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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". It is rated TV-PG (sometimes TV-PG-V). It is one of the first cartoons on Cartoon Network to heavily feature suggestive language.

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.

In 2013, few of the Season 1 episodes were edited with the mild profanity "piss" replaced with more appropriate literature "tick".

The show concluded on January 16, 2017.

From mid 2017 through late 2021, Regular Show was seldomly spotted on the network, often not airing for a whole year apart or even longer. It rarely aired, usually exclusively for holidays such as Halloween.

During Memorial Day 2018, reruns were commonly found on Boomerang. Regular Show stopped rerunning around 2019, but briefly returned in August 2022.

In December 2021, Regular Show returned once to the lineup, because Christmas specials were airing during that week.

In September 2022 during the 30th Anniversary Celebration, Regular Show was prominently featured throughout the month during evenings. Reruns of Regular Show ceased in late November 2022, except for near Christmas. Fast forward to Halloween 2023, the series is now airing on Sunday mornings.

Plot[]

2 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, a high-tempered gumball machine, and 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 Hi Five Ghost, a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head, are both neutral about Rigby and Mordecai's shenanigans. 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 slacking by working his way around the hard, cold truth. 

Characters[]

Main Characters[]

Minor Characters[]

Villains[]

Series Overview[]

Season: Episodes: premiere: end:
Pilot August 14th, 2009
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

Trivia[]

  • Regular Show consists of some characters from J.G. Quintel's old college films and sketches mashed together in one show.
  • Pops, Mordecai and Benson are the only 3 main characters that are in J.G. Quintel's college films and sketches.
  • Regular Show is currently the second long running series on Cartoon Network, the first being Adventure Time, and the third being The Amazing World of Gumball.
  • 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 first three seasons of the series are the only seasons to have DVD releases in the US, while Seasons 4-8 are only on streaming and digital purchases.

Appearances in other projects[]

In the Adventure Time episode, Ketchup, there was a blue jay resembling Mordecai.

Mordecai and Rigby appeared as audiences in the Uncle Grandpa episode, Pizza Eve.

Mordecai, Rigby and Hi Five Ghost made a small cameo in The Amazing World of Gumball episode, The Boredom along with titular characters from Uncle Grandpa and Clarence.

Hi Five Ghost appeared in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode, Crossover Nexus as stone and being restored. Mordecai also appeared but as one of Ben 10's transformations.

The series was acknowledged in Cartoon Network’s 30th Anniversary video in October 2022.

Home Media[]

DVD volumes:

Season DVDs:

Digital:[]

The series was available on Netflix along with other Cartoon Network shows from 2013 to 2015, and was later released on Hulu.

All eight seasons of the show are available to purchase on iTunes and Amazon Prime.

Regular Show was released on HBO Max on May 27th, 2020, and was later released on Max on May 23rd, 2023.

All eight seasons of the show are also available on Disney+ on December 6, 2023.

Languages[]

  • English: Regular Show
  • Spanish: Historias Corrientes (Spain)/ Un Show Mas (Latin America)
  • Hungarian: Park műsor
  • French Castillian: Le Regular Series
  • Polish: Zwyczajny Serial
  • Turkish: Sürekli Dizi
  • Italian: Regular Show
  • Romanian: Un Show obisnuit
  • Brazilian Portuguese: Apenas um Show
  • Bulgarian: Пaрк шoy
  • Russian: Обычный мультик
  • Chinese (Taiwan Ver.): 天兵公園
  • Filipino: Pang-karaniwang na Palabas
  • Korean: 레귤러 쇼 (Regular Show)
  • Vietnamese: Chương trình thường nhật (Regular Show)
  • Arabic: العرض العادي

Gallery[]

External Refererences[]

Broadcast history[]

  • Cartoon Network (2010-2017) (reruns: 2017; 2018; 2019; 2021; 2022; 2023)
  • Boomerang (2018-2019; 2022; reruns)
Cartoon Network Studios Series
Cartoon Network Original Series
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