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"Eggscellent" is the seventeenth episode of Regular Show's third season (and fifty-seventh episode overall). It first aired on February 27, 2012.
Synopsis[]
Mordecai must win a trucker's hat in an eating challenge at a restaurant involving a massive omelette for Rigby after the latter falls into a coma trying to do so due to his egg allergies.
Plot[]
The episode begins as Mordecai and Rigby are watching an action TV show in which the actor flips the car (Mordecai complains that he flips a car in every episode like, "Hey bus full of grade-schoolers, learn this. [crashing noises]."). Just then, Benson comes in and tells them that they need to get back to work. As Mordecai is about to turn off the TV, a commercial promoting an eating challenge pops up. It says that whoever can finish the restaurant's 12-egg omelet will win a trucker hat with the words, "I'm Eggscellent" on it. Rigby becomes obsessed with the hat and tells Mordecai it is a neat hat, but Mordecai thinks that nobody wears them and that it is lame. After an arguing conversation, Rigby convinced Mordecai to go to the restaurant with him to try and win the hat.
At the restaurant, when the waiter comes to take Rigby's order, he asks for the Eggscellent Challenge. The waiter strongly advises him to choose something else, but Rigby is too stubborn to change his mind and demands the omelette after he pressures him with the "customers is always right", while the waiter eventually gives in, much to Mordecai's annoyance.
We then cut to an ambulance, where it is revealed that when Rigby tried to eat the omelette, he had a deadly allergic reaction to the eggs, requiring him to be taken to the hospital.
Weakly, Rigby explained that he thought if he ate quickly, the reaction wouldn't be as severe. He claimed that the hat was worth it and asked if he had won it, but Mordecai revealed that he hadn't even come close to winning the challenge before the ambulance was called. As Rigby lost consciousness, Mordecai promised to win the hat for him. Rigby's last words before he passed out evoked worry in Mordecai, who shook him to keep him awake, but it was futile. Seeing that Rigby was slipping away, one of the paramedics pushed Mordecai back and frantically instructed the driver to drive faster since they were losing Rigby. Sitting on one of the ambulance's benches, all Mordecai could do was watch as the medic began performing CPR on Rigby.
Next, we cut to the hospital where the rest of the park workers had gathered to find out what happened to Rigby. In Rigby's hospital room, the doctor informed them that Rigby was in a coma due to the allergic reaction to the eggs. To make matters worse, the doctor said that because of the large number of eggs in the omelette, there was a strong possibility that Rigby might die in his sleep. Benson asked if there was anything they could do, but the doctor told them that all they could do was wait to see what happened and offered his condolences.
Once the doctor left the room, Benson chastised Mordecai, stating that they had brought this upon themselves and that it wouldn't have ended like this if he and Rigby had done their work. Angered by this insensitive remark, Mordecai struck Benson in the face and began to attack him before Muscle Man and Skips intervened to break up the fight. Surprisingly, Benson didn’t fight back and tried to persuade Mordecai to calm down, explaining that fighting wouldn’t solve anything. Still, Mordecai was furious, calling Benson out for his callous disregard for Rigby's coma and for valuing work over someone's life. He insisted that this had nothing to do with work and that Rigby had just wanted the hat. Benson attempted to refute this, but Mordecai told him that he didn’t really have any friends and that everyone only hung out with him because he was their boss. Angrily, Mordecai stormed out of the hospital room and returned to the restaurant, leaving everyone bewildered as he pointed out his promise to Rigby and his determination to keep it.
In the restaurant, Mordecai finds out that the hat is not for sale. Despite understanding why and being sympathetic to what happened to Rigby, the waiter refuses and tells him that he can't give him the hat as it's against the restaurant's policy. So in order to win the hat, Mordecai attempts the challenge but fails to finish in time. He begs the waiter for the hat, but to a no avail. Furious, Mordecai smashed the plate against the wall and leaves while the waiter just looks on in sympathy.
Back at the hospital, Mordecai is apologizing to Rigby when Skips and Benson arrive. Benson expresses regret for his earlier comments, admitting that it was stupid to say such things and that they shouldn't have been taken seriously. However, Mordecai remains unconvinced and is still angry that Benson would say something like that in the first place.
To encourage him, Benson mentions that there might be a way to win the hat, capturing Mordecai's attention. Skips then shares a story about a man named Johnathan Kimble, who worked at the park a few years before them. Much like Rigby, Jonathan was obsessed with the hat. He attempted to win it repeatedly but failed time and time again; yet, he kept trying day and night. The omelet was the only thing he would eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Throughout this process, Jonathan kept a journal where he documented every advantage he could find in the challenge. Eventually, after much trial and error, he devised a method to succeed. He tried to explain this method to others, but they doubted him and walked away. His technique involved crumbling the biscuits, putting them in water, and cutting the eggs into four chunks.
