Shout Out / Regular Show

• After Rigby defeats the Destroyer Of Worlds in "Just Set Up The Chairs", it turns into a pair of cherries that gives him 100 points.
• In Death Punchies, Mordecai and Rigby play an 8-bit game that involves two players with a shovel and a pickaxe.
• The system Mordecai and Rigby play on some episodes looks uncannily like a Sega Master System, right down to the controllers. It's very obviously just a Master System with the name politely avoided. The episode "Over the Top" even featured Guitar Hero-like controllers with Master System controllers inserted into them and the use of the Konami Code to avoid bottles thrown by angry concert attendees.
  • One episode explicitly show the box art of one game, and confirms that it is a Master System (all Master System games have the same white grid background).
• A Death Punchies Shout Out: When Mordecai Death Jumps out of the lava pit with Rigby, the position he flies in is obviously a shoutout to Superman.
• The episode "Meat Your Maker" has a Stealth Pun Casting Gag version of this with Tim Curry voicing an anthropomorphic hot dog, it also counts as an Actor Allusion, as he's known for portraying the role of Dr. Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (the orignal one not the remake).
• "The Unicorns Have to Go" features a delinquent unicorn dressed like Alex from A Clockwork Orange.
• In "Don", if you take notice of the many pictures hung up in Don's living room, especially the ones around the portrait of Don and Rigby, they are a fairly blatant homage to the work of pop artist Patrick Nagel.
• One of the snacks made in "Rigby's Body" was a Twinkie-Wiener Sandwich.
• "Ello Guv'nor" was inspired by the endless number of low budget slasher films where the killer is a possessed object.
• "High Score" features Mordecai and Rigby trying to get a high score on an arcade game, only to be thwarted by a giant bearded face. Isn't there a famous Donkey Kong player with a bearded face?
• Party Pete's two escorts are named Janet and Chrissy.
• One of the characters in "Planet Chasers Starlight Excellent" resembles Astro Boy.
• Peeps (from the episode of the same name) ends up a giant floating eyeball with exactly ten smaller eye stalks.
• In the episode "Benson Be Gone", after the characters are cured of being Susan clones, Susan flies out of the room in the same way as the cop from 2 in the AM PM.
• In "But I Have A Receipt", Benson's Darthon character is Link!
  • The Realm of Darthon itself is basically World of Synnibarr.
  • One of the characters briefly seen in the book is called She-Cop, an obscure reference to a DC comics character by the same name (Who later appeared in Tom King's Danger Street).
• In the episode "This Is My Jam" the battle between the park members and the Summertime Lovin' Cassette is a reference to the battle between Egg Shen and David Lo Pan in Big Trouble in Little China.
• In "It's Time", Mordecai & Rigby play a game similar to Double Dragon, and it even has the twist ending.
  • The trailer for Zombie Dinner Party has a large amount zombie arms breaking through a wall much like in George A. Romero's ''Day of the Dead (1985)'.
• Future!Mordecai says "The future's so bright, we gotta wear shades."
• The game "Broken Bonez" seems to be a reference to Excite Bike.
• A woman dressed as Celty from Durarara!! can be seen during the costume party in "See You There."
  • Another person is dressed up like Ice King.
• The movie in "Grave Sights" is a huge homage to horror movies. Mordecai tries to rent an Italian film called Libraria, Zombocalpyse strongly resembles Army of Darkness complete with Bruce Campbell lookalike hero, the cover art of Zombocalypse resembles Doom, the shot of the zombies reanimating in their graves looks similar to The Return of the Living Dead, and the concept of a movie creating zombies might be a reference to Demons.
  • And on the video game side, the ultra-strong zombie at the end is similar to the Tank from Left 4 Dead.
  • The zombie chick who almost bites the main character before Rigby bumps into the projector might be a nod to the "horror hags" from the original The Evil Dead (1981).
• In "Really Real Wrestling", Fourarmageddon slapping Mordecai and kicks Rigby while asking 'Is this fake?' due to them claiming it as such is a Shout-Out to the infamous 20/20 interview where David Schultz slaps John Stossel twice for claiming Professional Wrestling to be fake, asking him was the slap 'fake' each time.
• Fourmageddon and the snake/lizard wrestler seemed to be based off of Goro and Reptile.
