Benson Dunwoody

### Hobby

Abusing and yelling at Mordecai and Rigby whenever the two cause trouble (formerly).
Cleaning.
Managing the Park.
Hanging out with his employees.

### Goals

Punish Mordecai and Rigby when he thinks they have gone way too far (formerly).Keep the park tidy and in order.Protect his employees, even Mordecai and Rigby.Help defeat dangerous villains (all succeeded).Change his ways.Be sent to therapy for anger management so that he can improve himself and become a better person whilst continuing his career as park manager.
Apologize to his friends for his firing and unlawful termination of them (all ongoing).

### Type of Deuteragonist

Arrogant Boss

**Benson Dunwoody** is the deuteragonist of the 2010 Cartoon Network series *Regular Show*. He is Mordecai and Rigby's former boss and close friend.

When calm, he sounds almost monotone, but when mad, he turns red and screams in an ear-bleading way. He cannot stand Mordecai and Rigby's irresponsible behavior, and threatens to fire them. Next to Skips, he is also the only serious worker of the park, although he still seems to have a sense of humor. He can also be pretty antagonistic and protagonistic.

Despite his disapproval of Mordecai and Rigby, he still considerably likes them, as he has invited them to special celebrations, and most notably in the episode *Stick Hockey*, he risked himself to help the two. He also admitted the two were cool in *Cool Bikes* helped saved them from the cool police, and in *Eggscellent*, after Benson helps Mordecai train for the omelte challenge, Mordecai tells Benson that even though he acts like a jerk, he's a true friend. In *Think Positive*, while he's yelling at Mordecai and Rigby after pops finally allows him to, he mentions he's trying to teach them responsibility. From that point, he also promised to yell less of the time. He has also admitted he does not hate Mordecai and Rigby, just some of the things they do.

He was voiced by Sam Marin who also voices Pops and Muscle Man. In the Japanese dub from the series, he was voiced by Tōru Ōkawa.

## Appearance

Benson is a gumball machine (standing at 5'4” and about 150 pounds) with pinkish-purple gumballs enclosed by a glass dome, sunken eyes and a large, straight nose that just about overlaps his mouth. As seen many times, his gumballs and thus his face turn red whenever he is angered.

During the time montage following the final events of "A Regular Epic Final Battle" and at the 25-year park reunion, Benson has grown grey hair, although still bald on the top of his head, that is tied in a ponytail under a blue hat.

## Personality

Benson's short temper is usually attributed to the continuous lack of productivity from Mordecai and Rigby on work time, thus he would scream and yell at them in an ear-bleeding way whenever the duo is doing something off-task, often threatening to fire them or at the very least, assign more work and/or refusing to let them have fun. He and Skips are the only serious workers of the park, although he still seems to have a sense of humor as he sometimes shows amusement towards the duo's antics after he calms down. He also joins in on his worker's zany antics off the clock if they do not take things too far. Furthermore, he does show a more generous side by buying dinner for his co-workers.

Although he is often angry at Mordecai and Rigby, he still considerably likes them, as he has invited them to special celebrations, and most notably in the episode *Stick Hockey*, he risked himself to help the two. He also admitted the two were cool in *Cool Bikes*, as he helped saving them from the cool police, and in *Eggscellent* after Benson down talks Rigby at the hospital only to get punched by Mordecai. Benson later apologizes to him and then started training Mordecai for the omelette challenge. Afterwards, Mordecai tells Benson that despite acting like a jerk, he is still a true friend.

In *Think Positive*, while he was yelling at Mordecai and Rigby after Pops finally allows him to with the anger that was held up for days and released in an ear-deafening way, he mentions he is trying to teach them responsibility. From that point, he also promised to yell less of the time. He, for the most part, kept this promise as while he still screams at the duo whenever they go too far, he generally only does it when they cross the line like when they ruined the Thanksgiving Feast. Even then, he usually forgives them after cooling off. Furthermore, while he mostly targets the duo, he is willing to call out the other workers (except for Pops who he at most, expresses mild annoyance with) such as when Skips damaged Mordecai and Rigby's console once the latter kept bragging after beating him at arm-wrestling.

