[Mr. Marshmallow]

The big thing that bothers me and pisses me off about Goofball though (besides how he treated Frankie) was that his whole existence is based on shock value, a shock value that seriously wasn't that shocking and seemed like a weak attempt to fool us.

This is just like with Uncle Pockets in "Bloo done it", where the ending of the episode reveals that every little hint, clue, and idea surrounding the so called mysterious suspicion we have of something turns out to be completely taken out of context and proved invalid by the supposed shocking ending.

Pocket's episode was almost as hard to swallow as this episode because what Bloo overheard in that episode was almost too stupid to believe. Words can be taken out of context easily, but for anyone with a functioning brain to believe those choice of words meant otherwise is just too ludacrious to conceive.

Same thing with Goofball, which brings me to my point. What bothers me about this episode is that the growing suspicion is that Goofball is a human faking to be an IF for free food and housing, but this episode purposely changes almost EVERY character except Frankie into opposites of who they are.

Anyone who would see Goofball would find it near impossible to believe he is an imaginary friend, his attitude makes it even more implausible. Which is what angers me the most, that this episode's big shocker was that Goofball was telling the truth and that he has been an imaginary friend all this time.

When the episode went clearly out of it's own way to make us think otherwise, this is insane! Clever revealed mysteries are only clever when they CAN be discovered, not a total flip around to totally blow all sensible logic out the window for the point of trying to prove everyone wrong.

Movies like "The Sixth sense" and "The Village" actually generate clues in the movie that make you suddenly realize, that those clues added up to an ending that actually connects properly. The truth was hidden but it was still possible to decipher, it wasn't a total flip up.

And what's worse is that Frankie was at the expense of the clever trick. She went through a 24 hour hell hole at the place where she lives, and with the friends and people she love only to serve as some preposterious gag to give us all a jaw dropper. Except this end does NOT justify the means.

If the writers want to make a clever shock joke then more power to them, but don't derive the joke on something that seriously wasn't what i call an interesting mystery. And if you're going to use a character like poor Frankie as a punching bag/escape goat, then maybe the joke just isn't worth doing.