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"More Smarter" is the twenty-fourth episode of Regular Show'ssecond season (and thirty-sixth episode overall). It first aired on June 13, 2011.
Synopsis[]
Rigby tries to prove to Mordecai that he can get by without a high school diploma.
Plot[]
The episode starts in the kitchen, where Rigby concocts a drink using many random foods and drinks which he dubs "Rig Juice", thinking it will make him famous, as Mordecai watches in disgust. Despite Mordecai’s doubts Rigby when the Rig Juice, which makes him fetch but claims "[his] face feels like magic". Mordecai refuses to drink it whne offered, saying that he's not dumb enough to do so, but Rigby says that they both do dumb stuff all the time, and the two are like "two peas in a pod." Mordecai insists he's definitely smarter than Rigby, and it's been that way ever since he dropped out of high school.
Rigby retorts about needing stuff from school in everyday life, but is then embarrassed at not being able to answer a math problem Benson gives the two involving building an enclosure for the park's turtles, and the having his grammar corrected by Muscle Man when he says Mordecai is not "more smarter" than him, which Mordecai teases him over. Rigby angrily says a diploma never got anyone anything, and then a burger truck pulls up in front of the house offering free burgers for everyone with a high school diploma. Rigby tries to forge one on paper but the truck drives off before he can get anything - and Mordecai points out he spelled diploma wrong ("Diplowma"). Rigby, frustrated for not having a diploma, decides to go back to high school. Mordecai s
Rigby is shown at high school successfully solving the world's hardest math problem. His teacher awards him his diploma and celebrates with him - and it turns out Rigby fell asleep in class and it was all a dream and the teacher tells him to leave.
Rigby returns to the house where Mordecai immediately correctly guesses he fell asleep in class, and says he wouldn’t have if he had a high school diploma. Rigby angrily goes upstairs and tries to get his diploma online, but he cannot answer the first question asking which of two shapes is not a square. Frustrated he starts angrily clicking around on the desktop which makes ads pop up - including a formula called "Brain Max", advertising to increase one’s intelligence.
After receiving Brain Max via mail, he disregards the dosage instructions (and the large warning label to not take more than directed) and drinks a bunch at once so it’ll work faster. After a brief bit of pain in his head and imagery of knowledge flowing into his head, Rigby realizes he has become intelligent.
When Mordecai comes into the living room to further taunt him over not having his high school diploma, Rigby, doing a crossword puzzle, rubs his new intelligence in Mordecai’s face as he drinks more Brain Max. Mordecai swipes it from him and chugs some down, becoming smarter too, writing a mathematical formula on a window to prove he’s smarter. Rigby drinks more Brain Max too and writes another formula proving he's smarter. This continues through a montage, as the two write mathematical formulas all over the house in marker while drinking more and more Brain Max.
The two are shown floating in a purple void, being representative of how their intelligence has transformed their view of their surroundings, still arguing over who is smarter. Mordecai ends the argument says he’s smarter because Rigby does not have a high school diploma. After he says this, the house is now shown to them as all black with white grid lines and outlines on everything, and the two of them continue to float. Rigby furiously goes back to the computer to get his diploma, but now neither he to Mordecai can read it as it appears as gibberish to them.
Benson, Pops, and Skips return to the house only to find it covered in math formulas written in marker. They enter the computer room, and Benson begins to yell at them to clean up their formulas. However, from Mordecai and Rigby’s perspective, the three of them appear like cavemen, speaking gibberish. They realize that they have become so intelligent that everything else seems stupid and intellectually inferior to them. In reality, though, they are speaking in Latin and arguing among themselves, leaving everyone else confused. Rigby blames Mordecai for making fun of him, but after Mordecai says now there’s no point since he can’t get his degree now, Rigby realizes there’s no point in being the smartest when now everyone else is stupid, and he gets the idea for them to drink Rig Juice to become stupid again.
They travel to the kitchen and find the Rig Juice, but Rigby worries he'll never get his diploma if he drinks it. Mordecai assures him a diploma doesn’t mean anything and promises not to make fun of him anymore. They drink it, reversing the effect of Brain Max successfully, reverting to normal with slight memory loss as Benson is screaming at them, telling them to clean up the "graffiti" on the walls now. Mordecai is annoyed Rigby convinced him to drink Rig Juice, something Rigby says he managed to do as a dropout. After Mordecai walks away to get paint, Rigby then drinks some more of the 'Rig Juice' and says, "That's good Rig Juice."
