Make Believe It Or Not Episode Discussion 11/17/06

[Nathander]

I gave it a B. I would have given it an A, but there's a certain reason I didn't that I'll address later. Anyway, on to the positives of this episode:

GOO: I think that, for once since "Go, Goo, Go!", Goo has been used well in this episode. Not only that, but they've fixed the "Ed-bashing" problem Goo seemed to have had in a few episodes (thankfully; her apparent irritation with him made no sense to me) and brought her back more towards the character I'd imagined she'd be. This episode also confirmed something else that I've been thinking of, at least in my mind it has: Goo definantily has some form of abandonment issue. While eight year old girls (or boys) in general will try to be the centers of attention, Goo goes much farther than necessary to try to be noticed. While I may be overanalyzing it, I still say it stems from a possible abandonment issue, which I stated thoroughly in the Goo character thread discussion and see no need to state here.

I also found it interesting that there were absolutely no shots of her parents at her house, but that's an overanalyzation for another time.

ED: Spoiler Below

And the King's Assistant Baker saves the day! Go, Ed, Go!

Thankfully, Ed played quite a large role in this episode, which was......refreshing, to say the least. I know it's naive to expect them to work all the characters in to an episode in even medium roles, but I think that Ed's been kinda getting the short end of the stick lately compared to the other two members of the elder Foster's trio (Wilt and Coco, of course). Honestly, I don't know what my deal is with Ed, but he never fails to entertain me.

BLOO AND MAC ARE BEING THE BEST BUDS: Thank you, Lord, for allowing us an episode this season other than "Squeeze the Day" where Mac and Bloo cooperate as best buds (at least for the most part; the chase scene kind of made me cringe and think they'd be fighting the entire rest of the episode after that). Seriously, I can't begin to describe how overjoyed I was to see them working and acting like friends.

BLOO'S ALIASES: You have to see them, as mere words cannot describe the joy they bring. His first gives off some of the single best lines in the episode. Honestly, I think that the joy Bloo's aliases in this episode bring goes to prove that Bloo is constructed of pure happiness and sunshine, lightly dipped in arsenic.

WILT: Wilt basically shines in any episode he's in, so of course this was no exception. It was nice, however, Spoiler Below

to see that he may be able to release some of his pent-up aggression (and if anyone deserves to have pent-up aggression with all they've been through, it's probably Wilt) through the miracle of make-believe; and the fact that he now has an army of nigh-invincible cronies. Man, they should just make a spin-off of THAT: a supergroup led by Wilt that fights crime. And this spoiler is going MUUUCH longer than it needs to be.

COCO: Kinda with Wilt: she has a tendency to shine. What more can I say.

HEART FACTOR: I felt that there were quite a few parts of this episode that were really heartfelt. Not so much as a few others, like "Go, Goo, Go" or the pilot "House of Bloo's" Spoiler Below

(btw, the first time I saw "House of Bloo's", I was almost about to cry when Mac was locked in the closet; just thought I'd share)

, but I think that some heartfelt moments were definantily there.

And now, for the bad part, and the only reason I didn't give it an A.....

Where were the video game references promised in the description of it? I saw maybe one, Spoiler Below

that the sequence where Goo is riding on Coco could easily be a reference to Yoshi

, and that's about it. Honestly, I don't know what's happening as to why CN has been giving somewhat misleading/faulty descriptions for this episode and the last. Maybe it's not a big problem and I'm just an idiot who was paying enough attention to catch some of the video game references, but I'm a bit irked that, yet again, the description seemed slightly misleading. Who knows, with this kind of streak, "GWH" may not be about Wilt trying to find his creature, but fighting a giant squid monster.

But, overall, a genuinely delightful episode.