60 Fun Facts About Regular Show

What kind of animal is Mordecai?

He stands about six feet tall and was designed to embody creator J. G. Quintel during his own college years.

What kind of object is Benson, the park manager?

His full name, Benson Dunwoody, was not revealed until the episode "The Dome Experiment".

Skips, the immortal park worker, is what kind of creature?

He is the strongest and wisest of the crew, and his standard line whenever a crisis erupts is "I've seen this before."

Where do Mordecai and Rigby work?

The park setting came straight from Quintel's own string of minimum-wage jobs after high school.

How old are Mordecai and Rigby when the series begins?

In the finale's epilogue they are shown 25 years on, reminiscing at a park reunion at age 54.

Who voices Skips?

The Star Wars actor plays the character while doing an impression of Harvey Fierstein, and he earned an Annie nomination for it in 2014.

Which park worker has a hand sticking out of the top of his head?

Muscle Man's best friend and high-five partner barely spoke during the first three seasons and only got real dialogue from season four onward.

What is Pops's go-to exclamation when he is delighted?

When things go wrong he flips it to "Bad show," and his voice saying the happy version is the very last thing heard in the series finale.

Series creator J. G. Quintel voices which two characters?

Quintel says he never yells in real life, so he had to learn how to shout for the role.

Eileen, the coffee-shop waitress with a crush on Rigby, is what kind of animal?

She is voiced by Minty Lewis, who was a writer and storyboard artist on the show, and has an odd fondness for sea turtles.

What is the title of the 2015 feature film based on the series?

It was the first Cartoon Network original film since Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show in 2009.

What is the villain of the movie's day job before he starts weaponizing time?

Mr. Ross, voiced by Jason Mantzoukas, blames Rigby for costing his team a championship years earlier.

What title did the 2026 revival go by?

Every episode is framed as footage from a box of VHS tapes Pops finds in the afterlife, so stories can slot anywhere in the original timeline.

What is Muscle Man's real name?

An early episode had listed him as Steve Musselman before "Muscle Woman" settled the matter, and his girlfriend Starla is one of the few people who calls him Mitch.

Which episode won the show its Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Short-format Animated Program?

The winning episode has Rigby slip into a coma after trying to eat a 12-egg omelet to win a trucker hat, despite being allergic to eggs.

Who composed the show's original score?

The composer is a founding member of Devo, and Quintel sent him the pilot animatic with a request to join the crew.

Which classic video game did J. G. Quintel call "the perfect platform" for Mordecai and Rigby?

Quintel grew up playing Master System titles with his brother, which is why the show's console and TV were drawn to look like the ones from his childhood.

Skips only ever skips instead of walking. Whom is he honoring?

He was actually born with the name Walks, and the two of them used to skip everywhere together before she was killed in a fight with Klorgbane.

What is the park intern Thomas eventually revealed to be?

His real name is Nikolai, a goat trained by the KGB, and he even used a robot to pose as his mother during the Thanksgiving special.

Who voices Anti-Pops, the evil twin who threatens to erase the universe in the final season?

The Freddy Krueger actor's character has the power to erase anything from existence, and Pops finally defeats him with a hug and a flight into the sun.

Which real-life gamer is the villain Garrett Bobby Ferguson based on?

The giant floating head explodes when Mordecai and Rigby beat his Broken Bonez high score, and its real-world inspiration sued Cartoon Network over the character.

Which British comedy did Quintel cite as especially influential on the show's humor?

A British roommate at CalArts introduced him to a whole run of UK shows including The IT Crowd, Little Britain and The Office.

What is the title of the very first episode?

The finale cleverly restages the same episode as its third part when time resets after Pops and Anti-Pops collide.

What phenomenon do teenage Mordecai and Rigby accidentally create in the movie?

They built the time machine because one of them got into their dream school, College University, and the other did not.

What is the name of the eighth and final season?

The gang gets launched off-planet at the end of season seven and spends three years away before returning to Earth in the finale.

Who voices Death, the cockney-accented grim reaper who keeps betting for souls?

Death has a 300-year-old demon son named Thomas, voiced by Michael Dorn, who can talk even though his father does not know it.

Who plays the God of Basketball, who lives inside the moon and drives a flying Cadillac Escalade?

The Rocky and Predator actor's character first appears in "Slam Dunk" and grants the duo instant basketball skills.

Which comic-book publisher launched the Regular Show comic series in 2013?

KC Green wrote the scripts and the first issue arrived on May 15, 2013, followed by a run of graphic novels starting with Hydration.

For which console was the game Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land released?

WayForward developed it, one power-up was a mullet, and reviewers still slammed it for slippery controls and unfair difficulty.

Which Cartoon Network project did Quintel pitch the pilot to in 2008?

The pitch was a storyboard rather than a verbal one because Quintel figured such an odd concept would make no sense spoken aloud; Craig McCracken and Rob Renzetti liked it.

