![]() It always goes off-rails into some extreme supernatural conclusion in the final act.īut don't let this fool you, despite all this it doesn't feel that repetitive since it never truly revolves around the narrative. Things get surreal pretty fast and then the colors turn to a saturated red-ysh tone, the sky-background seen in the title card pops up in the background. Then all hell breaks loose and they have to put a stop to some evil entity/get things back to normal, often by being the idiots they are. They try to avoid work/play video games and end up getting into trouble. The regular basic formula for most episodes starts pretty normal. Our two slacker-protagonists always end up getting the entire world in jeopardy, by accident. Finally there's this older yeti that leaves in the house and is the local handyman always ready to help, the mysterious Skips, who's always skipping when he walks around. There's also those other two employees called Muscle Man and Hi-Five Ghost, a chubby green dude and literally a ghost with a hi-five for a head, respectively. They work for this gumball machine-guy named Benson, who was hired himself by this older gentleman with a giant head named Pops. One's a giant bluejay, Mordecai, the other's a raccoon called Rigby. It's all pretty " Regular" so far.īut like the tagline of the show says, it's anything but. They work as groundskeepers in the city's public park. Regular Show follows the adventures of these two 20-something best friends. This above here is " The Complete First and Second Seasons", which has the title implies collects the first two years of the show, including a few bonus features (more on that below). The series was launched in September 2010 and it has been going on strong ever since for the past six seasons and 187 episodes so far. ![]() Having grown up in the 1980s, Quintel's show seems like a love tribute to all-things 80s, it's full of nostalgia and references of that era. But it still aimed at both children and the older crowd alike, just like classic cartoons used to. Since it's a Cartoon Network show, the whole weed-part would be nowhere to be seen of course (but part of me thinks it might explain a few storylines. wouldn't be that far off, all things considered. The original shorts were one about a couple of slackers at work trying some LSD and hallucinating one being a huge bluejay bird and the other a gumball machine, the other was about this weird odd man "from the Moon" with a huge head trying to pay in a restaurant with a few lollipops and then running off. It was actually based on a couple of ideas JG Quintel had played with in a few college animations way back when. Regular Show was the second new show launched to establish this rebirth of Cartoon Network. The Forces of Evil on Disney), it's all thanks to the success of Pendleton Ward's Adventure Time for paving the way.Īnd if anything else, for a little odd show created by cartoonist JG Quintel for reiterating said success and proving the formula. If we have really well-received new popular shows again like Steven Universe or Clarence now (and by a sort of "ripple effect", stuff like Gravity Falls and Star Vs. You might remember the likes of the Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory or Johnny Bravo.īut despite a rough patch in the mid-2000s where the channel almost turned into a MTV light, what with the production of several "kids" live action sitcoms, they seem to be in a much better place nowadays. When people think about the golden age of Cartoon Network, they think about a time the channel was pumping out several modern classics one after the other. Name: Regular Show: The Complete First and Second Seasons (originally titled Normal Show)
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