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* Cloudcuckoolander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Pops. Seemingly the only reason he is employed is that he is the son of the guy who owns the park.
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** Pops: "Good show!" and conversely "Bad show!"show!" He also has "Oooh! How exciting!", regarding absolutely anything people tell him about.
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** Rigby's "STOP TALKING!!!" and "Dude, we gotta...!"!" He also has ''Hmmm-Hmmm''.
*** Notably, High Five Ghost did not start off as an independent character, only being seen when Muscle Man was around, and having no real speaking lines. He eventually developed his own personality, which serves as somewhat of a foil to Muscle Man's often reckless jockishness.
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** Moredecai Mordecai and Rigby had to babysit Death's son [[spoiler:in order to save Muscle Man from having his soul reaped. The specific condition was to have him sleeping by 8 PM when Death and his wife got home from their anniversary date.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: In the stories in the Halloween Special, this is in full effect. [[spoiler:Rigby's [[KillEmAll takes this to it's logical conclusion.]]]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: In [[spoiler: Rigby]] in Over The Top. Luckily, he gets better.
**In the stories in the Halloween Special, this is in full effect. [[spoiler:Rigby's [[KillEmAll takes this to it's logical conclusion.]]]]
**In the stories in the Halloween Special, this is in full effect. [[spoiler:Rigby's [[KillEmAll takes this to it's logical conclusion.]]]]
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** The episode is pretty much the definitive example of AnAssKickingChristmas, and perhaps the most action movie-esque episode of the series.
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*** Also, Skips tells Santa he'll call him to go bowling sometime, like he did with other magical beings in "Skips Strikes".
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** The ChristmasSpecial had the members of the park using their HiddenDepths to overcome the booby traps on the way to the lava pit- Benson used his stick-handling skills from "Stick Hockey" to beat the pinball machine and Pops used his wrestling skills from "Really Real Wrestling" to pin the polar bear.
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* ArtisticLicense: Mordecai and Rigby don't resemble the real life animals they are supposed to be. This is because of needing to be human sized and also RuleOfCute. Rigby especially looks more like a ferret or a squirrel than a raccoon. Mordecai doesn't seem particularly interested in flying despite being shown to do so in on rare occasions. This is lampshaded in the episode 'Dizzy', where they cross over into a bizarro world in Pops's mind, with photorealistic versions of themselves who try to attack them.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: For a christmas special in a kids-show, the Christmas Special turned out to be this. I mean usually presents disappear and people are sad or something along those lines. [[BigBad Quillgan]] [[spoiler:gets his hands on the present he created and wishes for the destruction of Christmas forever, which then causes '''BOMBS''' to be placed on anything Christmas-ish including snow. Thankfully we never see how powerful the bombs were but it's very likely they could do serious damage and had he succeeded it would've been the largest terror attack in history. This would've likely caused no one to want to celebrate a holiday that goes hand in hand for a global scale bombing.]]
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* Anglophile: The implication is that this is an alternate reality where British (specifically English) culture is the more popular culture in the US.
** All the bands Rigby and Mordecai like are British.
** They rent out an old British movie.
** Benson decides to play the traditional British game cricket, and Mordecai is clearly excited by the idea there might be British people there.
** Mordecai and Rigby's future selves in a successful rock band speak with British accents, implying that they have been citizens of the UK for long enough to pick up the accent. This is the opposite of what usually happens when British musicians who become successful move to America, who usually become more Americanised.
*** Of course, the British accent used is almost exactly the same every time, implying some kind of StylisticSuck.
** All the bands Rigby and Mordecai like are British.
** They rent out an old British movie.
** Benson decides to play the traditional British game cricket, and Mordecai is clearly excited by the idea there might be British people there.
** Mordecai and Rigby's future selves in a successful rock band speak with British accents, implying that they have been citizens of the UK for long enough to pick up the accent. This is the opposite of what usually happens when British musicians who become successful move to America, who usually become more Americanised.
*** Of course, the British accent used is almost exactly the same every time, implying some kind of StylisticSuck.
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* BadassAdorable: The ducks from "A Bunch Of Baby Ducks"
* BadassAdorable: The ducks from "A Bunch Of Baby Ducks"
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* ChristmasEpisode: Season four will include a 22 minute Christmas episode, featuring Ed Asner as Santa and Thomas Haden Church as a "rogue elf".
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* LiberationForTheDead: Inverted. Mordecai and Rigby pour soda on their cart when they are about to send it to the junk yard, then the cart suddenly comes to life because of the soda.
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* BadBoss: Mr. Maellard is way worse than Benson. He generally gets angry for no reason and treats Benson like a butler who doesn't work right, which probably is the reason Benson is such a angry boss. He's taking in everything Mr Maellard throws at him and takes it out on Mordecai and Rigby.
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* BadBoss: 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 FatalFlaw is that they are BrilliantButLazy, Benson’s is that he believes a HairTriggerTemper 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 [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] in that episode to make it absolutely impossible for Benson ''not'' to yell at them.
*** Mr. Maellard is way worse than Benson. He generally gets angry for no reason and treats Benson like a butler who doesn't work right, which probably is the reason Benson is such a angry boss. He's taking in everything Mr Maellard throws at him and takes it out on Mordecai and Rigby.
** As Mordecai and Rigby's FatalFlaw is that they are BrilliantButLazy, Benson’s is that he believes a HairTriggerTemper 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 [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] in that episode to make it absolutely impossible for Benson ''not'' to yell at them.
*** Mr. Maellard is way worse than Benson. He generally gets angry for no reason and treats Benson like a butler who doesn't work right, which probably is the reason Benson is such a angry boss. He's taking in everything Mr Maellard throws at him and takes it out on Mordecai and Rigby.
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* LiberationForTheDead: Inverted. Mordecai and Rigby pour soda on their cart when they are about to send it to the junk yard, then the cart suddenly comes to life because of the soda.
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* FreeFallFight: The finale of the Christmas special. Over a lava pit no less.
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* BaitAndSwitch: In "The Christmas Special", Muscle Man comments on the cookies, and then asks "You know who else makes great cookies? MY-chael's (Michael's) Bakery on Fifth and Western. You ever been there?"
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Now that the episode has aired... Trailers Always Lie and all that.
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* EpicFail: When Rigby fails to do even one pull-up in front of everyone, Pops mentions how embarrassing it must be, followed by Muscle Man verbally playing the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A fail tune]] from ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''.
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* EpicFail: When Rigby fails to do even one pull-up in front of everyone, Pops mentions how embarrassing it must be, followed by Muscle Man is the first to respond by verbally playing the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A fail tune]] from ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''.
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* EpicFail: When Rigby fails to do even one pull-up in front of everyone, Pops mentions how embarrassing it must be, followed by Muscle Man verbally playing ''Series/ThePriceIsRight [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A fail tune.]]
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* EpicFail: When Rigby fails to do even one pull-up in front of everyone, Pops mentions how embarrassing it must be, followed by Muscle Man verbally playing ''Series/ThePriceIsRight the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A fail tune.]]tune]] from ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''.
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** Rigby's competence and level of {{Jerkass}} also have some wild variations throughout the episodes.
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** It appears as early as "Caffeinated Concert Tickets" where Margaret's date references this, saying that Mordecai should "stop pumpin' it in the wind."
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Rigby admitted that he thinks Eileen is hot without her glasses and he hasn\'t exactly shown any type of favoritism towards males beyond simply being friends with Mordecai and the others.
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** TimCurry literally is [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow a hot dog]] who gets [[ItMakesSenseInContext covered in mustard]] in "Meat your Maker".
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* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler:"Exit 9B" ends with all the surviving resurrected villains being sucked back into the underworld when Garrett Bobby Ferguson Jr.'s plan is foiled.]]
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* BreakoutCharacter: Muscle Man has had about as many episodes centered around his misadventures as Mordecai and Rigby.
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** Also never ever ever prank Muscle Man if it involves money or else you will never walk again! Or was that never work again?
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* BrainBleach: Mordecai is in need of some in "Brain Eraser," after [[spoiler:seeing Pops in the nude.]]
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* BrainBleach: Mordecai is in need of some in "Brain Eraser," after [[spoiler:seeing seeing Pops in the nude.]]
** Near the beginning of "150 Piece Kit" Rigby mentions that he knew a guy who tried to perform the legendary drum solo that the episode is centered on and [[IncendiaryExponent his skeleton caught on fire]]. Benson suffers similarly during the episode's climax but survives.
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* BrutalHonesty: In "Pie Contest", Mordecai and Rigby are pie judges but they don't want tell everybody how bad their pies are to avoid being hated. But they have to do this when [[spoiler: a talking pie starts eating everybody and the only way to stop the pie and save everyone is to tell them the truth]].
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* BrutalHonesty: In "Pie Contest", Mordecai and Rigby are pie judges but they don't want tell everybody how bad their pies are to avoid being hated. But they have to do this when [[spoiler: a [[spoiler:a talking pie starts eating everybody and the only way to stop the pie and save everyone is to tell them the truth]].
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* BadBoss: 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 FatalFlaw is that they are BrilliantButLazy, Benson’s is that he believes a HairTriggerTemper 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 [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] in that episode to make it absolutely impossible for Benson ''not'' to yell at them.
** Mr. Maellard is way worse than Benson. He generally gets angry for no reason and treats Benson like a butler who doesn't work right, which probably is the reason Benson is such a angry boss. He's taking in everything Mr Maellard throws at him and takes it out on Mordecai and Rigby.
** As Mordecai and Rigby's FatalFlaw is that they are BrilliantButLazy, Benson’s is that he believes a HairTriggerTemper 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 [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] in that episode to make it absolutely impossible for Benson ''not'' to yell at them.
** Mr. Maellard is way worse than Benson. He generally gets angry for no reason and treats Benson like a butler who doesn't work right, which probably is the reason Benson is such a angry boss. He's taking in everything Mr Maellard throws at him and takes it out on Mordecai and Rigby.
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* BadBoss: 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 FatalFlaw is that they are BrilliantButLazy, Benson’s is that he believes a HairTriggerTemper 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 [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] in that episode to make it absolutely impossible for Benson ''not'' to yell at them.
**Mr. Maellard is way worse than Benson. He generally gets angry for no reason and treats Benson like a butler who doesn't work right, which probably is the reason Benson is such a angry boss. He's taking in everything Mr Maellard throws at him and takes it out on Mordecai and Rigby.
** As Mordecai and Rigby's FatalFlaw is that they are BrilliantButLazy, Benson’s is that he believes a HairTriggerTemper 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 [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] in that episode to make it absolutely impossible for Benson ''not'' to yell at them.
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* FiveFiveFive: All of the phone numbers seen in "Cruisin'" start with this.
* AbsenteeActor: Benson doesn't appear in a handful of episodes.
* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: "Skips Strikes" has [[spoiler:Rigby making a bet with Death: If Death's Team wins he'll get the team's(which is everyone working at the park except Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost) souls and if Rigby's Team wins he gets... a bowling ball filled with souls.]] Mordecai and Benson aren't happy about this in the slightest.
** "Over the Top" has [[spoiler:Skips arm wrestling Death for Rigby's soul.]]
** In "Slam Dunk", Mordecai eventually bets his computer privileges ''for life'' on a basketball game just so he can help Margaret make a website in hopes of impressing her.
* TheAce: Rigby's brother Don, apparently.
** Skips most of the time.
* AccidentalInnuendo: InUniverse.
** "Now, when the balls drop..."
** "Carmenita's special parts should only be manipulated by a professional."
** "Because of my big backup *chuckles* balls!"
* AchillesInHisTent: Muscle Man in "Prankless"
* ActorAllusion:
** TimCurry literally is [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow a hot dog]] who gets [[ItMakesSenseInContext covered in mustard]] in "Meat your Maker".
** While this is more of a Creator Allusion, J.G. Quintel was born in 1982, the year that Mordecai and Rigby travel back to in "Prank Callers." Plus, the title card of ''Ello Gov'nor'' (the movie, not the episode) has "©MCMLXXXII" written on it and the World Dishwashing Championship 1982 video in "Peeps".
** James Hong basically plays [[Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina Lo Pan]] during the episode "Fortune Cookie".
* AdrenalineMakeover: Well, somewhat, in that Mordecai and Rigby give themselves mullets while learning Death-Kwon-Do.
* AnAesop: From the episode "Mordecai and the Rigbys", Mordecai and Rigby noticed at the end of the show that their future selves stayed famous through lip-syncing. Mordecai makes a speech about the issue.
** Also, in "Cool Bikes", Mordecai told Benson (after countless hours trying to impress him) "We don't care what you think."
* AffectionateParody: [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Ostrich Thing With The Balls]].
** "Grave Sights" manages to make references to ''VideoGame/DeadRising'', ''Franchise/EvilDead 2'', and ''RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare''.
** "Video Game Wizard" where Rigby gets jealous that Mordecai chose Skips as his partner for the video game tournament is an affectionate parody of ''Film/TheWizard''. It even has a crappy power glove knockoff as the grand prize.
* AlienGeometries: In "Brain Eraser", the world of Mordecai's memories is a strange place.
-->'''Skips:''' Memory isn't logical.
* AllYourPowersCombined: See image.
** The video game character they summoned.
** Also their combined efforts in defeating the physical manifestation of "Summertime Lovin'."
** In "A Bunch of Baby Ducks", [[spoiler: the baby ducks fuse into a giant duck person to defeat the creepy guy with the van.]]
* AlmostKiss: Mordecai and Margaret in "Death Bear".
* AloofBigBrother: Don who is taller and more mature than Rigby actually subverts this, since he is actually younger than Rigby, as well as ''extremely'' affectionate towards his sibling. Rigby was jealous and angry that his friends liked Don more and that they think he is the older brother, so he rejected Don's affection and hated having to see him. Which makes ''Rigby'' the Aloof Big Brother!
* AmbiguouslyGay: The guys from the TV store warehouse ad.
* AndIMustScream: Apparently viral videos [[spoiler: have their stars trapped inside of them. They're forced to repeat their injuries and mistakes over and over again. Until our heroes come to their rescue, of course.]]
* AngstNuke: When Benson finally releases all his pent up anger in "Think Positive" the results are explosive.
* AnimalsNotToScale: Played straight with Mordecai, Don, and Margaret, but averted with Rigby.
* AnthropomorphicFood: The evil hotdogs. Arguably Pops.
