Jinx

Summary
This episode begins with Mordecai and Rigby cleaning the park after it has been trashed. While going through the trash, Rigby finds a pair of bronze baby shoes while Mordecai finds a green army man. They both stumble upon a quarter and, at the same time, say "Look a quarter!" Mordecai quickly says jinx, and then punches Rigby. Rigby starts complaining and is punched again. Mordecai explains that when you get "Jinxed", you can not say a word or else you will get punched. Rigby looks at him then runs away.

After this scene, multiple scenes of Rigby talking and getting punched, including beating Mordecai at a video game, watching a solar eclipse, and almost getting punched when eating cereal. Mordecai then tells him you are able to break the curse if you have someone say your name three times. Rigby runs off to find someone who can call his name.

Rigby first runs into Benson, who is mad at Mordecai and Rigby for not cleaning up the trash like they were supposed to. Rigby begins to ask Benson to say his name, but is interrupted by Benson, who is very angry at him for their slacking. Just as he is about to say his name, Mordecai appears in the background, making Rigby silent once more. Benson looks at Mordecai, who off. Rigby figure out a way for Benson to say his name by throwing trash at him. This works the first two times, but then makes Benson break out into a major anger fit, yelling and throwing a trash can up into the air. Rigby decides to walk off and find a new person.

That new person happens to be Pops. Rigby runs up to Pops and begins signaling that he needs to say his name three itmes. Pops thinks that they are playing charades and begins guessing as to what Rigby is trying to do or be, which includes a " Dirty raccoon." Mordecai shows up and tells Rigby that Pops will never get it, and that Rigby is terrible at charades, to which Pops agrees. Rigby says he is great at charades and receives another punch. Pops then guesses that he is jinxed, to which Mordecai says he got it. Rigby then runs off once again to find a person to break the jinx.

Rigby runs to Skips' house. Skips appears to be meditating as Rigby enters and tells him that he is in the middle of something. Rigby quickly looks and grabs paper and a pencil. He wrties that he is jinxed and that he would like Skips to say his name three times. Skips reads the message, and says that writing is talking and punches Rigby. Mordecai comes and punches Rigby also for cheating. Skips then says that noises count as talking and punches Rigby once again, causing Mordecai and Skips to punch a noise-making Rigby. Rigby runs off to find a different person who can help. The next person is High Five Ghost. But only to find out he's too jinx until Muscle Man punch him to the ground. Rigby said his name three times, helping Fives to talk again. Later Rigby went to bathroom, Turn three sinks on write his name on the mirror. There a mysterious writing of his name backwards on behind the mirror.

Rigby encounters High-Five Ghost and ask him to say his name three times. High-Five Ghost shakes his head, which causes Rigby to ask why. High-Five Ghost begins to tell Rigby that he himself is also jinxed, which causes Muscle Man to come out of a bush and punch him. Rigby says High-Five Ghost's name three times, breaking the jinx and yells at him to say his name. High-Five Ghost flies off, leaving Rigby with an angry Muscle Man. Muscle Man asks him why he broke the jinx and then proceeds to tell Rigby there is a way to break it himself. Rigby runs of excitedly while Skips and Mordecai meet Muscle Man and ask where Rigby is. He tells them that he told Rigby a way to break the curse, which Skips says not the way with the mirrors. It is indeed that one, which makes Skips say they need to find Rigbhy before it is too late.

The scene cuts to Rigby, who is in the park public restroom. He turns off the light and turns on all the faucets, causing a steam to form on the restroom's glass mirror. Skips and Mordecai run and tell him not to continue and that they will break the jinx if he just comes outside. He proceeds to write an "R" which then appears backwards. He spells out the rest of his name, and then slowly says his name. A thing appears in the mirror each time he says his name. On the third time, a black figure looks at him and jumps out of the mirror, in slow motion. The black figure turns around and looks like a much eviler and bigger version of Rigby. Rigby tries to hide from the monster, who is destroying the restroom and trying to kill Rigby. Rigby escapes. along with the monster who scratches an unlucky bystander in th restroom. He appears dead, but later animates into a and eveil version of his old self, just as Rigby's reflection did. Skips, Rigby, and Mordecai escape on a golf cart and watch as people are scratched and turned evil, Benson is one of the unlucky. Mordecai asks Skips how they can defeat the monster. Skips begins to explain, but is pulled off the back by the evil monster. Mordecai and Rigby are left alone.

Mordecai and Rigby try to find a way to kill the monster. Mordecai says that maybe if they break the jinx, then the monster will go away. Mordecai says Rigby's name three times, and it appears to work, until the jinx monster appears and chases them. Mordecai asks Rigby what he did, to which Rigby explains the whole bathroom thing. They rush to the bathroom and say Rigby's name three times. This does not work as all the turned people converge on Mordecai and Rigby. They continue to yell at the mirror, which causes their breath to reveal Rigby's name backwards. They proceed to say Rigby's name backwards. The monster lunges at them and falls into the mirror world. Everyone is turned back to normal, and does not seem to remember a thing. Benson yells at them to pick up the trash, which they say they will. Skips congratulates them on defeating the monster and having everyone's memory erased. Mordecai asks why he remembers, to which Skips says his brain is a steel trap. Mordecai and Rigby say the same thing, and Rigby quickly yells jinx. Mordecai speaks and is punched by Rigby, who punches him multiple times. The punches have no effect, causing Mordecai to say that he feels bad for Rigby never being able to enjoy the game. Rigby then pokes Mordecai in the eye.

Character Appearances

 * Mordecai


 * Rigby


 * Benson
 * Skips
 * Pops
 * Muscle Man
 * High-Five Ghost
 * Jinx Monster