Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25837097-20150115221005/@comment-24330788-20150116074355

If we're talking details, I would like to add my two cents here (and apologies in advance if it comes out really confusing); If CJ truly was the girl Future Rigby was meant to stop Mordecai kissing, why didn't he just say CJ? Past Rigby knew who she was at this point, they've met in Yes Dude Yes. If he didn't remember her name Future Rigby could have just said something along the lines of "You know that girl that turned into a storm cloud and blew up the coffee shop that one time? She's going to be at the New Years Eve party, don't let Mordecai kiss her." I think Past Rigby would have recalled if he put it like that.

Also by the end of the episode, Past Rigby was clearly confused about whether he stopped the right kiss. If CJ was the girl Future Rigby was talking about, why wouldn't Future Rigby remember there being two girls (Tracy and CJ) and therefore warn his past self on the confusion he would have. He'd have known his past self had seen Mordecai go out with Tracy, but CJ was the one that he kissed, wouldn't that be an important detail to include?

Furthermore, as far as the audience knows Future Rigby does not appear before Past Rigby again by this point. If Past Rigby's actions had failed to prevent whatever vague incident Future Rigby was referring to, why didn't he appear for the third time to tell him this? He'd been so determined in his goal before, it doesn't make sense that he would leave things as they are if the bad future was still going to happen. Of-course, one could argue that intervening with the past even in the slightest of ways changes the timeline, therefore that particular Future Rigby doesn't exist anymore, but then Future Rigby shouldn't have been able to appear twice in the episode and have knowledge on his previous encounter with his past self. (Or maybe the writers just wanted to add dramatic tension and didn't think quite so hard on this.)