Regular Show/Headscratchers

• I know no one is supposed to question this but I just can't get past it: ................ why is Mordecai a blue jay, why is Rigby a raccoon, why is Pops a lollipop, why is Skips an ape in jeans, why is Benson a talking bubble gum dispenser, and why is there a ghost with a high-five hand on his head?
  • Skips is a yeti.
  • Because those are their character designs. Why are you (presumably) human?
  • I think it's mainly to highlight the odd nature of the series.
• While I like the art style, sometimes the animators make notable slip-ups. Look at the Radar page. If the tail were located right in the crack like that, how the heck would Rigby go to the bathroom?
  • Nobody Poops. That is all.
  • I've been waiting for a much better reply. Nobody Poops? Come on, look at the average mammal. The tail is usually a little above the anus.
  • Perhaps it's inside that little split in his left cheek?
  • Mordecai uses the toilet for a long period of time during that episode (long enough for Rigby to learn Death Kwon Do), so Nobody Poops can't be the answer. I think it's simply just because the animators made a mistake, if not Rule of Funny.
  • There's also the possibility that the animators are using Artistic License because they felt like drawing it that way. Sort of like how real blue jays aren't tall as a human, with wings that work like human hands?
  • Maybe they couldn't get away with showing the entire ass crack. Also, if it was raised higher, than it would also be off model since you usually don't see Rigby's butt and that's where the tail always is.
  • Zero idea.
  • Out the bottom.
  • They figured the kids watching at home wouldn't spend their time thinking about raccoon anuses and bird cloaca.
• Why is Benson considered an Ensemble Darkhorse? Is it because of his close-to-rare moments of emotion outside of bitterness? Or his heart-shaped crank?
  • Dude, he's a gumball machine. What's not awesome about that?
  • In this troper's opinion, his outbursts are quite hilarious, but you start to feel that his anger is justified, if harsh.
• Why do Mordecai and Rigby bother working at the park if all they end up being yelled at by Benson and occasionally, ridiculed by Muscle Man?
  • Sometimes, you just don't have anything better to do. It's a paying job that provides room and board.
• Rigby decides to name the fake band he and Mordecai make up as "Mordecai and the Rigbys". Knowing Rigby, wouldn't he want top billing?
  • "Rigby and the Mordecais"? It doesn't have the same ring to it.
  • Well, he does respect Mordecai and sees him as a "Big Brother" figure.
  • Well, the name indicates that there are two Rigbys and just one Mordecai. So there is more of Rigby?
    • There's Don. There's also Doug, but he's in jail.
• In the "Ello Guv'nor" episode, we got an explanation for the phone call, fax, and even the taxi following them. But what about this... mark on the toilet paper?
  • It's a bathroom connected to a garage. Maybe some TP rolled out of the room. Or maybe Pops bought some decorative paper. Or Rigby's just paranoid.
  • Maybe a game would make it a plot point.
• How exactly is it possible for High-Five Ghost to high five?
  • He might be a poultergeist.
  • According to one of the storyboard artists' Formspring accounts, High-Fives turns temporarily corporeal so he can deliver some sick high-fives.
  • The episode with the Halloween party has High-Five Ghost say that ghosts can pass through 'real stuff if [they] want', implying it's a voluntary thing.
• In "The Unicorns Have Got to Go", Rigby goes outside and talks to Mordecai on the stairs after being forced out of his and Mordecai's room because of the unicorns farting on him. Then Mordecai says (paraphrased), "When Benson gets untied, it'll suck for you." How does Mordecai know that Benson is tied up? He could have been in the room earlier, but Mordecai doesn't seem like the kind of guy to just leave his boss tied up and tortured and I don't think that he hates Benson that much anyway. He could have been exiled like Rigby was, but I'm still bugged by this. So, A.) How did he know that Benson was tied up? and to a lesser extent, B.) If he HAD been in the room, why didn't he (or Rigby, for that matter) try to help Benson?
  • It was a gang of unicorns. I don't think Mordecai could help Benson if he wanted to.
  • Mordeson fans love this and imagine that Mordecai lent a hand in tying Benson up.
  • MORDECAI IS A WIZARD BRO
• In the power, Rigby says he couldn't bring Skips back from the moon because they have to see him while using the keyboard. But Rigby can send a bunch of ducks and a soda fountain to the moon off screen. What?
  • "Off screen" doesn't mean he can't see them. They are in a park, so the ducks were probably just walking by, and if the soda machine doesn't work, they were probably throwing it out, and he probably saw it in/near the dumpster. He was in a pretty open space. The real question is, where did he see the monster?
    • Well, considering all the Eldritch Abominations in the show it's possible that there was a monster around. Someone else in the Regular Show universe could have had a similar force like the keyboard or the monster could have been there already. This is Regular Show we're talking about here.
    • It's also possible that he just made it himself and sent it there.
• How does Pops's car fly?
  • I just assumed Pops has magic powers. Its the only explanation.
  • Rule of Funny. Also, it's a callback to Quintel's student film "The Naive Man from Lolliland".
    • Because Pops comes from the land of Lolliland- a place inhabited by lollipops where the rules of human normalcy don't exist. Lollipops are used as a form of currency, and cars fly. Or perhaps Pops is so wealthy he can afford a flying car. He IS the show's most eccentric character, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch.
• In "More Smarter", Rigby uses the phrase "more smarter". Muscle Man corrects him by saying that it should be "more smart". However, he SHOULD have corrected him with the word "smarter", not "more smart", as "more smart" is also improper. It's a small thing, I know, but...
  • Hypocritical Humor.
  • That's the whole point of the joke.
• Why was 'First Day'...well...that? It was just the pilot with a few minor additions. (Mostly the beginning, which is the only way you would even know it was their first day besides Muscle Man's comment of 'Hey, What're the new guys doing?'). I just wish it was...iunno...special.
  • They wanted to include the pilot, and they needed to make it longer to fit. Simple as that.
• Why was Muscle Man so pissed at Rigby and Mordecai for spilling soda on his face? It was an accident and he deserved it anyway since he just sat there and laughed while Rigby was choking.
  • Because its Muscle Man.

