CJ

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CJ
Biographical information
Home:	CJ's Apartment
Occupation:	City Tour Guide
Species:	Cloud
Status:	Alive
Gender:	Female
Relatives:	Carl Putter (father)
Romance(s):	Mordecai (formerly)
Show information
Voiced by:	Linda Cardellini
First appearance:	Yes Dude Yes
Appearances:	See list

CJ (also known as "Cloudy J") is a recurring character on Regular Show, who made her debut in the Season Three episode "Yes Dude Yes", and later had a reoccurring role in Seasons Five and Six as Mordecai's second known girlfriend, until a love triangle between her, him, and his ex-girlfriend Margaret occurred which led to them breaking up in Dumped at the Altar. CJ is 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 ponytail 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".

In "Real Date", it’s revealed CJ had many different hairstyles and clothing styles over the years, including: a tall flat-top, big pigtails with overalls, wild messy hair and a goth hairstyle and clothing/makeup.

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 is responsible and 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 resents 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. She’s also been shown to be quite skilled at dodgeball as well.

However, befitting her cloud-like nature, if pushed too far, CJ’s body will start to turn reddish grey with thunder, and if not quickly calmed down she 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, such as over a mistake she made or 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. It’s also been shown she’s prone to having trust issues, especially if someone has betrayed her trust before. However, she’s also been shown to try and amend her own faults and give second chances, which in most cases, particularly with Mordecai and Margaret, has just led to her getting hurt and becoming distrustful again.

Development

Concept designs by Sean Szeles

According to "The Art of Regular Show", Sean Szeles came up with CJ’s design. Her head initially looked like a regular cloud as opposed to the more humanoid look it has currently.

Michele Cavin describes CJ as knowing who she is and what she wants. Her and Mordecai’s relationship gave the writers new opportunities for stories because they two start as friends and build their relationship from there. Mordecai doesn’t make the same mistakes he made with Margaret - when he realizes he likes her he just goes for it and asks her out.

Kat Morris thought CJ initially came off as just an irrational female character so it was changed so the blame was more equally distributed.

Background

Not much is known about CJ's past.

Carl Putter gloating in front of a young CJ after not letting her win

CJ is the daughter of golfing pro Carl Putter - CJ’s last name is not Putter and it is just her dad’s golf name. Unfortunately for her whenever they played mini golf he would always get over competitive, be overly critical of her, and would never let her win and rubbed it in her face when she lost. She eventually reached her edge when she participated in a mini-golf tournament, after Carl berated her for putting her ball to stop just before the moving obstacle, and the fact she was ok with getting second place, saying it was first place for losers. CJ angrily bends her gold club over her leg and storms off, quitting mini golf and not playing until later as an adult.

Her mother is never seen or mentioned.

She was in color guard in the ninth grade, at one point doing a routine to "Whoomp! There It Is!". She did motor cross when she was younger too, and has a motorcycle license.

She joined Couple Corral at some point before the events of ”Yes Dude Yes" - her previous profile pictures showing her having gone though a few different hairstyles and revealing she went through a goth phase at one point.

CJ working as a tour guide

Throughout the series, her occupation was unknown, with the fact she has a job only being mentioned in "Yes Dude Yes", and in "I Like You Hi" where she mentions she’ll be able to watch as there’s a tv at work. "Rigby's Graduation Day Special" reveals that she is a city tour guide, as she’s shown with a whistle and a sash reading ”tour guide" as she leads a group of kids. It’s unknown if she has always had this job.

She lives in a first floor apartment in the city with the number 206, it appears to be a studio judging that CJ has a futon in the living room.

Relationships

Love Interests

Mordecai

After meeting on Couple Corral, Mordecai befriends CJ which helps him get out of a depressive episode

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" - a dating website that Rigby signed him up for to get him out of his depressed state, caused by him thinking that Margaret is engaged. Mordecai showed no interest on any of the dates he had been on, with CJ initially being no expectation. She asks what’s up with him, and he confesses that his friend only had him sign up for the site to get him out of his funk, and that he’s not really interested in dating. CJ assures him it’s ok and they can be friends. The two are shown to have many shared interests, such as video games, grilled cheese, music, laser tag and action films, and hanging out and having fun with CJ does pull Mordecai out of his depression. CJ soon begins to have a romantic feelings for Mordecai, and misinterprets his invite to the movies as him returning those feelings.

