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Regular Show (2010)

Regular Show poster
Genre
comedy drama, action television series, children's television series, fantasy television series, adventure television series, science fiction television series
Country
United States
Length
8 seasons, 261 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
8.6 of 10 from 2,271 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A blue jay and a raccoon work as groundskeepers at a park but often avoid their duties to goof off. Their laziness leads to strange and supernatural situations involving their coworkers, which include a ghost, a yeti, and a gumball machine boss.

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What happens

Regular Show (known as Regular Show in Space during its eighth season) is an American animated sitcom created by J. G. Quintel for Cartoon Network. It ran from September 6, 2010, to January 16, 2017, over the course of eight seasons and 244 episodes. The series follows the daily lives of two 23-year-old friends — Mordecai, a blue jay, and Rigby, a raccoon — who work at a local park as groundskeepers. Their coworkers are Skips, an immortal yeti, Muscle Man, a green-skinned overweight man, and Hi-Five Ghost, a small ghost. Other characters include Pops, the lollipop-shaped owner of the park, and the duo's boss Benson, a gumball machine. Mordecai and Rigby spend their days slacking off and avoiding work to entertain themselves by any means, which unexpectedly leads to surreal, extreme, and supernatural misconduct. Many of Regular Show's characters were loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts: The Naïve Man from Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM. The former was one of the winners of the 2005 Nicktoons Film Festival and received international attention after being broadcast on Nicktoons Network. Quintel pitched Regular Show for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute project, in which the network allowed young artists to create pilots with no notes, which would possibly be optioned as shows. Regular Show was nominated for several awards, including seven Annie Awards, six Primetime Emmy Awards – winning one for the episode "Eggscellent" (season 3, episode 17) – and three British Academy Children's Awards. A film adaptation based on the series, titled Regular Show: The Movie, premiered in 2015. On June 12, 2024, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that a new series featuring some characters from Regular Show had been greenlit, with Quintel returning as showrunner. The series, titled Regular Show: The Lost Tapes, premiered on May 11, 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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