Say It Isn't Sew (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends)

Say It Isn't Sew is the 3rd episode of the fifth season of mh:besttvshows:Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and was released on June 8, 2007.

Summary
Mac and Bloo decide to have a vomiting contest to see who will vomit last on the "Vomit Comet" (but Bloo assumes that he who vomits first wins). After learning that Madame Foster is also going to the fair, Bloo ditches Mac and rides in Madame Foster's Firebird. However, she decides to make a "quick" stop at a fabric store across the street from the fair, much to Bloo's horror.

Why It Needs to Wait One More Minute

 * 1) To start with this complete filler of an entirely wasted episode with tons of potential, this episode is nothing but a cruel Bloo torture episode that tries hard to make Bloo feel miserable throughout the whole 22-minutes.
 * 2) The intro to the episode is an utter tease, it makes it feel like this episode would be a fair/carnival episode, which sounds like a really interesting idea of an episode when in truth, it's not.
 * 3) The whole episode is a completely underwhelming bore to watch, and not to mention, it has three words to describe this annoyance of an episode: incredibly slow pacing. All the episode is, is Bloo trying to "have fun" in a fabric store, while also trying to escape it. And the worst part, this entire process lasts throughout 22-minutes. The episode could work so much better if it was an 11-minute episode (which is rarely done in the series but has been done in at least six episodes), rather than a 22-minute episode, resulting in the complete consequence of its horrible pacing and many, many unneeded filler moments occurring in the whole episode.
 * 4) * One of the worst examples of its notoriously slow pacing is how Bloo dreams of Mac mocking Bloo at the fabric-store by showing gestures in a sign-language format that he is about to ride the Vomit Comet, only for Bloo to realize it was a dream, and then waking up only for Mac to repeat the same scene but only in reality.
 * 5) The reason why Madame Foster goes to the fabric store in this episode is somewhat lame and pathetic. She goes there only just because the button to her jacket broke, which results in a massive plot hole that just proves how unnecessary this whole mess of an episode is: A broken button does not warrant her the authority to go to the fabric store, spend a long time there, and screw Bloo over in the process. She could have brought an emergency needle and thread with her to sew the button back on at the fair or wait until she got back to the Foster residence to sew it back on since a broken button is not a wardrobe malfunction. She also could have made Bloo sew the button back on at the fair as an appropriate punishment for him for getting it broken and for touching her while she was driving as the long time Bloo spends in the fabric store as a result of his behavior is way too harsh.
 * 6) This is another episode where Madame Foster is deemed as cruel and unfunny. She uses the one minute excuse just so she can waste so much time and piss Bloo off.
 * 7) * Throughout the episode Bloo is treated as a hostage. He isn't even allowed to leave Madame Foster behind!
 * 8) * She claims that being a buddy is a sacred oath. Not an excuse.
 * 9) *The episode even implies that Madame Foster never wanted Bloo to go to the fair at all and was intentionally screwing him over as at one point she goes to the checkout line to purchase things and the moment she heads to the exit with Bloo to leave, she immediately turns back around to indulge in her sewing once more.
 * 10) For all the times Bloo has been cruel in the show, he hasn't done anything wrong in this episode to be treated like garbage by Madame Foster, despite annoyingly whining at Madame Foster to go to the ride. However, his whining is largely justified here, because of how much of a jerk Madame Foster came off as the whole time.
 * 11) * All he did was take a ride with Madame Foster. He didn't even know he was going to a fabric store in the first place!
 * 12) To some extent, it showcases that some people who worked on the show didn't learn their lesson over another episode.
 * 13) The episode also seems to showcase the stubbornness of the writers in their seemingly adamant refusal to listen to criticism many fans were making towards the show for resorting to mean-spirited humor and tones often.  The episode seems to indicate that the writers made this episode mean spirited and boring on purpose as they had Madame foster decide to leave the store and then suddenly change her mind and turn back.  All of this indicates that the writers made this episode as an insult towards the fans making criticisms towards them.
 * 14) Madame Foster is a huge hypocrite in this episode as she claims that being a buddy is a sacred oath yet she breaks her oath by being a terrible friend and buddy to Bloo by screwing him over constantly and by repeatedly lying to him that she will only take a minute when she takes a very long time.
 * 15) After seeing the big car and Mac teasing Bloo at the fair entrance, Bloo never even thinks about confronting Madame Foster and directly telling her that she screwed him over. He never even stands up to her, forcefully drags her out of the store, or thinks about calling off the sacred oath since Madame Foster herself already broke it by taking advantage of it to hurt Bloo.
 * 16) The infamous scene was Bloo dreams of Madame Foster torturing Bloo with a Voodoo Doll, which is very dark, especially for a light-hearted kids' show that doesn't rely on such dark and nightmarish themes as Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
 * 17) Mac is portrayed as a jerk when he sees that Bloo's at the fabric store, instead of checking in Bloo or better yet helping him, he instead teases him making a bunch of signs of how he's gonna ride the Vomit Comet. Not to mention, he shows no sympathy whatsoever to Bloo when he pukes after riding the Vomit Comet (see more at WINTWOMM #14)
 * 18) There's a random scene where a duo of old people are also going to the fair, with the male also making fun of Bloo that he's going to ride the Vomit Comet, not only is it just another insult to poor Bloo, but it never gets talk about again.
 * 19) While the ending is decent, it's nothing special, Bloo vomits as Mac cheers that he won, and after Bloo vomits again, Mac looks at the camera with a sarcastic grin and shrugs his shoulders as he says "Wa-wa...".
 * 20) The end credits scenes are also boring too because it shows Bloo knitting on a rocking chair while everyone else gets to go on rides and that is by his own choice. Bloo came to the fair to have fun and he found the fabric store and knitting it be boring there. Because of this, his sudden interest in knitting after what he went through in the fabric store just comes out of nowhere and only seems to exist to connect the fabric store to the fair metaphorically.
 * 21) The plot of this episode could have been avoided through many factors such as Bloo trying to control his excitement in the car and keeping his hands to himself and Mac giving thorough clarification over the bet with Bloo as the plot kicks off because Bloo misunderstood the bet.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Interesting scene where Bloo imagines himself trapped in a fabric store torture chamber or something like that.
 * 2) Bloo did get to the Vomit Comet first before Mac, though Mac then claimed that he won after Bloo vomited half-screen as a result of riding the rollercoaster.
 * 3) At least Madame Foster does get her comeuppance, as Bloo then leaves her behind to ride the Vomit Comet, only to realize the consequence of riding it.