House Rules

House Rules is the eighth season three episode (and forty-eighth episode overall) of Regular Show. It premiered on November 14, 2011, garnering 2.298 million views worldwide.

Plot
Mordecai and Rigby are playing video games when Benson walks in and tells them to look at some rules. Upon reading it, they find new rules like "No feet on the table," "No food on the table", and "No food on the floor." When they see that one of the rules that Benson added is "No video games", it pushes the two to the point where they try to talk Benson out of it, but are unsuccessful. So they decide to leave the house and find some place where there are no rules.

After trying overnight camping outside the house, which is foiled by another of Benson's rules ("No overnight camping"), the duo try their luck at the Coffee Shop, However, when Margaret answers their knocks, she tells them they can't camp there on account of her boss's rules. The two then try their luck at other places, to no success, once narrowly avoiding being bludgeoned by a person named Gunther.

In an alley, Mordecai and Rigby meet No Rules Man who knows the kind of place they are searching for, so Mordecai and Rigby follow him to a place with no rules (which is inside a big box of garbage). They think it is very cool until they confront the unicorns that they killed in The Unicorns Have Got To Go and tells No Rules Man to get rid of them. Naturally, this upsets him because he thinks they told him what to do. So everyone starts to attack them and Mordecai finds out that it's not against the rules to have rules. He summons Benson's rule book to get rid of the problem and convince No Rules Man to tell them the way out. When Mordecai and Rigby go back to the house, they go back to Benson so he can accept them back into the house. Benson believes that they have learned their lesson, but Benson notices that one rule is ripped out and Mordecai asks which one it was. Meanwhile, No Rules Man is playing the game, "Karate Choppers", when a piece of paper lands on his lap. On the piece of paper is the missing rule (which was "No video games"), and when he reads it, he explodes.

Character Appearances

 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Benson
 * Muscle Man
 * Margaret

Minor Characters

 * The Unicorns (Semi-Antagonists)
 * Margaret's Boss (cameo)
 * No Rules Man (Antagonist)
 * Punchies Parade (Semi-Antagonists)
 * Gunther (Semi-Antagonist)
 * Dude (cameo)
 * Future Mordecai
 * Kevin (Semi-Antagonist)
 * Giant Rock-paper-scissors arm (Semi-Antagonist)
 * Al (cameo)

Trivia

 * Some of the rules in the book are references from past episodes, like for example, Rule 37 is a reference to The Unicorns Have Got To Go because it says no unicorns, Rule 72 is a reference to First Day/Pilot. because it says no Rock, Paper, Scissors, and the other 2 rules that were mentioned were no punchies and no prank calls were references to Death Punchies and Prank Callers. Also another rule says "no harpsichord playing after 10 p.m." which is reference to Mordecai and the Rigbys.
 * Muscle Man follows Benson's house rules despite the fact Muscle Man lives in his own trailer, not within the house.
 * The places where Mordecai and Rigby try to stay at were The Coffee Shop, Awesome! Dynamite, Al's Convenience Market, and at a bench that was preserved for a guy named Gunther.
 * The same people that were cheering in the Pilot for Rock, Paper, Scissors return, doing exactly the same thing.
 * This episode marks the return of The Unicorns from the season 1.
 * Pops, Skips and High-Five Ghost didn't appear in this episode.
 * Goof: When the No Rules Man tells Mordecai and Rigby that he knows about a place with no rules, his skin tone is brighter than it was for the rest of the episode.
 * Future Mordecai could've possibly hinted at Rigby's early death or Mordecai and Rigby growing apart.
 * Some of the people in the Punchies Parade also appeared in High Score.

Gallery
The gallery for House Rules can be viewed here.