Peeps

Peeps is the fourth episode of the second season. On its original airing on January 17, 2011, 1.980 million viewers tuned in.

Plot
Mordecai and Rigby are having a staring contest, and Rigby tries desperately to get Mordecai to blink, even using a laser pointer. Mordecai replies, "Hey, no laser pointers! That's not regulation!" Rigby responds, "Street rules, man!" Benson sees what they're doing and yells at them to get back to work; but, Benson turns his back for two seconds and Mordecai and Rigby are back to their game. Benson gets frustrated and then he sees a television commercial about security survelliance systems to keep slacking employees in check; inspired by this, he orders "level 1" from the system, Peeps. He places a camara in front of Mordecai and Rigby to keep them working; yet, soon they trick Benson by placing a drawing of them working so they can have their staring game. This gets Benson to purchase "level 2", by making Mordecai and Rigby wear belts with wrestlers around them to watch their every move; even so, he humiliates them in front of Margaret. When Benson and Pops watch Mordecai and Rigby doing dishes, they go into the kitchen to award them with a pizza coupon, only to find that the dishes aren't done and that the slackers turned the cameras toward the TV playing a video called Dishwashing Competition (1982) in order to go into their rooms and continue their staring contest. Benson nearly goes off the edge when he gets "level 3", where he places all the camaras everywhere in the whole park. It looks like it works, and since Mordecai and Rigby really want to go back to their staring game, they spill coffee over Benson's system; this finally makes Benson reach some point of insanity, as he orders the highest upgrade from Peeps, "level 4" (aka Jeepers Peepers X-Infinity), which is a giant, floating eyeball named Peeps. Not only does Peeps watch Mordecai and Rigby, he also watches Pops taking a shower, Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost watching monster truck races, Skips working, and even Benson; in short, Peeps has creeped out everybody, so Benson tries to get rid of Peeps under the orders of everyone else, but Peeps remains because Benson signed the contract that lets him keep Peeps until he dies. The park and Peeps decide to make a fair game about how Peeps will leave or stay and that is by a staring contest; the stipulations are as follows: if Peeps wins, then he will remove everyone's eyeballs and keep them but if the park wins, then Peeps goes and never comes back. Mordecai is chosen as Peeps's opponent, and after two days, Mordecai and Peeps's eyes are tired. Peeps tries to intimidate Mordecai by using his ability to produce more eyeballs (which disgust Benson and making him almost throw up). To help Mordecai win, Rigby uses his laser pointer to burn all of Peeps's many eyes, leaving only his main, big eye left. After much anticipation, Peeps blinks, making Mordecai the winner. Peeps in much pain says "You know that really wasn't regulation" Then Rigby replies calmly "Street rules man." before lasering Peeps who runs into the lake and nearly drowns, and the park had to call an ambulance in order to save Peeps. When Peeps is rescued, he says he can no longer see. The park celebrate their victory and Benson promises not to go too far with watching Mordecai and Rigby not slacking off; however, their happiness is cut short when Mordecai says he can't blink, and Mordecai ask them if they had any eyedrops Rigby gave him some when Mordecai put the eyedrops in his eyes but he still couldn't blink and he said "Take me to the hospital."

Quotes

 * "Hey! No laser pointers!" -Mordecai
 * "Street rules, man!" -Rigby
 * "What are you doing? I asked you to wash the truck 20 minutes ago!" -Benson
 * "Bosses! Are you sick of slackers? (Benson: Yeah...) Is this a familiar sight? We'll turn this, to this! Peeps! Get your workers to work harder!" - Peeps Advertisement
 * "Say hello to Peeps. Its a surveilance system. Now, I'll be able to see what you're up to all the time. 24/7, 365. Isn't that great?" -Benson
 * "Why is there a jet outside?" -Skips
 * "I'm gonna take those slackers to level 2" -Benson
 * "These? Uuumm...we're making an indie documentary" -Mordecai
 * "Whoa, that's cool" -Margaret
 * "Yeah, uh...It's pretty obscure. Arthouse stuff" -Mordecai
 * "It's so indie only one dude's gonna see it" -Rigby
 * "What's it called?" -Margaret
 * "It's called: Slackers 2- The Return of Mordecai and Rigby to their Job! Break's over!" -Benson
 * "Uh, I guess we'll take two lattes..." -Mordecai
 * "TO GO!!!" -Benson
 * "Take me to the hospital." - Mordecai

Character Appearances

 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Benson (Semi-Antagonist)
 * Pops
 * Skips
 * Muscle Man
 * High-Five Ghost
 * Margaret
 * Peeps (Antagonist)
 * Peeps Manager (in commercial)
 * Peeps Workers (in commercial)

Trivia/Goofs

 * When Rigby was shooting Peeps's eyes with a laser pointer, you see that his big eye blinks twice.
 * Peeps resembles the Zelda boss, Vitreous.
 * The scene with Rigby shooting Peeps's eyes may have been a reference to the sidescrolling shooter video game series, Contra. The main characters of the game wear headbands and the bosses typically have multiple parts that must be destroyed before the boss can be attacked directly.
 * Benson apparently did not threaten to fire Mordecai and Rigby for slacking, nor did he decided to watch them in person.
 * Even though the Peeps company's motto is to spy on the employees, the character Peeps spies on Benson, who is the park manager and not an employee.
 * Benson watches Mordecai and Rigby via closed circuit television (CCTV); however, the cameras used in Level 1 and 2 are wireless, yet Benson is still able to watch Mordecai and Rigby, which is impossible on CCTV surveillance, which requires cameras wired to the surveillance system.
 * The "Peeps lens cleaning kit" mentioned in the Peeps commercial consists of rags and a canister of kerosene, which explains why the advertisment cautioned about the lens cleaning kit being flamable.
 * The truck that Mordecai and Rigby are washing at the beginning of the episode is meant to resemble an 80's model Jeep Comanchee.
 * The episode has a similar plot to the 2001: A Space Odyssey story where astronauts are trapped by HAL (Peeps), a computer (giant eyeball) that desires control (watches) over the astronauts, forcing them to find a way to disable (defeat) HAL.
 * This is the second time 1982 is referenced (World Dishwashing Championship 1982), the first time is Prank Callers.
 * This is the first time Benson becomes an antagonist, although this is unsurprising because he always acts grumpy and work-demanding towards Mordecai and Rigby.
 * When Pops came in and Benson showed him how Peeps works, Pops calls the mouse a "geegaw".
 * "Peeps" is said 18 times in this episode.
 * Running gag: Benson keep on ordering new peeps cameras but Mordecai and Rigby keep finding a way to get rid of the cameras so they can have a staring conset.
 * It is revealed that Benson is faint-stomached, because when Peeps uses one of his little eyes to lubricate his main eye, everyone cringes, but Benson nearly pukes and has to put his hands over his mouth to stop it.
 * Peeps is able to speak without a mouth
 * The laser pointer Rigby wields shoots short laser bursts when the laser should be one continuous beam due to lasers being light.
 * Goof: When Rigby says "Street rules, man", while having a staring contest with Mordecai, he doesn't have his tail.