Survival Skills

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**"Survival Skills"** is the seventh episode in Season 5 (and one hundred-twenty third episode overall) of *Regular Show*. It first aired on October 14, 2021.

## Synopsis

Pickle and Peanut are in charge of bringing Benson tortillas.

## Plot

The episode begins with Benson, Skips, Pops, Muscle Man, Hi Five Ghost, Peanut, Pickle, and Thomas all outside, listening to Benson who is making a presentation about surviving in the wilderness. They are in a remote area in the woods, away from the park. However, Pickle and Peanut aren't listening to Benson; instead, they are playing handheld video games. When Benson is done, he tells Pickle and Peanut to get tortillas so that they can make quesadillas. Peanut and Pickle protest, because they thought Benson was going to grill burgers. Benson tells them that he had reminded them many times that they were having quesadillas, then sends Pickle and Peanut to store to get them. They leave the wilderness to go back to civilization to buy the specific tortilla Benson as perscribed and the two joke about Benson's threats.

As they are driving back from the store, they notice that they are running late, so they take a "shortcut" that is an unpaved road through the woods. As they go deeper and deeper in the woods, Pickle says he didn't put fuel in the cart; as a result, the cart runs out of fuel, and stops. Peanut tries to use the phone to contact Benson, but there is no signal.

Peanut decides that they have to walk, but as they are walking, they come to a fork in the road. They start to walk through trees and bushes, cross a river, and go down a mountain. After this, it becomes nighttime, and they are lost. Pickle knows that they have to get something to eat. Peanut says not to eat the tortillas, so they try to eat tree bark.

Suddenly, Peanut looks at Pickle and Pickle looks 8-bit as a result of Peanut seeing things. Pickle looks at Peanut and sees him as a taco. Peanut asks Pickle where he got the idea of eating tree bark, and Pickle says that it was a show where people go crazy from eating things that aren't food. They both start imagining crazy and weird illusions. After this happens, they decide that they needed to find real food, and that they needed to try to remember from Benson's wilderness presentation. They remember Benson saying to wear laying to survive the cold,
so they make coats out of the tortillas.

Many days pass by, and Pickle and Peanut have survived by remembering what Benson had said about survival. They made tools out of tortillas. Eventually, after many days, it starts to snow. Peanut and Pickle both think they are going to die, but then Pickle remembers Benson saying that they needed to find a cell phone signal. Peanut gets out his phone only to see that there is 1% battery remaining. They both run in the snow, trying to find a cell phone signal before the phone dies. When they find a signal, they call Benson and hear Benson's phone ringing two meters away. They look to see Benson, Pops, Skips, Muscle Man, Hi Five Ghost, and Thomas standing there in the same place as before. Benson says that he knew all that was going to happen, and Thomas reveals that they actually hadn't been out for days, and it had only been a few hours. Benson also says that he has backup burgers, but tells Pickle and Peanut not to touch and ruin the burgers.

## Characters

### Main Characters

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* Pickle
* Peanut
* Benson
* Pops
* Skips
* Muscle Man
* Hi Five Ghost
* Thomas

### Minor Characters

* Margaret (hallucination only)
* CJ (hallucination only)
* Don (hallucination only)

### Censorship

* Towards the end of the episode, Pickle's line was "See you on the other side." was modified. Outside of America, it is changed to "In 50 years, I'm probably gonna die of natural causes." so no one would think that Pickle is about to die.

### Trivia

* This episode foreshadows the return of CJ and the love triangle that forms between her, Peanut, and Eileen.
* It is unknown why Pickle and Peanut had beards when they were only gone for 24 hours.
* During the hallucination, Don can be seen holding a bag of sugar. This is a reference to his debut episode, "Don".
* When Pickle and [Peanut]] ate bark of a tree, this momment was similar to the time when the night-shift clerks were laced on drugs.

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