CJ

CJ was a recurring character on Regular Show. She made her debut in the Season 3 episode "Yes Dude Yes", and would then have a reoccurring role in Seasons 5 and 6 as Mordecai's second known girlfriend, until a love triangle between him and his ex girlfriend Margaret occurred which led to them breaking up with him in Dumped at the Altar.

She was voiced by Linda Cardellini.

Appearance

CJ is a cloud-humanoid with white skin and a cloud-like head and "hair" that looks as if it's tied in a pony-tail with a big bushy fringe on top.

She wears a red-orange and white-striped tank top, brown shorts, and small black boots. When upset or angry, her skin turns a reddish-grey and her entire body becomes a giant storm cloud. Her height is 5'8".

As seen in "Real Date", CJ had many different hairstyles over the years, including: a tall flat-top, big pigtails with overalls, wild messy hair and a goth hairstyle and clothing.

As a little girl, as seen in "Daddy Issues", CJ wore her hair in pigtails and the fringe in it was worn lower.

For a complete list of CJ's outfits, see CJ's Alternate Outfits.

Personality

CJ has a kind, laid back, and cool personality, being an individual who enjoys a lot of the same things that Mordecai does, including video games, rock bands, and generally goofing off, though she deeply cares for her friends. In the episode "Maxin' and Relaxin", she jokingly boasts that’s shes funny and smart. The Phone Guardians call her witty and independent. This doesn't mean she won't tease or make fun of others, although it is usually good-spirited. She is also a pro at mini golf, although she resent it as her dad, who is a champion mini golfer, taught her and his highly competitive nature ruined it for her, up until "Daddy Issues" where she competed against him and won, while also earning his respect and an apology.

However, befitting her cloud-like nature, if pushed too far, CJ will morph into a mass array of thunder storms with rain, lightning, and damaging winds. She has a hard time controlling her negative emotions to the point where she can become violent when angry and/or upset or when she is overreacting to something, such as a misunderstanding, and she'll usually act irrational and go into her storm state without her knowing the whole story, or without the other person explaining themselves.

Relationships

Love Interests

Mordecai

Mordecai used to be CJ's boyfriend. She was the second serious girlfriend he was shown having within the show.

CJ is introduced in "Yes Dude Yes" as one of the dates Mordecai is set up with by the "Couple Corral". However, when she introduces herself to Mordecai, who, at the time, is depressed, since he believes that Margaret is engaged, and is not interested in any of his dates. CJ, realizing this, says she still wants to hang out but just as friends. She also mentions that she wishes she could just quit work and sleep all day or watch TV. Her friendship and shared interest with him eventually cheers Mordecai up and the two end up having fun together. CJ soon begins to have a romantic feelings for Mordecai and misinterprets his invite to the movies as him returning those feelings. When Mordecai learns that Margaret is not engaged he almost immediately forgets about CJ. CJ later catches him trying to give the movie tickets to Margaret, causing her to erupt into a deadly storm. Mordecai is able to calm her down by apologizing and explaining that he only thought of them as friends; she is still very hurt and refuses to think that she can be friends with Mordecai.

She briefly appears in "Survival Skills" in a hallucination where she and Margaret are fighting.

After Margaret leaves to go to college and turns down his offer to be his girlfriend, CJ and Mordecai meet again at the New Year's Eve party in "New Year's Kiss". Rigby accidentally pushes Mordecai into CJ, though because it was a masquerade party they don't recognize each other. After a friendly conversation, where they both reveal they had dates that didn't work out, CJ, due to being surrounded by the other kissing couples, says that they can still make the best out of the remaining minute of midnight. She then kisses Mordecai who quickly accepts her kiss. After they take off their masks CJ is shocked to see that she was kissing Mordecai and, while Mordecai is distracted by Rigby, she flees the party. There is some ambiguity as to whether Rigby, who was under instructions from his future self to prevent Mordecai from kissing the wrong girl, successfully saved Mordecai from an unhappy future by ruining his "real" date with Tracy Hashtag or if he created this future by reintroducing Mordecai and CJ leading to a potentially doomed relationship.

