Sam Marin

Sam Marin is an American animator and a voice actor on Regular Show, voicing Benson, Pops and Muscle Man. He started voicing Pops and Benson in the pilot, and then Muscle Man in "Just Set Up the Chairs" onwards. Other roles he's played can be seen below.

Early life and career
He met J.G. Quintel at CalArts, being in the same class, and the two became friends. Marin would help Quintel on his student films, such as The Naive Man from Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM, even voicing characters in the aforementioned films, starting his voice acting career. He eventually graduated from CalArts, and worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios as an animator, working there for three years before Regular Show was greenlit, leaving Disney to work for Cartoon Network.



Regular Show
As stated above, Marin voices three central characters: Benson, Pops and Muscle Man. Marin's voice for Benson's is very similar to his regular speaking voice, only angrier and more stressed. With Pops, Marin needs to make his voice as high-pitched as possible, while still sounding lovable. Finally, with Muscle Man, Marin tries to sound annoying and disgusting, and sounding as loud and obnoxious as he can. Regular Show creator J.G. Quintel can't believe Marin can voice all three characters: "...I still can’t understand how he can make it sound like Muscle Man, Pops, and Benson are having a conversation, and it’s just him in the record booth talking to himself." When describing Pops as a character, he admits: "There’s something kind of sad behind Pops, because he just wants love. You can tell." Benson is currently Marin's favorite voice to do on the show.

Other work
Other than his work on Regular Show, he also voiced characters on another show J.G. Quintel worked on, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. He also voiced Clarence and Gareth in two episodes of Adventure Time.



Voice credits
This section may be incomplete

Season 1

 * "The Power" - Benson, Pops
 * "Just Set Up the Chairs" - Benson, Pops, Muscle Man
 * "Caffeinated Concert Tickets" - Benson, Pops, Muscle Man
 * "Death Punchies" - Pops, Muscle Man, Sensai
 * "Free Cake" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Meat Your Maker" - Pops, Benson
 * "Grilled Cheese Deluxe" - Benson
 * "The Unicorns Have Got to Go" - Pops, Benson, Unicorn #1 (named "Billy" in the credits)
 * "Prank Callers" - Pops, Benson, Kid #1, Master Prank Caller 1
 * "Don" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Rigby's Body" - Pops, Muscle Man
 * "Mordecai and the Rigbys" - Pops, Benson

Season 2

 * "Ello Gov'nor" - Pops, Benson, Cricket #4
 * "It's Time" - Muscle Man, Guy #1
 * "Appreciation Day" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Peeps" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Dizzy" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man, Young Pops
 * "My Mom" - Benson, Muscle Man
 * "High Score" - Benson, GBF
 * "Rage Against the TV" - Benson, Pops, Muscle Man
 * "Party Pete" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Brain Eraser" - Pops, Benson
 * "Benson Be Gone" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "But I Have a Receipt" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "This Is My Jam" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Muscle Woman" - Muscle Man, Benson, Reporter
 * "Temp Check" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Jinx" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Grave Sights" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Really Real Wrestling" - Pops, Benson, Mike
 * "Over the Top" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "The Night Owl" - Benson, Muscle Man, Intern
 * "A Bunch of Baby Ducks" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "More Smarter" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "First Day" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Go Viral" - Pops, Muscle Man
 * "Skunked" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Karaoke Video" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man

Season 3

 * "Stick Hockey" - Pops, Benson, Chong
 * "Bet to Be Blonde" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Skips Strikes" - Pops, Benson
 * "Terror Tales of the Park" ("Creepy Doll" and "Death Metal Crash Pit") - Pops, Muscle Man, Nigel
 * "Terror Tales of the Park" ("In the House") - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Slam Dunk" - Pops, Muscle Man
 * "Cool Bikes" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "House Rules" - Benson, Muscle Man, Unicorn #1
 * "Rap It Up" - Pops, Muscle Man
 * "Cruisin'" - Pops, Manslaughter
 * "Under the Hood" - Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Weekend at Benson's" - Benson, Muscle Man


