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** Death saying "Your soul is mine!" is likely a reference to Shang Tsung from VideoGame/MortalKombat, especially the first Film/MortalKombat film, with streams of soul energy coming from his eyes.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Skips destroys Mordecai and Rigby's game console because Rigby refuses to rematch him, Mordecai gets mad at ''Rigby'' instead, when one would expect him to direct his anger at Skips instead for overreacting. Turns out Rigby cheated and Mordecai knew it.

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* CheatersNeverProsper: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig Zagged]]. Rigby cheats against Skips in an arm wrestling contest with a Playco Armboy and once outted gets [[DisproportionateRetribution fatally smashed through a table for his troubles]], but then later in the episode Skips uses the Armboy to defeat Death in an arm wrestling competition for Rigby's soul. Then he explains to Rigby that he shouldn't cheat and that he only resorted to using an Armboy against Death to save Rigby's life.



* CheatersNeverProsper: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig Zagged]]. Rigby cheats against Skips in an arm wrestling contest with a Playco Armboy and once outted gets [[DisproportionateRetribution fatally smashed through a table for his troubles]], but then later in the episode Skips uses the Armboy to defeat Death in an arm wrestling competition for Rigby's soul. Then he explains to Rigby that he shouldn't cheat and that he only resorted to using an Armboy against Death to save Rigby's life.
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* CheatersNeverProsper: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig Zagged]]. Rigby cheats against Skips in an arm wrestling contest with a Playco Armboy and once outted gets [[DisproportionateRetribution fatally smashed through a table for his troubles]], but then later in the episode Skips uses the Armboy to defeat Death in an arm wrestling competition for Rigby's soul. Then he explains to Rigby that he shouldn't cheat and that he only resorted to using an Armboy against Death to save Rigby's life.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Skips is so enraged by Rigby cheating to beat him and gloating about it that, after removing Rigby's edge, he starts the arm wrestling match by outright ''[CurbStompBattle slamming him through the table]]''. This ends up killing Rigby, whereby Skips feels [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone intense remorse]].

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Skips is so enraged by Rigby cheating to beat him and gloating about it that, after removing Rigby's edge, he starts the arm wrestling match by outright ''[CurbStompBattle ''[[CurbStompBattle slamming him through the table]]''. This ends up killing Rigby, whereby Skips feels [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone intense remorse]].



* HypocriticalHumor: Possibly unintentional, but everybody laughs when Rigby challenges Skips to an arm wrestle, even though every one of them just lost to Skips.

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* HypocriticalHumor: Possibly unintentional, but everybody Everybody laughs when Rigby challenges Skips to an arm wrestle, even though every one of them just lost to Skips.Skips. If nobody stood a chance against him, Rigby especially doesn't.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Skips is so enraged by Rigby cheating to beat him and gloating about it that, after removing Rigby's edge, he starts the arm wrestling match by outright ''[CurbStompBattle slamming him through the table]]''. This ends up killing Rigby, whereby Skips feels [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone intense remorse]].
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* BullyingADragon: Rigby for playing with Skips' emotions thru the arm-wrestle cheating equipment.
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* TakeMeInstead: Skips demands that regardless of the outcome of the arm wrestle match between him and Death, Rigby is brought back to life and should Skips lose, it is Skips himself that will take Rigby's place.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Rigby constantly [[UnsportsmanlikeGloating gloats]] and [[JerkAss taunts]] Skips over his victories on the latter in arm wrestling (With the aid of Playco Armboy anyways), so while it was wrong for Skips to kill him, it feels a little deserved on Rigby for cheating.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: Rigby constantly [[UnsportsmanlikeGloating gloats]] and [[JerkAss taunts]] Skips over his victories on the latter in arm wrestling (With the aid of Playco Armboy anyways), so while it was wrong for Skips to kill him, it feels a little deserved on Rigby for cheating.Rigby.



