Line #0 Recap/RegularShowS02Ep03AppreciationDay


1	After being shortsighted by Benson awarding members of the park, Mordecai and Rigby try to alter the course of history in their favor.
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3	!!Tropes
4	* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Snowballs; he's 20 feet tall.
5	* BackFromTheDead: Snowballs managed to eat Rigby before Mordecai restored reality to normal.
6	* BaitAndSwitch: In the beginning of the episode, Benson proclaims that the next two awards are for two guys at the park who really have done a lot for it. He says “Mmmmmmm...”, and Mordecai and Rigby lean in, expecting him to say their names. But then he finishes with “Muscleman and High-Five Ghost”, much to the former duo’s disappointment.
7	* BigBad: Snowballs, the Ice Monster.
8	* BittersweetEnding: For Mordecai and Rigby. They manage to get rid of Snowballs and the blizzard but Benson catches them writing in his book and recalls their appreciation plaques.
9	* BrutalHonesty: Benson tells Mordecai and Rigby right to their faces that he doesn't appreciate them.
10	* CreateYourOwnVillain: Rigby's the one who created Snowballs the Ice Monster just so that he and Mordecai be [[EngineeredHeroism forced to destroy it and be praised as heroes]].
11	* EngineeredHeroism: Rigby wrote himself and Mordecai in the book as saving the park from Snowballs.
12	* FailureMontage: Mordecai and Rigby try to make attempts of doing hard work in order to change Benson’s mind about not appreciating them. However, they mess up the entire time, [[RightBehindMe within full view of Benson, further proving his point that they are not good Park workers.]]
13	* FluffyTheTerrible: Snowballs, a 20-foot-tall monster made of snow with a horrifying design.
14	* HardWorkMontage: Mordecai and Rigby [[LaserGuidedKarma as a consequence of rewriting the park records book]]. They pull out weeds from a lettuce garden, pull in a busted golf cart, pick up litter and carry rocks.
15	* InsaneTrollLogic: Who in the right mind creates an ice monster that can breathe ''fire''? Rigby, of course.
16	* JerkassHasAPoint: Given Mordecai and Rigby's utter contempt for their jobs and their lack of effort when doing it, is it any wonder why Benson didn't give them any appreciation plaques?
17	* KarmaHoudini: Mordecai and Rigby get away with tampering with the Book of Park Records because Benson never learns what happened and they completed all the jobs he gave them.
18	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mordecai breaks Skips' leg by writing it to happen in the book. Rigby makes it even worse by including an attack from Snowballs, the Ice Monster.
19	* ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest: Mordecai and Rigby write themselves as Benson's most reliable, most appreciated, hardest working employees in the the Book of Park Records. This comes true and they end regretting having to do so much work, especially since they included that they're constantly sweating from their workload.
20	* RealityWritingBook: The Book of Park Records.
21	* TheSlacker: Mordecai and Rigby hate their jobs so much they consider doing even one day's amount of work to be torture.
22	* TemptingFate: An extreme version. When Pops tells Mordecai and Rigby to prepare for snow in the middle of summer, the two say that it’s probably one of his delusions after he leaves. They start laughing, and then they are ''immediately'' hit with a blizzard that pierces the Summer weather.
23	* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: When Muscleman and Fives get appreciation plaques instead of Mordecai and Rigby, the former tell the latter to eat on it. They then spin donuts with cart and drive off, throwing off dust.

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