Written and storyboarded by Sean Szeles and Shion Takeuchi
Mordecai and Rigby need to learn to play music in time for an open-mic night they signed up for while in a sugar-induced high, and their future selves arrive to teach them.
Tropes used in this episode:
- Accent Slip-Up: Future Mordecai and Rigby speak with fake British accents that they immediately drop when in a panic.
- Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: Subverted. The guitar picks Future! Mordecai gives the present duo are set up to be the source of Mordecai and Rigby's guitar-playing skills, but it turned out to be a cover for the fact that they were tricking their present selves into lip-syncing.
- An Aesop: Mordecai and Rigby noticed at the end of the show that their future selves stayed famous through lip-syncing. Mordecai makes a speech about the issue.
- Artist and the Band: The end result of the band name that Mordecai and Rigby have.
- Bowdlerise: The UK Edit changes Benson's "Holy Crap!" into "Holy Crud!".
- Cool Shades: Future Mordecai and Rigby have these.
- Fake Brit: In-Universe. Mordecai and Rigby's future selves speak in fake stereotypical British accents. They drop them in a panic.
- Future Badass: Future Mordecai and Rigby seem to be these. But then see below.
- Future Loser: Played with; while the future versions of Mordecai and Rigby are rich and successful, they are revealed to be talentless frauds by the end.
- Ironic Echo: "I wouldn't wanna ruin the surprise..."
- Ret-Gone: The rockstar versions of Future Mordecai and Rigby cease to exist when Present Mordecai and Rigby tear up their band shirts.
- Slow Clap: Started by Benson of all people.
- That Syncing Feeling: Mordecai and Rigby are revealed to be lip-syncing halfway through their performance. Played With, as Mordecai and Rigby were unaware that they were lip-syncing.
