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Mordecai never denies blame for Benson quitting.


* NeverMyFault: Mordecai calls Benson a jerk for quitting their band in a rage, even though he was the one who instigated him into doing so by going behind his back to make the other band members agree to demote him.

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-> Written and storyboarded by Calvin Wong and Minty Lewis.

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-> Written ->Written and storyboarded by Calvin Wong and Minty Lewis.




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* SuccessHallucinations: It turns out that the band winning was a hallucination caused by the heat wave.

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* SuccessHallucinations: It turns out that the band winning was a hallucination caused by the heat wave.wave.
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* [[spoiler: AllJustADream: The final acapella performance ends up being a heatstroke induced hallucination.]]

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* [[spoiler: AllJustADream: The final acapella performance ends up being a heatstroke induced heatstroke-induced hallucination.]]



* BaitAndSwitch: After destroying each others instruments in a rage and making up, the ending has the band get on stage and rock out so hard they manifest new instruments and win the new air conditioner. [[spoiler:except they don't. They collapsed from heat stroke before they can even perform their set and place last in the contest, and the next time they wake up they're in the hospital.]]

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* BaitAndSwitch: After destroying each others instruments in a rage and making up, the ending has the band get on stage and rock out so hard they manifest new instruments and win the new air conditioner. [[spoiler:except except they don't. They collapsed from heat stroke before they can even perform their set and place last in the contest, and the next time they wake up they're in the hospital.]]



* BizarroEpisode: [[invoked]] [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] Not counting [[spoiler:the SuccessHallucination that happens in the end]], this is the only episode where nothing crazy or supernatural happens.

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* BizarroEpisode: [[invoked]] [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] {{Inverted|Trope}}. Not counting [[spoiler:the SuccessHallucination the {{Success Hallucination|s}} that happens in the end]], end, this is the only episode where nothing crazy or supernatural happens.



** [[Recap/RegularShowS01Ep12MordecaiAndTheRigbys Mordecai And The Rigbys]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin return]].
** Everyone plays the same instruments they did on ''[[Recap/RegularShowS02Ep13ThisIsMyJam This Is My Jam]]''.

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** [[Recap/RegularShowS01Ep12MordecaiAndTheRigbys Mordecai And The and the Rigbys]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin return]].
** Everyone plays the same instruments they did on ''[[Recap/RegularShowS02Ep13ThisIsMyJam in "[[Recap/RegularShowS02Ep13ThisIsMyJam This Is My Jam]]''.Jam]]".



* [[spoiler: CruelTwistEnding]]: PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler:The ending performance turned out to be a dream and they placed last in the Battle of the Bands after collapsing from heat stroke. At least the hospital room they were put in had an AC.]]
* DistractedByTheSexy: Happens of all people to Eileen while seeing a sweaty Rigby rubs a glass of water all over his face. Her pupils really dilate.

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* [[spoiler: CruelTwistEnding]]: CruelTwistEnding: PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler:The The ending performance turned out to be a dream and they placed last in the Battle of the Bands after collapsing from heat stroke. At least the hospital room they were put in had an AC.]]
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Happens of all people to Eileen while seeing a sweaty Rigby rubs rub a glass of water all over his face. Her pupils really dilate.



* ThePowerOfRock: It gives them new instruments... or does it? [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope It]] [[AllJustADream doesn't.]]]]
* RightBehindMe: The rest of Mordecai and the Rigbys are in the bathroom stall, having discussed and agreed to demoting Benson as their leader. Little did they know, Benson was listening on the other side of the stall door, much to his fury.
* RockOpera: Benson has been working in a little thing he calls ''Bensonphonia''.

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* ThePowerOfRock: It gives them new instruments... or does it? [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope [[SubvertedTrope It]] [[AllJustADream doesn't.]]]]
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* RightBehindMe: The rest of Mordecai and the Rigbys are in the bathroom stall, having discussed and agreed to demoting demote Benson as their leader. Little did they know, Benson was listening on the other side of the stall door, much to his fury.
* RockOpera: Benson has been working in on a little thing he calls ''Bensonphonia''.



