The Power

This article is about the episode, for the object, visit The Power (object).

The Power is the first episode of season one and the series. It currently stands as the third-most viewed season one episode at 2.097 million views it's below Grilled Cheese Deluxe and The Unicorns Have Got To Go, and the thirteenth-most viewed episode overall.

Plot
Mordecai and Rigby are watching a wrestling match on tv and start wrestling a doll, but Rigby accidentally busts a hole in the wall. Worried that it will cost them their jobs, they decide that they have to convince Benson to give them raises in order to repair it.

Rigby tries to convince Mordecai to go with his plans for the raises, but Mordecai refuses to listen to Rigby. To achieve their goal, they decide to use a magic keyboard Rigby stole from a wizard at the park. They test it on Pops, which successfully works when he gives them lollipops, and then try it on Benson, who gives them $20 each and compliments them. The duo realizes that with the keyboard, they can do anything they ever wanted, leading to a montage of Mordecai and Rigby playing with the keyboard, but their fun is interrupted by Skips. Worried, they try to get rid of him, but Rigby screws up the lyrics and sends Skips to the moon instead. They tell Benson and Pops they sent Skips to the moon so they disagree and knowing that this will cost their jobs more than the hole in the wall, they go to the Moon, taking Benson and Pops with them, and learn that Rigby sent many random items to the Moon while they were in the house. One of them is a giant monster (which seems to be an amalgam of Mordecai, Rigby, and the wrestler doll Beef Burrito) that attacks Skips, and the keyboard’s batteries run out at the worst possible time. Rigby manages to save Skips with his “hamboning” technique, and Skips plugs in the golf cart’s wires into the keyboard, powering it up again, and successfully takes them home before the monster smashes them. They land in Mordecai and Rigby's room safely and the rest of the wall (around the hole) breaks off; however, Skips confiscates their keyboard as payment for Mordecai and Rigby sending him to the Moon and destroys it, and Benson, turning hellish red in anger, reclaims the money that Mordecai and Rigby conned from him, then tells them to clean up their room, and threatens to fire them. Soon he, Skips, and Pops leave. The two believe the mess is the hole in the wall, so they cover it up with a poster.

Character Appearances
Mordecai

Rigby

Benson

Skips

Pops

Minor Characters
Wizard (Minor appearance in flashback)

Beef Burrito (Seen as a doll)

Enemies

 * The Moon Monster

Trivia
In But I Have A Receipt, Pops' weapon resembles The Power in many ways; also, Mordecai and Rigby have the same exact keyboard in Pops' garage, only The Power's name is not on it and it has a different tone.

Goof: when Mordecai insists he and Rigby should go to get Skips, the g-sound is missing in get.

Running Gag: Mordecai and Rigby using the power and Rigby trying to convince Mordecai to do hamboning.

Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost do not appear until the next episode, Just Set Up The Chairs

When the episode aired in Telemundo English, some changes were made for the British audience:

The part when Rigby said he'll kill Beef Burrito.

The part when Rigby and Mordecai called each other "ya holes."

When Rigby said "How in the h are we gonna fix this S?" and to match the progress, Mordecai saying "I don't know, dude!"

The part when Rigby said that Skips is gonna be pissed and Mordecai said "Better than him being dead." making it go straight when Benson comes in.

When Mordecai called Rigby a drillbit.

This is the first episode to use these catchphrases: "Yeaaauuhh!" "This sucks." "Jolly good show." "I'll kill you!" "What the h." "What?" and "Dude." Though the phrase "Jolly good show" was used in the previous unaired episode.

The British broadcast on Cartoon Network skips "Don't look at our crotches while we synchronize our watches!" It also changes "Pissed" with "Ticked", but Mordecai calling Rigby a "drillbit" remains.

In Un Show Más the Latin American Version of Regular Show this episode is called "El Pode."

The "Don't look at our crotches while we synchronize our watches" is not shown in the UK yet the announcer for "Regular Show, coming up next," says, "Synchronize your watches, Regular Show is up next."

Quotes
Now, how in the H are we gonna fix this S? - Rigby

We convince Benson to give us raises so we can pay someone else to fix it! -Mordecai

I already know what you're going to say, "hamboning!" - Rigby

C'mon, where's Skips!? - Benson

Ohh, I love the moon! - Pops

Pops had to go to the bathroom! - Mordecai

Don't look at our crotches while we syncronize our watches! Boopboopbweepboopboopboopboopbweepbeepbooo! - Mordecai and Rigby

Twice! - Pops

Oh, you want us to put the hurt on you? I think he wants us to put the hurt on him!

I think he wants you to put the hurt on him! -Mordecai

You think he wants us to put the hurt on him?! -Rigby

YES I DO! -Mordecai

The $40 you two conned out of me with that stupid keyboard crap! - Benson

Dude, we're 23 years old we shouldn't be busting holes in walls were going to get fired for this! - Mordecai

What are you 65 (in a old man voice) excuse me sir can I have a raise? COME ON! I'm telling you dude! HAM-BON-ING! - Rigby

You drillbit! What else did you send? - Mordecai

Umm, don't get mad at me guys, but I kinda sent a bunch of stuff to the moon while you guys were in the house. (Scene cuts to Rigby while Mordecai, Benson, and Pops were in the house, playing on the power) A bunch of baby ducks, send 'em to the moon, soda machine that doesn't work, send 'em to the moon. - Rigby.