Crime After Crime (Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends)

Crime After Crime is an episode of mh:besttvshows:Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. It’s the eighth episode of season three and the thirty-fifth episode overall.

Plot
Mr. Herriman punishes everyone except Bloo to make sure no-one knows about his Carrot Addiction as the latter tries to get punished to avoid dinner.

Why It Should Be Punished

 * 1) Mr. Herriman is possibly at his absolute worst as he is even more unlikable than he was in "Everyone Knows It’s Bendy" and "Imposter's Home for Um.. Make Em Up Pals" (given that the former was from the same writer), because just like in the aforementioned episode, he punishes everyone, but in here, he does it so no one would find out about his carrot addiction. So basically, Mr. Herriman is punished everyone for no reason.
 * 2) Frankie is also extremely unlikable here as she unlawfully kicks Mac out of Foster's Home and nearly gets him falsely arrested by the police. She is also mean and unfair to Bloo as she takes her frustration from the episode out on him when he did nothing wrong to her.
 * 3) Speaking of Mac, despite being likable, he's littray shoe-horned in in the last five minutes of the episode and serves no purpose here, Mac even nearly gets arrested for something that's not even his fault, which is a bit dark.
 * 4) This ending of the episode also tries way too hard to make Bloo suffer, even tho Bloo did absolutely nothing wrong in this episode.
 * 5) Bloo gets punished for the sole fact of not being punished by Mr. Herriman, yet Bloo destroyed every property in the house, invaded Madame Foster's privacy by entering her room and jumping on the bed, destroys half of Fosters' building with a wrecking ball, vandalizes the entire house and almost endangering Mr. Herriman's life by making him slip down some stairs, yet the episode doesn't punish Bloo for those crimes, instead Mr. Herriman under his addiction influence congratulates Bloo.
 * 6) There's an extremely mean-spirited running gag which involves Madame Foster smacking poor Frankie's hand with a wooden spoon whenever she (as in Frankie) messes up the dish due to the ceiling pieces dropping into said dish when Bloo, Mr. Herriman, Eduardo and Mac jumps on the bed, and they repeat that joke four times.
 * 7) There's an incredible pointless subplot where Wilt tries to punish himself whenever he thinks that he's "breaking" the rules.
 * 8) Plot Holes:
 * 9) Bloo said that Herriman cannot punish Mac.
 * 10) The reason for Mr. Herriman punishing the Foster Residents with no supper and telling them to leave the room(s) is because those rooms have carrots hidden and that he wants no one to find out about his carrot addiction, so instead of outright punishing the Foster Residents and sending them to their rooms with no supper, why doesn't Mr. Herriman just politely ask the Foster Residents to leave the rooms?
 * 11) Mr. Herriman made a statement to Bloo that he will do whatever Bloo tells him, so in that case, why doesn't Bloo just ask Mr. Herriman if he could skip supper?
 * 12) On that note, why couldn't Bloo just lie to Frankie that he "was punish by Mr. Herriman" to avoid eating dinner?
 * 13) If Frankie noticed the crack, why didn’t she have just ether moved the bowl of “it” somewhere else, or fixed the crack?
 * 14) While the most likable, Eduardo gets mad at Bloo for not getting in trouble and yet getting Eduardo in trouble, despite the fact Bloo tells him he wanted to get in trouble to avoid eating. But instead of helping Bloo, he just punishes Bloo unfairly along with Frankie and Madame Foster, this is very out-of-character for Eduardo, especially since he's a very gentle and kind guy who's one of Bloo's friends and hates punishments.
 * 15) Frankie, Madame Foster, and Eduardo never get any comeuppance for their harsh actions to poor Bloo.
 * 16) The episode is also a rehash of the season 2 episode “Beat With A Schtick” as that episode also focuses on Bloo trying to get punished to get out of an imminent and unpleasant situation.
 * 17) Although intentional, the bowl of “it” Frankie constantly cooked is very disgusting and unpleasant to look at. Because of this, the scenes where Bloo eats “it” are very disgusting and painful to watch.
 * 18) In fact, according to Bloo, he said that it even smells like VOMIT.
 * 19) Continuity Error: There are several errors in the episode that contradict the overall continuity of the show as listed below
 * 20) Mac at one point in the episode, says that he is too young to go to jail and has never been to jail before. However, a previous episode “My So-Called Wife” shows Mac getting arrested and sent to jail for trespassing.
 * 21) Bloo claims in this episode that Mac does not eat at Foster’s but Mac is shown eating at Foster’s in multiple episodes including “Bloo Done It”; “ Imposter’s Home For Um… Make ‘Em Up Pals”, and “Dinner Is Swerved”.
 * 22) The episode “The Trouble With Scribbles” has Mac say that Clumsy, a resident at Foster’s can’t walk more than two steps without falling over but in this episode, Clumsy can run without falling over after Mr. Herriman punishes him.
 * 23) Horrible Ending: Eduardo becomes a jerk to Bloo and he, Frankie, and Madame Foster all unlawfully punish Bloo for not being punished by making him eat all the nasty vomit food Frankie made. Meanwhile, Herriman gets arrested for supposedly stealing jewels and Wilt joins him. Then, dinner time happens to be carrots.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) At least Herriman gets punished for what he did to everyone.
 * 2) Coco is likable, as she makes threats to Mr. Herriman.
 * 3) * In fact, Coco is arguably the most intelligent in this episode, as she knew Mr. Herriman was hiding something.
 * 4) Bloo's plan to not eat "it" by jumping on Madame Foster's bed in a temp to get punish by Mr. Herriman and sent to his room with no supper is very funny.
 * 5) * Also on that note, Bloo's line is incredibly classical: "SAY GOODBYE TO IT!".
 * 6) Overall, with the exception of its plot, there's nothing entity wrong or bad about this episode, and is by far the most tolerable when compare to the previous five episodes talked about on this wiki.

Reception
Crime After Crime received mixed-to-largely average reviews by fans and critics alike, while some do praised for its complex plot and the gags, other criticizes Mr. Heriman's attitude of punish everyone for no reason, and the unfair ending were Bloo is force to eat the dish.

Trivia

 * 1) The writer of this episode also wrote "Everyone Knows It’s Bendy".
 * 2) This episode has the most complex plot in the show, with many events and running gags that occur, all of which tie to Mr. Herriman's carrot addiction.