Why Is Regular Show So Good

[Nadia Summerhill]

Its 25 years into the future. Mordecai and Rigby have families and grown children now. They've given up the schemes and adventures of the past to become responsible adults. However, when they are asked to go out and buy ice for their party, adventure comes out to find them, and it's a strange one indeed.

Regular Show: 25 Years Later #1 has the plot setup and progression one would likely expect from a time-jump comic like this. Mordecai and Rigby, irresponsible and at-times selfish in their youth, are now responsible adults afraid that they will slip back into their old ways while secretly wanting those old times back.

That's not a new story or even a new way of telling the story. It is relatable though, and it shows maturity from characters whose whole point is arguably to be the most immature and self-centered people imaginable.

That said, I've always found Mordecai and Rigby to be difficult characters to get invested in, and Regular Show often plays off that concept. As such, setting up a story where we are supposed to be invested in their character development is a shaky prospect, and it does hamper the comic.

Anna Johnstone does an excellent job of recreating the art style of the show while adding good changes to the character designs of Mordecai and Rigby for the time jump. The comic maintains the anarchic imagination of the show in its visuals, and that is one of the strongest aspects of the book. Joana Lafuente's color art is similarly manic and fitting for the source material.

Regular Show: 25 Years Later #1 is a bizarre and daring concept for the franchise, and it attempts at giving these static characters a genuine arc. However, the plot is lacking, and the characters aren't that interesting to begin with. It's not bad, but I can't recommend this one.

They have good chemistry and you really see their bond. They also get a lot of development later on. The writers do a good them at making distinctly different characters despite often doing the same things.

It is interesting how this got the movie before Adventure Time, I guess they I figured the Mini-Series they do now is close enough. I have kind of spoken about the film before, in a post on Deviant Art along with a VLOG.

Thankfully, Rigby gets them out of trouble by saying the Breakfast Burritos they got were for Benson which changes his mind. I kind of wish they actually got fired, to start the plot off but whatever, what we get is good too.

The fireball crashes and it turns out to be a space ship. It opens to reveal Future Rigby who is not in the best shape, since he kind of got shot. He point blank tells him who he is and that he needs their help

They go to the house where Mordecai explains that Rigby got into College U and Mordecai did not so they wanted to make a time machine to fix that. But it just causes an explosion, they got expelled and yada yada yada.

And since this is High School in a movie, Rigby is bullied by some Jerk Jocks. Rigby ruined their Volleyball Championships so at least they have some kind of motivation. Rigby is called to Mr Ross, and the Present Crew lands in The Past.

They reveal themselves to their past selves and after some proof, they believe them. Once again, they accept a crazy idea because why not. They help their past selves make a Volcano, which is the right choice as they are really good at poetry.

They take the ship back a bit before the Present Gang comes back. And that whole scene is never referenced again. Again, it is enjoyable but it adds nothing to the story and could have been removed. The DVD has a few Deleted/Alternate scenes, why did this stay in?

And given we know this causes the Timenado, I can safely blame all of this on Rigby. But in a good way, because it makes for a good story. Present Rigby wants to tell his past self to tell Mordecai the truth because as I said, he does regret all this.

Only Mordecai questions but Rigby deflects it so he can rush them along. At the high school, they bump into Future Mordecai along with Ross. He explains his plan; Get revenge, Destroy Earth, Watch 25 years of TV in space.

Mordecai is naturally pissed but before they can mope, Ross tosses an exploding volleyball at them which hits Future Mordecai instead. And now both of their future selves are dead. This show really earns that TV PG Rating some, I mean all the time.

Meanwhile, Rigby stopped at refueling station but got knocked out and wakes up in a room with Father Time, who is mad out of clocks. Because of course he is. They have a nice chat about the situation.

They toss the thing in the TimeNado and leave as things sort themselves out. We cut back to the past as things went the way they were supposed to: Past Mordecai and Rigby caused an explosion and Ross got fired. And is going to jail,which he failed to mention before.

Overall, the movie is pretty good. As a Regular Show product is it mildly great with the focus on their friendship but as a film, even a Tv Film, it is mostly just pretty good due to some mild pacing issues.

I am an overeducated stay-at-home dad to three wonderful sons. I have a BA in Religion and English Writing and an MA in Education. I worked briefly as a high school English teacher before we opted to keep me home when my second son was born in 2010.