* AnthropomorphicObjects: Benson is a ''gumball machine''. [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief Don't question it...]] Also, Pops is a giant lollipop, although this is obscured by his human skin tone.
* AnyoneCanDie: In the stories in the Halloween Special, this is in full effect. [[spoiler:Rigby's [[KillEmAll takes this to it's logical conclusion.]]]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Dead at Eight", Death's refrigerator is populated by such abominable foodstuffs as eyes, Death Nuggets, Soul Juice, and almond milk.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: In "Go Viral", somehow, jumping on a trampoline at the same time a refrigerator is dropped onto said trampoline will cause you to bounce thousands of feet into the air.
* ArtShift: The episode "First Day" consists mostly of animation from the unaired pilot, with subtle but noticeable differences in animation style.
* ArtifactOfDoom: For some reason, a public park is littered with these. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Destroyer of Worlds]] is a good example.
* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: In "Over the Top", the Playco Armboy commercial man.
** Also the waitresses in "Fortune Cookie".
* AttackItsWeakPoint:
** "You have to break the tie!"
** [[spoiler: Susan's heels]]
** "KICK HIM IN THE JUNK! KICK HIM IN THE JUNK!"
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: [[spoiler: The real Susan]].
** The Keeper of Margaret's secrets in "Diary".
* AuthorAvatar: Mordecai is basically J.G. Quintel in blue jay form.
** Eileen is basically Minty Lewis in mole form (which makes sense, since she cowrote most of the episodes Eileen has a decent-sized part in).
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The members of the park staff [[VitriolicBestBuds may treat each other crappy on a daily basis]], but when there's serious trouble, they will not hesitate to help each other out.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Not in Skips's place.
* BadassAdorable: The ducks from "A Bunch Of Baby Ducks"
* BadBoss: 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 FatalFlaw is that they are BrilliantButLazy, Benson’s is that he believes a HairTriggerTemper 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 [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] in that episode to make it absolutely impossible for Benson ''not'' to yell at them.
** Mr. Maellard is way worse than Benson. He generally gets angry for no reason and treats Benson like a butler who doesn't work right, which probably is the reason Benson is such a angry boss. He's taking in everything Mr Maellard throws at him and takes it out on Mordecai and Rigby.
* BadlyBatteredBabySitter: In "Dead at Eight", Mordecai and Rigby has to babysit Death's kid or he will take Muscle Man's soul.
* BalloonBelly: [[spoiler: Party Pete after drinking several Radicolas which gave him strange powers. After finding out Benson was going to return to the park to see what all the commotion was about (They were having a party without Benson's say so), The gang had to keep giving Party Pete Radicolas so he'll burn out in order to get rid of him before Benson showed up, thus ending Mordecai and Rigby's party with a [[PopGoesTheHuman bang.]]]]
* {{Balloonacy}}: Happens to Pops in "Just Set Up the Chairs"
* BarBrawl: in "Karaoke Video" in the karaoke bar. [[MundaneMadeAwesome While Pops sings Footloose.]]
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Seen when naked Pops is falling down the cliff in "Brain Eraser".
* BareYourMidriff: Margaret in "Caffinated Concert Tickets", "Mordecai and the Rigbys" and "Slam Dunk"
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: In "The Power", the cast is shown to have no problem with breathing while they're on the moon.
* BerserkButton:
** The zombie slayer.
** Don't even DARE cheat in a game of arm wrestling with Skips.
** Benson has a truckload of these.
*** Lampshaded in "Think Positive."
** ''Never'' talk crap about Muscle Man's mom.
** And don't ''ever'' spit food on Muscle Man's face.
* BigDamnHeroes: Benson at the end of "This Is My Jam".
** Also gets one in "Benson Be Gone".
** And again in "Stick Hockey".
* BilingualBonus: In the opening of "Fortune Cookie", when everyone is at the Chinese restaurant, we get a couple of shots of the Dim Sum receipt. It has four rows, labeled with the Pinyin characters for "small", "medium", "large", and "king".
* BigNo: The Death Kwon Do teacher lets out [[RuleOfThree three]] of them in the course of one episode.
** The Master Prank Caller gets two.
** GBF gets one.
** Susan gets one after [[spoiler: going OneWingedAngel and]] Benson gets everyone to stop working.
** The Night Owl gets one after [[spoiler:the guys make it back to the time machine and escape him. The present Night Owl gets one when they come out of the portal crashing down on his billboard and car, ruining his plan.]]
** Muscle Man gets one when [[spoiler: he realizes his dad was never a truck driver]].
* BigShutUp: Rigby, very often. A variation of this that he also uses very often is, "STOP TALKING!!!"
* BirthdayEpisode: The episode "Free Cake" revolves around Mordecai and Rigby setting up a birthday party for Skips, but only so they could have free chocolate cake. [[spoiler: In trying to get Skips to the party, they interrupt a ritual that gives him eternal life, and have to sacrifice the cake to save him]].
* BishieSparkle: Starla sees Mordecai with these when she falls for him.
* BlackComedyRape: One of the unicorns eats [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Benson's gumballs]].
* BlandNameProduct: Dudetime appears to be a parody of Axe body spray.
* BleachedUnderpants: The shorts the character designs originate in are definitely not for children.
* BlondesAreEvil: Susan
** And the "Blonde Club"
* BodyHorror: What happens when [[spoiler:you work under Susan for too long.]]
** A good example of this trope is when Rigby [[spoiler:physically turns into a house. The slow transformation doesn't look comfortable either.]]
* {{Bowdlerization}}: The international airings of this show are either edited to pieces or have [[MissingEpisode missing episodes]]. The biggest offenders are the versions shown in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Southeast Asia (particularly the version shown in the Philippines), and Latin America.
* BowlingForRatings: "Skips Strikes"
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The premise of "Exit 9B".
* BrainBleach: Mordecai is in need of some in "Brain Eraser," after [[spoiler:seeing Pops in the nude.]]
* BreathWeapon: Benson unleashes a torrent of pure, pent up rage at Mordecai and Rigby during "Think Positive" in the form of a mouth laser.
* BrickJoke:
** From the pilot: "Rock-paper-scissors is an ''evil game''!"
** Mordecai seems to really like chick flicks.
* BrokeEpisode: Both "Free Cake" and "Caffeinated Concert Tickets" qualify.
** To a lesser extent "The Power", which involves asking for raises to... hire someone else to fix a hole in a wall.
* BrutalHonesty: In "Pie Contest", Mordecai and Rigby are pie judges but they don't want tell everybody how bad their pies are to avoid being hated. But they have to do this when [[spoiler: a talking pie starts eating everybody and the only way to stop the pie and save everyone is to tell them the truth]].
* CaffeineBulletTime: Eating Double-Glazed fritters sends Pops into such a huge Sugar rush, that Mordecai, Rigby, and Skips consume one each as well in hopes of making all 4 of them suffer from a sugar crash. It doesn't work, all it does it make them move so fast that the [[TimeStandsStill rest of the world started slowing down.]] Eating even ''MORE'' sugar only made things worse, starting with colors and physics starting to break down.
* CallBack: In "Grave Sights", Benson asks Skips to set up the chairs, making an obvious callback to "Just Set Up the Chairs".
** In "Benson Be Gone", Maellard complains to Benson about snacks disappearing from the snack bar, holes in the walls, and five hundred dollars worth of prank phone calls, which are all references to the episodes "Rigby's Body", "The Power", and "Prank Callers" respectively.
** In "Camping Can Be Cool" Mordecai and Rigby bring the Super Extra Premium Hot Dogs from "Meat Your Maker" to eat on the camping trip.
** "Stick Hockey" seems to be a whole episode callback to a scene in "Benson Be Gone", in which Benson starts warming up to the Mordecai and Rigby over the Stick Hockey game.
** [[spoiler: The Unicorns are back]] in "House Rules", prank calls are also referenced.
*** Mordecai also threatens to ruin No Rules Man's only good eye with a laser pointer. Everybody knows they aren't regulation.
** Subtly, when payday is first shown in "High Score", Mordecai complains about how they're essentially receiving doggy bags full of change, and ask to at least get an envelope. Later, in "Temp Check" they receive their pay in an envelope.
** In "The Power", one of the things Rigby sends to the moon during the CutawayGag is "a bunch of baby ducks". There's a later episode with that exact name.
** The Ferguson Convention Center from "Video Game Wizard" is named after Garret Bobby Ferguson, from the episode "High Score". A bust of him is even seen outside the building.
** In "The Best Burger in the World", the burger truck [[spoiler:crashes into the Crash Pit from "Terror Tales of the Park".]]
** During "Diary" as Rigby and Mordecai prepare to use a microwave to melt the glue off Margaret's diary, Mordecai has a flashback of the episode "It's Time" and quickly decides against it.
** In "Death Bear", Eileen suggests watching "Cease and Decease" before Mordecai talks about Rigby's fear of horror movies, such as "Breakfast Slaughter". Rigby is also scared of films like '''"Ello Gov'nor"'''.
* CameraSpoofing:
** Tried by Mordecai in "Peeps" with a crude drawing on lined paper.
** They do a much better job with a tape of the 1982 World Dishwashing Championship.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: The entire plot of ''Regular Show'' is made up of this. The show starts out with something normal. Set up these chairs, go buy me a grilled cheese sandwich, learn to play guitar by the end of the episode, etc. However, just due to the world they live in, this somehow turns into a video game almost destroying the world, having to stop a black hole, and your future selves destroying your concert, just to name the outcomes of these examples. And of course, by the end of the episode (excluding "Prank Callers") everything is back to normal.
* CaptainObvious:
-->'''Rigby''': Looks like you've learned the ways of Death Kwon Do.
-->'''Mordecai''': Looks like you know how to say things that people are already aware of.
* CastingGag:
** Aside from Skips, Mark Hamill also voiced the hungover clown that was in the hotel room with a horse - which might be a reference to SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, one of Hamill's most famous roles.
** They also got Hamill to voice a Commissioner Gordon expy in "Temp Check".
** One episode features TimCurry as a guest voice. The character he plays? A literal [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow frankfurter]].
* CatchPhrase:
** Mordecai and Rigby: The double grunt, and a triumphant, simultaneous "OOOHHHHHHH!!!" or "WHOOOOOOOHHHH"\\
Their in-unison "YEEEAYUHHH!" seems to have become Creator/CartoonNetwork's new catch phrase.
** Skips: "[[SeenItAll I've seen this before.]]"
** Pops: "Good show!" and conversely "Bad show!"
** Benson: "YOU'RE FIRED!", and to a lesser extent, "UNBELIEVABLE!" and "YOU IDIOTS!"
** Muscle Man: "MY MOM!"
** Rigby's "STOP TALKING!!!" and "Dude, we gotta...!"
** BorrowedCatchphrase: After being fired in "Benson Be Gone", Benson shouts a particularly long "OOOHHHHHH!!!".
* ChainsawGood: Coffee's interpreter wields a chainsaw.
-->'''Mordecai''': [[LampshadeHanging A chainsaw!?]] Are you serious!?
** The Probo-bears in "But I Have a Receipt".
* CharacterDevelopment: "Benson Be Gone" has Benson come to understand Mordecai and Rigby more. And it sticks, afterwards, he's shown to be noticeably more tolerant of them and doesn't fly into a rage over them as often, even going as far as to helping them in "This is My Jam". In "Jinx" he actually accepts an apology from them, where before he'd not have given them the time of day.\\
Especially since earlier, Rigby sent him in a moment of UnstoppableRage, which Benson ''didn't'' take out on Rigby himself. Newer episodes also have him leading the group in "down time" activities such as game night or paying for drinks for everyone at a bar, showing he's lightened up more.f*
** Rigby has grown much closer to Eileen; in "Yes, Dude, Yes" he eagerly suggests going to the movies with her, while in "Do Me a Solid" he only accepted a date as a solid, and did everything possible to sabotage it. Later, it goes even further in "Diary", where he admits that she looks hot without her glasses on.
** Mordecai and Margaret's relationship has also developed along the series. In the first season, she's seen hooking up with a different person in every of her appearances, while in Season 3's "Butt Dial", she sets his song about her as a ringtone. Later, in "Death Bear", they almost kiss but Rigby's prank spoils it.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** Margaret was a FlatCharacter compared to the other recurring cast, that is until "Do Me a Solid" where she's revealed to be a down-to-earth character (the unusual circumstances don't faze her nearly as much as one would expect).
** Benson, Skips, and even Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost have had a good bit of character growth over the series as well, the group becoming kinder and more friendly with Rigby and Mordecai, making some of their early scenes a bit strange to how they are now. This is especially clear with Benson, who doesn't go into a rage as often. Recent episodes even have him doing things like organizing game nights for everyone and taking everyone out to a bar with the drinks on him, showing he's lightened up considerably.
* ChekhovsGun: Hamboning will save your life.
** ButtonMashing really works in video games, but only for shooting, not for leg control... normally.
** [[spoiler: The grilled cheese.]]
** "Laser pointers?! That's not regulation!"
** The celebratory hug, [[spoiler: or lack thereof]].
** Two Words: "[[spoiler:PLAYCO ARMBOY]]."
** Muscle Man's [[spoiler:sporting equipment]] in "Grave Sights".
* ChekhovsSkill: Rigby and Mordecai's extreme carting comes into play in "Busted Cart" when [[spoiler: they need to drive along the most dangerous highway in the country.]]
* ChessWithDeath: Arm Wrestling with Death, in Skips' case. [[spoiler: He challenged Death to restore Rigby back to life, whom Skips had killed in the first place. If he lost, Death would've claimed his immortal soul.]]
** [[spoiler:A blinking contest with Peeps, a floating eyeball monster to get him to leave in "Peeps". If they'd lost, he'd have taken all their eyes.]]
** Moredecai and Rigby had to babysit Death's son [[spoiler:in order to save Muscle Man from having his soul reaped. The specific condition was to have him sleeping by 8 PM when Death and his wife got home from their anniversary date.]]
* TheChewToy: Rigby, and his four deaths.
* ChunkyUpdraft: Benson's pent-up rage starts sucking the ground up in the surrounding area, leaving a crater in the ground by the time he unleashes.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Anyone can become a Death-Kwon-Do master; just wear a mullet and disturbingly short cut-offs.
* ColorWash: The more action-oriented sequences are animated in a redder color palette.
* CompellingVoice: The Power seemed to grant its users this, but it was actually [[RealityWarper much more than that]].
