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Regular Show is a 2010 American animated television series created by J.G. Quintel. It was greenlit on August 14, 2009, by Cartoon Network and debuted on September 6, 2010 (followed by the premiere of MAD). It is based on a short made for the scrapped Cartoonstitute and features characters from two of the creator's student films, "2 in the AM PM" and "The Naive Man from Lolliland". The show concluded on January 16, 2017.
On June 12, 2024, a new Regular Show series was announced at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. [1]
Plot
Two 23-year-old best friends, a blue jay named Mordecai and a brown raccoon named Rigby, work as groundskeepers at a park and spend their days trying to entertain themselves by perfecting useless skills during work hours or any means necessary, much to the chagrin of Benson, an ill-tempered gumball machine. They are mostly kept employed to entertain Pops, a childlike and naïve English gentleman with a lollipop-shaped head and the son of the park's owner.
Other coworkers at the park include two best friends, Muscle Man, an overweight green man, and Hi Five Ghost, a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head, serve as a direct narrative foil to Mordecai and Rigby, as they both have fun while being much more responsible in their work. Mordecai and Rigby are often bailed out of trouble by their coworker Skips, an immortal yeti, whose personality is strong, smart, and serious.
Episodes usually revolve around the two's personal life such as obtaining concert tickets, getting cake, or making up for a mess they have caused at work, often leading to highly surreal and unusual events. Rigby often pressures Mordecai into slacking off by working his way around the cold, hard truth.
Production
Filming for the first season began on November 14, 2009. Producers decided to split the first season in half with the episode "Ello Gov'nor" being advertised as the season two premiere and finished on October 17, 2010. The show officially aired on September 6, 2010, with the episode "The Power".
On September 13, 2010, the show was renewed for a 3rd season and began filming on January 4, 2011, and finished on February 6, 2012, and started with the episode "Stick Hockey". On December 13, 2011, the show was renewed for a 4th season filming began March 12, 2012, and aired on October 1, 2012, with "Exit 9B" filming for this season, which finished on February 8, 2013.
Characters
- Main article: List of Regular Show characters
Cast
Main Cast
- J.G. Quintel as Mordecai/Hi Five Ghost (Seasons 2-8)
- William Salyers as Rigby
- Mark Hamill as Skips
- Sam Marin as Benson/Pops/Muscle Man
- Minty Lewis as Eileen
- Jeff Bennett as Hi Five Ghost (Season 1 only)
Recurring Cast
- Roger Craig Smith as Thomas/Low Five Ghost
- Janie Haddad Tompkins as Margaret
- Julian Dean as Don
- Julian Holloway as Death
- David Ogden Stiers as Mr. Maellard
- Robin Atkin Downes as Guardians of Eternal Youth
Episodes
- Main article: Regular Show episode list
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |
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| 1 | 12 | September 6th, 2010 | November 22nd, 2010 |
| 2 | 28 | November 29th, 2010 | August 1st, 2011 |
| 3 | 40 | September 19th, 2011 | September 3rd, 2012 |
| 4 | 40 | October 1st, 2012 | August 12th, 2013 |
| 5 | 40 | September 2nd, 2013 | August 14th, 2014 |
| 6 | 31 | October 9th, 2014 | June 25th, 2015 |
| 7 | 39 | June 26th, 2015 | June 30th, 2016 |
| 8 | 31 | September 26th, 2016 | January 16th, 2017 |
| TV movie | November 25th, 2015 | ||
| Shorts | 15 | April 15th, 2011 | January 2nd, 2017 |
Broadcast history
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Home Media
DVD volumes:
- Slack Pack (April 3, 2012)
- The Best DVD in the World *At this Moment in Time (November 6, 2012)
- Party Pack (March 5, 2013)
- Fright Pack (September 3, 2013)
- Mordecai & Margaret Pack (February 11, 2014)
- Rigby Pack (September 9, 2014)
- Regular Show and Friends (October 7, 2014)
- Mordecai Pack (January 27, 2015)
- Regular Show: The Movie (October 13, 2015)
The first three seasons of the series are the only seasons to have stand alone DVD releases in the US, while Seasons 4-8 were only featured as of the Complete Series DVD set. Season DVDs:
- The Complete 1st and 2nd Seasons (July 16, 2013)
- The Complete 3rd Season (June 17, 2014)
- The Complete Series (February 4, 2025)[2]
Digital releases
All eight seasons, plus Regular Show: The Movie, are available for purchase on iTunes and Prime Video. The series was available on Netflix along with other Cartoon Network shows from 2013 to 2015, and is available to stream on Hulu. Regular Show was released on HBO Max on May 27th, 2020, and was available on Max from May 23rd, 2023, to October 1st. 2024. On December 6, 2023, all eight seasons of the show were made available on Disney+ following the Hulu merger with the service.
Trivia
- It is one of the first cartoons on Cartoon Network to heavily feature suggestive language.
- In 2013, few of the Season 1 episodes were edited with the mild profanity "piss" replaced with more appropriate literature "tick".
- Regular Show consists of some characters from J.G. Quintel's old college films and sketches mashed together in one show.
- Sam Marin has taken the voicing role as Muscle Man, Pops, and Benson. He has also voiced a few side characters.
- J.G. Quintel was the Creative Director for another Cartoon Network series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
- The show was originally going to be about Mordecai and Rigby taking care of a zoo filled with humans.
- Regular Show is considered as the sister series to the other Cartoon Network series Adventure Time, since both cartoons have crazy-detailed plots, Romance situations, & being based around the lives of two best friends in a weird setting.
- This was the first Cartoon Network series to premiere during the CHECK it era.
- The episode, "Bad Portrait", is based on something that happened to series creator, J.G. Quintel, in real life when he was in art school, where he gave a bad drawing of a girl that made her cry.
- The episode, "High Score", resulted in a person known as Billy Mitchell filing a lawsuit against Cartoon Network due to the fact that the character, Garret Bobby Ferguson, has a small resemblance and appearance to Mitchell himself. The lawsuit was unproductive as a judge ruled in favor of Cartoon Network saying that "The television character does not match the plaintiff in appearance".
- Sam Marin, the voice actor of Benson, ended up having a migraine and lost his voice during Benson's tirade at Mordecai and Rigby in the episode, "Think Positive".
- Regular Show, along with Adventure Time and Samurai Jack, are the only Cartoon Network shows to have Blu-Ray releases.
- Regular Show only had its first two seasons released on Blu-Ray and Adventure Time only had Seasons 1-6 released on Blu-Ray itself, while Samurai Jack gets to have all five of its seasons released on Blu-Ray as a whole.
- Unlike Dexter's Laboratory, Ed, Edd n Eddy, and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Regular Show had a reason why it didn't have all of its seasons and episodes released on DVD in the U.S. before the 2020's decade, and it is due to the show's usage of licensed music.
References
External links
- Cartoon Network/Adult Swim Archives: Regular Show
- Regular Show at TV Tropes
- Regular Show at Behind the Voice Actors
| Regular Show | ||
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Mordecai • Rigby • Benson • Pops • Muscle Man • Hi Five Ghost • Skips • Margaret • Eileen | |
| Locations | The Park | |
| Media | Episodes | Episodes (Seasons: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8) • Regular Show: The Movie • Regular Show: The Lost Tapes |
| Video games | Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land | |
| Other | Comic book | |