Regular Show/YMMV

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  • Alternate Character Interpretation: In "House Rules", Mordecai learns that Rigby may die young or just leave Mordecai. Have episodes like "Think Positive", "The Best Burgers in the World" and "Replaced" made him more lazy in order to hang out more with Rigby?
    • Some episodes imply that Mordecai and Rigby actually do their jobs most of the time, and only slack off to take a break.
  • Awesome Music: ALL of it, but special mention to:
    • Loverboy's "Working for the Weekend" in "Caffeinated Concert Tickets".
    • Toto's "Hold the Line" when they're fist pumping in the cafe.
    • "YOU'RE THE BEST, AROUND! AND NOTHIN'S EVER GONNA BRING YA DOWN"
    • That epic chiptune music that plays during the battle against The Destroyer of Worlds.
    • "Don't look at our crotches while we synchronize our watches!"
    • The Thompson Twins "Lies" montage when Mordecai and Rigby try to out lie each other
    • Mordecai's singing in "Mordecai and the Rigbys".
    • The backround music when Mordecai and Rigby are being watched by hundreds of cameras that Benson set up.
    • Mordecai and Rigby's party snack rap.
    • The Battle of the Ear Worms, along with Benson's epic drumming skills.
    • Is it really any surprise that the show's composer founded Devo?
    • Mordecai and Rigby doing a Training Montage on an arcade game while "Hangin' Tough" plays over the sequence. Seriously, the writers seem to love dated 80's music.
      • It's pretty awesome that the producers are willing to pay for all this music, since the licensing fees must be huge.
    • The score piece that plays during the audit in "Don". It almost sounds like it belongs in a theatrical production.
    • The ending theme that gets cut by CN. My God!
    • The use of "I'm Alright" over the opening montage showing Mordecai and Rigby getting their jobs at the park and moving into their room.
    • Pops singing "Footloose" in the karaoke episode.
    • "Hey Man Nice Shot" by Filter playing during the climax of "Slam Dunk".
    • "Mississippi Queen" by Mountain plays after the Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson imbibe a concoction of the same name during the climax of "Weekend at Benson's".
    • Mordecai has a training montage to "Holding Out for a Hero" so he can eat a 12-egg omelette in under an hour in "Eggsellent".
  • Bad Boss: While Mordecai and Rigby are by no means decent employees most of the time, neither is Benson a particularly good boss. He barely ever trains the duo for the tasks he asks done, then berates them for not doing what he wanted how he wanted; he rarely gives positive reinforcement, ofttimes going out of his way to single them out; he continually doles out expectations that by all means he knows perfectly well can't be met; combine with a chip on his shoulder and blatant favoritism, and it shouldn't be any surprise that he gets no results from the slackers.
    • As Mordecai and Rigby's Fatal Flaw is that they are Brilliant but Lazy, Benson’s is that he believes a Hair-Trigger Temper is an acceptable form to lead people. When Pops makes the completely reasonable petition to stop yelling at Mordecai and Rigby, Benson discovers he literally cannot do that.
      • Mordecai and Rigby seemed to be flanderized in that episode to make it absolutely impossible for Benson not to yell at them.
  • Base Breaker: Benson is either a strict boss who has to put up with Mordecai and Rigby's antics or an insufferable Jerkass who threatens to fire them for the stupidest reasons.
  • Non Sequitur Scene: Notably averted; the show goes from normal to weird to normal again, but the weird parts are relevant to the plot.
  • Crazy Awesome: The first two-thirds of most every episode is pretty straightforward and nothing unusual for sitcoms... but when you come to the last third, you'll have a hard time picking up your jaw.
  • Crossover Ship: Mordecai and Twilight Sparkle complete with fan club
  • Designated Hero: Mordecai and Rigby alot of the times, it really just seems like they're moochers who shouldn't be given a job at the park.
