Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5996595-20160226220733

Please, do not do the "TL;DR" thing, I know it's long, but bear with me.

First let's keep a few things in mind: M&R mostly just chill or do whatever they feel like doing, sometimes downright ignore any orders from Benson or just do the exact opposite; consequently, some of the duo's exploits cause catastrophic damage to the park, the city or the ocasional building, not only that, but in some instances LIVES were lost due to shenanigans. There's, in fact, an episode in which Benson says the park isn't going so well, that said, all the damage caused by Mordecai and Rigby's adventures surely doesn't help; Rigby is a HIGH SCHOOL dropout and, regardless if Mordecai graduated or not from Art School, his qualifications are NOT fit for a park employee.

Now, why would Benson keep M&R around? They clearly are too undisciplined, unresponsable and plain dangerous to have in a seemingly simple job like that! Here's what I think, being either one of two reasons: 1 - Benson might be "too scared" to fire them because they might not "let the bone go", as in, they might not give up on their jobs easily and come up with a crazy (and unavoidably dangerous) scheme to get their jobs back and cause more damage in the process, be it either material or human; 2 - Benson keeps M&R in the park to PROTECT other people from them by making all the damage happen as around and as controled as possible. If he is still their boss he can make the destruction stay just in the park and its surroundings (not always, but Benson can only do so much), also, by giving the orders, Benson can at least predict a tiny bit of what Mordecai and Rigby will do. All of this doesn't stop any disaster, yeah, but imagine the two with an "unexperienced" boss, one who is too loose or too unflexible, in a place with more personel, where maybe even more important operations happen... Benson knows M&R are a hazard, for a work place and for themselves, thus, he tries his best to not let the destruction spread and cause possibly huge collateral damage, at least not as big as the ones that already happen.

Those are my theories, that's what I think. What do you make of it? Might I have something? Is something not making sense? I'll leave that to you. 