Skips mentions that Johnathan was never seen again after that. Since no one accompanied him to the restaurant due to his continual failures, nobody knows what happened to him. When Mordecai asks why they are sharing this story, Benson holds up the journal they retrieved from Johnathan's locker. He explains that Johnathan seemed to have figured out how to finish the omelet before he disappeared, telling Mordecai that if he's willing to take the risk, he could win the hat for Rigby.
After that, Mordecai trains to do the Eggscellent Challenge. He and the park workers go to the restaurant to try the challenge. Mordecai apologizes to Benson for saying he doesn't have friends and said even though he can be a jerk sometimes, he's still a good friend. At the restaurant, the same waiter serves Mordecai but tells him not to do the challenge. Mordecai refuses, and the waiter is forced to give him the omelet.
The Waiter wishes him good luck. But when Mordecai crushes the biscuits into the glass of water and stirs, the waiter realizes that he learned from Jonathan Kimble. He attempts to stop him, until Benson, Skips, Hi Five Ghost, and Muscle Man protect him. The waiter than calls the rest of the staff and asks them to step aside. When they refuse, they get into a fight.
As Mordecai is eating the omelette, the Park Workers are protecting him from the restaurant staff. When the timer ends, the waiter discovers that he finished under an hour. The waiter, horrified, tells him that he was trying to protect him. Mordecai becomes confused by this and asks the worried waiter.
Suddenly, Mordecai teleports to a mysterious room filled with hats, then the elderly man with knight armor, named Eggscellent Knight appears to him and tells him that Mordecai had entered the final challenge, and asks him to pick the right hat in order to win the challenge. Then he warns not to choose wrong or he will die, just like Johnathan Kimble, who is a skeleton sitting in the corner, who picked up crown, which is the incorrect choice. Mordecai looks at Jonathan Kimble's corpse one last time, before he walks away and sees the collection in deciding which hat to pick. As Mordecai chooses, he remembers Rigby talking about a trucker hat that was in the commercial they saw. Mordecai sees a hat that resembles what Rigby was talking about and puts it on, and he didn't die, much to Mordecai's surprise. The knight then tells him that he chose right, and Mordecai teleports back to the restaurant. Once Mordecai is teleported back to his right place, the knight opens the closet, revealing the whole collection of trucker hats. So he picks up one hat and places it on where Mordecai have chosen it.
Back at the hospital, when Mordecai puts the hat on Rigby, he wakes up from his coma and thanks to him but sees a TV commercial that shows a two person eating challenge based on steak and eggs. When Rigby wants to do it (so long as Mordecai takes care of the eggs), Benson wonders if taking the hat off will make him go back into a coma; Mordecai says there's only one way to find out. The episode ends with everyone walking towards Rigby to take off the hat, much to Rigby's horror.
Characters[]
- Mordecai
- Benson
- Rigby
- Skips
- Pops
- Muscle Man
- Hi Five Ghost
- Eggscellent Waiter
- Eggscellent Knight
- Johnathan Kimble
- Eggscellent Workers
- Paramedic
- Eastan
- Manetti
- Doctor
Locations[]
Video[]
Trivia[]
Reception[]
- This episode won the award for "Outstanding Short-format Animated Program" at the 64th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Worldbuilding[]
- The Eggscellent Knight makes his first appearance in this episode.
- Rigby is revealed to be allergic to eggs.
Pop Culture References[]
- Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero" plays during Mordecai's training montage.
- The second part of the Eggscellent Challenge is based on the Holy Grail scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Production Notes[]
- In the episode commentary, JG Quintel reveals that this episode was an original sketch for the first season where Rigby lost the Eggscellent challenge by vomiting out its contents. The vomit, in this case, tries to help him in which Rigby realizes that he is just eating more of his contents.
- JG Quintel based this episode off a similar challenge at a cafe called Broken Yolk in San Diego, California.
- Several members of the cast (including the creator JG Quintel) consider this to be one of their favorite episodes.
Goofs[]
- When the Eggscellent Waiter sets the timer down, a gold watch (that was never seen before) appears in that shot. It never appears in any of the other shots of the waiter's arm.
- While Mordecai is attempting the Eggscellent Challenge the second time, there is a part where Muscle Man has a brunette waiter in a headlock while a redheaded waiter runs to Mordecai, but in the next frame, the brunette waiter is the one approaching Mordecai.
- Rigby is revealed to be allergic to eggs. Despite this, in his "In the House" story in "Terror Tales of the Park" he has no allergic reaction from eating raw eggs. This happens in other episodes as well.
- Pops is seen leaving the golf cart and entering the restaurant. However, he is not seen fighting any of the staff.
Official Releases[]
- On iTunes and Amazon Prime, the episode was paired with "Butt Dial" under "Volume Four". It was released digitally on February 13, 2012 for the price of $2.99 in HD, or $1.99 in SD.
- This episode is available as part of the following DVD sets: