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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: While not related Mordecai and Rigby have this dynamic. Mordecai is the responsible one who tries to to work as he is told to and Rigby is the foolish one who slacks off any chance he gets.
* FiveTemperamentEnsemble:

* {{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.

* BleachedUnderpants: The shorts the character designs originate in are definitely not for children.

** Season 1's title cards featured background ambience. which isn't present in later seasons.

** 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...

** 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, and often ''goes out of his way'' to single them out; he even once threatened to fire Mordecai and Rigby for something Muscle Man did, indicating he wanted an excuse to get rid of them; 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 poor results from the slackers.
** 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 an angry boss. He's taking in everything Mr Maellard throws at him and takes it out on Mordecai and Rigby.

--> ''He chased butterflies''
--> ''He loved to laugh''
--> ''He saved the universe''
--> ''He was our friend.''

* MoodWhiplash: In "Merry Christmas Mordecai", we see Mordecai and Margaret reconciling their relationship and reminiscing the time they had together, culminating in a kiss. [[spoiler:Then we realize that CJ is in the same room.]]

** Also, in "Cool Bikes", Mordecai told Benson (after countless hours trying to impress him) "We don't care what you think."

** 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.]]

* CatchPhrase:

** 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".
* ChaosOfTheBells: In the episode "The Christmas Special", "Carol of the Bells" plays as Mordecai and Rigby battle Quillgin over a pit of lava.

** The two instances of Mordecai saying "pissed" (from "Free Cake" and "Meat Your Maker") have been dubbed over with "ticked" in recent airings.

* CurseCutShort: "All you're good at is being a big piece of s--"

** "Since when does being right make you a big b--"
** "We're gonna beat the living sh--"

* AnyoneCanDie: Characters in the show die nearly OnePerEpisode. Most of the time, it's innocent civilians or the MonsterOfTheWeek who end up dying, but the main characters often have a tendency to be killed, even if they inevitably get better. It's been calculated that, on-screen, 1,077 characters have died over the course of the series.

* AnyoneCanDie:
** [[spoiler: Rigby]] in "Over The Top". Luckily, he gets better.
** Again in "See You There." Again, he gets better.
** In the stories in the Halloween Special, this is in full effect. [[spoiler: Rigby's takes this to its logical conclusion.]]

** 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[[note]]Interestingly enough, this only applies to its broadcast on CN, as it was aired uncut on 9GO! and on the streaming service Stan, as well as the DVDs/Blurays.[[/note]], Southeast Asia (particularly the version shown in the Philippines), and Latin America.

** [[WesternAnimation/RegularShowTheMovie The Movie]] has a rather sketchy relationship with the shows timeline. There are obvious omisions like the movie ending with Mordecai and Rigby getting to keep [[FutureBadass Future Rigby's]] [[CoolSpaceship Time-traveling Space Gunship]] yet they never have it in the show. And there are more subtle {{PlotHoles}}; The movie featuring an EarlyBirdCameo of the Space Tree Station, the SPARK Initiative and the Galactic Park Rangers and even has the heroes (minus Rigby) outright join up with the Rangers at the climax the movie to fight Ross, yet they apparently have no recollection of this when they are actually recruited by the Rangers in Season 8. The most mention the movie gets are scant, overhand references like a {{Cameo}} from Ross in the Season 7 fianle and Mordecai and Rigby mentioning the 'timeline where they were space pilots' in the first episode of Season 8.

--->'''Pops''': Stop yelling! It's bad for morale around here.
--->'''Benson''': WHO GIVES ABOUT MORALE???

* 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.

** 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, Southeast Asia (particularly the version shown in the Philippines), and Latin America.

* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** In "Muscle Woman", Mordecai tells that a woman is single when she buys only ''one'' banana, leaving the viewer to infer 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.
** It appears as early as "Caffeinated Concert Tickets" where Margaret's date references this, saying that Mordecai should "stop pumpin' it in the wind."

* BareYourMidriff: Margaret in "Caffeinated Concert Tickets", "Mordecai and the Rigbys" and "Slam Dunk"

* IncrediblyLamePun:
** Rigby does them from time to time, especially in "It's Time", which somehow made Margaret laugh.
** Skips' cousin Quips does almost nothing but awful puns and jokes.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the episode of the same name, [[http://www.bubbleblabber.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/RS_Tants_Image.jpg Tants]] are a bizarre gift Pops gives to Mordecai and Rigby, pants that double as a table. Turns out, someone had actually already made a similar product in real life called Pic Nic Pants...[[http://theweek.com/article/index/226320/pic-nic-pants-the-jeans-that-double-as-a-picnic-table and they look even more ridiculous than Tants.]]
** In "Every Meat Burritos", when listing some of the meat in the burrito during the commercial, while there are some familiar names, the names of the animals that sound made-up are in fact real animals, except "long pig" which is [[BlackComedyCannibalism human flesh]]:
--> Gila monster, pigeon, marmot, dik-dik, baboon, bushpig, long pig, aardwolf, manatee, bat-eared fox, red bat, spotted bat, dog-faced bat, opossum, emu, hairy long-nosed armadillo, big hairy armadillo, screaming hairy armadillo, colocolo, spectacled bear, lowland tapir, red deer, shy albatross, komondor dog, hagfish, sonoran sidewinder, snorkel viper, oak-leaf rattler, bacon, narwhal, kookaburra, aha ha, blobfish, bulldog stargazer, tufted titmouse, screaming cowbird, green jay, lady amhersts pheasant, polish chicken, quetzal, Surinam toad, tomato frog, turtle frog, Christmas tree worm, vampire squid, coelacanth, mugger crocodile, aya-aye, dumbo octopus, and platypus.

* FreezeFrameBonus: In "Every Meat Burritos", the meats that they showed in the commercial fast forward. Don't let some of the names fool you, [[AluminumChristmasTrees these are, in fact, real animals]], except bacon and long pig:

* {{Gainaxing}}: Muscle Man ''and'' Starla in "Muscle Woman". [[{{Squick}} It was a pretty disturbing episode.]]

* 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.

* KarmicInjury: One of the series' {{Running Gag}}s involves Mordecai punching Rigby. At least a couple times, however, he gets punched by Rigby and ''isn't'' able to instantly shrug it off.

* AlmightJanitor: Skips has solved multiple problems for Mordecai and Rigby, lived for hundreds of years, and knows so much knowledge that he could be world-renowned. Yet for some reason, he chooses to be a simple groundskeeper at a public park that many would consider a dead-end job. Whatever the reason is, it's essentially part of his many mysteries that have never been answered.