Mordecai causes CJ to go hurricane mode after she catches him inviting Margaret to the same film he invited her to

When Mordecai learns that Margaret is not engaged he almost immediately forgets about CJ, and ends up inviting her to the same film he asked CJ out to (as he initially got the tickets to ask Margaret out). CJ walks into the coffee shop at the very moment he does this, causing her to erupt into a deadly storm, both out of feeling lead on and betrayed . Mordecai is able to calm her down by apologizing and explaining that he only thought of them as friends. CJ accepts, but she’s is still very hurt and refuses his offer to still be friends as she bitterly leaves the wrecked coffee shop.

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

CJ kisses Mordecai at midnight on New Years, the two of them initially not knowing who the other is due to their face masks

After Margaret leaves to go to college and turns down his offer to be his girlfriend in "Steak Me Amadeus", 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’s teams 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.

Mordecai and CJ's friendship (and feelings) grows as they continue to hang out

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.

Mordecai and CJ’s first official kiss after their first date

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, which cements them as officially boyfriend and girlfriend]. 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?"

Mordecai and CJ kiss as the sun rises the morning after their first "real date"

In the episode "Real Date", after a month of being together, 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" bazooka at CJ, and to CJ and his surprise, Mordecai pushes her out of the way, launching his unconscious body onto the beach next to the broken pier. 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.

CJ and Mordecai "breaking down" to "WHOOMP! There It Is!"

A few months later, 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 hesitation, 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.

CJ kisses Mordecai after assuring her he only has feelings for her

In "Merry Christmas Mordecai", Eileen invites Mordecai and Rigby to her Christmas Sweater Party, and Mordecai says he and CJ will be there, and that it’s their first Christmas together. 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, making things awkward. When Margaret leaves, Mordecai explains Margaret being at the party is why he’s been so nervous, as he didn’t want CJ to think he still had feelings for her. When CJ asks if he does, Mordecai assures her he doesn’t, and she kisses him, as she believes and trusts him, and Mordecai finally enjoys the party alongside her. 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.

CJ heartbroken at seeing Mordecai and Margaret kiss

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 - at first they meet at the coffee shop where he assures her the kiss meant nothing, but just when she’s about to accept his apology Margaret calls him, playing the ringtone he sang about her and showing a romantic photo of the two as her contact photo, angering CJ and making her storm out.

"Nice custom ring tone you jerk!" - CJ getting the wrong impression after Margaret unexpectedly calls Mordecai when he’s trying to make up with her

Mordecai continues to try and earn her forgiveness, but with listening to Sad Sax Guy horrible advices, they backfire and CJ would walk away in disgust, even hitting Mordecai in the head with a sign when he faked his death from getting hit by a bus. At one point, at Sad Sax Guy’s advice, Mordecai meets up with Margaret to see if she could talk to CJ , but she doesn’t think getting involved is a good idea, and CJ ends up driving by and seeing them hug, angering her once again. Later, she sees Mordecai, while stealing a scissor lift, put up some taken down Christmas lights on a house across the street telling how sorry he is and wants to talk, and CJ was moved by this.

CJ officially forgives Mordecai, and they rekindle their relationship with a kiss

After he is beaten up by the construction workers, CJ visits Mordecai in the hospital where she genuinely asks what is going on with him and Margaret. Mordecai honestly tells her that he used to love Margaret, and their breakup deeply affected him, 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 "I See Turtles”, she confides in Mordecai about feeling bad about overhearing Eileen telling Rigby that she wishes she could’ve invited Margaret to their outing to watch baby sea turtles hatch. CJ tells him she doesn’t want Eileen to feel caught in the middle, but at the moment she can’t handle being around Margaret at the moments since she’s still hurt over what her and Mordecai did.

In "Happy Birthday Song Contest", along with Eileen, also joins Mordecai and Rigby to the aforementioned context so the two can win cake, driving the gang there in her car and cheering them on when they perform their new version of Happy Birthday.

