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| 8 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: Pops. He's shown naked in three episodes, but only in "Brain Eraser" does it happen explicitly. |
| 9 | * NationalStereotypes: |
| 10 | ** Most of the Asians shown are based off of stereotype. The waitresses from "Fortune Cookie" are the most blatant. They have small eyes, and talk in a way that mocks Chinese. |
| 11 | ** Pops is clearly based on stereotypes of the English, though it is clear that he is just very old fashion. |
| 12 | ** British rock star characters feature regularly, in an example of positive stereotyping. Future rock star!Rigby has taken on an English accent as well. |
| 13 | ** In "Mordecai and Rigby Down Under", there's some humor played off of the Australians' culture and slang, especially how they differ from American culture and slang. |
| 14 | * NatureTinkling: A flashback in the first episode "The Power" shows that Rigby got the magic keyboard by stealing it from a wizard after he put it down to pee in the bushes. |
| 15 | * NegatedMomentOfAwesome: Deconstructed in 'Meteor Moves'. The Guardian of The Friend Zone shows Mordecai the various moments where he had a great opportunity to kiss Margaret (or at least tell her how he felt about her) but didn't. |
| 16 | * NegativeContinuity: |
| 17 | ** Benson fires Muscle Man and Hi-Five Ghost at the beginning of "Don", for telling a "my mom" joke, though by the next episode, they're back working at the park |
| 18 | ** Rigby is allergic to eggs, as "Eggscellent" reveals. In "Picking Up Margaret, Rigby comments on how good the eggs Margaret cooked are, and in "One Pull Up", he's seen drinking a glass of raw eggs as part of his training montage. In "1000th Chopper Flight Party" Rigby swallows an entire plate of deviled eggs with no apparent ill effects. |
| 19 | ** The Halloween Specials, where the park staff are killed off at the end, but they come back absolutely fine in the next episode. |
| 20 | ** Skips uses a computer to look up the [=PlayCo=] Armboy in "Over the Top", but in "Skips vs Technology" he doesn't even know what an icon is. |
| 21 | * NearDeathExperience: Pops in "Prankless". Muscle Man taped a bed to the ceiling to trick Mordecai, but the tape gave way just as Pops ended up chasing a balloon into the room, resulting in Pops being crushed. He survived by a slim chance. |
| 22 | ** Rigby's coma in "Eggscellent". |
| 23 | * NeverSayDie: Averted, seeing as [[AnyoneCanDie anyone can die]]. [[DeathIsCheap Rigby died thrice in Season 2 and once more in Season 3. Everyone dies in the Halloween special.]] Episodic allies may be KilledOffForReal. Villains explode in gory matters. Even babies and dog owners are vulnerable. |
| 24 | ** Played straight in the UK airings in the show, which has any mention of death redubbed to something milder (e.g. "while you were dead" being redubbed to "while you were unconscious" in "Meat Your Maker"). Oddly enough, saying that somebody has "stopped living" instead is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZCsnu29FXs evidently]] [[https://youtu.be/HJ9K1YrZ5Cw?t=31s okay.]] |
| 25 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Rigby is usually the one who causes the crazy bleedly-blah to happen in the show. By this point it should be obvious that Rigby ruins everything he touches, though he does make up for it by fixing most of the mistakes and problems he creates such as [[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext giving up the chocolate cake to save Skips' life]] and using mustard to defeat cannibal hot dogs.]] Examples include... |
| 26 | ** [[spoiler: sending Skips to the moon, which almost got him and the rest of the cast killed by a giant monster]] in "The Power." |
| 27 | ** [[spoiler: letting the Destroyer of Worlds loose]] (despite Skips and Mordecai's warnings) in "Just Set Up The Chairs". |
| 28 | ** [[spoiler: signing the contract that almost made them lose their concert tickets, though it technically wasn't his fault since he couldn't even read it,]] in "Caffeinated Concert Tickets". |
| 29 | ** [[spoiler: interrupting Skips' spirit dance]] in "Free Cake". |
| 30 | ** [[spoiler: destroying Benson's hot dogs, nearly making Mordecai freeze to death, and bringing evil hot dogs to the barbecue]] in "Meat Your Maker". |
| 31 | ** [[spoiler: starting a lying competition with Mordecai which unleashes antimatter]] in "Grilled Cheese Deluxe". |
| 32 | ** [[spoiler: breaking the audit machine nearly getting the park deleted]] in "Don". |
| 33 | ** [[spoiler: alluding a bodybuilder without his body that his own body was still available]] in "Rigby's Body". |
| 34 | ** [[spoiler: drawing on Pops' face with Sharpie and knocking him out]] in "Dizzy". |
| 35 | ** [[spoiler: getting lame songs stuck in his head]] in "This is My Jam". |
| 36 | ** [[spoiler: allowing a doppelganger to steal his image]] in "Temp Check". |
| 37 | ** [[spoiler: using his solids to destroy Mordecai's date by destroying the house]] in "Do Me a Solid" |
| 38 | ** [[spoiler: putting in the tape backwards and unleashing the dead]] in "Grave Sights". |
| 39 | ** [[spoiler: cheating on the bet and getting Mordecai blonde]] in "Bet to Be Blonde". |
| 40 | ** [[spoiler: egging the wizard's house]] in "Terror Tales of the Park". |
| 41 | ** [[spoiler: switching fortunes with Benson]] in "Fortune Cookie". |
| 42 | ** [[spoiler: eating a huge omelet despite his egg allergy]] in "Eggscellent". |
| 43 | ** [[spoiler: breaking Skips' hands]] in "Fists of Justice". |
| 44 | ** [[spoiler: opening his eyes and unleashing Margaret's Guardian of Secrets]] in "Diary". |
| 45 | ** [[spoiler: pranking Mordecai and unleashing Death Bear]] in "Death Bear". |
| 46 | ** Mordecai kicks off his share of weird events as well, though it's usually due to pettiness instead of outright idiocy. In both "Death Punchies" and "It's Time", it's his pride that goes before the fall. [[spoiler:Rigby's, that is.]] |
| 47 | ** Benson gets one in "Peeps", when he keeps improving his security system to stop Mordecai and Rigby from slacking off (justified though) and ultimately [[spoiler: doesn't read the fine print and invites an EldritchAbomination to spy on the park's workers for the rest of their natural lives. Ironically, the very thing he tried to stop them from doing is what got rid of it.]] |
| 48 | ** Skips in "Over the Top", when he [[spoiler:literally kills Rigby, thus forcing him into an arm wrestling match with Death himself to bring Rigby back from the beyond]]. |
| 49 | *** Skips gets one again in "Sugar Rush", when Pops gets a sugar rush, he tells Mordecai and Rigby to give Pops more sugar so he can get a sugar crash but [[spoiler: it causes Pops to move so fast that the world slows down to him.]] |
| 50 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: In "Bet to Be Blonde", the Blonde Men give Mordecai (who is in the process of pretending to join to get Rigby to admit to cheating in a bet) a sacred ring, which can shoot lasers and has a self-destruct function, ''before'' he completes his initiation of lowering Rigby into the vat of boiling blonde hair dye. So when Mordecai and Rigby make a run for it, Mordecai knocks down vats of hydrogen peroxide, sets the ring to blow up, and throws it at the vats, destroying the cult. |
| 51 | * NiceMeanAndInBetween: Mordecai and Rigby's main three bosses each have a role, Pops is the nice and naive out of them, since he's a CloudCuckooLander and a BenevolentBoss to the pair, Benson is the easily angered MeanBoss to the pair, Skips is the In-Between, as he's not as loony and happy as Pops, but not as rude and hot-tempered as Benson. |
| 52 | * NightmareFuel: InUniverse, the Huggstables. |
| 53 | * NightOfTheLivingMooks: What our duo ends up having to deal with in the episode, "Grave Sights". |
| 54 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Pops' character in ''Realm of Darthon'' is a cyborg cowboy armed with an electronic keyboard that fires lasers. (Yes, you read that right.) Skips plays a pirate samurai. And, [[FreezeFrameBonus if one pauses during Mordecai's anti-''Darthon'' rant]], this seems to be the case for every class: Surfer with a Gun, She-Cop, Space [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Colon/Clown]], Tank-Tread Wizard, Vampire Archer, Dancing Ghost, Scorpion Lawyer... |
| 55 | * NoEndorHolocaust: Straight up averted at the end of "Catching the Wave". Pops ends up surfing on a huge wave, RidingIntoTheSunset as the episode ends. The wave leaves a completely devastated city in its wake. |
| 56 | * NonHumanHead: Happy Birthday is a man with an enormous birthday cake for a head, and is possibly the personification of birthdays. |
| 57 | ** "Camping Can Be Cool" features an antagonistic character called Stag-man, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a partially naked man with a deer head]] (with one of his legs being a deer's). |
| 58 | * NoOshaCompliance: Highway 13, the most dangerous highway in the country. Whoever designed it made sure to make it a natural obstacle course starting with a decayed bridge built over rapidly eroding soil, potholes, random nails sticking up out of the ground, platformed sections of road crossing over a BottomlessPit, an obstacle course of stalagmites, and giant craters containing a nuclear green glowing vortex at the bottom. |
| 59 | * NoThemeTune[=/=]TitleOnlyOpening: The opening is just a short synth sting over the title card. |
| 60 | * NonMammalMammaries: Margaret's "lady pecs". |
| 61 | ** And [[{{Squick}} Coffee]]. |
| 62 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: Death Bear is... oddly photorealistic. |
| 63 | * NoodleImplements: In "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese", when Mordecai and Rigby get geese repellant on them and smell like rotten eggs, one of Skips' first instructions to get rid of the smell was for them to drive to the ocean. |
| 64 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 65 | ** The cart, the shoes, the party, the other party... |
| 66 | ** Dr. Asinoskovich doesn't like to talk about that conference. |
| 67 | ** "Appreciation Day" has this as they're reading the Park Records: |
| 68 | --->'''Mordecai''': Destruction of park property?! |
| 69 | --->'''Rigby''': Oh, yeah, that ''one'' time! |
| 70 | ** The solid worth ten solids that Rigby made Mordecai do. All we know is that all who witnessed it were shocked and repulsed, and it involved Mordecai squatting down and making car sounds. [[spoiler: Fan speculation says that it was either him laying an egg or LITERALLY "doing a solid" (taking a dump)]] |
| 71 | ** In "Quips", Skips tells Mordecai and Rigby they owe him for the time he rescued them from a pack of glowing red-eyes wolves, when the cart and themselves were stuck in quicksand, and the time he carried them out from a creature while being chased by a group of winged heads that look like Pops. |
