I have to admit, she looked weird there. I think her very thin legs were why she was drawn in oversized short shorts instead of, um, a more "traditional" bikini bottom.

She looked MUCH better at the very end of the episode when the gang returns, which I think is because she was standing and she was wearing the green hoody over her.

Yeah, a bikini bottom would look weird on her because her legs are so thin and far apart... and I don't think she has any hips. Also, I'm kinda surprised nobody's mentioned Mac's lack of ears as another anomaly. Except they're not really anomalies, or at least I don't think so because I never thought about them much. For cartoon characters, most of the Foster's cast are pretty normal-looking.

I think for that particular case, Mac's hair just covers them up, or at least I sincerely hope that's the problem, at least for Mac's sake. Lord only knows how many screenshots I checked, but as of yet I have yet to find one that even so much as hints at the presence of ears on the little guy.

She did look better at the end of the episode. She just looked "right". I think the sunglasses may have thrown me off a little too. They don't really look like her style. Maddam Foster on the other hand would probobly wear them.8D

..Yeah! Mac dosn't have any ears. But i'd also think his hair covers them up, becuase it would suck to have terrence ears. I know guys with semi-long-ish hair and it covers their ears.

he looked normal as in "not weird", within the confines of normal cartoon proportions. He wasn't at the edge.

Seems logical.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Oh yeah! EARS! I've forgotten people had ears. With longish hair being in style, you just don't see those funky flaps of skin and cartilage anymore.

Anybody notice that Frankie's ears changed at one point? The older episodes have them drawn differently than they are now. I like the new set a little more than the originals.

You're right, I almost completely forgot about that - the whole issue of Frankie's ear transformation.

Yeah, in the second season they definitely changed permantly. Well, except for the exceptions of "World Wide Wabbit" and "Who Let the Dogs in?" - but that was only because I'm pretty sure those two were originally made after the rest of the original season, but for some reason were aired with all the other first-season episodes.

Ack, I cant describe how confused I was before the secodn season, and the change was permanent.

Since we're on the subject of Frankie's ears, I have a question: are those tiny black strands and that black dot on both of them... piercings?

That's what I've always assumed. I believe the strands are small loop earrings while the dots are studs of some type. They're one reason I added earrings to her Sim (that and because I really wanted to give her some jewelry :frankiesmile: ).

That was always my guess, and if that's the case, then she certainly doesn't have any problems with wearing as many as she can, seeing as she wore those and some fancier ones in "Frankie My Dear."

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/26-0009.jpg

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/26-0057.jpg

....At least I assume those black things are earrings.

Yeah, the big gold ones in the second picture, those were gorgeous on her. I'm not sure if any of the other characters underwent similar changes that I haven't noticed.

I think that was the biggest change in physical appearance any of the characters went through, unless I also haven't noticed or forgotten something.

In any case, I think the "special features" of Frankie's facial appearance--those earrings and distinctively thick eyelashes--look good on her. I'm usually not into that stuff as I think it's easy to overdo it, but she does it just right.

I rather think the redesign of Terrence's hair between the first and later seasons was a fairly big change, myself.

Whoa......COMPLETELY missed that big one ENTIRELY.

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/1/00-0003.jpg

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/3/35-0059.jpg

Yeah, now that I actually took the time and effort to check, a huge change definitely occured there at some point. Ack, can't beleive I missed that....

I was wondering about her bang's. You know, those strands of hair that went down past her ears? They don't seem to be there half the time.

Yeah, I think those are also part of the major change Frankie went through betweens seasons one and two, along with the permanent change in her ears.

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/1/00-0025.jpg
http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/1/11-0012.jpg
http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/1/110-0025.jpg

They were there the first season and in the pilot, but since then they've vanished completely.

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/21-0053.jpg
http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/23-0053.jpg
http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/26-0019.jpg

Strange....

I believe the strands were present in Season 1, and then mostly phased out ever since. And like Dude13 said, they might've been absent in "WWW" and "WLTDI" because they were made after the other Season 1 episodes.

And I say MOSTLY because I've seen them make the ocassional brief re-appearance. They can be seen clearly in "Duchess of Wails", when she walks into the foyer only to be instantly shooed off-screen by Duchess... but they're not seen for any of Frankie's other scenes in that episode.

