Rigby's Parents

Rigby's Parents (Barbera and Sherm) are minor characters that appear in the episode "The Thanksgiving Special"; Barbera also makes an appearance in "Rigby in the Sky With Burrito" and Sherm makes an appearance in "Lunch Break". They apparently live far enough away from the park to warrant taking a plane to visit their son.

Biography
Not much is known about Rigby's parents, but they seem very proud of Rigby, even though he is lazy and rarely gets things done. When Rigby was in high school, he was expelled and his mother had to come pick him up. She was upset and tells him that "You're always making so much trouble for yourself. Now Don never gets in any trouble when he's at school." Don, Rigby's younger brother, is the complete opposite his older brother: he is an accomplished accountant and a martial artist, drives a Corvette, and has his own house. Although Don is naturally more talented than Rigby, he tried to be more like him in their youth so as not to overshadow his older brother. However, unknown to his parents, Rigby has more experiences involving a more dangerous situations he was in to survive than Don, until they finally acknowledged him, particularly on their older son's graduation speech about that situation he was in.

Rigby's mother has a "special cleaning formula", which apparently doesn't work (see "Trivia").

Appearances
Rigby's parents are both racoons, but are much taller than their son (this is not the case for Don, who is tall and muscular - apparently Rigby is the only short one in the family).

Barbera wears a white waist-coat over a purple top with khaki pants. She has shoulder length brown hair. Sherm wears a brown cardigan over a cream shirt with dark brown pants and glasses. In Lunch Break, Regular Show The Movie and Rigby Goes to the Prom, Sherm looks slightly muscular though he looks a bit out of shape and he wears a white under shirt, white underwear and socks with blue stripes.

Episode Appearances

 * Limousine Lunchtime (mentioned)
 * The Thanksgiving Special
 * Rigby In The Sky With Burrito (flashback)
 * Lunch Break (flashback)
 * Just Friends
 * Regular Show The Movie
 * Rigby Goes to the Prom
 * Rigby's Graduation Day Special

Trivia

 * Goof: Sherm is shown to be much nicer but in his next appearance he's a jerk.


 * All of Rigby's family are tall except for Rigby. This could be because the parents had a recessive short gene that only showed up in Rigby, possibly occurring in the grandparents.
 * In "Limousine Lunchtime", Rigby tried to get rid of a meatball sub stain, using what he claimed was his mom's 'special cleaning formula'. The mixture didn't work, causing Mordecai to bring up that that may just be why their house was never clean. (Could be a hint on Rigby's mom having some similar traits/flaws as her first son.)
 * Barbera is the only female in the family.
 * Rigby's mother's name is revealed in "Rigby Goes to the Prom" to be "Barbera".
 * Rigby's father's name is revealed in "Lunch Break" to be "Sherm".
 * In Lunch Break it shows that Sherm is kind of strict with Rigby like forcing him (and Mordecai) to eat 4 boxes of cereal since the rule is not to open a new box of cereal if the other one not done.
 * In The Lunch Club it shows that Rigby and Sherm have a slight trouble relationship due to the fact that he favors Don than Rigby.
 * As of "Rigby Goes to the Prom", thanks to Rigby's survival experiences on involving any dangerous situations he was in, Sherm finally acknowledge Rigby when he saved his father and Eileen from falling to a cliff, even it means had no choice to sacrifice one of their precious items to be wrecked, such as Sherm's car. It reveals Sherm owns a 1964 Luxury Sedan and watches a tiny tv in the night.
 * In Just Friends, They seem to like Eileen after she and Rigby started dating.

Gallery
"The Thanksgiving Special"