Is Fooley Cooley supposed to make sense? Should I keep trying to watch it hopeing it will make sense? Who else beside me wants to slap that guy silly for being such a jerk towards that girl (not vespa girl, the other one)? Does anybody really call fooling around “fooley cooley”?
Have you watched it all yet? It’s only 6 episodes long and it’s mostly a mystery till the end what’s going on.
Do you mean Mamimi or Ninamori? His brother’s girlfriend or the girl from school? I didn’t feel he was being particularly jerky to either. They both seemed pretty careless about expecting things from him.
Haven’t seen it myself, but as far as making sense goes: I have a pal who recently commented “I watch FLCL instead of dropping acid.”
His bro’s girlfriend is kind of a space cadet…I really can’t settle on it specifically, but I really suspect she is homeless, has a drug habit, or possibly both.
There is a plot to the series, but the show in itself is so random and non-sequituir that its kind of hard to follow because they jump around, the end of each episode has such a highly charged emotional climax/resolution that it feels like each episode is a whole series in itself.
The show is too wierd for words. But I loved the south park parody they had in there 
Whereas an acquaintance of mine commented that if it didn’t make sense, then you hadn’t dropped enough. There is a plot of sorts, but it’s best to just sit back and enjoy the madness.
Space cadet? I thought she was a space alien.
FLCL has perfect logic: dream logic. The whole thing feels like one of those hyper-real but totally non-sensical dreams you get from really good mescaline or really bad burritos. The way that the tone of the show shifts instantly from exciting to horror to erotic and back, often in one scene; the tendency of characters to repeat nonsense phrases as if they have deeper meanings that never become clear; the incredibly overt Fruedianisms (sometimes a guitar is not just a guitar.) It’s impressive in the way that it can provoke strong emotional responses without having any sort of coherent story line to deliver them, which is also very dreamlike. The scene in one episode where the boy’s father has been replaced by a malfunctioning robot deserves mention in the “scariest thing you’ve ever seen on television” thread. It was quite literally nightmarish, in a way few other films or shows have ever achieved. The fact that they don’t bother to translate any of the kanji subtitles only enhances this: just as in dreams, you know you’re supposed to be reading something, but it’s just gibberish.
I think this may very well be the best anime I’ve ever seen.
(Incidentally, a better title for this thread would have been: “FLCL: WTF?” 
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You’re thinking of Haduko. Inc was talking about Mamimi, she of the “strong” cigarettes.
You have a good point about the dream-logic; the show is very dreamlike in many ways. The placement of familiar objects in odd contexts (like the MM plant) is another such touch, as is the intermittent continuity. Case in point, the scene you mentioned with the father (which might have been better put in a spoiler box, as some readers may not have reached that point in the series yet) doesn’t have any lasting effect. By the next episode, it’s as if it never happened.
Oh, concerning the kanji…it’s even worse when you’ve just started learning to read the stuff. I can make out occasional scraps of it, just enough to make me feel as if I should be able to read it all.
The show is weird, but I enjoy the varying anime styles and the music. Now, if it was all coupled with a story that I could understand…
Also, I kind of was sickened watching him push that bump back into his forehead.
I think its a sorta funny/nonfunny parody of alot of the other anime around. it takes all the normal conventions but sorta… messes with them.
I mean it has the same sort of ultimate weapons as every other show, but they are guitars. and it has the ultimate giant bad guys… but they are hands. and it has the robot pilot, but the robot poops him out.
it seems like a parody that had its own story, which made a sort of creepy quality to the whole thing.
Yes, it makes just as much sense as the End of Evangelion.
My interpretation was that it was about adolescence and much of the symbolism connected to the frustration and lack of control or understanding a young child has over his budding sexuality or changing view of girls. The rest of the stuff was mostly random.
Then again, I didn’t like FLCL all that much. It was interesting in parts, but it mostly struck me as weird for the sake of being weird. Incomprehensibility doesn’t equal depth.