• Do the foxes visible in the audiences in the episodes "Mordecai and the Rigby's" and "Caffeinated Concert Tickets" have any significance whatsoever? Or are they simply meant to show that Mordecai, Rigby, Margaret, Eileen, and Skips aren't the only Funny Animals?

• Benson sounded like he wanted M&R to learn a lesson about not tattling on co-workers in the spray paint episode, but it seemed to have been dropped, why?
  • He wanted them to learn that it's right to report your coworkers to the supervisor when they misbehave.

• It appears that, in the original pilot, Mordecai and Rigby didn't share a room. Fair enough; obviously things change from the pilot to the series. And I thought it was cool that they put the pilot into an episode, because the pilot is really cool. The thing that bothers me, though, is that they didn't change the dialogue to reflect that they now share a room. Did anyone else catch that? They show Mordecai and Rigby sharing a room in one scene, then in the next they're eating breakfast and discussing how their rooms, plural, don't have furniture in them. And Rigby says he had to sleep on the floor that previous night when obviously Mordecai was aware of that, having also slept on the floor only a few feet away. It's a small, nitpicky thing, I know, but it wouldn't take a lot just to alter the dialogue a bit.

• Really minor, but in Eggscelent, when Mordecai punched Benson for bad mouthing Rigby, how did Benson's face not break since...you know...his face is made of glass!
  • Have you ever punched a gumball machine? Even using your full strength, the only thing you'd probably accomplish is injuring your own hand.
  • Slightly off-topic here, but bear with me: I read something a few days ago that reminded me of this exact question. It stated that there was, in the 1950's or some time around then, an epidemic of people knocking over gumball machines so the gumball machine would smash and the people would steal the candy inside. They tried attaching the gumball machines to things, but they just took bats and smashed them that way. After complaints were made to major gumball machine manufacturers, they started making gumball machines with much stronger glass (apparently about the same toughness as airplane windows) to stop this from happening. So now you know.
• In the episode "Over the Top" how is Skips able to look up Playco Armboy on a web browser when, in "Skips vs. Technology" he can't even open a web browser, much less navigate one.
  • Just a minor Continuity Snarl - the writers couldn't exactly foresee the plots of future episodes when writing that one, after all. Good eye, though, I didn't catch that myself.
• Why is Mordecai so upset at Rigby for switching his fortune with Benson's when Muscle Man switched his with Rigby's only a few moments ago? As a matter of fact why didn't Mordecai or Skips stop Muscle Man from switching fortunes if it causes so much trouble?
  • Mordecai and Skips didn't see/notice Muscle Man switch fortunes. They didn't know.
• If the Magical Elements were striking out and forcing the Strikers to miss the pins, how were they neck and neck at the end? It didn't show them missing a single time.
• Okay, so there's been several episodes establishing that Benson's starting to become at least semi-sympathetic towards Mordecai and Rigby (the one with the stick hockey comes to mind, and especially the one with Susan) and overall, he's not intended as a Bad Boss, just a little short-fused at times. So what the hell was up with him in 'Best Burger in the World'? He was getting into straight-up Jerkass territory! It just bothers me that several seasons worth of building him up as a reasonable guy who just gets irritated with people slacking off is thrown out the window just for a one-off gag. Mordecai and Rigby were working and getting the job done, more so than they've really ever been seen doing, and yet he just berates and mocks them near-constantly - and he wins in the end!
  • In all fairness they were spending a large amount of effort into just building and operating a hologram machine rather than working.
