Local News Legend

 "Local News Legend" is the fourth episode in Season 7 (and one hundred and eighty forth overall) of Regular Show. It first aired on August 20, 2015.

Synopsis
Margaret wants to host a weekly segment on the local nightly news, catching bad guys. But her co-worker Jackie brings big trouble to the news

Plot
The episode begins with Margaret getting the station manager and Jackie a latte and a coffee. while she does, the station manager announces to all current employees that they can apply for a new segment. The manager says something with "wow factor", and states that they have three days and the person the executives choose will get to have their own weekly segment.

After that, everyone leaves except Frank, Jackie and Margaret. . Jackie tells Frank that she is going to try her hardest to get the segment as Margaret hands her coffee, and Frank tells her that he thinks Margaret has a chance of getting the segment. Margaret cuts him off and says she isn't completely sure about it, but Frank remarks about his first time flying Chopper 6 and tells Margaret to not give up on herself. Margaret agrees to try to get the segment and they both share a laugh and hug before heading home, with Jackie failing to get Frank's attention.

The scene cuts to Eileen's house where Margaret, Mordecai, Rigby and Eileen are coming up with ideas for a new segment. Eileen suggests that she goes cerebral and Margaret writes it down on a whiteboard. Margaret then asks Mordecai and Rigby and they suggest car chases and dirtbags(which are their favorite thing on the news). She gets inspired and wants to go undercover to catch dirtbags around the city.

The next day at the station Margaret tells Frank about her plan for the segment, and gives it a title, "Margaret Always Mar-Gets the Bad Guy". Frank doesn't agree on the name but encourages Margaret to go for it. Jackie displays concern saying that the mortality rates for undercover reporters have been high, but Frank believes in his daughter and tells Margaret about the anonymous tip hotline.

Later, Margaret gets a call from a tipster and goes to meet him. She finds him in a dark alley in a parking lot, and he hands her a paper that reads, "Cheezer's uses grade-A meet in their vegetarian sandwiches.

The next day, Margaret disguises herself as an elderly woman goes to Cheezer's and asks them if they've been using Grade-A meat. She and the cameraman then come out of disguise and confront him by showing him the paper; however, it turns out is was a clipping of "Cheezer's uses Grade-A meatLESS products", resulting in embarrassment for Margaret. She exits and heads back to the hotline at the studio office, where the tipster calls with a new story.

The tipster tells het that Benson and Skips have been gambling with tax payers money and she tries it again at the park. She calls Benson and Skips out on their supposed crime, but it turns out the money was from a tax rebate, and the gambler was the name of a new lawn mower they purchased and that used "cards" to be activated.

Margaret then leaves to the coffee shop with Eileen, Mordecai, and Rigby, and the tipster texts her to meet again tonight. Later that night, the tipster gives her a story about the how coffee shop sells fake coffee and latte. However, Margaret, knowing the coffeeshop well, realises she has been fooled into embarrassment by the tipster all along. As the tipster's identity was blown, as the voice synthesizer on the tipster's jacket fell off, revealing a familiar female voice, Margeret unmasked the tipster's identity, who is none other than Jackie. As Margeret already prepared a hidden recorder on his neck to uncover Jackie's identity as a false tipster, Margeret escape with the cameraman while being chased Jackie.

During her escape from Jackie, while uploading the evidence to Channel 6, Margeret broadcast herself lives to reveal the true purpose of the news was to reveal the truth, not to frame someone for a personal agenda, and reveal the culpit who given Margeret a false info was Jackie, who is now chasing her and her cameraman, switching the camera on Jackie's face.

Jackie jumps to Channel 6 car and throw the cameraman out of the car, in the same time Frank arrived to save his daughter, and shoots Jackie with a missile he prepared on Chopper 6, just in case if danger is happen. However, Jackie survive the missile attack, revealing herself as the time travelling terminator criminal from the future, who wants to ruined the local news' reputation, forced Margeret to hand over the evidence or she'll may die, in which Margeret had no choice to accept it to save her life.

Apparently, unknown to Jackie, the evidence already being uploaded, as Margeret left Jackie to death, crashing the car and Jackie along with it. Though everyone of her friends and her fellow channel 6 employers celebrates Margeret's survival and victory, Jackie survived the crash, as she will come back for revenge against Margeret, Channel 6 and any obstacles related to Margeret herself.

Characters

 * Margaret
 * Frank
 * Jackie Carmichael
 * Del Hanlon
 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Eileen
 * Benson
 * Skips
 * CJ (cameo)
 * Cheezers Cashier

Trivia

 * This is the second episode to be centered around Margaret, and the first to give her most development as the protagonist.
 * At the end scenes of the episode, Frank shoots Jackie with a missile, but revealed she manage to survive the shots, revealing a hole of a fluid, regenerating her body. In the end, after she was left to death inside the car, crashed into the dead end, and the characters thought she was killed off for good, but she is then regenerated as a small fluid and moves of screen, possibly hinting she may return in a future episode.
 * Margaret says the quote "Margaret Mar-gets the bad guys" three times, with Jackie saying "It's hard to get used to that"
 * It is also revealed that their is another Cheezer's across town.

Cultural References

 * Jackie regenerating and her survival as a small amount of fluid is a reference to the T-1000 of the "Terminator" franchise.
 * The sound Margaret's notification sounds sound similar to iOS, and the operating system resembles Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

Continuity

 * It is revealed that Jackie was a terminator from the future bent on ruining the reputation of the channel
 * This the second time Mordecai had a minor role since The Lunch Club, where he had only a few lines.
 * Del mentions the events from Not Great Double Date, saying he and Margaret went out.
 * CJ has a brief cameo in the end, where she is shown to still dislike Margaret as she quickly changes channel when Margaret's news segment airs.

Errors

 * The title card reads "Local News Legends" with an "S" at the end when all sources said "Local News Legend"
 * Jackie's grey gloves (as part of her disguise) constantly disappear and reappear after Margaret reveals her identity.