Dead at Eight

Dead at Eight is the twenty-seventh episode of season three (and sixty-seventh episode overall) of Regular Show.

Plot
Muscle Man has been building a water slide for six weeks, while Mordecai and Rigby watch him. Mordecai and Rigby want Muscle Man to go down the slide already, but Muscle Man refuses to go, saying it isn't ready yet. After a bunch of teasing, Muscle Man agrees to go. It starts good at first, but then the support beams of the final piece he was building collapses, so he ends up hitting his trailer and flies into a tree, hitting many branches, and finally landing on his car. Muscle Man is in really bad shape, but claims he is all right, but suddenly Death shows up on his motorcycle. Death tries to claim Muscle Man's soul since this counts as his death, but Mordecai and Rigby refuse to let him, saying that they will do anything. Death agrees to the duo's bargain, and says he will spare Muscle Man's soul if they agree to babysit his kid while he and his wife go out to dinner for their anniversary.

The duo agree to babysit Death's kid, but then Death puts Muscle Man inside a small amulet that is held by Rigby. The group goes to Death's Manor where they meet his four-armed wife and his baby son Thomas. The couple tells Mordecai and Rigby to have Thomas in bed by the time they get home, but if they fail, Death will have Muscle Man's soul. They try to put Thomas to bed already, but Thomas reveals his intellect that he keeps secret from his parents and says that he will not go to sleep unless they play with him. However, playtime ends up insane when Thomas rips apart his dolls, shoots pencils at Mordecai and Rigby, and almost sets the house on fire.

After playtime, they try to get Thomas to go to sleep again, but he refuses to sleep unless he eats. Mordecai tries to give him a glass of warm milk, but Thomas refuses to drink it and instead eats up an entire jar of cookies and a bag of sugar, which makes him go hyper and destroy some of the kitchen. Soon enough, he disappears and they go looking for him. They find him in the library where he asks them to read him a story. He has Mordecai read him a story called the The Hungry, Hungry Soul-Sucking Death Worm. At the end of the story, Thomas has Mordecai and Rigby pull the last picture tab in the book, where the Soul-Sucking Death Worm from the book comes to life.

The worm wants to eat a soul and won't go back into the book unless it does so. Mordecai and Rigby try to prevent this, but Thomas wants to feed the worm Muscle Man's soul and tries to throw the amulet containing it to the worm, but fails. The worm destroys much of the house and eventually Rigby manages to trick the worm into going back to the book. After the trouble has ended, they try to put Thomas to bed yet again, but Death and his wife have already come home. However, a chandelier drops and lands on Thomas, knocking him out, before they get to the front door.

Death and his wife soon come in and are aghast to find their house wrecked, but are glad that Thomas is asleep. Death thanks Mordecai and Rigby for watching Thomas, and releases Muscle Man from the soul amulet. Death then says that they shouldn't think that next time he will spare their souls, because Muscle Man will soon get himself killed at a hot dog eating contest. Afterwards, the trio try to wonder how they will get home.

Characters

 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Muscle Man

Minor Characters

 * Death (semi-antagonist)
 * Thomas (antagonist)
 * Death's Wife
 * Soul-Sucking Death Worm (antagonist)

Trivia

 * This episode reveals that Death has a child and a four-armed wife.
 * This is the third appearance of Death, following Over the Top and Skips Strikes.
 * Mordecai and Rigby are caring for Muscle Man more because they are willing to save his life.
 * This is the first episode in which a character is shrunk.
 * This is the second time Muscle Man gets killed (after Terror Tales of the Park).
 * This episode was aired on Memorial Day, 2012.
 * When it was first shown, it had a first rating in Regular Show history: TV-Y7-FV. But in the previews, it was TV-PG
 * This episode reveals that Muscle Man knows how to build a water slide, as he has been building one for six weeks.
 * The Soul-Sucking Death Worm is an obvious parody of the Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar.
 * Benson, Pops, Hi-Five Ghost and Skips did not appear in this episode.
 * This is the first episode that Death appears in and does not interact with Skips.

Gallery
The gallery for the episode can be viewed here.