* SmugSnake: Rigby was overly confident when he beats Skips twice in arm wrestling and thinks he reigns his superiority over him, but as soon as the latter takes off his only means of winning when he challenges him for the third time, Rigby instantly loses his smugness and becomes [[ThisIsGonnaSuck nervous]] below.

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* SmugSnake: Rigby was overly confident when he beats Skips twice in arm wrestling and thinks he reigns can reign his superiority over him, but as soon as the latter takes off his only means of winning when he challenges him for the third time, Rigby instantly loses his smugness and becomes [[ThisIsGonnaSuck nervous]] below.
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* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Skips beats Death the same way Rigby beats Skips, thing is Skips ''literally'' cheated Death.

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* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Skips beats Death the same way Rigby beats Skips, thing is Skips which means Skips ''literally'' cheated Death.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Rigby constantly [[UnsportsmanlikeGloating gloats]] and [[JerkAss taunts]] Skips over his victories on the latter in arm wrestling (With the aid of Playco Armboy anyways), so while it was wrong for Skips to kill him, it feels a little deserved on Rigby for cheating.


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* SmugSnake: Rigby was overly confident when he beats Skips twice in arm wrestling and thinks he reigns his superiority over him, but as soon as the latter takes off his only means of winning when he challenges him for the third time, Rigby instantly loses his smugness and becomes [[ThisIsGonnaSuck nervous]] below.
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* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Skips beats Death the same way Rigby beats Skips.

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* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Skips beats Death the same way Rigby beats Skips.Skips, thing is Skips ''literally'' cheated Death.
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* ChekhovsGun: Two Words: "PLAYCO ARMBOY."

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* ChekhovsGun: Two Words: "PLAYCO ARMBOY."The "Playco Armboy" that Rigby used to beat Skips is later used by Skips to beat Death.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Possibly unintentional, but everybody laughs when Rigby challenges Skips to an arm wrestle, even though every one of them just lost to Skips.

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* HowWeGotHere

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* HowWeGotHereEyeTwitch: Skips gets one when the sees the ad for "Playco Armboy" and realizes that Rigby has been cheating to beat him.
* HowWeGotHere: The episode starts with showing Rigby ''dead'' and everyone else sad, then Mordecai blames Skips and everyone else leaves. The episode flashes back to several days before to show how Rigby died.
* IShallReturn: After Skips beats Death, Death returns Rigby's soul but vows that some day he will possess Skips' immortal soul.


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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Skips arrives for another rematch with Rigby he tears off the "Playco Armboy" so Rigby can't cheat. Rigby visibly sweats and shakes as he gives Skips his arm.
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** High Five Ghost's "Shotgun!" was cut (even though he wasn't talking about an actual shotgun. It refers to riding "shotgun," or on the front passenger's side, of a vehicle, though this could also be a cultural thing, as the front passenger's seat in UK cars is to the right of the driver's seat, not the left).

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** High Five Ghost's "Shotgun!" was cut (even though he wasn't talking about an actual shotgun. It refers to riding "shotgun," or on the front passenger's side, of a vehicle, though this could also be a cultural thing, as the front passenger's seat in UK cars is not to the right of the driver's seat, not the left).seat as seen with American cars).
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** High Five Ghost's "Shotgun!" was cut (even though he wasn't talking about an actual shotgun. It refers to riding "shotgun," or on the front passenger's side, of a vehicle).

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** High Five Ghost's "Shotgun!" was cut (even though he wasn't talking about an actual shotgun. It refers to riding "shotgun," or on the front passenger's side, of a vehicle).vehicle, though this could also be a cultural thing, as the front passenger's seat in UK cars is to the right of the driver's seat, not the left).
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* ShoutOut: The episode's title references a Creator/SylvesterStallone film [[Film/OverTheTop of the same name]] that is also about arm wrestling.
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The gang is in a hospital and Rigby has died. Mordecai blames Skips for causing it. Then a flashback begins on how it happened.

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The gang is in a hospital and Rigby has died. Mordecai blames resorts to cheating to beat Skips for causing it. Then a flashback begins on how it happened.at arm-wrestling.
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* The beginning, where Benson, Mordecai, Pops, and Skips are in the hospital as Rigby is pronounced dead, was cut.

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* The **The beginning, where Benson, Mordecai, Pops, and Skips are in the hospital as Rigby is pronounced dead, was cut.
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* The beginning, where Benson, Mordecai, Pops, and Skips are in the hospital as Rigby is pronounced dead, was cut.
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** The restaurant "[=McHooligan=]'s" has its sign digitally removed (as a hooligan in the UK is associated with causing violence during soccer games and, much like changing the title to ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' in the 1980s, it was done so as not to condone or glorify violence -- though there's also the matter of the fact that [=McHooligan=]'s is a bar and the UK censors didn't want younger viewers to know what it was explicitly[[note]]"explicitly" being the operative word, as the scenes of the characters acting drunk on water and Benson mentioning drink tickets weren't cut[[/note]]. In addition, Muscle Man's "[=McHooligan=]'s, round two!" was redubbed as "Family restaurant, round two!"

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** The restaurant "[=McHooligan=]'s" has its sign digitally removed (as removed, as a hooligan in the UK is associated with causing violence during soccer games and, much like changing the title to ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' in the 1980s, it was done so as not to condone or glorify violence -- though there's also the matter of the fact that [=McHooligan=]'s is a bar and the UK censors didn't want younger viewers to know what it was explicitly[[note]]"explicitly" being the operative word, as the scenes of the characters acting drunk on water and Benson mentioning drink tickets weren't cut[[/note]]. In addition, Muscle Man's "[=McHooligan=]'s, round two!" was redubbed as "Family restaurant, round two!"
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* {{Bowdlerization}}: In the UK, the following scenes are edited/altered:
**The restaurant "[=McHooligan=]'s" has its sign digitally removed (as a hooligan in the UK is associated with causing violence during soccer games and, much like changing the title to ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' in the 1980s, it was done so as not to condone or glorify violence -- though there's also the matter of the fact that [=McHooligan=]'s is a bar and the UK censors didn't want younger viewers to know what it was explicitly[[note]]"explicitly" being the operative word, as the scenes of the characters acting drunk on water and Benson mentioning drink tickets weren't cut[[/note]]. In addition, Muscle Man's "[=McHooligan=]'s, round two!" was redubbed as "Family restaurant, round two!"
**High Five Ghost's "Shotgun!" was cut (even though he wasn't talking about an actual shotgun. It refers to riding "shotgun," or on the front passenger's side, of a vehicle).
**Death spitting in Rigby's mouth to revive him was changed to reviving him by shooting a beam of light at him with his finger.

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The gang is a hospital and Rigby has died. Mordecai blames him for causing it. Then a flashback begins on how it happened.

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The gang is in a hospital and Rigby has died. Mordecai blames him Skips for causing it. Then a flashback begins on how it happened.


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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Arm wrestling for Rigby's soul.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Haters gonna hate!]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Haters [[caption-width-right:350:"Haters gonna hate!]]
hate!"]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Haters gonna hate!]]

->Written by Benton Connor & Calvin Wong
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* ChekhovsGun: Two Words: "PLAYCO ARMBOY."
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* ChessWithDeath: Well, arm wresting with Death to get Rigby's soul back.
* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Skips beats Death the same way Rigby beats Skips.


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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After learning the truth about Rigby pranking him and training for his rematch, just before Skips leaves, he destroys his punching bag with one punch and starts '''WALKING''' out.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Mordecai gives this to Skips at the beginning of the episode after killing Rigby.
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The gang is a hospital and Rigby has died. Mordecai blames him for causing it. Then a flashback begins on how it happened.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* HowWeGotHere
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Thanks to Mordecai admitting to Skips of the "Playco Armboy", this is how he kills Rigby.
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