Ello Gov'nor

Ello Gov'nor is the thirteenth episode of Regular Show. It aired on November 29, 2010. It is also the first episode of the second season, as well as the fifth-most viewed season two episode at 2.067 million viewings worldwide.

Summary
Rigby rents a movie at the Movie Shack Hut. On the way out, he bumps into an employee for the store outside. Rigby makes fun of his "outfit" (he is dressed as the Empire State Building, complete with a gorilla hanging from the top of the lightning rod). As Rigby walks away, the employee shouts "It's a costume! They make me wear it!"

Back at the park, it's movie night for Mordecai and Rigby. Mordecai picks up the popcorn and Rigby grabs the movie he rented. Mordecai thinks that they were going to watch the movie Shy Guy (which looks a lot like a love movie), but Rigby complains that he has seen the movie a lot of times and that he got something even better, showing Mordecai the movie he rented, called Ello Gov'nor. The film is a horror movie starring a taxi possessed by the driver's soul seeking vengeance on the gang members responsible for murdering him, which Mordecai refuses to watch. He reminds Rigby that the last time they watched a horror movie, he had to walk him to the bathroom for a week. Rigby is still not held back, saying that it's black-and-white, and old and cheesy ("It'll be hilarious!"). Mordecai finally gives in and turns on the movie, to which Rigby quickly grows fearful from the first encounter with the possessed taxi. When the movie ends, Mordecai is asleep, proclaiming the movie is likely cheesy, while Rigby is still in grave terror.

While Mordecai is peacefully asleep, Rigby is wide awake and terrified. Rigby gets up and goes to the window, and spots the British taxi. He calls Mordecai, but he is still asleep and when Rigby turns around, he sees the taxi directly at the window and runs to Mordecai again, trying to get him to wake up by shaking him. Suddenly, Mordecai's eyes light up and the British taxi comes out of him. Rigby wakes up screaming, and Mordecai is bothered by Rigby's shrieks, telling him to dream about being a tough guy instead. Rigby goes back to sleep and dreams he is a tough guy called "Riggerson" about to punch a man in an alley when the British taxi appears from nowhere and hits Rigby. He wakes up shrieking again and Mordecai gets even more frustrated, resorting to watching "The making of Ello Gov'nor" repeatedly until Rigby conquers his fear. He holds Rigby up to the TV for 3 days, telling him to look at the screen and pointing out the microphone. By the end, they are both worn out, and Rigby finally escapes Mordecai's grasp, and throws the tape of the movie at the wall, destroying it. Later, Mordecai takes Rigby to Benson's cricket game to try to desensitize him to British people, but they all greet him with the phrase "Ello, Gov'nor" until the British taxi appears yet again, causing Rigby to flee back home in a panic. Mordecai explains Rigby's fear to Pops and Skips, to which Pops points out he owns a British taxi of his own.

When Rigby asks what's inside Pops' barn, Pops unlocks the barn and shows them his taxi (which turns out to be a regular taxi). Mordecai asks Rigby if he is ready, but Rigby is still scared but of his mind. Mordecai tries to assure that everything will be okay, but Rigby decides to go to the bathroom. After Rigby washes his hands, he spots tire marks on the bathroom toilet paper, which sends him running out of the bathroom in a panicked frenzy. When he answers the ringing phone, the caller sounds just like the British taxi and Rigby threw the phone and the fax machine prints out a sheet of paper with the words 'Ello Gov'nor written on it. Rigby runs and hides in the back of Pops' taxi, and then in the taxi Mordecai was asleep and Pops takes a drive through the woods.

The dark woods cause Rigby to tremble, and in his mind's eye, the trees seem to make scary faces and the British Taxi shows up on a constant basis. To make matters worse, the car stops because they have run out of gas then Rigby wakes up Mordecai and tell them they are out of gas. When Rigby sees the British taxi coming, Mordecai don't believe him until they realize it really is coming for them. Everyone starts to flee, and the taxi pursues them, destroying everything in its path (including Pops' taxi). Rigby is finally cornered against a tree and when Pops and Mordecai try to come to the rescue, the taxi knocks them both unconscious with its front doors. Just when the taxi is about to move in for the kill, Rigby pounces on it in a fit of rage and starts tearing it apart. It is revealed that Rigby merely hit his head and started acting psychotic, and the vehicle pursuing them is actually the employee from the Movie hut, wearing a British taxi costume. He asks for the movie, saying it's way overdue, but Rigby explains that he broke the tape when he threw it against the wall. The worker therefore asks for a fine for the damaged tape. Pops pays for the movie with a lollipop, and Mordecai and Rigby drag Pops away.

In bed, Rigby thanks Mordecai for helping him facing his fears and dozes off, dreaming that he is a tough guy, driving the British taxi through outer space.