In later seasons, Benson becomes much kinder and more tolerant aside from a few episodes (e.g. *One Space Day at a Time*, his agression reutns when he punches rigby, then rigby punches Benson bac, turning this into a fight.) where he reverts to his former ways. He treats Mordecai and Rigby with much more respect than before, even letting some things slide. His friendship with the latter grows even more as they find out that they relate to each other, and because Rigby eventfully earns Benson's respect after his maturity.

## Immoral Acts

Since he had to handle Mordecai and Rigby's antics, he often downs talks and usually screams at them and sometimes plans to get revenge on them out of frustration by any means necessary. Not only that, but he also sometimes antagonizes others as well.

* **Just Set Up the Chairs**: Got mad and angrily blamed Mordecai and Rigby for making a mess at the birthday party. He also assigned them the task of setting up the chairs in the first place. In the end, he furiously threatens to fire them unless they clean up the mess.
* **Grilled Cheese Deluxe**: When Rigby steals his Grilled Cheese Deluxe and eats it alongside Mordecai, Benson forces them to buy him a replacement sandwich, thus ruining their day off. Rigby eating the first sandwich also kick-started the plot in the first place. Furthermore, he got upset with Rigby when he tried telling him why it took them so long because he thought they were lying again.
* **The Unicorns Have Got to Go**: After helping Mordecai and Rigby get rid of the Unicorns, Benson hoses them down while angrily berating them for bringing the Unicorns to the house and remind Mordecai to stop spraying that Cologne because that not got to attract any ladies. He then, like most episodes, makes them clean up the mess and threatens to kill them. This is the first time he is shown abusing the two.
* **Prank Callers**: After Mordecai and Rigby foolishly prank-called him, he mercilessly destroyed one of the park phones.
* **Don:** Fires Muscle Man angrily just for telling a my mom joke, then forces Mordecai and Rigby to call Rigby's brother Don to stop an audit, despite Rigby's objections because Don steals his (Rigby's) popularity all the time, and when Rigby refuses to respect Don in order to stop the audit, Benson immediately threatens to fire Rigby if he is not nice to Don, thus, abusing his power. On the other hand, he was mostly upset because Rigby kept putting his petty feud against his brother over The Park.
* **Appreciation Day**: Refused to give Mordecai and Rigby appreciation plagues, instead giving Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost the credit for stuff Mordecai and Rigby did while also insulting them in the Book of Park Records, causing the duo to write lies in the book to make Benson like them, to the point where they create Snowballs the Ice Monster, who starts destroying the park.
* **Peeps**: He is so obsessed with making Mordecai and Rigby do work all day that he installed surveillance cameras called Peeps to spy on them, even when they were on break and went to the bathroom. This was the only one episode to portray him as a villain until the arrival of the more sinister Peeps. This shows that he has absolutely no respect for Mordecai and Rigby's privacy whatsoever.
* **My Mom**: Calling Muscle Man to supervise Mordecai and Rigby for no reason other than them ruining his lemon tree.
* **High Score**: He never respects Mordecai and Rigby at all and refuses to give them checks. This is another time he abuses them both. Even when he was about to give them their paychecks, he immediately changed his mind and ripped it up furiously.
* **Temp Check**: After Mordecai and Rigby mow the lawn at an Ultimate Frisbee field, Benson angrily tells them to mow it all over again JUST because the grass was only an inch too tall. Rigby justifiably complains, but Benson responds by smugly threatening to fire Rigby. Rigby decides to hire Doug (the episode's main antagonist) to do all his work for him. In the end, Benson angrily punishes Rigby with three months of toilet duty with the threat of firing him yet again. The problem is that Rigby would not have hired Doug to do all his work for him had Benson not been needlessly unfair in the first place.
