"No Train No Gain" is the twenty-second episode in Season 8 (and two hundred and thirty-ninth overall) of Regular Show. It aired on November 17, 2016 .
Synopsis[]
The guys help Pops train. To speed it up, Earl uses the ancient art of 'Montage'. However hearing the montage music all day, the annoyed Mordecai and Rigby decide to change up the music with some speed metal, which threatens to destroy the park when Pops starts montaging out of control.
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In space, an officer comes into Anti-Pops' control room. Anti-Pops asks if there is any news locating Pops and the officer replies that they are still searching for him in various different galaxies. Anti-Pops then asks for his noodles, and observes that there is no special sauce (he doesn't know that the special sauce is in fact the sauce that is on top of the noodles). He goes to the restaurant website and tries to rate the meal negative stars, but finds out he cannot, and calls the restaurant. When he finds out the lowest rating is 0 stars, he flies into a rage and destroys the phone. Earl senses this and remarks that Anti-Pops is getting stronger.
Meanwhile, Pops is training with the guys but he doesn't even want to touch the wood planks as he thinks they will become beautiful furniture. Most of the guys give up and go away, leaving only Mordecai and Rigby. To speed it up, Earl uses the ancient art of 'Montage'. Although having difficulties, Pops soon begins to improve.
However, hearing the montage music all day, the annoyed Mordecai and Rigby decide to change up the music with some speed metal, which threatens to destroy the park when Pops starts starts going out of control and end up trapping the Park crew in a montage. They eventually stop him by having him destroy the boombox. Earl then declares Pops to be ready.
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Episode Connections[]
- When Pops is doing the crazy training montage he shoots fire from his hands, which Rigby wanted Pops to do in the previous episode. (TV: The Key to the Universe)
Pop Culture References[]
- Rigby says a quote by Muhammad Ali which is "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee".
- The title of this episode is a spin to the proverb and workout motto in physical exercise "No pain, no gain" which is also in known as "No gain without pain" which is derived from the 1980s and ancient philosophy.
- The song Mordecai and Rigby used for Pops' training montage is "Through the Fire and Flames" by DragonForce, which is well known as one of the hardest songs to play in Guitar Hero 3.
- The concept of training montages is referred and shown throughout the episode.
- The concept of leveling up is a technique shown in various video games.
Goofs[]
- When asked about how long Through the Fire and Flames goes, Mordecai says it is 5 and a half minutes. The album version of the song actually goes seven minutes and twenty-one seconds.
- The song actually starts playing before the first chorus, making it shorter. However, this still makes it over 6 minutes, not matching the 5 and a half minutes stated by Mordecai.
- Despite Earl establishing the fact that montages speed up depending on the speed of the song, Pops' montage seemingly does not slow down during the first half of the guitar solo in "Through Fire and Flames", where the BPM shifts from 200 to 170.
- During Pops' fast moving montage, Earl is shown meditating, even though he was next to the others in the previous and next scenes.