Character Appearances

 * MordecaiEllogovcredits.png
 * Rigby
 * Benson
 * Skips
 * Pops

Minor Characters

 * The Movie Shack Hut Employee as The British Taxi (Antagonist)
 * The Bully (Antagonist in Rigby's dream)

Trivia/Goofs

 * In the beginning of the episode, Mordecai says that the movie he wanted to watch was called "Shy Guy." This is a joke to the fact that Mordecai IS the typical shy guy (mild mannered, can't talk to the girl he has a major crush on, even though she's easy to talk to), and Rigby even says that he's seen it one-hundred times which is not surprising, because Mordecai could definitely relate to the main character.
 * The movie can be compared to the movie Child's Play, where a murderer dies and turns into a doll (equivalent to taxi) and tries to get revenge on the guy who shot him.
 * The sounds and motion of the guy standing up from being disguised as a taxi car, is a parody on the Transformers franchise of robots turning into vehicles or other modes.
 * After Rigby had destroyed the taxi car, after waking up, it is unscratched, and neither is the guy, except for a tear in his shirt, after standing up from his disguise.
 * The costume the worker wears in the beginning is a reference to the movie King Kong.
 * It's also revealed that one time Rigby watched a horror movie that was so scary to him that he forced Mordecai to walk him to the bathroom for a week.
 * This is the second time we see Benson wearing clothes.
 * It shows that Rigby has sharp claws and teeth like normal raccoons.
 * It is the second time we see Skips wearing a shirt. The first is Mordecai and the Rigbys.
 * The British Taxi is a parody of Stephen King's Christine and the Nightmare Herbie from Herbie Rides Again.
 * When Rigby sees the British Taxi when they drive past it, it is likely a reference to a scene in Stephen King's It.
 * The phrase "Ello Gov'nor" is said 16 times (excluding the British cricketers and the fax.)
 * Goof: When Rigby screams for the first time and wakes Mordecai up, Mordecai throws a pillow at him. First of all, Mordecai only has one pillow, but when he's sitting up saying to Rigby that he's "Screamin' like a friggin' maniac!" there is another pillow behind him. The one that he has thrown at Rigby is now smaller, and when he lays back down saying, "Dream like your a tough guy of something..." there is no pillow. Then, when he is woken up again, there is once again, a pillow behind him, and the one he has thrown at Rigby is no longer next to Rigby.
 * Goof: In Rigby's first dream as Fists, The Bully later attempting to kill him is leaning against a lamp post. In the next cut, when there's a closeup of him as Fists walks past, he is leaning against the wall.
 * In the part when the student notices the tire mark on his notebook is a reference of the 2010 remake of Nightmare On Elm Street, where instead of tire marks, it's Freddy Krueger's claw.
 * This is the fourth time Pops pays someone with lollipops. The first was in Naive Man from Lolliland (but this is not canon), the second was The Power and the third was in Don to pay the taxes, which was the first time it returned to him as a problem.
 * It shows that Mordecai is a heavy sleeper.
 * This the first time Rigby had to shake Mordecai awake.
 * On the title screen from the movie Ello Gov'nor, it says that the movie was created in 1982 (in Roman numerals). 1982 has also been mentioned in many other episodes, because 1982 is the year that J.G. Quintel was born in.
 * If you look closely at the tape of "Ello Gov'nor", it is rated R for Restricted. This is also the rating of many other horror movies such as "Child's Play" and "Friday the 13th".
 * Rigby later pulls "Look at it!" on Mordecai in Brain Eraser just like Mordecai in this episode.
 * This episode shows that Mordecai will go to extreme lengths to make Rigby face his fears such as shove his face into the TV and make him get into a taxi with him and Pops and drive into a forest.
 * Running gag - Rigby keeps on seeing the British taxi, Rigby keeps on whining or complaining.
 * When Moredcai forces Rigby to watch the movie again, he tells him to "LOOK AT IT!" multiple times.
 * The movie said the taxi was going to kill the murderers who killed its driver. However, it appeared to kill random people.
 * This is the last episode to be aired in 2010, but oddly the first of season 2 (some people thought this was the season finale).
 * The license plate on the taxi reads "FISTS" at the end of the episode.
 * The 1977 film "The Car" feature a similar plot involving the story of a mysterious car which goes on a murderous rampage, terrorizing the residents of a small town.
 * In this episode, Mordecai is mad at Rigby for waking him up. Yet in " This Is My Jam", Rigby wakes Mordecai up and Mordecai doesn't react the same.
 * When Rigby was driving the taxi at the end of the episode, he sat on the left side. Usually, a british taxi, or any british car, has the steering wheel on the right side of the car.

Quotes

 * Movie Shack Guy: MOVIES, GET YOUR MOVIES!


 * Rigby: Nice outfit.


 * Movie Shack Guy: It's a costume! They make me wear it!


 * Tough Guy: You walked down the wrong alley, Riggerson.


 * Fists: The name's, FISTS!


 * Taxi: 'Ello Gov'nor!


 * Mordecai: No dude, not another horror movie! Last time I had to walk you to the bathroom, every night for a week!


 * Benson: Yeah I am trying new things, so what?


 * Fists: (in voice over)They say this city is pretty tough, but I'm tougher.


 * Benson: It's cricket, what do think?


 * Mordecai: Dude, chill out! You're screaming like a friggin' maniac!


 * Pops: A British taxi, oh! I thought you said a brownish taxi.


 * Mordecai: But that taxi is yellow.


 * Pops: Yellow? My taxi is no coward I guarantee you that!


 * Mordecai: Never mind.


 * Rigby: I'M NO GOV'NAH!


 * The Bristish Taxi: Ello Gov'nor!


 * Employee Guy: I need a better job.


 * Rigby: Let me go!


 * Mordecai: Look at it! Look at it! (turns to night) Look at it! Look at it! (morning) Look... at... it, you look at it you.look... at... it. (sleepily)


 * Rigby: GET OFF ME!


 * Rigby: Who cares!? A taxi is a taxi!


 * Mordecai: HOLY CRAP, IT'S REAL!


 * Mordecai: RUN POPS!


 * Rigby: I'm a tough guy. I'm a tough guy.


 * Mordecai: I'm sick of you keeping me up!


 * Movie Shack Guy: Is this some kind of joke?
 * Movie Shack Guy: Your movie's overdue!