I agree with you. I've been waiting for an episode waiting for a stronger tie to the sister-brother relationship I think Mac and Frankie have developed throughout the series. I had hoped that "Emancipation Complication" would've given us this, due to the description given by Cartoon Network, but I've honestly come to think that the person who wrote the descriptions for EC and MBION didn't even bother to actually watch the episodes. While I'm uncertain it would play out exactly the way you set up, I think that allowing Mac and Frankie's "little brother-big sister" relationship to be a little more obvious would be a good idea and a step in the right direction.
But back to Goofball.....
Yeah, even though it may have sounded like I was trying to sugarcoat the character, he was a jerk. That, and a poorly written character. Again, my biggest beef with this episode was that it just felt so.....off, and Goofball's behavior, created to make him seem more and more like a teenage boy, actually put me off of the "ironic twist" ending, since they played it up so heavily. Not only did he decide to hide his nose, which would immediately make him recognizable as an IF, but he had to do homework where, as far as I can tell, IFs seem to be discouraged in classrooms for the most part.
Yeah.....just, in my final belief, not a well put together episode, or a well-made character. He was a jerk, and I guess they were trying to associate that making him likeable, since one of Bloo's most enduring attributes is his jerky attitude, but he just wasn't a likeable jerk like Bloo. He was just.....well, a jerk.
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