I love this show. My favorite episode is Party Pete (Probably watched that 20 + times) Im only a teenager, but unlike most of the trash that is on tv today (Directly pointing at MAD and Problem Solvers, these are just horribly bad,) i find regular show to be very unique and always a good thing to watch when your bored ?

Unlike Adventure Time, I used to watch Regular Show very often. The range of the episodes I watched were from Seasons 1-3 when I was little. I had a lot of memories with this show, quite possibly grew up with this show. In 2014, I watched this show again, this time ranging from Seasons 4-5. The last episode I've seen before I started reviewing Regular Show, after wrapping up Adventure Time , was Bad Portrait. Since my TV was sold, I didn't watch this show until I had plans reviewing this show when cartoon reviewers were talking about A Regular Final Epic Battle and how special it was.

Another trip to the past and I guess it was worth it. The pie chart is actually comparable and fairly alike Adventure Time's pie chart. The good slice is big and to come my surprise, no damned episodes! I was really happy that this show not only has one epic episode (The Last Laserdisc Player), but an episode that is off the scale in epicness (Format Wars II). While watching these episodes, I've always wished that Format Wars was an actual miniseries. If that ever exist, I would've enjoyed it from start to finish, and could consider it better than Invader Zim. But I digress, the pie chart isn't all perfect though, since nearly half of the pie chart is ample and below, but it still looks good. I would've been exhausted if Regular Show actually became alright, but I think ample's ample enough.

First off, the premise is actually really good, better than Adventure Time's generic premise. Anthropomorphic animals is something that could make this show interesting rather than just "regular". However, I do have a problem with the content of the show being too mature for Cartoon Network. Yeah, I think Regular Show is better on Adult Swim, along with Total Drama. But anyways, the writing here is strange but really creative and fun. In most episodes, it takes an every day activity and exaggerates on how it'll end. In some episodes, there's the weird climax that actually makes the episode more creative and interesting. What I love more about the writing is how Regular Show references nostalgia and exaggerates it to a more creative, well-thought out and interesting material. The ideas can sometimes be a little psychedelic (Peeps), but I love how they throw in a variety of jokes to make the episode better.

Also, I'll talk about the humor here too because no humor is the reason why Season 7 is meh: The humor is pretty good, not the best humor out there, but I like this show's humor. Irony is what makes many people laugh, and this show has the ability to give irony to us, and I'm also talking about the interesting-roasting-funny-impact induced twists that actually made me laugh. Heck, some of the characters are funny too with their running gags/catchphrases making me laugh sometimes. That's all I talk about the humor of the show, but the reason why Regular Show's humor is solid is because starting from Season 5, the episodes are getting blander, and because of those couple-related episodes, these type of episodes aren't funny at all. I count humor in all the episodes of Regular Show because I feel like this show's genre is a comedy (from the 1st season and pilot). Because of that, Seasons 5-7 started to feel like dramas to me, which ruins the experience for me. A few episodes were heartwarming, but they ended up affecting the show's genre.

Because of most of Season 7 being sooooooooo boring to me, I had to be distracted instead of feeling like I'm wasting time. They're probably intended, but I get annoyed when that happens. I feel like I'm losing hope in the show right in Season 7, so as I thought what would be better for me, is if there was no Season 7, but move a few episodes from Season 7 to Season 6 (because that season is shorter than the previous season) such as Win That Prize, The Dome Expirement Special, Pam I Am, and especially Rigby's Graduation Day Special, so that I don't have to face through being bored in an entire season. If someone explained the public to not watch Regular Show Season 7, I would've done that and skip to the more important episodes rather than the character developed episodes. But I had to review the entire series, so that's an obvious reason why I had to watch Season 7.

The animation is not as good as Adventure Time, but it's still good, better than the okay writing. While I don't like the bland colors, I think the character designs are possibly as good as Adventure Time's characters. I like how their faces are designed, how some of them are anthropomorphic/based off objects, and I like how some of the characters are given some human features. Like Harvey Beaks, the backgrounds looks like they're from a children's book/an educational cartoon from the 90s, which actually makes up for the bland color use. I thought this show uses watercolor, but I know that Regular Show isn't traditionally animated. However, I love it how they animated the alternative universe (you know what I'm talking about) because they just look really cool, creative and imaginative, thus it's my favorite aspect about the quality. As for the audio, I sure like how the characters are voice acted and the ending credits is so addicting, I can't stop listening to it in class! Like Adventure Time, the quality isn't all that great because it feels too much like an Adult Swim cartoon, I can sometimes get annoyed with some of the voice acting and how the faces move, but I think they're still good with those cons.

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