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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 aired on Sunday mornings. As of 2024, the series airs from 6-6:28am on weekdays, 6-7:15am on Saturdays and 4-5pm Sundays-Fridays.
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, 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.
Note
This show also premiered the same day as MAD
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
Minor Characters[]
Villains[]
- Gary (sometimes)
- Guardians of Eternal Youth (sometimes)
- Gene
- Anti-Pops
- One-Time Villains
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, Garrett Bobby Ferguson
- Minty Lewis as Eileen
- Roger Craig Smith as Thomas and Low Five Ghost
- Janie Haddad as Margaret
- Jeff Bennett as Hi Five Ghost (Season 1 only)
- Julian Dean as Don
- Julian Holloway as Death
- David Ogden Stiers as Mr.Maellard
- Robin Atkin Downes as the Guardians of Eternal Youth
- David Kaye as the leader of the Guardians of Eternal Youth
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 stand alone DVD releases in the US, while Seasons 4-8 were only featured as of the Complete Series DVD set.
- The episode, Bad Portrait, is based on J.G. Quintel when he was in art school, 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".
- While in the United States, it premiered on September 6th, 2010 and ended on January 16th, 2017, in the United Kingdom, it premiered on March 2nd, 2011 and ended on December 29th, 2018.
- The following premiere dates of each season of the series in the UK:
- Season 1: March 2nd, 2011
- Season 2: April 13th, 2011
- Season 3: July 2nd, 2012
- Season 4: May 29th, 2013
- Season 5: April 28th, 2014
- Season 6: April 27th, 2015
- Season 7: April 11th, 2016
- Season 8: June 5th, 2017
- 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 had 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.
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.
Mordecai and Rigby appeared in the Jellystone! episode, Crisis on Infinite Mirths.
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)
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:[]
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 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.
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-present)
- Boomerang (2018-2019; 2022; reruns)
References[]
| 2010 | Adventure Time • Ben 10: Ultimate Alien • Generator Rex • The Cartoonstitute • Regular Show • Tower Prep • Sym-Bionic Titan • Robotomy |
| 2011 | The Problem Solverz • Secret Mountain Fort Awesome |
| 2012 | Level Up • Ben 10: Omniverse |
| 2013 | Incredible Crew • Uncle Grandpa • Steven Universe |
| 2014 | Clarence • Black Dynamite • Over the Garden Wall |
| 2015 | We Bare Bears • Long Live the Royals |
| 2016 | The Powerpuff Girls • Mighty Magiswords |
| 2017 | Ben 10 • OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes |
| 2018 | Apple & Onion • Craig of the Creek • Summer Camp Island |
| 2019 | Victor and Valentino • Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart • Infinity Train • Primal • Steven Universe Future |
| 2030 |
| 1993 | The Moxy Show |
| 1994 | Space Ghost Coast to Coast |
| 1995 | What a Cartoon! |
| 1996 | Dexter's Laboratory • Big Bag |
| 1997 | Johnny Bravo • Cow and Chicken • I Am Weasel |
| 1998 | The Powerpuff Girls |
| 1999 | Ed, Edd n Eddy • Mike, Lu & Og • Courage the Cowardly Dog |
| 2010 | Adventure Time • Ben 10: Ultimate Alien • Generator Rex • Regular Show • Sym-Bionic Titan • Tower Prep • Robotomy |
| 2011 | The Problem Solverz • The Amazing World of Gumball • Secret Mountain Fort Awesome |
| 2012 | Level Up • The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange • Ben 10: Omniverse |
| 2013 | Incredible Crew • Uncle Grandpa • Steven Universe |
| 2014 | Clarence • Over the Garden Wall |
| 2015 | We Bare Bears • Long Live the Royals |
| 2016 | The Powerpuff Girls • Mighty Magiswords |
| 2017 | Ben 10 • OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes |
| 2018 | Apple & Onion • Craig of the Creek • Summer Camp Island |
| 2019 | Victor and Valentino • Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart • Infinity Train • Steven Universe Future |
| 2030 |