Just Set Up the Chairs

Just Set Up the Chairs is the second episode of season 1 from Regular Show. When it first aired, it was watched by 1.903 million views worldwide.

Summary
A birthday party is scheduled, and everyone has jobs to do. Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost are in charge of picking up the special entertainment, Skips inflates the bounce-house, and Benson goes to pick up the children; however, Mordecai and Rigby are enlisted with the lame job of setting up the chairs for the party, as Benson cannot trust them with something important. In order to prove they are not slackers, the duo agree to set the chairs without slacking off in exchange for not setting up the chairs next time.

Yet, Mordecai wants to do the job, and Rigby wants to slack off, causing conflict; but, the former convinces the latter that if they set up the chairs without slacking off, they may be next in charge of picking up the special entertainment next time, which motives him to help set up the chairs. When they realize there are not enough chairs, they try to find the rest they come across a room and Mordecai crashes into the door when it was locked and badly hurt his arm. They go inside and find that the room filled with old arcade games, and they both decide to play them rather than doing their job and Mordecai wins every game (much to annoynce of Rigby).

When they find one of the games requiring service, they find a note attached that says "In the name of all that is holy, don't connect the red wire to the blue wire. Thank you." Rigby unleashed a demon known as the Destroyer of Worlds who begins creating chaos and destroying the park, even killing the special entertainment and attacking the children. With help from Skips, the duo form a giant arcade graphics robot designed to fight the Destroyer of Worlds which each of them controlling one body part; but, Skips is knocked out, and Mordecai goes off to set up the rest of the chairs, leaving Rigby to control the robot all by himself. In order to save Mordecai, Rigby's excessive button-mashing is powerful enough to destroy the Destroyer of Worlds and save the day.

Mordecai then congratulates Rigby on a job well done, as he said, "That was some sweet button mashing." Rigby is glad he has proved his skills, but the moment quickly ends as an angry Benson comes out and confronts the two, but it shows that Mordecai and Rigby have succeeded in setting up the chairs. Benson angrily tells them that's the last time that he assigned them to something important such as the chairs. They are thrilled that they don't have to set up the chairs next time, but they are given a new assignment and that's sweeping up the remains of the special entertainment. The two agree to get to it, after they have their break of course.

Character Appearances

 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Benson
 * Skips
 * Pops
 * Muscle Man
 * High-Five Ghost
 * Jimmy
 * Special Entertainment
 * Destroyer of Worlds (Antagonist)
 * Lemon Chef

Trivia/Goofs

 * The bouncy castle Skips sets up for the birthday party looks like the same one from the previous episode, The Power.
 * The arcade games Mordecai and Rigby play are parodies of old arcade games like Pac-man, Galaga, and Rally-X.
 * When the screen fades at the end, it makes the sound when Mario jumps in Donkey Kong on the NES.
 * This is the first episode of Regular Show to feature these three catchphrases: "Ohhhh!!!", "Shut up!", and "Hm-hm".
 * First instance of High-Five Ghost speaking. ("Yes! Uh!")
 * This is the first episode Muscle Man talks in.
 * This is first time Muscle Man has taken off his shirt in the series and is the first time he swirled it.
 * Benson says the name of the episode to Mordecai and Rigby. ("Just set up the chairs.") This is the second episode, in order, to do so (after The Power), and other examples of episodes with the title said in them is Peeps, Dizzy, This Is My Jam, and Muscle Woman.
 * This is the first instance of a "My Mom!" joke told by Muscle Man.
 * The music played when Mordecai and Rigby release Destroyer of Worlds is similar to the "boss" music played in Super Contra.
 * The Destroyer Of Worlds slightly resembles the Devil.
 * When The Destroyer Of Worlds turns into a cherry the giant video game character that Skips created eats the cherry and an 100 point number is shown which is similar to Pac-Man.
 * Although the Destroyer of Worlds was defeated, the game from where it came from wasn't destroyed and that means the Destroyer of Worlds can be revived over and over again until the console is destroyed.
 * Pops's birthday is confirmed to be on September 6, the same day Mordecai and Rigby sent everyone to the moon.
 * High-Five Ghost was surprisingly louder than Muscle Man in this when he and Muscle Man shouted "Yes! Uh!".
 * When Mordecai wins a video game "10 in a row", he repeatedly says "OHHH!" and while this is happening, Rigby is on the floor. But when he says his last "OHHH!", Rigby is sitting on the arcade machine next to Mordecai's.
 * Running Gag: Mordecai wants to keep on working, Rigby slacking off and button smashing, Mordecai keeps on saying "OHHH!" when he wins a video game.
 * Second instance of swearing, Mordecai may have originally said "What the hell." when it was changed to "What the H."
 * Benson was true to his word when he said that Mordecai and Rigby cannot be trusted to something important like setting up the chairs, because later in "Grave Sights", Benson has Skips set up the chairs with Mordecai and Rigby picking up "the special entertainment".