The Frankie Foster discussion thread

[Cassini90125]

Like you'd be the first person here to overanalyze a character. What you wrote makes sense, though, and largely jibes with much of my thinking. I don't agree with the "dead parents" theory, however. It does sound good but I can't see it within the context of the show, what with it being a children's cartoon and all. My guess would be they're either workaholics or possibly beatnik/hippie sorts, not unlike Mr. Herriman in Let Your Hare Down. Maybe they spend their time following some group like the Grateful Dead around the country; Frankie, and Madame Foster for that matter, never mention them because they're an embarassment. Not a likely scenario - I think the workaholic theory is more plausible - but certainly an amusing one.

[Mr. Marshmallow]

I admit it sounds grim, but then again the whole thing with Mac's father not ever showing up and everyone feeling they are divorced isn't a pleasant theory either. Even if the theory isn't very "kid friendly" I would rather they give us a grim explanation then a kid friendly one that doesn't make any sense.

When it comes to certain aspects of the show, I feel sugar coating things diminishes the material. Like in Teen Titans when the traitor Titan Terra asks Beast boy to "destroy her" for all the bad things she's done. Had they simply said "kill me" it would have preserved a truly moving and sincere emotional event.

Now obviously Frankie's parents haven't had any indication of anything about them but my point is, I hope that if there is an explanation for her folks mystery location and they HAVE an explanation that accurate but not kid friendly, I would rather have that then tainting a potential deep moment with kid jokes.

That's just the way I feel about it. If they are not dead, fine that's great, just don't feed me an explanation that is made simply to cuddle kids from reacting negatively because something serious might be involved. To put it simple: if your gonna do it, do what feels right to the character not what kids parents thinks feels right.

[Xroc88]

The Thing i always liked about frankie is that she doesn't take junk from nobody and takes action when necessary.

But i've always wondered what her past was like?

BTW i loved her "sowwy jokes" and in the dinner episode where she is like: I have been a bad bad girl in that kiddy voice lol.

But what i also think is that the many IF at fosters don't truly appreciate for frankie of what she truly is, they probably just think of her as another maid or something, unlike wilt or mac who truly appreciate her, and she has kinda become an almost underrated character in some terms.

[jekylljuice]

I don't know if this has been brought up already, but I think it's more-or-less reasonable to assume that Frankie is related to Madame Foster via her father, given that they both share the same surname. But then again, it wouldn't be at all out of the question for Frankie to have inherited the name from her mother's side of the family, particularly if she spent more time growing up with her grandmother than with her parents themselves.

So yeah, that's all I've got to contribute to the discussion right now. It's not much, but it's just a little observation I made.

[Cassini90125]

That does seems to be the consensus, that Frankie's father is Madame Foster's son. I think that's the most likely scenario, although there are certainly others, some of which might make for a more interesting background for her. Hopefully we'll find out eventually.

[Medikor]

Regarding Frankie's parents the only things that I could conclude are three potential clues:

1: Madam Foster had had a son who married and had Frankie, thus the Foster name.
2: Madam Foster had a daughter who decided to keep her last name or...
3: Madam Foster adopted Frankie herself.

Now I will admit that it has been quite a long while since I've actually watched any Foster's so my memory may be iffy. But seriously, there are so many possibilities about Frankie's parents that my brain would likely twist itself into a pretzel if I tried to think about them.

[Cassini90125]

The only referrence Frankie has ever made to her parents was in Who Let The Dogs In?, when she told Mr. Herriman that her parents said there's no such things as ghosts. That's all; anything else is pretty much just speculation.

[Medikor]

I was sure that her parents were mentioned in the first season at some point. Thanks for the reminder, Cass!
While it is fun to speculate on her family, I almost hope that we don't get an episode that would answer our questions. I would hate for an episode that started out well, a tip of the hat to her fans, but fumbles and ends up adversely affecting her character or image. Pretty much another "Little Peas" fiasco again but multiplied.
But I'm sure that it could be pulled off. Wilts special was handled beautifully, filling in the blanks and also letting Wilt's character grow. If they can pull off the same quality for a Frankie story than I couldn't ever ask for more.

[stmonkeydoom]

So, I have a thought, one would imagine that when Frankie was little, she probably created an Imaginary friend of her own. Am I the only one that could see it being Duchess?

Now, this may seem unreasonable at first, but think about it. It seems to me that Frankie and duchess probably would have gotten along until Frankie had to be the one to deal with all of Duchesses complaints.

[Cassini90125]

I moved your post here because this particular subject has come up before in this very thread. Nothing personal, mind you.

I think if Duchess was in fact Frankie's IF there would have been some indication of that on the show by now. Plus I like to think Duchess would have a much better attitude. While it is admittedly a possibility I think it is highly unlikely. I stand by my original theory, which is that Frankie never had an IF of her own and it's because her parents wouldn't allow her to have one. I can't prove it, but it's always felt right to me for some reason.