a depressing interpretation of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Salix Babylonika

also a St. Elsewhere parody.

Eelektross

Is this supposed to be serious?

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

lee4hmz

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

Princess Alice

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

I figured it was because the friends got adopted away.

One-Winged Eagle

Seen it, don't really care.

Justice4243

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

lee4hmz

There's a whole series of these?

Princess Alice

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

PlutoniumFist

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

Including Doctor Who, surprisingly

Salix Babylonika

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

Wasn't Crossroads the dream of some till jockey?

Jumpingzombie

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

Yarrun XIX

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