Madame Foster is quite eccentric but I find this intrigues me. I usually enjoy watching her when she's on an episode. :mfoster:

Madam Foster is great. I liked that episode where she had the prehistoric babysitter. 8D

Other than stealing the tickets in FGTE, I don't resent Madame Foster that much. To me, her cutting the strings on those balloon friends was intended to follow the example set by Terrance eating the Pizza friend.

One other surprising thing about Madame Foster, was how she treated Cheese in the beginning of The Big Cheese:

(Cheese gets thrown outside)

Coco: Coco coco co!

Madame Foster: What she said!

Again, I can't believe she would talk that way to Cheese like that, unless it all goes down to the obvious fact Cheese isn't a resident at Foster's. I would have thought she would have let Cheese stay and phone Louise's family and tell them something along the lines of this: "Cheese has been hanging around our house a lot lately. For now, he's here unless you call me back to say that you don't want to give him up."

One other thing: I wonder what Madame Foster would have said/done if she was in Phone Home at the time Bloo brought the man in the cell phone suit back to her house.

Madame Foster is a kook! but in a cool quirky way!:mfoster:

I really hated how they portrayed her in "The Big LaBlooski." :( Her character was terrible in that show! I mean, she put down Mac and said mean things about him in front of everyone and yelled at him for no reason. I love Madame Foster as she is, but that episode just made her this cranky, mean old lady with a bowling problem. :(

She's totally crazy in the other episodes though, she's batty as... as a bat. XD I loved her debut in the pilot. "It takes me a while to get down the steps, okay? I AM OLD!" and her random hysterical laughter before she abruptly stops laughing always makes me giggle. XD

I think madame Foster is great. she is an energetic tiny old lady, and they are always the most entertaining. three cheers for madame Foster!

Madame Foster is cool and nice, but she can be totally unpredictable.

I always saw Madame F. as a sweet little old lady, about my own grandmother's age (mid-80s), who is a kid at heart, but has always been eccentric and as she's aged has become dreadfully out of touch with the rest of the world and reality. This was proven to me in the SW commentary. :jk:

I agree she was out of character in "The Big LaBlooski". At least all that yelling was. She never seemed to have much patience, though, as we see in "The Big Picture" when she won't allow Frankie to leave her side all-the-live-long-day long, and beating poor Mac over the head with her cane in "I Only have Surprise for You".

I think I mentioned this before in another thread, but my mother calls her "a lady after her own heart" after seeing "Say it isn't Sew". My mum LOVES sewing and crafting and quilting and such, and can stay all day long in a fabric store. She really liked that episode, and I thought it was funny I was getting my mother into the show, too. :clap:

I saw her in "Something Old, Something Bloo" and I just cracked up laughing at her theme song.
That was just pure genious! A classic! 8D

She reminds me of an older, shorter version of my own granma

My granma works as a doctor, she's just crazy and likes to take blood samples of me all the time to test her new syringes D: she travels everywhere around the world because her boyfriend is a billionair. She attends any gay gala and pride festival, no matter what country. she's snuck me into r-rated movies ever since I was 8 and she runs two marathons every year through stockholm... she turns 70 next year D:

Sounds like she's a lot of fun! 8D

Madame Foster's awesome! :mfoster:

Blimey! Hey, mind if I tag along to your next family reunion, Zeitgheist? She sounds a lot more fun than any of my own extended family. :bloogrin:

I know, I wouldn't mind having her in my family at all.

So ya'll want to be a victim to her syringes? XD be my guest!

The worst thing is... she lives two houses away from me! sometimes she wakes me up in the middle of the night telling me we're going somewhere or that I can't eat any breakfast because she wants to take blood samples (starving samples)

Be careful, this sounds suspiciously like she's REALLY working for the Vampire Mafia! <.< >.> 8D

Madame Foster's a thief though!

She stole the plane tickets in the episode "Foster's Goes To Europe"

No doubt she's very important to the series. Sure she's not in every episode, I tend to like her alot. She devoted her life to caring for Imaginary Friends, plus she seems very fun to be around... I just wish more older folk could be like her. She's the perfect example of: "Who cares if I'm old? I'll always be a kid inside". Hopefully we can all be like that when we look like this: :mfoster:

Definitely, although I hope I'm a little taller than that. 8D

They do seem to be using her more this season than most of the previous ones for some reason. Good for her, I say; after all, she founded the House, she deserves a little recognition. :mfoster:

I'm suddenly reminded of her now popular line "Don't act your age, act your shoe size!" ;)

Madame F. seems to be teetering back and forth between a sweet little old lady who adores IFs and a crazy old battle ax with little sensitivity to the people/friends around her. Lately, she has seemed to be the latter more often. But she's had her more moral times. I liked her in "Something Old, Something Bloo", she was so funny. She was crazy, but she meant well. And although I didn't like the eppie all that much, she had great morals in "Emancipation Complication", and I applaud her for that. But yeah, although I liked "Foster's Goes to Europe", I didn't like the fact she stole the tickets from Mac. That was probably the first time I was disappointed in her.

I kinda act like her a bit already. Maybe I'm aging really fast and don't know it yet. :cheesegrin: Well, hopefully when I am as old as her (Whatever her age may be) I'll still have my childhood (Darn parents wanting me to get rid of it!)

