In all honesty, I'm surprised people feel "weird" about this episode. I really enjoyed it, I barely had any problems or beefs with it and I find it ALOT mroe tolerable to rewatch then "Make Believe it or not".

The only thing that just felt off was the song because it felt out of tune at times and not everyone sang so well either. But other then that, I REALLY enjoyed this episode.

Eh, I feel iffy on this one like "Bloo's Brothers", "I Only Have Surprise For You"...etc..

Yeah, this one was a bit more structured and less bizarre and disjointed than MBIoN, which sort of felt like a Foster's episode you'd dream about or some kind of fanfic. Not that it was bad, it just felt weird. But EC pretty much felt like a typical episode of Foster's, if there is such a thing.

I think disjointed is the right word for MBION. The episode has the same thing in common with EC that I found the most interesting and most enjoyable fact: they had a REAL problem, a serious, villain, critical situation. Not some minor goofy problem like finding Ivan's kid or getting locked outside of the house.

This was a seriously dangerous situation, they were gonna lose their house to an imaginary friend they took in who suckered, tricked, and conned right out of their own home. Where as the Space nutboogies and the whole "foster physics" thing made it kind of hard to watch because it was so completely bizarre.

This wasn't that complicated to understand, and I loved the idea of using one of our favorite and most famous presidents as the face for the villain.

Agreed. EC had an actual problem that was the basis for the story and MBION was kind of all over the place. Although I'm not sure what made them decide to make Li'l Lincoln a pen, but hey, it worked.

I'd guess that as a pen he'd be small and easily overlooked, so he was easy to sneak into class.

Did anyone catch Frankie saying "i'm still not convinced" during the musical #? So smart..........(sighs)

The girl-pen gag was funny, but the episode wasn't that great.

Pitbulllady; kids brought .45's to school!?! My gosh, we have dimebags and switchblades at my school, under 100 kids in my grade so its pretty small. Guns in school would scare the HECK out of me. One kid in a neighbooring school got caught with a chincy "pirate" knife (long and scary-looking but cheap) and, i kid you not, a WW2 HAND GRENADE in his backpack just yesterday!!!!!!!!!! The thing was all rusty and it looked like the spoon had broken off at some point, but the thing was still live...SCARY! A hand grenade in school!

I just got done watching bits and pieces of this episode and I noticed something interesting that I don't know if this issue was addressed before. I think Little Lincoln was just imagined up like yesterday or that very day.

The teacher said it was an american presidents test, so that must be why he was imagined as a pen sized lincoln, to be small enough and knowledgable enough to cheat for the kid on the test.

Plus having Little Lincoln be a pen, led to one of the more unique ways of giving a villian his comeuppance.