Mordecai and Skips compete in a major video game tournament in hopes of winning a new game controller called "The Maximum Glove", much to Rigby's dismay that Mordecai would choose Skips over his best friend.
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!!"Video Game Wizards" contains examples of:
* AnAesop: Having fun with your friends is more important than winning.
* AllForNothing: Rigby decides within seconds of using it that the controller isn't very good.
* BodyHorror: The Maximum Glove fuses Mordecai and Rigby into a form so grotesque that everyone gasps and recoils in horror (even Skips), and the tournament referee immediately throws up.
* CruelToBeKind: Mordecai chose Skips as his partner so they could win the glove, specifically to share with Rigby.
* DeusExMachina: Rigby would've lost the tournament badly had the Maximum Glove not given the team a power up.
* EpicFail: The Maximum Glove. Rigby tries it in a video game, and it doesn't even work.
-->'''Rigby:''' Dude. This controller blows.
* {{Fingore}}: Skips intentionally breaks his hand so Rigby can compete with Mordecai instead.
* GlowingEyes: Mordecai and Rigby's combined form.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Rigby spends the entire episode sulking and complaining that Mordecai didn't pick him, even writing a song over it, despite it being readily apparent for the entire run of the show so far that Rigby is not good at games and Mordecai has to literally tell him what to do.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While he was being passive-aggressively smarmy about it, Rigby was right in that Mordecai was prioritizing winning over having a good time, and when Mordecai realizes his error, it gives them the power to win.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Skips quickly and completely breaks his hand when the referee didn't believe his hand was hurt, and gives no reaction to doing so.
-->'''Skips:''' ''(to the referee)'' Wanna check ''again''?
* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Rigby was willing to end his friendship with Mordecai simply because Mordecai didn't immediately choose him as a partner for a video game tournament once. A tournament that Rigby didn't even know about until the day before it started.
* MythologyGag: The convention center where the tournament takes place is named after, and has a statue of, G.B.F., who is implied to be the most famous gamer around.
* NeverMyFault: Rigby assumes Mordecai didn't choose him out of malice, and not because of his own lack of skill. He had to see it first hand and realizes that Mordecai is right.
* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: Skips is fine with Mordecai playing with Rigby in the finals since, besides repairing their friendship, he declares that video games are too easy anyway.
* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: The plot of the episode. The friends don't even break up out of hardship, Rigby is just willing to break up their friendship because Mordecai didn't choose him ''once''.
* PowerGlows: Mordecai and Rigby's combined form with "ultimate gaming power" has a white aura and glowing eyes.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Not only does everyone else in the tournament lose, the Glove tells Mordecai and Rigby that they were the ''first'' people to figure out friendship was more important than winning, implying no one else in the tournament was good friends.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Mordecai and Rigby lose their "ultimate gaming power", and Rigby doesn't even like the controller.
* TakeThat: The Maximum Glove is this to the Nintendo Power Glove, another console advertised as "cool" despite actually being ineffective.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Rigby assumes Skips sucks at video games for no reason, and effectively insults him to his face repeatedly. Skips is not only much better than Rigby, but he declared during the tournament final that the whole contest was too easy.
* WhatTheHellHero: Skips subtly calls out Mordecai for not choosing Rigby, even when he knows that Mordecai has good intentions, and Rigby is the one being a jerk about it.
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