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Muscle Man's signature "MY MOM" joke.
* ContinuityNod: A very small one. In "Just Set Up the Chairs", Benson screams that he will never trust Mordecai and Rigby to do something as simple as setting up the chairs ever again. In "Grave Sights", he has Skips set up the chairs instead.
** In "Bet to Be Blonde," a pair of "Mordecai and the Rigbys" t-shirts can be seen in Mordecai and Rigby's closet, calling back to their fake band in the episode of that name.
** In "Yes, Dude, Yes" we see Mordecai finish telling CJ about the events of "High Score".
** In "Fancy Restaurant", Rigby brings up the last time Starla dumped him in "Muscle Woman" and how his depression forced his work onto the two of them.
** In "Diary", [[ItMakesSenseInContext Ribgy is about to put Margaret's diary in the microwave]], but Mordecai won't let him because he remembers the events of "It's Time", where microwaving a bunch of clocks sent them to another dimension and killed Rigby.
** In "Bad Kiss", they try to use time travel again, and near they end, they travel through past episodes.
** In "The Best VHS in the World", Mordecai and Rigby are forced to clean up their room to find a VHS. Items shown in their room include The Power (still broken in two) and the grilled cheese Rigby dropped on the floor.
*** (after Rigby picks up grilled cheese) "Dude, I remember this!"
* ContinuityPorn: "Exit 9B" has [[spoiler: every deceased villain and nearly every ally Mordecai and Rigby have ever encountered together for one big brawl out,]] and the BigBad of the episode is [[spoiler: the son of GBF.]] There's also the flashbacks the rest of the park workers have when they [[spoiler: regain their memories,]] as well as [[spoiler: the things Mordecai and Rigby do to snap Benson out of it.]]
* ConvenientWeaknessPlacement: The Warden of the Internet is a giant video screen. The power button is right next to the [[spoiler:imprisonment beam.]] Apparently, [[FailedASpotCheck nobody ever noticed that before Rigby]].
* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: In "Eggcellent", [[spoiler: Mordecai briefly talked to Rigby, who was in a coma.]]
* CoolCar: The golf cart.
* CoolOldGuy: Skips (and maybe Pops)
* CoolUncle: Uncle Steve from the story "Payback" in "Terror Tale of the Park II". Heck, [[spoiler:the guy rose from the dead, just to pay Mordecai his five bucks back.]]
* CoolShades: A relatively common occurrence in the series, but ''especially'' notable in "Cool Bikes".
* CurseCutShort: "All you're good at is being a big piece of s-"
** "You f-"
** "UGGH! F-"
** "F-f-f-f-f-first of all..."
** "Ow! Moth-"
** "Since when does being right make you a big b-"
** "We're gonna beat the living sh-"
* CutawayGag: "A bunch of baby ducks, send 'em to the moon..."
* {{Cyberpunk}}: In "Skips vs Technology", Techmo has some shades of this.
** [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Particularly of]] ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''.
* {{Cyberspace}}: Mordecai, Rigby and Pops end up there in "Go Viral".
** As does Techmo in "Skips vs Technology".
* ADateWithRosiePalms: In "Muscle Woman", Mordecai tells that a woman is single when she buys only ''one'' banana, leaving the viewer to imply the things she does with that banana.
** In "Over the Top", Death's left arm is way bigger than his right arm. You later see him reaching into his pants... with his left arm.
* DeadlyPrank: A near-deadly prank in "Prankless", in which Pops gets crushed by a bed that Muscle Man had taped to the ceiling. He gets taken to the hospital, where he just barely survives.
* DeathGlare: Mordecai gives one to Skips in "Over the Top" along with a WhatTheHellHero.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler: With the defeat of the Prank Master the episode ends with Mordecai, Rigby and the Master Prank Caller making more prank calls.]]
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** "It's supposed to say Rigby but they misspelled my name wrong."
** There's also the 'Death Punch of Death' in "Death Punchies".
** Rigby rents a movie from "Movie Shack Hut".
** From "This is My Jam", the song Rigby gets stuck in his head is called "Summertime Lovin', Lovin' in the Summer (Time)".
** "You jerks are jerks! You don't know anything about comedy!"- Muscle Man bombing at open mic night.
** In "But I Have A Receipt", Mordecai and Rigby attempt to get a refund from "Comics Plus And More Etc."
** The elf's name in "The Best VHS in the World" is [=ButtonWillow McButtonWillow=].
* DependingOnTheWriter: Either Benson or Mordecai and Rigby's statuses as the DesignatedHero/[[DesignatedVillain Villain]]. In some episodes, Benson over-reacts, while sometimes, it's justified. Sometimes, Mordecai and Rigby screw around, but would try to fix what they broke.
** Mordecai's competence. In some episodes, he gets dragged into slacking off by Rigby, but would try to suggest getting back to work. Other times, he willingly joins in on the slacking.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Mordecai and Rigby have defeated enough {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that it should be in their job description by now. Though it's normally in a MundaneMadeAwesome fashion.
** And they themselves summon about 90% of them.
* DisneyVillainDeath:
** [[spoiler:Susan in "Benson Be Gone" falls into a pit to Hell after Utopia takes out her heels in a HeroicSacrifice.]]
** [[spoiler:The {{Jerkass}} Truckers in "Trucker Hall Of Fame" are sent falling off a cliff by [[PapaWolf the ghost of Muscle Man's father when they tried to run Muscle Man, Mordecai, and Rigby down with their big rig.]] Their big rig promptly ''explodes'' on impact.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** Muscle Man [[spoiler: hosts a fake party, gets Mordecai and Rigby turned into ghosts, and fakes a heart attack]] after Rigby accidentally spilled soda on him. ''After almost choking to death.''
** "Over the Top". Skips isn't too pleased about Rigby beating him in arm wrestling, especially after finding out [[spoiler: he used an arm brace]]. So he forces him into a rematch, [[spoiler: yanks out the brace, then instead of leaving it there, ''smashes him through the table'', killing him. Skips realizes this though, and puts his own soul on the line to bring him back to life]].
** The Warden of the Internet [[FateWorseThanDeath imprisoning people in their videos forever]] for ''making viral videos''.
** The Wizard from the Halloween Special [[spoiler:turns Rigby into a house and brutally murders the entire cast]] just because [[KarmicTransformation Rigby egged his house.]]
*** Not to mention [[spoiler: [[MoodWhiplash egging the house Rigby]] rather harmlessly, giving Rigby enough time to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade the topic]]... JUST before the wizard drops a house-sized EGG and drenching him in egg yolk as he screams in horror.]] "The End."
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Benson takes a gas nozzle in and out and in and out of the car, shaking it before gas leaks out of it.
* DontExplainTheJoke: '''Muscle Man:''' "If you don't pick Starla's pie, the next pie you eat will be through a straw, because you'll be in the hospital on life support"
* DoNotCallMePaul: "GBF" is "Garrett Bobby Ferguson," not "Giant Bearded Face."
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: "Death Punchies" is all over the "of death" variant.
* DoppelgangerSpin: Used by Chong in "Stick Hockey" as one of several methods to gain the upper hand in the final round of stick hockey.
* DramaticGunCock: The animatronic bear reaches for his gun to kill Rigby before the FBI shows up in "Fuzzy Dice". The snipers cock their gun and the bear follows suit. Cue in a fatal shootout.
* DramaticIrony: In "Cool Bikes" [[spoiler:Benson admits that Mordecai and Rigby are the coolest guys he knows. In any other context this would be sweet, but the viewer knows that Benson just unknowingly secured them a guilty verdict.]]
* DreamWorksFace: Mordecai [[http://www.formspring.me/calwwong/q/266487508932506651 strikes one]] in "Cruisin'".
* DrivenToSuicide: Cart in "Out of Commission", to the point where he actually wants to be '''driven''' off a cliff to drown in a lake. While having fireworks exploding on him. After his death, [[spoiler: Mordecai and Rigby have to bring him back due to Benson's math mistake.]]
* DrunkenMontage: The beginning of "Mordecai and the Rigbys" has Mordecai and Rigby drunk trying to find a good name for their fake band.
* DrunkOnMilk: Every time there's a bunch of soda cans around, they mean beer.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Pops, while rather naive and obstructive during "Think Positive", does bring up the obvious question of why Benson has to constantly yell at Mordecai and Rigby. Sure, they're slackers, but it often doesn't make them much better employees.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Leon performing a HeroicSacrifice in "Benson Be Gone" to take out Susan.]]
** [[spoiler: Wedgie Ninja's sacrifice in "Go Viral" to save Mordecai, Rigby, and Pops from the Warden of the Internet, destroying her in the process.]]
* EarWorm: In-Universe example: in "This Is My Jam" Rigby gets "Summertime Loving, Loving in the Summer (Time)" stuck in his head, to the point that the song sings itself whenever he opens his mouth. Not singing it, but playing on its own. Eventually the song manifests itself into a physical form and starts driving everyone nuts. The gang decides to come up with an even catchier song to rid of it... "Aw snap! Aw snap! Come to our macaroni party then we'll take a nap!"
** Which then gets stuck in Rigby's head just like the last song, causing everyone to groan.
* EldritchAbomination: These are so commonplace in the series, it puts Creator/HPLovecraft to shame.
** When you tie in rock paper scissors 100 times, it summons a black hole that apparently leads to a monster's dimension. The glimpse of the monster is…disconcerting.
** In the name of all that is holy, do not play with the wires of the ''Destroyer of Worlds'' arcade game.
** Father Time from "It's Time" is one. He is a being made entirely of clocks who lives at the end of time, and was actually a rather nice guy [[spoiler: and was willing to let Mordecai off with a warning and press the ResetButton for him.]]
** The Snow Monster. He's made of snow, breathes fire from a jawless mouth, and creates one of the scariest moments of the show.
** Actually, the "Book of Park Records" could qualify too, as it gave a Necronomicon vibe when they touched it, and can alter reality (at least within the park).
** Peeps from the self-titled episode. He's a giant floating eyeball that can summon a huge number of smaller eyeballs from his body and threatened to watch everyone till they died. When they made a deal to get rid of him, he wanted all their eyes if he won.
** [[spoiler: SUSAN. The worst part is how normal she seems before turning her head 180 degrees and going OneWingedAngel.]]
** The mirror monster in "Jinx" could qualify too.
* EldritchLocation: The whole world turns into one if you eat too much sugar. The laws of physics, time, sound, light, and colors start to break down, leaving almost nothing as it was.
* EscalatingWar: "Prankless".
* EveryCarIsAPinto: The golf cart in "Grave Sights"; usually averted, however.
* EverythingMakesAMushroom: The slam dunk Mordecai makes from outer space causes a mushroom cloud explosion upon impact.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: The internet video bear who lands on people, plays its instrument and farts on his victims after.
** Also the above mentioned Probo-Bears.
** The Death Bear. [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Name to run away from really fast]], indeed!
* {{Expy}}:
** Dig Champs is clearly a parody to ''VideoGame/DigDug''.
** In "Grave Sights", Zombocalypse 3D stars Ash from ''Franchise/EvilDead'' and ''Army of Darkness''.
** Garrett Bobby Ferguson from "High Score" is pretty much ''VideoGame/{{Pac-Man}}'' champion Billy Mitchell... as a giant head.
** In "Rage Against the TV", The Hammer is pastiche of games like ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon''. Also the console Mordecai and Rigby play on looks like a SegaMasterSystem with [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] style controllers.
* EyeScream:
** The eye creature in "Peeps" grows several extra eyeballs, [[spoiler: which Rigby then scorches with a laser pointer.]]
** [[spoiler: The last of which BURSTS INTO FLAME.]]
** Also, the bet Peeps makes where if he wins, he get everyone's eyes. At which point, he produces an ice pick and ice cream scoop.
** In a subtler example from the same episode, [[spoiler: Mordecai loses the ability to blink and his eyes become so irritated that the eyedrops he uses evaporate before even touching them.]]
* FaceDoodling: Rigby does this to Pops when he passes out in "Dizzy".
** It's also the main thing the CreepyDoll in the Halloween special does.
* FacelessMasses: Averted, in almost every crowd shot the background characters are drawn about as detailed as full on screen ones, although they are often duplicated, mirrored and huge crowds are usually not animated.
* FailOSuckyname: In "Trash Boat", Rigby decides to change his name to two random words after seeing a news report on a rock star who did the same thing. The name he comes up with, Trash Boat, is... less than inspiring, and he spends the rest of the episode trying to get it changed back.
* FakeBrit: Future Mordecai and Future Rigby, in "Mordecai and the Rigbys". [[spoiler: They [[OohMeAccentsSlipping lose the accents]] right before the two of them are destroyed by Present Mordecai.]]
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Averted hard in the episode "Fuzzy Dice". The guns don't sound like lasers' either.
* FawltyTowersPlot: Most episodes start off with a problem that's bound to escalate into supernatural chaos.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: Muscle Man rams a table into the wall and rolls on the floor screaming when Rigby accidentally splashes soda in his face.
** [[spoiler:Skips]] quits the park bowling team and [[spoiler:leaves his job altogether because he didn't want his friends to know that his name used to be "Walks" until he changed it due to the fact that he was tired of being asked "Why are you called Walks when you always skip?"]]
** You can be sentenced to death for being too cool.
** In "Butt Dial", exceeding your log-in attempts can get you erased from existance. It turns into AnAesop about phone hacking (which actually ''is'' heinous) though.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero[=/=]TheLancer: Mordecai and Rigby.
** TheCaptain: Benson
** TheBigGuy[=/=]TheSmartGuy: Skips
** TheChick: Pops
** ThoseTwoGuys: Muscle Man and High Five Ghost.
** SixthRanger: Thomas
* FiveStagesOfGrief: Muscle Man in "Trucker Hall of Fame", after his father was killed. First, his brother John walks into his trailer teary-eyed, and Muscle Man doesn't believe anything. At the funeral, he breaks out in tears. While in the forest, Muscle Man takes his picture of his dad wearing a trucker hat and smashes it. Finally, after Muscle Dad's ghost appeared, Muscle Man spread his dad's ashes in the Trucker Hall of Fame.
* {{Flanderization}}: Inverted. The show actually downplayed several characters'(e.g. Muscle Man, Benson, Skips) most defining traits.
* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: "More Smarter." Be sure to look at Rigby's crossword.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Snowballs the Ice Monster.