• In "Muscle Woman", Mordecai and Rigby are chased by Muscle Man's ex-girlfriend, complete with a shot of her in the rear view mirror and Rigby saying "Must go faster!".
• "Over the Top" to the Sylvester Stallone movie of the same name and premise.
• Death says "Your soul is mine!", Shang Tsung's Character Catchphrase from Mortal Kombat.
• Death on a motorcycle. That's a Soul Music reference.
• Death also bears an uncanny resemblance to Lemmy from the band "Motörhead", right down to his accent and the two moles on his left cheek.
  • When he's not wearing his jacket, he's dressed strikingly similarly to Equius Zahhak, as well.
• Two of the main characters of The Problem Solverz can be seen in the background in 103.
• During the sequence in "Grilled Cheese Deluxe" set to "Lies" by the Thompson Twins, there is one shot that closely resembles that song's music video.
• "More Smarter" has Rigby dream about solving the "Hardest Math Problem in the World." This scene is taken almost directly from Rushmore and even has similar music. The composer for both Regular Show and Rushmore is Mark Mothersbaugh — meaning he had to write a knock-off of his own piece.
• Same episode: One of the answers in Rigby's crossword is "Algernon." Not the first time that name and this plot have been seen together.
• In "Go Viral", you can see Antoine Dodson of invokedBed Intruder fame on a screen in the Internet Warden's prison.
  • And at the end, when Mordecai and Rigby are gloating over winning their bet, you can see The Tourettes Guy in the crowd of people with them.
  • You can also see the Peanut Butter Jelly Time banana when everybody is escaping.
• The "lamest, cheesiest, most repetitive song ever" includes lyrics such as "partyin'".
• Skunked is one to The Incredible Hulk, with a pan to Rigby's eye when he changes and the change to a stronger berserker form triggered by rage, not to mention the regular person being horrified by his actions as his other self.
• "His body has been blown to bits of star stuff."
• During the chase scene near the end of "The Night Owl", the museum security guard on the far left looks a lot like one of the Twins from Superjail!.
• During the movie theater scene in "Do Me a Solid", the first scene of the movie we see is a Peewee Herman look alike that says "You have a telephone call at the front desk."
  • The same episode features a Shake Weight commercial.
  • "Do me a solid" itself is a shout-out to Seinfeld.
• In the blonde episode, Mordecai goes to a department store called Mervington's, an obvious shout-out to the defunct Mervyn's department store chain of California.
  • Earlier in the same episode, one of the items of clothing scattered around the living room resembles Gumball's sweater
• In "Stick Hockey", Mordecai and Rigby face Chong, a character who looks virtually identical to the villain Tong Po from the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme movie Kickboxer, in a Stick Hockey game to the death. This sequence strongly resembles the climactic fight scene of the movie. He's also named after Chong Li from Bloodsport.
  • I'm not sure if this is a coincidence or not, but at the beginning, Benson steps in gum, just like Squidward in "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful". He gets way less mad about it though.
• "Skips Strikes" contains several lines from The Big Lebowski including "Yeah, that's just your opinion man" and Rigby and the villains proclaiming each other to be out of their element.
• The Halloween Special has at least two references to J.G. Quintel's old NSFW student film 2 in the AM PM: The cop and the fart gag. Might be because 2 in the AM PM takes place on Halloween.
  • The entire "Terror Tales of the Park" series is an homage to The Simpsons's Treehouse of Horror series, as they both are Halloween specials, had aired more the next year after, use roman numerals, have 3 horror segments, and are 30 minutes long.
• The episode "Bet to be Blonde" opens with Mordecai and Rigby playing a game very similar to Elevator Action.
• The Death Star has Kanye Shades now.
  • Which has a transport system similar to the movie They Live!.
  • Objection!
• The store "das coolest" is pretty much Urban Outfitters.
• The skate park in "Cool Bikes" was built in memory of Poseur Pete from "Skate or Die".
  • Mordecai's wears a second cool outfit that looks like Ed's jacket with the striped red & white shirt.
• In "Think Positive", Benson's rage induced aura and flight resemble Son Goku going Super-Saiyan in Dragon Ball Z.
• In "Skips vs. Technology", the Doomageddon virus tells Techmo "Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is DUMB".
  • Techmo's car looks a lot like a DeLorean.
  • Techmo is a Shadowrun character, specifically an Ork technomancer, in all but explicit name.