Madame Foster's what I would call a 'funky granny'. By that I mean she has the outward appearance of an old dear, but on the inside is a crazy party animal. I think she's a really entertaining character, and while I doubt very many people her age watch the show (you never know though ;)) I think she would be envied by a lot of senior citizens who look back on their own childhood and wish they could still be as free-spirited and energetic as her.

lol Imagine what the world would be like if everyone her age was actually like her. It'd be so crazy... but also very interesting. 8D

Wow, you're grandma sounds awesome! OK, back to the topic:

I like Madame Foster (:mfoster:). She has a good heart, and is very sweet. It seems like she cares for all the IF's like they're her kids. The fact that I'm a little kid-like and haven't seen too many episodes put aisde, I feel nothing but love for Madame Foster.

Well, Madame Foster is kinda' wacky! Although she has a good heart, she is really, really, really crazy! But that's just my opinion about that crazy grandma!

"Cool Madame Foster"
 

I just love Madame Foster and besides she's one of the great characters in Foster's Home for Imanginary Friends and I can't believe when she was very very very very young, her Imaginary friend was Mr. Herriman and that makes it a great thing about Madame Foster.


"Go Madame Foster"8D

Maybe it's just me, but I can imagine Madame Foster going bungee jumping. That doesn't seem too much of a stretch for her for some reason. Agree/disagree?

Ah hahaha!! I can totally picture Madame F bungee jumping! We already know she has a wild side, with Batty Madame. I can picture her trying to talk Mr. H into doing it too, but he can't bring himself to do it. She jumps with an excited howl, and once the springing up and down shallows, she laughs and whoops in an adrenaline rush. And then whenever she remembers it, she whoops again. And of course she never lets him live that down! :herriman: 8D

While posting in the Frankie thread, I started wondering something. How exactly did Madame F get acquire the title "Madame"? I think we all know what the title usually refers to, and we know just as well that that's not how she got the title. There's also the title "Madame of the house", which is where I see her getting the title. But when do you think she was first referred to that? Mr. H calls her simply "Madame", and I wonder if she had him call her that since her childhood. Or maybe he started calling her that once she started her charity and the IFs in her care are who came up with the title. :mfoster:

Along with those ponderings, I'm also wondering, would her husband perhaps have held the title "Master Foster"? As in "Master of the house"? Makes sense to me, but there's so many possibilities. So many questions and so few answers...

Mr. Herriman might have simply called him "Sir", depending on their relationship. I like to think that they got along well and weren't bitter rivals for Madame Foster's attention as some people have suggested.

On the subject of names, I have to wonder what Madame Foster's maiden name was. Looks like another "Mac's last name" debate is now open. :bloocross:

Well, in French the title "Madam" is basically the equivilent of the English "Mrs". In English, to my understanding, it can simply be used as a term of respect when addressing an older woman. As for Mr. H, I can see him addressing her as a youngster much as he addresses Frankie now - that is, "Miss" followed by whatever her first name happens to be.

And as JJ pointed out, I'm also starting to wonder what her first name is. Somehow she always held a "Meriel" aire to me. "Madame Meriel Foster", it has a nice ring to it, yes? :)

Yeah, I can see Mr. H addressing her as "Miss" when she was younger too, although not in the same way he addresses Frankie. He obviously seems to think Frankie is lower on the totem pole than he is, and uses the title as one would with a little girl. With Madame F when she was a child, I can see him addressing her as "Miss" in the same manner a servant would address the daughter of their master/mistress.

I've always thought it was "Martha", although I'm not sure why.

One of the DC/CN comic books has a picture of Madame Foster as a child, along with pics of her parents and Mr. Herriman. I don't know if it's considered canon or not, but either way Mr. Herriman is aging rather well. 8D :herriman:

Because that what's-his-name guy we banned on the last forum used it as her first name and posted it on Wikipedia and was trying to get Craig to make episodes of his ideas. M. Foster's first name was Martha, Mr H's first name was Jack. Unfortunately several fans now believe that's canon. :P

Ah, yes, the Evil One. I should go over my posts in the Sims thread and change Martha to something else, then. :P

To me, Madame Foster seems like a Betty, but then again, I'm horrible at matching names to a face.

Anyways, as JekyllJuice stated the term of 'Madame' is French, is it possible that Madame Foster has some French roots as well? Or is the reason Herriman call her Madame is simply because of his slightly Old England demeanor?

I mean if yyou think about, Frankie's real name is Francis, which might be a French name, right? :terrconf:

I think it's because of Mr. Herriman's demeanor. Formality of speech is second nature to him. :herriman:

Francis is a male name of Latin origin and means "Frenchman". Frances is the feminine form of the name and means "from France". Both male and female forms have Frankie as a nickname. :frankiesmile:

I remember when some people briefly thought Betty was her name because of the "Batty Madame" thing and we weren't sure if she was saying "Betty" or "Batty". 8D

I would have thought the ensuing Batman parody would have answered the Betty/Batty question quite nicely

How many episodes has she been in? I feel she has been under-used.

My favorite MF moment is either the episode of bowling, or the retirement home where she sings the batman theme with her name.