Most cartoons now a days talk down to the audience or bombard us with cheap poorly written jokes. However, every once in a while a fantastic show comes around and brings back hope for the future. Unfortunately these shows a few in between. All very distinct shows with smart humor, likable cast, and a visually pleasing style. However, they were replaced midway through the 00s with shows that couldn't compete.
The new shows weren't smart, they relied heavily on gross out humor or they were very kiddish. But luckily for us, the creator of the "Powerpuff Girls," Craig McKracken, was creating a new show for the CN to get more cartoons on the channel.
Unfortunately plans were scrapped and only one show came out all of this, "Regular Show. Quintel, is about two friends, a blue jay and raccoon, who work at a park. They are very lazy and in efforts to skip out on work they get themselves into some surreal misadventures. The cast includes: Mordecai: He's a lazy blue jay, but the more mature of the two leads.
Him and Rigby have a friendly rivalry going that usually causes him to do some the stupid things he does. Rigby: He's the lazy childish raccoon.
So in effort to do so he gets them in trouble. Benson: Their hot headed boss and manager of the park, who is in the shape of a gum-ball machine with arms. He usually loses his temper when the other two don't listen and get their job done.
Skips: A yeti, who is apparently immortal. He's really wise and usually get the gang out of danger. Pops: Naive lollipop shaped man.
He is an elderly man, but acts very child like. He usually falls for anything. Muscle Man: Another worker at the park, he's green, dwarfish, and incredibly overweight. He usually bullies Rigby and Mordecai because he thinks he is better than everyone. His catch phrase is "My Mom! He usually follows Muscle Man as his yes man. The cast is likable and fun. Even though they don't show it, they care for their fellow co-workers.
When danger strikes they will go to the extreme to rescue one another. There are other great side characters that are just as great if not sometimes steal the show from the leads. The animation is fairly simple, but that adds to its charm. The backgrounds are usually very well detailed. The show also pays homage to the 80s through some of its visuals like the video games the characters play or a coffee shop, very reminiscent of the 80s.
While the animation is fairly simple, the artists play around with different visual styles, which add to the visual bliss of the show. So each episode starts of normal enough, but ends in some kind of supernatural confrontation. For instance, one episode stars off with Mordecai and Rigby having to set up some chair.
When they go into the storage room to grab the chairs, they come across and old arcade system. While playing the game they release a demon, who is out to destroy the world and the only way to defeat him is to beat the game. Essentially every episode starts of with a mundane task and goes into the supernatural. I really like how they don't spend time asking why. The events happen and they just try to figure it out. We get a lot of extraordinary adventures and the show is very creative.
I really like how they pay homage to the 80s whether it be through the outfits characters to the games they play. The world they live in is very modern, but it has a very retro vibe. To end it I wanna make this bold statement and call "Regular Show" the best animated series on television right now. It's very visually pleasing, the jokes are smart and funny, the characters are great, and the adventures they go on are fantastic.
My personal favorite episode right now is "This Is My Jam. In an effort to remove the song, it manifests into a giant cassette and annoys everyone and the only way to defeat it is to write an even cheesier song. This is one of the more toned down episode in terms of the supernatural, but I love how they made something so simple into a threat. And I bet many of us have this problem as well. Hopefully the show continues on and entertains us with more laughs. If haven't seen the show yet, I highly recommend it.
I am in my twenties and this show is very entertaining. It is very funny and most of the episodes have enough adult humor with a kid side to keep me laughing and liking each character except for one. Love this show and gave it 9 only because there are a few animation shows I'll put at Love the show though. I have never liked a T.. I am 23 years old and every episode gets better and better. Everything about this show is awesome to me.
Mark Hamill is the all time greatest voice actor in my opinion. The show is so satisfying and unique I have fallen in love with it. I even tear up at certain episodes and rarely is an episode not funny. Perfect show that couldnt be better. Every character is so well done and different and amazing. The voicework is spectacular by all of the people. Kids, teens and adults can enjoy this movie because I bet that each group can identify a reference here and there.
Wish I could go back without memory of watching it to experience it again the first time. Regular Show was always one of my favorite cartoons growing up. I remember stumbling across this cartoon at 8 years old by changing to different channels during It was so worth it because this show is amazing. The characters are very memorable and hilarious. My favorite character would have to be Rigby. Even though I found him annoying in the first few seasons, I like how he grew as the series went on.