* SchmuckBait: When Mordecai dissingly bangs a gong on Benson’s drum set, he warns him not to do that again, or he’ll cut the strings on his guitar. Mordecai immediately bangs it again anyway, and Benson does good on his warning, which makes Mordecai angrily start their destruction of their equipment.

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* SchmuckBait: When Mordecai dissingly bangs a gong on Benson’s Benson's drum set, he warns him not to do that again, or he’ll cut the strings on his guitar. Mordecai immediately bangs it again anyway, and Benson does good on his warning, which makes Mordecai angrily start their the destruction of their equipment.



* SuccessHallucinations: [[spoiler: It turns out that the band winning was a hallucination caused by the heat wave]].

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* SuccessHallucinations: [[spoiler: It turns out that the band winning was a hallucination caused by the heat wave]].wave.
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* AuthorTract: In-universe: Mordecai's new song to replace "Keepin' It Cool" seems to be about his frustrations with putting up with Benson's domineering behavior in the band.
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* [[spoiler: CruelTwistEnding]]: PlayedForLaughs. The ending performance turned out to be a dream and they placed last in the Battle of the Bands after collapsing from heat stroke. At least the hospital room they were put in had an AC.

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* [[spoiler: CruelTwistEnding]]: PlayedForLaughs. The [[spoiler:The ending performance turned out to be a dream and they placed last in the Battle of the Bands after collapsing from heat stroke. At least the hospital room they were put in had an AC.]]

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* BaitAndSwitch: After destroying each others instruments in a rage and making up, the ending has the band get on stage and rock out so hard they manifest new instruments and win the new air conditioner. [[spoiler:except they don't. They collapsed from heat stroke before they can even perform their set and place last in the contest, and the next time they wake up they're in the hospital.]]
* BattleOfTheBands: Mordecai and the Rigbys enter one because the band that places first wins a free air conditioner.



* BizarroEpisode: [[invoked]] [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] Not counting [[spoiler:the SuccessHallucination that happens in the end]], this is the only episode where nothing crazy or supernatural happens.



* [[spoiler: CruelTwistEnding]]: PlayedForLaughs.

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* [[spoiler: CruelTwistEnding]]: PlayedForLaughs. The ending performance turned out to be a dream and they placed last in the Battle of the Bands after collapsing from heat stroke. At least the hospital room they were put in had an AC.



* ThePowerOfRock: It gives them new instruments... or does it?

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* ThePowerOfRock: It gives them new instruments... or does it?it? [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope It]] [[AllJustADream doesn't.]]]]
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* TheCakeWasALie: Rigby separately asks Benson and the rest of the Mordecai and the Rigbys to come to the back to the coffee shop with a promise of there being pizza. This was really just a ploy to get them to meet together and work out their differences.

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* TheCakeWasALie: TheCakeIsALie: Rigby separately asks Benson and the rest of the Mordecai and the Rigbys to come to the back to the coffee shop with a promise of there being pizza. This was really just a ploy to get them to meet together and work out their differences.
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* TheCakeWasALie: Rigby separately asks Benson and the rest of the Mordecai and the Rigbys to come to the back to the coffee shop with a promise of there being pizza. This was really just a ploy to get them to meet together and work out their differences.


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* JawDrop: Eileen and Thomas have this reaction upon seeing the exhausted Mordecai and the Rigbys perform.
* NeverMyFault: Mordecai calls Benson a jerk for quitting their band in a rage, even though he was the one who instigated him into doing so by going behind his back to make the other band members agree to demote him.
* OhCrap: When Mordecai comes out of the stall door and sees a livid Benson having heard his discussion with the rest of the band to demote him.