* FlyingCar: Pops' car, Carmenita.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Inverted in "Diary", after Mordecai says he and Margaret are friends, Rigby responds with "Yeah, your friend ''without'' benefits!"
* FreudianExcuse: "Think Positive" implies that Benson is so quick to raise his voice because his father told him, "You'll never get anything you want in this world if you don't yell for it."
* FrothyMugsOfWater: Basically invoked in "Over the Top"; when the gang head out for "drinks", Mordecai and Rigby anticipate, respectively, ordering a Watertini and an Ice on the Rocks.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In "First Day", the other want ads in the newspaper are largely humorous. "...and dancing ONLY. Must be over age 75, and no dyed hair or wigs allowed."
* FunWithAcronyms: GBF is [[spoiler:Garret Bobby Ferguson, not Giant Bearded Face.]]\\
Though [[spoiler:[[DontExplainTheJoke he's a giant bearded face as well]].]]
* FurryConfusion: Subverted in "A Bunch of Baby Ducks." The titular ducks seem to be non-anthropomorphic at first, but quickly pick up humanlike behaviors (like karate chopping) from Rigby, and their mother speaks English.
** Played straight in "Skunked," with Mordecai and Rigby picking up roadkill in the park and even PLAYING A BINGO GAME USING THE DEAD ANIMALS, though technically it was created by Benson to motivate them to work; they can't stop working until they get Bingo.
** In "Prankless," Mordecai got [[TarAndFeathers Tarred and Feathered]] despite already being a bird.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Muscle Man ''and'' Starla in "Muscle Woman". [[{{Squick}} It was a pretty disturbing episode.]]
* GargleBlaster: Non-alcoholic varieties in this series.
** Rigby's homemade Rig-Juice.
** "The Mississippi Queen". [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce A concoction so absurdly spicy]] that Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson spent the rest of the party they were attending experiencing a DisneyAcidSequence played to the tune of "Mississippi Queen" by 70's rockband ''Mountain''. It even came with a little umbrella.
* {{Gasshole}}: Gloken Bear from "Go Viral".
** And the unicorns from "The Unicorns Have Got to Go," who trap Rigby in a circle of their hindquarters and repeatedly fart directly in his face.
* GatlingGood: The FBI breaks out a minigun [[spoiler: to take down the Capicola Gang]] in "Fuzzy Dice". They use an RPG-7 as well.
* GemEncrusted: The concert tickets. And the seats the tickets are for.
* GenreSavvy: In "Pie Contest", Mordecai and Rigby know that the talking pie in the trash can will only cause trouble.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Although as demonstrated in "Replaced", no one would be stupid enough to actually replace Mordecai and Rigby.
* GivingSomeOneThePointerFinger: "Give us a raise, loser!"
* GoingCommando: The secret that Mordecai reveals in "Diary" is that "[he] likes going commando. A lot."
* GondorCallsForAid: [[spoiler:When GBF Jr resurrects his dad and all of the other people who Mordecai and Rigby killed, several of their friends in the past come in to save them and the park, including Death!]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: In "Cool Bikes", [[spoiler:Mordecai and Rigby spend most of the episode trying to convince Benson that they're cool. When he finally does admit that they're the coolest guys he knows, it's most definitely a bad thing, since [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext they're on trial for being so cool that it threatens to destroy the universe, and Benson's admission is literally a death sentence for them]].]]
* GoodGunsBadGuns: In "Fuzzy Dice", the FBI has loads of men carrying a various plethora of big guns, while the gangsters have lame handguns.
* AGoodNameForARockBand: Mordecai suggests "Mustache Cash Stash" for their band and read off a whole list of them. They eventually just go with their names.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Pops uses 'show' instead of god, [[FridgeLogic which makes his catchphrase 'Good Show!' into something completely different.]]
* GRatedDrug: The donuts in "Sugar Rush", also the Mississippi Queen drink.
* GrandTheftMe: An overachieving bodybuilder('s consciousness) [[spoiler: steals Rigby's body]] in "Rigby's Body".
* TheGrimReaper: In "Over The Top", "Skips Strikes" and "Dead at Eight".
* GroinAttack:
** Mordecai has a flashback of doing this to Rigby in "Death Punchies."
** Rigby's favorite internet video is of an ostrich kicking an old man in the balls.
** Mordecai does this to GBF. But since said champ is basically a head with arms and legs, the champ reacts with "my chin!" (though "chin" is "penis" in Japanese...
** Subverted and played straight in "Rage Against the TV". In Mordecai and Rigby's video game, the duo are punching one of the games' bosses in the junk. As in the miscellaneous things he is carrying. [[spoiler: Later, Skips gives one to The Hammer with a chair.]]
** Skips perform one on a zombie. [[spoiler: It doesn't work]].
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Rigby started walking around naked one day. His brother thought that was so cool, he hasn't worn clothes since.
** Skips is a straighter example, wearing jeans but no shirt.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The stag-man in "Camping Can Be Cool".
* HalloweenEpisode: Two thus far, one in season three and another in season 4. Both are 22 minutes long, as opposed to the series' usual 11 minutes, and feature three creepy stories.
* HangoverSensitivity: The special entertainment in "Just Set Up the Chairs".
* HauntedTechnology
* HeadTurnedBackwards: When things get real in a rap battle, a rapper tells Mordecai to put his face in reverse, resulting in his head facing the other way.
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: Muscle Man eats spoonfuls of protein supplement in the fashion in "Muscle Woman".
* HehHehYouSaidX: This exchange in "Fuzzy Dice":
--> '''Benson:''' Alright, now when the balls drop...
--> '''Mordecai & Rigby:''' (snickers)
--> '''Benson:''' Ugh! When the game starts, you guys have to...
** This also happens in "Skips Strikes".
---> '''Death:''' You! Get your balls! (chuckles)
* HeroicSacrifice: In "Benson Be Gone", [[spoiler: Leon barrel-rolls Mr. Maelard's limousine and knocks off Susan's heels, sending Susan back to hell and the limo careening into a wall where it explodes, killing Leon.]]
** In "Go Viral", [[spoiler: Wedgie Ninja stays behind to stop the Warden of the Internet, allowing the other viral videos to go free. He keeps it up until she explodes, killing himself in the process.]]
** In "Appreciation Day", [[spoiler: Rigby manages to get the cover of the Book of Park Records back to Mordecai, but he gets killed for his trouble.]]
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Muscle Man.
* HideousHangoverCure: After getting drunk and drugged from the Mississippi Queen in "Weekend at Benson's", Mordecai, Rigby and Benson wake up hungover and stoned, and Benson gets cured when he founds out his neighbor gave him her cell phone number. As for Mordecai and Rigby, they get cured when Benson rehires them.
* {{Hipster}}: In "Cool Bikes" Mordecai and Rigby dress in this style to be cool. The stack of Brain Explosion records they swear upon in court is even a CallBack to Mordecai's own infamous hipster moment in "This Is My Jam".
** The Movie Shack Hut employee has traces of this, preferring VHS to DVD.
* {{Hobos}}: Leon
* {{Homage}}:
** ''Zombocalypse'' has [[ArmyOfDarkness Bruce]] [[BruceCampbell Campbell]] starring in it.
** Also, in "Over the Top", Death is a dead ringer for Lemmy from the band "Motorhead", right down to the accent and the two large moles on his left cheek.
* HorribleCampingTrip: "Camping Can Be Cool."
* HowWeGotHere: "Over the Top" begins with the [[StartsWithTheirFuneral death of Rigby]].
* HumanMomNonHumanDad: It's implied that the deer-man had a human mother and therefore a... deer dad.
* HypocriticalHumor:
-->'''Benson''': Rule #47: NO YELLING!
** A rather... odd case in this one: In the episode "Karaoke Video", Benson tells Mordecai this:
--->'''Benson''': I want to... you know, boost morale around here.
** 14 episodes later, in "Think Positive", we get this:
--->'''Pops''': Stop yelling! It's bad for morale around here.
--->'''Benson''': WHO GIVES ABOUT MORALE???
* ICallHerVera: Rigby lets Mordecai name a keyboard he stole. He calls it 'The Power'.
-->'''Mordecai''': I always wanted to date a girl named The Power.
** Pops named his car "Carmenita".
* IThoughtThatWas: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the tagline, shown above.
* IllKillYou!: Rigby on occasion, with varying degrees of seriousness.
** Mordecai says this in "It's Time" [[spoiler: right before accidentally killing Rigby]].
** In "Death Punchies", Rigby actually tells this to Mordecai several times, and means it. He tries to kill his best friend with the Death Punch, and they end up trapped in a pit fifty feet underground with lava pouring out the walls.
* ImagineTheAudienceNaked: Mordecai suggests this to Pops so he won't be so nervous over his speech. It doesn't work.
* ImprobablyCoolCar: Pops' "Carmenita" is already a cool old car, but it has special gears [[spoiler:that allow it to fly and have bat wings, among other things.]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: Rigby makes loads of these.
* InformedAbility: In "Slam Dunk", Mordecai apparently has enough knowledge in HTML coding for Margaret to ask him to help make her website.
* InitiationCeremony: There's one to become an official member of the Blonds. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it's the [[AcidPool horrific kind.]] ]]
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: Wedgie Ninja.
* InstantSedation: Averted in "Death Bear". It takes a minute or two for any of the tranquilizers to actually affect Death Bear, and Rigby is never actually shown passing out.
* InsufferableGenius: Chad and Jeremy in "Replaced".
* InsultBackfire: Pretty much how Pops, Mordecai, and Rigby [[spoiler:defeat the rappers who have been tormenting Pops the whole time, by turning their insults around into positive messages.]]
* InterspeciesRomance:
** Margaret with her boyfriends. Also Mordecai's [[AllLoveIsUnrequited crush on her]], if you count the fact that he's a blue jay and she's a red robin/cardinal/whatever the hell she is.
** In the episode "It's Time", Rigby/Margaret is CANON.\\
The [[WordOfGod writer]] implied that Rigby was going out with Margaret pretty much just to get under Mordecai's skin, but the point still stands.
* IronicEcho:
** "I can fix this" from the hot dogs episode. First, it's Rigby trying to fix everything that he's messed up but only messing it up worse. Then it's Rigby trying to [[spoiler:keep Mordecai from dying]]. Then when [[KarmaHoudini Rigby]] brings up who bought the premium hot dogs...
** There's also "I wouldn't want to ruin the surprise" from Future Mordecai in the episode "Mordecai and the Rigbys" when the regular Mordecai asks if he ends up with Margaret in the future. Mordecai throws it back at him [[spoiler: in his ShutUpHannibal speech when he breaks up the band.]]
** "Don't blink!" in "Peeps". First said by Peeps to Mordecai when [[spoiler:Peeps starts growing extra eyes to tease Mordecai into blinking]], and then by Mordecai to Peeps when [[spoiler:it finally looks like Peeps is going to give in and blink]].
** "The finder's fee" when Rigby hires the temp.
** "STEP '''OFF!'''"
** [[BriarPatching Inverted psychology]] in "See You There".
* IsItAlwaysLikeThis: Asked by Thomas at the end of "Exit 9B." The answer, of course, [[WeirdnessMagnet is yes.]]
* IsThisAJoke: Lollipops as currency. Also, "he can't make a major speech facing away from the audience!" From the same episode, Mordecai draws Pops' face on the back of his head because Rigby vandalized his face with Sharpie drawings.
* {{Jerkass}}: Benson, by far and Muscle Man. Rigby and Mordecai can act like this a lot to each other, if they get on each other's nerves too much.
** The Unicorns.
** In "The Best Burger in the World", [[spoiler: Benson makes Mordecai and Rigby work on all their extra jobs that they slacked off on, despite there being a time limit to get said burgers. So he gives them the most work, and honestly expects them to not try to get burgers. Finally at the end of the episode, he eats both which they bought as punishment.]] Uh Benson... you could have had them gotten the burgers before and then have them do the work. Instead of being a jerkass...
* JoinsToFitIn: Mordecai, tired of being teased by Rigby, joins a group of blondes, [[spoiler: who eventually [[BlondesAreEvil turn out to be completely evil.]] ]]
* KarmaHoudini:
** Mordecai and Rigby in "Caffeinated Concert Tickets". They not only broke a contract with the Coffee Bean man, but they also added insult to injury with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech!
** In their defense, the contract consisted solely of the word "Coffee" written over and over, and the interpreter refused to translate it until it was too late. Not to mention they came at Mordecai and Rigby with a chainsaw.
** Also, near the end of the episode, Mordecai and Rigby fell asleep anyway. Though they actually got into the concert, they fell asleep through the whole performance.
** Mordecai did get humiliated by Slasher in the concert by telling him not to "pump it in the wind".
* KarmicTransformation: Egg a wizard's house, be cursed to turn INTO a house. [[spoiler: Poor Rigby learned this the hard way in the Halloween special.]]
* KillEmAll: According to Benson, [[spoiler: the only way to get rid of unicorns.]]
** The Destroyer of Worlds too.
--->'''Skips:''' You fools! Destroyer of Worlds will kill us all!
** [[spoiler:The final story in the Halloween Special has this happen with the entire cast.]]
* KnightInSourArmour: The grouchy Benson has come to save the day more than a few times.
* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler:Garret Bobby Ferguson Junior,]] who makes the fourth season premiere play out much more seriously than other episodes.
* KnightTemplar: The Warden of the Internet. Ok, wanting the internet to be used responsibly, that's an alright motive. Confining anyone who makes a viral video to a FateWorseThanDeath? Yeah, that's insane...
* KonamiCode: Used to dodge bottles being thrown at Rigby's character in a ''VideoGame/RockBand'' style video game.
* LampshadeHanging: The episode "High Score" is practically made of this. [[note]] Margaret: "I can't believe we were so fascinated by a video game, but we ''were''!"[[/note]]
** At the beginning of "Butt Dial", Mordecai and Rigby mention how their 'game night' with Eileen and Margret was successful, without anything supernatural or park destroying happening.
* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: [[spoiler: Rigby made Pops follow him out the room so Mordecai and Margaret can have a moment alone near the end of "Butt Dial".]]
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Skips enforces this on Mordecai and Rigby at the end of "Diary".
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to "2 In The AM PM", which involves LSD-laced candy and contains foul language.
* LightningCanDoAnything: Downed power lines can animate ''snow'', apparently.
