Your First Episode
 

Hello, everyone. I know I should be doing my AP Lit homework (*points to signature*), but I felt like starting a thread that I think would be kind of fun and (hopefully) initiate some good-spirited (read: play nice!) discussion.

Here's the quetion for you: What was the very first episode of Foster's that you ever saw? Maybe share a little story about it, stuff like that...

Here's mine. I first saw the show when I was in Los Angeles in the summer of 2005. My parents are both in the National Education Association (NEA. It's the teachers' union) and they were delegates in the Delegate Assembly, held in LA that year.

I got a free trip to LA, but had to stay in the hotel. (Boy, that broke my heart... ::) ;)) The channels at the hotel were pretty lame, but at least we got Cartoon Network. The second or third day, I was sitting on the bed, channel surfing when I stopped on CN (mostly because nothing else was on). Foster's was just coming on, and I thought it looked interesting, so I stopped. I'm pretty sure that it was the pilot episode, "House of Bloo's." (I do recall seeing the first few minutes of "The Trouble with Scribbles" beofre we left for dinner...) I loved the show and have been watching ever since.

The funny thing is my parents went to NEA Delegate Assembly in Philadelphia this summer and I stayed in the hotel there too. The channels were (once again) lame, but we (once again) got CN. Only this time I didn't need to channel surf to find something good to watch if I knew Foster's was on! XD

The first episode I ever saw was a re-run of "Partying Is Such Sweet Soiree". I actually made a point to watch the show, just once, out of curiosity to try and find out more about this tall red dude with only one arm and one good eye, since I'd seen pics of him on Deviant Art and seen many posts about him. I'd never watched a single show on Cartoon Network before, but since I was a Monsters, Inc. fan, and was on a forum devoted to a character in that movie, some of the other members recommended that I watch "Foster's", since they thought I'd like the humor and the crazy-looking characters. They were right. With the very first viewing, I got hooked. I mean, there was a freakin' RAVE going on, with a little kid going bonkers on sugar(and I've seen real kids do just that, so it can be just that scary, believe me) and acting like a crack-head to get it, and of course, that tall red dude didn't disappoint, either!

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I first heard about the show on CN's website, I think, and read through the info and character profiles and the like. The first actual episode I saw though was "Adoptaclypse." I think I just happened to be flipping through the channels during a boring summer day and saw it, so I watched it and enjoyed it.

I then watched the show whenever I noticed it was on TV but that only lasted for a short time. I recall at one point my brother's daughters were over at my house and I saw Foster's was coming on, so I started watching it with them and one of the girls started FREAKING OUT and saying that the show was going to give her nightmares so I had to turn it off. XD; (The ep we were watching was "Eddie Monster," but we never even got to the part with the extreme-o-saur. Oo I can't for the life of me figure out what scared her so much about the show, unless she was scared of Eduardo for some odd reason.) I kindof forgot about it for a long time after that, and didn't get into it again until someone posted a topic about it on another forum I go to. XD;

The first Foster's episode I saw was Who Let The Dogs In?, way back in March of 2005. At the time I was a TV news junkie, mostly watching CNN and MSNBC, but that had been getting more and more tedious as time wore on; one can only hear so many reports about Iraq before wanting to hurl a brick. On this particular day I was flipping through the rest of the channels, desperately seeking something else to watch, when I hit CN during the show's opening credits; it was the part where Bloo is at the windowsill, looking bored and lonely, just before Mac and the rest of the IF's show up. Then comes the logo and I remembered the name, as I had intended to watch the premiere back in August 2004 but it was up against a new episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, and being the loyal Trekkie that I am... Anyway, I remembered that the show's premise had intrigued me at the time so I decided to give it a shot. I waited through three minutes of commercials, which was followed by the title card, and then, "Oh my stars, who is she?!" The rest, as they say, is history. :-*

One False Movie was my first. For awhile before seeing it my friend Aggie I met on her Kim Possible Community on LJ had been talking about Fosters and it was her new fav show. Also my friend Sam once mentioned how she would have cast Grey Delisle as the voice of one of her characters, with a voice similar to Frankie's. Being a big fan of Grey it was kind of an injustice for me not to have seen the show at least once!

So I made a mental note to catch it -sometime- if I spotted it on. Sadly all the good cartoon here seem to be on early on the weekends and I love to sleep in so that wasn't a good thing (Our VCR wasn't reliable and we didn't have a PVR yet). One day I was watching Teletoon and I guess they had just switched the time slot to 6 PM (I think) watched it, and though "hey... This is pretty good."

Frankie was the reason I keep watching that week, as she doesn't have much of role in OFM so I still had to hear her talk some more. The "infection" (XD) took hold when Cookie Dough and Frankie My Dear came on latter that week. Two of my all time fav episodes of Fosters!

During the rest of that week I D/Led EVERY episode of the series and watched them ALL! That was one awesome marathon man...

