Brain Eraser

Brain Eraser is the 11th episode of season 2 of Regular Show aired on February 25, 2011. It only attracted 1.551 million views, making it the least watched episode before being dethroned by Muscle Woman, bumping it down to the second-least watched episode so far.

Synposis
The episode begins with Mordecai and Rigby playing a video game and Rigby finds Pops' "Mustache Monthly". The pair play "Rock, Paper, Scissors" to deliver Pops his magazine and Mordecai loses. Mordecai "walks in" on Pops and sees him nude in the buff. An awkward moment ensues and Mordecai tells Rigby about his encounter with Pops. Rigby decides that Mordecai needs to play "Strong Johns " to relieve him of his stress. This does not work, so Rigby takes Mordecai to see Margaret; but, Mordecai hallucinates again. Finally, Rigby and Mordecai go to a video store and make a purchase (mostly for a copy of "Good Cop, Sad Cop"). Rigby talks to The Movie Shack Hut Employee and Rigby sees an oppurtunity to cure Mordecai of his bad memory. Eventually, Rigby forces Mordecai to watch Planet Chasers: Starlight Excellent and the video erases Mordecai's memories and thoughts. Rigby attempts to have fun with Mordecai by going bowling and throwing balogna on Muscle Man's car, but it does not work, as Mordecai is too zone out. Rigby turns to Skips for help so they watch the video, encasing them in the same place as Mordecai. The trio then search around in Mordecai's memories and find the Naked Pops Memory. They began chasing The Naked Pops Memory, but Mordecai remembers his "bad" memory happening fast and the pace reflects on The Naked Pops Memory's actions. Mordecai starts remembering things to hinder The Naked Pops Memory's path, but it has no effect. Mordecai decides to drive off a steep cliff and cover the Naked Pops Memory once and for all. Mordecai then wishes for something to break his fall and the trio meets the video store clerk. He tells them the way out and Mordecai, Rigby, and Skips are back into reality. While Mordecai is celebrating his memory's displacement, Benson walks into the living room, fussing. While Benson is castigating everybody, his body towel slips off, revealing his "junkmail" and the episode ends, abruptly.

Character Appearances

 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Benson
 * Skips
 * Pops (does not speak, only screams)
 * Muscle Man (cameo)
 * The Movie Shack Hut Employee (Brain Eraser)
 * Margaret
 * Eileen
 * Coffee Bean (Cameo)
 * Jimmy (boy) (Cameo)
 * Naked Pops Memory (does not speak, Antagonist)
 * The Guardians of Eternal Youth (cameo)
 * Future Mordecai and Rigby (cameo)
 * The Translator (cameo)
 * Margaret's Giant Boyfriend (does not speak)

Trivia/Goofs

 * Despite having said one line, this episode marks the first apperence of Eileen.
 * This is one of three episodes Benson's gumball hatch is open.
 * This is the second appearance of Strong Johns.
 * The line "We have to watch the tape" references The Ring.
 * Goof: The Movie Store Employee is still able to talk and move with his pupils not enlarged like Mordecai while watching Planet Chasers: Starlight Excellent, but when Mordecai watches the tape, he doesn't speak or move. He was still able to be at different places like the arcade or bowling alley. When Skips and Rigby watch the tape, they are frozen outside their minds in the tape.
 * This is the third time (second officially) that Mordecai loses to Rigby in a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, first being "Pilot" and the second being "Rage Against the TV".
 * Goof: When Rigby looked at the Planet Chasers: Starlight Excellent tape for the first time, he didn't get affected although his eyes felt pain, but the second time, his mind was sucked into the tape.
 * This episode is a parody of the infamous Pokémon Shock; it starts when Mordecai's eyes get bigger.
 * This is the 3rd time Pops is seen naked; the first time was "Peeps", and the second was "Dizzy", but this is the 1st time Pops is seen completely naked.
 * It's revealed that in bowling, Mordecai and Rigby's team-name and nicknames are Rigbone and Murdercai.
 * When Rigby tries to make Mordecai watch the video "Planet Chasers: Starlight Excellent", it is similar to Ello Gov'nor when Mordecai made Rigby watch the video; Rigby even says the quote, "Look at it!"
 * When Rigby and Skips get sucked into the TV, the background they see inside it resembles the show's intro background.
 * The strips of "film memory", evidenced by the strands of film, that come out of Mordecai's eyes appear to be images from every season 1 episode, save for the episodes Grilled Cheese Deluxe, Don, and Rigby's Body.
 * When Pops was seen naked, he had hair, but in previous episodes where he is seen naked, he has no hair (probably wearing a shower cap) or simply when he takes off his hat, such as Jinx and Go Viral.
 * In the shots before Mordecai, Rigby, and Skips entered the door marked "Mordecai's Memories" there were several other doors with other people's names, probably referring to other people that have watched the anime video.
 * The Movie Shack Hut employee is in Mordecai's memories as a young man, even though Mordecai saw him as his present self.
 * It's also revealed that Mordecai and Rigby like to throw stuff at Muscle Man's car.
 * When Mordecai and Rigby are playing Strong Johns, Rigby's John's health was getting really low, and Mordecai's John's health got some damage, but when the naked Pops showed up, Mordecai's John's health strangely got a little up with little damage.
 * J.G. Quintel had doubts that this episode wasn't going to make it past CN censors.
 * This episode premiered without promos to it after the Hall of Game Awards and later shown promos for its "premiere" on usual Mondays.
 * When Mordecai is brain erased, five strips of "film memory" come out of his eyes. But when Rigby and Skips are brain erased, only four strips of "film memory" each come out of their eyes
 * This is the second 2011 episode which focuses on Mordecai, the first being It's Time.
 * Pops doesn't speak in this episode but screams in embarrassment and mutters "Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh" with Mordecai and laughs as the naked memory.
 * The Memory realm is kind of like Sub-Space.
 * This is one of the few episodes that Benson doesn't turn red in
 * Running gag: Mordecai keeps on seeing Pops naked.
 * This is the second time Pops doesn't speak; the first was It's Time.
 * This is the first (and so far only) Regular Show episode to air on a Friday.
 * This is the fourth time Muscle Man isn't with High-Five Ghost; the first was Mordecai and the Rigbys, the second was It's Time, and the third is Dizzy.
 * The song played during the Planet Starlight Chasers Excellence sequences is a repeating of "Ichi, Ni, San, Shi, Go", which are the numbers 1 to 5 in Japanese, respectively.