The following episode, "Dodge This", continues the story just days after the kiss when CJ and Mordecai play against each other in a dodge ball tournament. This leads to awkwardness between them in the final round of the tournament and they are forced to address their issues before the Intergalactic Dodgeball Council. They attempt to fix things by admitting they were afraid the other was upset. CJ and Mordecai agree to be friends again. When they are sent back to the game, CJ takes the opportunity to win the tournament by hitting Mordecai with the ball.

In "Portable Toilet", CJ has lunch with Mordecai, Rigby and Eileen. She accidentally gets Mordecai and Rigby into serious trouble after daring Mordecai to eat a sandwich in a portable toilet. The door gets stuck and the toilet is sent to be destroyed at a military target range. CJ gets upset, to the point where her skin starts to turn grey, and blames herself because "things finally stopped being weird with Mordecai" and now she’s responsible for him potentially getting killed. CJ and Eileen leap into another toilet being hauled away and manage to save the guys. They then watch the missiles demolish the portable toilets. Mordecai then notes that CJ is "pretty cool."

In "Video 101", CJ is shown helping Eileen with her music video. On the side, she finds time to make wise/teasing remarks to Mordecai; "burning" him, as Rigby states, twice in that episode.

In "I Like You Hi", Mordecai begins to realize that he has romantic feelings for CJ, but he's hesitant to admit them because he also still has feelings for Margaret, and part of him is still waiting for her to come back. While watching X-Extreme Barista, Mordecai's phone accidentally auto-corrects "I like Yuji" to "I like you hi". CJ replies almost sarcastically "I like you too. Hi", much to Mordecai's embarrassment. Thanks to the Phone Guardians, Mordecai is finally able to ask CJ out on a date, to which she replies with a "wink" face and a confirmation leaving Mordecai relieved.

In "Play Date", CJ and Mordecai plan to go on a date but instead they get stuck babysitting Thomas (Death's son). Thomas insists that they take him to the playground; Mordecai is miserable but CJ insists that they can still have fun together. Thomas, unhappy about the park's playground, throws a tantrum and causes a small earthquake. He demands to go to the underworld playground instead and that he will show them the way. Despite Thomas' attempts to ruin their date, the two manage to share their first (intentional) kiss. Even though Mordecai still doesn't consider CJ as his girlfriend (because he hasn't officially asked her and they just started dating), one could tell that they are quickly connecting. It is also proven that CJ is adapting fast to the 'irregular' things that happen when she is with Mordecai.

In the episode "Skips in the Saddle", it is revealed that Mordecai and CJ were going to a laser light show together, hinting that their relationship is growing and connecting. Rigby even teases him the next day, saying: "Did you put your arm around CJ?"

In the episode "Real Date", CJ and Mordecai plan to go on their first actual romantic date. However, they both run into a problem. They both want to give each other surprise gifts, without Mordecai wanting CJ knowing and vice versa. Rigby and Eileen team up, after finding out that Mordecai and CJ are planning to surprise each other. Together, Eileen and Rigby set up a table with candles, along with the two gifts. After finding the table in surprise, they both are heart-warmed. However, Matchmaker McIntyre, the CEO of Couple Corral, begins to ruin their plans, as he wants them to break up and rejoin his site since he’s gone back riot due to all the site's members getting paired up. He shoots a "match-breaker" gun at CJ, and to CJ and his surprise, Mordecai pushes her out of the way causing him to fall off the broken deck. CJ angrily turns into a massive storm-cloud, striking McIntyre's hot-air balloon with lightning, thus causing a fire; exploding the submarine he was in. Shortly after, CJ finds Mordecai unconscious on the ground, and CJ begins moaning and sobbing in pain, thinking he died. Surprisingly, Mordecai awakens to CJ's delight, and he gives her his gift; a charm bracelet with the very first activities they did together, but the charms had melded into a heart due to the bazooka blast. After a short romantic conversation, they share a kiss while the sun rises officially making them a real couple.

In the episode "Maxin' and Relaxin'", CJ meets and is well-liked by Mordecai's mom and dad, though he is initially apprehensive about her encountering his embarrassing mom and seeing home movies of his awkward youth. He is eventually convinced by his past selves that a cool lady like CJ can handle this and that she would not be cool with someone who was a jerk to his mom. She eventually enjoys the home movies with him and accepts several mixtapes he made in high school.