And now, almost a year latter, I'm still a... Fostard.. uh... Friend of Fosters...? What DO we call ourselves? ;)

The first episode I began watching was the Pilot (on the day of the series debut); being "House of Bloo's". For a while, I wasn't watching as much Cartoon Network as I did prior to mid-2004. I was seeing promos for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends around the summer of that year. To be honest with you, the preview didn't intrigue me, and thought at first, "what kind of stupid-looking show is Cartoon Network trying to come up with?" However, I learned Craig McCracken is the man behind the series, so I went ahead and gave the series a chance. I took a nap, after getting off of work. Once I got up, I watched the pilot. And well, that's how it all began for me. 8-)

That's basically how I reacted when I first saw Frankie My Dear.

I'd seen the ad for it (which was a premiere episode in Australia), and it looked really good. When I saw it, I immediately fell in love with it (or her to be more specific :frankiesmile:).

I liked the series from the beginning, but didn't quite like it to the point of being sure I caught every episode until toward the beginning of season 3. I previously hadn't paid much attention to CN at all, but during the summer of '04 I remember seeing the promos for it at my parents place, as my sister had recently gotten into some of CN's shows. I was intrigued from the start because, I'm sorry but, What a cool idea! :bloosmirk: One ad I particularly remember is where Coco comes out and "talks" about the show. We of course had no idea what she was saying, so then Bloo comes out and takes over. I meant to catch the premier, but must not have wanted to that badly because I never paid much attention to the date or time. ::) The first episode I remember watching all the way through was "Dinner is Swerved", although don't know if it was the premier or a rerun. Loved it, of course. Whenever I channel surfed and caught the show on, I would always stop. I eventually caught some other eppies in the whole, but most of them I only caught in part. It was when I first saw a rerun of "Frankie my Dear" sometime in the first half of season 3 that I became hooked. Orlando Bloo was making me laugh soooooo hard, I decided then and there that I had to try to catch this show more often- and pay attention to when it's suppose to come on so I can see the WHOLE episode! And it's here where the obsession really began. 8D

It was the pilot episode the night it debuted, though I only saw the beginning and ending, but missed the middle, or I saw it and forgot =P

So I don't really count it as the first episode I saw, since I didn't see the full thing =)

Picture it, Ottawa ,Ontario ,Canada in the Spring of 2005.

A young Canadian lad much like any other lad his age was channel surfing looking for something interesting to watch, he stopped on channel 48 for channel 48 twas the Ottawa cable system home of our national animation station Teletoon.

And when the young lads dial stopped on Teletoon, he came across an episode of a show that led him to making said show a permanent part of his TV viewing schedule.

That episode was the ever popular first season romp: Store Wars.

This 22 and half minuet tail of streamers, massage chairs, dancing cacti and rip off artists, was the first giant step into converting me into a die hard fan and since that day it has been one hell of a toboggan ride.

The first episode I ever saw was a re-run of Adoptcalpse Now in early 2006. I hadn't been paying much attention to Cartoon Network (or much TV at all, really) for a couple of years at that point, so I'd totally missed out on the show when it first premiered, and had been going about my daily life for a while with no idea that it even existed. It was actually thanks to my fondness for the Coen Bros that the show was brought to my attention - I remember reading on the net that Walter, Donnie and the Dude from the Big Lebowski made a cameo appearence in an episode of this cartoon called Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and I was intrigued. I didn't bother to do any homework in advance as to what the show was about or who any of the characters were, but there was something about the title that really appealled to me, and I made a mental note to check it out on that basis alone. Adoptcalpse Now happened to be the episode playing when I finally opted to satisfy my curiousity, and to be frank, it didn't give me much more than a headache at the time. That's what you get for not doing your homework, kids. I spent pretty much the entire duration trying to work out whether these so-called "imaginary friends" were real or not, whether only certain folks could see them, etc, etc (please don't hold that against me - as should be plain to see, I eventually learnt the error of my ways). I wasn't too certain what to make of it at the time; nonetheless, the show must have made some sort of good impression on me, because I stuck with it, and it was by Seeing Red/Phone Home that I realised I'd become a fan, leading on to the glorious days all through the summer when I would get up really early in the mornings with the sole intention of continuing my Foster's education, watching the 7:00 am episodes with the sound turned down so as not to wake up my housemates. I kind of miss those days now.

My first episode? That would be "The Trouble With Scribbles".

I caught on to this show fairly recently. In fact, I don't even think I've been a Fostard (yeah, I've been using that terminology. It's a term of endearment.) for a year yet! I found out about it way back when it premiered, but my family moved house before the premiere, and I never got to see it because the new house didn't get Cartoon Network. Flash forward to April, I'm home at my parent's place for the holidays, and my brother and I are waiting for a new episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. There's nothing else on, so we see Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. Partying Is Such Sweet Soirre. Now, I'd had this show reccomended to me by some older friends of mine, and so I watched it, to see what it was like. It intrigued me enough to keep watching it whenever I got a chance. I watched Everyone Knows It's Bendy/Where There's A Wilt, There's A Way, and was unimpressed. I'd give the show one last try. I watched Camp Keep A Good Mac Down and went back to university wanting more. A short while later, and here I am.

First episode. I've been a fan since the very beginning! :D

First episode I ever saw was "Store Wars". Though, it wasn't 'til late 2005 that I really started to get into the show.

