Benson Dunwoody

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.
Protect his employees, even Mordecai and Rigby.
Help defeat dangerous villains (all succeeded).

### Why Do Some People Hate The Character?

His unwarranted outbursts and methods of disciplining his employees at times.

### Why Do Some People Love The Character?

He has his moments of being nice and a few sympathetic traits.

### Type of Base Breaking Character

Short Tempered Authority Figure

**Benson Dunwoody** is the anti-heroic deuteragonist of the 2010-2017 Cartoon Network series, *Regular Show*. He is an anthropomorphic gumball machine and the assistant manager of the park, the main setting of the series. He is voiced by Sam Marin, who also voiced Pops and Muscle Man.

## What Makes Him a Base Breaking Character?

### What Do People Like About Him?

* He has a few sympathetic qualities:
	+ He has trouble controlling his temper because he had a dysfunctional family who taught him that he will not get what he wants in life unless he yells for it.
	+ He is only the assistant park manager and struggles to gain the approval of Mr. Maellard, the real park manager who is even more unfair than Benson and treats every employee who isn't his son like a worthless nobody. Maellard holds Benson accountable for everything that goes wrong in the park, even mistakes that only Mordecai and Rigby would make.
	+ He actually hates his job at the park, and only ended up working there because he wasted his life playing stick hockey, which later explains why he was so adamant on convincing Mordecai and Rigby that the game was a waste of time.
	+ He has his moments where he warms up to his employees, including Mordecai and Rigby, and shows that he can be friendly when in the right mood. Deep down, he really cares for the well-being of his employees and even sympathized with Rigby for being humiliated on public television as he himself suffered a similar experience.

### What Do People Hate About Him?

* He is a pretty grating portrayal of authority, in that he is ofttimes shown screaming bloody murder at Mordecai and Rigby while turning red in the face, though to be fair, the two are not all that responsible to begin with. He usually threatens them with his catchphrase, "You're fired!," even making the phrase itself seem like a joke.
* There are moments when he goes too far in punishing his employees. In "The Best Burger in the World", he forbids Mordecai and Rigby from going near a food truck to buy an Ulti-meatum and forces them to go back and do their jobs from last week, in which he should've been keeping track of their progress. When the two sneak off and succeed in buying their burgers, Benson grabs the burgers away and eats both of them, all the while gloating and taunting the two that the burgers won't come around again for another 100 years.
* He well as anger issues, he also has severe OCD problems. In "Return of Mordecai and Rigbys", he frustrated the living daylight out of the others whilst he was in charge of rehearsals for the Battle of the Bands contest, nitpicking at minor imperfections that made no difference, even making them all start over again when they were only one note into their song. When he found out that they were holding a meeting in the bathroom with his back turned and voted for Mordecai and Rigby to run rehearsals, he completely flipped his lid before quitting the band, believing himself to be the only one taking the gig seriously.

## External Links

* Benson Dunwoody on Villains Wiki
* Benson on *Regular Show* Wiki

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