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In order to get more money for tickets to a concert, Mordecai and Rigby have to work themselves too hard. They ended up making a deal with the Giant Coffee Bean and his translator to stay up late.

This episode provides examples of:

  • All for Nothing: Mordecai is onboard for going to this concert in order to get close to Margaret, a girl he likes. However, when he actually gets there, he finds out that she actually has a boyfriend, and she brought him along with her to celebrate.
  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Rigby begs on his knees to Benson about giving them extra work in order to get money for a Fist Bump concert.
  • Big "SHUT UP!": This is the response Rigby has when Mordecai tells him that his life must suck if he thinks going to this concert would be one of the greatest moments of his life.
  • Bowdlerization: In the UK airing, the line in the Fist Pump commercial, "...and they're ready to rock your 11-year-old pants off!" was changed to "...ready to rock your 11-year-old jeans off!" as "pants" in the UK refers to underwear, not outerwear. As for the infamous line about Fist Pump getting out of jail and rehab, neither the UK version nor any version -- including the original US version -- edited the line (even the Eastern European version [Romanian dub], which banned "The Unicorns Have Got to Go" because of gross-out humor, kept in the reference to Fist Pump's stint in jail and rehab [only in the Romanian dub, "rehab" was translated to a word that, when translated literally, means, "drug rehabilitation," making the drug reference more obvious]).
    • Mordecai saying "You're lucky I care about lady pecs" is cut in the UK.
    • The shot of the coffee bean squirting coffee from his nipples into Mordecai and Rigby's mouths is cut in the UK.
    • Benson calling Mordecai and Rigby "morons" is changed to him calling them "idiots" in the UK
    • "Aw crap!" is changed to "Aw crud!" In the UK.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: The boy who Margaret turns out to be actually dating. Once he sees that Margaret is good friends with Mordecai, he tells him that he is dead if he eats closer to Margaret once she’s out of earshot.
  • Deal with the Devil: Mordecai and Rigby resort to this to get their concert tickets in the end.
  • Distracted by the Sexy: After their initial attempt to get tickets fails as the prices were raised, Mordecai suggests to Rigby that they should just give up. But then he immediately catches sight of Margaret in a revealing Fist Pump concert shirt, and he quickly changes his mind.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Giant Coffee Bean gives Mordecai and Rigby coffee by squeezing his nipples on his man boobs, making coffee come out of them and into their mouths.
  • Klatchian Coffee: Mordecai and Rigby do their chores, and they start to get tired. But then they decide to drink coffee, and once they do, they immediately get hyperactive and start working twice as fast.
  • Let Me Get This Straight...: This is Benson's initial response when Mordecai and Rigby approach him to ask for extra work.
    Benson: Let me get this straight. You and Rigby want me to give you overtime, and even though you can't even finish the regular amount of work that you normally have, you want me to add on even more.
    Mordecai: Yes.
    Benson: Ha, ha! No.
  • Noodle Incident: It's not mentioned what Fist Pump did to end up in both jail and rehab (but, if they're anything like most celebrities these days, it was probably something worthy of TMZ).
  • Pokémon Speak: The Giant Coffee Bean's language consists of only one word: "Coffee." Thus Mordecai and Rigby were unable to understand the contract he and his Japanese translator gave them to sign, which was to make enough to buy tickets for them as well.
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Due to them foregoing sleep in favor of consuming high amounts of coffee so that they can work harder, Mordecai and Rigby end up falling asleep during the Fist Pump concert.
  • Unusual Euphemism: Rigby tells Mordecai that he can’t believe he’s going to a Fist Pump concert just for some “lady pecs” as in going there for Margaret.

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