Free Cake is the 5th episode (overall) and of Season 1 of Cartoon Network's Regular Show.
Mordecai and Rigby decide to throw a surprise party for Skips, who is in the middle of a ritual that ensures his immortality.
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- Birthday Episode: For Skips. And he almost dies in it.
- Bowdlerization:
- In reruns, streaming services, and later DVD releases, the line "Benson's gonna get pissed" is changed to "Benson's gonna get ticked"
- The following edits are in the UK version:
- "But if you morons are lying to me..." was changed to "But if you idiots are lying to me..."
- "Benson's gonna get pissed" is changed to "Benson's gonna go ballistic"
- Muscle Man saying "Skips is gonna be surprised when he comes in and sees us totally naked" is changed to "Skips is gonna be surprised", and "Benson saying It's not that kind of party, Muscle Man!" and Muscle Man saying "Oh...don't turn on the lights!" were also cut.
- Mordecai saying "Dude, I think we just screwed Skips!" and Rigby saying "And ourselves!" is cut.
- Broken Record: "FREE CAKE! FREE CAKE!"
- "No cake... no cake..."
- Does Not Like Spam: Mordecai and Rigby dislike vanilla cake as they wanted chocolate.
- Dumbass Has a Point: When Mordecai and Rigby are in the woods looking for Skips, they hear a strange noise (which turns out to be Skips' birthday ritual). Mordecai decides to check it out; Rigby then points out that normally, if you hear a strange noise in the woods, you don't check it out.
- Epic Fail: Apparently, there is a Free Store around. But even they can’t give the duo any cake, much to their utter frustration.
- Gilligan Cut: Mordecai tells Rigby that they can just get free cake by telling Benson that today is their birthday, with them chanting. Cut to Benson casually telling the two that he knows full well that today is neither of their birthdays.
- MacGuffin: Chocolate cake to Mordecai and Rigby.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Rigby for interrupting Skips' birthday dance to renew his eternal youth to the Guardians.
- A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: Muscle Man thinks that Skips’ birthday party will be like this, so he takes off all his clothes in the dark. But Benson yells that it’s not that kind of party, much to Muscle Man’s embarrassment.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Rigby's "birthday present" to Skips is just a cracked plate he found in the garbage that he redrew with a marker.
- Skewed Priorities: Rigby is more upset about GIVING UP THEIR CHOCOLATE CAKE than having Skips die! Mordecai harshly calls him out over this.Mordecai: Dude, do you want Skips to die on his birthday?
