The Best Burger in the World

The Best Burger in the World is the twenty-first episode of season three (and sixty-first episode overall) of Regular Show.

Synopsis
Mordecai and Rigby use holograms to fool Benson into thinking they are working so they can eat a burger.

Plot
Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, Hi Five Ghost, Skips and Pops are sitting on the front steps of the house excitedly discussing the Grill 'Em Up Truck and its 'best burger in the world', also called the Ulti-Meatum, then Benson pulls up on a golf cart and gives everyone a list of work to do before they can get their burger. As usual, Mordecai and Rigby had slacked off the previous week and left a large amount of work that was undone. Benson sets that if Mordecai and Rigby don't finish all their work, they cannot get a burger.

After several attempts to get a burger whilst working to be caught by Benson, Mordecai and Rigby are desperate to get an Ulti-Meatum. They resort to asking the group to buy them a burger, only to be told be Skips that the truck serves one burger per customer. Seeing the group each rave about the burger, Mordecai and Rigby become disappointed that their prospects of getting one are minimal. Shortly, Benson pulls up and finds the two not working. He assigns them to cleaning up Skips' Garage and putting Pops' possessions into storage.

Mordecai and Rigby are frustrated and tired from cleaning the garage, but press on for the Ulti-Meatum. During the cleaning, they find a large object covered by a sheet, and uncover it to find that it is a Hologram 9000. Rigby quickly suggests that they make holograms to trick Benson into thinking that they are working, but Mordecai disagrees citing that they are almost done and it says it can kill you. Suddenly, the truck announces the last call for burgers, and Mordecai changes his mind.

Rigby enters the machine and Mordecai sets the Hologram 9000 to Extremely Realistic, the highest setting. A Hologram-Rigby and Hologram-Mordecai are created but are completely still with odd expressions and poses. Mordecai and Rigby set them up so that it looks as if they are working and wait to see if Benson falls for it. Benson shortly drives by and speaks to the Hologram-Rigby and Hologram-Mordecai as if they are the real Rigby and Mordecai.

Mordecai and Rigby run to the Grill 'Em Up Truck to order their burgers from the head chef Ajay Maldonaldo. As the chef cooks the burgers, Benson makes another couple of visits to the Hologram-Mordecai and Hologram-Rigby. He becomes suspicious when he notices that on every visit they are standing in the same positions and do not answer his questions. Benson approaches the two holograms and pushes them both over to realise tha t Mordecai and Rigby have gone to get burgers. In a rage, Benson drives away. The holograms look at each other, the first movement they make since being created.

The burgers are still cooking when Benson suddenly drives towards Mordecai and Rigby. The burgers finish and the chef comments that they are getting the last two burgers in a centennium. When Mordecai and Rigby reach for the burgers, their hands are slapped aside by their hologram counterparts. Mordecai, Rigby and Benson fight with Hologram-Mordecai and Hologram-Rigby but are defeated easily. Rigby picks up a rock and throws it at Hologram-Rigby, shattering a hole in him. Realising that their only way of defeating the holograms, Mordecai and Rigby begin pelting the holograms with rocks.

Finally, Rigby takes the wheel stopper from the Grill 'Em Up Truck, causing it to roll downhill. He and Mordecai throw it at Hologram-Rigby and Hologram-Mordecai, shattering them to pieces. They voice their excitement to finally eat the burgers, but turn to see Benson eating them. They speechlessly watch Benson finish the burgers and mockingly sympathize with them. Benson pulls away and Mordecai suggests they try to get more burgers, but they turn to see the truck is gone. Meanwhile, the truck rolls downhill into the Crash Pit with both the chef and other employee inside and explodes, and the episode ends there.

Characters

 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Benson (semi-antagonist)
 * Hologram-Mordecai (antagonist)
 * Hologram-Rigby (antagonist)

Minor Characters

 * Skips
 * Pops
 * Muscle Man
 * Hi Five Ghost
 * Ajay Maldonaldo

Trivia

 * This is the second episode where Benson turns red for a longer period of time than any other episode of Regular Show (so far).
 * There's a real food truck called Grill Em All that was featured in Food Network's "The Great Food Truck Race." They got 1st place, beating the other food trucks.
 * At the end of the episode, the Grill 'Em Up Truck falls into the crash pit from Death Metal Crash Pit, from Terror Tales of the Park.
 * For some reason, when Mordecai and Rigby are defeating the holograms, the animation turns brighter and less present-time-cartoon looking, but reverts to normal after the holograms are defeated.
 * For example, during the scene, the sky is a darker blue than usual, Mordecai is colored a lighter blue, and Rigby is colored a darker brown. They all return to their respective colors at the end of the scene.
 * Mordecai somehow got the wheel stopper back even though Rigby had thrown it at his hologram already.
 * There could have been a second wheel stopper under the truck which Mordecai took off screen, however, the truck rolls away after Rigby removes the first one, implying there isn't.
 * Running Gag: The elaborate high-five of crossing your arms, putting them up parallel and high-fiving another person is performed by Mordecai, Rigby, and Ajay Maldonaldo several times.
 * The jobs Mordecai and Rigby had to do are some of the jobs they had previous episodes. They had to mow the frisbee field from Temp Check and they picked up litter in Jinx.
 * This is the third time incarnations of Mordecai and Rigby are antagonists. The first was Mordecai and the Rigbys. The second was Dizzy.
 * This is one episode in which Pops says something that is frivolous to say ("Oh, my, I can taste the Himalayas!").
 * The song that plays during the destruction of the holograms is 'The Flower Duet' from the opera Lakmé.
 * The idea of the Ulti-Meatum being made every century probably came from Fenway Park being open for a century as 2012 being its centennial.
 * This is the third episode where there are two Rigbys. The first was Mordecai and the Rigbys. The second was Temp Check.
 * Goof: Mordecai's hologram had its eyes closed, but when Benson pokes it and it falls on the ground, its eyes are open.
 * In the parts where Mordecai and Rigby try to get burgers, the music from All Nighter plays.
 * Benson is the luckiest person because he ate two Ulti-Meatums.
 * Goof: The holograms shouldn't be able to hold or eat the Ulti-meatums since they are inside the glass.

Gallery


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