Mordecai and CJ kiss after the former promises to save her a cake slice at the chopper party

In "1000th Chopper Flight Party", CJ declines her invitation to the 1000th Chopper Flight Party of Chopper 6 at Margaret's parents’ house 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. The two then share a kiss. Mordecai tries to avoid Margaret during the party, but ends up in the chopper with her and her parents after her dad insists. CJ ends up showing up at the party, explaining to Eileen and Rigby 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. When CJ sees Mordecai up in the chopper enjoying his chat with Margaret, Mordecai notices CJ on the ground with an upset look, and tries to stand up and get her attention so she doesn’t get the wrong idea, but he ends up falling on Margaret's lap. CJ wrongfully jumps to conclusions that Mordecai is cheating on her with Margaret again, and she uses her storm cloud ability once more wrecking the party, even causing Margaret’s parents to fall out of the chopper, but luckily land in the pool. Mordecai fails to calm her with various environmental triggers giving more of a wrong impression.

CJ remorseful due to overreacting to Mordecai and Margaret sitting in the chopper together

After Margaret uses a megaphone to insist she and Mordecai are just friends and that she has a boyfriend, CJ calms down but is ashamed at how she acted. Mordecai tries to give her the promised cake piece, but out of remorse, as she overreacted and almost killed Margaret’s parents over nothing, 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. They then have a brief but amicable phone call where they confirm they’ll see each other later that night. 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 advising his son to trust his gut, Mordecai interrupts the ceremony and gives a speech on how he hasn’t been following his gut and kept denying the existence of soulmates, even pointing at different people in the crowd rhetorically asking who his soulmate was, and how him not addressing how he really feels has saved some people’s feelings but has also made others around him miserable. CJ's expression after hearing this turns from a look of concern to a glare at Mordecai.

CJ's heart is broken by Mordecai for the final time

He is about to say something to CJ, with the intent to break up with her, but she angrily interrupts him saying she knows what he is gonna tell her, then sadly asks "You don’t know who your soulmate is?". She then gives back the charm bracelet he gave her on their date, and leaves crying, convinced that Mordecai doesn’t care about her anymore since he didn't even point in her direction. It’s also implied that he too also still has feelings for Margaret.

CJ and Mordecai hug goodbye, seemingly ending their relationship amicably during their final interaction together

Later outside, Rigby sees them in the distance, where they are shown briefly talking then 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", while she’s leading a group of kids during her tour guide job, she sees the park blasting off into space where she appears to be 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, in the 25 year long time skip montage, Mordecai is seen drawing an abstract art that resembles 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. Matt Price confirmed that, while he still keeps in touch with Margaret, he and CJ no longer speak to each other.

Friends

Rigby

Whilst CJ and Rigby had little interaction with each other, she is able to tolerate him more than Mordecai can.

Eileen

After befriending Mordecai again, CJ also quickly becomes friends with 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 Rigby both point out that CJ and Mordecai have been dating for a month but haven’t gone on an actual romantic date yet. Eileen gives CJ the idea to surprise Mordecai with a chocolate waffle 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.

Towards the end of the episode "Sad Sax", CJ has Eileen and Rigby over at her apartment to watch a movie and eat pizza, indicating that event though CJ was currently on bad terms with Margaret and Mordecai, she has no qualms with staying friends with Eileen and Rigby, or letting the drama get in the way of their friendship.

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, after her breakup with Mordecai, she is not seen talking to Eileen again, nor does Eileen mention speaking to CJ, and an AMA with Calvin Wong and Matt Price revealed "she doesn’t speak to any of them anymore", including Eileen.

Rivalries

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.

CJ and Margaret appear in Mordecai and Rigby’s hallucinations, Margaret slapping CJ’s arm as she looks concerned

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

Margaret and CJ officially meet, and Mordecai makes things awkward by bringing up the movie ticket incident

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", after meeting with him at the coffee shop roughly a week after the Christmas party, CJ is about to forgive Mordecai when Margaret unexpectedly calls him, showcasing both a romantic photo of the two together, and Mordecai's custom ringtone he sang about her. This infuriates CJ, thinking there is indeed something going on between them, and she storms out. Later, 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 turned down getting further involved, and apologized to Mordecai for all the trouble she caused). This results in CJ slamming her fist in the wheel and exclaiming "oh cmon!", and driving off in anger.

CJ ends up having to put her lingering resentment of Margaret behind her in order to get her news crew to save Eileen’s sea turtles

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 sea turtles Eileen cares so much about. When Margaret is notified of the issue at hand, she 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, and she ends up forcing them all to share an awkward group hug.