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* RightBehindMe: The rest of Mordecai and the Rigbys are in the bathroom stall, having discussed and agreed to demoting Benson as their leader. Little did they know, Benson was listening on the other side of the stall door, much to his fury.


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* SchmuckBait: When Mordecai dissingly bangs a gong on Benson’s drum set, he warns him not to do that again, or he’ll cut the strings on his guitar. Mordecai immediately bangs it again anyway, and Benson does good on his warning, which makes Mordecai angrily start their destruction of their equipment.
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* {{Earworm}}: ''Keeping It Cool'' is quite catchy.

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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.



* HeatWave.

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* HeatWave.HeatWave: What kicks off the plot. Mordecai and Rigby want to win an air conditioner to cope with the extreme heat.



* SuccessHallucinations.

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* SuccessHallucinations.SuccessHallucinations: [[spoiler: It turns out that the band winning was a hallucination caused by the heat wave]].
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* BritishAccents: Thomas tries one after he decides to be the band's mean British manager.
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** The infamous scene of Eileen being distracted by how hot Rigby was edited to make her being aroused less obvious (though the part where her pupils dilate wasn't altered). In the original scene, Eileen watches Rigby, her eyes are dilated, and she says, in a somewhat dazed voice, "Feel better now?" before coughing, and repeating in her normal voice, "Feel better now, Rigby?" The UK version had part of Eileen asking Rigby if he feels better in a dazed voice, but before she can finish saying "Feeling," the part where she coughs cuts in and the scene plays as normal.

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** The infamous scene of Eileen being distracted by how hot Rigby was edited to make her being aroused less obvious (though the part where her pupils dilate wasn't altered). altered and the edit didn't seem to alter how risque the scene was). In the original scene, Eileen watches Rigby, her eyes are dilated, and she says, in a somewhat dazed voice, "Feel better now?" before coughing, and repeating in her normal voice, "Feel better now, Rigby?" The UK version had part of Eileen asking Rigby if he feels better in a dazed voice, but before she can finish saying "Feeling," "Feel," the part where she coughs cuts in and the scene plays as normal.

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* BritishAccents: Thomas tries one after he decides to be the band's' mean British manager.

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* {{Bowdlerization}}: The following parts were altered when aired on Cartoon Network in the United Kingdom:
**Muscle Man's line "If I don't take 'em [my pants] off, I can't cool 'em off. Simple science, bro" was changed to "You want me to pass out from heat exhaustion? Get over it, bro!"
**The infamous scene of Eileen being distracted by how hot Rigby was edited to make her being aroused less obvious (though the part where her pupils dilate wasn't altered). In the original scene, Eileen watches Rigby, her eyes are dilated, and she says, in a somewhat dazed voice, "Feel better now?" before coughing, and repeating in her normal voice, "Feel better now, Rigby?" The UK version had part of Eileen asking Rigby if he feels better in a dazed voice, but before she can finish saying "Feeling," the part where she coughs cuts in and the scene plays as normal.
**Mordecai's line about breaking up the band changed "Don't want to end up as British dirtbags" to "Don't want to end up as two losers."
* BritishAccents: Thomas tries one after he decides to be the band's' band's mean British manager.
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* ShipTease: Eileen sure [[DistractedByTheSexy does like what she's seeing]].

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* ShipTease: Eileen sure [[DistractedByTheSexy does like what she's seeing]].seeing]].
* SuccessHallucinations.
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* {{Acappella}}: The bands decide to perform that way after breaking their instruments.

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* {{Acappella}}: The bands decide band decides to perform that way after breaking their instruments.



* BritishAccents: Thomas tries one after he decides to be the bands' mean British manager.

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* BritishAccents: Thomas tries one after he decides to be the bands' band's' mean British manager.



* EatingTheEyeCandy: Eileen..

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* EatingTheEyeCandy: Eileen..Eileen.
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* AllJustADream: The final acapella performance ends up being a heatstroke induced hallucination.

