Eileen Roberts

Eileen Roberts-Riggerson is a supporting character of the Cartoon Network series, Regular Show. She is a shy, intelligent mole who is a waitress at the same Coffee Shop, formerly College student and Space Tree ranger. serving as the supporting character from Season 2 to 5 and the major protagonist in season 6, 7 and 8. She has a secret crush on Rigby.
She is voiced by Minty Lewis who is also the series' storyboarder, created FOX's The Great North.
==Appearance==
Eileen is a 3'6" mole girl with tan fur from Serbia. However, her appearance is very humanoid, excluding her toes and tail.
She wears red glasses and has two eyelashes on each of her eyes. Without her glasses, her eyes are just two black dots with eyelashes. She has a small, oval shaped light brown tail, and brown hair with some of it tied into a side ponytail. During her debut in “Brain Eraser”, her ponytail was on the right side, and in “Do Me a Solid”, her ponytail was moved to the left side. She has noticeable front teeth, and they occasionally stick out of her mouth like buck teeth. She has an unhealed scar on her lower middle elbow due to a snow tubing accident when she was a child. In “Brain Eraser”, her glasses did not have white in them, and they were narrowed down, showing her pupils. She has two toes on each foot, and is usually barefoot, although around Season 5 she began to wear shoes more often, which most often are red flats.
She wears the same uniform as Margaret at her job at the Coffee Shop; a short sleeved tan top with a light blue collar and cuffs and a tan skirt.
Her most common outfit outside of work, especially in Season 8, is a pink t-shirt and blue jeans with the cuffs rolled up.
===Alternate Outfits===
*In “Do Me a Solid”, her attire outside of work was a pink shirt with ruffles around the neck and a blue skirt. This outfit is seen again in “Cruisin'” and “One Pull Up”.
*In later episodes, in Seasons 3 and 4, she started to wear sweatshirts, one of which is a light burgundy color, which was worn with green shorts, as seen in “Camping Can Be Cool”. Another sweatshirt she wore was light purple, and she usually wore blue jeans or a blue denim skirt with it, first seen in “TGI Tuesday”. In Tants, she wore a pink sweatshirt with a light blue skirt.
*Another outfit she is seen wearing is either a pink or light blue shirt with a white collar and a blue skirt.
*In “Dumped at the Altar”, she wore a pink dress, with a light pink top and a darker pink skirt with light pink flowers on it, to Muscle Man and Starla's wedding. Her hair was up in a bun and had small curls of hair over her ears.
*In “Just Friends”, she wore a "Team Don" t-shirt with her work skirt.
*In “Crazy Fake Plan”, she wore a grey jacket and blue jeans with her work shirt.
*In “Rigby Goes to Prom”, she wore a sea foam green dress, with a teal bow around the waist, a poofy skirt with a frilly white layer underneath, teal shoes, and white gloves to Rigby's prom. Her hair was in an updo with a bun on top.
==Personality==
She is a shy, intelligent, and timid mole girl. Minty Lewis describes her first appearances as coming off "as a pretty big weirdo nerd with major hots for Rigby".
===Development===
The character of Eileen was pitched and created by the new storyboard artist Minty Lewis. While Lewis was pitching jokes and lines for the character, Regular Show creator J.G. Quintel thought her natural voice was perfect for the character. "Minty’s voice, just her natural voice, was so perfect for that character!" he said. "She [wrote] one of the very early episodes with Eileen in it, and she had some really funny jokes in the way she pitched it. [It was] just the way her voice sounded – she [had] to be that character! We even tried an actor, but it just wasn’t playing funny. [So] we were like, "OK, let’s see if Minty wants to do it." She said yes and it really worked out. It’s a great character and [Minty’s voice] totally fits that character’s personality."  In another interview, Quintel further elaborates: "Oh, [Lewis's voice] is so awkward. But that was just her voice, that's just how she did it. We were like, 'You wanna be Eileen? You gotta be Eileen.' "
Lewis describes getting to be able to voice the character as "pretty crazy".
==Trivia==
*The name Eileen means "bright, shining one" in Gaelic and Scottish (Scotch-Irish). It can also mean "light, brightness" from the Proto Indo-European.
*Even though she is supposed to be a mole, she appears more like a human girl.
**However, she may be a mole/human hybrid.
*In “Camping Can Be Cool”, it is revealed that she is developed good camping skills because she got lost in the woods a lot.
*In “Brain Eraser”, her glasses were clear inside and she had black frames. Afterwards, the insides were changed to white and the black frames were replaced with red ones. Look above for an image of Eileen in her debut.
*In “Video 101”, there are several things about Eileen that are revealed:
**She attends college.
***She also never failed a class before.
**Her last name is revealed to be Roberts.
**She owns her own house.
**She owns her car, and knows how to drive, despite her short size.
*Her car is a white Suzuki Swift GLS 1.1.
*According to show creator J.G Quintel's side of the story of how Minty Lewis came to voice Eileen, Lewis uses her natural speaking voice to voice Eileen, much like Quintel does with Mordecai.
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