Stick Hockey

Stick Hockey is the official 1st episode, (or the season premiere) of season 3 of Regular Show, and the 41th episode overall, which aired on September 19th, 2011.

Plot
Benson is walking, when he steps on a piece of gum. He quickly suspects that Mordecai and Rigby are slacking off. Meanwhile, the duo are playing a game of stick hockey and Mordecai is winning. As Rigby is trying to get ahead of Mordecai, Benson comes in and distracts Rigby, causing Mordecai to win the game. Benson asks the two, where they got the stick hockey table, and Mordecai answers that they found it under a pile of junk. Benson wants to throw the table away, but the two want it so they decide to do all of their work so they can have it.

They scrape all the gum off all surfaces of the park ranging from benches to slides to tables, even going to lengths of biting it off. When they are done, they comment that it is worth working when there is a goal involved. Unfortunately, when they open the garage door, they discover the stick hockey table is gone. They found out that Benson threw the table out anyway because he doubted that they would actually get the job done. When they angrily confront Benson about his deed and prove to him that they did their job successfully by throwing the bucket of gum at him, Mordecai tells off Benson for not keeping his word.

Benson, however, thinks that they are being hypocritical. He tells Pops and Skips to back him up but it quickly backfires and they take Mordecai and Rigby's side. Benson, Mordecai, and Rigby go to a pawn shop called King Thrift to retrieve it. They find that the table has already been sold. The clerk offers them a Foosball table and Benson wants to buy it for them, but after playing it for a few second, Mordecai and Rigby aren't satisfied with it.

On their way back to the park, Benson says he did the right thing throwing the table away because it would ruin their lives. This angers Mordecai and Rigby and Mordecai pushes Benson out of the cart and the two go out to search for it on their own. The duo then go to multiple thrift stores until they reach the Stick Hockey Arena. Back at the park, Benson is back at the house where Pops and Skips are playing cards. Benson now shows full remorse about his actions and decides to apologize to Mordecai and Rigby.

Mordecai and Rigby won't answer the walkie-talkie for Benson, but when Skips contacts them and learns where they are, he tells Benson that he won't believe it. They're in the Stick Hockey Arena, which is a place where in which stick hockey is a brutal sport. Competitors play the game roughly, and even possibly to the death. This is evident from the bruises on Mordecai and Rigby's faces. They are seen fighting Chong, who is beating them 32 to 7. When time is nearly up for Mordecai and Rigby, Benson comes in shocking the whole crowd.

It is revealed that Benson was a master stick hockey player whose nickname was Death Dragon. In a flashback, he had an apprentice named Dave who got decapitated by Chong. The flashback causes emotional pain for Benson causing him to cry. When he engages the opponent, things get ridiculously dangerous when the platform is elevated over fire and spikes, while the platform itself tips nearly sending Benson into the flaming pit. Benson then pulls himself back up to continue fighting Chong. Then Chong multiplied himself and surrounded Benson. Benson overcomes this and starts a scoring spree. The game ends with the table exploding, and Benson winning by one point.

Back at the house Benson brought the table back in its place, fixed, and wants to play. However, the Mordecai and Rigby decide to play video games instead, after the horror they endured. The episode ends with Benson asking himself, "Why do I even bother?"

Character Appearances

 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Benson (Semi-Antagonist)
 * Skips
 * Pops

Minor Characters

 * Dave (Flashback only)
 * Chong (Antagonist)

Goofs

 * When Mordecai and Rigby come back to Benson after "de-gumming" the park to tell him to give them the Stick Hockey game. They come without the bucket of gum, but when Benson says they probably didn't do it they throw the bucket at him. The bucket came out of nowhere.
 * In all the games, besides Mordecai and Rigby's game, they only had one player per team. Mordecai and Rigby were both on one team and they probably counted the two as one person!

Trivia

 * This is the first episode since Party Pete that comes close to using profane language (i.e. "stick twiddlers")
 * Foosball and Stick Hockey are similar in many ways except:
 * Foosball is based off of soccer (or football), and Stick Hockey is based off of ice hockey
 * Foosball sticks make the mini-players spin in vertical circles, Stick Hockey sticks make the players spin in horizontal circles.
 * The sixth person to sell the Stick Hockey table resembles a character that talked to Mr. Maellard in Dizzy
 * The Stick Hockey table is apparently sold away 13 times (Benson doesn't count since he donated the table to King Thrift).
 * When Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson are playing against Chong, there are a lot of people in the crowd that are duplicated, so it appears that there are multiple people that look exactly like each other in the crowd.
 * The people in the crowd also appear in the Pilot and First Day as the crowd surrounding Mordecai and Rigby in their long game of RPS.
 * This is the second time the stick hockey table appears in the show. The first is Benson Be Gone. It shows Mordecai and Rigby playing in the garage with Benson.
 * Mordecai pushes Benson off the cart, and it is surprising Benson didn't fire him for this.