| 1 | ->Written and storyboarded by Sean Szeles and Shion Takeuchi |
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| 3 | Mordecai and Rigby need to learn to play music in time for an open-mic night they signed up for while in a sugar-induced high, and their future selves arrive to teach them. |
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| 5 | !!Tropes used in this episode: |
| 6 | * AccentSlipUp: Future Mordecai and Rigby speak with fake British accents that they immediately drop when in a panic. |
| 7 | * AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: Subverted. The guitar picks Future! Mordecai gives the present duo are set up to be the source of Mordecai and Rigby's guitar-playing skills, but it turned out to be a cover for the fact that they were tricking their present selves into lip-syncing. |
| 8 | * AnAesop: 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. |
| 9 | * ArtistAndTheBand: The end result of the band name that Mordecai and Rigby have. |
| 10 | * {{Bowdlerise}}: The UK Edit changes Benson's [[PrecisionFStrike "Holy Crap!"]] into [[GoshDangItToHeck "Holy Crud!"]]. |
| 11 | * CoolShades: Future Mordecai and Rigby have these. |
| 12 | * [[invoked]] FakeBrit: InUniverse. Mordecai and Rigby's future selves speak in fake stereotypical British accents. They drop them in a panic. |
| 13 | * FutureBadass: Future Mordecai and Rigby seem to be these. But then see below. |
| 14 | * FutureLoser: Played with; while the future versions of Mordecai and Rigby are rich and successful, they are revealed to be talentless frauds by the end. |
| 15 | * IronicEcho: "I wouldn't wanna ruin the surprise..." |
| 16 | * RetGone: The rockstar versions of Future Mordecai and Rigby cease to exist when Present Mordecai and Rigby tear up their band shirts. |
| 17 | * SlowClap: [[ThrowTheDogABone Started by Benson of all people]]. |
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