| 72 | ** "Saving Time" begins with Mordecai and Rigby talking about how Muscle Man needed a doctor to sew something back on (and it happened to his brother, too). |
| 73 | * NotMeThisTime: Even though Benson gets mad at Mordecai and Rigby for ruining Mr. Maellard's birthday cake in "Take the Cake", it really wasn't their fault; they were nearly run off the road earlier in the episode by an illiterate woman who thought they were cutting in line, resulting in them hitting a bump and making the cake fall out of the cart, where it was eaten by a bunch of homeless people who randomly showed up. |
| 74 | * NutritionalNightmare: In season 3, "The Best Burger in the World", a food truck makes a burger once every century called the "Ulti-Meatum" where they stuff a cheeseburger inside a cheeseburger and has two deep-fried cheeseburgers as buns. They can even make it Idaho-style by stuffing a bag of chips in the burger. |
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| 78 | [[folder:O]] |
| 79 | * ObstructiveBureaucrat: Benson. |
| 80 | * {{Oculothorax}}: Peeps. |
| 81 | * OfCorpseHesAlive: The episode "Weekend at Benson's" has Mordecai and Rigby having to "escort" an unconscious Benson to a party after accidentally knocking him out cold at work. |
| 82 | * OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: Mordecai and Margaret]] as of "Meteor Moves". [[spoiler: Officially dead as of "Steak Me Amadeus".]] |
| 83 | ** [[spoiler: It then became Mordecai and CJ]] as of "I Like You Hi" and it was solidified in "Real Date". [[spoiler: However, it died in "Dumped at the Altar".]] |
| 84 | ** However, "Dumped at the Altar" reveals [[spoiler: that Rigby and Eileen have been dating for months, which Mordecai (and the viewers) never knew about.]] Compared to [[spoiler: Mordecai's relationships, this one actually sticks.]] |
| 85 | * OlderThanTheyLook: As of "[[Recap/RegularShowS02Ep21TheNightOwl The Night Owl]]", [[spoiler: Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, and High-Five Ghost have aged another 2200 years, having been frozen with liquid nitrogen, unfrozen in the year 4224, and then time-traveled back into the past.]] Potentially subverted if the show followed the other group from the end on. |
| 86 | ** Skips, who could be thousands of years old. |
| 87 | ** Techmo. Considering that Skips fixed his arm back in 1783, that would make him well over 200 years old. |
| 88 | ** Thomas, the son of Death, has the appearance of a toddler, but is really over 300 years old and is only playing immaturity so that he can be taken care of. |
| 89 | * OminousLatinChanting: [[spoiler:Death Bear]]'s {{Leitmotif}}. |
| 90 | * OmnicidalManiac: The Destroyer of Worlds. |
| 91 | * OncePerEpisode: Something weird and other-worldly happens, and there's an awesome music montage. |
| 92 | * OneSteveLimit: The show has two Thomases, one is a billy goat park intern and the other is the over 300-year-old infant son of Death. |
| 93 | ** Lampshaded in "Play Date", when Mordecai tries to call up Rigby to take over babysitting the latter. |
| 94 | -->'''Rigby''': Isn't he like, in college? |
| 95 | -->'''Mordecai''': Not THAT Thomas, Death's Thomas! |
| 96 | * OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: After Benson returns and turns everyone back to normal, Susan summons a giant version of herself from Hell that proceeds to eat the smaller version and try to kill everyone.]] |
| 97 | * OralFixation: The main rapper in "Rap It Up" always has a lollipop in his mouth. |
| 98 | * OriginsEpisode: ''Skips' Story'' explains how Skips became immortal. |
| 99 | * OurCentaursAreDifferent: They are hipsters/caricatures of pop culture characters. |
| 100 | * OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Rigby is attacked by a Were-Skunk. |
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| 104 | [[folder:P]] |
| 105 | * PacmanFever: |
| 106 | ** Subverted; although every video game shown so far has had retro graphics, this seems to be a stylistic choice, befitting the show's {{Retraux}} style and suggesting that maybe everyone in this world is just a retro gamer. |
| 107 | ** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in SarcasmMode when Mordecai and Rigby comment on the graphics and how the title screen looks just like the box. |
| 108 | ** In "Over the Top", they're even seen playing what appears to be an 8-bit version of ''VideoGame/GuitarHero''. |
| 109 | ** This is all especially subverted by the fact that Mordecai and Rigby very clearly have a UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Mark 1, which is most certainly an obscure version of a games console to have. |
| 110 | * PapaWolf: [[spoiler:Muscle Man's father. Some ''nasty'' truckers try to run down Muscle Man, Mordecai, and Rigby. His father's ghost proceeds to use his forklift to send their [[DisneyVillainDeath big rig toppling over a cliff with them still inside.]] He then proceeds to perform a YouShallNotPass on the trucker ghosts trying to get them.]] The great part is that he was just killed. |
| 111 | * PaperThinDisguise: Apparently, in "New Year's Kiss", [[spoiler: Mordecai and C.J.'s masquerade masks were so convincing that neither of them didn't recognize each other and were surprised to see each other when they removed their masks despite one being a blue jay and the other being a cloud humanoid.]] |
| 112 | * ParentalAbandonment: The [[HalfHumanHybrid stag-man]] in "Camping Can Be Cool" with the throwaway line: |
| 113 | --> ''"Like when mother told me not to follow her back to the city?"'' |
| 114 | * ParentalBonus: The use of music from TheEighties. Now what kid from today would know of "Working For The Weekend" before watching "Caffeinated Concert Tickets"? |
| 115 | ** In the episode "Steak Me Amadeus," the two lead agents from the FBI look EXACTLY like Agents Mulder and Scully from The X Files. |
| 116 | * APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: |
| 117 | -->'''Benson''': It's almost 8 o'clock. Kill the lights! |
| 118 | -->'''Muscle Man''': Woohoo! Skips is going to be totally surprised when he walks in and sees us totally naked! |
| 119 | -->'''Benson''': ...it's not that kind of party, Muscle Man. |
| 120 | -->'''Muscle Man''': Oh. (beat) Don't turn on the lights. |
| 121 | ** It's the semi-disturbing zipper sounds right before Muscle Man's quip that really drive the joke home. |
| 122 | ** The way Benson says his second line in that scene, like this is a regular occurrence and he's really just getting sick of dealing with it, is fairly priceless as well. |
| 123 | * PecFlex: |
| 124 | ** Twice in "Rigby's Body", once by the bodybuilder [[spoiler:that jumped into Rigby's body]] and again by Skips. ''His nipples light up.'' |
| 125 | ** Mordecai gets one too when he daydreams in "Meat Your Maker". |
| 126 | ** Muscle Man does this in "Bald Spot". ''For a long time, I might add.'' |
| 127 | ** Rigby does this [[spoiler:after he gets buffed up]] in "One Pull Up". |
| 128 | * PercussiveMaintenance: Skips' main method of fixing things is to hit it with a hammer. To be more specific, he carries a hammer that he's able to use as a universal tool to fix almost anything, regardless of how big or small it is, including computers. |
| 129 | * {{Pilot}}: "First Day" is the pilot with some added bits: a montage at the beginning, a scene before they go down for breakfast, and a scene with Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost, to make it a WholeEpisodeFlashback. |
| 130 | * PinkGirlBlueBoy: Mordecai is bright blue. Margaret, his love interest, is bright red, which isn't exactly ''pink'' per se, but close enough. |
| 131 | ** In "The Longest Weekend", Muscle Man and Starla receive blue and pink auras (respectively) that turn them into blue and pink comets that charge straight for each other. |
| 132 | * ThePlan: Of all people, Muscle Man surprisingly shows up with more than one of these |
| 133 | ** [[spoiler: EvilPlan: Muscle Man's costume party was simply a [[EvilIsPetty ploy]] to get back at Mordecai and Rigby for spilling soda on his face.]] |
| 134 | * PlayfulOtter: Doug, the temp. Until it turns out that he's [[spoiler:a {{doppelganger}}]]. |
| 135 | * PlotTailoredToTheParty: The Christmas special- in order to reach the lava, the group needs Benson's skills in non-video game arcade games (as seen in 'Stick Hockey'), Pops' wrestling abilities (as seen in 'Really Real Wrestling') and Muscle Man's Dance Dance Revolution-esque skills (as seen in '[[Recap/RegularShowS03Ep37FuzzyDice Fuzzy Dice]]'). |
| 136 | * PocketDial: In episode "Butt Dial", Mordecai accidentally butt dials his crush Margret's phone as he sings an incredibly awkward song about how he likes her a lot, and after finding out he tries to get the message deleted with Rigby's help. |
| 137 | * PoliceAreUseless: {{Averted|Trope}} on two counts: |
| 138 | ** At the end of "Party Benson", two police officers make an appropriate response to seeing the Party Starters warehouse explode, which Rigby lampshades. |
| 139 | ** The end of "Fuzzy Dice" [[BigDamnHeroes has the FBI descend]] on the animatronics, outclassing them in the firearms department, [[GatlingGood with one even packing a minigun]]. |
| 140 | * PokemonSpeak: The giant coffee bean can only say his name. And his name is ''Coffee.'' Possibly lampshaded by the fact that his translator is Japanese. |
| 141 | * PowerFist: The "Fists of Justice", in the episode of the same name. |
| 142 | * ThePowerOfFriendship: That seems to be the theme in "Eggscellent". [[spoiler: Even when Rigby was in a coma, possibly never to wake up and even may die, Mordecai still keep his promise to get that hat for him. Then the other Groundkeepers came around for Mordecai when he couldn't do it alone and helped him practiced to win the hat. When Mordecai won the hat, he put it on his friend's head, which woke him up! It wasn't just because of the hat, it was also because of Mordecai's loyal Friendship for Rigby!]] |
| 143 | * ThePowerOfRock: The battle between Mordecai's band and the Summertime Song is manifested as two ethereal rockers using their guitars as swords. |
| 144 | ** Pops' ''The Realm of Darthon'' character, a cybernetic cowboy, utilizes a keytar as a weapon which shoots [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] when played. |
| 145 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: Rigby is good with these. |
| 146 | -->The names FISTS! |
| 147 | -->Who's the master prank caller NOW, ya jerk?! |
| 148 | * ProudToBeAGeek: Muscle Man's brainwashed state in "Exit 9B", working as a physics professor and using sexual math problems. |
| 149 | * ProWrestlingEpisode: "Really Real Wrestling" |
