Regular Show S1e1

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Mordecaiand Rigby are both messing around in their room, wrestling with a doll named "Beef Burrito". While doing this, they accidentally bust a huge hole in their wall. Panicking, they quickly realize that the only solution to the fix the hole is by convincing Benson to give them a raise. Rigby suggests they "hambone" to convince him, but Mordecai is adamant that they're not doing that, despite Rigby's claims that "hamboning will save your life some day". Rigby then has an other idea, and shows Mordecai a magical keyboard which he stole from a wizard who was relieving himself in a bush. Mordecai is unsure that the keyboard will have any effect on Benson, until Rigby plays a tune and convinces him otherwise. Prompted by Rigby to name the keyboard, Mordecai calls it "The Power".

In the Park, Mordecai and Rigby practice a dance routine to brainwash Benson, when Pops arrives. Rigby suggests that they should test The Power out on Pops, given his naivety and the likelihood of not yelling at them. Mordecai obliges and they brainwash Pops, who offers them two butterscotch ripple lollipops instead of regular money. Realizing that The Power works, they run off to find Benson and get their raises. Elsewhere, Benson is frustrated, taking tools out of the shed, when Mordecai and Rigby get his attention. They perform their dance routine and nervously attempt to brainwash Benson. It works, and Benson gives them $20 each. Mordecai is excited to now fix the hole, but Rigby explains that with The Power, they can do everything they've ever wanted to do.

Mordecai and Rigby use The Power to do various crazy things, from creating a bouncy castle from thin air and turning it into a rocket, to gaining the ability to fly. After they make a landing, they bump into Skips. He confronts them about the flying, and they retaliate by using The Power to brainwash him. Mordecai sings to send Skips back to his room, but Rigby mishears and sings to send him to the moon. Skips suddenly vanishes and Rigby is confronted by Mordecai, who realizes that it's up to them to rescue Skips. Benson and Pops arrive on the scene and question the whereabouts of Skips, which Mordecai willingly tells them. They agree to assist Mordecai and Rigby in their rescue mission, as much as Benson doesn't believe it. Using The Power, Mordecai and Rigby sing to send the group to the moon while sat in a golf cart.

Arriving on the moon, the cart tips over and Benson notices that its surface is covered in "junk". Rigby confesses that back on Earth, he sent a bunch of stuff to the moon out of boredom, including a bunch of baby ducks, a broken soda machine, and a giant monster who is chasing after Skips. Rigby and Benson head off to save Skips while Mordecai and Pops stay behind to flip the cart back over. The monster is now holding Skips in his fist, ready to eat him. Rigby attempts to make the monster disappear with The Power but while doing so, its batteries die. Rigby then remembers his earlier discussion with Mordecai about how "hamboning will save your life some day" and runs towards the monster and hambones on its ankle. With the monster distracted, Skips breaks free from its fist and grabs Rigby to return to the cart. The monster starts chasing after them, getting closer each second. With the batteries dead, Skips finds an other solution to charge The Power back up by ripping some wires out of the cart's dashboard and plugging them into it. The group use The Power to return home, moments before they would have been crushed by the now-stranded monster.

Returning home, they land in Mordecai and Rigby's room, causing all of the drywall to collapse, minus the drywall surrounding the hole they busted earlier. Benson takes The Power from Rigby as punishment for sending Skips to the moon. Skips then destroys the keyboard and Benson demands for the $40 he gave them back. Mordecai and Rigby oblige and Benson demands that they clean up the mess in their room or he'll fired them. Benson, Pops and Skips leave the room, and Rigby discovers that the hole is still in the wall, hoping that Benson didn't notice it. Mordecai picks up a poster from the floor and sticks it over the hole, claiming that Benson won't be able to notice it now. Mordecai and Rigby high-five and the episode ends.

