Mac

[don Jaime]

Cheese refers to Mac as "blockhead" on the commentary for "Mac Daddy." It occurred to me that Mac was originally based on that other blockhead, good old Charlie Brown. Is that why he has the adorable square head, do you suppose?

[Dragonrider1227]

I like Mac. He's smart for his age, and a really cute kid. It's also amusing watching him go on his sugar rush He's my favorite character second to Frankie of course
PS. I didn't know he was based on Charlie Brown. This makes me want to draw him in Chuck's famous sweater XD

[Lynnie]

Originally Posted by don Jaime

Cheese refers to Mac as "blockhead" on the commentary for "Mac Daddy." It occurred to me that Mac was originally based on that other blockhead, good old Charlie Brown. Is that why he has the adorable square head, do you suppose?

Originally Posted by Dragonrider1227

I didn't know he was based on Charlie Brown. This makes me want to draw him in Chuck's famous sweater XD

I don't think Cheese referring to Mac as "Blockhead" had anything to do with Charlie Brown, but rather the fact that Mac indeed does have a square head. Charlie Brown may have been one of many inspirations for Mac's design though. Perhaps personality as well. Eh, I'll let Craig himself explain his design for Mac-

Originally Posted by Craig at BLOGregard Q. Kazoo, in his blog about Mac, dated July 8, 2006

...He started out more of a "Peanuts" "Dennis the Menace" type kid but there was something about this design that didn't feel right. He felt dated to me or something and I could never really "connect" to this kid. So I quickly changed the design of the head there he was.
Only afterwards did my family point out that he looks just like me at that age. I can totally see it now, but at the time it was totally subconcious.

And if you want to see the test designs for Mac (and Bloo, Coco, Ed, Wilt and Frankie) and the entire blog, here's Craig's BlogSpot. He hasn't posted in almost a year now, but what he's done (so far) is awesome.

[ptps]

Randomly checking Foster's on wikipedia resulted in this:

"Stephan Mackenzie Vaughn "Mac" is a character in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends voiced by Sean Marquette. "

Is this official, or just someone being an idiot? I'm guessing the latter.

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by ptps

Randomly checking Foster's on wikipedia resulted in this:

"Stephan Mackenzie Vaughn "Mac" is a character in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends voiced by Sean Marquette. "

Is this official, or just someone being an idiot? I'm guessing the latter.

Sounds like one of the trolls is at it again, *sigh*. DO NOT trust any information you read on Wikipedia.com about this show, unless you can verify it here! Mac's whole name has NEVER been given, stated or implied by the crew that makes Foster's, NEVER. This is some garbage that some idiot(and I've got a pretty good idea who it is, since he does this sort of thing often, though he used to post that Mac's last name was "Forrester") posted. Recently, someone, probably the same person, posted that Wilt's real name was "William", as though "Wilt" wasn't even a real name, which it is!

pitbulllady

[Dragonrider1227]

Originally Posted by Lynnie

I don't think Cheese referring to Mac as "Blockhead" had anything to do with Charlie Brown, but rather the fact that Mac indeed does have a square head. Charlie Brown may have been one of many inspirations for Mac's design though. Perhaps personality as well. Eh, I'll let Craig himself explain his design for Mac-


And if you want to see the test designs for Mac (and Bloo, Coco, Ed, Wilt and Frankie) and the entire blog, here's Craig's BlogSpot. He hasn't posted in almost a year now, but what he's done (so far) is awesome.

Interesting. I still may have to draw that idea though.

[Sparky]

Originally Posted by ptps

Randomly checking Foster's on wikipedia resulted in this:

"Stephan Mackenzie Vaughn "Mac" is a character in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends voiced by Sean Marquette. "

Is this official, or just someone being an idiot? I'm guessing the latter.

Vaughn is the last name *I* gave Mac's family in my fanfics, though I don't know where the hell "Stephen Mackenzie" came from. It ticks me off that someone is using one of my fan ideas to troll Wikipedia.

[taranchula]

Yeah, whatever Mac's last name is shall remain a mystery, until Craig and co decides to reveal it to us, and they may never bring it up at all.

Or they may just tease us by doing that classic gag, you know when a character is saying something important, yet we the audience can't hear what is being said because of a loud noise drowning out his or her dialog.

I never get tired of that one.

[Lynnie]

I learned long ago not to trust a single word at Wikepedia. I understand the creator of the sight had this brilliant idea, but some major faults were overlooked. To me, the sight doesn't even exist. For anything, not just Foster's. It's only good for a good laugh now and then. I don't know how on earth that name came into being, either. I can see a reason for "Mackenzie" but isn't "Mac" also a nickname for the name "William"?

Dragonrider, I'd sure love to see Mac dressed as good ol' Charlie Brown! If you do a pic and post it, I look forward to seeing it!

[The Huntsman]

I just got through watching “Ticket To Rod”, and I have to say that the Foster’s Crew did a fantastic job when it came to portraying his crush on Frankie. It’s such an adorable relationship; Mac is too naïve to realize that she’s not interested in him, due to obvious reasons, but what he did was real classy. He’s only eight and yet he has more class than most men have; the chocolates and the compliments were smart on his part, and his decision to stick with Frankie and help her out was smart as well. Now, I’m not saying that this relationship is anything serious; I just think it was rather amusing and I believe the Foster’s Crew continued it rather well. Even though he won’t get Frankie, I’m sure he’ll land himself a fine lady some day.