| 150 | * PsychedelicComedyBromance: Park employees and VitriolicBestBuds Rigby the raccoon and Mordecai the bluejay goof off at work, prank their friends and neighbors, and get involved in {{Zany Scheme}}s that often accidentally summon bizarre supernatural forces (from traveling to the moon with a magical keyboard to using a cursed ''anime'' video tape to [[BrainBleach erase embarrassing memories]] to [[MushroomSamba tripping on hot sauce]] after an evening spent [[OfCorpseHesAlive having to puppeteer their unconscious boss]]). |
| 151 | * PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Rigby does this to various bystanders in "Death Punchies" after [[spoiler:he learns the appropriate Death Kwon Do move, the 'Death Punch'.]] |
| 152 | * PungeonMaster: |
| 153 | ** Rigby makes puns from time to time, especially in "It's Time", which somehow made Margaret laugh. |
| 154 | ** Skips' cousin Quips does almost nothing but awful puns and jokes. |
| 155 | * PuttingTheBandBackTogether: In "Exit 9B", after escaping [[spoiler: GBF Jr.]] by time traveling two months in the future, Mordecai and Rigby must bring the brainwashed park workers back to their previous selves and unite them to save the park. |
| 156 | * PuzzleBoss: [[spoiler:The Hammer. His weakness is furniture.]] |
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| 160 | [[folder:Q-R]] |
| 161 | * QuarterHourShort |
| 162 | * TheQuietOne: |
| 163 | ** High-Five Ghost doesn't talk very much, only having two lines in his first 5 or so appearances. However, he spoke more in "Muscle Woman" than in all of his previous appearances combined. |
| 164 | ** Justified in that [[spoiler: he was jinxed]]. |
| 165 | * TheQuincyPunk: Appear from time to time, but the four known as Trash, Scabatha, Manslaughter, and Bloodshed in "Cruisin'" are particularly notable. |
| 166 | * RaidersOfTheLostParody: One episode ends with Mordecai forced to choose the correct hat out of a collection of other hats in an obvious homage to ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', down to an aged knight watching over the proceedings and the fact that he'll be skeletonized if he chooses poorly. |
| 167 | * RailroadPlot: Is the focus of a two-part episode. The railroad leads to Hell, reviving several antagonists. |
| 168 | * RatedMForManly: This show loves to pay homage to guy culture from TheEighties and beyond. |
| 169 | * ReactiveContinuousScream: Mordecai walking in on Pops in "Brain Eraser". |
| 170 | * ReadTheFinePrint: |
| 171 | ** Coffee and his friend ask Mordecai and Rigby to sign a contract which asked that Mordecai and Rigby buy tickets to a concert for all four of them in exchange for Coffee's coffee. Rigby signs it after barely even looking at it, but [[SubvertedTrope it doesn't matter whether or not he read it]] because the contract was unable to be understood. It was [[PokemonSpeak the word "coffee" written over and over again]], and a line at the bottom. |
| 172 | ** In "Peeps", Benson asks for the most powerful security system Peeps will offer and is told to sign a binding contract. He's so angry he doesn't read it first and ends up summoning Peeps himself (a flying eye monster). Peeps later reveals the contract states he can watch them till the day they die. |
| 173 | ** In "[[Recap/RegularShowS02Ep12ButIHaveAReceipt But I Have A Receipt]]", Mordecai and Rigby [[spoiler: try to return ''The Realm of Darthon'']] but they didn't read the fine print. [[spoiler: They already opened the game.]] |
| 174 | * RealityIsUnrealistic: There [[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gRoiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oaYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3449,5675413&dq=sitting+on+a+billboard+whitehall+township&hl=en really was]] a billboard-sitting contest at one point, but it was to win a motor home, not a car. |
| 175 | * RealityWarper: The Power grants people... [[ShapedLikeItself the power]] to do anything they want. Also, the Master Prank Caller, who should not be riled. |
| 176 | * RealityWritingBook: Forging the park records has this effect. Mordecai and Rigby do it to trick Benson into giving them a raise, but Rigby overdoes it, resulting in the park being attacked by a snow monster. |
| 177 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Skips is mostly like this when he's in charge, Benson ''COULD'' and ''WOULD'' be this if he could control his HairTriggerTemper. That said, he is pretty easy-going off the clock. Pops is also this too during the rare moments he asserts his authority. |
| 178 | * ReasonYouSuckSpeech: After trying so hard not to get mad and yell at Mordecai and Rigby because Pops grows sick of it, [[spoiler: all of the rage builds up inside of Benson, and he lets out a ear-rapingly brutal [=RYS=] at the duo, deafening them]]. |
| 179 | ** In "Caffeinated Concert Tickets", Mordecai and Rigby give a KarmaHoudini diss against the coffee bean and his translator, ending it with a "Your coffee... sucks," while pointing at the guy's crotch. |
| 180 | * RecurringCharacter: Other than [[DistaffCounterpart Margaret, Eileen]] and Mr. Maellard, there's also [[DoggedNiceGuy Pa]] (the man who was kicked by the ostrich in "Grilled Cheese Deluxe") and one of TV Store Warehouse spokesman (the bald one) |
| 181 | * RecycledInSpace: Following the events of [[spoiler:the season 7 finale,]] season 8 is called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3w3h8dMu-g "Regular Show In Space."]] |
| 182 | * RedOniBlueOni: Rigby and Mordecai. |
| 183 | * RedShirt: |
| 184 | ** [[spoiler: The "special entertainment"]] and [[spoiler: Jimmy.]] |
| 185 | ** Also, the news guy in the helicopter in "Muscle Woman". This show actually uses this trope quite a bit. |
| 186 | * ResetButton: Used at the end of [[spoiler:"It's Time"]]. |
| 187 | * ResistanceIsFutile: Parodied in "Skips VS Technology. |
| 188 | -->'''[[spoiler:Doom-A-Geddon Virus:]]''' Resistance. Is. Dumb! |
| 189 | * RelationshipUpgrade: |
| 190 | ** "Butt Dial" marks the first time Margaret actually acknowledges Mordecai's crush on her, as a result of hearing an accidentally recorded voicemail where he sings about it. [[spoiler: In ''Picking Up Margaret'' the two finally kiss.]] |
| 191 | *** [[spoiler: As of ''Meteor Moves'', the two are an OfficialCouple.]] |
| 192 | ** Rigby was not a fan of Eileen during their first meeting in "Do Me a Solid", finding her annoying and generally unlikable[[spoiler:, even though she had an obvious crush on him]]. As the series progressed, they end up spending more time amicably with each other, and Rigby regards her much more as a genuine friend. |
| 193 | *** [[spoiler:As of "Dumped at the Altar", Rigby reveals that they've been dating for months.]] |
| 194 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Played for laughs and taken up to eleven in "Heart of a Stuntman" with Timmy. |
| 195 | * RepressionNeverEndsWell: In "Think Positive", Pops tells Benson that he'll be fired if he yells at Mordecai and Rigby again, leading him to repress his anger at their antics. He eventually holds in so much rage, that he risks exploding and destroying everything, leaving Pops no choice but to allow him to lose it, resulting in an epic chewing-out that literally deafens Mordecai and Rigby. |
| 196 | * RetroUniverse: Everything has a very '80s feel--any video games that show up are extremely retro and/or arcade-based (see PacmanFever above), VHS and cassette tapes abound, and if a licensed song shows up it's guaranteed to be a hit from the '60, '70, or '80s--but it's set in the present. "Prank Callers" places it after 2004 somewhere. |
| 197 | ** In "The Best VHS In The World", the video store they frequent is stated to be the only one still renting cassettes, with all the other stores having converted to [=DVDs=]. |
| 198 | ** In "The Real Thomas", it's established that the Soviet Union and the KGB still exist and Russia is still at a cold war with the United States. |
| 199 | * RhymesOnADime: The rock paper scissors EldritchAbomination's only dialogue is spoken in rhyme. |
| 200 | * RidiculouslyDifficultRoute: In "Busted Cart", to make up for lost time and to get the cart fixed before the warranty expires, Mordecai and Rigby take Highway 13 to get to the dealership faster. It's considered the most dangerous highway in the country due to the road crumbling, spikes on the road, giant boulders rolling down the valley, and a crater with a green portal in the center. |
| 201 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: In "A Skips in Time", Muscle Man is able to remember a friend with a time machine who went back in time and accidentally prevented his parents from ever meeting, wiping himself from existence. |
| 202 | * RoommateCom: The show focuses on two guys performing wacky hijinks while living in a rented house with their coworkers. Even with all of the supernatural happenings there, it ultimately always goes back to the premise of roommates. |
| 203 | * RousingSpeech: |
| 204 | ** In "Rage Against the TV", when all seems hopeless: |
| 205 | --->'''Mordecai:''' We can't just give up. I want to beat this thing. We may never get this far in the game again. Now come on, will you please just help us. Please. Help us. |
| 206 | --->'''Muscle Man:''' [[MisfitMobilizationMoment Let us try, bro.]] |
| 207 | ** Rigby gives one in "Skips Strikes," much to the awe of his teammates. [[spoiler: Of course, he had bet their souls on the game and couldn't afford to have them giving up...]] |
| 208 | * RuleOfCool: This is practically the fuel that this show ''runs'' on! |
| 209 | * RuleOfThree: You can break a jinx by getting someone to say your name three times. Well, you can do it yourself with a mirror but [[spoiler:it summons a werewolf-like monster from inside.]] |
| 210 | * RunningGag: Whenever someone goes somewhere in the golf cart, it'll generally spin in a circle several times before finally leaving. |
| 211 | ** Mordecai usually wins at Punchies (except when he threw the game in "Death Punchies"), Rigby usually wins at rock-paper-scissors. (Although he lost twice in "A Bunch of Baby Ducks") |
| 212 | * RunningOnAllFours: Rigby does this from time to time, since he ''is'' a raccoon and all. |
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| 217 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: In the entire first season not much is known about Margaret, except she's nice and has a good set of lady pecs. Justified in that Mordecai himself can't seem to get past his shyness and learn more about her besides how attracted he is to her. (Note that he's always ''completely'' surprised about her boyfriends and entertainment preferences.) |
| 218 | * SarcasticTitle: "Regular Show" decidedly ''isn't'' that regular, almost every episode's issue escalating out of the main cast's control into some oft-supernatural or surreal threat. |