Regular Show (known as Regular Show in Space during its eighth and final season)[3] is an American animated sitcom created by J. G. Quintel for Cartoon Network. It ran from September 6, 2010, to January 16, 2017, over the course of eight seasons and 244 episodes.[4][5][6] The series follows the daily lives of two 23-year old friends, Mordecai (a blue jay) and Rigby (a raccoon), who work at a local park as groundskeepers. Their coworkers are Skips (an immortal yeti), Muscle Man (a green-skinned overweight man), and Hi-Five Ghost (a ghost). Other characters include Pops (a lollipop-shaped man), and the duo's boss Benson (a gumball machine). The duo spend their days slacking off and avoiding work to entertain themselves by any means, which leads to surrealistic, extreme, and supernatural misconduct.[7]

Many of Regular Show's characters were loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts: The Nave Man from Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM.[8] The former was one of the winners of the 2005 Nicktoons Film Festival and received international attention after being broadcast on Nicktoons Network.[9] Quintel pitched Regular Show for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute project, in which the network allowed young artists to create pilots with no notes, which would possibly be optioned as shows. The series premiered on September 6, 2010, on Cartoon Network.

Regular Show largely grew out of creator J. G. Quintel's life and experiences in college.[15] Quintel attended the California Institute of the Arts, and many of the characters on Regular Show are based on the characters developed for his student films The Nave Man from Lolliland (2005) and 2 in the AM PM (2006). Both originated as part of the 48-Hour Film Project, in which students put words into a hat, pulled out one word at midnight and spent a weekend developing ideas for a film. Quintel attended college with Thurop Van Orman and Pendleton Ward, who both went on to work at Cartoon Network Studios with Quintel; Van Orman created The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and Ward created Adventure Time. Quintel concurrently worked on Camp Lazlo and as creative director on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack while completing his degree. He was later invited to pitch for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute, a project to showcase short films created without the interference of network executives and focus testing.[16][17]

Episodes are produced using storyboarding and hand-drawn animation, and each episode takes roughly nine months to create. Quintel recruited several independent comic book artists to draw the show's animated elements; their style matched closely with Quintel's ideas for the series. The show's soundtrack comprises original music composed by Mark Mothersbaugh as well as licensed songs. While preparing for the beginning of the show, Quintel looked for young, independent comic artists to comprise the show's storyboard artists; he thought that the style would closely match that of Regular Show. He looked through blogs and convention panels for the "total package", which he said was the ability to write and draw, something that many independent comic book artists possess. In addition, Quintel attended many open shows at CalArts, an eight-hour festival of student animation.[17] The style and sensibility of Regular Show was difficult to work with in the beginning; the artists struggled to create a natural, sitcom-like sound for the series.[18]

The plots of Regular Show episodes generally begin with a basic problem that the characters must overcome. While the protagonists work on their task, a magical, supernatural or strange element appears and complicates the initially simple problem.[7] The writers decided to follow this narrative structure to take advantage of the animation.[7]

The series is rated TV-PG-V.[7] Cartoon Network told Quintel early on that they wanted to "age it up from the TV-Y7 stuff we'd been doing in the past". This direction led the crew to use adult-oriented humor with innuendos and drug and alcohol references. One of the program's storyboard artists, Calvin Wong, said he enjoys the limitations set by writing for the show since the adult-oriented jokes that are approved are satisfying.[20][failed verification]

The plots of the episodes were influenced by Quintel's and the writers' personal experiences, such as performing prank telephone calls or accepting an eating challenge from a restaurant. The show often references 1980s culture, using music and electronic devices from that era because many factors from the decade left a positive influence on Quintel.[7] The show also makes references to modern social trends such as viral internet videos.[7]

The voice acting of the series is relatively low-key, and the intention was to make most of the characters sound natural and conversational.[7] Quintel wanted to make the show listenable and given contrast to most other cartoons, which often are difficult for adults to listen to. The main cast consists of voice acting veterans Mark Hamill, who portrays Skips, and Roger Craig Smith, who plays Thomas. William Salyers plays the voice of Rigby; Janie Haddad portrays Margaret; Quintel's former CalArts classmate Sam Marin voices Benson, Pops and Muscle Man;[7] and Quintel portrays Mordecai and Hi-Five Ghost.[7] Members of the production staff have voiced several characters throughout the series, including Minty Lewis, Toby Jones, Andress Salaff, and Matt Price. The Regular Show cast recorded their lines together in group as opposed to individual recording sessions for each actor; this helped make the show's dialogue sound natural. The series regularly used guest voice actors for recurring characters, such as Steven Blum, Courtenay Taylor, David Ogden Stiers, Robin Atkin Downes, Jeff Bennett, Jennifer Hale, David Kaye, Fred Tatasciore, Matthew Yang King, and Julian Holloway.

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