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Mr. Herriman
Mister Herriman
First appearance	"House of Bloo's"
Information
Species	Imaginary Friend
Gender	Male
Occupation	President of the Foster's House
Family	Madame Foster (Creator)(mother) Frankie Foster (niece)
Portrayed by	Tom Kane

Mr. Herriman (or Mr. H) is a character in the animated television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends voiced by Tom Kane.

Mr. Herriman is an anthropomorphic rabbit who wears a top hat, a monocle, a vest, and a mustache while speaking in an English accent in a personification of the Edwardian era. He is the president of the house and runs things for Madame Foster, his creator. He is the oldest friend in the house, which is something he is quite sensitive about. He is named for Krazy Kat creator George Herriman, with a pun on "hare."

He stands six feet tall (seven feet with his top hat on) and weighing in at 210 pounds. Quite opposite of his carefree and calm-tempered creator Madame Foster, Mr. Herriman is a stickler for rules, having made many silly and impractical rules in an attempt to keep everything "running smoothly," to the point of being ridiculous. Throughout the series he has shown a lot of symptoms of having OCD when it comes to cleanliness and following the rules perfectly. He usually refers to others in a proper manner, calling males "Master" and females "Miss" in front of their name. He sets great store by "proper manners," and is rarely seen acting on his primitive rabbit nature. He is shown to have an addiction to carrots (which he will go to great, even desperate, lengths to hide), despite his best attempts to ignore or get over the weakness. He is phobic of dogs and made a rule that no dogs are allowed in the home.

Mr. Herriman, though proper, has often shown a lack of social skills. His ways of being proper are to the point to where the other imaginary friends cannot stand him or being around him, his ways of keeping things "running just the right way" often inconviences the other characters to the point of being disrespectful. Frankie has a strong disliking towards Mr. Herriman, due to his constant lack of consideration towards her and often talks her down, whether he is aware of it or not. He has a strong disliking for Bloo, due to his chaotic nature and constant rule breaking, and often wishes that he would be adopted or move back with his creator, Mac.

Mr. Herriman is very passionate about his job as the house president, taking the job seriously, as he's stated that being the president of the house makes him feel like he is needed and important to the Foster community. Herriman is surprisingly old fashioned, even believing that the internet is an actual net. It is believed that Madame Foster created him during the 1930s, making him believe the 2000s are still running in the old-fashioned ways of living.

Mr.Herriman is comparible to Captain Peacock from the British TV sit-com Are You Being Served? mainly his being a stickler for rules,similar accent and upper crust attitude.

• Mr. Herriman and the Mayor of Townsville in The Powerpuff Girls (McCracken's other original cartoon) have several similarities:
  • They both wear black top hats and waistcoats.
  • They both have a monocles over their left eye, although it has become a running joke in Foster's that Mr. Herriman's monocle has been switched between his left and right eye often many times, such as in "Hiccy Burp", where it changes three times in one scene alone. He does, however, seem not to be able to see very well without it.
  • They have thinning white hair just above their temples.
  • They both have a white mustache which moves as they speak.
  • They both bear a resemblence to Sir Topham Hatt from Thomas and Friends
  • Both usually have their eyes closed (though awake)