Characters[]
- Rigby
- Mordecai
- Benson
- Skips
- Pops
- Muscle Man
- Hi Five Ghost
- Teacher
- Students
- Burger Bros Worker
Locations[]
- Park
- City High School
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- This episode reveals that Rigby dropped out of high school, and did not earn his diploma.
- Season Seven would feature an arc of Rigby going back to high school and finishing his diploma.
- The translation for Mordecai and Rigby's conversation in Latin (barring some grammatical errors) is:
- Mordecai: "Quārum hī vitiō moriānis?" - "Whose theory (writing, really) is wrong?"
- Rigby: "Moriānis?! Moriānis vestris incipi(v)it rem tōtam!" - "Theory?! Your theory started this whole thing!"
- Mordecai: "Et herem facĕre debēre īre stultum." - "And it would have made me the master and the other (Rigby) stupid.
- Rig-Juice is made out of
- One can of Radi-Cola
- Frozen Fruit Juice concentrate (Rigby specifically uses fruit punch flavored)
- A dash of hot sauce (although Rigby throws the whole bottle in afterwards)
- Sugar Roasted Sugar Bombs
- An apple
- What appears to be a plum
- Some sort of light brown piece of food, either fried chicken or brown sugar
- A few pieces of round hard candies
- Two sardines
- A couple of whole pickles plus the vinegar from the jar
Episode Connections[]
- This episode provides an eventual foreshadowing for Rigby in "Regular Show: The Movie," and in an arc of completing high school starting with "The Eileen Plan," and ending with the Season Seven finale "Rigby's Graduation Day Special."
Pop Culture References[]
- When Rigby is doing his crossword puzzle, "Algernon" is an answer for a down-word answer, a reference to Flowers for Algernon, which also involves a low IQ man becoming more intelligent via a supplement.
- Sugar Roasted Sugar Bombs (one of the ingredients of Rig-Juice) may be a reference to Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, Calvin's favorite breakfast cereal in the comic strip series Calvin and Hobbes.
- The scene where Rigby answers the extra credits question in class mirrors the opening scene of the 1998 movie Rushmore, even using the same question.
- This has also been stated by J.G. Quintel as one of his favorite movies.
Production Notes[]
- In the original storyboard:
- Rig Juice was called "Rig Brew".
- Brain Max was called "Brain Adryl".
- When Mordecai says "You don't have a High School diploma, so I'm smarter than you, you imbecile.", he says "idiot" instead of "imbecile". Likewise, Rigby's response "I am not an imbecile!" also originally had "idiot".
- This episode received 2.190 million views worldwide.
Goofs[]
- Rigby drops the bottle of hot sauce into his jug, however it appears on the table when Rigby is drinking his Rig Juice.
- It is possible he took it out immediately after dropping it into the jug.
- The cereal box reads "Sugar Frosted Sugar Bombs", however Rigby calls them "Sugar Roasted Sugar Bombs".
- When Rigby remarks that his face feels like magic after drinking Rig Juice, one of his ears is colored the same as his lower body rather than brown.
- Mordecai is revealed to have a High School diploma in this episode. However, in "Regular Show: The Movie" it's revealed that Mordecai got expelled from High School along with Rigby, so he could not have gotten a diploma. It’s very likely that he completed his degree in an alternative way, like getting a GED, taking a credit recovery courses, or attending a different school to finish up his credits.
- When Benson orders Mordecai and Rigby to clean up the room from all their formulas, he is standing in front of Skips. However, in next cut when he turns red, Skips disappears.
- During a transition to Mordecai's and Rigby's perspective, screen on the computer has gibberish writing all the time.
- During various shots from Mordecai's and Rigby's perspective, chair changes. When they don't understand Benson's words, it lacks white grid lines (getting them when Rigby turns to Mordecai). In the rest of the shots from their perspective chair has a look from reality.
- When Pops tries to speak up, while Mordecai and Rigby don't understand him (just like they don't understand Benson and Skips too), Pops doesn't have a shirt in their point of view, but he still has ends of sleeves.
- When Mordecai and Rigby look at Benson, Pops and Skips from their perspective, Skips, while trying to speak up, is standing to Pops's right, while in reality, to Benson's left. Misplacing happens again, when three start looking at Mordecai and Rigby arguing in Latin - Pops is standing to Benson's left, while in reality (next shot), to Benson's right.
Official Releases[]
- On iTunes and Amazon Prime, the episode was paired with "A Bunch of Baby Ducks" under "Volume Three". It was released digitally on June 6, 2011 for the price of $2.99 in HD, or $1.99 in SD.
- This episode is available as part of the following DVD sets:
- The Complete First and Second Seasons
- Special Features:
- Commentary
- The Complete First and Second Seasons