimism, that people are worth saving and helping even if it means doing silly things to do it.

What is It about hypnotism and the media making everyone think it's so simple and easy. In reality it takes years of study and training, and most importantly, it's not exactly how It's presented in pop culture and other media. First off, the type of therapy Monk get's in this episode is Hypnotherapy, which is more or less a mind over body practice that a person can do on their own, but if they have a documented history of mental health issues or things like that then they do need to see a hypnotherapist. However the hypnotherist monk goes to see in this episode is more of a quack doctor, because while there documented cases of people over coming addictions, or even certain phobia's, the therapist uses hypnotic regression, which is unreliable and illegitimate science in the real world. Because he can't regress someone mentally to that of a child or into someone else for very long, in fact that famous dinner show hypnosis routine has actually caused a lot of problems for people who've under gone it in the long run because it creates false memories as well as creating long term trauma that actually can be damaging. Now there is some truth of using drugs and hypnotherapy to condition someone, but that too would have to take weeks, if not months to accomplish and it's quite possibly evil and criminal to do that to someone.

I'm glad that at least this episode recognizes that the science is bull and that Monk eventually snaps out of it on his own. Plus i knew that guy playing the hypnotist was an unreliable person, because he's played by Richard Schiff, who I knew as that guy from Jurassic Park II who got torn apart by two t-rex's.

But what saves this episode for me is Courtney Ford. Even if she's in something that totally sucks, it's still goanna be a lot of fun, because he makes it fun. Plus she makes a good villain in this.

I got to admit, I like episodes of this show when even the side characters are more hatable then usual. I like the mystery, it's fine and all. But when Natalie and the Captain are framed for cheating at the Lottery, come on, who in their right mind would believe that either the Captain or Natalie would have the cleverness or the sense to create an electromagnet in a microphone that lifted up metal painted balls. I feel like both the Lottery commissioner and Stan Lawrence deserve to be sued for slander and wrongful accusation. That's kind of the only thing which bothers me about this episode that those two people were that assuming and judgmental and that shallow. Then again maybe it's just the performances, both actors are playing total condescending scumbags that are so accurate and true to anyone who knows or has encountered any condescending jerks in their entire life. All in all this episode if fine.

There are some episodes where the humor works, there are some episodes where the humor is really bad, and then there are some episodes so moronic because it's trying too hard too be funny that it becomes a total waste of time.

I hate gimmick episodes like these. First off, why isn't Natalie or the Captain involved?, were both actors busy doing something else, or maybe they both agreed that this was a stupid and radioactive premise for an episode that they wisely stepped back.

A farm?, I'll admit, that there is potential of doing a farm base mystery. But not when it's written with such bottom of the barrel jokes that only get worse with age.

This episode illustrates the biggest problem with monk over all, when it's serious it's well handled, and when it's silly it's completely moronic.

But just to give this episode some credit. Props to the casting director, for having Ricardo Chavira as the bad guy. He's a great actor. When he's on screen you instantly see scumbag and he doesn't even have too much, that's just the power of his acting chops.

I'm all for "The butler did it" style mystery. But that isn't what you get here. Instead, you get a stupid mystery. With stupid humor. Honestly this feels like a stupid mystery that anyone with a gumball sized brain could solve.

A greedy rich guy kills his stepmom because he found his dad dead, and the will was changed so she and her daughters would inherit everything.

I smell the scent of "jokes over mystery" thing again. Because everything feels like a first draft that someone put together. But it was so important to make a joke making fun of Monk's name. Which, oh my god! The humor can be so bad on this show that you'd think they use that joke early on, but NO, they were saving it.

I feel like this was going to be a bigger story. I mean there is something to be said about young women marrying older men for their money. So why wasn't the stuff with the step mother and her daughters be explored more. If I had to guess, there wasn't a lot of drafts written for a "good" episode, however there was a gain of quality in this episode, but only a tiny one. If I had to guess, I think it was going to be that the character Sean Astin plays would've been blackmailed by his step-sisters and not his butler for the death of their mom. Because it might have been revealed that the mother and her daughters were a black widow style like crime family that seduces old wealthy men then marry them and inherit there money. I think that was the original idea, that Sean Astin's character murdered his step mom after finding his dad dead. Or maybe it was murder? Maybe the step-mom did something to make it look like a heart attack. Anything would be better.

This episode just reminds me of why I utterly dislike the one percent.

Never in my life have I seen a Tv episode be all for the comedy and not ever once for the mystery. We get it, Monk is afraid of germs, and he has a lot of other fears. But this episode stretches all of that into a plot hole ridden episode that just ends up being a huge waste of time. Now the mystery in this episode is halfway decent. I say that because I think this was heading in the right direction with the Mayor's office and him meeting with Jimmy Cusack. Because if this show cared more about the mystery instead of the comedy, then this would be a very engaging mystery.

