Benson

**Benson** is a talking gumball machine, and a member of the Park Resistance. Also known as The Park's manager. As manager, he is the boss of every park worker (with the possible exception of Pops). He has a short temper and has a tendency of yelling at Mordecai and Rigby everytime they slack off.

## Bio

### Personality

Benson is easily the most short-tempered character of all the park
workers. Whenever he is greatly upset, Benson loses his temper, turning
varying shades of red, and always threatening to fire Mordecai and
Rigby, usually by yelling, although he can be sassy and sarcastic as
well. In addition, he has a tendency to harass and bully Mordecai and
Rigby, as seen in "The Best Burger in the World", "Pie Contest", "A
Bunch of Full Grown Geese" and "Lunch Break".

Aside from this Benson is usually calm and, in fact, enjoys being
 social, even with his two most disliked people. Whenever Benson is in a
 good mood, he'll reward his employees with time off, usually in the
form of nightly entertainment or dining out. Benson enjoys his work at
the park and he will do anything to save his job if he at the risk of
being fired.

## Appearance

**Benson**is a gumball machine (standing at 5'6"/5'7" and about 40
pounds) with pinkish purple/red gumballs enclosed by a glass dome,
sunken eyes and a large, straight nose that just about overlaps his
mouth. The gumballs may act as facial hair for Benson, as noted by story
 boarder Benton Connor.
 It is also worth noting that the dispenser slot sits in a rather
phallic position. The turn switch on his chest is shaped like a heart
symbol, hinting that's probably where his heart is. When his latch is
open it is considered to him being naked, as well as his private area.
If shown sick, as shown in "Sandwich of Death", his gumballs will turn green. It has been hinted that Benson once had hair in "150 Piece Kit,"
  when one of the band members of Hair to the Throne had insulted Benson
 by asking him, "What happened to your hair?" and calling him
chrome-dome, with Benson responding that it's hereditary, although the
band members were shown to all be wearing wigs at the end. Also, in
Benson's flashback in "Stick Hockey", Benson was shown to have long
black hair. But in "Peeps,"
 he had some stubble where his gumballs were for a short period of time,
 which could've meant he was growing a beard, even though this was the
only episode showing it in his real-life self. In total, there has been
three times Benson had facial hair. As already mentioned, Benson
had stubble for a short period of time in "Peeps." The other two times
were in the episodes "Jinx" and "More Smarter," In "Jinx," he had a full
 beard in his negative demon form, and he had stubble in his barbaric
form in "More Smarter," hinting he is able to grow facial hair. In the
episode "Expert or Liar" Benson is shown ripping his hair out during a flashback after losing on a game show. Also, in "Terror Tales of the Park IV"
 (Unfinished Business), in Benson's flashback in which he was conversing
 with Mr. Maellard, he had the same hairstyle as he did in "Expert or
Liar" (before it fell out), implying that this event took place before
the game show and was perhaps even his first day at the park.

## Skills/Habits

* **Determined** - Benson is very single-minded, which most of the time poses as a detriment for himself, as seen in "Peeps," "Fortune Cookie," "Think Positive," "150 Piece Kit,"

 and several other episodes. Often times he'll be so focused on a task
that he'll miss incredibly important things, such as in "The Dome Experiment"
 where while searching for a printed email, he completely ignored the
incredibly invasive research the scientists were doing on him and the
other park members.

* **Drummer** - In "This Is My Jam," it is shown that Benson has a mysterious past where he was formerly a very skilled drummer. Also, in "150 Piece Kit," he proved that he could drum better than a robot with his 150 piece kit.

* **Stick Hockey Expert** - Benson also has a mysterious past where he was a very skilled stick hockey player known as "**The Death Dragon,**" as seen in "Stick Hockey." He is shown playing stick hockey with Mordecai and Rigby in "Benson Be Gone".
* **Athletic** - In some episodes, Benson has displayed

impressive feats of athletism. In "Fool Me Twice," he was able to run
through the obstacle course without injury, unlike Mordecai and Rigby.
In "Blind Trust," Benson was also shown to perform somersaults even
while blinded.

* **Adept Fighter -**Although not as strong as Skips, Muscle Man, and Mordecai, Benson is more than capable of holding his own in a fight.

* **Archery** - In "But I Have a Receipt," Benson uses a bow and arrow to defeat monsters. These skills were also used again in "The Dome Experiment" against several scientists and dome-workers.

* **Motorcyclist** - In "Busted Cart,"

 Mordecai and Rigby ditch Benson at an arcade and drive off toward the
cart dealership, so Benson asks a guy with a motorcycle how much he
wants for the bike. He then takes it, and drives full speed trying to
catch up to Mordecai and Rigby.

* **Bus Driver** - In "Just Set Up the Chairs," Benson has to drive a bus full of kids to the park for a birthday party.

