Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends S 5 E 6 Schlock Star - TV Tropes

The sixth episode of the fifth season of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

Fluffer Nutter, Yogi Boo Boo, Bloppy Pants, and Billy the Squid form their own rock band called Pizza Party. When Bloo finds out, he tries to join the band, who kick him out for being less than helpful. In response, Bloo forms his own band called Taco Fiesta, which consists of him, Wilt, Coco, and Eduardo, but they soon become their own band without him.

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This episode provides examples of:

• Added Alliterative Appeal: The rock band that Fluffer, Yogi, Bloppy, and Billy form is called Pizza Party.
• Ascended Extra: While not to the same extent as some other imaginary friends like Jackie Khones or Fluffer Nutter, Bloppy Pants is given a bigger role in this episode as the lead singer of Pizza Party.
• Band Episode: In this episode, Fluffer, Yogi, Bloppy, and Billy form the Pizza Party rock band, and when Bloo is rejected from it, he tries to start his own band.
• Battle of the Bands: Bloo challenges Pizza Party to one against Taco Fiesta to see which band is superior. Mac likes the idea of a concert, and when he reveals that Taco Fiesta has become their own band without Bloo, Bloo decides to play solo in his next band, The Bloo Sabbath Experience Mach III.
• Dirty Old Woman: Madame Foster hoots and hollers, looking visibly fascinated by Jackie Khones' singing during The Stinger.
• Exploding Closet: When Bloo searches Foster's for the source of the noise that woke him up, he opens a closet door and the closet's contents fall on him.
• Get Out!: Bloo says this to Wilt, Coco, and Eduardo after he catches them listening to "Talk to the Jeans". The imaginary friends are more than happy to leave due to the way he mistreated them.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite his nervous personality, Bloppy Pants is shown to be a great lead singer for Pizza Party.
  • Yogi Boo Boo is shown to be a pretty good guitarist.
• Irony: Bloppy Pants is the lead singer of Pizza Party despite his nervous personality.
• Mean Boss: Bloo is shown to be one to Coco, Wilt, and Eduardo during his tenure as the leader of Taco Fiesta, firing them when they listen to "Talk to the Jeans". None of them are the least bit upset after being fired.
• Produce Pelting: When Bloo forgets to write a song and struggles to sing "Talk to the Jeans", the audience boos him and tosses tomatoes.
• The Quiet One: Bloppy Pants speaks less than the rest of Pizza Party despite being the lead singer.
• Shout-Out:
  • Bloo's facepaint is a reference to KISS.
  • Bloo's entrance to the stage mixes together aspects of the "Stonehenge" and "Alien" scenes from This Is Spın̈al Tap.
  • Pizza Party's album/single CD cover is a parody of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A—a shot of a guy wearing pants from behind, Springsteen's cover with a pocket holding a hat, Pizza Party's with a slice of pizza.
  • The costume Wilt picks off of the costume rack is reminiscent of one of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band uniforms.
  • Bloo introduces his one-imaginary-friend band as "The Bloo Sabbath Experience Mach III."
  • Bloo dresses "Taco Fiesta" in gold lamé clothes.
• Shrinking Violet: Bloppy Pants is very nervous and timid, and has trouble trying to get Bloo to leave him and the rest of Pizza Party to their work while the rest have no problem telling him off.
• Start My Own: When angry that he's not part of the Pizza Party band, Bloo starts his own band called Taco Fiesta to spite them (because, he reasons, tacos are more exotic than pizza). When Wilt, Coco, and Eduardo leave him, he forms another band called the Bloo Sabbath Experience Mach III, which is just himself in various costumes. This backfires as despite all the effort he put into his rock star image, he forgot to actually write a song.
• Tomboy: Fluffer Nutter is shown to be interested in rock and roll, as she serves as a guitarist for Pizza Party.
• We Are Not Going Through That Again: At the end of the episode, after Pizza Party and Taco Fiesta see how much Bloo struggles trying to perform, they compromise and provide the music for their next concert while Bloo provides the special effects. Upon hearing this, Frankie shouts "NEVER AGAIN! No more concerts, EVER!" and reveals that Bloo's special effects literally set the house on fire, which the fire department is in the process of putting out.
• Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour: Downplayed; the episode begins with Bloo being rudely awakened by Pizza Party practicing... at 12:30 P.M.. Bloo then goes out to find the source of the noise to tell them off for waking him up.