Slam Dunk

Slam Dunk is the sixth episode of season three (and forty-sixth episode overall) of Regular Show. It premiered on October 24, 2011, garnering 2.079 million views worldwide.

Synopsis
Mordecai and Rigby play a two-on-two match of basketball against Muscle Man and Hi-Five Ghost to earn rights to use the computer.

Plot
Mordecai and Rigby are playing video games, when Pops tells Mordecai that there's a phone call for him. He picks up the phone and is surprised to hear Margaret on the other line. When he returns to the game, he tells Rigby that Margaret asked him to design a website.

However, when he goes to use the computer, he realizes that Muscle Man has it reserved even though he isn't even using it and is playing basketball instead. Frustrated by this, Mordecai and Rigby challenge Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost to a game of two-on-two basketball for a week, then a month, then two months of computer rights.

When they lose miserably, Mordecai kicks the ball away saying that basketball sucks, which triggers the arrival of a wizard-like basketball-humanoid coach known as the God of Basketball who offers to train him and Rigby. When that doesn't work out the way he planned, he just gives them the powers to be good at basketball. Once they start beating Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost, Muscle Man has Hi Five Ghost fake an injury (being flattened on the pavement) so he can have the coach on his team due to ruling. When he grants Muscle Man the powers, the game becomes close and intense.

After an epic scuffle for the ball in space, Mordecai dunks the ball as he falls past the rim, destroying the park. Muscle Man storms off angrily and the God says that he hopes Muscle Man doesn't give up on basketball because he lost, and that he needs to lose some weight. Margaret approaches Mordecai and says that he looked hot winning the game. Mordecai is excited by this, but when he mentions the website Margaret claims that it's been two months because time moves quickly in space and she had Eileen do it instead. Margaret leaves and the God tells an upset Mordecai to look on the bright side, and focus on the fact that at least Margaret said he was hot.

Characters

 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Muscle Man (antagonist)
 * Hi Five Ghost (antagonist)
 * Pops (cameo)
 * Margaret
 * Eileen (mentioned only)

Minor Characters

 * God of Basketball (semi-protagonist)

Trivia

 * Filter's "Hey Man Nice Shot" plays in the background during the scuffle in outer-space.
 * When the God of Basketball first appeared, Muscle Man's eyes, nose, and mouth were smaller.
 * Despite appearing for most of the episode, High Five Ghost doesn't say anything.
 * This is the third instance when an episode has a scene in space; the second episode was Free Cake and the first episode was the series premiere, The Power, the 4th was Cool Bikes, however it was briefly.
 * The God of Basketball uses the term 'ice that fool'. The slang definition means to put one out of commission, but is typically associated with murder rather than beating one in a game.
 * The God of Basketball drives a Cadilac Escalade.
 * This is the sixth time Benson doesn't appear in an episode.
 * The God of Basketball's Cadilac has Trucknuts.
 * Goof: When Mordecai's staring at Margaret's butt, her tail is gone.
 * Animation Error: In the scenes in the space, when Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man and the God of Basketball are playing their lights colors were swapped.
 * The God of Basketball states that "time speeds up in space" which is incorrect. According to the theory of general relativity, traveling very fast (likely done in space) will make time slow down for the fast moving party relative to a slow moving party. Since Mordecai was traveling very fast in space relative to the earth, the fact that he missed the opportunity to make Margaret a website remains plausible.
 * Goof: When the God Of Basketball pulls up in his cadilac,the wheels are still rotating,and in the next scene they have stopped.
 * Goof: Although Mordecai doesn't seem to know how to play basketball,in seemed as though he did in Temp Check.
 * Goof: When Mordecai,Rigby,Muscle Man,and High Five Ghost finish their second game,Muscle Man says he won two months of computer rights. Then when he says The God Of Basketball would be wasting his time trying to train Mordecai and Rigby,he says "I've got three years of computer rights i need to start using."

Gallery


The gallery for Slam Dunk can be viewed here.