Being elderly or "unpredictable" is NO EXCUSE WHATSOEVER for how Madame Foster was absent in that episode. I'm certainly not asking for Frankie to go and whine to her every single time Mr. Herriman orders her around, that's one thing. But it's another for Madame Foster to just do nothing about her flesh-and-blood granddaughter enduring such an undeservedly malicious day.
But that alone isn't what bothers me. It's how she got away with untying helpless imaginary balloons and stealing from a child, just a couple of episodes after the events of "Imposter's"--and repeatedly smacking Frankie with the wooden spoon in "Crime After Crime", itself an episode that aired just weeks after FGTE, doesn't help at all.
I like Madame Foster; but it simply upsets me how she can get away with what she did because "she's old", while her granddaughter's hard work and dedication is "rewarded" by being forced to miss the Fake-Outz concert and having to clean up all day thanks to a mooching jerk.
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