Item from fosters-home by Craig McCracken / Cartoon Network
An ever-expanding compendium of house rules that no one follows, everyone knows about, and Mr. Herriman will enforce until the heat death of the universe.
The Rule Book is Mr. Herriman's life's work — a comprehensive legal framework governing every aspect of life at Foster's Home. Hallway speed limits. Dining etiquette. Noise ordinances organized by time of day. Egg-laying schedules for Coco. The rules are detailed enough to fill a law library and observed by approximately nobody. Bloo violates multiple rules per hour. Frankie ignores the ones that interfere with actually running the house. Even Madame Foster, the founder, cheerfully disregards them. Herriman enforces them anyway, because without the rules, he doesn't know who he is.
A massive, leather-bound tome that has grown to multiple volumes over the years. The pages are dense with fine print, subsections, amendments, and cross-references. It sits on Herriman's desk like a sacred text. There are rumored to be supplementary volumes in filing cabinets that haven't been opened in years.
Also known as: The Rule Book, House Rules, Herriman's Rules