I don't know how many people out there regularly watch Cartoon Network, but those of you who do should have at least heard something about their Monday-night cartoon Regular Show, about a slacker blue jay (Mordecai) and raccoon (Rigby), for whom a simple job is never just a simple job. Looking for cake nearly causes their immortal friend, Skips, to finally die. Setting up chairs for a birthday party in the park they work in leads to having to destroy a video-game monster they accidentally released into the world and who is hell-bent on destroying it. And these are, yes, all true examples. Some of my favorite scenes and, um, incidents? The Joe Esposito "You're the Best"-set workout montage in "Death Punchies;" the possessed British taxi cab in "Ello Gov'ner;" and the go-kart-racing-unicorn explosion (yes, I'm serious) in "The Unicorns Have Got to Go." The whole hole-in-the-wall thing in "The Power" (which contains a magic keyboard that Rigby stole from a wizard who was taking a pee break in some bushes in the park)--"I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO STOP LOOKING AT MY MOM!"--was great. After you watch a couple episodes (they run about fifteen minutes long each), you just start to wonder what you've been snorting. And isn't that the greatest gift a show can give you?
Haven't seen it yet? Here's an episode to get you started:
http://www.yidio.com/show/regular-show/season-1/episode-13/links.html
"Ello, Gov'ner"
Trust me. It'll make sense once you watch it.
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