 * "Fortune Cookie" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Think Positive" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Skips vs. Technology" - Pops, Kid 1
 * "Butt Dial" - Pops
 * "Eggscellent" - Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Gut Model" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Muscle Mentor" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Trucker Hall of Fame" - Benson, Muscle Man, Rent A Cop 2
 * "Fancy Restaurant" - Pops, Muscle Man, Waiter 3

Season 4

 * "Exit 9B" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man, Garrett Bobby Ferguson
 * "Starter Pack" - Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Terror Tales of the Park II" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Pie Contest" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "150 Piece Kit" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Bald Spot" - Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Guy's Night" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "One Pull Up" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "The Christmas Special" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "TGI Tuesday" - Benson, Muscle Man, Club Manager 4
 * "Firework Run" - Benson, Muscle Man, Henchman 1
 * "The Longest Weekend" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Sandwich of Death" - Benson, Death Kwon Do (abbreviated "DKO" in the credits)
 * "Do or Diaper" - Muscle Man
 * "Quips" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Caveman" - Pops, Benson, Gregg the Caveman
 * "That's My Television" - RGB2
 * "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese" - Pops, Benson, Baby Duck 3
 * "Fool Me Twice" - Pops, Benson, Announcer Bot
 * "Limousine Lunchtime" - Benson, Beaten Limo Driver, Long Limo Driver
 * "Picking Up Margaret" - Benson, Johnny, Guy 1
 * "K.I.L.I.T. Radio" - Muscle Man, DJ
 * "Carter and Briggs" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Skips' Stress" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Cool Cubed" - Pops, Cool Cubed
 * "Trailer Trashed" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "The Last Laserdisc Player" - Benson, Muscle Man, VHS Agent
 * "Blind Trust" - Benson, Pops
 * "World's Best Boss" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Last Meal" - Muscle Man, Contestant 2
 * "Sleep Fighter" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Party Re-Pete" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Steak Me Amadeus" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man

Season 5

 * "Laundry Woes" - Muscle Man
 * "Silver Dude" - Benson
 * "Benson's Car" - Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Every Meat Burritos" - Benson, Muscle Man, Police Officer #3
 * "Wall Buddy" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "A Skips in Time" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Survival Skills" - Pops, Benson
 * "Terror Tales of the Park III" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Tants" - Pops, Muscle Man, Sombrasses Henchman
 * "Bank Shot" - Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Power Tower" - Muscle Man
 * "The Thanksgiving Special" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man, Choir
 * "The Heart of a Stuntman" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "New Year's Kiss" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Dodge This" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man, Death Kwon Do (Sensai), Coffee Bean
 * "Portable Toilet" - Muscle Man
 * "The Postcard" - Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Rigby in the Sky With Burrito" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Journey to the Bottom of the Crash Pit" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Guitar of Rock" - Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Skips' Story" - Headmaster Bennett, Reporter
 * "Return of Mordecai and the Rigbys" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Bad Portrait" - Pops, Benson, Big Hand, Monkey, Crawler, Hopper, Spider
 * "I Like You Hi" - Muscle Man
 * "Expert or Liar" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man, Guy 1, Sandwich Guy, Garrett Bobby Ferguson
 * "Catching the Wave" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Gold Watch" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Paint Job" - Benson, Muscle Man, RGB2
 * "Take the Cake" - Pops, Benson, Muscle Man
 * "Skips in the Saddle" - Benson, Muscle Man, T-Shirt Man

Personal life
Marin has stated in an interview if he wanted to create something of his own, he stated something superhero related: "I’d want to do a super-hero show. Working on a comic book show would be cool. Like Spider-Man. I really like Spider-man and Batman, and I think it’d be fun to play those characters. Actually, animated Harry Potter. I changed my answer." Marin's favorite episode of Regular Show is "Eggscellent".

He resides in an undisclosed location, drawing in his free time.