* **Cat Person** - Benson seems to be a cat person, due to all

the cat portraits inside his apartment. However, this could be
incorrect, as seen in "Out of Commission," when Rigby tells Mordecai about a dog they took to Cheezer's, and it ran away. The dog belonged to Benson. In "A Skips in Time", his check book has pictures of cats. In Terror Tales of the Park IV it revealed that he have a pet cat and also have a cat sitter. It shows that in Cat Videos he got addicted to watching cat videos. In the finale, he and Pam adopt 4 cats since they don't have children with each others.

* **Pinball Expert** - Benson was shown to be an expert at pinball in "The Christmas Special." He played a pinball machine so the gang could cross the bridge to the lava pit.
* **Partying -** Benson finally cut loose after successfully asking Audrey out in "Party Re-Pete",

 after he was abducted by Party Savers and forced to serve them in
clone-form as "Party Benson."  By the end of the episode, Mordecai,
Rigby and the "Real" Party Pete all admit Benson is the best at
partying.

* **Lightsaber Combat -** Due to his aggressive short temper, Benson is very Skilled with using Form V in Lightsaber Combat.

### Weaknesses/Bad Habits

* **Short Temper** - Benson is characterized by his extreme mood swings. Some notable examples are "Think Positive",

 when Benson almost killed himself and others because he got so angry,
that he went into a freak fireball, and when he finally cracked, he
yelled at Mordecai and Rigby so hard that they temporarily became
tone-deaf. Also, in "Busted Cart,"
 he got so mad at Mordecai and Rigby for pit-stopping at an arcade while
 he was asleep that he actually began to cry. He is shown to be somewhat
 psychotic, as he has a tendency to flip out in anger, a running gag in
the series. An example is in "Jinx,"
 when Rigby threw trash at him. Benson flipped out by throwing a trash
can into the sky and kicking it angrily. Benson has also gotten physical
 with Mordecai and Rigby in "The Best Burger in the World," when he kicked them onto the ground.

* **Lonely** - Benson can possibly be looking for a date. In "Grilled Cheese Deluxe,"

 there is a hidden cameo in which Benson is looking at a page on the
internet with other gumball machines, but this is only shown for two
seconds. He seems interested in Audrey in "Weekend at Benson's." They were a couple for a while but they were revealed to have broken up some time before the events of "The Real Thomas".

* **Stingy** - Benson is shown to be an occasional cheapskate

to his workers. Despite obliging everyone to show up at Karaoke Night,
he only offers to treat them with one song each, so the food and drinks
are on them. In "Over the Top,"
 Benson would only pay for drinks up to $1.50. He also demands Rigby to
pay for the crate of eggs he took during Halloween. However, during his
streak of good luck in "Fortune Cookie," he buys the whole cart of food for the gang in the restaurant.

* **Slacker**- He has only been seen slacking off in "Benson Be Gone," when he slacks off with Mordecai and Rigby instead of following Susan's commands. He also does it a little in "Skips Strikes,"

 when he shouts "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" with the
group. Benson also shouts "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" in "Benson
Be Gone" after Susan fires him. Benson once again shouts
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" with the rest of the group
 in "The Real Thomas".

* **Nauseous -**Benson displays a tendency to get easily nauseated by a disgusting sight, as seen in "Peeps" , "The White Elephant Gift Exchange" and "Terror Tales of the Park".
* **Sore Loser -**As shown in "Dodge This", Benson is very competitive, and when he loses the dodgeball tournament, he doesn't take it well.
* **Drunk on Wings -**Whenever Benson eats chicken wings, he tends to talk in a straight-up kind of way, as shown in "Dodge This", "Gold Watch", "The End of Muscle Man", "Benson's Suit", "Men in Uniform, and The Parkie Awards.
* **Trust Issues****-**As seen in "Blind Trust", Pops

 brings them to a forest and Mordecai and Rigby have to train him so
Benson can trust them. The training escalates when Benson tries to walk
away. Despite completeting the training, he still has trouble trusting
Mordecai and Rigby, even when they are telling the truth.

* **Unlucky in Love** - Benson has horrible luck with women,

even worse so than Mordecai. His first girlfriend, Veronica, left him in
 a deleted scene from "Mordecai and the Rigbys", Audrey, whom he got together with in "Weekend at Benson's", broke up with him some time before the events of "The Real Thomas",
 and in the latter episode, his new girlfriend Natalie/Natalia was
revealed to be a Russian spy. Even his latest success with Pam wasn't
completely filled with luck , as right when Pam went to the park at the
end of "Rigby's Graduation Day Special"
 for their date, the park launched into space (though it is yet to be
shown how stable their relationship is). In the series finale, this
curse comes to an end when Benson and Pam finally get married and settle
 down.

## Main weaponry

* High Standard Flite King Shotgun
* Smith & Wesson Model 58 Revolver
* Red crimson lightsaber

## Trivia

* Benson made his first appearance in Siege of the Park Part 1: The Arrival.