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A Lost Claus

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Directed by: Craig McCracken
Written by: Lauren Faust
Release date: December 1, 2005
Running time: 30 Minutes
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A Lost Claus is the title of the Christmas episode of the Cartoon Network animated series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The episode, which was first aired on December 1, 2005, was written by Lauren Faust and directed by her husband, series creator Craig McCracken. The program pays homage to A Charlie Brown Christmas in sight gags and the jazz musical stylings of that Christmas tradition, and also spoofs the Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol. The episode won an Annie Award in 2005 for McCracken, Mike Moon, David Dunnet and Martin Absolabehere for "Best Design in an Animated TV Series".

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SPOILER: Plot details or story follow.

Eduardo, a resident, dresses up for Christmas.

It's the day before Christmas Eve and Mac is on his way to see his imaginary friend, Blooregard "Bloo" Q. Kazoo at Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, an orphan home for children's make-believe characters, just as they are preparing for Christmas. After Mac puts the star atop the Christmas tree, Santa Claus arrives. He asks Mac and Bloo what they want for Christmas, and just as they are about to tell him their wish lists, a second Santa comes in. Ultimately, after both Bloo and Mac exchange larger (and more outrageous) gifts, the two Santas get into a fistfight. Frankie Foster, Madame Foster's granddaughter who runs the house's maintance, breaks that up, and brings them along with the other Santas of all shapes and sorts to Mr. Herriman's office, explaining that every year, kids get so excited about Santa that they create imaginary ones "that are about as real as my Aunt Fanny". Upon hearing that, Mac then has a breakdown disbelieving that there is no such thing as Santa.

Coco ges to work as a Mall Santa.

Bloo, who is upset that he will be getting only one gift for Christmas, decides to do some scientific tests disproving Mac's theory that there is no Santa. So on Christmas Eve, he sends Wilt, a basketball-playing firend with one arm on a trip around the world in a sleigh with unicorns in place of reindeer, then sends Eduardo, a cowardly protective friend who dresses for the season with mistletoe on his painted candy-cane horns, bells on his tail and a wreath on his skull belt buckle, down the chimney of the home, getting stuck in the process, and then goes to a mall to prove Santa exists, only to find out that the Mall Santa is none other than Coco, described as a "bird-plane-plant thing" who is working there to pay for a vacation home, and then is then outed as a fraud when she is accidentally debearded by Mac. At the home, Madame Foster says that it's all a phase he's going through and that sooner or later, the truth will find him out. So when he gets home, Mac asks Santa for the one thing that will make him believe Santa does exist: underwear.

Instead of dressing as the ghost of Jacob Marley, Bloo scares Mr. Herriman as the spirit of Bob Marley.

Meanwhile, Bloo, who is still distraught over the fact that he is only getting one Christmas present while an Imaginary Friend named Moishe, a dreidel, rubs salt into the wounds by telling Bloo he's getting eight gifts (a reference to Hannukah,) so Bloo comes up with an idea: scaring the wits out of Mr. Herriman, a seven-foot rabbit who runs the home for his creator, into giving everyone more gifts. Taking a cue from A Christmas Carol, he dresses first as the ghost of Bob Marley (instead of Jacob Marley), then later dresses as "The Ghost of a Christmas Present" and a robot representing The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, frightening Mr. Herriman out of mind so much that he misunderstands Bloo's request for more presents, and as a result, decides instead to outright cancel Christmas at the home, much to Mac's dismay.

Much to his dismay, Bloo got a pile of coal.

Christmas morning comes and Mac, along with his mom and his brother Terrance, are unwrapping presents, and Mac is unhappy to not find any underwear in the batch, so he asks his mother "What does a guy have to do to get underwear for Christmas?", and then walks off to Foster's. When he arrives, though, he suddenly realizes that Christmas came as a miracle. All the friends are playing with their gifts while Wilt explains that Santa brought him home, Eduardo says he felt something pushing him down the chimney and Coco's lawsuit against the mall for wrongful termination was settled out of court. Frankie calls the police and describes what happened, believing at last there is a Santa Claus. Madame Foster gives Mac a Christmas stocking with his name on it, and finds out that it's filled with underwear, and he too believes in Santa. As for Bloo, he wound up with a pile of coal, and vows revenge against Santa.

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