| 219 | * SayMyName: "The Longest Weekend" reaches near-''Manga/{{AKIRA}}'' levels of this trope between Muscle Man and Starla. |
| 220 | * ScaryFictionIsFun: Rigby and Mordecai regularly watch scary movies (even though Rigby's more afraid of them then he ever wants to admit). They invoke this trope in the episode "Grave Sights" when they raise money for the park by showing a zombie movie in a graveyard (and, in true ''Regular Show'' fashion, end up fighting zombies during the latter half of it). |
| 221 | * SelfCensoredRelease: The shorts the character designs originate in are definitely not for children. |
| 222 | * ShaggyDogStory: Several episodes. In "A Bunch of Baby Ducks," the entire episode revolves around Mordecai and Rigby trying to get rid of the titular baby ducks so they can finish cleaning out the fountain. As they reported at the end of the episode, the good news was they got rid of the baby ducks, but the bad news was the fountain was destroyed. |
| 223 | ** "Slam Dunk" also has this plot element: Mordecai and Rigby battle Muscle Man and High Five Ghost for coveted time on the house computer, so that Mordecai can make a website for Margaret. After a climactic battle including a from-orbit slam dunk, Mordecai and Rigby win, Mordecai approaches Margaret, and find out she already made the website, since she asked two months ago. |
| 224 | -->'''Basketball Coach:''' Time goes faster in space. |
| 225 | ** "Every Meat Burrito:" the gang want to try a famous "every meat burrito" from a new restaurant, but the drive-thru clerk won't let them because they don't have a real car. After borrowing an old car from a police impound lot, and dealing with the crazy guy from the 1970's who's been living in the shag carpeting, they finally get to try it... |
| 226 | -->'''Rigby:''' Hunh. Tastes like chicken. |
| 227 | ** The episode "Rigby in Sky with Burrito" has Rigby trying to skydive with a burrito in order to impress his classmates during his class reunion. [[spoiler:But it turns out that it was ''Pops''' reuinion and his class president accidentally sent the letter to Rigby.]] |
| 228 | * SchmuckBait: Mordecai and especially Rigby. |
| 229 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: In "Country Club", the country clubmembers are a bunch of {{Rich Jerk}}s who believe that they can mess with anyone, steal anyone's prized possession, and turn said possession into a toilet all for their amusement just because they are rich. [[spoiler:However, when they take Mordecai and Rigby hostage and all but admit to stealing people's stuff for fun, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome their club is shut down and a lot of the members are arrested]].]] |
| 230 | * ScrewTheRulesTheyreNotReal: {{Invoked}} in one episode. Mordecai and Rigby find themselves in a place without any rules after having many rules placed on them; the only rule is there aren't any rules. However, an issue arises which forces them to fight against that world's inhabitants. Because there wasn't a rule against rules, they were able to enforce several rules which altered the reality of the ruleless world, which allowed them to escape. |
| 231 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Chad and Jeremy do this at the end of "Replaced". |
| 232 | * SdrawkcabName: |
| 233 | ** In "Dizzy", Pops travels to another dimension and meets non-humanoid counterparts to Mordecai and Rigby, named Iacedrom and Ygbir. |
| 234 | ** Also used in "Jinx" to send [[spoiler:the MonsterOfTheWeek]] back to where he came from. |
| 235 | * SeashellBra: [[NonMammalMammaries Margaret]] is wearing one in a brief dream sequence that Mordecai has in "Meat Your Maker". |
| 236 | * SealedEvilInACan: |
| 237 | ** The Destroyer of Worlds. |
| 238 | ** [[spoiler:The mirror monster Rigby summoned in "Jinx" was banished back into the mirror at the end.]] |
| 239 | ** The Soul-Eating Death Worm is a Sealed Evil in a ''Pop-Up Book!'' |
| 240 | * SecondPersonAttack: Happens [[RuleOfThree three times in a row]] in "Every Meat Burritos" |
| 241 | * SelfInducedAllergicReaction: In "Eggscellent", Rigby literally does this just to win a trucker hat. |
| 242 | * SeenItAll: Skips response to the insanity in any given episode usually amounts to "I've seen this before..." |
| 243 | ** He's probably seen a lot, considering he's [[spoiler:immortal]]. |
| 244 | * SelfDeprecation: Muscle Man's "my mom" jokes. |
| 245 | * SentientVehicle: Cart the golf cart in the episode, "Out of Commission." |
| 246 | * SerialEscalation: |
| 247 | ** In "[[Recap/RegularShowS03Ep07CoolBikes Cool Bikes]]", Mordecai and Rigby become so cool that it threatens to create a coolness singularity which will collapse Earth into a coolness black hole and destroy the universe. |
| 248 | ** In "Fortune Cookie" [[spoiler:Benson has such bad luck that he loses the park to a sorcerer who then immediately grows over fifty feet tall and begins to literally ''suck up the entire park'' into his fanny pack.]] Yeah... |
| 249 | ** "Brilliant Century Duck Crisis" is this to a tee. |
| 250 | * SeriesContinuityError: "Eggscellent" reveals that Rigby is deathly allergic to eggs. He eats eggs after this episode, however (such as in "Picking Up Margaret"), and some episodes before it have him wanting to eat food that contains eggs, like cake. |
| 251 | ** Rigby's father looks and acts very differently in "The Thanksgiving Special" and "Lunch Break". |
| 252 | * SeriousBusiness: |
| 253 | ** Rock, Paper, Scissors makes demons appear from other dimensions to eat your stuff. |
| 254 | ** Choreographed dancing sends your co-workers to the moon. |
| 255 | ** Crossing a red wire with a blue wire on a secret arcade machine unleashes a pixelated demon to the world. |
| 256 | ** Wearing a mullet and cutoff jeans gives you fists of ultimate destruction. |
| 257 | ** Underground stick hockey tournaments to the death, complete with fire shooting out of the ground and decapitations, have been going on for at least a decade. |
| 258 | ** This trope seems to happen almost OnceAnEpisode. |
| 259 | ** Zigzagged with "Power Tower", the episode dedicated to Muscle Man's past as a bodybuilder. It starts off as being about ping pong, then switches to being about bodybuilding, which is Serious Business in real life. Then Riley and Mordecai point out that all the effort MM's putting in isn't worth a ping-pong game, and he says its not really about ping pong any more. [[spoiler:Then he finds a technique so advanced that the last guy to try and use it ended up ''killing himself'' in the process by "shredding every muscle in his body", bringing it right up to the show's usual levels of this trope.]] |
| 260 | * ShapesOfDisappearance: The BigBad of the show's final season [[spoiler:Anti-Pops]] plays with this trope. He has the power to erase anything from existence, leaving behind a white void shaped like who or what he erased. In other words, he makes actual, permanent shapes of disappearance after making someone or something disappear. |
| 261 | * ShipSinking: After numerous instances of ShipTease, the Mordecai/Margaret ship was finally sunk in "Steak Me Amadeus". For now, at least. |
| 262 | ** It was sunk with finality in "Just Friends". |
| 263 | ** Mordecai/CJ was pretty much sunk in "Dumped at the Altar", and since they haven't met on-screen since then, we can assume it's dead. |
| 264 | * ShoppingMontage: "Cool Bikes" |
| 265 | * ShoutOut: Now with its [[ShoutOut/RegularShow own page]]. |
| 266 | * ShowerOfAngst: Muscle Man in "Muscle Woman", after Starla dumped him. |
| 267 | * ShownTheirWork: Owen Dennis, one of the writers of the show who co-wrote the episode "Portable Toilet", [[http://oweeeeendennis.tumblr.com/post/74859342500/portable-toilet-is-the-first-regular-show actually did research on portable toilets to make sure Eileen's knowledge on portable toilets is correct.]] |
| 268 | * ShrineToTheFallen: The finale has [[spoiler:the park put up a statue in Pops' memory after he sacrifices himself to save the universe from Anti-Pops.]] |
| 269 | * {{Sideboob}}: Margaret's aforementioned concert attire. Covered by a bra, though. |
| 270 | * SimilarSquad: Chad and Jeremy for Mordecai and Rigby in "Replaced". |
| 271 | * ASimplePlan: Every episode. |
| 272 | * SinisterCar: In the episode ''Ello Guv'nor'', Rigby gets scared by a British Taxi ever since watching a movie of the same name. |
| 273 | * SkewedPriorities:'' Dude, you kill the Destroyer of Worlds! I'm gonna go get the chairs! '' |
| 274 | * SliceOfLife: The show is basically about the lives of two best friends who are groundskeepers.\ |
| 275 | Simultaneously a WorkCom, as they live where they work. Every episode so far has had something to do with their job, although it's usually not what Mordecai and Rigby are interested in. |
| 276 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Park Avenue, graffiti artist from "Under the Hood". |
| 277 | -->'''Park Avenue:''' Yeah, that's right, I'm the one who did it! ''I'm'' the graffiti artist! I'm hitting the world with knowledge! I'm painting the truth! I'm painting rebellion! I—\ |
| 278 | '''Benson''': ''I'' am calling the cops. |
| 279 | * SmartPeopleKnowLatin: Mordecai and Rigby arguing in "More Smarter". |
| 280 | * SmellySkunk: A {{Jerkass}} one tries to turn Rigby into a skunk. Well sort of, he's a Wereskunk whose spray transfers his curse in addition to smelling terrible. [[spoiler:He's cured along with Rigby in the end, but it's implied he died in the process.]] |
| 281 | * SomethingElseAlsoRises: Party Pete's junk enlarges while doing some pelvic thrusting. |
| 282 | ** After Mordecai, Rigby and Skips see Benson naked, his gumball flap rises straight up. |
| 283 | * SoundtrackDissonance: |
| 284 | ** A bar brawl backed by Pops singing a karaoke version of ''Footloose''. |
| 285 | ** As Mordecai, Rigby and Muscle Man are running from the exploding K.I.L.I.T. radio station, the song Muscle Man wrote for Starla plays in the background. |
| 286 | ** "Holly Jolly Christmas" playing over slow-motion footage of Muscle Man getting viciously pranked in an act of LaserGuidedKarma, including clam chowder exploding in his face and having an angry elf beat him up. |
| 287 | * SpaceWhaleAesop: Eat healthy or your body will quit on you [[spoiler: as in your body will rip your soul out and run away. Also happens if you exercise too much.]] |
| 288 | * SpillStainSabotage: In one episode, after Benson's extensive use of cameras around the park to spy on Mordecai and Rigby gets out of hand, the duo resort to using a cappuccino "hacking device" by spilling it to shut down all the cameras. |
| 289 | * SpinningOutOfHere: In the episode "Dizzy", when the characters spin around until they fall over, they are sent to a bizarre otherworld. |