In the episode "Daddy Issues", Mordecai (along with Eileen and Rigby) persuades CJ to take on mini golf after she has giving up the sport over an incident with her father. However, when she participates in the Putterpalooza, she spots her father handing out autographs. When they converse, she could see that he is as egotistical and cocky as before and Mordecai, being the supportive boyfriend that he is, defends her and tell her father that the trash talk that he is giving her is "not cool". However, her father shuts him down when he called him a "sensitive guy" and that the only trophy he probably won was for crying. This enrages CJ so she signs the registration form and says that she would put her father in his place. During the game, you see Mordecai supporting her all the way; even when they hit the sudden death round. He happened to hear her scream and without hesitatio,n he goes to save her from the monstrous gophers that were attacking her and her father; helping her win the Putterpalooza.

In "Lift With Your Back", there is a small part in the beginning of the episode where she hangs out with Mordecai, goes to the movies, and has Mordecai move her couch; all of this being a way to spend some time with her boyfriend. Unfortunately, this was at the expense of him sneaking out of work; leaving Rigby to cover for him.

In "Merry Christmas Mordecai", Eileen invites Mordecai and Rigby to her Sweater Party. She also mentions that Margaret would be coming for it; making Mordecai fearful of doing something he would regret. At the party, Mordecai tries his best to prevent CJ from seeing Margaret. But then when they officially meet, they do not remember the past incident until Mordecai refreshes their memory. When Margaret leaves, CJ is concerned whether Mordecai still has feelings for Margaret still. Mordecai replies that he doesn't and then they kiss. and Mordecai finally enjoys the party. As everyone starts kissing their dates, Mordecai goes to find CJ, but encounters Margaret instead. He explains everything about their breakup and his new girlfriend, and they finally lift tension. But then, in the middle of remembering the good times they had with each other, they wind up kissing each other. When they realizes this, it was too late because CJ had already seen what happen with Mordecai and Margaret. Heartbroken over what she had just witnessed, she runs out of Eileen's house crying and drives away before Mordecai could catch her.

In "Sad Sax", Mordecai tries to get CJ to forgive him but with listening to Sad Sax Guy horrible advices, they backfire and CJ would walk away in disgust and she hit Mordecai in the head with a sign when he faked his death from getting hit by a bus. Then she sees Mordecai put up some lights on a soon-to-be demolished house telling how sorry he is and want to talk and CJ was impressive by this. CJ then visits Mordecai in the hospital when he got beat up by the construction workers and Mordecai honestly tells her that he used to like Margaret, but is now over her after the events of "Steak Me Amadeus" and are now just friends. CJ accepts his apology, a mistletoe is placed on the metal hospital rod and they kiss on the lips, rekindling their relationship.

In "1000th Chopper Flight Party" CJ declines her invitation to the 1000th Chopper Flight Party of Chopper 6 because she is volunteering to clean up a river. She urges Mordecai to go there and have fun, while he promises to save her cake, and thanks her for being the best girlfriend. She then shows up at the Party explaining that as one of the participants got exposed to one of the chemicals dumped in the river, and the clean-up drive had to come to a halt, leaving her free to come. Then when CJ sees Mordecai enjoying his chat with Margaret and then falling on Margaret's lap after seeing her sad, she wrongfully jumps to conclusions that Mordecai is cheating on her, and she uses her storm cloud ability once more wrecking the party. Mordecai fails to calm her with various environmental triggers giving more of a wrong impression. After the fact that Margaret has a boyfriend calms her, he tries to give her the promised cake piece, but she out of remorse, declines and leaves crying.

In "Not Great Double Date," CJ and Mordecai have loosened tension with Margaret, after she appeared to have a boyfriend for herself, and have a double date with Margaret and Del Hanlon to atone for wrecking her dad's party. What they don't know is that Margaret was lying about having a boyfriend so that CJ wouldn't kill her. At the date, they seemed to be getting along well, until Margaret was forced to tell the truth to avoid the Kiss-cam. CJ leaves angrily, and Mordecai runs after her.