Now the reason why the Garbage Strike is even happening is because of an unfair union contract. Subsequently the guy who killed Jimmy Cusack, Ron Neely was the one responsible for running the pension fund, so he was skimming money for years, and the books were going to be looked over as part of the negotiation to settle the strike and he knew he was going to get caught, so that's why he killed Jimmy Cusack.

However If I were writing this I have it be that Jimmy Cusack was the one skimming money with the help of Ron Neely. Because usually strikes like these are settled differently if there is a pension problem. Because Jimmy Cusack was the boss of the union boss of the sanitation commission, and they aren't suppose to take a cut. But seeing as unions can be corrupt, that is exactly what I think was going on here. Cusack was skimming money with the help of Ron Neely; however, the strike happens, and this would go on and on, and there would've been an investigation into the finances. Which bring me to the mayor. I think the mayor and Jimmy Cusack were negotiating on the side to end the strike, by having Neely take the fall. He would've made the ultimate patsy in all this. Somehow Neely over heard this, and that's why he killed Cusack and made it look like a suicide.

All in all this episode is garbage. The mystery isn't well develop, the jokes suck. Also (worst sin of all) they had Alice Cooper in this episode and they did nothing but do a stupid joke with him, that's not cool.

This is a good Christmas episode. For one it establishes the Christmas present Monk never opened from Trudy which would become prominent in the series finale, and it's has such great acting and character development.

The stuff with Alice Westergren is good, although personally if I wanted to really go for it, I would've made the revaluation that the reason she poisoned and killed Detective Robbins was because he left her when she revealed that she was pregnant. It would've been a much more deeper and honest reason why she did it, plus it would've been a great parallel between Settelmeyer being officer who does care about the people he's affected, as oppose to detective Robbins who left a woman pregnant and alone and didn't care about her. It would've been a great parallel if the had done something like that. But the episode as is, it's still great, the comedy works, the dialogue is nice, and it's just a sweet reminder of how good people can be around the holidays, even in troubled times.

I can't stand episodes where nothing feels important, or like anything is happening. But there are those Tv episodes where everything feels like a complete waste of time, and the ending is just a big "nan-nan" like you've just been trolled. This episode is a troll. Not only is the plot terrible, but the characters don't even make it to Europe. And that poor European imaginary friend, where is the humor, she gets her hopes up and then their broken, and then it all builds up to a really unfunny and mean-spirited punchline that i can't believe anyone would think is funny or clever. Infact this episode is loaded with unfunny and downright mean-spirited humor that flat out doesn't work. The editing, pacing and writing all try too suggest otherwise, but it so doesn't. I can sum this episode the same way i sum up every movie made by Seltzerberg, "When they try to be funny, their annoying, and when their trying to be clever, their being moronic".

This is a hit or miss type of show. But this isn't even a miss. This episode isn't even a dud, this episode is horrid. It's clear that his episode makes no sense, no sense whatsoever. Every character sucks, the jokes sucks, everything in this episode sucks. But if i had to pick the biggest gripe is that this episode shoots itself in the foot with one moment. The episode is called imposters home. So clearly Goofball is the imposter, so why oh why did he have friends come over to the home that clearly weren't in on the scam, and also are completely forgotten for the rest of the episode. The ending of this episode is nothing but a double kick to the crotch and punch to the gut, and none of it works, nothing in this episode is funny clever or even entertaining. Horrible things happy to Frankie and we're suppose to think it's funny, everyone acts totally out of character, the logic is terrible, and the character of Goofball deserves to be dropped into a vat of Judge Doom's Dip from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. This episode sucks, it's horrid, i can't believe anyone ever approved this, or thought people would like. This all comes across as the writers smug and punchable ego rearing its ugly head, and this episode shows it all because it's completely insulting to children and to adults like me who were kids when this episode aired, i hated it then and i hate it now.

I hate shows that condensed to kids, and I also hate episodes where it doesn't feel like anything is taking place in reality (even for a cartoon). Seriously why do all the characters have to share a plastic squeak toy, and why does it cost so many tickets at a stupid arcade, why are novelty vampire fangs 500 tickets?, Kids like me back in the day know that prizes at arcades were never that high. Plus at one point Matt (being the annoying goody good that he is), buys the same squeak toy at the dollar store, so again what kind of arcade are these characters playing at. But more importantly why do they have to share it, sharing is an important lesson you teach pre-schoolers, and even then sharing isn't something not everyone is good at. This episode feels so divorced from reality that it doesn't make sense even for a cartoon.

The whole part of Blue being a jerk to everyone and getting rich off the cookie business is very cliche and annoying, and blue did the whole "Deflect blame thing" that only really awful human beings do when they are high on their own selfishness. But if i had too choose another awful character it would be Madam Foster herself. Seriously never has there been a character as annoying, horrid, and just unfunny as her. For whatever the reason, this episode sucks, it sucks because it made me hate blue and that's not cool, and it's really annoying and really anger inducing to think about this episode even today.

