OK, I won't lie to you guys-- I can't find the article. I clicked on the link and the site either said that page was "under construction" or that the page couldn't be opened, I don't really recall. But the concept just bothers me.
Seriously, EEE is better alternative to Foster's? Dear God in Heaven, what has the world come to? I'm afraid I can't recall who posted it, but someone already said it: scamming people, calling each other loser, no adults in sight EVER is a better alternative?
And saying that characters getting frustrated and yelling at each other is bad? C'mon, people, this is the real world (sort of). People get frustrated and lose their tempers and yell. (I know I ain't an exception!) It's not like, say... Wilt and Bloo are getting into full-blown screaming matches and dropping serious curses here. Plus, at the end of the day, everyone's still friends.
And it's not like the characters are doing any serious damage to anything or themselves. Aside from Berry's psychoitc-ness (I know there's a better word for it, but I can't recall what it is) and wanting to get rid of Mac, the worst that ever happened to a character in an episode that I've seen is what happened to Ed in "Beat with a Schitck" and Wilt getting severly dehydrated in "The Buck Swaps Here." It's a cartoon-- it's not like we're killing people left and right.
Some people may point to Coco's line from "Room with a Feud" about how to get rid of Peanut Butter, to which Mac replied, "I think we'd go to JAIL with we did that." (Or something like that.) True, this line indicates that Coco was talking about killing Peanut Butter, but she-- or any one else-- didn't actually TRY to kill him!
There's also the line I've seen referred to that the IF's are "monsters." Well, geez, of course they're gonna look a bit like monsters! They're the
imaginary friends of kids! A little kids isn't going to think of their imaginary friend in human terms, anatomically speaking. A little kid going to think of something like Coco or Bloo-- something whimsical or nonsensical (like Coco) or very simple (like Bloo).
Basically, I think this article was written by someone who didn't have all the fatcs and/or was severely misinformed. There really should be an article discussing the positive things about the show-- it's creativity, both in concept and animation, and that it teaches a lot about having and keeping good friends.