Bloo finds a new money-maker — Madame Foster's world-famous chocolate chip cookies.
Tropes:
- Backing Away Slowly: Mac goes to Frankie to ask for help in talking sense into Bloo, only to find that she's gone completely off the deep end, shoveling cookie after cookie into her mouth and ranting to herself. This freaks him out so much that his only response is to slowly back out of the room and close the door behind him.
- Big Eater: Due to her addiction to them, Frankie spends the timespan of the episode gorging herself on cookies, enough to eventually make her go from slim to chubby.
- Book Ends: This episode begins and ends with Bloo running a lemonade stand to raise the money for a new roof for Foster's.
- Control Freak: Bloo after he realizes just how much money he can make off Madame Foster's cookies while overlooking just how much he's exploiting the other imaginary friends, and when sales drop he decides to punish his workforce starting with laying off Eduardo rather than giving up a giant golden statue of himself.
- Didn't Think This Through: Bloo gets the idea for a lemonade stand to raise money for a new roof because he claims he saw it in the movies. Mac points out all the flaws in this, such as nobody wants cold lemonade when it is already cold and rainy outside, but Bloo ignores him because he insits it worked in the movies. Mac asks if all of those movies took place in Summer, the time of the year people actually drink lemonade, and Bloo finally gets it. Even so, one man actually agrees to buy a cup of lemonade despite the cold weather, but it’s so cold that the lemonade has frozen and Bloo can’t serve him any.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Frankie's love for Madame Foster's cookies is almost played like a drug addiction. She wants to stop eating them because she knows they’re bad for her health but is unable to stop herself, she sleeps at the cookie stand, and she’s extremely irritable when Mac shows up 2 and a half minutes late.
- Downer Ending: All of Bloo’s profit has gone down the drain due to having caused a disaster that destroyed the house’s roof, setting him back to square one. Foster’s cookies are no longer a viable source of profit since he tainted their brand appeal with gross experimental flavors and cheap advertising. Oh, and Frankie is still addicted to her remaining stores of cookies, which have made her fat.
- Even the Rats Won't Touch It: One of Bloo's ideas for Madame Foster's cookies is to give them new flavors; Nacho Cheese and Cool Ranch. A dog eats one of the cookies, then spits it out.
- Formerly Fit: Frankie goes from a skinny young woman to overweight by the end of the episode due to indulging her addiction to Foster’s cookies.
- Grandma's Recipe: The premise of this episode, being Madame Foster's cookies.
- G-Rated Drug: Madame Foster's cookies are this to Frankie. She's loved them since she was a baby, and devours thousands of boxes of them throughout the episode.
- Here We Go Again!: Bloo was able to repair the roof with the profits from Madame Foster's cookies, but in the process of getting so enamored with power and wealth that he blows up the roof from a cookie baking incident gone wrong. He is forced to give up all the profits he made to settle his debts to Madame Foster, but being still $20,000 short he goes back to selling lemonade.
- Impossibly Delicious Food: Everyone loves Madame Foster’s triple chocolate chip cookies. Frankie in particular loves them so much that she grows addicted to them, and eats so many that she puts on a lot of weight.
- Insubstantial Ingredients:
- When a customer mentions that the new batch of cookies taste different, he says that it's missing the secret ingredient of love. Bloo doesn't get the hint and just tries to change the recipe some more.
- After becoming rich, Bloo asks for emeralds and rubies on his pizza.
- Jerkass Ball: Bloo was always a jerk, but in this episode, he becomes way worse than he already was.
- Lemonade Stand Plot: This episode begins with Bloo running a lemonade stand during a rainy winter season to raise money for a new roof for Foster's. Unfortunately, nobody wants to buy lemonade because as Mac points out, nobody's going to want to buy something ice-cold when it's already ice-cold outside. When Bloo points out that he's seen the idea work in movies, Mac asks him if it was summer in those movies. At the end of the episode, when Bloo's attempt to make Madame Foster's famous cookies by himself results in him destroying Foster's roof, he runs a lemonade stand to raise the money for a new roof.
- Not So Above It All: Despite his usual loyalty to Madame Foster, Mr. Herriman gets conned by Bloo into retrieving her secret cookie recipe from the safe by Bloo offering him the title of Chairman of the cookie business.
- Oven Logic: After all the other friends leave him, Bloo is left all alone to bake all the cookies. He tries to play with the oven temperature to make the cooking go faster, with predictable results.Bloo: Okay, this is taking too long. Let's see, if it takes 20 minutes to cook at 250 degrees...it should take 2 minutes at 2500 degrees! (Bloo does this, causing the roof to be blown off) Whoops.
- Sanity Slippage: Frankie goes completely insane for Madame Foster's cookies, going as far as sleeping at the cookie stand, bagging loads of them, and engorging herself with them more and more, leading to her getting a really big belly in the end credits.Frankie: (with a deranged look on her face) Must stop eating cookies… such delicious sugary goodness… NEVER! (shoves another cookie in her mouth) Cookies are your friend! You shall give in to the power of the triple chocolate! I've loved them since I was a baby, and she never gave me enough. (eats a bunch more cookies) So you need to eat MORE! As many as you can! LET NO ONE STOP YOU! But how?
- Saving the Orphanage: Bloo is selling lemonade to pay for roof repairs for the home. Business is slow (mainly because it's the middle of winter), then Madame Foster gives Bloo one of her special cookies. A passerby buys the cookies, leading to Bloo appropriating the recipe and selling them on his own. Soon he makes enough to have the roof repaired, but he becomes greedy and in an attempt to make the cookies faster, ends up blowing up the roof, putting him at square one.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Bloo develops this attitude as he feels his entrepreneurial skills and grand wealth from the cookie profits are the only card he needs to get out of copyright-related legal tangles with Madame Foster (she agrees to have her recipe get bought out) and also overworking his employees or friends (since Wilt, Coco, and Ed are now working for him).
- Self-Deprecation: While apologizing to his friends, Bloo insults himself many times, calling himself a total jerk-face, a terrible friend, the lowest form of life in existence, and a “zero-cell paramecium” who’s ugly, smelly, and mean to his friends.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: While Mac talks about how Bloo is being pushy to his employees for the production of cookies to Frankie and suggests she talks to him about it, she has suddenly disappeared to her room gorging on her cookie and milk addiction.
- Temporary Bulk Change: The B-Plot has Frankie going nuts over Madame Foster's cookies being available more than once a year, and buys loads of them to gorge herself throughout the episode while degrading in sanity. The credits gag shows her still glutting herself on them and downing entire milk jugs before zooming out to show she's gotten a bloated stomach from it. It’s not a Balloon Belly due to how much time has passed, she’s just gotten fat.
- Work Off the Debt: The Downer Ending that Bloo has to endure now that he owes $20,000 to Madame Foster to fix the roof for the house after he blew it up from turning up the cookie oven too high.