In "Dumped at the Altar", Mordecai tells Rigby things are awkward between him and CJ after Margaret revealed she still has feelings for him. When they meet up at Muscle Man and Starla's wedding, they appear to be on good terms. However, after reading a letter from Muscle Dad to the audience about gives a speech on how he didn't follow his gut and kept denying the existence of soulmates, only resulting in the awkwardness, and points at different people in the crowd rhetorically asking who his soulmate was. He is about to say something to CJ, apparently to break up with her, but she angrily interrupts him saying she knows what he is gonna tell her, then sadly asks he doesn't know who his soulmate is. She then gives back the gift he gave her on their date, and leaves crying, convinced that Mordecai didn't care about her anymore since he didn't even point in her direction. They are then shown hugging each other goodbye and Mordecai tells Rigby they are going to take a break for a while, seemingly ending things amicably.

In "Rigby's Graduation Day Special", she sees the park blasting off into space where she appears to be a bit shocked like everyone else during the event, but according to Matt Price, she was originally supposed to react by rolling her eyes as if to say "Whatever, I'm glad that guy's in space."

During the finale, Mordecai is seen drawing an abstract art that features her and Margaret, showing that she and Margaret are still special to him despite their break-ups.

Mordecai doesn't end up with either her or Margaret in the future as he instead marries a female bat artist named Stef and has three kids with her. While he still keeps in touch with Margaret, he and CJ no longer speak to each other.

Friends

Eileen

CJ and Eileen appear to become good friends in "Portable Toilet" when they have lunch together and team up to save Mordecai and Rigby from being destroyed in a portable toilet at a military shooting range. Eileen is even able to stop CJ from turning into a storm cloud when she starts to get upset about what's happened to Mordecai and Rigby. At the end of the episode, they have fun using the military satellite to blow up portable toilets together.

Also, in "Video 101" CJ, along with Mordecai and Rigby, help Eileen out with making a music video for her class. While Mordecai and Rigby slowly try and take over the whole project, CJ reminds Eileen that since this is her video, she should make it the way she wants to. This shows a little bit of support on her part, which is essential in a friendship. CJ also called Eileen, to make sure that the guys aren't getting in her way. CJ also notably brings coffee to Eileen's house on the morning that the project is due.

In "Real Date", Eileen and CJ plan to surprise Mordecai with a cake. However, things do not go as planned, so after bumping into each other, Eileen and Rigby both help Mordecai and CJ. They set up a table, along with the two gifts Mordecai and CJ were going to give each other. Thus revealing that she supports CJ's decision to be with Mordecai, and she will do anything to help her best friend.

Towards the end of the episode "Sad Sax", CJ has Eileen and Rigby over her house to watch a movie and eat pizza. Just from this small scene, you could see that Eileen, despite still having a friendship with Margaret, has no problem hanging out with CJ. This shows that even though there was some tension going on with CJ when it comes to Margaret and Mordecai, she still sees it fit to not to choose one friendship over the other.

However, in the episode "I See Turtles", this issue is brought to CJ's attention when she overhears a conversation while they are on the beach. It was Eileen telling Rigby of how she wished that Margaret could be there to enjoy the sea turtles hatching with them. Since Margaret is Eileen's friend too, Eileen feels bad that she has to exclude Margaret when they hang out because CJ doesn't appreciate the kiss Margaret had with Mordecai. So after CJ hears that Eileen just wants them to be friends, she feels bad that Eileen is sad over this and decides to talk to Mordecai about this dilemma. Even though he states his opinion about it and sides with Eileen, their discussion doesn't get resolved because Mordecai spots the Youth Topia people doing something odd. Once they figure out that Youth Topia is using turtles to make themselves young, they are trapped in a cop car. After a few failed ideas of escape, CJ thinks of Eileen and how the turtles were so important to her, so she drops her resentment for Margaret and ends up calling her for help which turns out to be a successful plan that end with liberated turtles and a happy Eileen.

However, aftee her breakup with Mordecai, she is not seen talking to Eileen again, and an AMA with Calvin Wong and Matt Price revealed "she doesn’t speak to any of them anymore", including Eileen.

Acquaintances

Margaret

The first time CJ interacts with Margaret is in the episode "Yes Dude Yes". This is after Mordecai and CJ become good friends after Mordecai believes Margaret is engaged. Both women are angry when they find out that Mordecai accidentally invited them both to the same movie, especially CJ who turns into a hurricane until Mordecai apologizes.