  • There is no more Techmo. There is only Doomageddon.
  • Techmo's name is both a Shout-Out and a case of Spell My Name With An S, considering it's only one letter off.
  • Skips destroys a computer by swinging a sledgehammer at it, a-la Apple's 1984.
• "Eggscellent" has Mordecai pick the "I'm Eggscellent" net hat out of a bunch of different hats all reading "I'm Eggscellent" on them, similar to the climactic "choosing of the grail" scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
  • Later on, in "Ace Balthazar Lives", the 'knight' guarding the Eggscellent hats reappears and runs into a mosh pit, only to be knocked down instantly. His response? "I moshed... poorly"
  • At the very end of the episode, a new eating challenge is presented for a 96 ounce steak, probably a nod to the "Old 96er" from The Great Outdoors.
• At the party in the "Gut Model" episode, Muscleman says "It's my party and I'll fry if I want to" when they try to stop him throwing things into the fryer, a nod to lyrics of "It's My Party" by Lesley Gore.
• In "Video Game Wizard", there is a commercial that is an obvious reference to the Power Glove, as well as the movie The Wizard.
  • The kids that Mordecai and Skips compete against are even named Fred (as in Savage) and Jimmy (which was the name of the main character in The Wizard).
  • Also, the referee has the exact same hair style as Philip J. Fry.
  • The game-characters that the girl play with have the same clothes as Devo.
• The local Two Peaks Mall is a reference to both Back to the Future and Twin Peaks.
• One of the people Rigby invited to the pizza party in "Replaced" is named Geo Dude.
  • In the same episode, the hipsters who briefly get Mordecai and Rigby's jobs are named Chad and Jeremy, a likely reference to the 1960s folk duo of the same name. The glasses worn by the character Chad are also similar to the ones seen in this image◊. It may have been a coincidence, but hipsters are known for listening to folk music, especially that of the '60s.
    • Almost certainly not a coincidence. Chad and Jeremy's 1964 hit "A Summer Song" was used in Rushmore, which Regular Show creator J.G. Quintel has cited as his favorite film.
• Trash Boat's outfit resembles that of Judge Dredd.
• In "Dead at Eight" there's a (demon) children's pop-up book called The Hungry Hungry Soul-Sucking Deathworm.
• From "Access Denied", Ladonna uses an Omega Beam.
• One of the ghost truckers at the Trucker Hall Of Fame is a woman named Huge Marge.
• In "Out of Commission" cart's final words seems to be taken from Roy's speech in Blade Runner.
• In "Prankless", Muscle Man recites Willy Wonka's nightmare-ish speech when performing the ultimate prank on Gene.
• In "Fuzzy Dice", there's an arcade game called "Dance Like A Loser 3".
• Muscle Man has posters for the Pink Floyd albums The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here (1975) in his trailer, in the episodes Prankless and Muscle Woman respectively.
• Snowballs the Ice Monster greatly Resembles a Khezu from Monster Hunter right down to being in an icy cold (though temporary) location.
• The storyline of "Exit 9B" involves the junior of a previous villain opening a portal to another dimension to resurrect his father and every previous evil villain. He is stopped when the newest and youngest character helps to defeat him sucking all the villains back into the portal.
• "150 Drum Kit" have Benson perform a rotating drum solo similar to Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee.
  • The solo itself is VERY similar to Neil Peart’s style, including but not limited to a marimba break, polyrhythmic playing, and a gong finish.
• In "Fortune Cookie" Benson gambles the park away to an evil sorcerer who looks exactly like David Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China. The sorcerer happens to be voiced by James Hong who also played Lo Pan.
• The title of "Weekend at Benson's" is unmistakably a reference to Weekend at Bernie's, given the episode's premise.
• In "Sugar Rush", as Mordecai, Rigby, Skips and Pops race to buy a replacement set of donuts and come back to both the park and 'regular time' before the meeting set up by Benson, near the end the music and imagery seems to reference Inception, especially on the blasting horns that start the closer the group gets back to the park.
• In "One Pull Up", Muscle Man imitates the losing horns from The Price Is Right when Rigby fails to do a pull up. Later, his training with Eileen is an obvious shout-out to Rocky.
• Also Rocky-related is the equipment Rigby uses to get muscles really quick. It's called The Russian and references Ivan Drago's training routine in Rocky IV.
