Regular Show

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. https://variety.com/2024/tv/global/regular-show-fosters-adventure-time-scooby-doo-1236034978/
==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===
*Mordecai
*Rigby
*Pops
*Skips
*Benson
*Muscle Man
*Hi Five Ghost
*Eileen
===Minor Characters===
*Mr. Maellard
*Margaret
*Starla
*Celia
*Colonel Rawls
** Chance Sureshot
** Toothpick Sally
** Recap Robot
*Peggy Gutsmandottir
*Audrey
*CJ
*Thomas
*Death
===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 	Pilot 	August 14th, 2009 	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	TV movie 	November 25th, 2015 	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.
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*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.
*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.
== 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:
* 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)
=== 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==
Regular Show iTunes Volume 1 Cover.jpg|Volume 1 iTunes cover
Regular Show iTunes Volume 2 Cover.jpg|Volume 2 iTunes cover
Regular Show iTunes Volume 3 Cover.jpg|Volume 3 iTunes cover
Regular Show iTunes Volume 4 Cover.jpg|Volume 4 iTunes cover
Regular Show iTunes Volume 5 Cover.jpg|Volume 5 iTunes cover
Regular Show iTunes Volume 6 Cover.jpg|Volume 6 iTunes cover
Regular Show iTunes Volume 7 Cover.jpg|Volume 7 iTunes cover
Regular Show iTunes Volume 8 Cover.jpg|Volume 8 iTunes cover
Regular Show iTunes Volume 9 Cover.jpg|Volume 9 iTunes cover
Regular Show iTunes Volume 10 Cover.jpg|Volume 10 iTunes cover
Regular Show iTunes Volume 11 Cover.jpg|Volume 11 iTunes cover
Regular Show iTunes Volume 12 Cover.jpg|Volume 12 iTunes cover
Regular Show iTunes Volume 13 Cover.jpg|Volume 13 iTunes cover
Regular Show Minisodes Volume 1 Cover.jpg|Minisodes Volume 1 iTunes cover
Regular Show Minisodes Volume 2 Cover.jpg|Minisodes Volume 2 iTunes cover
Regular Show iTunes Best Episodes in the World Cover.jpg|Best Episodes in the World iTunes cover
File:RegularShowVolume7AppleTVcover.jpg|Volume 7 Apple TV cover
Regular Show Apple TV Volume 11 Cover.jpg|Volume 11 Apple TV cover
Regular Show Hulu cover.jpg|Hulu cover
IMG 4023.jpg|HBO Max cover
RegularShowHorizontalHBOMaxcover.jpg|Horizontal HBO Max cover
File:RegularShowCompleteFirstandSecondSeasons.jpg|The Complete First and Second Seasons Blu-Ray and DVD
RegularShowCN30thAnniversaryiTunesCover.jpg|The Complete Series Cartoon Network 30th Anniversary iTunes cover
File:RegularShowSeason3DVD.jpeg|The Complete Third Season DVD
File:RegularShowSlackPackDVDBetterresolution.jpeg|Slack Pack DVD
File:RegularShowSeason1DVDAustralia.jpeg|Season 1 DVD from Australia
File:RegularShowSeason2DVDAustralia.jpeg|Season 2 DVD from Australia
File:RegularShowSeason4DVDAustralia.jpeg|Season 4 DVD from Australia
File:RegularShowSeason5DVDAustralia.jpeg|Season 5 DVD from Australia
File:RegularShowSeason6DVDAustralia.jpeg|Season 6 DVD from Australia
File:RegularShowSeason7DVDAustralia.jpeg|Season 7 DVD from Australia
File:RegularShowSeason8DVDAustralia.jpeg|Season 8 DVD from Australia
File:RegularShowMARI8BL.jpeg|Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land cover
File:RegularShowMARI8BLHorizontal cover.jpeg|Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land horizontal cover
File:RegularShowRigbyopenmouthfigure.jpeg|Talking Rigby figure
File:RegularShowPopsfigure.jpeg|Pops Figure
File:RegularShowBensonRagefigure.jpeg|Benson figure
File:RegularShowminifigures.jpeg|Mini figures
File:RegularShowBestDVDintheWorld.jpeg|The Best DVD in the World
File:RegularShowMordecaiandMargaretPack.jpeg|Mordecai and Marget Pack
File:RegularShowMordecaiPack.jpeg|Mordecai Pack
File:RegularShowPlushToys.jpeg|Plushes of Mordecai, Rigby, Skips, Pops, and Benson
File:RegularShowMuscleManplush.jpeg|Muscle Man Plush
File:RegularShowCompleteSeriesAppleTVCover.jpeg|The Complete Series Apple TV cover
File:MordecaiTitansVinylFigure.jpeg|Titans Vinyl Figure of Mordecai
File:RigbyTitansVinylFigure.jpeg|Titans Vinyl Figure of Rigby
File:HiFiveGhostCrossoverNexus.webp|Hi Five Ghost as stone in Crossover Nexus
File:MordecaiCrossoverNexuspunch.webp|Mordecai as one of Ben 10's transformations in Crossover Nexus
File:HiFiveGhostCrossoverNexusanimated.jpg|Hi Five Ghost after being restored by Strike's pen in Crossover Nexus
File:Mordecai toonix.png|Mordecai Toonix
File:Rigby toonix png by elloraxxd dgbn24z-414w-2x.png|Rigby Toonix