In "1000th Chopper Flight Party", CJ still holds some resentment and distrust towards 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. She once again assumes the two are hooking up behind her back, 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 using a megaphone to insist she and Mordecai are just friends, and reveals that Del Hanlon of Sports TV Anchor is her boyfriend, as he has just arrived 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 overacting over nothing. CJ then leaves the party crying as Margaret, Mordecai, Eileen, and Del Hanlon watching her leave.

CJ and Margaret finally start to get on good terms with each other…

In "Not Great Double Date", CJ arranges a double date with Margaret and Del, to atone for wrecking her dad's party, and to put aside any grievances and genuinely try to befriend her. 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. However, Margaret finally reveals Del is not her boyfriend, and apologizes to CJ, saying it was the only way she’d be ok with her being around, and that she was sick of things being awkward and feeling like a tourist around her own friends (she had also told Eileen earlier that CJ may have killed her if she hadn’t too).

…until Margaret comes clean about both lying that she had a boyfriend, and that she still has feelings for Mordecai, ruining the chance of CJ ever wanting to be on good terms with her

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.

The two are present at Muscle Man and Starla’s wedding in "Dumped at the Altar", with the tension over the love triangle drama hanging over Mordecai. Margaret calls Mordecai early on to apologize to him and CJ for the double date incident, and at the ceremony when she playfully asks to be ushered to her seat, he hurriedly tells her to pick any seat she wants as he sees CJ arrive. Margaret also looks at CJ sadly when she gives Mordecai back the charm bracelet he gave her and runs out crying over the speech he interpreted the ceremony to give about his love life and not knowing who his solemate is, attempting to dump CJ before she cuts him off. It’s implied Mordecai’s mutual lingering feelings for Margaret is why he tried to end things.

CJ blankly changes the channel when she sees Margaret’s news report, still holding a grudge against her for the love triangle

In "Local News Legend", CJ 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)

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 in her storm cloud state

CJ has the ability to turn into a giant storm cloud and produce bad weather when she gets angry or upset, as seen in "Yes Dude Yes", "Real Date", and "1000th Chopper Flight Party". 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, her skin turns a dark gray-red color, a trait that is very similar to Benson, usually thunder is heard when this happens to her.

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 participated in 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 an apartment 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 purple 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, although in "Dumped At The Alter" she rode her bike to the wedding.
• 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, although it may also be because he has never been seen reaching a certain level of anger that is required to turn him dark for there have been times when CJ gets upset and doesn’t turn dark.
• In "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 "Portable Toilet", "Daddy Issues", "Merry Christmas Mordecai", "Sad Sax", and "Not Great Double Date", in which her skin turned grey with accompanying thunder, and in a few instances lighting bolts.
• 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 in her debut episode, but she would later become a protagonist in the show.
  • They also both went into a destructive rampage due to Mordecai in their debut episodes.
• 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 used as inspiration for Mordecai for some of 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!!"
    • 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.
• In the European Portuguese dub, she is known as Joana.
• The Seer of the Universe admitted she preferred CJ over Margaret in terms of Mordecai's love interests.

Voice actors

• Linda Cardellini (English)
• Claire Tefnin (French)
• Rosane Corrêa (Brazilian)
• Elsa Covián (Latin American Spanish)
• Elena Liberati (Italian; fifth season-Married and Broke)
• Rachele Paolelli (Italian; third season-I See Turtles-Dumped at the Altar)
• Rie Takahashi (Japanese)
• Danai Jiménez Querol (European Spanish)
• Ősi Ildikó (Hungarian)
• Carey Yang/Yang Kaikai (Taiwanese Mandarin)
• Joanna Pach (Polish)
• Teresa Arcanjo (Portuguese)
• Didem Barış Atlıhan ("Yes Dude Yes")
• Gülnur Badakal ("Portable Toilet")
• Işıl Kılıç ("Dodgeball")
• Miruna Roșu (Romanian; seasons 3-6)
• Oana Avram Mereuță (Romanian; "Yes Dude Yes")
• Alina Teianu (Romanian; "Lift With Your Back"-"Dumped at the Altar")
• Han Gyeong-Hwa (Korean; 1st voice)
• Yong Seung-Hee (Korean; 2nd voice)
• Eden Gamliel (Hebrew; 1st voice)
• Shir Cohen (Hebrew; 2nd voice)
• Martina Šťastná (Czech) (Voice 2015)

Gallery

The gallery for CJ can be viewed here.