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"Just Set Up the Chairs" is the second episode in season one of Regular Show. It first aired on September 13, 2010.

Synopsis

Mordecai and Rigby get distracted while setting up chairs for a kids birthday party and unleash a monster that terrorizes the entire park.

Plot

With the park scheduling a child's birthday, Benson assigns jobs to do for the other six groundskeepers. The park's two brand new groundskeepers, a fat, green man named Mitch "Muscle Man" Sorenstein and a very self-descriptive ghost named Hi Five Ghost, are in charge of picking up the special entertainment, Skips must inflate the bouncy castle, and Benson needs to pick up the children. Pops offers balloons, but Benson refuses, causing Pops to be carried away by his balloons as he sulks. All that is left is for Mordecai and Rigby to set up the chairs for the party, as Benson cannot trust them with something important. In order to prove that they are reliable, the duo agree to finish the boring job of setting up the chairs without slacking off in exchange for not having to do it next time.

Once they start, Mordecai wants to finish the job and Rigby wants to slack off, causing conflict, but Mordecai talks Rigby into continuing by reminding him that next time they might be picking up the special entertainment.

Meanwhile, Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost arrive at an apartment complex to pick up the special entertainment, to find it is a drunken clown and horse inside, and Benson is now stuck in traffic with the partygoing kids.

At first, the job seems to go well, but they soon run out of chairs with only 37 of the 50 needed for the party, and soon head off to the storage room. In the room, they find several old arcade games, and they both proceed to play them, this however causes them to forget about setting up the chairs.

After trying all the games at the front of the room, they see one at the back behind a tarp that is marked out of order. Mordecai and Rigby find a note written by Skips inside the machine that warns them not to connect the wires. Rigby ignores the note, unleashing the game's villain, called the Destroyer of Worlds, who begins creating chaos and destroying the park, even killing the special entertainment and attacking the children.

With help from Skips - who is angry that Mordecai and Rigby ignored his note - the duo form a giant arcade graphics robot designed to fight the Destroyer of Worlds in which each of them are controlling one body part. However, Skips is knocked out, and Mordecai goes off to set up the rest of the chairs, leaving Rigby to control the robot all by himself. In order to save Mordecai, Rigby's excessive button mashing is powerful enough to destroy the Destroyer of Worlds and he saves the day, though with massive damage left to the park.

Mordecai then congratulates Rigby on a job well done, even praising his button mashing abilities. But during their celebration, a furious Benson comes out of the pit behind them and, in a rage, tells them that he will never trust Mordecai and Rigby to do another important job, such as setting up the chairs, ever again, and tells them to clean up the mess, starting with the special entertainment. When he storms off, Mordecai and Rigby agree to take a break.

Characters

S1E02Credits

Locations

  • Park
  • Luxury Apartments

Videos

Trivia

  • This episode's airdate coincides with creator J.G. Quintel's 28th birthday.
    • Likely, this was the reason for the plot of this episode to revolve around a birthday party.
  • There is a running gag in this episode where Pops believes that it is his birthday, despite the fact that it's really not, even after Benson told him that his birthday was last week.
  • The Special Entertainment Clown is voiced by Mark Hamill, who has interestingly also voiced the Joker in various Batman media.

Episode Connections

Pop Culture References

  • When Lemon Chef beats Destroyer of Worlds, the fruit he eats makes a reference to the first fruit of "Pac-Man."

Production Notes

  • This episode received 1.903 million views worldwide.

Goofs

  • The words "School Bus" on the school bus disappear in a few shots.
  • There is a lamp behind Benson when he is telling Pops that there is a kid's party today.
  • When Mordecai and Rigby are at the birthday tent, there are are refreshments and balloons tied with strings that disappear in various scenes.
  • The windows on the birthday tent change continuously.
  • Muscle Man is first shown at the right of the motel but is located on the left after the Unicorn opens the door.
  • When the clown arrives, the door is open but is closed when Muscle Man tells his "My Mom" joke.
  • When Mordecai busts the door open, he lands on wooden floorboards but when Rigby lies down on the ground, it changes to tiles.
  • The playground equipment disappears after Skips leaves.
  • When Mordecai sees the extra set of chairs, there are nine in total, but when Mordecai is taking cover from the "Destroyer of Worlds", there are seven chairs.

Alternate Versions

UK

  • "Benson's gonna drop his balls" is changed to "Benson's gonna drop his gumballs"
  • "We're screwed!" is cut.


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