a depressing interpretation of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Comments

• Eelektross

  2012-07-13 07:18:01

  Is this supposed to be serious?

  
  

  If so, then...wow, that is the laziest-ass twist ever.

  
  
• lee4hmz

  2012-07-13 10:38:37

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  Yes, St. Elsewhere really did have an "all just a dream" ending. And then, to top it off, they killed the MTM kitten over the end credits. Poor kitty. :(
• lee4hmz

  2012-07-13 10:41:34 edited 2012-07-13 10:47:38

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  
• Princess Alice

  2012-07-13 10:50:27

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  I always assumed the reason Frankie didn't have an imaginary friend of her own was that she grew up around Madame Foster, and as such was always around all the other imaginary friends at the foster home.
  
  ...Now I'm wondering what Frankie's childhood was like, if she lived at Foster's growing up. I would totally read fanfiction about that.
• Boney

  2012-07-13 11:34:39

  TUMUT CREW REPRESENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tumut

  I figured it was because the friends got adopted away.
• One-Winged Eagle

  2012-07-13 11:39:13

  Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.

  Seen it, don't really care.
• Justice4243

  2012-07-13 11:53:36

  READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!
  
  i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
  

  Eh, only really depressing if you weren't already aware of the St. Elsewhere ending, otherwise, it's just parody. 

  
  

  
• lee4hmz

  2012-07-13 11:54:54

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  There's a whole series of these?
• Princess Alice

  2012-07-13 11:57:38

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Ah, the internet, where a TV show's cop-out ending can become a meme 20 years after it aired.
• PlutoniumFist

  2012-07-13 15:25:56

  Living tissue over endoskeleton.

  What bothers me about St. Elsewhere's ending isn't that that show ended up being a dream, but rather that it makes almost a hundred other shows invalid by default, owing to crossovers.
• Yarrun XIX

  2012-07-13 15:31:23

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Including Doctor Who, surprisingly
  
• Salix Babylonika

  2012-07-13 15:32:44

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  There's actually a guy (dunno the name off the top of my head) who has argued that by some kind of LOGIC, the twist ending to St. Elsewhere actually never happened.

  I dunno, if I remembered more I could probably look it up.
• Ace Rimmer

  2012-07-13 15:36:37

  Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

  Wasn't Crossroads the dream of some till jockey?
  
• Jumpingzombie

  2012-07-13 15:57:22

  ^^^Wait...wait...St. Elsewhere is someway (directly/indirectly) to the universes of all those shows?
  
• Yarrun XIX

  2012-07-13 16:33:53

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  So says knowyourmeme.com, and it hasn't steered us wrong yet.