Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24141773-20141031201903/@comment-7117024-20141101181451

Disturbingly-intriguing wrote: Okay I'm just gonna add this in randomly. I've recently noticed that not many people besides me and JessieLover and certain others don't really get Rigby. They're just okay of pointing him out as one of the "jerks" whether he does something rather bad for his friend's Mordecai's sake. But everyone makes mistakes. Mordecai is just as big of a slacker as Rigby is kay? There were lots of times when he WAS useful. He's helped his friends on many occassions. He wouldn't just let them down. Rigby's a great friend! People can depand on a person like him, because as far as I see it, he's caring. He may be a lazy sack but then again so can anyone else. I'm here to tell you all that it doesn't seem fair to me how everyone is willing to go against Rigby. And I see lots of you going for Mordecai. Like no offense, but Mordecai's been a bad friend to Rigby at times. There were lots of things he's done to him that Rigby would never do to him and go too far with it like Mordecai punching him in the ep "Jinx' or in general just be pretty abusive. But hey at least in the end they both solve it and make up together. That's how their relationship is like. They still stick up to each other no matter what. Again, I feel like Mordecai and the rest of the park staff were referencing Rigby's work ethic, not his other abilities. When it comes to being a friend in situations like fixing a problem and helping save the day, Rigby has proven himself multiple times. If the park crew, especially his best friend, is guilty of not seeing that, then shame on them, but I really don't see this clip as them doing so. No matter how many strengths Rigby has, he still is the one who tends to jumpstart many of the problems that he, Mordecai, and others face.

Mordecai's not free of ridicule because he is close to if not exactly as much of a slacker as Rigby, and he doesn't help the situation when he agrees to Rigby's faulty ideas or suggests some himself. But when it comes to work (not solving a problem they caused, romance issues, etc.), Mordecai is the more reasonable one, questioning Rigby's logic (although still going through with it a lot of the time), seeming to have a bit more determination to get the job done than Rigby.

I'm only talking work mindsets here, since there could be a lot said for both Mordecai and Rigby's work ethic, kindness to others, and so on. It was still wrong for Mordecai to say Rigby's help covering him and CJ was the "least he could do", but it's clear that Mordecai doesn't find Rigby useful when it comes to simple work. If even his best friend is unable to be grateful for his friend in work but is able to be in other things, clearly Rigby has a lot of work to do to prove himself.