Mordecai and the Rigbys

"Mordecai and the Rigbys" is the 12th episode of J.G. Quintel's Regular Show, but also the season finale for the first season. It attracted 2.028 million viewers, making it the seventh-most viewed season-one episode.

Plot
Mordecai and Rigby order a box of “fake” band t-shirts after the night pictured, which leads to Mordecai convincing Margaret that the band is real the next day. The band is called Mordecai and the Rigbys. The band name was going to be Mustache Cashstash but Rigby changed it at the last minute. Margaret hands them a flier for the Open Mic Night at the The Coffee Shop where she works and tells the two they should play at it cause she saw the shirt. Wanting to impress Margaret and so she doesn't think they have a "stupid fake band", Mordecai tells her that he and Rigby will play at the show. Realizing that they don’t know how to play, Mordecai and Rigby go to Pops for help, only to learn that he and everyone else from the park are also going to be attending the open-mic night. Pops gives Mordecai and Rigby three records for his Victor talking machine to help them learn to play in time, but they are extremely dated, and less than helpful. To speed things up, Mordecai and Rigby try playing all three records at once. When a drink is spilled, however, this causes the record players to react with one another, resulting in Mordecai and Rigby’s future selves who appear (where it turns out they are both very successful musicians). The future selves teach Mordecai and Rigby the lyrics, the moves, and the looks, but never how to play. The future Mordecai and Rigby hand them both guitar picks and tell them that they will be great, though. Sure enough, when they get on stage, they perform amazingly, impressing even Benson. Halfway through the performance, though, Mordecai realizes that their equipment is not plugged in, and their “performance” is being played from a tape. He stops Rigby and the performance, and gives a talk about how lip-syncing is “not cool”, and then rips his shirt in two. This causes the future versions of themselves to disappear forever. Unfortunately, though Margaret is still impressed with Mordecai, she asks if he has “met her new boyfriend" Angel, one of the earlier performers who mostly sings instead of talking. It seems whenever Mordecai look like he has a chance with Margaret, he gets introduced to her new boyfriend, time and time again. After this, Rigby tells Mordecai maybe he should have “kept lip-syncing."

Character Appearances

 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Benson
 * Skips
 * Pops
 * Muscle Man
 * Margaret
 * Angel
 * Future Mordecai and Rigby (Antagonists)
 * High-Five Ghost (cameo appearences)

Trivia/Goofs

 * They come up with these band names: Cool Dudes, Rad 'n Subtract, Face Punch, Helicopter Crash, and Mustache Cashstash; the name Face Punch may have been a reference to Fist Pump.
 * In part of "Party Tonight" Rigby is seen singing with Mordecai but only Mordecai is heard, though, he may have been mouthing the words.
 * Mordecai and Rigby's future selves have British accents, however they drop them after Mordecai refuses to lip sync, showing they were faking them for their rock star personas.
 * Future Mordecai's line "Our future's so bright, we gotta wear shades" is a reference to a line in the 1987 song "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" by Timbuk3.
 * This marks the second episode overall where Skips has no speaking role. In Grilled Cheese Deluxe, Skips doesn't appear at all.
 * Rigby's Guitar is modeled after a Gibson Flying V, while Mordecai's is a Gibson Les Paul.
 * Another future Mordecai and Rigby appear again in The Night Owl along with future Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost, however they are not the same ones as they were in this episode. See Future Selves for those versions of future Mordecai and Rigby.
 * The title 'Mordecai and the Rigbys' could have been a parody of Alvin and the Chipmunks.
 * This is the fifth time the animals are antagonists; the first was Death Punchies, the second was The Unicorns Have Got To Go, the third was Don, and the fourth was Rigby's Body.
 * Paul F. Tompkins is the guest voice of Pops' music instructional records.
 * When Mordecai and Rigby perform Party Tonight, there is a drum part that is clearly audible despite there being no drummer on stage performing. It is unknown how this was not a dead giveaway that the two were lip-syncing in the first place
 * The duo was tricked into lip-syncing probably because the future Mordecai and Rigby gave them supposedly magic guitar picks. The duo could also not notice they were lip-syncing since Mordecai had already memorized the lyrics and thought he was singing the lyrics correctly.
 * The Mordecai and the Rigbys shirt appears again in their closet in the episode "Bet to Be Blonde".
 * In the original storyboard of this episode Mordecai didn't suggest Mustache Cash Stash as a band name and Rigbys names contained the word boys. One was Boyz will be Boyz.

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