* LineOfSightName: In "Trash Boat", Rigby decides to change his name to two completely random words. He looks over at the overflowing trash can, then at the painting of a sailboat on the wall, and hence the title of the episode.
* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: And lollipops and gumball machines and giant coffee beans...
* LiteralMinded: Inverted by Pops.
-->'''Mordecai''': That taxi's yellow!
-->'''Pops''': My taxi is not a coward!
* LockedInAFreezer: Complete with [[spoiler:Mordecai almost dying.]]
* LogicBomb: In "House Rules": [[spoiler:"There's no rule against rules."]]
* LosingYourHead: Happened to [[spoiler: Dave, Benson's stick hockey apprentice]] and he even spoke briefly before passing.
** Also happened to [[spoiler:Mordecai in Rigby's story in "Terror Tales of the Park"]], he also talked briefly.
* MadnessMantra: All day, every day, all day, every day, all day, every day...
* MagicFeather: The magic guitar picks in "Mordecai and the Rigbys" are [[spoiler:a subversion, as their point was to trick Mordecai and Rigby into lip-syncing]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Typically played for laughs:
** In "Terror Tales of the Park," Muscle Man's reaction to [[spoiler:being skinned alive: flexing and boasting.]]
** In "Video Game Wizard," Skips casually breaks his hand.
** In "Death Bear," [[spoiler:an animal control agent gets his arms ripped off by the Death Bear, who unenthusiastically states that he wants to go home.]]
** In "Terror Tales of the Park II," when Muscle Man [[spoiler:got impaled by one of Jan's legs, he was unimpressed and said that if killing him was his job, he'd be fired.]]
* MaleFrontalNudity: Benson in "Brain Eraser."
* ManChild: Pops, save the fact that he's the opposite of LiteralMinded.
* MarshmallowHell: Rigby runs into Starla's boobs in "Muscle Woman".
* MatrixRainingCode: In "Don", the whole park is engulfed by this when Rigby messes up the audit that Don hadn't stopped. [[MundaneMadeAwesome Accounting never looked so cool]].
* MeaningfulFuneral: Muscle Man's funeral for his father.
* MeaningfulName: Skips. And Pops, who has what looks like a giant lollipop for a head.
* {{Meganekko}}: [[http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp160/Daxdiv/eileenappears.png Eileen]].
* MegatonPunch: The Death Punch [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment of Death]].
* MirrorMonster: [[spoiler: Ybgir]], from the episode "Jinx".
* MixAndMatchCritters: The monster on the moon had Rigby's body, Mordecai's tail and the wrestling doll's head.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Every other week at least, usually summoned or created inadvertently. Most are {{Eldritch Abomination}}s to boot.
* {{Montage}}: The show likes to use them often:
** There's a HardWorkMontage to the tune of Loverboy's "Working For The Weekend" while trying to save up enough money to go to a concert.
** In "Death Punchies", Rigby learns to Death Punch to [[TrainingMontage "You're the Best"]] by Joe Esposito.
** There's also Mordecai's, Rigby's, and Benson's slack off sequence, all done to the tune of an instrumental song based off of Boston's "More than a Feeling".
** Mordecai and Rigby end up starting a bar fight over possession of a karaoke tape with the owners of the bar while Pops sings "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins.
** When Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson attend a party, they drink a spicy concoction called the "Mississippi Queen", named after the song by the rockband "Mountain". They spend the rest of the party in a MushroomSamba while the song plays.
** In "Eggscellent", Mordecai trains to eat the Eggscellent challenge to "Holding Out for a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: "Destroyer of Worlds".
* MoralMyopia: "Under The Hood", Rigby is painting Park Avenue’s tv room:
--> '''Park Avenue:''' ''No, no no, don’t. [[WhatTheHellHero What’s the matter with you?]]''
--> '''Rigby:''' ''You painted all over our whole park.''
--> '''Park Avenue:''' ''Yes, but it's different, you know? It’s what I do! [[BecauseImGoodAtIt My stuff is good, you’re only making a mess!]]''
* MrExposition: Skips, when he gets involved in the current trouble of the episode, usually knows exactly what's going on and explains it further and how to solve it. [[spoiler: Being a few thousand years old may have something to do with this.]]
* MsFanservice: Margaret.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The show's formula is basically "Mordecai and Rigby take some perfectly normal situation way too far until something supernatural and ''absolutely ridiculous'' happens".
* MustHaveCaffeine: Exaggerated in "Caffeinated Concert Tickets".
* MushroomSamba: "Weekend at Benson's" has one as [[spoiler: the result of Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson drinking a concoction known as "Mississippi Queen", the song of the same name by Mountain plays during it.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Skips gets this after he [[spoiler:kills Rigby in arm wrestling, prompting him to bet his soul against Death to get Rigby back.]]
** Rigby gets this after he reverted back from being a monster in "Skunked" and saw he'd hurt someone. The delivery was done so well you really feel bad for him.
** Muscle Man of all people gets this in "Prankless", after his latest prank nearly killed Pops.
* MyGirlIsASlut: Played straight with Margaret, who is shown hooking up with a new person every day.
** Inverted in the second season: she's seen casually hanging out with Mordecai and Rigby.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: "Hey Giant Beardo Face!"
** "Mad Man Mordo? More like Bland Man Boredo!"
* MythologyGag: Young(er) Pops in "Prank Callers" has his voice from the original sketch.
->Visit Tropes N To Z [[RegularShow/TropesNToZ here]].
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* FiveFiveFive: All of the phone numbers seen in "Cruisin'" start with this.
* AbsenteeActor: Benson doesn't appear in a handful of episodes.
* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: "Skips Strikes" has [[spoiler:Rigby making a bet with Death: If Death's Team wins he'll get the team's(which is everyone working at the park except Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost) souls and if Rigby's Team wins he gets... a bowling ball filled with souls.]] Mordecai and Benson aren't happy about this in the slightest.
** "Over the Top" has [[spoiler:Skips arm wrestling Death for Rigby's soul.]]
** In "Slam Dunk", Mordecai eventually bets his computer privileges ''for life'' on a basketball game just so he can help Margaret make a website in hopes of impressing her.
* TheAce: Rigby's brother Don, apparently.
** Skips most of the time.
* AccidentalInnuendo: InUniverse.
** "Now, when the balls drop..."
** "Carmenita's special parts should only be manipulated by a professional."
** "Because of my big backup *chuckles* balls!"
* AchillesInHisTent: Muscle Man in "Prankless"
* ActorAllusion:
** TimCurry literally is [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow a hot dog]] who gets [[ItMakesSenseInContext covered in mustard]] in "Meat your Maker".
** While this is more of a Creator Allusion, J.G. Quintel was born in 1982, the year that Mordecai and Rigby travel back to in "Prank Callers." Plus, the title card of ''Ello Gov'nor'' (the movie, not the episode) has "©MCMLXXXII" written on it and the World Dishwashing Championship 1982 video in "Peeps".
** James Hong basically plays [[Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina Lo Pan]] during the episode "Fortune Cookie".
* AdrenalineMakeover: Well, somewhat, in that Mordecai and Rigby give themselves mullets while learning Death-Kwon-Do.
* AnAesop: From the episode "Mordecai and the Rigbys", Mordecai and Rigby noticed at the end of the show that their future selves stayed famous through lip-syncing. Mordecai makes a speech about the issue.
** Also, in "Cool Bikes", Mordecai told Benson (after countless hours trying to impress him) "We don't care what you think."
* AffectionateParody: [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Ostrich Thing With The Balls]].
** "Grave Sights" manages to make references to ''VideoGame/DeadRising'', ''Franchise/EvilDead 2'', and ''RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare''.
** "Video Game Wizard" where Rigby gets jealous that Mordecai chose Skips as his partner for the video game tournament is an affectionate parody of ''Film/TheWizard''. It even has a crappy power glove knockoff as the grand prize.
* AlienGeometries: In "Brain Eraser", the world of Mordecai's memories is a strange place.
-->'''Skips:''' Memory isn't logical.
* AllYourPowersCombined: See image.
** The video game character they summoned.
** Also their combined efforts in defeating the physical manifestation of "Summertime Lovin'."
** In "A Bunch of Baby Ducks", [[spoiler: the baby ducks fuse into a giant duck person to defeat the creepy guy with the van.]]
* AlmostKiss: Mordecai and Margaret in "Death Bear".
* AloofBigBrother: Don who is taller and more mature than Rigby actually subverts this, since he is actually younger than Rigby, as well as ''extremely'' affectionate towards his sibling. Rigby was jealous and angry that his friends liked Don more and that they think he is the older brother, so he rejected Don's affection and hated having to see him. Which makes ''Rigby'' the Aloof Big Brother!
* AmbiguouslyGay: The guys from the TV store warehouse ad.
* AndIMustScream: Apparently viral videos [[spoiler: have their stars trapped inside of them. They're forced to repeat their injuries and mistakes over and over again. Until our heroes come to their rescue, of course.]]
* AngstNuke: When Benson finally releases all his pent up anger in "Think Positive" the results are explosive.
* AnimalsNotToScale: Played straight with Mordecai, Don, and Margaret, but averted with Rigby.
* AnthropomorphicFood: The evil hotdogs. Arguably Pops.
* AnthropomorphicObjects: Benson is a ''gumball machine''. [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief Don't question it...]] Also, Pops is a giant lollipop, although this is obscured by his human skin tone.
* AnyoneCanDie: In the stories in the Halloween Special, this is in full effect. [[spoiler:Rigby's [[KillEmAll takes this to it's logical conclusion.]]]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Dead at Eight", Death's refrigerator is populated by such abominable foodstuffs as eyes, Death Nuggets, Soul Juice, and almond milk.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: In "Go Viral", somehow, jumping on a trampoline at the same time a refrigerator is dropped onto said trampoline will cause you to bounce thousands of feet into the air.
* ArtShift: The episode "First Day" consists mostly of animation from the unaired pilot, with subtle but noticeable differences in animation style.
* ArtifactOfDoom: For some reason, a public park is littered with these. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Destroyer of Worlds]] is a good example.
* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: In "Over the Top", the Playco Armboy commercial man.
** Also the waitresses in "Fortune Cookie".
* AttackItsWeakPoint:
** "You have to break the tie!"
** [[spoiler: Susan's heels]]
** "KICK HIM IN THE JUNK! KICK HIM IN THE JUNK!"
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: [[spoiler: The real Susan]].
** The Keeper of Margaret's secrets in "Diary".
* AuthorAvatar: Mordecai is basically J.G. Quintel in blue jay form.
** Eileen is basically Minty Lewis in mole form (which makes sense, since she cowrote most of the episodes Eileen has a decent-sized part in).
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The members of the park staff [[VitriolicBestBuds may treat each other crappy on a daily basis]], but when there's serious trouble, they will not hesitate to help each other out.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Not in Skips's place.
* BadassAdorable: The ducks from "A Bunch Of Baby Ducks"
* BadBoss: 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 FatalFlaw is that they are BrilliantButLazy, Benson’s is that he believes a HairTriggerTemper 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 [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] in that episode to make it absolutely impossible for Benson ''not'' to yell at them.
** Mr. Maellard is way worse than Benson. He generally gets angry for no reason and treats Benson like a butler who doesn't work right, which probably is the reason Benson is such a angry boss. He's taking in everything Mr Maellard throws at him and takes it out on Mordecai and Rigby.
* BadlyBatteredBabySitter: In "Dead at Eight", Mordecai and Rigby has to babysit Death's kid or he will take Muscle Man's soul.
* BalloonBelly: [[spoiler: Party Pete after drinking several Radicolas which gave him strange powers. After finding out Benson was going to return to the park to see what all the commotion was about (They were having a party without Benson's say so), The gang had to keep giving Party Pete Radicolas so he'll burn out in order to get rid of him before Benson showed up, thus ending Mordecai and Rigby's party with a [[PopGoesTheHuman bang.]]]]
* {{Balloonacy}}: Happens to Pops in "Just Set Up the Chairs"
* BarBrawl: in "Karaoke Video" in the karaoke bar. [[MundaneMadeAwesome While Pops sings Footloose.]]
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Seen when naked Pops is falling down the cliff in "Brain Eraser".
* BareYourMidriff: Margaret in "Caffinated Concert Tickets", "Mordecai and the Rigbys" and "Slam Dunk"
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: In "The Power", the cast is shown to have no problem with breathing while they're on the moon.
* BerserkButton:
** The zombie slayer.
** Don't even DARE cheat in a game of arm wrestling with Skips.
** Benson has a truckload of these.
*** Lampshaded in "Think Positive."
** ''Never'' talk crap about Muscle Man's mom.
** And don't ''ever'' spit food on Muscle Man's face.
* BigDamnHeroes: Benson at the end of "This Is My Jam".
** Also gets one in "Benson Be Gone".
** And again in "Stick Hockey".
* BilingualBonus: In the opening of "Fortune Cookie", when everyone is at the Chinese restaurant, we get a couple of shots of the Dim Sum receipt. It has four rows, labeled with the Pinyin characters for "small", "medium", "large", and "king".
* BigNo: The Death Kwon Do teacher lets out [[RuleOfThree three]] of them in the course of one episode.
** The Master Prank Caller gets two.
** GBF gets one.
** Susan gets one after [[spoiler: going OneWingedAngel and]] Benson gets everyone to stop working.
** The Night Owl gets one after [[spoiler:the guys make it back to the time machine and escape him. The present Night Owl gets one when they come out of the portal crashing down on his billboard and car, ruining his plan.]]
** Muscle Man gets one when [[spoiler: he realizes his dad was never a truck driver]].
* BigShutUp: Rigby, very often. A variation of this that he also uses very often is, "STOP TALKING!!!"
* BirthdayEpisode: The episode "Free Cake" revolves around Mordecai and Rigby setting up a birthday party for Skips, but only so they could have free chocolate cake. [[spoiler: In trying to get Skips to the party, they interrupt a ritual that gives him eternal life, and have to sacrifice the cake to save him]].
* BishieSparkle: Starla sees Mordecai with these when she falls for him.
* BlackComedyRape: One of the unicorns eats [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Benson's gumballs]].
* BlandNameProduct: Dudetime appears to be a parody of Axe body spray.
* BleachedUnderpants: The shorts the character designs originate in are definitely not for children.
* BlondesAreEvil: Susan
** And the "Blonde Club"
* BodyHorror: What happens when [[spoiler:you work under Susan for too long.]]
