Video Game Wizards

Video Game Wizards is the nineteenth episode of season three (and fifty-ninth episode overall) of Regular Show season 3.

Plot
Mordecai and Rigby see a commercial for a video game tournament called the Game Inferno Tournament at the Ferguson Convention Center, the prize being a gaming controller called The Maximum Glove. Rigby is excited and Mordecai is apathetic, trying to dissuade Rigby from the tournament because he already picked Skips as his partner. Rigby finds out and is shattered by Mordecai's choice. He grudgingly accepts Mordecai's invitation for him to watch them play.

The three take a roadtrip in Skips' Volkswagen. Throughout the trip, Rigby aggressively targets Mordecai for not picking him. Rigby even went to the extent of making a Mix-Tape with a song he recorded himself, Never Pick Their Friends. He also made matching shirts, one of which was obviously made for himself, but he gives it to Skips anyway. The night before the tournament, Rigby blasts Never Pick Their Friends from a boombox outside of the hotel they are all staying at, much to Mordecai's grief.

On the first day of the tournament, Mordecai puts Rigby's name down as the alternate during registration. This infuriates Rigby and the two fight in the middle of the center. Mordecai admits that he did not pick Rigby because he is terrible at video games. Rigby ends their friendship and remarks to Mordecai: "I hope you have as much fun winning the glove as you did losing your best friend." Skips conveys his disappointment in Mordecai after Rigby storms away.

Mordecai and Skips win every match in the tournament up until the final match again Fred and Jimmy, where Mordecai comes to the realization that his friendship with Rigby is more important than the glove. Skips purposely injures his hand so that Rigby can come into play. Mordecai reaffirms to Rigby that their friendship is more important than the glove when they are teleported into a dark room with the Glove Creature, a gigantic version of the Maximum Glove. The Glove Creature tells the friends that they are the first to realize the true meaning of gaming and gives them the power to defeat Fred and Jimmy.

When they are teleported back to the tournament, Mordecai and Rigby are morphed into one person. They win the game, destroy the room, and the crowd cheers and claps for them. The game referee crowns them the new Game Inferno Tournament winners and give them the Maximum Glove. Mordecai, Rigby and Skips return home to discover that the Maximum Glove is useless when Rigby started to play it, but his character doesn't move.

Characters

 * Mordecai


 * Rigby
 * Skips

Minor Characters

 * Dude
 * The Maximum Glove Commercial Actor
 * Sarah
 * Emily
 * Centaurs
 * Explosives Guy
 * Glove Creature
 * Fred and Jimmy
 * Announcer

Trivia

 * This episode was originally titled Video Game Wizard, and the TV guides still list it as that.
 * Due to the Cartoon Network special, Stop Bullying: Speak Up airing, it pushed this episode's airdate from March 16, 2012 to March 26, 2012.
 * The title itself and the mention of The Maximum Glove could be a reference to the 1989 film "The Wizard" which involves a group of children at a video game tournament that features Nintendo's Power Glove. The fact that the glove didn't work properly almost all the time is also referenced at the end of the episode where they try it out.
 * Also, the names of the people Mordecai and Skips faced in the finals were Fred and Jimmy. Fred Savage co-starred in The Wizard and the name of the main character in the movie was Jimmy.
 * In the commercial for the Maximum Glove, the final character says "It's so bad!" This line is well-remembered by The Wizard film antagonist Lucas, saying, "I love the Power Glove. It's so bad!"
 * This is the first time in an episode that Skips plays video games, although he may be good from practicing well and much.
 * This is the second time Skips drives his Volkswagen in an episode. The first time was in the episode Skips Strikes.
 * This is the third time Mordecai mentions that Rigby is bad at video games. The first was Temp Check and the second time was Fortune Cookie.
 * There were some references of Garrett Bobby Ferguson from High Score by how there is a convention center named after him, and there is a golden statue of him outside of the convention center, as this may be a memorial.
 * Pops, Benson, Muscle Man, Hi Five Ghost and Margaret were not present during the episode.
 * Skips is shown to have good video game skills even though he barely plays.
 * The scene where Rigby holds a boombox over his head is a possible reference to the famous scene in the film "Say Anything" in which John Cusack holds a boombox over his head while playing Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes".
 * Jimmy from Rage Against the TV appeared in this episode. Yet It's unknown on how he was revived after The Hammer destroyed him.
 * During the Diner scene, two people had the same voice actors as Mordecai and Rigby. This happened in Cruisin' as well during the beginning scene on the Television.
 * The Death-Kwon-Do Student from Death Punchies makes a cameo during the tournament in the crowd.
 * One of the Centaurs from Party Pete (the one in the blue hoodie) appeared again in this episode as a "gamer" with another Centaur.
 * This is the only episode (so far) to start with a V.
 * Jimmy's hat is the same hat a trucker wore in Eggsellent.
 * In the movie "The Wizard" there is a scene where "Super Mario Bros. 3" is revealed. This scene is replicated in the final match of the tournament
 * The game played in this episode is a reference to Mortal Kombat. With quotes such as "Eliminate them!"
 * This is one of the few times there are no antagonists.

Gallery


The gallery for Video Game Wizard can be found here.