• From "The Christmas Special" Santa, Mordecai, and Rigby use a hoverboard, bulletproof vest and flying vehicle with flame trails, and an invisibility cloak
  • From the same episode, the scene where Muscle Man tries to smash the box with a hammer is reminiscent of the scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring where Gimli tries to break the Ring with his axe.
    • The box itself is much like the One Ring, in that it corrupts its users and must be destroyed in molten lava.
• The episode where Starla and Muscle Man abstain from each other is essentially 40 Days and 40 Nights if it were a cartoon (and toned down for television).
• When Pops arrives at Skips' house to play Drawesome, he says "I got my pencil! Gimme something to write on, man!", which is from Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher".
• In "That's My Television", RG-B2's name is likely a reference to R2-D2.
• One can't help but think that the battle sequence in "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese" is reminded of the battles within the Power Rangers series.
• You could pretty much say that "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese" is full of references, for starters, the Mega Geese resembled the Doublas M2 from Mazinger Z, the Mega Ducks yelled out the name of his attack and shoots out a Rocket Punch similar to Mazinger Z and of of their attacks was the Specium Beam from Ultraman.
  • Another one from "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese", the Mega Ducks sorta resembled Golion/Voltron, particularly the helmet.
  • Really, the entire fight is a gigantic Toku Homage from start to finish, including referencing some rather obscure ones such as the Mega Geese using an attack very similar to Mecha-King Ghidorah's Machine Head attack and the Transformation Sequence being more akin to Denkō Chōjin Gridman (organic being receiving a suit of Powered Armor piloted by his human allies).
• In the episode "Picking Up Margaret", one of the Wickets asked Mordecai to stop using his phone is the same manner of "Warriors, come out to play-aaaaaay!"; The Wickets themselves are also patterned after many of the rival gangs in The Warriors, especially the Baseball Furies.
• The climactic battle at the end of "Trailer Trash" is pretty much identical to the climactic battle at the end of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, right down to the reveal that the convoy was a decoy and what the bad guys were looking for was somewhere else all along.
• "Meteor Moves" has the Friend Zone, which is an obvious reference to the DC universe's Phantom Zone, particularly that seen in Superman II.
• The World's Greatest Boss is an exact lookalike of Lumbergh.
• The two agents in "Steak Me Amadeus" are lookalikes of Mulder and Scully.
  • The episode title "Steak Me Amadeus" is a reference to the 1984 chart-topper "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco.
    • The chef's name and appearance are likely a shoutout to Wolfgang Puck.
• In "Karaoke Video", Mordecai and Rigby sing Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It", and Pops sings "Footloose".
• Bring 'em Back Jack from the "Benson's Car" looks like Dog the Bounty Hunter and his gun, V.I.C.K.I,, looks like the ZF-1 from The Fifth Element.
• From "Every Meat Burritos", Barry's slow motion overreaction to whenever he is punched resembles the worst movie death scene which originated from the 1973 Turkish film "Kareteci Kız" (Karate Girl).
• The game Mordecai and Rigby are seen playing in "The Previous Owner" short from "Terror Tales of the Park III" is reminiscent of Friday the 13th for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
  • Techmo's costume at the beginning is Spike from Cowboy Bebop. Both characters are voiced by Steve Blum.
  • Benson's costume is pretty much The Man With No Name.
  • Rigby's costume is more or less resembles Robocop.
• There is an episode called Rigby in the Sky with Burritos.
• From Saving Time, "Are we bad enough dudes to teach Benson a lesson?"
• The moves that Mordecai uses to fight and defeat the Benson picture slides in "Bad Portrait" seem to be taken straight from Street Fighter.
• In "Video 101" Eileen's calculator reads "2112".
• Mordecai and Rigby are shown to have gone to "West Anderson" High in "Rigby in the Sky with Burrito".
• Reggie from "New Bro on Campus" look similar to John Connor's friend Tim from Terminator 2: Judgment Day (they even have the voice actor Danny Cooksey, who played him).
• In "Grilled Cheese Deluxe" one of the spaceships in the Compound is Thunderbird 1 ^note Not actually a spaceship but a high-velocity scout plane, but it looks like a rocket
• In "The Real Thomas", Thomas is revealed to be a Russian spy, complete with a handler. Said handler is named Natalia and her handler is called Romanoff. ^note Natalia is Natasha Romanoff's birth name. Bonus points for Natalia having voice actress.