    • Fair point, but he was being an ass way before the hologram scene even happened.
    • Not more so than a normal person would be when forcing someone to do work they should have done ages ago. He was being mean, but not unbelievably so.
  • To be fair, he was doing a lot better than he has been, what with all the not raging and everything. Plus, Mordecai and Rigby have been shown to be at the end of their rope several times, with Benson being pretty close to firing them, and even going so far as to fire them in the next episode. This is probably Benson following the letter of the law Pops laid down in Think Positive.
  • Poster of the second comment; Just saw it for a second time.
• How the hell can Benson eat? He's a friggin' gumball machine for crying out loud! There's no digestive tract, just gumballs and metal!
  • Rule of Funny? Rule of Cool?
  • The only way to “explain” (he he he) Benson eating all the chilli at “Weekend at Benson’s” while he was unconscious, is because he has no digestive track and Mordecai and Rigby just put all the chilli in his mouth and it pass to his stomach or whatever he has.
• Of course it's the whole point of Mordecai and Rigby's characterizations to be slackers on the job, but does anyone else think that the writers were laying it on a bit too thick in "Think Positive"? At their worst in other episodes, they weren't that (consistently) bad.
  • Well, sort of. There's nothing that says all of that happened in just one day. I assumed all of the incidents that Pops saw took place over, say, a week or so. Still, though, washing the car with sandpaper? Lying around contemplating the word 'hose' instead of working? Painting the shed with their bodies and then breaking it?! They're supposed to slack off and try to get out of doing work, not be utter Ralph Wiggum-esque morons, the likes of which think that watering flowers with diet soda is a good idea...
  • That was weird for Mordecai's character, but then when you stop and think about it, in "House Rules" when he got the message about 'Rigby dieing young' that really shook him up. When you're upset about something like that, you don't think straight, which could explain the 'washing the car with sandpaper' thing for example. Plus it seems like he just wanna chill out and hang out with his buddy while he still feels he can At least that's how this troper sees it.
  • Maybe...
  • Deliberately ticking off Benson would seem like a good way of getting back at him. I mean, after that long on the job, his yelling would probably lose most of its effect.
• Are the writers just loving Kick the Dog moments to Mordecai? Along with "Best Burgers In the World" and the latest ep of him thinking Margaret getting engaged it feels like they're making him a Chew Toy. Which is weird because it looked like him and Margaret were gonna go out in "Trash Boat" and before that "Buttdial" it seemed like she was into him.
  • It was his own fault in "Yes, dude yes". He should've ask who that guy was instead of jumping to the wrong conclusion. And he asked Margaret out to the movies when he ALREADY asked CJ out and hurt CJ's feelings! It was because of his own thoughtlessness that this happened. As for "Trash Boat", Margaret may not have ever even know, he was saving up to ask her out and Mordecai wasn't going to let Rigby die.
    • Well why hasn't Mordecai ever called out Margaret for having a new boyfriend almost every time she sees him and yet she's jealous of when CJ was with Mordecai? No wonder why some fans keep Margaret a slut.
    • Right!
• In Rage Against the TV, why didn't Pops, Benson's boss, force him to let Mordecai and Rigby borrow his TV? He was there and he wanted to see the final boss of the game.
  • Because the video game was unrelated to work and it wouldn't be professional to force Benson to share his personal TV from home just for something that is... well... entirely pointless.
• Why would Mordecai and Rigby worry about getting in trouble in Party Pete? Skips was in charge and he allowed the party, so if anything, Skips would be the one getting in trouble.