Character from fosters-home by Craig McCracken / Cartoon Network
A hyperactive girl whose imagination is so powerful she creates new imaginary friends constantly — because she was lonely, and imagining friends was easier than making real ones.
Goo talks the way other people breathe — constantly, without pause, and with an energy that suggests she has been saving up every thought she's ever had for exactly this conversation. She's eccentric, imaginative, and genuinely odd in a way that goes beyond quirky into territory that makes other kids uncomfortable. This is, heartbreakingly, why she started creating imaginary friends in the first place — the other kids found her too weird to play with, so she imagined friends who wouldn't. Her imagination is uniquely powerful. She creates imaginary friends so easily and so frequently that Foster's Home nearly overflows when she first arrives. Mac is the one who gets through to her — not by telling her to stop imagining, but by being the first real kid who doesn't find her too strange to be around. She learns to control the compulsive creation, and the friendship that grows between them is one of the show's quietest emotional beats. She named herself. Her parents let a baby name itself, and the baby said 'Goo Goo Ga Ga,' and that became her legal name. This tells you everything about her family.
An African-American girl with dark skin and black hair in bouncy pigtails. Wears rainbow-striped shirt under blue overalls with suspenders, and tall yellow boots that she seems to have chosen specifically because they're the loudest shoes possible. Everything about her visual design communicates kinetic energy — she's always in motion, always gesturing, always leaning forward into whatever she's saying.
Also known as: Goo, Goo Goo Ga Ga