* **Really Real Wrestling:** he stil angry at Mordecai and Rigby sneak out to wrassle frassle of watch Pops he went over to check on them he gets them fired he total they didn't wanna listen and Mordecai tell Pops to help them but he cannot tell a lie and total him the truth and they even got Pops' Back is all Better he gets them their last warning
* **More Smarter**: Threatened to kill Mordecai and Rigby angrily if they didn't clean up their equations.
* **Karaoke Video**: Forces Mordecai and Rigby to go to Carrey O'Key's karaoke bar with the rest of the park workers, and refuses their suggestions for another place. This indirectly leads them to accidentally start a bar fight, ruining karaoke night. Mordecai and Rigby later sincerely apologize, but Benson furiously rejects them instead and drives off without them.
* **Stick Hockey**: Promises not to give away a stick hockey table if Mordecai and Rigby do their work. Despite that the two finished their work, Benson doesn't keep his word and gives away the table as he assumed that they were not going to do their work, leading them to grow upset with him. However, he later discovers that they are in danger for trying to win it back against Chong. Benson risks his own safety to fix his mistake and retrieve the stick hockey table, making this one of few instances where Benson does something nice for Mordecai and Rigby in first few seasons.
* **Weekend at Benson's**: Mordecai and Rigby accidentally knock Benson unconscious by making him fall off a ladder. They take him to a party where he was supposed to meet his date, Audrey. They go up against her ex-boyfriend Chuck in a spicy food contest. Benson wakes up and makes Mordecai and Rigby drink the "Mississippi Queen". Afterward, when they wake up in the park, Benson nearly fires Mordecai and Rigby, but changes his mind when he discovers Audrey's phone number written on his chest.
* **Think Positive**: When Pops threatens to fire Benson if he continues to yell at Mordecai and Rigby, Benson tries to hold his anger, eventually destroying most of the park and nearly exploding in the likeness of a Super Saiyan. Pops then allows him to let out his anger, causing him to yell so loud at Mordecai and Rigby that he accidentally deafens them.
* **Eggscellent:** Down talks Rigby heartlessly, blaming him and Mordecai not working for his condition. Mordecai responds by violently punching Benson and angrily storming out of Rigby's hospital room. Later in the episode, Benson apologizes to Mordecai and corrects his mistake by helping him train for the challenge. He also forgives Mordecai for punching him and does not fire him as he knew he deserved it.
* **The Best Burger in the World**: After Mordecai and Rigby failed to finish their work for an entire week, Benson forces them to finish all of their work before they can go to a food truck to get the Ulti-Meatum, a burger that only comes out every 100 years. This is by far Benson's cruelest role in the show by the fact he wouldn't let them even go anywhere near the truck until they finished the work; he even beat them down and ate their burgers when they finally managed to buy them (even after defeating holographic versions of themselves). He arguably crosses the Moral Event Horizon with this act. On the other hand, he did have the right to be angry with them considering that they slacked off for an entire week (though one may question why didn't Benson inform them immediately upon missing their first shore that week, yet it may be possible that he did warn them but the duo didn't care).
* **Replaced**: Briefly replaces Mordecai and Rigby with Jeremy and Chad, unfairly fires them and flashes a camera at them repeatedly. He then gets his well-deserved punishment when Jeremy and Chad decide to quit the job, and Mordecai and Rigby take the job and flash the camera at him in revenge.
* **Trash Boat**: He, along with Mordecai, Muscle Man, Hi Five Ghost, Pops and Skips made fun of Rigby when he changed his name to "Trash Boat". He also threatened to fire Rigby if he didn't wear his nametag so he could make fun of him, showing how much of a jerk he is.
* **Exit 9B:** Although he was brainwashed by Garrett Bobby Ferguson Jr., in this scenario he was close to angrily killing Mordecai and Rigby when they attempt to reason with him before regaining his memory when Mordecai and Rigby annoy him with his antics. This redeems him, as he signs the document as well.