What i remember growing up and i saw the promo for this episode and there was a clip from the first episode where wilt had trouble saying "No", and a passing bank robber handed him the bang of money and Wilt got arrested. I originally thought that was tied into the Bendy one, because then Bendy was really an imaginary friend turned bank robber mastermind. That episode just taught me one thing: People are idiots in light of evidence that would prove otherwise. Adults suck when it comes to someone causing trouble and when someone tries sticking up for themselves and say, "I didn't do it, they did", they actually take the side of the perps instead. That is a real life issues kids liked me faced when it came to bullying, and it did cause serious emotional harm too me that still bother me. So no Bendy deserves to dropped in a vat of Judge Dooms Dip from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

I will always stand with what i said about this being a very "Hit or Miss" show. But when this show has a hit, it's really funny. Seriously this was a pretty funny episode. Every character works well, and I especially love the crazy faces Berry makes. Also growing up this episode had me very concern for Blue, because i was afraid he was developing Alzheimer's or something by how much he kept on forgetting things so quick and easy. I get it was suppose to be part of the joke, but when your a kid and you know what a illness Alzheimer's can do it's pretty concerning, especially when Blue is the best character on the show.

Two characters i seriously can't stand in this episode: Mac and Frankie.

Mac - The biggest problem with Mac as a character is that he is too much of a goody good, he's a totally inescapable character because of how much goody goods are just annoying and cringetastic in their antics. Which is why Blue works, because Blue is the total opposite of Mac, and too me this show should have been more about him, and less about the characters. In fact why have Mac as a character if they didn't try to make him interesting or even funny.

Frankie - Grey. DeLise or Grey Griffin as she's known today, is a fantastic voice actress. But maybe too good at playing the same type of character, i.e. The hatable kind, with characters like Vicky from Fairly Odd Parents, Azula From Avatar The Last Airbender, and even Mandy on the Grimm adventures of Billy and Mandy. What makes her so good when playing a character like Azula, is that her character matches her voice, and the writing and direction match wonderfully at making Azula a truly evil villain. But the same can't be said about some of her other roles, like on Fosters, here she's doing the same as she would like any other character i just mention, and yet all i hear is Azula, and i and coincidently a lot of fans of Avatar The Last Airbender hate Azula. So whenever i here Mandy, or Frankie and it's the same voice as Azula, even though neither of those characters are written to be the bad guys per-say, it really just gets me mad because all i hear is evil Azula, and she's playing some very unlikeable and annoying characters.

The biggest problem with this episode is not that Blue is late for dinner and thus holding everyone up. But rather it's the guy who makes up these stupid rules, Herriman. There is a such a thing of making your characters too dumb, too stupid, and having not a shred of irony and sympathy, buy Herriman is the reason I didn't like this show very much as a kid. I get the joke is that he's so uppity, so by the book, very strict and rules oriented, that might work, if the character wasn't in charge or given the amount of power he has. Because the real irony is that we all know and hate someone who acts like Herriman. Just somebody who is so preconscious and are very annoying and make life miserable for everyone. This episode just made me angry because i knew even as a kid that there were people like Herriman who were totally unfixable, cruel, vindictive, and had no empathy or compassion and just reminded that so many truly awful and terrible people in this world are put in position where they have so much power and they take themselves so seriously then what they really are. I wasn't going to root or laugh at a show with that type of a character.

This show is very much a "text book example of" Hit or Miss in the history of children's cartoons. Don't get me wrong; Fosters home for imaginary friends has a lot of heart when it works, and the jokes can be very funny. It's just this shows biggest problem is it's writing. Where in it feels like there weren't enough drafts, and they just went with whatever looked good to make. But there is something that has always bothered me about this, mainly the inconsistent character personalities. The episodes having either really annoying or very hatable characters that just offer frustration than anything else. Looking back at a lot of cartoon network cartoons from this era, there seems to be a lot of mean-spirited, tasteless, and unfunny humor, that just came across as pandering and laziness than actual creative effort. Fosters Home For imaginary friends, feels like a show that could've been a classic for Cartoon Network, but it wasn't, Why?. It has too do with character inconsistency and very bad writing. I might be very wrong in that regard, and perhaps the context of the jokes or the overall framing of this show was intentional by the show's creators. But I very much doubt that. Because when I say hit or miss, I like to use percentages, in this shows case I give it a fifty -fifty, meaning half of it is good, the other half being utterly awful. I don't hate mean spirited humor, but the mean spirited humor on this show is bad not just because there's too much of it, but simply because of it's unlikeable characters, who either annoying, hatable, too stupid, too boring. This show is hit and miss with everything, it's characters, it's writing, and it's never consistent, which sucks most of all.