Prankless

Prankless is the thirty-fifth episode of season 3 (and seventy-fifth episode overall) of Regular Show. It aired on August 6, 2012.

Synopsis
Muscle Man retires from pranking after almost killing Pops with one of his pranks. Meanwhile, the rival park, East Pines, resumes a long-going prank war.

Plot
In the beginning, Muscle Man and High Five Ghost set a prank for Mordecai by taping his bed to the ceiling. However, everything goes wrong when Pops' balloon touches the bed, causing the bed to fall down on Pops, who sobs loud enough for all the park workers to come to his aid. After Pops is rescued by paramedics, Muscle Man realizes his pranks can kill or hurt people, so he retires from pranking. Rigby is joyful about this until Benson reveals that The Park had a prank war with a rival park, East Pines and only Muscle Man defeated them. East Pines restarts the prank war and the Park is under siege. After everyone has been pranked by the members of East Pines, Benson brings Pops from the hospital to encourage Muscle Man to come out of retirement. When Pops shows him a present someone gave him, it turns out to be the old boxing-glove-in-a-present trick set up by East Pines. This angers Muscle Man, who goes and takes out all the rival grounds keepers and scars the rival manager so much that it ends the prank war for good. The episode ends with members of East Pines cleaning up The Park and Benson and Pops revealing that they were the ones who set up the present trick in order to get Muscle Man out of retirement.

Characters

 * Muscle Man
 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Pops
 * Benson
 * Skips
 * Hi Five Ghost
 * Rival Park Members (Semi-Antagonists)
 * Gene (Antagonist)
 * Paramedic

Trivia

 * A recreation of the cover to the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon can be seen in Muscle Man's trailer.
 * When Muscle Man pranks Gene, the former quotes most of what Willy Wonka said in the movie Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory in a scene when the characters are in a tunnel.
 * This is the first time Muscle Man talks about his mom out of a my mom joke.
 * Gene being a vending machine is a reference to how Benson is a Gumball machine. In fact, both have triangular noses.
 * Some of the crew have attire on similar to the apparel worn in World War II and the Vietnam War.
 * This is the first time Muscle Man literally hurts Pops.
 * It is revealed that The Park has a rival park called East Pines.
 * Gene's motive for the prank war is never revealed, though it may be so that he has no competition.
 * This is the first episode to have the vast majority of an episode focus on the drama (though it does have comedic moments).
 * The beginning of the flashback, retelling the last Prank War, has a few Terminator references (scorged earth, the enemy park rangers are "Terminators")
 * This is the first episode Muscle Man gives up pranking but then starts to prank again at the end.
 * A gene is part of DNA that gives an organism certain traits. Gene must of got the name for how he has multiple snacks.
 * This is the fourth time Muscle Man becomes the main protagonist. The first was Death Metal Crash Pit. The second was Gut Model. The third was Trucker Hall of Fame.
 * This episode reveals that Regular Show takes place somewhere in central United States. You can tell as Gene is looking down towards earth as he rockets into space with Muscle Man.
 * Goof: when pop's balloon touches the bed,it falls on him with the bed,but after skips gets the bed off of pops,there is no balloon string or balloon pieces.
 * This episode seems to have a slight resemblance to Rambo III, in this case Muscle Man (Rambo) tries to forget his life of pranking (warfare), then being visited by a Benson (Trautman) about going back to pranking (fighting), but refuses. Then decides to by Pops getting hurt (Trautman getting captured). Also considering that Muscle Man wears a headband similar to Rambo.

Gallery
The Gallery for Prankless can be viewed here.