** A good example of this trope is when Rigby [[spoiler:physically turns into a house. The slow transformation doesn't look comfortable either.]]
* {{Bowdlerization}}: The international airings of this show are either edited to pieces or have [[MissingEpisode missing episodes]]. The biggest offenders are the versions shown in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Southeast Asia (particularly the version shown in the Philippines), and Latin America.
* BowlingForRatings: "Skips Strikes"
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The premise of "Exit 9B".
* BrainBleach: Mordecai is in need of some in "Brain Eraser," after [[spoiler:seeing Pops in the nude.]]
* BreathWeapon: Benson unleashes a torrent of pure, pent up rage at Mordecai and Rigby during "Think Positive" in the form of a mouth laser.
* BrickJoke:
** From the pilot: "Rock-paper-scissors is an ''evil game''!"
** Mordecai seems to really like chick flicks.
* BrokeEpisode: Both "Free Cake" and "Caffeinated Concert Tickets" qualify.
** To a lesser extent "The Power", which involves asking for raises to... hire someone else to fix a hole in a wall.
* BrutalHonesty: In "Pie Contest", Mordecai and Rigby are pie judges but they don't want tell everybody how bad their pies are to avoid being hated. But they have to do this when [[spoiler: a talking pie starts eating everybody and the only way to stop the pie and save everyone is to tell them the truth]].
* CaffeineBulletTime: Eating Double-Glazed fritters sends Pops into such a huge Sugar rush, that Mordecai, Rigby, and Skips consume one each as well in hopes of making all 4 of them suffer from a sugar crash. It doesn't work, all it does it make them move so fast that the [[TimeStandsStill rest of the world started slowing down.]] Eating even ''MORE'' sugar only made things worse, starting with colors and physics starting to break down.
* CallBack: In "Grave Sights", Benson asks Skips to set up the chairs, making an obvious callback to "Just Set Up the Chairs".
** In "Benson Be Gone", Maellard complains to Benson about snacks disappearing from the snack bar, holes in the walls, and five hundred dollars worth of prank phone calls, which are all references to the episodes "Rigby's Body", "The Power", and "Prank Callers" respectively.
** In "Camping Can Be Cool" Mordecai and Rigby bring the Super Extra Premium Hot Dogs from "Meat Your Maker" to eat on the camping trip.
** "Stick Hockey" seems to be a whole episode callback to a scene in "Benson Be Gone", in which Benson starts warming up to the Mordecai and Rigby over the Stick Hockey game.
** [[spoiler: The Unicorns are back]] in "House Rules", prank calls are also referenced.
*** Mordecai also threatens to ruin No Rules Man's only good eye with a laser pointer. Everybody knows they aren't regulation.
** Subtly, when payday is first shown in "High Score", Mordecai complains about how they're essentially receiving doggy bags full of change, and ask to at least get an envelope. Later, in "Temp Check" they receive their pay in an envelope.
** In "The Power", one of the things Rigby sends to the moon during the CutawayGag is "a bunch of baby ducks". There's a later episode with that exact name.
** The Ferguson Convention Center from "Video Game Wizard" is named after Garret Bobby Ferguson, from the episode "High Score". A bust of him is even seen outside the building.
** In "The Best Burger in the World", the burger truck [[spoiler:crashes into the Crash Pit from "Terror Tales of the Park".]]
** During "Diary" as Rigby and Mordecai prepare to use a microwave to melt the glue off Margaret's diary, Mordecai has a flashback of the episode "It's Time" and quickly decides against it.
** In "Death Bear", Eileen suggests watching "Cease and Decease" before Mordecai talks about Rigby's fear of horror movies, such as "Breakfast Slaughter". Rigby is also scared of films like '''"Ello Gov'nor"'''.
* CameraSpoofing:
** Tried by Mordecai in "Peeps" with a crude drawing on lined paper.
** They do a much better job with a tape of the 1982 World Dishwashing Championship.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: The entire plot of ''Regular Show'' is made up of this. The show starts out with something normal. Set up these chairs, go buy me a grilled cheese sandwich, learn to play guitar by the end of the episode, etc. However, just due to the world they live in, this somehow turns into a video game almost destroying the world, having to stop a black hole, and your future selves destroying your concert, just to name the outcomes of these examples. And of course, by the end of the episode (excluding "Prank Callers") everything is back to normal.
* CaptainObvious:
-->'''Rigby''': Looks like you've learned the ways of Death Kwon Do.
-->'''Mordecai''': Looks like you know how to say things that people are already aware of.
* CastingGag:
** Aside from Skips, Mark Hamill also voiced the hungover clown that was in the hotel room with a horse - which might be a reference to SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, one of Hamill's most famous roles.
** They also got Hamill to voice a Commissioner Gordon expy in "Temp Check".
** One episode features TimCurry as a guest voice. The character he plays? A literal [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow frankfurter]].
* CatchPhrase:
** Mordecai and Rigby: The double grunt, and a triumphant, simultaneous "OOOHHHHHHH!!!" or "WHOOOOOOOHHHH"\\
Their in-unison "YEEEAYUHHH!" seems to have become Creator/CartoonNetwork's new catch phrase.
** Skips: "[[SeenItAll I've seen this before.]]"
** Pops: "Good show!" and conversely "Bad show!"
** Benson: "YOU'RE FIRED!", and to a lesser extent, "UNBELIEVABLE!" and "YOU IDIOTS!"
** Muscle Man: "MY MOM!"
** Rigby's "STOP TALKING!!!" and "Dude, we gotta...!"
** BorrowedCatchphrase: After being fired in "Benson Be Gone", Benson shouts a particularly long "OOOHHHHHH!!!".
* ChainsawGood: Coffee's interpreter wields a chainsaw.
-->'''Mordecai''': [[LampshadeHanging A chainsaw!?]] Are you serious!?
** The Probo-bears in "But I Have a Receipt".
* CharacterDevelopment: "Benson Be Gone" has Benson come to understand Mordecai and Rigby more. And it sticks, afterwards, he's shown to be noticeably more tolerant of them and doesn't fly into a rage over them as often, even going as far as to helping them in "This is My Jam". In "Jinx" he actually accepts an apology from them, where before he'd not have given them the time of day.\\
Especially since earlier, Rigby sent him in a moment of UnstoppableRage, which Benson ''didn't'' take out on Rigby himself. Newer episodes also have him leading the group in "down time" activities such as game night or paying for drinks for everyone at a bar, showing he's lightened up more.f*
** Rigby has grown much closer to Eileen; in "Yes, Dude, Yes" he eagerly suggests going to the movies with her, while in "Do Me a Solid" he only accepted a date as a solid, and did everything possible to sabotage it. Later, it goes even further in "Diary", where he admits that she looks hot without her glasses on.
** Mordecai and Margaret's relationship has also developed along the series. In the first season, she's seen hooking up with a different person in every of her appearances, while in Season 3's "Butt Dial", she sets his song about her as a ringtone. Later, in "Death Bear", they almost kiss but Rigby's prank spoils it.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** Margaret was a FlatCharacter compared to the other recurring cast, that is until "Do Me a Solid" where she's revealed to be a down-to-earth character (the unusual circumstances don't faze her nearly as much as one would expect).
** Benson, Skips, and even Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost have had a good bit of character growth over the series as well, the group becoming kinder and more friendly with Rigby and Mordecai, making some of their early scenes a bit strange to how they are now. This is especially clear with Benson, who doesn't go into a rage as often. Recent episodes even have him doing things like organizing game nights for everyone and taking everyone out to a bar with the drinks on him, showing he's lightened up considerably.
* ChekhovsGun: Hamboning will save your life.
** ButtonMashing really works in video games, but only for shooting, not for leg control... normally.
** [[spoiler: The grilled cheese.]]
** "Laser pointers?! That's not regulation!"
** The celebratory hug, [[spoiler: or lack thereof]].
** Two Words: "[[spoiler:PLAYCO ARMBOY]]."
** Muscle Man's [[spoiler:sporting equipment]] in "Grave Sights".
* ChekhovsSkill: Rigby and Mordecai's extreme carting comes into play in "Busted Cart" when [[spoiler: they need to drive along the most dangerous highway in the country.]]
* ChessWithDeath: Arm Wrestling with Death, in Skips' case. [[spoiler: He challenged Death to restore Rigby back to life, whom Skips had killed in the first place. If he lost, Death would've claimed his immortal soul.]]
** [[spoiler:A blinking contest with Peeps, a floating eyeball monster to get him to leave in "Peeps". If they'd lost, he'd have taken all their eyes.]]
** Moredecai and Rigby had to babysit Death's son [[spoiler:in order to save Muscle Man from having his soul reaped. The specific condition was to have him sleeping by 8 PM when Death and his wife got home from their anniversary date.]]
* TheChewToy: Rigby, and his four deaths.
* ChunkyUpdraft: Benson's pent-up rage starts sucking the ground up in the surrounding area, leaving a crater in the ground by the time he unleashes.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Anyone can become a Death-Kwon-Do master; just wear a mullet and disturbingly short cut-offs.
* ColorWash: The more action-oriented sequences are animated in a redder color palette.
* CompellingVoice: The Power seemed to grant its users this, but it was actually [[RealityWarper much more than that]].
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Muscle Man's signature "MY MOM" joke.
* ContinuityNod: A very small one. In "Just Set Up the Chairs", Benson screams that he will never trust Mordecai and Rigby to do something as simple as setting up the chairs ever again. In "Grave Sights", he has Skips set up the chairs instead.
** In "Bet to Be Blonde," a pair of "Mordecai and the Rigbys" t-shirts can be seen in Mordecai and Rigby's closet, calling back to their fake band in the episode of that name.
** In "Yes, Dude, Yes" we see Mordecai finish telling CJ about the events of "High Score".
** In "Fancy Restaurant", Rigby brings up the last time Starla dumped him in "Muscle Woman" and how his depression forced his work onto the two of them.
** In "Diary", [[ItMakesSenseInContext Ribgy is about to put Margaret's diary in the microwave]], but Mordecai won't let him because he remembers the events of "It's Time", where microwaving a bunch of clocks sent them to another dimension and killed Rigby.
** In "Bad Kiss", they try to use time travel again, and near they end, they travel through past episodes.
** In "The Best VHS in the World", Mordecai and Rigby are forced to clean up their room to find a VHS. Items shown in their room include The Power (still broken in two) and the grilled cheese Rigby dropped on the floor.
*** (after Rigby picks up grilled cheese) "Dude, I remember this!"
* ContinuityPorn: "Exit 9B" has [[spoiler: every deceased villain and nearly every ally Mordecai and Rigby have ever encountered together for one big brawl out,]] and the BigBad of the episode is [[spoiler: the son of GBF.]] There's also the flashbacks the rest of the park workers have when they [[spoiler: regain their memories,]] as well as [[spoiler: the things Mordecai and Rigby do to snap Benson out of it.]]
* ConvenientWeaknessPlacement: The Warden of the Internet is a giant video screen. The power button is right next to the [[spoiler:imprisonment beam.]] Apparently, [[FailedASpotCheck nobody ever noticed that before Rigby]].
* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: In "Eggcellent", [[spoiler: Mordecai briefly talked to Rigby, who was in a coma.]]
* CoolCar: The golf cart.
* CoolOldGuy: Skips (and maybe Pops)
* CoolUncle: Uncle Steve from the story "Payback" in "Terror Tale of the Park II". Heck, [[spoiler:the guy rose from the dead, just to pay Mordecai his five bucks back.]]
* CoolShades: A relatively common occurrence in the series, but ''especially'' notable in "Cool Bikes".
* CurseCutShort: "All you're good at is being a big piece of s-"
** "You f-"
** "UGGH! F-"
** "F-f-f-f-f-first of all..."
** "Ow! Moth-"
** "Since when does being right make you a big b-"
** "We're gonna beat the living sh-"
* CutawayGag: "A bunch of baby ducks, send 'em to the moon..."
* {{Cyberpunk}}: In "Skips vs Technology", Techmo has some shades of this.
** [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Particularly of]] ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''.
* {{Cyberspace}}: Mordecai, Rigby and Pops end up there in "Go Viral".
** As does Techmo in "Skips vs Technology".
* ADateWithRosiePalms: In "Muscle Woman", Mordecai tells that a woman is single when she buys only ''one'' banana, leaving the viewer to imply the things she does with that banana.
** In "Over the Top", Death's left arm is way bigger than his right arm. You later see him reaching into his pants... with his left arm.
* DeadlyPrank: A near-deadly prank in "Prankless", in which Pops gets crushed by a bed that Muscle Man had taped to the ceiling. He gets taken to the hospital, where he just barely survives.
* DeathGlare: Mordecai gives one to Skips in "Over the Top" along with a WhatTheHellHero.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler: With the defeat of the Prank Master the episode ends with Mordecai, Rigby and the Master Prank Caller making more prank calls.]]
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** "It's supposed to say Rigby but they misspelled my name wrong."
** There's also the 'Death Punch of Death' in "Death Punchies".
** Rigby rents a movie from "Movie Shack Hut".
** From "This is My Jam", the song Rigby gets stuck in his head is called "Summertime Lovin', Lovin' in the Summer (Time)".
** "You jerks are jerks! You don't know anything about comedy!"- Muscle Man bombing at open mic night.
** In "But I Have A Receipt", Mordecai and Rigby attempt to get a refund from "Comics Plus And More Etc."
** The elf's name in "The Best VHS in the World" is [=ButtonWillow McButtonWillow=].
* DependingOnTheWriter: Either Benson or Mordecai and Rigby's statuses as the DesignatedHero/[[DesignatedVillain Villain]]. In some episodes, Benson over-reacts, while sometimes, it's justified. Sometimes, Mordecai and Rigby screw around, but would try to fix what they broke.
** Mordecai's competence. In some episodes, he gets dragged into slacking off by Rigby, but would try to suggest getting back to work. Other times, he willingly joins in on the slacking.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Mordecai and Rigby have defeated enough {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that it should be in their job description by now. Though it's normally in a MundaneMadeAwesome fashion.
