Appreciation Day

 Appreciation Day is the third episode of season two. When it originally aired, it recieved 2.132 million views.

Plot
It's Appreciation Day at The Park and everybody (except Mordecai and Rigby) get appreciation plaques. Angry that they didn't get plaques, Mordecai and Rigby decide to try and do hard work, but more often than not they mess up in front of Benson. Late at night in Benson's office, they sneak inside, find the book of park records and change their terrible records into unrealistic, outstanding records. Before Rigby can write the ending, Benson comes in the office and they are forced to hide under the desk.

The next morning, the things that Mordecai wrote start becoming real; later, an unexpected blizzard occurs and Skips breaks his right leg. Mordecai and Rigby help him into the cart just as a block of snow which turns into Snowballs the Ice Monster, explaining Rigby's unfinished ending.

The monster starts breathing fire on the trees and Mordecai realize something: if everything in the book has come true, then all they have to do is erase it. The monster then finds the book and rips all of the pages out. Rigby catches the pages and brings them to Mordecai whom managed to write the ending; but, it won't work without the cover. Mordecai gets the cover and when the pages are put back together Mordecai writes that the monster will "go away and everything will go back to normal". Mordecai and Rigby are knocked unconscious. When they both wake up and find everything back to normal, Benson takes the book away and tells them to clean up the mess or they will be fired. Rigby said that they did everything they told them to do and there was no mess to clean, so Benson drives away. Rigby adds in the last scene in the episode "What? Still no appreciation plaques?"

Character Appearances

 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Benson
 * Skips
 * Pops
 * High-Five Ghost (first appearance speaking since "Rigby's Body").
 * Muscle Man
 * Snowballs the Ice Monster (Antagonist)

Trivia

 * This is the first time High-Five Ghost appears in an episode since Rigby's Body.
 * This is the second time Rigby dies, the first time being "It's Time."
 * This is also the only time anyone (Rigby) dies twice in a row.
 * Benson's true dislike of Mordecai and Rigby is shown in the book, where he calls them "a general waste of time, energy and space."
 * There may be more groundskeepers besides the main characters and Mr. Maellard, as Benson is shown saying "The next person getting an appreciation plaque is..." indicating someone got one before Skips.
 * Benson shows higher appreciation for Muscle Man in this episode than in Don where he fired Muscle Man for saying "My mom!" in response to searching for help to stop the audit.
 * Even though Benson hauls the Book of Park Records the entire episode, the same book never appears again throughout later episodes
 * Muscle Man does not know the actual length of a year, despite the fact that he holds a high school diploma