| 290 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: Muscle Man and his girlfriend Starla, their [[RomanticPlotTumor relationship focus]] has been getting an extraordinary amount of focus compared to even Mordecai and Rigby. |
| 291 | * StableTimeLoop: Initially used in "Bad Kiss," then totally thrown away. At the beginning of the episode Mordecai, Rigby, Margaret and Eileen reference a bunch of confusting {{Noodle Incident}}s - which, as it turns out, [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast Mordecai and Rigby caused while time traveling to prevent Mordecai's bad kiss.]] But then they kidnap Mordecai's past self and the whole StableTimeLoop thing just goes straight out the window. |
| 292 | * StalkerShot: In Season 2 "[[Recap/RegularShowS02Ep20ReallyRealWrestling Really Real Wrestling]]", when Mordecai, Rigby, and Pops sneaks out from the House to go watch a wrestling match, Pop is [[MistakenIdentity mistaken for the wrestler Huge Head]] and takes his place in the match. After winning the match and they return to the House, the camera cuts to the bushes by the House where Huge Head's head emerges from the bushes and he's not happy about Pops unintentionally stealing his place and plans to steal Pops's identity as revenge. It goes nowhere until "[[Recap/RegularShowS06E22MenInUniform Men in Uniform]]". |
| 293 | * StalkerWithACrush: Eileen to Rigby. First noted in "Do Me A Solid", when Mordecai notices that Eileen is staring at Rigby from the other side of the Coffee Shop. |
| 294 | ** Subverted in "Diary", Margaret forgot to tell Mordecai and Rigby that she asked Eileen to water her plants since she had the guest room for the weekend. The night before Margaret revealed this, Rigby confessed that his biggest secret was that he thinks Eileen is hot without her glasses on. Guess who comes to serve their coffee without her glasses? |
| 295 | *** This was subverted in the fact that Eileen heard Rigby say this while she was (unknowingly to Rigby) in the guest room |
| 296 | * StandardSnippet: |
| 297 | ** In "Fancy Restaurant", in the scene where Muscle Man looks into the restaurant's window, the first movement of Music/AntonioVivaldi's Concerto No. 1 in E Major (better known as the first movement of his Spring concerto) plays. |
| 298 | ** In "Steak Me Amadeus", the first movement of Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart's Symphony No. 25 in G Minor plays in the background during the climactic gunfight. |
| 299 | * StartsWithTheirFuneral: |
| 300 | ** "Over The Top" begins with [[spoiler:Rigby's death]]. |
| 301 | ** "Trucker Hall of Fame" begins with [[spoiler:Muscle Dad's death]]. |
| 302 | * StatusQuoIsGod: Mordecai and Margaret's relationship seems perpetually static. No matter how many moments they share together, no matter how much time they spend together, they still aren't dating and still act sheepish around each other. Even Mordecai singing a song about how hot she is, how much fun he has around her, and directly saying that he'd like to be more than friends doesn't seem to change anything.\ |
| 303 | The same situation is with Mordecai and Rigby's job - Benson always tells them it is their last chance to do something right or they'll be fired. How they are still employed is a mystery. |
| 304 | * StealthPun: In "Really Real Wrestling," one of the wrestlers Mordecai, Rigby, and Pops fight is a wrestler who's dressed in a fireman's hat and can breathe fire. He's called the Fire Fighter. |
| 305 | ** More than that, Pops beats him using a wrestling move called a Fireman's Carry. |
| 306 | ** In the first Halloween ep, the final story has Muscle Man [[spoiler: flayed alive without any skin left. He really was a Muscle Man]]. |
| 307 | ** [[spoiler: In "Exit 9B", GBF Jr. builds an exit ramp to a portal that releases all of the deceased villains from the center of the earth.]] In other words, it's a [[Music/{{ACDC}} Highway to Hell.]] |
| 308 | ** Why does Pops ALWAYS fall for Mordecai and Rigby's schemes? He's a GIANT sucker! |
| 309 | * StuffBlowingUp: In "A Bunch of Baby Ducks", a man explodes after being karate-chopped. With a mushroom cloud and everything. The show is usually much less egregious about this. |
| 310 | ** Enforced, as well. The showrunners generally found the ratings board were more agreeable with onscreen deaths if they happened via explosion. |
| 311 | * SubvertedCatchPhrase: |
| 312 | --> '''Benson''': Muscle Man, have you seen Pops at all today? |
| 313 | --> '''Muscle Man''': Yeah, and you know who ''else'' has seen Pops today? |
| 314 | --> '''Benson''': (''dryly'') Who, your mom? |
| 315 | --> '''Muscle Man''': I wasn't gonna say that! Why does everyone always think I'm gonna say "my mom"? |
| 316 | * SuckECheeses: One is featured in "Fuzzy Dice". Bonus points for the crappy animatronic animal band being [[spoiler: a group of criminals who were waiting for the right moment to snatch the Fuzzy Dice for themselves and the uncut diamonds found within.]] |
| 317 | * SuckSessor: Jeremy and Chad of "Replaced." They are actually able to complete Mordecai and Rigby's jobs despite constant interruptions and distractions, however at the end of the day they decide that the job is just not worth the hassle. |
| 318 | * SuperstitionEpisode: The episode "Fortune Cookie" shows Benson getting a streak of good luck, while Rigby gets the opposite. When the group visits a Chinese restaurant and Benson gets a fortune of good luck while Rigby gets the opposite, Rigby becomes jealous and switches the fortunes when Benson's not looking. Benson reads his new fortune, which predicts bad luck, and mindlessly discards it. The rest of the episode shows Benson on a streak of bad luck, with Rigby getting the opposite. |
| 319 | * SurprisinglyCreepyMoment: "Brain Eraser" is one of the nastier episodes, in no small part because of its premise (Mordecai walking in on a naked Pops). |
| 320 | %% ** The HalloweenEpisode is, in a word, legitimately creepy. The Regular Show NF page is dedicated to that one episode! |
| 321 | * SurprisinglyMundaneReason: This show usually subverts this trope, as the characters will start off doing something mundane only for a series of strange circumstances to turn it into something crazy/unusual. But occasionally, this trope will be played straight. For example, in one episode Skips tries to help Mordecai and Rigby with their computer. They keep refusing his help, and he takes it to mean that they don't believe he can fix it (which deeply hurts him, seeing as how he's the park's handyman). When the episode ends and the computer's fixed, however, it's revealed that the real reason why they didn't want Skips to help. The computer broke while they were trying to print something: a thank-you note to Skips for all of the times he's helped them get out of trouble. Skips is touched. |
| 322 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In "Return of Mordecai and the Rigbys", the guys (competing to win an air conditioner) destroy their instruments before a battle of the bands, but rock so hard they make instruments out of pure nothingness and blow the competition away, complete with a visit from an ElementalEmbodiment of cold. This is a fairly normal situation for them. [[spoiler:But that was [[SuccessHallucinations a hallucination]]. They actually collapsed of heatstroke before they even began singing and wound up in the hospital, thus losing the contest.]] |
| 323 | * SurrealHumor |
| 324 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In "Peeps", when Mordecai list responsible things Benson can't trust them to do, Rigby "helps" by mentioning that they also can't be trusted to not fart in Benson's coffee when he's not looking. |
| 325 | ** Too many [=TVs=]! Take your pick! We're practically giving them away! No, wait! We're literally giving them away! LITERALLY! We're practically literally giving [=TVs=] away! Literally! |
| 326 | * SwordCane: The Creepy Duck Man owns one that he uses to threaten Mordecai and Rigby after they crash his truck. |
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| 330 | [[folder:T]] |
| 331 | * TakeOurWordForIt: Mordecai's 10th solid. |
| 332 | * TakeThat: Dudetime Cologne from "The Unicorns Have Got to Go" is a pretty clear parody of the advertising for AXE body spray. It's probably not a coincidence that it attracts {{jerkass}} unicorns instead of hot ladies. |
| 333 | ** In "But I Have A Receipt" we get simultaneous Take Thats at TabletopRPG fans (being [[SeriousBusiness overly defensive]]), detractors (who [[ItsHardSoItSucks demand games be simple and easy to pick up]]) ''and'' the games themselves (primarily ones with LoadsAndLoadsOfRules and {{Palette Swap}}s). |
| 334 | ** In "Video Game Wizard", [[spoiler:when Rigby tries out the new power glove they won at a video game tournament, he notices how it doesn't work... just like the actual Power Glove. "Dude, this glove sucks!"]] |
| 335 | ** In "That's My Television", the network that holds RG-B2 against his will is likely an exaggeration of the strategies of other networks. |
| 336 | ** "K.I.L.I.T. Radio" is pretty much an attack on "preprogrammed" radio stations. |
| 337 | ** To say the show's creators were displeased with the poor quality of the tie-in action figures made by Jazwares would be an understatement- an entire episode was dedicated to insulting the things(for those unaware, the Jazwares toy company is notorious for releasing toys that break easily- sometimes breaking in the packages). Apparently the series staff had no involvement in making the licensing deal with Jazwares, it was handled by Cartoon Network executives. |
| 338 | * TakeTheWheel: This is often said by Skips when the characters are being chased by the MonsterOfTheWeek, usually when they are driving a golf cart. |
| 339 | * TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:The FinalBattle ends with Pops hugging Anti-Pops, [[GoodHurtsEvil weakening him with brotherly love]] enough for Pops to restrain him as both fall into a star and die.]] |
| 340 | * TalkingToTheDead: Rigby when he thinks Mordecai is dead. |
| 341 | -->'''Rigby''': How am I doing? Huh, Mordecai? Am I doing all right? "Yeah, Rigby, you're doing good!" |
| 342 | * TechnologyMarchesOn: [[invoked]] The "Format Wars" episodes deal with this as a main topic. While the first episode deals with the rivalry between Laserdisc and VHS, the second episode deals with the rise of [=DVDs=] and eventually the Internet against Laserdiscs. |
| 343 | ** The second one is especially confusing, since everyone treats [=DVDs=] and the Internet like they're novel concepts [[ItWillNeverCatchOn that will never catch on]], despite the episode being released in a day and age where they have both outshined their predecessors and grown to gargantuan popularity (and perhaps the Internet is on the way of overshadowing [=DVDs=]). |