  • Designated Villain: Benson at times, as while some of his rules seem harsh, Mordecai and Rigby ain't exactly model workers.
  • Dude, Not Funny: Muscle Man laughing as Rigby's choking in "See You There". While the show's usually absurd enough in its use of death as a punchline, that particular moment was a little too serious.
  • Ear Worm: DON'T LOOK AT OUR CROTCHES WHILE WE SYNCHRONIZE OUR WATCHES! Boop-boop-bweep-beep-boop-boop-boop-bweepbweep-boop! BEE BEE BEEP. BEE BEE BEEP.
    • For that matter, anything played by The Power.
      • "A bunch of baby ducks, send them to the moon. A soda machine that doesn't work, send it to the moon."
    • Canon example: "Summer Time luh-huh-huvin', gonna head down to the beach and do some beachy things!"
      • "Awww snap! Awww snap! come to our macaroni party and we'll take a nap!"
      • These two songs battled each other with actual rock star avatars, making it a Crowning Moment Of Earworm.
    • Ra-ha ringtone, pick up your phone!
    • BECAUSE WE KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT SCARY MOVIES AND YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SCARY MOVIES.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Hi Five Ghost and Margaret both qualify: the former for being the silent Woobie of the show, and the latter for her Fan Service. Benson's fairly popular, as well.
    • Eileen has appeared in about 3 episodes, 2 of which were fairly minor roles. And yet, there's ton of fan art, fanfic and general fan love for her being so Adorkable and such a Woobie.
    • Techmo has been getting quite a bit of fanart.
      • And in the same vein, C.J.
    • Don was pretty well received for being a one-shot character as Rigby's brother back in season one, and many would like to see him pop up in the series again.
    • Death is also a really popular character.
  • Fanon Discontinuity: How some fans are treating "The Best Burger in the World".
    • And "Do Me a Solid".
    • Even though Rigby now cares for Eileen as a friend, fans still have him (and Mordecai) treat Eileen like crap.
  • Genius Bonus: The Dude Time Cologne attracts unicorns. In medieval times, it was believed that a virgin's purity would attract unicorns. Therefore, people who use Dude Time...
  • Growing the Beard: First season's episodes are pretty formulaic: Rigby and Mordecai plot a Zany Scheme, it backfires horribly, nothing is achieved, they end in deep S, bonus points for Skips saving the day and/or Benson getting pissed off at the very end. Second season's episodes usually make it so the positive outcome is roughly equal to or outweighs negative, but we don't know the way in which both come, making plots much less predictable. Also, the script is more or less "We stopped even pretending it's a kids show" now.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: The episode "Go Viral" which has a Warden trying to police the web. Then nearly came SOPA in 2012.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Benson, according to "Think Positive".
  • Memetic Mutation: You know who else mutates memes? MY MOM!
  • Moe: Eileen.
  • Moral Event Horizon: The Night Owl freezing Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost for thousands of years just for fame and fortune.
  • Most Annoying Sound: Muscle Man's high-pitched squeal whenever he gets emotional.
  • Ron the Death Eater: Some fans who hate Margaret make her into such an Out Of Character bitch or a raging Complete Monster. Also from some of the Mordecai/anyone else fans.
    • And in a lesser extent, Benson. Fans who don't like how he treats Mordecai and Rigby tend to make him into an abusive monster who beats them or makes their lives more miserable.
    • The episode "The Best Burger in the World" really angered people with the Benson Troll ending.
  • Shocking Swerve: From "Fortune Cookie": "I just lost the park to the guy in the fanny pack." "He's a WARLOCK!"
    • Actually, this pretty much happens once per episode.
  • Squick: What exactly was it that the unicorns tricked Mordecai into drinking?

