"One Space Day at a Time" is the first episode in Season 8 (and two hundred and eighteenth overall) of Regular Show. It aired on Cartoon Network on September 26, 2016.
Synopsis
The guys find themselves in space.
Plot
In the action news, the park has blast off into the sky, and that's all anyone is talking about around the world, with Margaret saying she hopes that can hold it together up there. Meanwhile, in space, Benson starts yelling and everybody is indistinctly panicking. Then Benson demands (to no one in particular), "Why am I still wearing this thing?!" and destroys the fax machine. Skips notes there is no cell service, and Muscle Man says that he needs to call Starla. Eileen then says to herself that she must be careful what she writes in her dream journal, that she might just get it. Fives then yells that they would starve and die, to which Rigby reacts saying that they have to press the button again. Mordecai grabs him back, telling them they have to calm down, though Rigby cuts him off by shoving and slamming down on the button, yelling the words "GO BACK". Then he says that he's a high school graduate, too young to die in space. Everyone else is them shouting a mix of "I don't understand" and "Why is this happening?!" Mordecai then yells to everyone to calm down, telling them that they went through this before, panicking the last time. He also says that when they banded it together they figured it out, and that they cannot fall apart now. He then says that they need to figure out how to get home, but they have to survive first: all they have to do its one day at a time. Benson agree Mordecai is right, and they will settle it with a morning meeting like they always do.
At the meeting, Benson notes that the important thing is to call Maellard to get them off the dome and back to Earth. In the meantime, he will be setting up survival tests. They are as follows:
- Skips - Find a cellphone signal.
- Mordecai and Rigby - Explore the tunnels in the park. (Rigby: "Aw man, it's creepy down there!" Benson: "I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT!")
- Pops and Eileen - Take inventory on food supply.
- Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost - Find building supplies, first aid, and misc. that they can use.
Later, everyone is in the front of the house doing their jobs, except Mordecai and Rigby, who Benson notes are not back yet. He then asks Pops and Eileen for an update; the latter replies that they found an unusual amount of "small" foods: baby carrots, baby corn, and baby potatoes (or "fingerlings"). The former says they are left with a variety of onions. Muscle Man notes that they only have dirt veggies and baby food then, to which Eileen crosses her arms and asks what they found. Muscle Man tells her to feast her eyes on the pile they brought, which she examines and finds a Talk-and-Text, a rebar, and a buncake pan. Benson then asks Skips if he made any progress, to which he replies that he didn't, as he couldn't find a signal, and is annoyed because he got extended coverage on his phone, and Fives replies "Typical". Eileen still holds up the pan and says they could use it to boost a signal, and Benson agrees, and acknowledging her for having a plan. He tells everyone to help Eileen and for her to grab whatever she needs, and then wonders where Mordecai and Rigby are.
They are staring out at the Earth from a hatch in a room with space carts and the robots from the last experiments on a wall, as well as one of the jet like structures they used then and recently. Then they start messing with the space carts. Rigby presses random buttons and starts taking off. Mordecai, who doesn't seem to have touched any, takes off as well.
Characters
- Mordecai
- Rigby
- Benson
- Pops
- Skips
- Muscle Man
- Hi Five Ghost
- Eileen
- Mr. Maellard
- Margaret
- Reaperbots (ship)
- Starla (mentioned)
- Gregg (frozen)
- Diane (frozen)
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Episode Notes
- This is the first episode of the show to go by the In Space title.
- It is also the first episode of the series to be split in two parts meaning that it was followed by the next episode.
Episode Connections
- Mordecai remains everyone of the incident they were trapped in the dome in "The Dome Experiment".
- Pops and Eileen found Gregg and Diane still frozen from "Caveman".
- Rigby brings up that he and Mordecai will possibly be space pilots like in the future from "Regular Show: The Movie", but isn't sure if that timeline has been erased.
Pop Culture References
- The scene where they get the text that says "TRUST NO ONE" could be a reference to "The X-Files" or "Gravity Falls".
Goofs
- When Muscle Man is randomly pressing buttons on the space cart to find something to help rescue Mordecai and Rigby, Hi-Five Ghost told Muscle Man he hasn't pressed the red button with the claw icon on it yet, but that was the very first button he pressed.