| 344 | * TelephoneTeleport: In the episode "Fool Me Twice," the phone number that Mordecai and Rigby have to call for their chance to participate in a Japanese game show has to be called from a landline. As it turns out, it's because the "lucky" contestants get transmitted through the phone line straight to the studio. |
| 345 | * TemporalParadox: This happens when Mordecai and Rigby refuse to lip sync a song that Future!Mordecai and Future!Rigby claim is not only the reason for their success, but entire existence. The two future beings then disappear after Mordecai breaks up the band. |
| 346 | * TemptingFate: In "Mordecai and Rigby Down Under", the Australian Prime Minister is shown having an interview in an airport about his stomach surgery. The minister says that the surgery was a success, but there is a stitched scar on his stomach that will kill him if punched. One of the interviewers jokes, "Who would do that?" [[spoiler:Cut to an angry Angus racing through the airport, wanting to do just that.]] |
| 347 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: A subtle one. Mordecai's beak is straight, while Margaret's is slightly curved. |
| 348 | * ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Quips' wife Monica seems to be incapable of laughter and can only express that she finds Quips funny in words. |
| 349 | * ThatsNoMoon: The moon is hiding a huge Medieval castle-styled basketball stadium in the sky. |
| 350 | * ThirdOptionLoveInterest: [[spoiler:Rather than Margaret or CJ, Mordecai's eventual wife is an unnamed vampire bat woman.]] |
| 351 | * ThirteenIsUnlucky: "Busted Cart" features Highway 13, the most dangerous in the country. |
| 352 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: Skips, having SeenItAll, frequently lampshades whatever catastrophe is going to happen before it happens. His warnings are generally ignored, of course. |
| 353 | * ThrowingTheFight: In "Death Punchies," Mordecai throws a game of Punchies against Rigby so they don't die in lava, since [[TheDeterminator Rigby wouldn't quit using the Death Punch on him until he finally won.]] |
| 354 | ** Skips does this during a video game tournament when Mordecai tries to switch him out for Rigby on the excuse that Skips' hand was hurt. |
| 355 | --->'''Referee:''' ''"His hand doesn't look injured to me."'' |
| 356 | --->''[=*Skips punches the metal wall, then removes his mangled hand from the hole.*=]'' |
| 357 | --->'''Skips:''' ''"Wanna check again?"'' |
| 358 | * TimeDilation: In "Slam Dunk", Mordecai and Rigby play basketball against Muscle Man and the God Of Basketball and their game ends taking them into space. Once they come back down to Earth, they find out that they've been gone for 2 months. |
| 359 | * TimeTravel: In "It's Time", after [[spoiler: Mordecai kills Rigby.]] |
| 360 | ** Again in "Bad Kiss", to prevent Mordecai and Margaret's first kiss using a time machine that Rigby bought for fifteen dollars. |
| 361 | ** "Trash Boat" sees Rigby targeted by a rock star from the future dead set on killing him for stealing his fame prematurely. |
| 362 | * TimeSkip: The grand finale of the show ends with [[spoiler:the Park finally returning from space, with a news anchor confirming that 3 years had passed since it first launched. The ensuing montage shows the main cast moving on with their lives, with Mordecai and Rigby returning to the Park 25 years later]]. |
| 363 | * ToHellAndBack: Muscle Man's brother John rides his truck out of Hell to scold Mordecai and Rigby for insulting his mom. |
| 364 | ** Susan rises straight from Hell after Benson thought he killed her. |
| 365 | * ToServeMan: The intent of the strange, Creator/TimCurry-led hot dog cult. |
| 366 | ** [[IAmAHumanitarian At least, before]] [[ITasteDelicious the mustard comes out.]] |
| 367 | * TomeOfEldritchLore: ''The Hungry Hungry Soul-Sucking Deathworm'' in "Dead at Eight". |
| 368 | * TooDumbToLive: Rigby in "Eggscellent". He has an allergy to eggs and knows it, but still tries to eat a ''twelve-egg omelette'' for a net hat, believing if he ate fast enough he wouldn't notice. |
| 369 | * TookALevelInBadass: |
| 370 | ** Rigby, to the point of going DrunkWithPower [[spoiler: until Mordecai does it too]]. |
| 371 | ** Arguably Benson in his DayInTheLimelight episode "Benson Be Gone", especially when he [[spoiler: takes a limo and tries to run down the OneWingedAngel version of Susan, dying in the process.. Leon takes his place at the last minute, but still!]] |
| 372 | *** [[spoiler:Benson takes another level in badass in "Stick Hockey", where the titular game is apparently an underground bloodsport complete with rampant death, burning pits, and lots of spikes.]] |
| 373 | ** [[spoiler:Pops]] in "Really Real Wrestling". |
| 374 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Rigby in "Do Me a Solid" and "Wall Buddy". |
| 375 | ** Benson goes up quite a level in dickishness during "The Best Burger In The World". Even [[spoiler: eating the burgers Mordecai and Rigby bought.]] |
| 376 | * TopHeavyGuy: Skips has very thin legs supporting his HeroicBuild. |
| 377 | ** [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] in "One Pull Up". When Rigby applies [[ShoutOut The]] [[LightningCanDoAnything Russian]] to his chest and arms for several hours, he gains so much muscle that his legs cannot support the rest of him and trying to move with his arms [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength destroys his surroundings]]. |
| 378 | * TownGirls: Margaret, CJ, and Eileen fit this trope nicely. Margaret, who's giggly, somewhat demure, and seen dressing up the most often, is the Femme. CJ, who's aggressive and competitive, plays dodgeball and video games, and used to race motocross, is the Butch. Right in the middle as the Neither is nerdy, science-loving Eileen, who isn't as giggly or girly as Margaret yet not as aggressive as CJ. |
| 379 | * TrailersAlwaysSpoil: A promo for "Night Owl" depicts the very last scene of the episode. |
| 380 | ** A promo for Season 4 revealed that in "Terror Tales of the Park II," [[spoiler:Jan is actually a giant man-eating spider.]] |
| 381 | * TrainingMontage: Pops undergoes one in "No Train No Gain", but the montage itself starts to interfere with the daily lives of Mordecai and Rigby. They decide to change it up a little by switching out the music to the 5 and a half minute long "Through the Fire and Flames." The amped up speed of the music starts to make things worse by speeding up Pop's training and getting everyone else sucked into the montage itself. |
| 382 | * TrueCompanions: There are moments when the group seems to be close to or evolving into this. While they don't always get along, they are shown to really care for one another at certain moments, such as Benson [[spoiler:facing off against Susan to save them all and nearly making a HeroicSacrifice to do so (Utopia took his place, but its clear)]] and the climax of "This Is My Jam" when Skips and the others come to help [[spoiler:defeat the living EarWorm]] without even being asked. |
| 383 | * TwistEnding: "The End of Muscle Man". [[spoiler:We spend a good chunk of the episode thinking that the episode's gonna end with Muscle Man ''dying''. But a quick moment after we see his body, he suddenly gets up and rips his clothes off as Death plays music. Then there's a double whammy when we see Muscle Man ''proposing'' to Starla.]] Understandably, everyone (except Fives) is really pissed off, especially Benson, [[spoiler:who spent ''$12,000'' for Muscle Man to complete his bucket list.]] |
| 384 | * TWordEuphemism: "How in the ''H'' are we gonna get rid of this ''S''?" in the first episode. ''H'' is also used in later episodes. |
| 385 | [[/folder]] |
| 386 | |
| 387 | [[folder:U-V]] |
| 388 | * UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode: |
| 389 | ** The Christmas Special turned out to be this.[[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.]] |
| 390 | ** "Fuzzy Dice" as well. [[spoiler:The leader of the enemy gang is seconds away from shooting Rigby execution-style when the gang gets KilledOffForReal in a shoot-out with the FBI (tempered only by the fact that they're robots).]] |
| 391 | * UngratefulBastard: Rigby, after being saved by his friends from Doug 'The Doppelganger' Sheblowski, manages to be an UngratefulBastard at ''Temp Check" |
| 392 | --> '''Doug:''' [[VillainHasAPoint ...A guy like me, doesn’t have a lot to be thankful, but you, you got friends, a job, a nice work and a warm bed. You’ve got a good thing going here, never forget that]]. |
| 393 | --> '''Rigby:''' What a windbag!, I thought he’d never shut up. I can’t believe you guys thought he was me. You must feel like idiots, right? |
| 394 | ** In "Fortune Cookie", Rigby's streak of successes leads him to become an arrogant jerkass. In actual fact it's only because he had a streak of good luck, that he only got by being switching his "bad luck" fortune cookie message with Benson's "good luck" one (which caused Benson to have a streak of bad luck). |
| 395 | * {{Unicorn}}: "The Unicorns Have Got to Go." They're punky/gothy AmbiguouslyGay party animals who substitute periods with "bro" and are attracted by the scent of [=DudeTime=] cologne. They also never say no to drag racing. |
| 396 | * TheUnreveal: The setting of the show. In "Prank Callers", after traveling back in time to 1982, the gang gets back to their own time by looking at which door holds their time period. Theirs is simply named "Present Day". |
| 397 | * UnstoppableRage: Benson in "Jinx" has an outburst that's much like this, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQdfvuwufm4 as seen here]]. |
| 398 | ** Also Skips in "Over the Top", to the point where he even [[spoiler:accidentally kills Rigby while arm wrestling]]. |
| 399 | * UnusualEuphemism: "Lady pecs", "junk mail" and "watering the flowers". |
| 400 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Rigby's reaction to [[spoiler:the physical manifestation of an EarWorm appearing]] in "This Is My Jam" is, while surprised, not ''nearly'' as shocked as one would expect him to be. |
| 401 | ** Well, going by the stuff he has seen before, said manifestation is downright mundane. |
| 402 | * UnusualUserInterface: In "Skips vs Technology", Techmo literally plugs himself into the house computer with a USB cable. |
| 403 | ** He also has a security system in his [=DeLorean=] set up to recognize his fingerprint. |
| 404 | * UnwantedAssistance: Rigby gives this to Mordecai in "Meat Your Maker". |
| 405 | * UrbanLegends: The MonsterOfTheWeek, [[spoiler:Ybgir]] from "Jinx" seems to be inspired by the legend of Bloody Mary. |