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* [[spoiler: AllJustADream: The final acapella performance ends up being a heatstroke induced hallucination.]]



* CruelTwistEnding: PlayedForLaughs.

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* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler: CruelTwistEnding]]: PlayedForLaughs.
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Eating the Eye Candy

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* EatingTheEyeCandy: Eileen..
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* ACapella: The bands decide to perform that way after breaking their instruments.

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* ACapella: {{Acappella}}: The bands decide to perform that way after breaking their instruments.
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* {{Acapella}}: The bands decide to perform that way after breaking their instruments.

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* Acapella: The bands decide to perform that way after breaking their instruments.

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* Acapella: {{Acapella}}: The bands decide to perform that way after breaking their instruments.



* [Earworm]: ''Keeping It Cool'' is quite catchy.

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* [Earworm]: {{Earworm}}: ''Keeping It Cool'' is quite catchy.
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* [[Earworm]]: ''Keeping It Cool'' is quite catchy.

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* [[Earworm]]: [Earworm]: ''Keeping It Cool'' is quite catchy.
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* Earworm: ''Keeping It Cool'' is quite catchy.

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* Earworm: [[Earworm]]: ''Keeping It Cool'' is quite catchy.



* RockersSmashGuitars: Before the concert, though. Blimey.

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* RockersSmashGuitars: Before the concert, though. Blimey.Hikey!
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* TheHeart: Rigby.
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* Earworm: The song Mordecai composes is quite catchy.

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* Earworm: The song Mordecai composes ''Keeping It Cool'' is quite catchy.
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* ControlFreak: Benson is a big one when it comes to the song.
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On the hottest day of the summer, Mordecai, Rigby and the rest of the gang enter a battle of the bands competition so they can win an air conditioner.

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On the hottest day of the summer, Mordecai, Rigby and the rest of the gang enter a battle of the bands competition so they can win an air conditioner.conditioner.

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* Acapella: The bands decide to perform that way after breaking their instruments.
* AllJustADream: The final acapella performance ends up being a heatstroke induced hallucination.
* BadassBoast: "We're Mordecai and the Rigbys, and we rock so hard we don't need instruments!"
* BritishAccents: Thomas tries one after he decides to be the bands' mean British manager.
* CallBack:
** [[Recap/RegularShowS01Ep12MordecaiAndTheRigbys Mordecai And The Rigbys]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin return]].
** Everyone plays the same instruments they did on ''[[Recap/RegularShowS02Ep13ThisIsMyJam This Is My Jam]]''.
** Benson mentions that of all the members, he's the only one who has [[Recap/RegularShowS04Ep05150PieceKit actually been on a successful band]].
** [[Recap/RegularShowS02Ep09PartyPete Party Pete]], [[Recap/RegularShowS03Ep28AccessDenied Ladonna]] and [[Recap/RegularShowS05E12TheThanksgivingSpecial Auto T]] are the judges of the competition.
* TheCameo: Party Pete, Ladonna and Auto T.
* CruelTwistEnding: PlayedForLaughs.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Happens of all people to Eileen while seeing a sweaty Rigby rubs a glass of water all over his face. Her pupils really dilate.
* Earworm: The song Mordecai composes is quite catchy.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* HeatWave.
* HypocriticalHumor: Mordecai doesn't want Muscle Man to remove his pants. The same Mordecai who never wears clothes.
* ThePowerOfRock: It gives them new instruments... or does it?
* RockOpera: Benson has been working in a little thing he calls ''Bensonphonia''.
* RockersSmashGuitars: Before the concert, though. Blimey.
* ShipTease: Eileen sure [[DistractedByTheSexy does like what she's seeing]].
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-> Written and storyboarded by Calvin Wong and Minty Lewis.

On the hottest day of the summer, Mordecai, Rigby and the rest of the gang enter a battle of the bands competition so they can win an air conditioner.

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