Eggscellent


 * This article is about the episode. For the restaurant, see here.

Eggscellent is the seventeenth episode of season three (and fifty-seventh episode overall) of Regular Show.

The episode is the second of the series to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy for Short-Format Animated Program, after Mordecai and the Rigbys.

Synopsis
Mordecai must win a trucker's hat for Rigby by eating a massive omelette.

Plot
The episode begins as Mordecai and Rigby are watching an action TV show in which the actor flips the car (Mordecai complains that he flips a car in every episode like, "Hey 3rd graders, learn this. [crashing noises]".). Just then, Benson comes in and tells them that they need to get back to work. As Mordecai is about to turn off the TV, a commercial promoting an eating challenge pops up. It says that whoever can finish the restaurant's 12-egg omelette will win a trucker hat with the words, "I'm Eggscellent" on it. Rigby becomes obsessed with the hat, and tells Mordecai it is a net hat, but Mordecai thinks that nobody wears them and that it is lame. After a humorous conversation, Rigby convinced Mordecai to go to the restaurant with him to try and win the hat.

At the restaurant, when the waiter comes to take Rigby's order, he asks for the Eggscellent Challenge. The waiter strongly advises for him to choose something else, but Rigby is too stubborn to change his mind. When Rigby tries to eat the eggs, he has a deadly allergic reaction to them, causing Rigby to be evacuated by ambulance to a hospital. Before Rigby loses consciousness, Mordecai promises that he will win the hat for Rigby. Rigby says to him "You're a good friend." as he goes unconscious. Mordecai, worried that his friend might have just died, shakes him to keep him awake, but to no avail, and all the park workers arrive at the hospital to see what happened to Rigby. It is revealed that Rigby is in a coma due to the allergic reaction he had to the eggs. The doctor then unfortunately says that the only thing to do is wait to see what happens. Once he leaves the room, Benson blames Mordecai for not going back to work as the reason for Rigby falling into a coma. Enraged, Mordecai punches Benson in the face and precedes to attack him before Muscle Man and Skips stop him. Mordecai is mad at Benson for thinking it's because of him not going back to work. Mordecai then tells Benson that he has no friends, and that everybody only hangs out with him because he's their boss.

After this, Mordecai goes back to the restaurant, but finds out that the hat is not for sale. So in order to win the hat, Mordecai attempts the challenge, but fails to finish in time. Back at the hospital, while Mordecai is weeping to Rigby, then Skips and Benson comes in. Benson apologize for what he said earlier saying that it was stupid to say something like that, and didn't mean it but Mordecai is still mad at him. Then Benson held up a journal and Skips says that the journal belongs to a man called Johnathan Kimble who used to work at the park a few years before they were hired. Johnathan, like Rigby, really wanted that hat, but every time he tried, he failed. Eventually, Johnathan came up with a way to win the challenge.

He tried to explain this to everybody, but they walked away. His method was to crumble the biscuits and put them in the water and to crush the eggs. Skips said that Johnathan was never seen again after that. Then Mordecai trains to do the Eggscellent Challenge. He and the park workers go to the restaurant to try the challenge. Mordecai apologize to Benson for saying he doesn't have friends and said even though he can be a jerk sometimes, he's still a good friend. At the restaurant, the same waiter serves Mordecai, but tells him not to the challenge. Mordecai refuses, and the waiter is forced to give him the omelette.

But when the waiter realizes that he is doing really good, he attempts to stop him, until Benson, Skips, HFG, and Muscle Man protect him. As Mordecai is eating the omelette, the Park Workers are protecting him from the restaurant staff. When the timer ends, the waiter discovers that he finished under an hour. The waiter, horrified, tells him that he was trying to protect him. Suddenly, Mordecai teleports to a mysterious room filled with hats, then the Eggscellent Knight appears to him and tells him to pick the right hat in order to win the challenge. Then he warns not to choose wrong or he will die, just like Jonathan Kimble, who is a skeleton sitting in the corner. As Mordecai is deciding which hat to pick, he remembers Rigby talking about a trucker hat that was in the commercial they saw. Morcedai sees a hat that resembles what Rigby was talking about, and puts it on. The knight then tells him that he chose right, and Mordecai tele-ports back to the restaurant.

Back at the hospital, when Mordecai puts the hat on Rigby, he thanks him, but sees a TV commercial that shows an eating challenge based on steak. When Rigby wants to do it, the park workers wonder if taking the hat off will make him go back into a coma, and Rigby says "No!", ending the episode.

Characters

 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Benson
 * Pops (cameos)
 * Muscle Man
 * Skips
 * Hi Five Ghost

Minor Characters

 * Johnathan Kimble
 * Truckers
 * Eggscellent Chef (semi-antagonist)
 * Eggscellent Waiter (semi-antagonist)
 * Eggscellent Employees (semi-antagonists)
 * Eggscellent Knight (main antagonist)
 * Easton (cameo)
 * Manetti (cameo)

Music
"Holding Out for a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler

Trivia

 * This is the second episode to be nominated for the Emmy for Short-Format Animated Program, after Mordecai and the Rigbys.
 * This episode was originally titled "Eggsellent".
 * J.G. Quintel said that this episode was 'based on a true story, "well kind of", in his words. It is unknown how this episode is based on off J.G.'s life.
 * Mordecai punched Benson in the face for the first time. Surprisingly, he didn't fire Mordecai, he just let the situation alone and only got mad at him.
 * This is the third time Benson gets punched by someone else. The first was Karaoke Video. The second was Fortune Cookie.
 * It is revealed that Rigby is extremely allergic to eggs in this episode.
 * The Doctor in the hospital scene is the same doctor who was in the episode Over the Top. Coincidentally, Rigby was his patient in that episode as well.
 * This is the second time Muscle Man uses the word "awkward" on what Mordecai does. The first was Do Me a Solid.
 * The scene in the hospital with the doctor saying "He's in a coma, all we can do is wait" may be a reference to a scene in the 2011 horror film, Insidious, where Dalton (main character) goes into a coma and the doctor says "All we can do is wait".


 * The scene where Mordecai must choose the right hat or die is a reference to a scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which Indiana Jones must pick the real Holy Grail cup, or he will die of extreme old age (which is the opposite of the Grail, since it provides eternal life.)
 * This is the first (and probably only) appearance of Jonathan Kimble.
 * Johnathan Kimble was the third human to be seen as a park worker on the show. The first seen was Susan, and the second was Leon, which both were in Benson Be Gone.
 * In this episode, Rigby is allergic to eggs, though in In the House, he ate an egg and didn't have an allergic reaction. Though, it may have been because the egg was raw and not cooked, like the Eggscellent Challenge. Another possibility is In the House was a story made up by Rigby, so, it can be non-canon.
 * Animation Error: When Mordecai saw dead Johnathan Kimble in the dungeon, on the crown he had on his head that said "I'm Eggscellent", there was a space between "eggscell" and "ent," making it say "I'm Eggscell ent."
 * This is the second time the park workers enter a challenge. The first time was in The Night Owl.
 * The same type of hat that Rigby mentioned appeared in Trucker Hall of Fame.
 * Goof: When the doctor tells the group Rigby will probably never wake up, he says "fortunately" instead of "unfortunately".

Gallery
The gallery for Eggscellent can be viewed here.