Cast comprises the cast of the Regular Show television series (see 1 above), plus Jason Mantzoukas. Screenplay by J G Quintel and Sean Szeles. The closing episode also incorporated many nods indicating that this odd and engaging Television show was coming to an end.Ģ. Though Mordecai had been the lead protagonist for most of its run, the film (see 2 below) gives some character growth to Rigby and season eight has Pops stepping up from the supporting cast. The show ends with a montage under David Bowie's "Heroes" as the survivors find happiness but solemnly remember Pops. This gives Pops the opportunity to hug Anti-Pops and drag him into a sun, to their deaths. So history reruns, which we rejoin at season one, episode one but early on the pair remember the future and, using the wish-granting typewriter from that episode, go forward to the end, interrupting events. Later the plot kicks in: the good half of a pair of twins, Pops is an adopted Alien his evil sibling Anti-Pops (Englund) pursues the team across space, wishing to capture him.Įvery 14 billion years the Pops battle for dominance, but each occasion ends in stalemate with the universe resetting and history repeating (see Cosmology Time Loop): however, this time Mordecai and Rigby are caught between them at the moment of reset. A succession of light adventures follow, save one where Pops suffers Dream Hacking, indicating he has become a person of malevolent interest. Here the cast, joined by Rigby's girlfriend, the mole girl Eileen (Lewis), are brought to a giant Space Station and told they will be trained as Space Tree Rangers to turn space wildernesses into public parks ( Terraforming). Sf tropes became particularly prominent at the end of the series' run: a film (see 2 below) was released in 2015, whilst a biodome built over the park during season seven is revealed in its last episode to be a Spaceship, lifting off from Earth, to set up season eight: "Regular Show in Space". There is continuity but lessons are rarely learnt. Stories take bizarre turns, with the humour as likely to be funny peculiar as funny ha-ha: the influence of British comedy shows such as The Mighty Boosh ( 2003-2007) has been confirmed by Quintel. These frequently involve sf tropes: there is much Time Travel, 2,000 years frozen in Suspended Animation, future and past selves, many Monsters, journeys into the mind (see Inner Space), Intelligence boosting, Videogames encroaching on reality, evil Computers, cavemen (see Anthropology Prehistoric SF), Immortality, trips to the Moon, Time Distortion, other Dimensions including the one where you go after drinking too much milk, Clones, Aliens, Robots, Rejuvenation, Mecha, Cyborgs and Miniaturization as well as numerous fantasy tropes. Series 1-7 usually find Mordecai and/or Rigby trying to rectify a minor work or social activity that has got absurdly out of hand, often through their own unwise choices. Though set in the present day, a 1980s mood permeates: the two main protagonists say "Dude" a lot and VHS tapes remain unusurped. Other colleagues include the wise and competent Skips (Hamill), an immortal Yeti and an old-fashioned top-hatted gentleman, Pops (Marin), a lollipop. Colour.Ģ3-year-old slackers Mordecai (Quintel), an occasionally responsible bluejay, and Rigby (Salyers) a self-centred raccoon, are park employees trying to keep their actual work to a minimum, which frustrates their boss Benson (Marin), a gumball machine. 261 eleven-minute episodes, plus 15 shorts and the pilot. Voice cast includes Robert Englund, Mark Hamill, Minty Lewis, Sam Marin, J G Quintel and William Salyers. Writers include Michele Cavin, John Davis Infantino, Matt Price, J G Quintel, Mike Roth and Sean Szeles. Executive producers include Curtis Lelash, Brian A Miller, Jennifer Pelphrey, J G Quintel and Rob Sorcher.
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