The next time we see them together is in "Survival Skills"; in Mordecai's imagination, where they appear to be fighting.

CJ officially meets Margaret in "Merry Christmas Mordecai", while at Eileen's sweater party. They both are polite and respectful towards each other until Mordecai reminds CJ and Margaret of their rocky past; causing everyone to go quiet. Later, when CJ is in the bathroom, Margaret tells Mordecai that she didn't expect him to wait for her and that she is happy for him. However, Mordecai and Margaret accidentally kiss in front of CJ after reminiscing about the past. This leaves CJ heartbroken, causing her to flee the scene.

In "Sad Sax", one of Sad Sax Guy's suggestions for Mordecai to win back CJ was to have Margaret to talk to CJ and straighten everything out. However, this plan goes awry when CJ sees Mordecai hug Margaret in the park (after Margaret apologized to Mordecai for all the trouble she caused). This results in CJ driving off in disgust.

Even though CJ forgives Mordecai in the end, she still holds resentment towards Margaret until the episode "I See Turtles". It takes CJ and Mordecai being trapped in a cop car by a couple of Youth Topia members to make CJ put her resentment aside and contact Margaret so she could help save the turtles Eileen cares so much about. When Margaret is notified of the issue at hand, Margaret immediately arrives to the beach in her father's helicopter, and reports the sea turtle abusers. Once the whole incident is taken care of, CJ tells Eileen that she called Margaret for help. This causes Eileen to be filled with joy because it looks like CJ has cut the rift she had with Margaret. So to show how happy she was, Eileen forces them all to share an awkward group hug.

In "1000th Chopper Flight Party", CJ still has resentment on Margaret as briefly shown in the beginning of the episode. When CJ sees both Mordecai and Margaret board Chopper 6, laughing and having fun, she gets the wrong impression, especially after Mordecai tries to get her attention but accidentally falls on Margaret's lap, and she enrages into her storm cloud, which causes Margaret's parents to fall out of the chopper, although they are ok after landing in the pool. Mordecai fails to calm CJ down, and the turbulence's of the chopper keep making him give CJ wrong impressions. Margaret, after falling out of the chopper and grabbing onto the landing grip, manages to calm CJ down by revealing that Del Hanlon of Sports TV Anchor is her boyfriend,as he comes to the party. CJ calms down and turns back to her normal form, but is now filled with remorse for nearly killing Margaret's parents and worrying for nothing. CJ then leaves the party crying as Margaret, Mordecai, Eileen, and Del Hanlon watching her leave.

In "Not Great Double Date," CJ arranges a double date with Margaret and Del, to atone for wrecking her dad's party, and her attitude for her being with Mordecai. At first they seem to be getting along, and she even joined the crowd cheering for Margaret to kiss Del in front of the Kiss-cam. Margaret finally reveals Del is not her boyfriend, and apologizes to CJ saying she was sick of feeling like a tourist around her own friends. CJ is mad and starts questioning Margaret’s motives, since she’s single and dated Mordecai and still wants to be around him even though they didn’t even keep in touch after she left, and she almost storms but calms herself down, saying that’s fine. However, she questions if Margaret still has feelings for Mordecai, and Margaret replies that she does. She explains she just wanted to start over, but CJ angrily blurts out why they just don't get it right the first time, and leaves with Mordecai chasing after.

In "Local News Legend" she is shown to maintain her dislike for Margaret as she quickly changes channel when Margaret's new segment airs with a bored look on her face. Along with Mordecai, Eileen, and Rigby, in the future she also never speaks to Margaret again, according to AMA with Calvin Wong and Matt Price, leaving their relationship on a bad note.

Family

Carl Putter (Father)

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In "Daddy Issues", CJ's father is revealed to be Carl Putter, a cloud-person like her who is a champion miniature golfer. CJ's full name is not "CJ Putter," however, as she explains that "Putter" is a stage name her father uses. Carl trained CJ to be great at miniature golf, but his highly competitive nature and constant teasing ruined her love of the sport. CJ goes up against him one-on-one in a miniature golf championship and finally beats him, earning his respect and overcoming her sense of inferiority.