| 406 | ** Though most of it isn't heard, Thomas' story at the start of the third Halloween special is obviously based on the urban legend about the Killer Inside The House. Though he messes up the WhamLine "The call is coming from '''inside''' the house" by saying "The call is coming from '''outside''' the house" first. |
| 407 | * VagueAge: Averted in the first episode, where it's revealed Mordecai and Rigby are both 23 years old. The other characters, however, have no set age. The closest we know are from the storyboard artist's Formspring pages. Pops is over 100, Skips is hundreds of years old, and Benson is anywhere from 25-35. |
| 408 | * VerbalTic: |
| 409 | ** Mordecai and Rigby's "Hmm hmm hmm hmm". |
| 410 | ** The Death Kwon Do teacher has a verbal tic... [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of death]]. |
| 411 | ** "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" |
| 412 | * VillainTeamUp: In "Skips Strikes", the bowling team Mordecai, Rigby, Skips, and Benson have to beat is made up of Death, the leader of the Guardians of Youth, Gary, and the wizard Rigby stole The Power from. |
| 413 | ** [[spoiler:"Exit 9B" has Garret Bobby Ferguson Jr. open a portal to the underworld, resurrecting all the previous villains. Strangely, the unicorns aren't among them.]] |
| 414 | * VillainousBreakdown: In "Go Viral", The Warden of the Internet goes ''berserk'' after seeing that [[spoiler:Mordecai and Rigby had freed all her prisoners.]] |
| 415 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: CJ. In "Real Date", she turned into gigantic storm cloud and ''killed'' Matchmaker [=McIntyre=] after he shot Mordecai with a bazooka. |
| 416 | * TheVirus: The fate of anyone attacked by the monster in "Jinx". |
| 417 | ** Techmo in "Skips vs. Technology". |
| 418 | ** The white creatures in Guy's Night will turn you into one of them if they bite you. |
| 419 | * VisualPun: |
| 420 | ** The monster from Rock Paper Scissors seems to be wearing a tie. |
| 421 | ** Rigby also has two Fist Pump toy guns that control figurative arm guns that fist pump. |
| 422 | ** Mordecai and Rigby are trying to beat a video game boss. Mordecai shouts "Kick him in the junk!" Cut back to the TV, and they're kicking him in the pile of trash he's holding. |
| 423 | * VocalEvolution: Mordecai and Rigby became more enthusiastic after the pilot. Also, Skips became a lot less stilted and gruff. |
| 424 | ** This goes back further to ''2 in the AM PM''. Quintel used the more "sleepy" delivery for Mordecai, and Sam Marin's voice for Benson was noticeably more subdued. |
| 425 | * VitriolicBestBuds: |
| 426 | ** Mordecai and Rigby are possibly the best example of this trope. They've been friends all their lives and care about one another (not that they'd ever admit it), but that doesn't stop them from insulting, pranking, or punching one another at a moment's notice. |
| 427 | ** All of the park employees (minus Pops) seem to be this to each other, as they constantly insult or prank one another yet they've also risked their lives for each other countless times. |
| 428 | [[/folder]] |
| 429 | |
| 430 | [[folder:W]] |
| 431 | * WayPastTheExpirationDate: Mordecai and Rigby find cans of soda from 1984 in their attic. |
| 432 | * WeirdnessMagnet: Mordecai and Rigby. No matter how mundane their assigned task, no matter how minor their everyday, humdrum problem... they somehow find a way to transform it into a beautifully strange epic adventure. |
| 433 | * WhamEpisode: |
| 434 | ** "Steak Me Amadeus": [[spoiler:Mordecai finally works up the courage to ask Margaret to be his girlfriend. Even in the midst of a sting operation and a shootout with the animatronics from "Fuzzy Dice". However, she reveals that her dream college finally accepted her, so she has to turn him down. Needless to say, Mordecai is left depressed in the aftermath.]] |
| 435 | ** "New Year's Kiss": [[spoiler:Rigby tries to stop Mordecai from kissing an unknown girl on the advice of his future self. At first he thinks it's the girl they met at the coffee house who later reveals she was just stringing Mordecai along just to make her former boyfriend jealous. The whole thing turns out to be point as Mordecai figures its out on his own... but then he runs into a girl who kisses him on a whim . When unmasked, it's revealed it's CJ, the girl Mordecai was courting to try to forget about Margaret in ''Yes Dude Yes'' leading to a very awkward moment. ]] |
| 436 | ** "The Real Thomas" reveals that [[spoiler:Thomas is actually a Russian spy named Nicolai, who's been using his GenericGuy status to hide his true motives: research the park so that Russian parks can be as good as American parks. He gets a HeelFaceTurn at the end once he realizes that the friendships he made at the park were real, and that the Russia actually plots to destroy the United States, but he still decides to leave the park, mostly because technically he's now a wanted criminal in two countries.]] |
| 437 | ** "Merry Christmas Mordecai": [[spoiler:Mordecai and Margaret finally move on in their relationship, and in the heat of the moment they kiss... only to have CJ catch them and leave the Christmas party in tears, leaving her and Mordecai's relationship up in the air.]] |
| 438 | ** "The End of Muscle Man": [[spoiler:No, the episode doesn't end with Muscle Man dying, although we (and the coworkers) spend the whole episode believing so. The episode actually ends with Muscle Man proposing to Starla and her accepting.]] |
| 439 | ** "Pops' Favorite Planet": [[spoiler:The planet Pops loved seeing in his telescope every occasion gives him psychic powers that grow every time he sees it. Mordecai, Rigby, and Skips don't even know what just happened and what Pops really is.]] |
| 440 | ** "Rigby's Graduation Day Special": [[spoiler:The entire dome experiment through the season ended with the crew forced back to the park after Rigby graduated to push the button after being asked not to in the last few episodes... launching them into space while everyone else watched them leave and getting left behind! As Mr. Maellard looks on with tears in his eyes, Dr. Langer told him "Don't worry. He'll be safe." He was referring to Pops which means the planet he saw may have something to do with it! Oh and, Eileen is with the crew as she was home before them although not knowing what's going on.]] |
| 441 | ** "One Space Day At A Time": [[spoiler:It's not just the park in the dome that has been launched into space but so are the rest of the parks all over the world! After managing to get a message from Earth, the text replies "TRUST NO ONE" as a ship looms toward the dome.]] |
| 442 | ** "Cool Bro Bots": [[spoiler:A new cast of characters appear who know a lot about the domed park and instead of guiding them to Earth, they guide to elsewhere.]] |
| 443 | ** "The Dream Warrior": [[spoiler:Pops is told that the Nightmare Alien was summoned by HIMSELF. Elsewhere, there is a being who looks similar to Pops who comments with a BorrowedCatchphrase, "Bad show..."]] |
| 444 | ** There's also the very last episode, which, among other things, features the death of one of the main characters: [[spoiler: Pops Maellard]]. |
| 445 | * WhamLine: |
| 446 | ** In "House Rules", [[spoiler:when Future Mordecai tells his present self "... You know what else you're gonna miss? That guy (Rigby). Enjoy him, while you got him. You know what I'm saying?"]] |
| 447 | ** Two in "Eggscellent": [[spoiler:when Rigby falls into an allergy induced coma, Benson says that this should teach the others to not slack off their jobs and do something stupid. Mordecai decks him for this and tells him that the rest of the workers are just friends with him because he's their boss.]]. |
| 448 | ** At the end of "Portable Toilet", Rigby remarks that [[spoiler:"CJ's really cool", and Mordecai replies, "Yeah. She is." Even though they're JustFriends, he still has feelings for her!]] |
| 449 | ** From the end of "Eileen Flat Screen": [[spoiler: "I'm Margaret Smith and it's great to be back in town."]] |
| 450 | ** In "Merry Christmas Mordecai", after Mordecai and Margaret find themselves kissing. |
| 451 | -->'''[[spoiler:CJ]]''': [[spoiler:Mordecai?]] |
| 452 | ** "The Dream Warrior" reveals who is the new villain sent by the Nightmare Alien who has a certain connection to Pops. [[spoiler:The Nightmare Alien said "Um, you did." and later, a dark figure who looks like Pops comments, "Bad show... Bad show indeed."]] |
| 453 | * WhamShot: An almighty one near the end of "Steak Me Amadeus": [[spoiler:Margaret showing Mordecai the acceptance letter that she got from her dream school, which means that she can't be with him.]] |
| 454 | * WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Lots of episodes. "Appreciation Day" is a particularly strong example. |
| 455 | * WhatDidIDoLastNight: "Karaoke Video" starts out like this. Mordacai and Rigby don't remember saying any of the mean things to their co-workers while they sang "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister. They only find out when they replay the tape of their performance the next day. |
| 456 | ** Mordecai didn't remember ordering fake band t-shirts in "Mordecai & The Rigbys," either. |
| 457 | ** Who can forget their wild orgy-like party in "Replaced" that Benson yelled at them for? |
| 458 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In "Guy's Night", Thomas is sent out to get chips and just disappears for the rest of the episode. How long does getting chips even take? |
| 459 | * WhatTheHellHero: |
| 460 | ** Father Time gives one to Mordecai after [[spoiler:Mordecai kills Rigby by thowing him into the time stream.]] |
| 461 | ** Mordecai himself gives one to Skips after Skips [[spoiler:kills Rigby in a bought of rage.]] |
| 462 | ** Mordecai, Rigby and Skips all give Benson this treatment after he gets rid of Mordecai and Rigby's stick hockey table, even after he gave them his word he wouldn't get rid of it if they did their work and didn't wait to see if they would. |
| 463 | ** Benson gets ''another one'' in "Eggscellent" after [[spoiler:he claims that Rigby being put into a life threatening coma is his own fault. Mordecai actually ''punches'' him and tells him that the only reason anybody puts up with him is because he signs their paychecks.]] |
| 464 | ** Mordecai gets this from Skips in "Video Game Wizards" when he jeopardizes his friendship with Rigby to win the Maximum Glove. |
| 465 | * WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The series finale concludes with this, covering the next 25 years. |
| 466 | ** [[spoiler: Mordecai realizes his dream of becoming a painter, gains fame, and eventually marries and starts a family with a bat girl he met at one of his art shows. As for his relationship with Margaret and CJ, WordOfGod states that CJ pretty much moved on from Mordecai to become a professional dodgeball player while Margaret is still Mordecai's platonic friend, only she's too busy to see him because she has a job as a field reporter]]. |
