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Recap / Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends S 5 E 2 The Buck Swaps Here

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The friends go to a swap meet, but things get complicated when Eduardo finds a 100 dollar bill and everyone else wants to use it for the own gain.


  • An Aesop: Greed can often bring out the worst in people.
  • Basement-Dweller: Mac's Rocket Wars collection gets sold to a middle-aged man who tells his mom "You're the greatest, Mom!" The mom then asks him "So now do you promise to move out?" as she goes through her purse.
  • Butt-Monkey: Wilt. In this episode, Madame Foster treats him like a workhorse making him unload heavy objects off the bus to sell at the swap meet, until he is exhausted and dehydrated. While Eduardo is kind enough to buy him a drink for Wilt, the guy never gets due to everyone's craziness over trying to the 100 dollar bill.
  • Call-Back: Mac joins in on the money craze when he discovers the Rocket Wars collection he sold for Bloo's movie from "One False Movie" on sale.
  • Extreme Omnivore: Coco's reason for wanting Eduardo's 100 bill is so she can eat it.
  • Jerkass Ball: Mac and Frankie are usually the sane ones of the group, but they both join in on trying to get the money when they find items that both cost only 99 bucks (Mac's Rocket Wars collection and the Zamboni, an all-purpose cleaning machine respectively).
  • Jerkass Realization: Just as the Foster’s gang was about to head back into the swap meet with the money the pickpocket lost, they see how sad Eduardo is about how everyone acted, and decide to make it up to him by buying the dollhouse he wanted to with the $100.
  • Karmic Butt-Monkey: The pickpocket goes through a few Amusing Injuries while trying the 100 dollar bill back from Eduardo throughout the episode, but he did deserve it for stealing people’s money in the swap meet.
  • Laser-Guided Karma:
    • The pickpocket who was stealing money from people in the swap meet, loses all the money he stole when he eventually does get the 100 dollar bill back, then gets arrested.
    • As Bloo was the one who started everyone's behavior over trying to get Eduardo to give them the 100 dollar bill, not only does he get arrested, alongside the pickpocket, but the cobra statue he wanted, which eventually tried to steal, gets destroyed.
  • Lint Value: Bloo wants to buy a statue of a mongoose fighting four cobras, but it costs $300.00. When he asks Mac what he has, Mac tells him that all he has is some green lint and some bluish-gray lint, saying the green lint might be more rare. The vendor overhears and says that purplish lint is the most rare, and he will knock $200.00 off if he had some. Bloo then sees Eduardo holding up a 100 bill he found, tackles him, and takes his 100 bill and some of his fur to pay for the statue. Mac then takes the 100 bill and Eduardo's fur away from Bloo, saying that neither of them belong to him.
  • Not So Above It All: Even some of the more sensible characters like Mac and Frankie, who at first try to convince Eduardo to save his money want to spend it on something they want. For the former, it's his Rocket Wars collection, and for the latter, it's the Zamboni.
  • "Shaggy Dog" Story: Bloo spends most of the episode trying to get Eduardo to spend his money on a cobra statue, only for it to get destroyed.
  • Sheet of Glass: At one point, two men resembling Mario and Luigi appear carrying a mirror. It starts out as a subversion when Eduardo and his friends chasing him for his 100 bill run past them, then it's played straight with the pickpocket, who crashes through the mirror.
  • Shout-Out: Two men resembling Mario and Luigi appear in this episode, one of them even speaks with an Italian accent after they begin hitting the pickpocket with the frame of the mirror he just broke.
  • We Are Not Going Through That Again: When the vendor charges Bloo $400.00 for the Cobra statue, Bloo calls him a ripoff artist, but Mac stops him before he can kick him in the shin like he did to the vendors in a previous epsiode, "Store Wars".

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