** And they themselves summon about 90% of them.
* DisneyVillainDeath:
** [[spoiler:Susan in "Benson Be Gone" falls into a pit to Hell after Utopia takes out her heels in a HeroicSacrifice.]]
** [[spoiler:The {{Jerkass}} Truckers in "Trucker Hall Of Fame" are sent falling off a cliff by [[PapaWolf the ghost of Muscle Man's father when they tried to run Muscle Man, Mordecai, and Rigby down with their big rig.]] Their big rig promptly ''explodes'' on impact.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** Muscle Man [[spoiler: hosts a fake party, gets Mordecai and Rigby turned into ghosts, and fakes a heart attack]] after Rigby accidentally spilled soda on him. ''After almost choking to death.''
** "Over the Top". Skips isn't too pleased about Rigby beating him in arm wrestling, especially after finding out [[spoiler: he used an arm brace]]. So he forces him into a rematch, [[spoiler: yanks out the brace, then instead of leaving it there, ''smashes him through the table'', killing him. Skips realizes this though, and puts his own soul on the line to bring him back to life]].
** The Warden of the Internet [[FateWorseThanDeath imprisoning people in their videos forever]] for ''making viral videos''.
** The Wizard from the Halloween Special [[spoiler:turns Rigby into a house and brutally murders the entire cast]] just because [[KarmicTransformation Rigby egged his house.]]
*** Not to mention [[spoiler: [[MoodWhiplash egging the house Rigby]] rather harmlessly, giving Rigby enough time to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade the topic]]... JUST before the wizard drops a house-sized EGG and drenching him in egg yolk as he screams in horror.]] "The End."
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Benson takes a gas nozzle in and out and in and out of the car, shaking it before gas leaks out of it.
* DontExplainTheJoke: '''Muscle Man:''' "If you don't pick Starla's pie, the next pie you eat will be through a straw, because you'll be in the hospital on life support"
* DoNotCallMePaul: "GBF" is "Garrett Bobby Ferguson," not "Giant Bearded Face."
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: "Death Punchies" is all over the "of death" variant.
* DoppelgangerSpin: Used by Chong in "Stick Hockey" as one of several methods to gain the upper hand in the final round of stick hockey.
* DramaticGunCock: The animatronic bear reaches for his gun to kill Rigby before the FBI shows up in "Fuzzy Dice". The snipers cock their gun and the bear follows suit. Cue in a fatal shootout.
* DramaticIrony: In "Cool Bikes" [[spoiler:Benson admits that Mordecai and Rigby are the coolest guys he knows. In any other context this would be sweet, but the viewer knows that Benson just unknowingly secured them a guilty verdict.]]
* DreamWorksFace: Mordecai [[http://www.formspring.me/calwwong/q/266487508932506651 strikes one]] in "Cruisin'".
* DrivenToSuicide: Cart in "Out of Commission", to the point where he actually wants to be '''driven''' off a cliff to drown in a lake. While having fireworks exploding on him. After his death, [[spoiler: Mordecai and Rigby have to bring him back due to Benson's math mistake.]]
* DrunkenMontage: The beginning of "Mordecai and the Rigbys" has Mordecai and Rigby drunk trying to find a good name for their fake band.
* DrunkOnMilk: Every time there's a bunch of soda cans around, they mean beer.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Pops, while rather naive and obstructive during "Think Positive", does bring up the obvious question of why Benson has to constantly yell at Mordecai and Rigby. Sure, they're slackers, but it often doesn't make them much better employees.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Leon performing a HeroicSacrifice in "Benson Be Gone" to take out Susan.]]
** [[spoiler: Wedgie Ninja's sacrifice in "Go Viral" to save Mordecai, Rigby, and Pops from the Warden of the Internet, destroying her in the process.]]
* EarWorm: In-Universe example: in "This Is My Jam" Rigby gets "Summertime Loving, Loving in the Summer (Time)" stuck in his head, to the point that the song sings itself whenever he opens his mouth. Not singing it, but playing on its own. Eventually the song manifests itself into a physical form and starts driving everyone nuts. The gang decides to come up with an even catchier song to rid of it... "Aw snap! Aw snap! Come to our macaroni party then we'll take a nap!"
** Which then gets stuck in Rigby's head just like the last song, causing everyone to groan.
* EldritchAbomination: These are so commonplace in the series, it puts Creator/HPLovecraft to shame.
** When you tie in rock paper scissors 100 times, it summons a black hole that apparently leads to a monster's dimension. The glimpse of the monster is…disconcerting.
** In the name of all that is holy, do not play with the wires of the ''Destroyer of Worlds'' arcade game.
** Father Time from "It's Time" is one. He is a being made entirely of clocks who lives at the end of time, and was actually a rather nice guy [[spoiler: and was willing to let Mordecai off with a warning and press the ResetButton for him.]]
** The Snow Monster. He's made of snow, breathes fire from a jawless mouth, and creates one of the scariest moments of the show.
** Actually, the "Book of Park Records" could qualify too, as it gave a Necronomicon vibe when they touched it, and can alter reality (at least within the park).
** Peeps from the self-titled episode. He's a giant floating eyeball that can summon a huge number of smaller eyeballs from his body and threatened to watch everyone till they died. When they made a deal to get rid of him, he wanted all their eyes if he won.
** [[spoiler: SUSAN. The worst part is how normal she seems before turning her head 180 degrees and going OneWingedAngel.]]
** The mirror monster in "Jinx" could qualify too.
* EldritchLocation: The whole world turns into one if you eat too much sugar. The laws of physics, time, sound, light, and colors start to break down, leaving almost nothing as it was.
* EscalatingWar: "Prankless".
* EveryCarIsAPinto: The golf cart in "Grave Sights"; usually averted, however.
* EverythingMakesAMushroom: The slam dunk Mordecai makes from outer space causes a mushroom cloud explosion upon impact.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: The internet video bear who lands on people, plays its instrument and farts on his victims after.
** Also the above mentioned Probo-Bears.
** The Death Bear. [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Name to run away from really fast]], indeed!
* {{Expy}}:
** Dig Champs is clearly a parody to ''VideoGame/DigDug''.
** In "Grave Sights", Zombocalypse 3D stars Ash from ''Franchise/EvilDead'' and ''Army of Darkness''.
** Garrett Bobby Ferguson from "High Score" is pretty much ''VideoGame/{{Pac-Man}}'' champion Billy Mitchell... as a giant head.
** In "Rage Against the TV", The Hammer is pastiche of games like ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon''. Also the console Mordecai and Rigby play on looks like a SegaMasterSystem with [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] style controllers.
* EyeScream:
** The eye creature in "Peeps" grows several extra eyeballs, [[spoiler: which Rigby then scorches with a laser pointer.]]
** [[spoiler: The last of which BURSTS INTO FLAME.]]
** Also, the bet Peeps makes where if he wins, he get everyone's eyes. At which point, he produces an ice pick and ice cream scoop.
** In a subtler example from the same episode, [[spoiler: Mordecai loses the ability to blink and his eyes become so irritated that the eyedrops he uses evaporate before even touching them.]]
* FaceDoodling: Rigby does this to Pops when he passes out in "Dizzy".
** It's also the main thing the CreepyDoll in the Halloween special does.
* FacelessMasses: Averted, in almost every crowd shot the background characters are drawn about as detailed as full on screen ones, although they are often duplicated, mirrored and huge crowds are usually not animated.
* FailOSuckyname: In "Trash Boat", Rigby decides to change his name to two random words after seeing a news report on a rock star who did the same thing. The name he comes up with, Trash Boat, is... less than inspiring, and he spends the rest of the episode trying to get it changed back.
* FakeBrit: Future Mordecai and Future Rigby, in "Mordecai and the Rigbys". [[spoiler: They [[OohMeAccentsSlipping lose the accents]] right before the two of them are destroyed by Present Mordecai.]]
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Averted hard in the episode "Fuzzy Dice". The guns don't sound like lasers' either.
* FawltyTowersPlot: Most episodes start off with a problem that's bound to escalate into supernatural chaos.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: Muscle Man rams a table into the wall and rolls on the floor screaming when Rigby accidentally splashes soda in his face.
** [[spoiler:Skips]] quits the park bowling team and [[spoiler:leaves his job altogether because he didn't want his friends to know that his name used to be "Walks" until he changed it due to the fact that he was tired of being asked "Why are you called Walks when you always skip?"]]
** You can be sentenced to death for being too cool.
** In "Butt Dial", exceeding your log-in attempts can get you erased from existance. It turns into AnAesop about phone hacking (which actually ''is'' heinous) though.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero[=/=]TheLancer: Mordecai and Rigby.
** TheCaptain: Benson
** TheBigGuy[=/=]TheSmartGuy: Skips
** TheChick: Pops
** ThoseTwoGuys: Muscle Man and High Five Ghost.
** SixthRanger: Thomas
* FiveStagesOfGrief: Muscle Man in "Trucker Hall of Fame", after his father was killed. First, his brother John walks into his trailer teary-eyed, and Muscle Man doesn't believe anything. At the funeral, he breaks out in tears. While in the forest, Muscle Man takes his picture of his dad wearing a trucker hat and smashes it. Finally, after Muscle Dad's ghost appeared, Muscle Man spread his dad's ashes in the Trucker Hall of Fame.
* {{Flanderization}}: Inverted. The show actually downplayed several characters'(e.g. Muscle Man, Benson, Skips) most defining traits.
* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: "More Smarter." Be sure to look at Rigby's crossword.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Snowballs the Ice Monster.
* FlyingCar: Pops' car, Carmenita.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Inverted in "Diary", after Mordecai says he and Margaret are friends, Rigby responds with "Yeah, your friend ''without'' benefits!"
* FreudianExcuse: "Think Positive" implies that Benson is so quick to raise his voice because his father told him, "You'll never get anything you want in this world if you don't yell for it."
* FrothyMugsOfWater: Basically invoked in "Over the Top"; when the gang head out for "drinks", Mordecai and Rigby anticipate, respectively, ordering a Watertini and an Ice on the Rocks.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In "First Day", the other want ads in the newspaper are largely humorous. "...and dancing ONLY. Must be over age 75, and no dyed hair or wigs allowed."
* FunWithAcronyms: GBF is [[spoiler:Garret Bobby Ferguson, not Giant Bearded Face.]]\\
Though [[spoiler:[[DontExplainTheJoke he's a giant bearded face as well]].]]
* FurryConfusion: Subverted in "A Bunch of Baby Ducks." The titular ducks seem to be non-anthropomorphic at first, but quickly pick up humanlike behaviors (like karate chopping) from Rigby, and their mother speaks English.
** Played straight in "Skunked," with Mordecai and Rigby picking up roadkill in the park and even PLAYING A BINGO GAME USING THE DEAD ANIMALS, though technically it was created by Benson to motivate them to work; they can't stop working until they get Bingo.
** In "Prankless," Mordecai got [[TarAndFeathers Tarred and Feathered]] despite already being a bird.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Muscle Man ''and'' Starla in "Muscle Woman". [[{{Squick}} It was a pretty disturbing episode.]]
* GargleBlaster: Non-alcoholic varieties in this series.
** Rigby's homemade Rig-Juice.
** "The Mississippi Queen". [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce A concoction so absurdly spicy]] that Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson spent the rest of the party they were attending experiencing a DisneyAcidSequence played to the tune of "Mississippi Queen" by 70's rockband ''Mountain''. It even came with a little umbrella.
* {{Gasshole}}: Gloken Bear from "Go Viral".
** And the unicorns from "The Unicorns Have Got to Go," who trap Rigby in a circle of their hindquarters and repeatedly fart directly in his face.
* GatlingGood: The FBI breaks out a minigun [[spoiler: to take down the Capicola Gang]] in "Fuzzy Dice". They use an RPG-7 as well.
* GemEncrusted: The concert tickets. And the seats the tickets are for.
* GenreSavvy: In "Pie Contest", Mordecai and Rigby know that the talking pie in the trash can will only cause trouble.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Although as demonstrated in "Replaced", no one would be stupid enough to actually replace Mordecai and Rigby.
* GivingSomeOneThePointerFinger: "Give us a raise, loser!"
* GoingCommando: The secret that Mordecai reveals in "Diary" is that "[he] likes going commando. A lot."
* GondorCallsForAid: [[spoiler:When GBF Jr resurrects his dad and all of the other people who Mordecai and Rigby killed, several of their friends in the past come in to save them and the park, including Death!]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: In "Cool Bikes", [[spoiler:Mordecai and Rigby spend most of the episode trying to convince Benson that they're cool. When he finally does admit that they're the coolest guys he knows, it's most definitely a bad thing, since [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext they're on trial for being so cool that it threatens to destroy the universe, and Benson's admission is literally a death sentence for them]].]]
* GoodGunsBadGuns: In "Fuzzy Dice", the FBI has loads of men carrying a various plethora of big guns, while the gangsters have lame handguns.
* AGoodNameForARockBand: Mordecai suggests "Mustache Cash Stash" for their band and read off a whole list of them. They eventually just go with their names.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Pops uses 'show' instead of god, [[FridgeLogic which makes his catchphrase 'Good Show!' into something completely different.]]
* GRatedDrug: The donuts in "Sugar Rush", also the Mississippi Queen drink.
* GrandTheftMe: An overachieving bodybuilder('s consciousness) [[spoiler: steals Rigby's body]] in "Rigby's Body".
* TheGrimReaper: In "Over The Top", "Skips Strikes" and "Dead at Eight".
* GroinAttack:
** Mordecai has a flashback of doing this to Rigby in "Death Punchies."
** Rigby's favorite internet video is of an ostrich kicking an old man in the balls.
** Mordecai does this to GBF. But since said champ is basically a head with arms and legs, the champ reacts with "my chin!" (though "chin" is "penis" in Japanese...
** Subverted and played straight in "Rage Against the TV". In Mordecai and Rigby's video game, the duo are punching one of the games' bosses in the junk. As in the miscellaneous things he is carrying. [[spoiler: Later, Skips gives one to The Hammer with a chair.]]
** Skips perform one on a zombie. [[spoiler: It doesn't work]].
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Rigby started walking around naked one day. His brother thought that was so cool, he hasn't worn clothes since.
** Skips is a straighter example, wearing jeans but no shirt.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The stag-man in "Camping Can Be Cool".
* HalloweenEpisode: Two thus far, one in season three and another in season 4. Both are 22 minutes long, as opposed to the series' usual 11 minutes, and feature three creepy stories.
* HangoverSensitivity: The special entertainment in "Just Set Up the Chairs".
* HauntedTechnology
* HeadTurnedBackwards: When things get real in a rap battle, a rapper tells Mordecai to put his face in reverse, resulting in his head facing the other way.
