Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (TV Series) Dinner Is Swerved (2004) User Reviews

This episode didn't make me hungry, it made me angry

[snickzella · 1/10 · 28 December 2022]

The biggest problem with this episode is not that Blue is late for dinner and thus holding everyone up. But rather it's the guy who makes up these stupid rules, Herriman. There is a such a thing of making your characters too dumb, too stupid, and having not a shred of irony and sympathy, buy Herriman is the reason I didn't like this show very much as a kid. I get the joke is that he's so uppity, so by the book, very strict and rules oriented, that might work, if the character wasn't in charge or given the amount of power he has. Because the real irony is that we all know and hate someone who acts like Herriman. Just somebody who is so preconscious and are very annoying and make life miserable for everyone. This episode just made me angry because i knew even as a kid that there were people like Herriman who were totally unfixable, cruel, vindictive, and had no empathy or compassion and just reminded that so many truly awful and terrible people in this world are put in position where they have so much power and they take themselves so seriously then what they really are. I wasn't going to root or laugh at a show with that type of a character.