More Smarter



More Smarter is the twenty-fourth episode of season two (and thirty-sixth episode overall) of Regular Show. It received 2.190 million views on its premiere.

Synopsis
Rigby tries to prove to Mordecai that he can get by without a high school diploma.

Plot
Rigby concocts a drink using many random foods and drinks, thinking it will make him successful. Mordecai refuses to drink it, saying that he's not dumb enough to do so, and Rigby says that they both do dumb stuff all the time an the two are like "two peas in a pod." Mordecai says he's definitely smarter than Rigby and it's been that way ever since he dropped out of high school. Benson walks in and asks them if they can solve this math problem that involves building an enclosure for the park's turtles. Rigby struggles at trying to formulate it, due to his lack of education, so Benson then goes out to find Skips, while Mordecai teases Rigby for not having a diploma. Rigby, frustrated for not having a diploma, decides to go back to high school. After falling asleep and having a dream that he solved a problem which would have guaranteed his graduation, he wakes up in a classroom and Rigby's teacher abruptly tells him to leave.

After Rigby gets back to work, he attempts to get a high school diploma online; there, he gets an ad for a drink that makes people smarter. He obtains the formula, disregarding the recommended amount by drinking more than the prescribed amount, getting an intelligence boost, and brags about his new-fangled cranium to Mordecai. Mordecai, jealous, drinks some of the smart juice and they begin drawing mathematical formulas all over the house (using 'tssk tssk' rather than 'hmph hmph') in an effort to prove who is the smartest of the duo.

After drinking plenty more smart juice they begin floating; however, when going back to their computer, everything they see has a mathematical formula and everyone starts to become barbaric. Making matters worse, Benson tries to tell them to clean the math problems, only for him to hear the duo speak Latin. They drink Rigby's juice reversing the effect of the intelligence boost formula successfully, reverting back to normal with slight memory loss. Benson walks in and tells them to clean the "graffiti" on the walls or they will die by his hand. Mordecai then gets mad at Rigby for him drinking RigJuice. After Mordecai walks away to clean the graffiti, Rigby then drinks some more of the 'RigJuice' and says, "That's good RigJuice."

Characters

 * Rigby
 * Mordecai (antagonist)
 * Muscle Man
 * Hi Five Ghost
 * Benson
 * Pops (cameo)
 * Skips (cameo)

Minor Characters

 * Teacher
 * City high school students

Trivia

 * A Shirley Temple is made of lemon-lime soda, orange juice, and grenadine syrup; an Arnold Palmer is half iced tea, half lemonade.
 * When Mordecai and Rigby see a vision of Muscle Man as a green sea cow, we see the equations E=mc2, Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and a2 + b2 = c2, the Pythagorean Theorem.
 * The scene where Rigby solves The hardest math problem in the world is a reference to the opening scene of the film Rushmore, including similar music. In an interview, J.G. Quintel said that Rushmore was his favorite movie.


 * The label for Brain Max reveals it to be green apple flavored.
 * The student sitting to the right of Rigby in his dream looks very similar to Cameron Frye from the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
 * When Mordecai and Rigby see the RigJuice as molecules, it is revealed to contain water (H2O), boron (B), phosphorous (Ph), arsenic polymers (As, fatal if ingested), Benzene (hexagon shaped), and ethylene oxide (C2H4O). This may only be decoration, or to represent the large number of ingredients and chemicals in RigJuice.
 * Sugar Frosted Choco Bombs may be a reference to Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.
 * Goof: When the screen goes back to the computer, after Rigby looks at the burger truck out of the window, the computer has the online test on, when Rigby hasn't even gone on that site yet.
 * Goof: When Mordecai and Rigby first return to normal, the pitcher of RigJuice on the floor is empty. In the next scene it is full.
 * Goof: When the Barbaric Versions are shown it has; Benson on the left, Pops in the middle, and Skips on the right. When it show them again, Skips is on the left, Benson is in the middle, and Pops is on the right.
 * Goof: The bottle of Brain Max Rigby drinks from seems to automatically refill itself. We do not see Rigby obtaining more than one bottle of Brain Max, or if the former is correct, we do not see the empty bottles of Brain Max anywhere.
 * A kid in the high school classroom wears a jersey that looks like a Montreal Canadians jersey.
 * The grammatical flaw in the title "More Smarter" is an example of syntactic pleonasm called "Multiple Quality Gradation."
 * One of the words shown in the crossword puzzle was ALGERNON, a reference to the short story & novel: Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes. It is about a man who undergoes experimental surgery in order to increase his intelligence. Before human testing began, the surgery was performed on a lab mouse named Algernon.
 * The computer voice on the intelligence test is similar to Mordecai's voice.

Gallery


The gallery for More Smarter can be viewed here.