Peeps

Peeps is the fourth episode of the second season. On its original airing on January 17, 2011, 1.980 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 replied "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. Benson becomes inspired by this and orders "level 1" from the system, Peeps. He places a camara in front of Mordecai and Rigby to keep them working. But 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. He even 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 World Dishwashing Championship 1982 in order to go into their rooms and do 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"(A.K.A.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. 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. If Peeps wins, he will remove everyone's eyeballs and keep them. If the park wins, 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."

Character Appearances

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

Trivia/Goofs

 * When Rigby was shooting Peeps's eyes with a laser pointer, you see that his big eye blinks twice and Mordecai still challenges him to the staring contest afterwards.
 * Peeps resembles the Zelda boss, Vitreous.
 * The episode has a similar plot to the 2001: A Space Odyssey story where astronauts are trapped by HAL (Peeps), a computer (eye sack) 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, Mordecai and Rigby finding a way to get rid of the camares, Mordecai and Rigby keep on having a staring conset.