Line #16 WesternAnimation/RegularShow


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6	[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} It's anything but.]][[note]]'''Back-to-Front:''' [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Pops]], [[HairTriggerTemper Benson]], [[TheConscience Mordecai]], [[RascallyRaccoon Rigby]], [[TheQuietOne Hi-Five Ghost]], [[LovableJock Muscle Man]], [[SeenItAll Skips]]. '''Missing:''' [[SixthRanger Thomas]], and a lot of other people.[[/note]]]]
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8	->''"You know who likes special entertainment like that? [[MadLibsCatchphrase MY MOM!]]"''
9	-->-- '''Muscle Man''', "[[Recap/RegularShowS01Ep02JustSetUpTheChairs Just Set Up the Chairs]]"
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11	Wait, you want me to do you a solid and [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere describe]] ''[[SurrealHumor Regular Show]]'' [[QuirkyWork here]]?
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13	Alright, but you owe me one later.
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15	So, you got these two 23-year-olds who are best friends. Alright. They work as groundskeepers at a public city park. Pretty normal so far.
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17	They are a giant blue jay and a raccoon named Mordecai and Rigby, respectively, who work for a sentient gumball machine named Benson, and their fellow employees are an immortal yeti named Skips, an overweight, green-skinned guy named Muscle Man, a ghost with a hand on the top of his head named Hi-Five Ghost, and a man with a giant head named Pops.
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19	Episodes of the show often consist of the two nearly causing the end of the world on a daily basis thanks to various impossible and strange events arising from normal, mundane tasks, like playing RockPaperScissors and summoning an inter-dimensional monster after getting one hundred ties in a row.
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21	So yeah, it's a [[TitleDrop regular show]]. Now about that solid...
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23	''Regular Show'' is the brainchild of J.G. Quintel, who was the creative director of ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'', which should [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs explain just about everything]].
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25	Spawned from the ill-fated ''WesternAnimation/{{Cartoonstitute}}'' program and premiering September 6, 2010, the series became a surprise hit, with both it and ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' considered as the start of Creator/CartoonNetwork's renaissance age after years of NetworkDecay. Like ''Adventure Time'', it was a departure from the network's more kid-friendly programming at the time, having clearly been developed with a slightly older demographic in mind (though not quite as raunchy as anything on their sister station Creator/AdultSwim). It became praised for its subdued vibe and naturalistic characters, mixed with the absurd stuff that happens or the edginess of its dialogue (with the characters actually ''swearing'').
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27	GrowingTheBeard set in as the series extensively developed its principal cast members, eventually moving focus away from MonsterOfTheWeek-styled escapades into problems that its milennial audience could relate to, like relationship woes and finding your place in life, while retaining its surrealist bent. Even when the show's setting shifted to ''[[RecycledInSpace outer space]]'' for its final season, it stayed true to its initial appeal. The series ended on January 16, 2017 after 261 episodes and [[WesternAnimation/RegularShowTheMovie a television movie]], making it the first of the network's big [[TheNewTens 2010s]] hits to wrap up.
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29	However, this didn't mean the show was completely over, at least as far as comics are concerned. Creator/KaboomComics started publishing [[ComicBook/RegularShow monthly comics]] in 2013, with the run ending in 2016 at 40 issues. At the same time, graphic novels were released yearly from 2014 to 2017. Near the end of 2017, the comic book universes of ''Regular Show'' and ''ComicBook/AdventureTime'' combined for the six-issue ''ComicBook/{{Adventure Time x Regular Show}}'' {{crossover}} miniseries. Finally, in 2018, another six-issue miniseries comic entitled ''ComicBook/RegularShow25YearsLater'' was released, focusing on the Park Crew as depicted in the show's WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.
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31	After the show wrapped up, Quintel went on to create ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'', a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Regular Show'' aimed directly at older audiences, which was originally scheduled to air on Creator/{{TBS}} in the late [=2010s=], but instead the show premiered on Creator/HBOMax in July 2020.
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33	As a final aside, some of the main characters' designs in ''Regular Show'' come from J.G. Quintel's previous animated student films. Mordecai and Benson were featured in a MushroomSamba in ''WebAnimation/TwoInTheAMPM'' and Pops as a lollipop ambassador in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsUyio0IKEk The Naive Man From Lolliland.]]'' They're both well worth checking out, but definitely not for kids, ''[[NotSafeForWork especially]]'' the former.
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35	[[{{Troperiffic}} Yeah.]]
36	----
37	!!TROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPES
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39	[[index]]
40	* RegularShow/TropesAToM
41	* RegularShow/TropesNToZ
42	[[index]]
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44	----
45	-->''[[spoiler: Jolly good show.]]''

Context WesternAnimation / RegularShow