• In "Lift With Your Back", two of Rigby's co-workers are named Joe and Murray. Joe Murray was the creator of Rocko's Modern Life and fellow CN series Camp Lazlo. Another worker is named "Rorschach".
• The host of "Married and Broke" looks a lot like Steve Harvey.
• "Benson's Suit" ends with the titular suit sacrificing itself by having Benson lower it into a washing machine set to a high setting so that it will not cause further destruction. Hell, the suit sleeve even forms a thumbs up on its way down, mimicking the iconic scene.
• "Gamers Never Say Die" is a Whole-Plot Reference to The Goonies.
• The ships in "Party Horse" look an awful lot like Saiyan pods.
• The scene with giant laser zapping statues in "Garage Door" is a direct reference to The Neverending Story.
• "Brilliant Century Duck Crisis Special" is a huge love letter to mecha anime, from the title and opening being references to Neon Genesis Evangelion, Benson suiting up in the style of Mobile Fighter G Gundam and countless other references to Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, ∀ Gundam, and many more.
  • The mysterious long-lost brother of the ducks, Andy, bears more than a passing resemblance to Quattro Bajeena.
  • The ending has a shot of a Tyrannosaurus and a Stegosaurus battling each other with weapons strapped to them.
• "The Lunch Club" is one 15 minute shout-out to The Breakfast Club.
• "Terror Tales Of The Park V" has Rigby dressed up as M. Bison, Eileen as Kiki the Witch, Muscleman as Snake Pliskin, Pops as The Fourth Doctor, Mordecai as Bruce Lee from Enter the Dragon, Benson as Sherlock Holmes, and Skips as Rambo.
• The end of "Win That Prize" pays homage to the final scene of The Usual Suspects.
• Benson's Suit has shoutouts to The Tuxedo, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Street Fighter, and, oddly enough, Kill la Kill.
• From "The Button", when Benson asks what would happen if the button gets pressed, Maellard responds "Maybe something good? Maybe something bad?"
• Muscle Man and Hi-Five Ghost's alter egos in "Marvolo the Wizard" are named Palom and Porom.
• In " Pam I Am", Benson and Pam nearly get sucked up into a spinning fan and get down by burping in reference to the "Fizzy Lifting Drinks" scene from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
• In "Deez Keys", Mordecai and Rigby end up running through a level of Marble Madness after they trip the alarm and get chased by a giant globe.
• In the Latin American Spanish dub of the episode "Diary", Mordecai's admitting that he likes going commando is changed to him confessing that he loves Adventure Time.
  • Similarly, the Latin American Spanish dub of "Fool Me Twice" has Mordecai shout "Look! it's Pan, Goku's granddaughter!" to distract Shinehara instead of the original's "Look! It's Mt. Fuji!".
• The title of "The Dream Warrior" is a reference to the subtitle of the third A Nightmare on Elm Street film, Dream Warriors.
  • In the same episode, Mordecai, Rigby, and Pops watch a parody of Scooby-Doo.
• In "Terror Tales from The Park VI" Elieen dresses up as Samus Aran, Rigby is dressed as Tetsuo, Muscleman is Zed, High-Five Ghost is E.T. (or at the least his high-fiving hand is ET's hand), and Skips' three pecs is a reference to the memorable three-breasted hooker.
  • In Elieen's story, she's dressed as Captain Janeway, Mordecai is dressed as Han Solo, Muscleman is dressed as Dr. Zaius, and Skips is dressed as John Nada.
• "The Space Race" is a huge shout-out to F-Zero.
• In "New Beds", the gang visit a furniture store similar to IKEA. One of the workers there happens to be a big, yellow bird.
• The title of "Mordeby and Rigbecai" references the fanmade crossover series on YouTube, Ultimate Cartoon Fighting. An episode included Mordecai and Rigby fusing into one being, before promptly digressing into an argument about what they were gonna call themselves; Mordeby or Rigbecai?
• When Pops and Anti-Pops take giant forms in the Final Battle, Pops has spiky hair like a Super Saiyan while Anti-Pops has horns and armored shoulder pads (over no shirt) that make him resemble Raoh.
• The ending of "Chili Cook-Off" has Gene say to Benson, "You're alright, Dunwoody."

---