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Bye Bye Nerdy

Season 2, Episode 11, Aired Jul 01, 2005

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After beating Mac's high score in a video game, Bloo goes to rub it in his face at school. But he is horrified when he comes to the conclusion that Mac is a nerd. When Mac arrives, Bloo quickly works to make Mac cool, but none of their ideas work. But just as Mac says he doesn't care about being cool, the coolest kid in the school, Jamez Withazee tells him that the fact that he doesn't want to be cool, makes him cool, and invites him to 'The Rock.' As Mac is not at Foster's at 3 o' clock because Jamez tells him that Foster's is for nerds, Mr. Herriman is very quick to ensure that Bloo gets adopted. Now Bloo must find Mac, while at the same time avoiding adoption! Will bloo find Mac before he gets adopted?moreless

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Tom Kenny

Eduardo
Sean Marquette

Mac
Grey DeLisle

Frances "Frankie" Foster/Duchess
Keith Ferguson

Blooregard "Bloo" Q. Kazoo
Tom Kane

Mr. Herriman
Candi Milo

Coco/Madame Foster

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I felt sorry for Mac in this episode.

5.0

"Mediocre"

By Blooregard727, Sep 08, 2010

In Bye Bye Nerdy, Mac was trying to look cool when he was going to school, but it didn't come out well. His classmates were making fun of him that he just got that coolnes from magazines and television ads, which made him a nerd. Then, the coolest kid in the school, Jamez Withazee (I think that's how it's spelled) explains to Mac that saying that he's not cool makes him cool. But at the end of the episode, Jamez thought that Mac was not cool when Bloo came. Then all the kids were laughing at him and Mac is a nerd again.

I felt very sorry about people making fun of Mac in this episode. This is why I didn't give this a good rating.moreless
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Well, humor was just average. Tim McKeon's first work... but not great.

6.2

"Fair"

By dewsid, Sep 08, 2010

In this episode, Bloo was acting rather stupid, like how he did in "Phone Home" when he made the poor guy in the suit suffer bruises.

I disliked the premise of this episode that "be yorself", but how can you be yourself? I mean I can't because I don't even know my own personality and i am preety sure no one else is themselves. I always hate it when shows say "be yourself", i don't even know what that means. So are they saying if you are a failure you still fail? And if you are fat you stay fat? Or if you are merciless, you stay merciless? There is no meaning to "Be Yourself".

The humor in the episode was quite well done despite the unoriginal plot.

Overall, quite a sad episode which could have done better.moreless
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Take it with a grain of salt, and be who you really are.

8.1

"Great"

By NozeNuggets, Sep 08, 2010

This episode may not be the best of the bunch in the bananas world of Foster\'s but we do learn a valuable lesson here.

Because Bloo beats Mac\'s high score in a Space Invaders-type game, he runs down to tell Mac and rub it in his face...only to see him doing extra schoolwork, not knowing that Mac spit-wadded another kid, and earned no recess for that day, but detention.

Bloo concludes (or so it seems) that the shy, bright child who created him is a nerd. Eduardo thinks that\'s \"estupido\" (Spanish for stupid), and then asks Mac to be cooler, circa 1987 to be exact. Well, after being laughed at, Mac goes back to his normal self and denounces it, which is overheard by Jamez With A \"Z\", who just happens to be the coolest kid in school, and invites him down to \"The Rock\" at 3 PM the next day...the time he always visits Foster\'s.

With Mac\'s absence, Blooregard is put up for adoption by Mr. Herriman, and an mad chase (complete with a spoof of a line from \"The Blues Brothers\" movie, announcing that he has 106 blocks to Mac, half a mind, a full bladder (from drinking too much juice), that it\'s Tuesday and he is wearing sunglasses as well as the opening montage from \"Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery\") right to \"The Rock\", ending up in a nerdy disguise. All in all, a good episode for this series.moreless
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to think i waited for this.

3.0

"Bad"

By cyborger2, Sep 08, 2010

This had a good first act but it lost the 7 points with all the stupid humor and dumb kids at mac's school. this introduced james whitazee Your average shallow popular kid (a cleshay if you ask me). the ending was just stupid. after mac made that speech all those shallow idiots still call him a nerd. this episode sucked pretty much

PS look at the high scores and read stinky the bad videogames guy's highscore was. thats right that was a lame joke too.moreless
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The worst episode!

