milk...cereal...combine...
So this is a show both I and my roommate love to watch. It's known simply as "Regular Show" despite the fact that the main characters are a giant blue jay and raccoon named Mordecai and Rigby respectively, a talking gumball machine named Benson, a giant lollipop named Pops and a yeti named Skips.
So its basic premise is that Mordecai and Rigby are two twenty-something slacker types who work for Benson as groundskeepers at a public park. Through their slacking off they somehow inadvertently manage to summon inter-dimensional monsters or just generally cause chaos through other means:
...such as summoning David Bowie in a white El Camino from the sky...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK2IP1hZsOQ
...or transporting people to the moon through a magical keyboard...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xgq58OkV4
While the show would be funny just for the weird as fuck situations the main characters get into, the dialogue is also very well-written, and is filled with many quotable lines, such as the one for the above image.
A lot of times, it feels like a stoner show (hell, it would be a wonder if the show wasn't made while on drugs) and it makes you wonder why the show airs on Cartoon Network rather than on Adult Swim. Hell, even the creators seem to lampshade this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khb4qqjmIio
It's amazing that the creator, J.G. Quintel, was able to get a show green-lighted by Cartoon Network in the first place, considering he produced this cartoon as a student:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y894QNtX0VA
Overall, this is quite possibly one of the most amusing shows I've ever watched. The only real shame about it is that each episode is only 15 minutes long. A new episode airs each Monday night at 8:15 on Cartoon Network.
For some reason this reminded me of the Captain Underpants comic books. Transporting people to the moon with a magical keyboard. Crazy stuff.
ReplyDeleteAnd I totally agree about the fact that people think that animated stuff is just for kids. It ticks me of whenever I tell someone I'm reading comics or watching cartoons and they give me that snooty eye roll.
I've got to say, it's comforting that other people still watch cartoons even though we're in college. But this show seems very similar to Adventure Time, at least in its style of humor. And both shows are on Cartoon Network...
ReplyDeleteAh, how cartoons have changed from middle school days, when there was Samurai Jack and other, more logical (for a cartoon, at least) shows. Now everything is just a crazy reinterpretation of Ed Edd n' Eddy.