File:MordecainanoFusionFall.jpeg|Mordecai nano from FusionFall
File:RigbyFusionFallnano.jpeg|Rigby nano from FusionFall
File:GhostToastersoriginalappicon.jpeg|Ghost Toasters original app icon
File:RegularShowGrudgeballappicon.jpeg|Grudgeball original app icon
File:JustaRegularArcadeGooglePlayicon.jpeg|Just a Regular Arcade Google Play app icon
File:BestParkintheUniversePopsappicon.jpeg|The Best Park in the Universe Pops update app icon
File:RegularShowGhostToasterlaterupdateicon.jpeg|Ghost Toasters CN logo app icon
File:IMG 4834.jpg|Regular Show: The Movie HBO Max cover
File:RegularShowTheMovieHorizontalHBOMaxcover.jpg|Horizontal HBO Max cover
File:TheGreatPrankWaroriginalappicon.jpeg|The Great Prank War original blue app icon
File:TheGreatPrankWarCNlogoappicon.jpeg|The Great Prank War CN logo app icon
File:TheGreatPrankWardarkorangeappicon.jpeg|The Great Prank War dark orange iPhone app icon
File:TheGreatPrankWardarkorangeGoogleplayicon.jpeg|The Great Prank War dark orange Google Play app icon
File:ArtofRegularShowbook.jpeg|The Art of Regular Show book
File:RegularShowMadLibs.jpeg|Regular Show Mad Libs
File:RegularShowVolumeOnegraphicnovel.jpeg|Volume One Graphic novel
File:MordecaiFusionFallHeroes.jpeg|Mordecai's model from FusionFall Heroes
File:RigbyFusionFallHeroes.jpeg|Rigby's model from FusionFall Heroes
File:RegularShowTheMoviedvdcover.jpeg|Regular Show: The Movie DVD cover
File:RegularShowFirstandSecondSeasonsDVDbackcover.jpeg|The Complete First and Second Seasons DVD back cover
File:RegularShowCompleteThirdSeasonDVDbackcover.jpeg|The Complete Third Season DVD back cover
File:RegularShowMordecaipackDVDbackcover.jpeg|Mordecai Pack DVD back cover
File:RegularShpwTheCompleteFirstandSecondSeasonsAustraliaBluRay.jpeg|The Complete First and Second Seasons Australia Blu-Ray
File:RegularShowTheMovieAmazonPrimecover.jpeg|Regular Show: The Movie Amazon Prime cover
File:RegularShowOnDemandcover.jpeg|On Demand cover
File:MordecaiandRigbyin8bitLandbackcover.jpeg|Mordecai and Rigby in 8-bit Land back cover
File:MordecaiandRigbyin8bitlandgamecard.jpeg|Mordecai and Rigby in 8-bit Land game card
File:RegularShowVolume2graphicnovel.jpeg|Volume 2 Graphic Novel
File:RegularShowVolume3Graphicnovel.jpeg|Volume Three graphic novel
File:RegularShowPopcornCinemasposter.jpeg|Cartoon Network Popcorn Cinemas poster
File:RegularShowcomicbookseriesissue1A.jpeg|Issue 1A of the comic book series by KaBoom! Comics
File:RegularShow2014calendar.jpeg|2014 calendar
File:RegularShowSlackPackDVDbackcover.jpeg|Slack Pack DVD back cover
File:RegularShpwSlackPackdisc.jpeg|Slack Pack DVD disc
File:RegularShowPartyPackDVD.jpeg|Party Pack DVD
File:RegularShowPartyPackdisc.jpeg|Party Pack DVD disc
File:RegularShowEmployeeHandbook.jpeg|Employee Handbook
File:RegularShowFluxx.jpeg|Regular Show Fluxx card game
File:RegularShowBestJournalEver.jpeg|Best Journal Ever
File:RegularShow2018special.jpeg|2018 special
File:RegularShowVolumeFivegraphicnovel.jpeg|Volume Five Graphic Novel
File:TalesfromRegularShow.jpeg|Tales from Regular Show
File:RegularShowHorizontalDigitalplatformcover.jpeg
File:MordecaiFunkoPop.jpeg|Mordecai Funko Pop
File:RigbyFunkoPop.jpeg|Rigby Funko Pop
File:MuscleManFunkoPop.jpeg|Muscle Man Funko Pop
File:BensonFunkoPop.jpeg|Benson Funko Pop
File:RegularShowAppleTVSquarelink.jpeg
File:AdventureTimeAppleTVCanadasquarelink.jpeg
File:RegularShowVolume10AmazonPrimecover.jpeg|Volume 10 Amazon Prime cover
File:MordecaiFormulaCartoonAllStarsmodel.jpeg|Mordecai's model from Formula Cartoon: All Stars
File:RigbyFormulaCartoonAllStarsmodel.jpeg|Rigby's model from Formula Cartoon: All Stars
File:SkipsFormulaCartoonAllStarsmodel.jpeg|Skips' model from Formula Cartoon: All Stars
File:MuscleManFormulaCartoonAllStarsmodel.jpeg|Muscle Man's model from Formula Cartoon: All Stars
File:8s8qk1.gif|Check it 3.0 animation of Mordecai and Rigby
File:Muscle man 3.0.gif|Muscle Man's Check it 3.0 animation
File:SkipswithFistsofJusticefigure.jpeg|Skips with Fists of Justice and Battle Harness figure
File:Rigbyvs.TheUrgeThumbwrestlers.jpeg|Rigby vs. The Urge Thumb wrestlers
File:RegularShowTintoneset.jpeg|Tin tone set
File:RegularShowRCgolfcart.jpeg|RC Golf cart
File:Rigby80'sclothingfigure.jpeg|Rigby 80's clothing figure
File:RegularShowHeyBroDidYaKnow?.jpeg|Hey Bro, Did Ya Know? book
==External Refererences==
*Wikipedia
*Cartoonnetwork.com
== Broadcast history ==
* Cartoon Network (2010-2017) (reruns: 2017; 2018; 2019; 2021; 2022; 2023-present)
* Boomerang (2018-2019; 2022; reruns)
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