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Genre:	Comedy
Created By:	J.G. Quintel
Written By:	J.G. Quintel Mike Roth Sean Szeles Shion Takeuchi Jake Armstrong Kat Morris Paul Scarlata Calvin Wong Kent Osborne Benton Connor
Starring:	J.G. Quintel William Salyers Sam Marin Mark Hamill Janie Hadad Jeff Bennett Roger Craig Smith Minty Lewis April Stewart David Ogden Stiers John Meleno Richard Moll Julian Dean Steven Blum Lee Stewart
No. of Episodes	12 (season one) 28 (season two) 40 (season three)
Main Characters	Mordecai Rigby Benson Skips Pops Muscle Man High-Five Ghost Margaret Eileen Mr. Maellard
First Aired	September 3, 2010 - present
Networks	Cartoon Network, Teletoon

'The Regular Show' is a 2010 American animated television series created by J.G. Quintel. It was greenlit on August 13, 2009 by Cartoon Network and debuted on September 3, 2010. It 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. It is rated TV-PG (sometimes TV-PG-V), and is one of the few more recent cartoon on Cartoon Network to have suggestive language, though they are limited to a few.

PlotEdit

Two 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 skill during work hours or any means neccesary, much to the chagrin of Benson, a high-tempered gumball machine, Skips, a yeti, but to the delight of Pops, a naïve English gentleman with a lollipop-shaped head. Muscle Man, an overweight and green man, and High-Five Ghost, a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head, are both neutral about Rigby and Mordecai's shenanigans, but they both get on Mordecai and Rigby's nerves with the "MY MOM!" jokes. The 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, often leading to highly surreal and unusual events. Rigby pressures Mordecai into doing bad stuff and slaking by working his way around the hard, cold truth.

Critical receptionEdit

Devin D. O'Leary of Alibi.com's "Idiot Box" column gave the show a favorable review, saying that its theme felt like a workplace sitcom, also saying that the "parade of super-strange characters" added to the show's humor. He compared the show to Beavis and Butt-head and SpongeBob SquarePants. PopMatters critic Chris Conaton gave the show a six-out-of-ten rating, saying that it was "mildly amusing." His review praised Quintel's and Salyers' voice acting, but thought that the humor was derivative of Beavis and Butt-Head and The Ren & Stimpy Show.

The show has received positive reviews from fans and has been nominated for a 2011 Annie Award. Cartoon Network has also ordered 80 episodes, which is more than the average of other shows on the channel.