Abilities

CJ has the ability to turn into bad weather when she gets angry or upset, as seen in the episode "Real Date" . She is shown to be able to make twisters, lightning, rain, and gale-force winds when she is in this state. If she is just upset, she turns a dark gray-red color, a trait that is very similar to Benson.

As she was trained by her father who is a champion mini golf player, she proves to be exceptionally skilled at playing mini golf.

She is also capable of riding a motorcycle and teaching it proficiently, as in a moments notice she was able to teach Mordecai how to use one when in a dire moment.

She is also a great dodgeball player, as she plays on a team called the Thunder Girls, and wins the tournament in Dodge This. She also becomes a professional dodgeball player in the future, according to Matt Price.

Trivia

Since CJ went to Motor-Cross when she was younger, she knows how to ride a motorcycle and has a motorcycle license, as shown in "Play Date".
CJ is part of a female dodgeball team called the Thunder Girls, as seen in "Dodge This".
CJ lives in a house with address/number 206.
Early drawings of CJ show her with having a more cloud person appearance, but she was eventually designed to look more human-like.
CJ owns a car, but she rarely uses it and apparently instead prefers to exercise by walking or riding a bike as seen in "Video 101" and "I Like You Hi". In "Lift With Your Back", she is seen driving a car for the first time, a black car. But since her horn was still broken, it must have been in the shop for repairs or not in great condition, which could possibly explain why she was using a bike for transportation earlier (when she was not riding in Eileen's car or walking). However, in later episodes in Season 6, she is seen driving a white 1983 Volvo 244.
CJ's dad is never shown getting darker like CJ when he gets mad so it could be that CJ's cloud power is unique to her.
In the episode "Real Date" it was shown that CJ often changed her hairstyle for her profile picture in Couple Corral.
In the episode "Tent Trouble", it is revealed that CJ enjoys going camping. She even bought a two-hundred dollar tent just for the trip.
CJ has used her storm-cloud ability three times in the series, during "Yes Dude Yes", "Real Date" and "1000th Chopper Flight Party". Another instance of this occurred briefly in "Merry Christmas Mordecai".
CJ and Mordecai have kissed six times in the series in these episodes:
- "New Year's Kiss (unintentionally)
- "Play Date"
- "Real Date"
- "Merry Christmas Mordecai"
- "Sad Sax"
- "1000th Chopper Flight Party"
Similar to Starla, CJ started off as a female antagonist, but she would later become a protagonist in the show.
In "Maxin' and Relaxin'", it is mentioned that CJ used to be in color guard (which is basically the people who twirl the flags in a marching band).
Similar to Mordecai, Rigby and Benson, CJ had a former riff with a family member that was eventually resolved.
CJ isn't very good at using power tools, as seen in the episode "Eileen Flat Screen" when she tries to drill a hole in the wall and only manages to ruin the surface of it.
In "Terror Tales of the Park IV", it is revealed that CJ's boots are weather-resistant.
In the future, CJ and Margaret are the inspiration for Mordecai in his abstract artwork.
Matt Price explained why Mordecai didn't end up with Margaret or CJ:
- "We felt like the Margaret / CJ story was complete, and they were both on their own path already. We also felt like Mordecai had moved on in his life. He finally left the park to pursue art, and we thought it'd be cool if he met someone while doing that. But we love Margaret and C.J., and we're sure that they're happy without Mordecai! He was too wishy-washy with them!!"^[1]
  - This interview also revealed that Matt Price thinks CJ went on to become a professional dodgeball player, and that she no longer speaks to Mordecai, Rigby, Eileen, or Margaret.

Appearances

Major Appearances

Season Three

"Yes Dude Yes"

Season Five

Season Six

Major Appearances: 20

Minor or Mentioned Appearances

Season Five

Season Six

"Lift With Your Back"

Season Seven

"Dumptown U.S.A" (mentioned)
"Local News Legend" (non-speaking cameo)
"The Return of Party Horse" (mentioned)
"Rigby's Graduation Day Special" (cameo)

Season Eight

"Meet the Seer" (on security camera)
"Cheer Up Pops" (flashbacks, Blu-ray cover)
"A Regular Epic Final Battle" (flashbacks, in artwork)

Minor Appearances: 12

Overall Appearances: 32

Gallery

The gallery for CJ can be viewed here.

References

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