[Nathander]

Originally Posted by Mr. Marshmallow

What Goofball actually did was intentionally cruel to an extent. The fact that he didn't care about ANYONE even slightly but himself, resulted in cruel actions and even when Frankie brought it to his attention, he still ignored her feelings and considerations.

True to a degree. While he was intentionally doing what he was doing, and doing it regardless of others and thus showing a cruel streak, I doubt there was any actual maliciousness in it, which is the thing. Same with Bloo; he's self-serving and apathetic, but I don't think his cruelty ever has a malicious base to it.

I don't think Bloo was trying to put a funny spin on anything, tricking someone into thinking your being tricked only to trick them AGAIN is nothing short of a mind game. Bloo knows Mac's birthday phobia because HE started it, and he convinced everyone to see the humor in it.

Which I felt was out of character for the others. Pranks aren't nearly this elaborate and further more, there is a FINE LINE between a prank and a mean spirited act, this was a mean spirited act that resulted in nothing more then Mac's utter, total, and complete humilation.

I felt that it was fairly out of character also that the others would willing participate. However, for it to truly qualify as a mean spirited act, Bloo must have meant it mean-spiritedly, and I honestly don't believe Bloo puts enough thoughts into his actions to be truly capable of performing a seriously malice act. He says what he wants to say and does what he wants to do; again, there's a slight form of intentional cruelty in that he's self-serving, but I don't think he'd ever actually be purposefully malicious.

Bloo played off his fear to get him to do what he wanted him to do, he USED Mac. That's what jerks do to people, not friends, friends don't use each other. Making fun of someone's fear is one thing, but it's not funny at all when the fear your making fun of was STARTED by your actions.

Again, I have a hard time believing that Bloo himself has the capability of knowing what he's doing is cruel, which is what actually counts in making it a malicious act. Since there was no malice intended by the actual starter, then there can be no true malice within the act; there can, however, be undeliberate malice, and that's what we see in both Goofball's episode and IOHSFY.

This is why I have the occasional beef with Bloo, I can name 5 crappy and snotty things he's done to Mac right off the top of my head. He's done a jack load of stuff that has earned him a meanstreak now and then, no matter how little or large it may come out, I think Bloo still has it.

Ever take a look to see how Bloo talks to Mac or what he says to him in general? Not too much different then how Goofball carelessly ripped on Frankie's name, and come on, we all know he knew how to say it right.

Yeah, Bloo has done a lot of bad stuff. however, in turn, he's ended up having several things go wrong for him and having to pay the price for it, kind of a karmic reversal. In a lot of ways, you could see Bloo and Mac as Goofus and Gallant, respectively; Gallant does all his chores, is a great kid, blah blah blah......meanwhile, Bloo's a lazy moron who tends to do something wrong and, inevitably, is paid that deed back. I have a hard time having a grudge with Bloo considering that he never really intends malice, and that he usually gets paid back for anything he does wrong.