Over the Top

Over the Top is the twenty-first season two episode (and thirty-third episode overall) of Regular Show airing May 23, 2011. On its premiere, it attracted 1.957 million views worldwide, down 207,000 from the previous episode.

Plot
Mordecai, Benson, Pops, Skips and a doctor were in the hospital looking at the corpse of Rigby on a stretcher. Then, the doctor closes Rigby's eyes and covers him with a blanket. Mordecai, Pops, and Benson frown sadly, and Mordecai says to Skips "You couldn't let it go. Well, I hope you got what you wanted", and all except Skips leave.

Then, Skips has a flashback, in which Benson is complimenting how Skips is the strongest at McHooligan's as almost all of them arm wrestle him and lose and that is when he Rigby asks for a challenge. Rigby beats him using a prank called the PlayCo Armboy (which is revealed by Mordecai later in the episode), which only Mordecai knows about so far, leaving Skips furious; he demands a rematch and loses again.

The next day Pops comforts Skips telling him he just had a bad day, then Skips thanks him and goes off to face Rigby. After Rigby refuses to wrestle he breaks the duo's game system. Later in his house, Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson walk in and Benson tells Skips he has to pay for their game system which Skips says he will after he faces Rigby which he does but still loses; later, they are all going back to McHooligan's expect Skips when High Five Ghost "calls shotgun". Mordecai then realizes he forgot his drink ticket and walks into his room when he finds Skips looking through Rigby's stuff which makes the former tell Skips that Rigby was just pranking him with a device called the "PlayCo Armboy." Skips looks it up on the internet and finds out Rigby's secret.

When they are all at McHooligan's, Skips enters, challenges Rigby, and reveals the PlayCo Armboy; then, Skips arm wrestles Rigby without the PlayCo Armboy and smashes him against the table (which the force of him going through the table kills him).

Now, Skips is looking at Rigby's dead body back at the hospital when Death enters and they arm wrestle with a ghost being the referee; Skips gets to keep Rigby if he won, but be taken instead if he lost. The table starts floating up in the air and spinning wildly. As Skips is about to lose, he uses the PlayCo Armboy and beats Death. Once Death leaves on his motorcycle, Rigby wakes up and insists on pranking the others while Skips replies he had too much pranks for the day and they leave the hospital.

Characters

 * Skips (semi-antagonist in flashback)
 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Muscle Man
 * Hi Five Ghost
 * Benson
 * Pops

Minor Characters

 * Death (antagonist)
 * Ghost Referee
 * Doctor

Trivia

 * There are two antagonists in this episode: Skips and Death.
 * Though usually a supporting character/protagonist, this is the first time Skips has done something antagonistic.
 * This is one of the times a supporting character is an antagonist.
 * This is the second episode that Benson cares about Mordecai and Rigby, the other two were Benson Be Gone and Stick Hockey.
 * Death is represented in a form very similar to that of Lemmy, front man of the band Motorhead.
 * Skips and Death have probably met since he said, "Well well well. If it ain't ol' Skips!" and also since Skips has eternal youth so he wasn't taken in by Death when he was supposed to die.
 * Coincidentally, Sylvester Stallone starred in a 1987 action drama film called Over the Top, also involving a climax of arm wrestling.
 * Death once said "Your soul is mine" to Skips, which is a homage to Shang Tsung's line from Mortal Kombat.
 * This episode is one of the few times Skips is seen walking: after he destroys the punching bag in his house, he is seen walking out the door instead of skipping. He is once again seen walking in the same episode, when he goes to sit down to arm wrestle Rigby for the last time.
 * J.G. Quintel has said this is his favorite episode of the series.
 * In the part where Rigby needs to dodge bottles from a video game, Mordecai shouts "Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right," the first 8 actions in the Konami Code.
 * Guitar Dude, the rhythm game Mordecai and Rigby play, might be a parody of Guitar Hero, a famous rhythm game series; however, it does not involve dodging thrown bottles like Guitar Dude did.
 * This is not the only time Rigby dies. This is the third time Rigby dies (but is brought back to life at the end); the first death was in It's Time and the second was Appreciation Day.
 * Playco is a parody of Tyco.
 * High-Five Ghost is shown to have teeth in this episode, even though in Just Set Up The Chairs and My Mom he is shown smiling widely and has no teeth.
 * Strangely, Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost weren't at the hospital to see Rigby, who had died.
 * Arm Wrestling is the fourth "evil" game; the first game was Rock, Paper, Scissors, the second game was Jinx, and the third game was Do Me A Solid.
 * This is the second time Muscle Man screams in shock because something didn't please him; the first was See You There.

Goofs

 * Goof: Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost are not seen at the table when Skips killed Rigby.
 * Instead of Death spitting in to Rigby's mouth. The UK broadcast has him firing a laser at Rigby instead.
 * The whole dramatic scene of Rigby in the hospital was also edited out of the UK broadcast making it go straight to the pub scene. This also happened when it aired in Australia, but is now being shown in re-runs.
 * Goof: When Death says "So I get to beat you and take your immortal soul" he leaves out the t sound but when he says 'Skips I will have your immortal soul" he doesn't leave out the t.
 * Skips is seen walking on occasion.
 * In this episode, it is shown Skips is able to use the computer just fine when he types in "playco armboy", but in Skips vs. Technology, he has no idea how to use a computer. It's possible this episode could have took place after Skips vs. Technology.

Gallery


The gallery for Over the Top can be viewed here.

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