* **Muscle Mentor**: Humiliates Rigby by forcing him to stay attached to Muscle Man for eight hours, then allowed Muscle Man to almost kill Rigby, despite Mordecai's pleads to stop him. He even threatened to do the same to Mordecai. Unlike most episodes, aside from Mordecai getting upset with him, no one holds him accountable for putting two employees in danger. He did this all because he wanted to get back at Rigby for badmouthing him and not taking him seriously. This shows how truly cruel he can be.
* **A Bunch of Full-Grown Geese**: He angrily forces Mordecai and Rigby to get rid of the geese, then at the end of the episode, he angrily yells at Mordecai, Rigby and the baby ducks for destroying the park rather than thanking them for getting rid of the Geese, showing his lack of graditude. This time, however, he finally gets his karma when the baby ducks' mother scolds him for his actions. He apologizes and walks away, humbled from getting rebuked for being ungrateful.
* **Sandwich of Death**: He attempted to punish Mordecai and Rigby for eating his Grilled Cheese Deluxe by stealing their sandwich and eating it, unaware that it was the Death Sandwich, which kills those who do not eat it in the correct way. Benson falls ill and almost gets himself killed because of this. He is cured by the end of the episode and survives. However, despite of that, it served as karma for Benson for eating Mordecai and Rigby's burgers.
* **Return of the Mordecai and the Rigbys**: When the Park Gang goes into the bathroom, they find out that Benson overheard them and was extremely mad and called them "backstabbers" and left the band. When they are told it was a lie, Mordecai messes with Benson's drum kit and Benson does the same with Mordecai's guitar. They angrily argue over messing with each other's stuff and then begin destroying each other's instruments.
* **Paint Job**: When his car gets destroyed, he decides to blame Mordecai and Rigby for it and refuses to pay them for 6 months, which is illegal.
* **Take the Cake**: He storms into Pops's house with Thomas just as Skips finishes patching up the teleporter, launching into an angry tirade about the failed plan. Mordecai and Rigby quickly try to explain themselves, but Benson ignores them and snatches the teleporter. The three wrestle over the device which finally goes off and teleports the cake and everyone else with it out of the room.
* **Gold Watch**: He blames Mordecai and Rigby for getting stranded in the desert during a drunken stupor, despite eating the hot wings that intoxicated him on his own accord. Instead of showing concern for the two when he found out they were missing too, he attempts to strangle Mordecai. This act is one of the worst things he did throughout the series.
* **Tent Trouble**: Showed some sadistic enjoyment out of watching Mordecai and Rigby getting beat up by Starla and her sister Peggy during the wrestling match, demonstrating his hatred for them.
* **The Lunch Club**: Benson and Rigby are forced to write a letter to Mr. Maellard after the latter ruins Maellard's lunch and are locked in the office and the two eventually decide to have fun and ultimately the two leave Maellard an insulting letter of both deciding to resign.
* **Benson's Car**: After Benson saw his car get destroyed by a bounty hunter named Jack, he unfairly blames it on Mordecai and Rigby and severely forces them to pay for destruction of the house, his car and bus fare all next month. Fans regard that as the most horrible thing he has done in the entire series.
* **Lunch Break**: He forces Mordecai and Rigby to eat a very long sub sandwich until the end of the day or he will angrily fire them. Mordecai and Rigby found it difficult because they were already feeling satisfied and had to remember past meal challenges to gain motivation, Benson at one point scares them when he tells that he is going to call the move to take Mordecai and Rigby's things to their respective families since it is very likely that they will not succeed. Although this could be justified at first, given that Benson spent a large amount of money because of that sub sandwich that was ordered by Mordecai and Rigby, this ends up being invalidated since in the end Mordecai and Rigby end up eating the sub sandwich completely. Benson sarcastically congratulates them and as a "reward", he forces them to run 50 laps on the newly repaired basketball court immediately and threatens to fire them.