The cartoon series Regular Show contains slapstick cartoon violence and comical dangerous situations throughout. Themes Friendship irresponsible behaviour Their adventures often involve strange friends including Pops, an eccentric man with a lollypop for a head, a muscle-bound Yeti named Skips (voiced by Mark Hamill), and High Five Ghost, a packman-type character with a hand sticking out of the top of his head. Although they’re always getting into trouble, things generally turn out all right for them. They work for a walking, talking gumball machine named Benson (voiced by Sam Marin) – but they don’t work very hard. Quintel) and a hyperactive raccoon named Rigby (voiced by William Salyers). The series features two main characters in their mid-20s – a six-foot blue jay named Mordecai (voiced by J.G.
Regular Show introduced my seven year-old to the Velvet Underground.The movie Regular Show is a collection of six short animations from the 2012 season of the Regular Show animated TV series shown on the Cartoon Network. We also have one particularly well-executed moment when two Mordecais from different times watch a third future Mordecai die from war wounds all while the Velvet Underground’s “Pale Blue Eyes”plays on the soundtrack. We’ve got hallucinations of time incarnate and issues of mortality in this flick. Not to mention, burritos.īut it’s the simplicity and believability of Rigby and Mordecai’s friendship that carries the wonderful madness of the story and affords the movie a few moments of near sublimity. The last reel is an action packed sequence of time portholes, decapitations, and self-sacrifice. The film, like the show, never stops moving, never stops popping, never fails to surprise you and head in a direction just off of what you may have expected. Come on, Benson, keep up!”), but it’s the straightforward lie that a teenage Rigby tells Mordecai that hits us in the gut. And it works! The universe is being sucked into a galactic timenado (according to Skips: “A tornado that can travel through time and space. It’s their bond and the betrayal of trust between them that form the emotional spine of the story. Oscar: Did he just watch himself die? Cool.Īt the center of the film, as in the show, is the oft-tested friendship of Rigby and Mordecai. It also includes explosive volleyballs, a near cosmic apocalypse, and time travel paradoxes. Regular Show: the Movie is filled with all that we love about the show: the soft-brained kindness of Pops, the reticent spiritual and physical strength of Skips, the destructive joy of Muscle Man and Fives, the unquenchable irritation of Benson. Oscar: It’s the kind of movie that starts with ‘What’s going on?!’ but in a good way. The film begins with a massive future space battle and deaths of nearly all the major characters, including a devastating shoot off in which our heroes, Rigby the raccoon and Mordecai the blue jay, fatally wound one another. So the whole family was thrilled to sit down and experience Regular Show: The Movie. Quintel has a gift for making the outrageous relatable and hilarious. Roommate squabbles, workplace trivialities, and the never-ending desire to slack off leads to strange and supernatural misadventures. Then there’s the amazing sweet spot of shows that transcend target audiences and hit us all – here Regular Show stands supreme.Ĭartoon Network’s Regular Show, like its creative cousin Adventure Time, brilliantly weaves the surreal with the silly, and the mundane with the outlandish, and occasionally, the outright macabre. There are shows that are watered down to benign uselessness for some imaginary child audience and shows that mistakenly believe that adult comedy must teeter on the line of offensiveness to be funny. While on the other end of the spectrum, a certain breed of diminutive horses covers my brain in a sickly film of overly-chirpy goo. Bob’s Burgers, a show we adore, leads to some uncomfortable questions ( Daddy, what’s a rimjob?). Finding a show equally loved by me and my kids (Arden, 10 and Oscar, 7) is no simple task.