I guess I can be glad I didn't read the Cartoon Network thingie in much detail this time, since I was not expecting Mac and Frankie to team up and save the day, though I would have expected Mac to try and right a situation that he caused, albeit inadvertently.
I can see the issue, though, with the selling of the Imaginary Friends, the forcing them to work for nothing, and the overcrowding in the house. In that respect, they were being treated just like slaves, and therein lies the irony. The REAL Abraham Lincoln, through his Emancipation Proclamation, FREED all the human slaves in the US, while this Lincoln turned other Imaginary Friends into slaves, for his own profit!
One thing that this episode DOES show, though, is that Imaginary Friends are far from being just extensions of a child's personality and thoughts, and that they are not all childlike, not at all! Little Lincoln surely did not pick up the idea of selling other Imaginary Friends, taking over an old lady's house and fortune, and turning it into a gambling casino from some elementary school kid, and his reaction to that bikini-clad lady on the ballpoint pen was FAR from childlike and innocent!
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