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: Muscle Man eats spoonfuls of protein supplement in the fashion in "Muscle Woman".
* HehHehYouSaidX: This exchange in "Fuzzy Dice":
--> '''Benson:''' Alright, now when the balls drop...
--> '''Mordecai & Rigby:''' (snickers)
--> '''Benson:''' Ugh! When the game starts, you guys have to...
** This also happens in "Skips Strikes".
---> '''Death:''' You! Get your balls! (chuckles)
* HeroicSacrifice: In "Benson Be Gone", [[spoiler: Leon barrel-rolls Mr. Maelard's limousine and knocks off Susan's heels, sending Susan back to hell and the limo careening into a wall where it explodes, killing Leon.]]
** In "Go Viral", [[spoiler: Wedgie Ninja stays behind to stop the Warden of the Internet, allowing the other viral videos to go free. He keeps it up until she explodes, killing himself in the process.]]
** In "Appreciation Day", [[spoiler: Rigby manages to get the cover of the Book of Park Records back to Mordecai, but he gets killed for his trouble.]]
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Muscle Man.
* HideousHangoverCure: After getting drunk and drugged from the Mississippi Queen in "Weekend at Benson's", Mordecai, Rigby and Benson wake up hungover and stoned, and Benson gets cured when he founds out his neighbor gave him her cell phone number. As for Mordecai and Rigby, they get cured when Benson rehires them.
* {{Hipster}}: In "Cool Bikes" Mordecai and Rigby dress in this style to be cool. The stack of Brain Explosion records they swear upon in court is even a CallBack to Mordecai's own infamous hipster moment in "This Is My Jam".
** The Movie Shack Hut employee has traces of this, preferring VHS to DVD.
* {{Hobos}}: Leon
* {{Homage}}:
** ''Zombocalypse'' has [[ArmyOfDarkness Bruce]] [[BruceCampbell Campbell]] starring in it.
** Also, in "Over the Top", Death is a dead ringer for Lemmy from the band "Motorhead", right down to the accent and the two large moles on his left cheek.
* HorribleCampingTrip: "Camping Can Be Cool."
* HowWeGotHere: "Over the Top" begins with the [[StartsWithTheirFuneral death of Rigby]].
* HumanMomNonHumanDad: It's implied that the deer-man had a human mother and therefore a... deer dad.
* HypocriticalHumor:
-->'''Benson''': Rule #47: NO YELLING!
** A rather... odd case in this one: In the episode "Karaoke Video", Benson tells Mordecai this:
--->'''Benson''': I want to... you know, boost morale around here.
** 14 episodes later, in "Think Positive", we get this:
--->'''Pops''': Stop yelling! It's bad for morale around here.
--->'''Benson''': WHO GIVES ABOUT MORALE???
* ICallHerVera: Rigby lets Mordecai name a keyboard he stole. He calls it 'The Power'.
-->'''Mordecai''': I always wanted to date a girl named The Power.
** Pops named his car "Carmenita".
* IThoughtThatWas: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the tagline, shown above.
* IllKillYou!: Rigby on occasion, with varying degrees of seriousness.
** Mordecai says this in "It's Time" [[spoiler: right before accidentally killing Rigby]].
** In "Death Punchies", Rigby actually tells this to Mordecai several times, and means it. He tries to kill his best friend with the Death Punch, and they end up trapped in a pit fifty feet underground with lava pouring out the walls.
* ImagineTheAudienceNaked: Mordecai suggests this to Pops so he won't be so nervous over his speech. It doesn't work.
* ImprobablyCoolCar: Pops' "Carmenita" is already a cool old car, but it has special gears [[spoiler:that allow it to fly and have bat wings, among other things.]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: Rigby makes loads of these.
* InformedAbility: In "Slam Dunk", Mordecai apparently has enough knowledge in HTML coding for Margaret to ask him to help make her website.
* InitiationCeremony: There's one to become an official member of the Blonds. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it's the [[AcidPool horrific kind.]] ]]
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: Wedgie Ninja.
* InstantSedation: Averted in "Death Bear". It takes a minute or two for any of the tranquilizers to actually affect Death Bear, and Rigby is never actually shown passing out.
* InsufferableGenius: Chad and Jeremy in "Replaced".
* InsultBackfire: Pretty much how Pops, Mordecai, and Rigby [[spoiler:defeat the rappers who have been tormenting Pops the whole time, by turning their insults around into positive messages.]]
* InterspeciesRomance:
** Margaret with her boyfriends. Also Mordecai's [[AllLoveIsUnrequited crush on her]], if you count the fact that he's a blue jay and she's a red robin/cardinal/whatever the hell she is.
** In the episode "It's Time", Rigby/Margaret is CANON.\\
The [[WordOfGod writer]] implied that Rigby was going out with Margaret pretty much just to get under Mordecai's skin, but the point still stands.
* IronicEcho:
** "I can fix this" from the hot dogs episode. First, it's Rigby trying to fix everything that he's messed up but only messing it up worse. Then it's Rigby trying to [[spoiler:keep Mordecai from dying]]. Then when [[KarmaHoudini Rigby]] brings up who bought the premium hot dogs...
** There's also "I wouldn't want to ruin the surprise" from Future Mordecai in the episode "Mordecai and the Rigbys" when the regular Mordecai asks if he ends up with Margaret in the future. Mordecai throws it back at him [[spoiler: in his ShutUpHannibal speech when he breaks up the band.]]
** "Don't blink!" in "Peeps". First said by Peeps to Mordecai when [[spoiler:Peeps starts growing extra eyes to tease Mordecai into blinking]], and then by Mordecai to Peeps when [[spoiler:it finally looks like Peeps is going to give in and blink]].
** "The finder's fee" when Rigby hires the temp.
** "STEP '''OFF!'''"
** [[BriarPatching Inverted psychology]] in "See You There".
* IsItAlwaysLikeThis: Asked by Thomas at the end of "Exit 9B." The answer, of course, [[WeirdnessMagnet is yes.]]
* IsThisAJoke: Lollipops as currency. Also, "he can't make a major speech facing away from the audience!" From the same episode, Mordecai draws Pops' face on the back of his head because Rigby vandalized his face with Sharpie drawings.
* {{Jerkass}}: Benson, by far and Muscle Man. Rigby and Mordecai can act like this a lot to each other, if they get on each other's nerves too much.
** The Unicorns.
** In "The Best Burger in the World", [[spoiler: Benson makes Mordecai and Rigby work on all their extra jobs that they slacked off on, despite there being a time limit to get said burgers. So he gives them the most work, and honestly expects them to not try to get burgers. Finally at the end of the episode, he eats both which they bought as punishment.]] Uh Benson... you could have had them gotten the burgers before and then have them do the work. Instead of being a jerkass...
* JoinsToFitIn: Mordecai, tired of being teased by Rigby, joins a group of blondes, [[spoiler: who eventually [[BlondesAreEvil turn out to be completely evil.]] ]]
* KarmaHoudini:
** Mordecai and Rigby in "Caffeinated Concert Tickets". They not only broke a contract with the Coffee Bean man, but they also added insult to injury with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech!
** In their defense, the contract consisted solely of the word "Coffee" written over and over, and the interpreter refused to translate it until it was too late. Not to mention they came at Mordecai and Rigby with a chainsaw.
** Also, near the end of the episode, Mordecai and Rigby fell asleep anyway. Though they actually got into the concert, they fell asleep through the whole performance.
** Mordecai did get humiliated by Slasher in the concert by telling him not to "pump it in the wind".
* KarmicTransformation: Egg a wizard's house, be cursed to turn INTO a house. [[spoiler: Poor Rigby learned this the hard way in the Halloween special.]]
* KillEmAll: According to Benson, [[spoiler: the only way to get rid of unicorns.]]
** The Destroyer of Worlds too.
--->'''Skips:''' You fools! Destroyer of Worlds will kill us all!
** [[spoiler:The final story in the Halloween Special has this happen with the entire cast.]]
* KnightInSourArmour: The grouchy Benson has come to save the day more than a few times.
* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler:Garret Bobby Ferguson Junior,]] who makes the fourth season premiere play out much more seriously than other episodes.
* KnightTemplar: The Warden of the Internet. Ok, wanting the internet to be used responsibly, that's an alright motive. Confining anyone who makes a viral video to a FateWorseThanDeath? Yeah, that's insane...
* KonamiCode: Used to dodge bottles being thrown at Rigby's character in a ''VideoGame/RockBand'' style video game.
* LampshadeHanging: The episode "High Score" is practically made of this. [[note]] Margaret: "I can't believe we were so fascinated by a video game, but we ''were''!"[[/note]]
** At the beginning of "Butt Dial", Mordecai and Rigby mention how their 'game night' with Eileen and Margret was successful, without anything supernatural or park destroying happening.
* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: [[spoiler: Rigby made Pops follow him out the room so Mordecai and Margaret can have a moment alone near the end of "Butt Dial".]]
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Skips enforces this on Mordecai and Rigby at the end of "Diary".
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to "2 In The AM PM", which involves LSD-laced candy and contains foul language.
* LightningCanDoAnything: Downed power lines can animate ''snow'', apparently.
* LineOfSightName: In "Trash Boat", Rigby decides to change his name to two completely random words. He looks over at the overflowing trash can, then at the painting of a sailboat on the wall, and hence the title of the episode.
* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: And lollipops and gumball machines and giant coffee beans...
* LiteralMinded: Inverted by Pops.
-->'''Mordecai''': That taxi's yellow!
-->'''Pops''': My taxi is not a coward!
* LockedInAFreezer: Complete with [[spoiler:Mordecai almost dying.]]
* LogicBomb: In "House Rules": [[spoiler:"There's no rule against rules."]]
* LosingYourHead: Happened to [[spoiler: Dave, Benson's stick hockey apprentice]] and he even spoke briefly before passing.
** Also happened to [[spoiler:Mordecai in Rigby's story in "Terror Tales of the Park"]], he also talked briefly.
* MadnessMantra: All day, every day, all day, every day, all day, every day...
* MagicFeather: The magic guitar picks in "Mordecai and the Rigbys" are [[spoiler:a subversion, as their point was to trick Mordecai and Rigby into lip-syncing]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Typically played for laughs:
** In "Terror Tales of the Park," Muscle Man's reaction to [[spoiler:being skinned alive: flexing and boasting.]]
** In "Video Game Wizard," Skips casually breaks his hand.
** In "Death Bear," [[spoiler:an animal control agent gets his arms ripped off by the Death Bear, who unenthusiastically states that he wants to go home.]]
** In "Terror Tales of the Park II," when Muscle Man [[spoiler:got impaled by one of Jan's legs, he was unimpressed and said that if killing him was his job, he'd be fired.]]
* MaleFrontalNudity: Benson in "Brain Eraser."
* ManChild: Pops, save the fact that he's the opposite of LiteralMinded.
* MarshmallowHell: Rigby runs into Starla's boobs in "Muscle Woman".
* MatrixRainingCode: In "Don", the whole park is engulfed by this when Rigby messes up the audit that Don hadn't stopped. [[MundaneMadeAwesome Accounting never looked so cool]].
* MeaningfulFuneral: Muscle Man's funeral for his father.
* MeaningfulName: Skips. And Pops, who has what looks like a giant lollipop for a head.
* {{Meganekko}}: [[http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp160/Daxdiv/eileenappears.png Eileen]].
* MegatonPunch: The Death Punch [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment of Death]].
* MirrorMonster: [[spoiler: Ybgir]], from the episode "Jinx".
* MixAndMatchCritters: The monster on the moon had Rigby's body, Mordecai's tail and the wrestling doll's head.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Every other week at least, usually summoned or created inadvertently. Most are {{Eldritch Abomination}}s to boot.
* {{Montage}}: The show likes to use them often:
** There's a HardWorkMontage to the tune of Loverboy's "Working For The Weekend" while trying to save up enough money to go to a concert.
** In "Death Punchies", Rigby learns to Death Punch to [[TrainingMontage "You're the Best"]] by Joe Esposito.
** There's also Mordecai's, Rigby's, and Benson's slack off sequence, all done to the tune of an instrumental song based off of Boston's "More than a Feeling".
** Mordecai and Rigby end up starting a bar fight over possession of a karaoke tape with the owners of the bar while Pops sings "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins.
** When Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson attend a party, they drink a spicy concoction called the "Mississippi Queen", named after the song by the rockband "Mountain". They spend the rest of the party in a MushroomSamba while the song plays.
** In "Eggscellent", Mordecai trains to eat the Eggscellent challenge to "Holding Out for a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: "Destroyer of Worlds".
* MoralMyopia: "Under The Hood", Rigby is painting Park Avenue’s tv room:
--> '''Park Avenue:''' ''No, no no, don’t. [[WhatTheHellHero What’s the matter with you?]]''
--> '''Rigby:''' ''You painted all over our whole park.''
--> '''Park Avenue:''' ''Yes, but it's different, you know? It’s what I do! [[BecauseImGoodAtIt My stuff is good, you’re only making a mess!]]''
* MrExposition: Skips, when he gets involved in the current trouble of the episode, usually knows exactly what's going on and explains it further and how to solve it. [[spoiler: Being a few thousand years old may have something to do with this.]]
* MsFanservice: Margaret.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The show's formula is basically "Mordecai and Rigby take some perfectly normal situation way too far until something supernatural and ''absolutely ridiculous'' happens".
* MustHaveCaffeine: Exaggerated in "Caffeinated Concert Tickets".
* MushroomSamba: "Weekend at Benson's" has one as [[spoiler: the result of Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson drinking a concoction known as "Mississippi Queen", the song of the same name by Mountain plays during it.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Skips gets this after he [[spoiler:kills Rigby in arm wrestling, prompting him to bet his soul against Death to get Rigby back.]]
** Rigby gets this after he reverted back from being a monster in "Skunked" and saw he'd hurt someone. The delivery was done so well you really feel bad for him.
** Muscle Man of all people gets this in "Prankless", after his latest prank nearly killed Pops.
* MyGirlIsASlut: Played straight with Margaret, who is shown hooking up with a new person every day.
** Inverted in the second season: she's seen casually hanging out with Mordecai and Rigby.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: "Hey Giant Beardo Face!"
** "Mad Man Mordo? More like Bland Man Boredo!"
* MythologyGag: Young(er) Pops in "Prank Callers" has his voice from the original sketch.