| 467 | ** [[spoiler: Rigby marries Eileen, and the two have several children together, whom Rigby quickly introduces to video games]] |
| 468 | ** [[spoiler: Upon returning to Earth, Muscle Man finds out that Starla was pregnant when he disappeared, and is introduced to his now three-year old daughter. Over the next few decades, the two have several more children and the family move into a nicer trailer]]. |
| 469 | ** [[spoiler: Skips still works at the park. He never gets married or dates because he's still heartbroken over Desdemona, but that doesn't bother him. The only things different about him are that he wears shorts now and he's a mentor to a new crop of park workers]]. |
| 470 | ** [[spoiler: High Five Ghost reunites with Celia, and together, they become a popular DJ duo touring through Europe and eventually have a child.]] |
| 471 | ** [[spoiler: Benson is now the head of the park and reunites with his girlfriend, Pam (the scientist from the season seven "Dome" arc). They don't have any children, but they do become pet parents, caring for Pam's four cats and Benson's pig, Applesauce]]. |
| 472 | ** [[spoiler: Pops is memorialized immediately after the media circus revolving around the park crew's return. Eventually, Mr. Maellard dies too, and, at the reunion, a memorial statue is erected in his honor]]. |
| 473 | ** [[spoiler: The park crew remains friends, and often get together in the park, bringing their families along, eventually joined by their in-laws and grandchildren. Mordecai and Rigby are still best friends to this day and aren't as immature as they used to be]]. |
| 474 | ** [[spoiler: Pops watches all of this on a Hanatonic TV/VCR combo in Heaven while butterflies flitter around it and is happy that everyone he's known and befriended in his life are getting along without him. He comments, "Jolly good show" as he ejects the video which is titled Regular Show]]. |
| 475 | * WhereTheHellIsSpringfield?: The location of the city where the series takes place doesn't have a clearly defined location--in fact, the city [[CityWithNoName appears to be named "City"]]. All we know about it is that there's a large desert and a national park nearby, and that it's 94 miles from a major convention center ("Video Game Wizards"). As for location, the closest we have is in "Prankless" where the rival park's (East Pines) command post shoots into space as part of Muscle Man's prank, and an image of the city is shown over the Midwest, closer to the south (possibly in the Sunbelt region). Radio call signs also start with "K", putting the location west of the Mississippi River. In "Firework Run", the guys also travel south to get fireworks from a Latino person. Given the above, it's likely that the town is located in Texas, New Mexico, or even Arizona to be close to the Mexican border. In "Skips vs. Technology", during 1783, the park was a battleground during the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution American Revolutionary War]] so the location has to be somewhere that was part of the war at the time. In "A Skips in Time", the park and city are hit by a tornado, further reinforcing they're in the Midwest and likely Texas specifically (although tornadoes can happen almost anywhere in the continental United States, they're just ''much'' more common in Tornado Alley). |
| 476 | ** With GeographicFlexibility in play it got tougher, as some episodes showed the city being near the ocean or some other large body of water; other episodes hinted it could be in California, or even South Carolina. |
| 477 | * WholeEpisodeFlashback: "First Day", which is an expanded and [[ArtEvolution evolved]] version of the original pilot. |
| 478 | * AWinnerIsYou: "Rage Against the TV". |
| 479 | * WomanScorned: Mordecai dumps Starla. She goes on a [[PersonOfMassDestruction mass rampage]] until Muscle Man manages to hook up with her again. |
| 480 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: After losing at Punchies one too many times, Rigby forces everyone to be his slave by learning [[MegatonPunch Death Punch]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Of Death]] and owning everyone with it. ''All because he wanted to win against Mordecai for once.'' |
| 481 | --> '''Rigby:''' '''[[TheDeterminator I'M NOT QUITTING 'TILL I WIIIIIN!!]]''' |
| 482 | * WordSaladTitle: An in-show anime called ''Planet Chaser Starlight Excellent''. |
| 483 | * TheWorfEffect: |
| 484 | ** The first two people that [[spoiler:the Hammer]] takes out are [[StoutStrength Muscle Man]] and [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Skips.]] |
| 485 | ** Skips gets similar treatment by the final zombie of the Zombocalypse episode. |
| 486 | ** This also happens to Skips and Muscle Man when Rigby learns the Death Punch. |
| 487 | * WorfHadTheFlu: This is usually happens in most episodes where the Park Employees are in competition with another force that equals or outnumbers them. Such as the Country Club and The World's Best Boss's employees, even though they all have faced plenty of situations where regular humans should essentially be easy to handle. This especially goes towards Muscle Man and Skips who are the physically strongest members of the park with Skips even having thousands of years of experience under his belt as well as having the ability to usually knock out opponents with one punch and Muscle Man chucking boulders and demolishing several objects with his strength. Yet somehow they had trouble fighting several forces who were completely normal humans. |
| 488 | * WorkplaceHorror: Almost nothing about Mordecai and Rigby's jobs as park caretakers ever actually goes normal. It's not unusual for crazy stuff to happen from the most mundane of tasks. The pilot episode alone results in the two summoning an EldritchAbomination from a game of PaperRockScissors. |
| 489 | * WorldOfChaos: In the vein of its hilariously ironic title, the Regular Show universe is '''''wack'''''! Something crazy happens in almost ever episode from video game bosses coming to life to washed-up musicians coming from the future seeking revenge. The world is so crazy things like FunnyAnimals are common and [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight mundane too.]] |
| 490 | * WorthlessCurrency: This is a bit of a RunningGag (even dating all the way back to the creator's student film, ''The Naive Man from Lolliland'') with Pops who comes from Loliland and thus the currency there is lollipops, or he might just be a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. So when Mordecai and Rigby ask for money or he offers to pay himself, his money is worthless. |
| 491 | |
| 492 | [[/folder]] |
| 493 | |
| 494 | |
| 495 | [[folder:X-Z]] |
| 496 | * XCalledTheyWantTheirYBack: A RunningGag in the "Prank Callers" episode: "The [decade] called. They want their [object] back." This being the show that it is, saying that literally sends the object in question back to the decade. |
| 497 | * XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: Muscle Man's seemingly innocent "My Mom!" catchphrase is actually a setup to prank anyone who tries to correct him and tell him the joke is normally ended with "Your Mom!". The prank involves calling his brother, who drives his truck out of the ''pits of hell'', and making the prank victim apologize and kiss a picture of their mom... which is really just a picture of Muscle Man's ass. On the other hand, if they don't take the bait then he gets to annoy them by saying it over and over again, which might be just as bad.]] |
| 498 | * YouAlreadyChangedThePast: Initially used and then totally averted in "Bad Kiss." |
| 499 | * YouDidntAsk: At the end of the episode, Benson actually seems to have enjoyed himself with Mordecai and Rigby despite the usual shenanigans that would no doubt make his temper flare. Mordecai notices this and says the following: |
| 500 | -->'''Mordecai''': Dude, if you wanted to hang out with us so bad, you could've just asked.\ |
| 501 | '''Benson''': ''(Blushing in embarrassment when he realizes that, but tries to mask it with his angry face)'' [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject Give me those stupid patches!]] |
| 502 | * YouDidntSeeThat: At the end of "Diary." |
| 503 | -->'''Skips:''' Do you remember that stuff I said about why I skip?\ |
| 504 | '''Mordecai:''' Yeah.\ |
| 505 | '''Skips:''' '''''[[IWasNeverHere NO YOU DON'T!]]''''' |
| 506 | ** [[spoiler:But Mordecai actually ''did'' remember, and the [[AvertedTrope aversion]] was [[ExploitedTrope exploited]] in "Exit 9B" to restore Skips's memory.]] |
| 507 | * YouNeedABreathMint: In "Bad Kiss", after Mordecai and Margaret kiss, Margaret says she didn't enjoy it because his breath was bad. When he tells Rigby, he scolds him for not using a mint before doing the deed. |
| 508 | * YoureJustJealous: In "It's Time", Rigby claims Mordecai is [[CrazyJealousGuy jealous]] of him after he makes Margaret laugh and when he gets a date with her. Unlike most examples, [[JerkassHasAPoint he's actually right]]. |
| 509 | * YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:GBF explodes when he loses at Broken Bonez. Benson's rant-inducing slight in that episode is triggered solely by being covered in brain goo.]] |
| 510 | ** [[spoiler:And both him and his son at the end of "Exit 9B".]] |
| 511 | * YourMom: Mordecai and Rigby prank Pops by asking him to stay on hold for a call from Joe Mama. Of course, this being Pops, he stays on hold willingly. |
| 512 | ** Rigby uses the "your face" variant in "Rigby's Body". |
| 513 | ** {{Inverted|Trope}} with Muscle Man, who is fond of making "my mom" jokes. |
| 514 | ** {{Invoked|Trope}} in the episode "My Mom" when Mordecai tries to convince Muscle Man that he should be saying "your mom" instead, and then he and Rigby then give several "your mom" jokes as examples. [[BerserkButton Muscle Man is not amused at all]]. |
| 515 | ** Played straight with the Master Prank Caller; alongside his "Joe Mama" prank calls, when Mordecai tries to prank him by joking that he has 50 pizzas that he ordered, it turns out that he had actually ordered 50 pizzas along with hot wings, which he tells Mordecai to get to his place with quick because "your mom's like totally starving." |
| 516 | * YoureInsane: Rigby to the Warden of the Internet in "Go Viral" after finding out that she'd been imprisoning anyone who'd made viral videos in a FateWorseThanDeath. |
| 517 | * ZombieApocalypse: The premise of ''Zombocalypse'', the movie our duo borrow, and [[spoiler:the localized mass resurrection of the graveyard that occurs soon after.]] |
| 518 | [[/folder]] |
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