What's on TV

I really like that show Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. It's a kid's cartoon on the Cartoon Network. Kid, Max, has to give up his imaginary friend, Bloo (short for Blooregard Q. Kazoo), to live in the home when he becomes too old. But he sticks around and hangs out with him. The animation is an excellentstylized modern-art melange and the story lines are that magic combination of zany and childish, yet grown-up friendly. (I go for the zany and childish, as I am not a grown-up in any meaningful sense). I find it soothing. There's also a certain element of pathos in the entire thing. Max and Bloo's bond is remarkably nuanced and treated well in the scripts. The other characters are fully fleshed out and believable as personalities if not persons; this makes the idea behind the entire show, that Max is a little boy (who lives in an apartment with his absentee mother and bully older-brother) so alone in the world that these imaginary friends are his only real companions, rather affecting.
Also, I wish the imaginary friends at Foster's were my real friends. I do not like my real friends, and I'm too short on options to trade up. (You heard me, assholes--when you come up with harebrained schemes to win a go-cart competition, come talk to me.)