Benson Be Gone



Benson Be Gone is the twenty-second and the twelfth episode of the second season of Regular Show. On its first airing, it recieved 1.868 million views worldwide.

Plot
Benson is meeting with Mr. Maellard, who is holding the former accountable for Mordecai and Rigby’s shenanigans; just then, Mordecai and Rigby accidentally drive Mr. Maellard’s limo into the 3rd story of his house. The next day, Mr. Maellard introduces them to Susan, who is taking Benson’s place as park manager, as he is being demoted into working with Mordecai and Rigby. Mordecai and Rigby try to teach Benson to enjoy having the ability to slack off, and at first, Benson doesn’t enjoy it but adjusts to it and begins doing slacking activities with them. Eventually, Benson becomes a full-time slacker, unlike Mordecai and Rigby but when Susan comes to them, Mordecai and Rigby try to cover themselves where as Benson has developed a worse case of slacking and refuses to work, getting Susan to fire him. Susan then becomes power-hungry, and makes Mordecai, Rigby, Skips, Pops, Muscle Man work relentlessly. In one instance, when Mordecai turns toward Rigby, he has a hairdo like Susan's.

Meanwhile, Benson meets Leon, who is a hobo he used to be the park manager but became (as Leon calls it) a full-time slacker and quit his job. After seeing what life can be for a slacker, Benson returns to his old personality and runs to the park to get his job back. He is, however, shocked to find Mordecai and Rigby transformed into clones of Susan, due to her enforcement, with almost her full appearance and personality. Susan arrives, and tells Benson to get out but Benson convinces Susan that she can't turn people into her and that's not how a person manages a park. Susan asks him what does he know about running a park and then Benson told Mordecai and Rigby them to slack off by playing video games. The two of them say they are supposed to clean, but Benson tells them to play or they're fired so the blue jay and raccoon start playing video games, putting up their legs on the table and eating pizza, turning them back to normal. Susan tells Mordecai and Rigby to get back to work, but Benson says not to listen to her. It is then revealed that Susan’s influence has corrupted Pops, Skips, Muscle Man, and High-Five Ghost, turning them into Susan clones, but still with their facial appearances. Pops tells them to clean up the mess, but Benson tells them to clean it up, turning them back to their old selves a little bit and to save them, Benson tells everyone to slack off, and they all revert to their old selves by doing so.

This drives Susan off the edge and she goes into the ground to return as a giant, who decides to kill everyone with a tall building when they still refuse to work. She picks up Mr. Maellard when he tells her she is disobeying orders and Benson tells him to give him his car keys. He does and Benson drives Mr. Maellard’s limo straight towards Susan; however, Leon gets in and pushes Benson out of the car. He then drives it towards Susan, knocking out both of the heels on Susan’s shoes, causing her to lose balance fall back to the ground, never to return. Leon sacrifices his own life in the process. Benson gets his old job back as park manager and tells Mordecai and Rigby to clean up the mess Susan made; but, they leave to play video games, and despite watching them, Benson gives them a break, glad to have his job back.

Character Appearances

 * Benson
 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Skips
 * Pops
 * High-Five Ghost
 * Muscle Man
 * Mr. Maellard
 * Susan (Antagonist)
 * Giant Susan (Antagonist)
 * Susan's Bodies
 * Leon

Trivia

 * This is the first time Benson is the protagonist.
 * This is Mr. Maellard's second appearance in the show
 * High-Five Ghost makes a grunting noise in this episode.
 * The way Susan turns her head 180 degrees (or rather her body turning 180 degrees) is a reference to the horror film The Exorcist.
 * This is the first time Mr. Maellerd gets Benson's name right.
 * This the first time we see Pops and Benson playing video games.
 * This episode references Raiders of the Lost Ark when Leon gets inside Benson's "limo".
 * When Mr. Maellard was telling Benson what he was mad about, he references three season one episodes: "The Power" (holes in the walls), "Prank Callers" ($500 worth of prank phone calls), and "Rigby's Body" (snacks disappearing from the Snack Bar).
 * Throughout the episode, Pops is shown to be working for Susan, despite the fact that he doesn't work there in the first place.
 * Skips did not speak in the whole episode for a second time, the first episode was My Mom.
 * This is the first episode featuring a female antagonist.
 * One of the songs playing in this episode used the music from Boston's 1976/1977 hit "More Than A Feeling."
 * From this episode onward, Benson doesn't get as angry as he had with Mordecai and Rigby; in addition, he also slightly trusts them with more responsibilities (one exception is in Really Real Wrestling, where he almost fires the two)
 * Mordecai makes a reference to "driving stick", which is a nickname for stick shifting, or manual transmission. This is where the driver utilizes a stick shift for gear control, in contrast to automatic gear shifting.
 * The video game Mordecai and Rigby play when Benson returns to the house appears to be Broken Bonez from the episode High Score.