Mordecai is also pretty awesome too. While he has his moments as well, he's still really good. The stories are very creative. Some may be too bizarre, but most of them are very crazy and comedic. In addition, there is a lot of iconic moments. The comedy is more likely for the demographic of 10 years and over because some of the jokes are pretty suggestive. However, keep in mind: I started watched it at 8, and I really loved the jokes.
As with many episodes of Regular Show , fans appreciated the humor and multitude of pop culture references scattered throughout. This episode had more than usual as it seemed to reference everything from The Simpsons Movie to Rambo. Rigby becomes suspicious of who Thomas truly is and begins to look into who the real Thomas is during this episode. Thomas began working at the park for college credit as an intern, but Rigby discovers the surprising truth behind Thomas.
Thomas is secretly a Russian spy and was sent to the park to try to steal the location to improve Russian parks. But, Thomas decides to save his friends when he learns that the real intention is to blow up the park. This episode shook up the series in the 6th season and immediately had fans paying attention. The outrageous and over-the-top true story about park intern Thomas being a Russian spy was so shocking and memorable that it is easily one of the top-rated episodes.
The story begins when Mordecai and Rigby tell Skips they think it would be great to be immortal and Skips feels the need to tell them the truth about how his immortality has affected him over the years. The episode gives fans insight into one of the lovable main characters of the series and gives Skips a tragic, yet intriguing, backstory.
The minute special impressed fans with the tragic love story out of nowhere and gave more depth to the fan-favorite character so there's no surprise this is one of the top-rated episodes. The episode began with Mordecai and Rigby playing with cheaply made toys from a company called PlayCo and seeing a commercial advertising their products. It continued to see Mordecai, Rigby, and the rest of the park crew team up with the Baby Ducks to chase away a prehistoric creature running through the park and who had attacked Pops.
At the same time, the owners of PlayCo show up and attempt to get everyone, specifically the Baby Ducks, Mordecai, and Rigby, to sign a contract so they can make action figures based on their appearances, but they're all hesitant given the cheaply made products. It's an extremely silly episode but in a good way, with a lot of meta-humor about the big corporations, like the toy manufacturing PlayCo. This episode sees Mordecai, Rigby, and the park crew go on an adventure to find an ancient VCR player so they can play a particular VHS tape that is made of ice.
The ice tape supposedly tells the truth about Pops and his background in another highly rated episode that delves into the history of one of the main characters. Pops' surprising history, from who his true father is to his species, is revealed in this episode. With Anti-Pops being introduced as Pops' brother in the 8th and final season it gave fans endless questions about who Pops really was, and this episode provided a lot of answers making it a firm fan favorite.
Muscle Man gets married, Benson learns to relax as the park boss, and Mordecai learns how to talk to girls. If Regular Show has a primary flaw, it's that most of its characters are essentially Scott Pilgrim.
Where Walter White gets his brother-in-law killed and kidnaps his daughter, Don Draper abandons his life for a loosely spiritual practice in California, and Vic Mackey found himself alone and isolated, Rigby gets his high school diploma. This is part of what makes Regular Show such an appealingly fun viewing experience, even for people who might fancy themselves "above" a children's cartoon.
On one level, the show is deeply, painfully earnest in its love for its cultural reference points, and its humor is generally straightforward enough that a child could pick up on the jokes. But that doesn't make it any less funny, and there are more than enough nods to the show's broader cultural context. For example: in this year's Halloween episode, Benson dresses up as Shane Carruth's character from Primer.
All of this is to say that Regular Show is a deceptively sophisticated television show, so it makes total sense that its final season takes place entirely in space. Over the course of the show's plus episodes, Regular Show has allowed its characters to mature in believable, roundabout ways. Once Rigby has gotten his diploma—the natural endpoint for the show's "irresponsible, goofy young adulthood to slightly less irresponsible goofy, young adulthood" arc—it has to end with the cast being drafted by an intergalactic park service and pressed into service on a giant space tree.
It adds to the chaotic, unpredictable feel of the show. I should expand on that, too. Regular Show will flit between the mundane and absurd, with Mordecai and Rigby usually unaffected. Usually, Mordecai has to drag Rigby to the message, while Rigby attempts to stop Mordecai from learning it. Should we go for coffee?
Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! It always makes me laugh. Before long, Mordecai and Rigby have fallen out over their annoying new friends and Rigby, as a result of his own folly, finds himself in the middle of a circle of farting unicorns. All of the comedy of this particularly funny episode is hung on the simple conflict of Rigby selling out his friend to try to impress cooler guys.
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