Whoa, you're absolutely right about that.

I just checked it on YouTube, and they're definitely there for just that brief moment, and we have all yet to see them since.

That's.....very, very odd that the animators would do that.

I believe the technical term is "Oops!". ;D

I don't really have a strong opinion on the bangs. If I had to choose I'd say keep them, but losing them doesn't detract from her appearance in the slightest.

It probobly just depends on who's animating her at the time. I don't think she NEEDS them, but they are cute. But when they're gone they just seem to make Frankie look... I don't know, happier? Maybe she just dosan't sloutch as much...

Okay - as for me, Goo seemed 13, but that's just my opinion.

As for the way she walks: notice that the cowboy boots' edge someway is ABOVE her knees? That's the reason why.
And, I know there are scenes in which she curves her knees, but you can notice the cowboy boots become shorter there. If she stands, or walks, you can see they're too high. And, if we don't count their heels, she's only a little taller than Mac.

That explanation is good enough for me.

Now, if only we could figure out how she manages to support that large a head on so tiny a torso - ack, although it is a cartoon, that particular issue still bothers me more than it probably should.

As for the tiny torso, Goo's buld reminds me of DeeDee from Dexter.

Whoa, I never made that connection before.

However, I don't think Goo is older than Mac - to me she doesn't act like mature enough to be in her early teens, I always simply pictured her as just being naturally taller than Mac, which isn't that much without her trademark cowboy boots.

Yeah, maybe slightly older but not by much. Mac sure acts older.

It feels like a lot of people went with the "Goo is older" theory. I dunno, for some reason that never occured to me, I just looked at her and automatically assumed that she was simply taller than him.

I guess it comes from the fact that she is immature when it comes to actions.

Of course, she could just be older and have a maturity level of someone much younger than her.

I don't know, just an idea.

-Marty :goo:

Augh, it'd just be nice if we had that one basic fact on how old she was. Unfortuantely, all we can do is guess and hoep something comes up in a future episode to give us a clue.

Maybe we'll get a birthday episode for Goo. I could see the Foster's gang holding a party for her. And that could possibly reveal her age.

And that would make me smile, because it would save me a TON of work for the upcoming fic I'm writing (okay, was writing... I haven't touched anything in two months...).

How much do you think Wilt weighs? I mean, he's so tall and skinny...

I'm surprised he doesn't fall over. Or maybe he's so tall that he can just take a step and that will keep him balanced.

-Marty :goo:

According to Wilt's "Coco Card", he is..and I quote..."130 pounds of lean muscle", and he is 10 feet tall. Wilt IS amazingly strong in spite of his deceptively skinny appearance; YOU try moving a full-sized refrigerator(one full of stuff at that)with just one arm! As I stated way back in this post, I tend to look at the characters more as charicatures or exaggerations, and think of what they'd be like if they were indeed alive. I doubt that Wilt's head would be that large, or his torso that small in proportion to the rest of him, or his legs that long, and he'd probably have a noticeably sinewey,lean build, which is typical for many basketball players.

pitbulllady

Aw those were cute pictures, and great comparisons! :bloogrin

Never thought of WIlt to be one with a natural balancing problem - I always personally thought Goo would be the one to have such an issue as she's so thin yet she has such a sizable cranium to support on such a skinny frame.

Good thing this is a cartoon, or else it feels like the poor little girl wouldn't even be able to stand up under the weight of her own head.

"I Only Have Surprise for Goo."

*brick*

Well, anyway, compare this

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/4/406-0036.jpg

with this.

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/4/408-0079.jpg

It's likely a weirdo style of drawing. :cheesegrin:

Yeah, a bunch of the characters seem to be able to stretch their mouths back an almost omprobably distance, even for cartoons (Mac can actucally stretch his past his eyes.)

That's my point. his skull is physically impossible.

Did anyone else notice that frankie and bloo and mac underwent Facial animation changes? House of bloos does not include mac's teeth; his mouth doe not open down and it kinda moves arpound, whereas in later episodes he actually has a jaw. same for frankie. bloo's shape changed a bit, too.

EDIT: OMG, failiac? sorry, I meant Facial, i guess I have to check my writing...

I had not noticed that, but it gives me a good excuse to watch House Of Bloo's again. :)