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By psychoman218, Sep 08, 2010

I hated this episode. It totally sucked @$$! It was painful to watch, like my classification says. I like FHFIF, but this episode just sucked! This along with Sweet Stench of Success, Imposter's Home for etc., and Room with a Feud needs to get taken out of the series! Then it will be perfect.
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- Mac said that those magazines were from 1987, but if you look closely at one of those magazines, the year written on it is 1989.
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- Either Fankie's shirt is attached to her belly or a mistake was made in the scene where Bloo jumps on her belly and starts grabbing her shirt, because as he did so, the shirt didn't rise in anyway.
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- (After Mac says a long speech to defend Bloo) James: Wow, Mac. Those were some powerful words. But you're still a nerd. (The crowd laughs.)
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- Jamez Withazee: (About Bloo being Mac's best friend) Dude, that is not cool.
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- Kid: (After seeing the "cool" Mac) Hey, where'd you get the clothes, the 1987 store? Mac: No, but I think my friend got it there.
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- Bloo: (With sunglasses on) It's one-hundred-and-six blocks to Mac, I've got a full bladder, half an idea where I'm going, it's Tuesday and I'm wearing sunglasses! Frankie: (Opens window) Hit it! (Bloo leaps out of window screaming)
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- Nerdy Man: (After swapping clothes with Bloo) Now I am gonna get ALL the ladies!
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- Mr. Herriman: (Dancing) You're getting, adopted, uh-huh, uh-huh, you're gonna be, out of here, uh-huh, uh-huh, I like, raisins and oatmeal, uh-huh, uh-huh!
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- Mac: (To bully, complete with the bad lip synching from kung fu movies) You have disgraced my people! We shall now engage in combat!
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NOTES (13)
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- Frankie is seen on the computer for the first time since "World Wide Wabbit."
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- Animation Studio: Boulder Media, Ltd.
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- Bloo did the Worm dance for the second time in the series. The first time was in "Bloo's Brothers."
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- A kid who looks like a younger version of Terrence appears when "cool" Mac is doing his skateboard tricks.
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- Bulby from "Cookie Dough" cameos in this episode.
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- Apparently, there's an imaginary friend called Stinky The Bad At Video Games Guy.
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- Running Gag: Bloo stopping what he's saying and doing just to ask for some juice.
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- Mac reveals that Bloo is his only friend.
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- Credits: Bloo tells the moral of the story and to accept people for who they are. At the end, it zooms out to a big imaginary friend who asks, "Why are you telling me this?," Bloo then walks off.
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- Human Debuts: Jamez With a "Z", more of Mac's school.
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- Title Card Sound: Kids shouting "nerd" or "nerdy."
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- UK airdate: April 22, 2005.
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- When Bloo tries to teach Mac how to be cool, he does some famous dance moves. They were: - The Worm - M.C. Hammer's dance move - Michael Jackson's moonwalk - Part of the Thriller dance
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- Eduardo: Mac fell down a well? Wilt: He fell down three wells? This dialog is a reference from the quote "Timmy fell down the well?" from the Lassie series, about an incredible super Collie that always saved the day. This is often parodied in many shows for the numerous times Timmy fell down a well (Paroding it when Wilt said "He fell down three wells?")
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- Character Name: Jamez With a "Z" This is likely to come from the 1972 NBC TV special "Liza With a 'Z'" starring Liza Minelli.
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- Episode Title: Bye Bye Nerdy. The title is a pun on the Broadway and Hollywood musical rock-and-roll parody Bye Bye Birdie, where the uproar of the drafting into the military of Elvis Presley was spoofed.
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- Bloo: This isn't cranapple!
  This refers to a brand of cranberry-apple mixed drink named Cran-Apple by the Ocean Spray Cranberry Growers group.
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- n/a: Game Machine & Game
  As well as the fact that the game console looks like a GameCube, the game Bloo and the others play is a parody of Space Invaders. The boss Bloo faces looks a lot like one of the invaders, except much bigger.
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- Bloo: (Running through town in specs away from kids)
  The way this was done, right down to the disguises, was done like one of the first scenes in Austin Powers International Man of Mystery, where Austin is being chased through town by ladies, and he's wearing the same type of glasses.
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- Bloo: I must be in a mirror world...
  Bloo is likely referring to the popular episode of Star Trek called \"Mirror, Mirror\" where the team finds themselves in an opposite world. Also, the music playing over this scene is reminiscent of The Twilight Zone, a TV series that's often described as taking place in another dimension.
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- Bloo: It's one-hundred-and-six blocks to Mac, I've got a full bladder, half an idea where I'm going, it's Tuesday and I'm wearing sunglasses!
  Frankie: Hit it! This dialogue is a reference to the movie The Blues Brothers, where Elwood Blues says at one point "It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses," to which Jake responds, "Hit it."
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