Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24163511-20140418145722

Bit of a weird topic, but I needed to get this off my mind. I just watched Do Me A Solid again this morning, this was only like my second viewing of it and wow, I never realized how much of an antagonistic @sshole Rigby was throughout the ENTIRE episode. It's rare when a character is 100% in the wrong, usually it's a bit muddled as to who was "right" in a conflict between two characters but this really couldn't have gotten more one sided.

Not only was Rigby treating Eileen like trash the entire episode (despite her incredibly desperate attempts to impress), but for a really insipid reason (being forced to hang out with a girl he finds really annoying), he decides to take it out on Mordecai. The most damning action of which was the final one, the dumptruck dare. Which I found out (and the reason it was so shocking to everyone) included him acting like a dumptruck, and then taking a dump in the middle of the livingroom (the action shown off screen, hence the shock).

Now it makes sense why Mordecai said he didn't want to be friends with him at the end. Hell, I wouldn't. I'd tell that guy I never want to see his face again (among other choice words). Friends don't take it that far, that's just being a sadistic d*ck and a terrible person. The ending also doesn't make sense to me (though I know it HAD to be made that way), Rigby video tapes the act, then replays it in the living room (probably several times) for everyone to watch once more and then his "repentance" is that he destroys the tape HE made and suddenly they're friends again?? WTF is that? No way in a frozen Hell would that make up for what he did. Obviously this can't be a serious reflection on Rigby's current personality due to this being just season 2 but wow, they couldn't have made him to a bigger douche than this episode. Screw that guy, screw him. /rant 