Line #1 Recap/RegularShowS01Ep01ThePower


1	[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/loser_64.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:1000:Give us some tropes, loser!]]
3	Park slackers Mordecai (an anthropomorphic blue jay) and Rigby (an anthropomorphic raccoon) accidentally put a hole in the wall of their room and panic over how to cover up the damage -- and a wizard's keyboard gives them the power of persuasion.
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5	!! This episode provides examples of:
6	* AnswerCut: When Mordecai asks Rigby how he got the keyboard, he replies that he has his methods. Cut to Rigby stealing it from a distracted wizard that’s peeing in the bushes.
7	* BaitAndSwitch: The episode opens with Rigby seemingly threatening a thug. However, it then reveals that he was actually talking to a wrestler plush doll.
8	* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: The cast is shown to have no problem with breathing while they're on the moon.
9	* BeTheBall: While pretending to be pro-wrestlers, Rigby forms himself into a ball and Mordecai drops him onto their trampoline which bounces him into the wall - making the hole that sets off the plot of the episode.
10	* BigNo: Rigby yells this when Skips is about to be eaten by a monster on the moon.
11	* CallForward: One of the things Rigby sends to the moon is [[Recap/RegularShowS02Ep23ABunchOfBabyDucks a bunch of baby ducks]].
12	* CensorDecoy: According to Sam Marin (the voice actor for Benson, Pops, and Muscle Man), the part where the wizard runs into the bushes to urinate was supposed to have him masturbating. Creator/CartoonNetwork rejected the original plan and went for the one that was dodgy, but more acceptable.
13	* ChekhovsSkill: At the beginning of the episode, Rigby tries to get Mordecai to use hamboning to convince Benson to give them a raise but he shoots it down. Later, Rigby uses this ridiculous skill to distract the monster long enough for Skips to get free.
14	-->'''Rigby:''' Hamboning will save your life one day!
15	* CompellingVoice: The Power gives Mordecai and Rigby this ability, making people do whatever they tell them to.
16	* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Mordecai and Rigby could have avoided this whole fiasco involving the keyboard and then being sent to the moon if they just covered up the hole in the wall with a poster like Mordecai ended up doing at the end of the episode.
17	* DelayedOhCrap: Mordecai tells Rigby how awesome it was that he made a hole in the wall and they both laugh…until they realize how much trouble they’re going to be in when Benson finds out.
18	* DistantReactionShot: When Mordecai and Rigby realize how screwed they are from making a hole in their wall by jacking around, the scene cuts to the house’s exterior as they scream.
19	* EpicFail: When the park workers travel back to Earth, they land in Mordecai and Rigby's room. Their travel ends up knocking the drywall off the walls, yet the outline of the original hole that Mordecai and Rigby created in the first place is STILL there.
20	* EveryoneHasStandards: Mordecai and Rigby test the keyboard out on Pops, then Benson, by saying "Give us a raise, loser!". The difference is that they change "loser" to "Pops" because they know Pops is too sensitive to be insulted.
21	* GoodTimesMontage: Of the boys having fun getting whatever they want thanks to The Power.
22	* ICallHerVera: Rigby lets Mordecai name a keyboard he stole. He calls it “The Power”.
23	-->'''Mordecai:''' I always wanted to date a girl named The Power.
24	* IllKillYou: Rigby exclaims "I'll kill you!" right before "fighting" a wrestler plush doll (who he calls Bean Burrito).
25	* LaserGuidedKarma: Mordecai and Rigby are forced to return their raise to Benson, who believes he was manipulated by the keyboard. He also confiscates the keyboard and gives it to Skips, who promptly breaks it in half to prevent its further misuse.
26	* MondegreenGag: The primary crisis of the episode occurs when Mordecai tries to use The Power to get Skips to go back to his room, but Ribgy mishears and instead tells Skips to go to the moon.
27	* MyGodYouAreSerious: Benson thinks the boys are joking about the keyboard being able to send people to the moon until he actually sees it happen.
28	* NatureTinkling: A flashback shows that Rigby took the wizard's magic keyboard when the wizard put it down to pee in the bushes.
29	* NoYou:
30	-->'''Rigby:''' You're the one who threw me too hard, ya hole!
31	-->'''Mordecai:''' Don't call me a hole! You're the hole, you're the one who wanted to wrestle!
32	* PosterPatchup: At the end of the episode, despite all the drywall falling off the rest of the walls, the hole that the boys made is still there so Mordecai uses a poster to cover it up.
33	* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Rigby makes his own sound effects when he pulls out the keyboard to show Mordecai.
34	-->'''Rigby:''' Boop-bweep-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boooo!
35	* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In order to get raises from Benson to fix the hole, Mordecai thinks they should just ask him. However, Rigby is convinced that “hamboning” is the answer.
36	* TooMuchInformation: When Rigby is complaining about them taking too long, Mordecai says they had to take Pops to the bathroom. Pops then pipes up that it happened twice.
37	* TWordEuphemism: "How in the H are we gonna fix this S?"
38	** {{Bowdlerization}}: In the UK, the line is changed to "How in the heck are we gonna fix this hole?" (except for Netflix UK, where the line is, "Now, how in the H are we gonna fix this hole?", which would have made a better replacement line in America than the one chosen below)
39	*** New reruns of the episode on Cartoon Network now have the line as, "Now, how in the heck are we gonna fix this stuff?" (the ''Slack Pack'' DVD has the original line).

Context Recap / RegularShowS01Ep01ThePower