Which of Quintel's CalArts student films won at the 2005 Nicktoons Film Festival?

The short grew out of a 48-hour film challenge where students drew a single word from a hat at midnight, and it introduced the character who became Pops.

Which South Korean studio actually drew the finished episodes?

Unlike most modern cartoons drawn on Cintiq tablets, the show was animated by hand on paper before being digitally inked and painted.

Roughly how long did each episode take to produce, from idea to finished product?

A 35-person crew at Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank juggled dozens of episodes at different stages at once.

Which band did Benson drum for in his youth, as revealed in "150 Piece Kit"?

He also played competitive stick hockey, and his old nemesis Chong once beheaded his apprentice Dave.

What does Pops keep in his wallet, believing it to be real money?

He also dresses and talks like a gentleman from around 1900, and was a serious, mature man until Mordecai and Rigby hit him with a golf cart during a trip to the early 1980s.

What is Rigby's secret in the movie that nearly ends his friendship with Mordecai?

The truth is that Rigby never got into College University but Mordecai did, and Rigby forged the letter so they would not be separated.

Where did the movie hold its world-premiere screening on August 14, 2015?

It played there for a week, then hit digital on September 1 and DVD on October 13 before its Cartoon Network premiere on November 25.

Instead of a movie, what did Cartoon Network first offer Quintel during season four?

He turned it down and asked for a feature instead; the film's production then trimmed season six from 40 planned segments to 31.

Which David Bowie song plays in the series finale?

The movie's big emotional needle drop was similarly non-1980s: "Pale Blue Eyes" by The Velvet Underground.

Who voiced the park's high-fiving ghost in season one only, before Quintel took over?

The character's father and his police-officer brother Low-Five Ghost were introduced later in "See You There".

In the finale's flash-forward, whom does Mordecai marry?

He quits the park, moves to New York and becomes a successful artist; head writer Matt Price later named the wife Stef on Reddit.

The actor voicing Skips is doing an impression of which performer?

Skips must perform a ceremonial dance for the Guardians of Eternal Youth every birthday or lose his immortality.

Which Cartoon Network show did Quintel work on as a storyboard revisionist right after graduating?

He later served as creative director on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, earning a 2009 Annie nomination for directing the episode "Candy Casanova".

Which special beat the show for the 2011 Emmy in Outstanding Short-format Animated Program?

The nomination that year was for "Mordecai and the Rigbys"; the show won the category the following year.

How did Muscle Man win the trailer he lives in?

He gave up bodybuilding because he found the lifestyle boring, but he was in excellent shape when he earned the nickname.

In which California city was J. G. Quintel born?

He has said the flat Central Valley town had "not a ton to do," so he and his friends invented misadventures that later fed the show.

Which company released a Regular Show-themed edition of the card game Fluxx in 2014?

Jazwares handled the action figures and plush toys, and there were even licensed "Wrestling Buddies".

How many viewers watched the pilot's premiere broadcast?

The season four opener "Exit 9B" later peaked at 3.047 million, but by the final season most episodes drew under a million.

Who wrote the original song "Summertime Loving, Loving in the Summer (Time)" from "This Is My Jam"?

The staffer went on to be an executive producer on the 2026 revival alongside Quintel.

What is Pops's real name, revealed in the series finale?

He was born on the planet Lolliland with god-like powers, and Mr. Maellard adopted him as a foundling during an expedition.

What is Skips's part-time side job in the finale's epilogue?

He also finally swaps his trademark jeans for jean shorts.

Which actress voices CJ, Mordecai's storm-cloud girlfriend?

The Freaks and Geeks star's character can transform into a deadly storm when angry and first met Mordecai in "Yes Dude Yes".

On what day of the week did the entire first season air?

The 8:15 p.m. slot helped it rank first among key boy demographics across all of television in its first two seasons.

How many episodes of Regular Show aired across its eight seasons?

Most episodes ran 11 minutes and were paired to fill a half-hour slot, from September 2010 to January 2017.

Which Devo co-founder is the show's main composer?

Quintel sent him the pilot animatic with a request to join the crew; the licensed 1980s songs came later.

Which other series was greenlit from the Cartoonstitute project alongside Regular Show?

It grew out of the Cartoonstitute short Uncle Grandpa, which later became its own show.

Who voices Thomas, the park intern, in Regular Show?

Sam Marin does triple duty as Benson, Pops and Muscle Man, while Stiers voices park owner Mr. Maellard.

Unlike most modern animation, how were Regular Show's episodes drawn?

Quintel felt paper was more organic; the drawings were then digitally composited and painted.

Which studio developed Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land for the Nintendo 3DS?

D3 Publisher put it out on October 29, 2013; the duo later joined Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers.

What was the title of the first Regular Show graphic novel, published in 2014?

Written by Rachel Connor and drawn by Tessa Stone, it followed Boom! Studios' monthly comic that began in 2013.