Unicorn: It's definitely not unicorn slop!

    • There are loads of this in "Muscle Woman".

Rigby: This was the most disturbing day of my life.

  • Surprise Creepy: The Halloween Episode is, in a word, legitimately creepy. The Regular Show NF page is dedicated to that one episode!
    • "Brain Eraser" is one of the nastier episodes, in no small part because of its premise (Mordecai walking in on a naked Pops).
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: They get the actual music surprisingly often, but still resort to these quite a lot as well.
    • In "Free Cake" of the theme from The Big O. Which in and of itself is suspiciously similar of the theme from Flash Gordon...
    • During the montage in the first episode, there's a similar song to "Tom Sawyer" by Rush.
    • One of Boston's "More Than a Feeling" in "Benson Be Gone".
    • One of "SexyBack" is used in "Muscle Woman".
    • One of "U Can't Touch This" in "See You There".
    • One of "I Won't Do What You Tell Me" (Stone Cold Steve Austin's most popular theme song) is used as background music in "Really Real Wrestling".
    • One of Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War" in "More Smarter".
    • One of the Halloween theme in "Creepy Doll".
    • One of Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" in "Camping Can Be Cool".
    • Of Throbbing Gristle's "20 Jazz Funk Greats" (not kidding) in "This Is My Jam."
    • "Video Game Wizard" features a knockoff of Rush's "Subdivisions" on the car-ride to the tournament.
  • Tastes Like Diabetes: Don asking for hugs, amplified by the fact that he asks by saying "Give me some sugar!"[1] He even starts by hugging Benson and Pops who are made of sugar.
    • Also note, we're not entirely sure how old Don is. Rigby is 23 and he's the older brother, Don apparently just grew rapidly and everyone thinks he's older than he really is, which Rigby actually says. So it makes since he's more childlike than Rigby.
  • Ugly Cute: Rigby without his body. The characters in that episode likened his appearence to green, talking crap, but the way he's drawn and thus how we see him is actually pretty adorable.
  • What an Idiot!: In "Yes Dude Yes", Rigby tries to help Mordecai get over Margaret after Mordecai thinks she's getting married. Mordecai meets someone who shares all his interests, is funny, and actually is deep. Thus, he asks her out on a 'date' to the movies. However, he is convinced by Skips and Benson just to get his feelings out there for Margaret... and we learn the guy she was 'seeing' was her cousin. Thus, Mordecai asks her out with the same movie as the other girl. Predictably, the other girl sees and turns into a localized storm. Mordecai, this episode proved Margret is a shallow idiot too. Since she was only interested in you after getting JEALOUS.
  • What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: "THAT'S OUR DEMOGRAPHIC, GET OVER IT!"
  • The Woobie: He comes fairly close to qualifying as a Jerkass Woobie, but Rigby is definately one of these. Usually invoked when he realizes/admits to his mistakes and becomes tearful or otherwise pouty.
    • Even more in the flashback in "Don", when we see how all his friends preferred his brother Don, leaving Rigby to play by himself.
      • Don himself becomes a bit of a woobie, considering how Rigby treats him.
    • Muscleman, despite his crass and arrogant personality, is actually quite a sensitive person.
    • Mordecai, especially in the episode "Do Me a Solid" where Rigby was a prick.
    • So far everyone has had a pity moment but Skips.
      • Then came "Over the Top"...
    • Pops is this HEAVILY in the short The Naïve Man from Lolliland.
      • As far as the actual show, he has his moments in the rap battle episode.
    • Rigby gets this again, hard, in "Skunked". After being sprayed by a were-skunk, he starts transforming into a hulking monster every time he gets even a little frustrated, and ends up hurting or nearly hurting someone every time. His scared, helpless apologies once he changes back (particularly after he almost hurts Eileen) make you feel really sorry for him.
    • Benson, Mordecai, Rigby and Skips have their moments (especially Skips) in the bowling episode.
    • Benson in particular really had a moment of this in "Busted Cart".
  1. ↑ Though possibly it's more he's kept a childlike view of showing affection, as "sugar" is the slang some very young children use for hugs and kisses. Note the use in the flashbacks.
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