I first saw the episode "Busted" on Cartoon Network.

Decided to watch the show to see what it was about and after seeing it, I thought it was an awesome program indeed, one of the better ones out there, that's for sure ;)

House of Bloos babeh~ :V

I caught it when it first premiered(though had to sort of sneak watch it. Brothers are so malicious about me and my toons. :( ) and absolutely fell in love with it.

That is almost exactly like my first viewing of the show, Taranchula, only Telletoon is on channel 23 in my area.8D
I was flipping through channels and happened upon the episode "Store Wars". I made an effort to avoid the show because Telletoon's advertisements for the show made it look like it was a show for their pre-school line up. I was hooked immediately.
I was very fortunate that it was that particular episode that I chanced upon. I was absolutely captivated by Frankie's character and her efforts to keep everything under control amidst the sheer chaos that the others where causing. I was overwhelmed by the excellent writing, vocal performances, animation, and the intelligence that the show emitted. I knew then and there that I struck gold.:D

Dude I totally know where you are coming from, those early advertisements Teletoon ran for Foster's were just so awful and misleading to the point where I too almost gave this show a miss.

You know if they wanted to promote the show effectively, it would have helped if the advertising people had watched more then just five minuets of the pilot.

Oh... Like that will ever happen x.x
Or you know what would also be nice? Teletoon giving shows like Fosters some respect! I hate their seemingly random time slot changes they do sometimes... I can see changing the time at the START of a new season, but they do it alot... As I've said, their 3:00 PM showing the start of this season was excellent >>

Telletoon's on channel 45 for me, next to the Comedy Network, very convenient XD

My first epsiode was shown to me at a Lan party. UberDan was keen for more people to watch the show, so he rounded us up and put one on. It was Can't Keep a Good Mac Down. The whole time, all I could think of was, "Wow, Bloo is a really horrible person".

Since then, I've got over Bloo's cruelty, mostly by seeing episodes where he is not so cruel. But as to the episode itself: I enjoyed Mr Harriman's demands for precision, and Coco's egg-laying, when it was useful and when it was not.

I think they topped themselves this time because I can't find Fosters on Telletoon at all now. I'm hoping it's just a temporary thing because they would be fools to just drop the show without notice.

The pilot episode. And I've forever been in love with Bloo since.

To be honest, he's changed a LOT since then, but, he's still Bloo in so many ways. The friendship thing is what hooks me the most..... STD (yikes I just noticed the initials for that could be interpreted badly....o.o)....is still my favorite episode EVER.

"It's hooooot in TOE-PIII-KAAAA...."

First episode I saw was Store Wars. "Rip off artist!" That made me love Bloo.
I thought Store Wars was actually the first one they aired.
I didn't actually see the pilot until I had almost seen the whole first season.

My first episode was Hiccy Burp, though I already had the general premise of the show down just by looking at the stuff they had on Cartoon Network's site some time ago and, years later, reading what others had to say about it. I didn't think I'd ever be able to watch it due to my lack of cable, but then I found this site. :D Hiccy Burp wasn't the greatest episode ever IMO, but I liked it enough to try another one. :P Schlock Star, the next one I watched, was what really got me into it.

My first episode was House of Bloo's.

I remember the evening when it first came on: August 13, 2004. I had my dry-erase board and I was counting down the minutes whem the Foster's pilot debuted. I was thinking to myself "this better be good" and it was good.

The first episode i watch was the movie because i think it will be good and it was and i watch every fosters home episodes.

Dinner is Swerved was mine. But I was a fan before watching, because Frankie artwork was posted on a lot of the sites I would visit.:frankiesmile:

House of bloo's on its first airing.

My first episode was also the pilot "House of Bloos" when it first aired. I didn't think much of it from the TV adds, but it quickly became one of the few hightlights of my high school Sophomore year. (The rest of it wasn't much fun for me, unfortunately.) Fosters is one of the few cartoons I still love to watch whenever I can, excluding naruto and bleach, but those are animes.

My first episode was "Crime after crime".:herriman:

I believe it was a rerun of World Wide Wabbit, a few weeks after it first aired. Needless to say, I fell in love with the show instantly. :bloogrin:

My first was Busted. I was watching it with my sister and I remember us laughing so hard at it. :P

My first epeisode, was the first episode. I was In Florida, and I was afraid that the hurricane would mess up the satelite. Thankfully, the hurricane missed us, and I saw it then! ^_^

My first episode was Phone Home. Sure, it wasn't the best episode in the show, but it effectively sparked my interest in Foster's Home!

I was with Foster's since the very beginning, so the pilot is my first :D

I'm a relative new comer and my first episode was parts of Mac Daddy, that I saw on youtube and part of Bride to Beat. However my first full episode was Affair Weather Friend. Since then I've religiously watched it so I've seen at least a few episodes now (along with the first two seasons that I've bought).

Unfortunetly the last season is the first one that I've religiously watched.

First episode for me was the Pilot: House of Bloos. But back then, it was considered a TV movie and not an actual series yet, so officially, my first episode would be Store Wars.

"Squeakerboxxx"

And I was hooked.