Regular Show

*Regular Show* is a Cartoon Network series by J.G. Quintel (who later went on to make *Close Enough* for HBO Max). It's about a blue jay named Mordecai and a raccoon named Rigby who work in a park run by the Maellard family (Benson just works as the park's manager). Every week, they go through crazy stuff and yet, *somehow*, avoid getting fired.

A pilot was produced for the Cartoonstitute in 2009 (it was one of only two shorts to get its own series), then the series itself ran for eight seasons between 2010 and 2017.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Appropriateness Scale: Borderline level 3. And it *was* to be level 3 had Adult Swim not rejected the show.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Let's just say this didn't air on CN in certain countries and leave it at that.
* Offer Void Wherever Prohibited: "The Real Thomas" and possibly its sequel "Guy's Night 2" are banned in Russia because of depicting Russia in a way they didn't like, and let's leave it at that. Averted in the UK where references to Russia were changed.
* The Colbert Effect: While not enough to bring the format back, "The Last LaserDisc Player" *did* re-ignite discussion of the format.
	+ Due to the show using pop culture from the 70s and especially the 80s, some of what was mentioned became a little more popular.
* Obscurity, much?: While averted for the series itself, the show actually uses pop culture from the 70s/80s that underwent this trope as *plot points*. "The Last LaserDisc Player" is about *LaserDisc*, for example.
* You Are Expelled: In "More Smarter", while not saying he was outright expelled, Rigby is told to get out of the high school teacher's class.
* You Are Fired: Benson's been threatened with being fired *twice*. And actually *was* (if only temporarily) when Susan took over.
	+ Muscle Man and Hi-Five Ghost once got fired for making one of their signature jokes. They got their jobs back the next episode, though.
* "Jetson, You're Fired!": Benson threatens to fire Mordecai and Rigby *very, very often*. It either never goes through, or it doesn't stick.
* Unrealistic stuff: The whole point of the show. There's a *reason* the tagline says "It's anything but [a Regular Show]".
* Size Changing: Let's just say it has some examples of this that are documented on CN's own page and leave it at that.
* Dubless Series: Again, "The Real Thomas" was not dubbed into Russian due to what was mentioned on Offer Void Wherever Prohibited above.
	+ The Cartoonstitute version of the pilot was never dubbed outside of English, but the extended version "First Day" *was*.
* Loads and Loads of Irony: The tagline is "It's anything but", making this show a pure example of this.
* Cute Mascot: Parodied with the Hugstables.
* What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions?: For a Cartoon Network show, how does this take mundane stuff and make it extraordinary?
* Satisfactory Conclusion: "A Regular Epic Final Battle".
* Only One Setting: Averted. The first seven seasons take place in the town the park is located at for the most part, though some other locations are used. The eighth and final season takes place in space up until the final minutes of the finale.
* Sacrifice of a Hero: Currently provides the page image.
* Junking Tapes: In-universe example, as Rigby does this as one of his solids to Mordecai in "Do Me a Solid". The tape in question was of Mordecai doing his *own* solid.