[jekylljuice]

I think I understand the purpose of that character (his name's Ramone, according to the Gallery of Friends). He's the final part of a running gag that extends throughout the first act.

After Mac asked if anyone had seen Bloo, we heard what sounded like "Dun Dun Duuuun!", and we all know what that's code for. I think Daphne Moon summed it up very nicely in an episode of Frasier: "Sound of ominous organ music indicating trouble ahead". But, as with the ethereal background music heard during Berry's wide-eyed gazings at Bloo, it turned out to have been supplied by an IF walking past randomly in the backdrop. So it, as with those two previous instances, it was pretty much just a play on the viewers' expectations. At least, that was my reading of it.