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"Over the Top" is the twenty-first episode of Regular Show's second season (and thirty-third episode overall). It first aired on May 23, 2011.
Synopsis[]
In a flashback, Skips accidentally kills Rigby during an arm-wrestling match. In the present, Skips arm-wrestles with Death to bring Rigby back to life.
Plot[]
At the hospital, Rigby is pronounced dead by a doctor, who then covers his corpse up with a blanket and offers his condolences to a mournful Mordecai, Benson, Pops, and Skips. Mordecai then says to Skips, spitefully, "You couldn't let it go. Well, I hope you got what you wanted," and all except Skips leave, who looks at Rigby's corpse with remorse. The episode then flashes back to a few days prior to Rigby's death at a restaurant, McHooligan's, where Benson is boasting how Skips is the strongest of all, which leads everyone challenging to arm wrestle, and to no surprise, they all lose. Rigby decides to challenge Skips, which results in laughter due to Rigby's slim to none possibility of winning, but Skips agrees anyways to humor him. However, Rigby beats Skips with complete ease and beats him again after she insists he wasn’t ready. Everyone else leaves while congratulating a smug Rigby, leaving Skips at the table shocked and speechless.
The next day, after he laments about how Rigby beat him, Pops comforts Skips, telling him he just had a bad day, and to demand a rematch from Rigby. He finds Rigby with Mordecai in the living room playing video games, and after Rigby refuses a rematch and continues to mock Skips over losing, Skips breaks their console and leaves. Later at Skips' house, Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson walk in, and Benson tells Skips he has to pay for their console. Skips says he will in exchange for a rematch, telling Benson "You wouldn't understand". Rigby accepts the match but wins easily once more. When the gang decide to go back to McHooligan's, Mordecai then realizes he forgot his drink ticket and runs back to his room, where he finds Skips trashing it, looking through Rigby's stuff. After Skips laments to Mordecai over Rigby somehow being stronger than him, Mordecai decides to reveal that Rigby has been pranking him with the help of a Yoshimoto Cybernetic's PlayCo Arm Boy before leaving with his drink tickets. After looking up Playco Armboy online, which is a metal contraption worn and concealed along the arm to cheat at arm wrestling, Skips becomes furious and as a result, is more determined than ever to beat Rigby. At McHooligan's, Skips enters and silently challenges Rigby, who smugly agrees tom boasting about his strength again. However, Skips instead rips off Rigby's PlayCo Armboy in front of everyone. He then arm wrestles a nervous Rigby, now without the PlayCo Armboy, and smashes him against the table hard enough it breaks in two, killing him.
Back in the present in the hospital room, Skips apologizes to Rigby for killing him. Death then enters, and Skips makes a deal with him to arm wrestle to bring Rigby back, wagering his own immortal soul if he were to lose (something Death has been after for years), but if he won, Rigby would be brought back to life. After a long struggle between the two during the match, Skips ends up winning, thanks to Playco Armboy, thereby getting Rigby's soul back. Death keeps his promise but swears he will get Skip's soul one day, and hawks a loogie into Rigby's mouth, resurrecting him as he leaves on his motorcycle. Skips apologizes to Rigby for what happened, which Rigby accepts and forgives him for. He also states that he's impressed at Skips for using the PlayCo Armboy to cheat death. They have a laugh over it, but Skips seriously tells Rigby he shouldn’t cheat, and he only did it to save his life. The episode ends with Rigby suggesting to Skips that the two should prank the rest of the gang since they all currently think he’s still dead, but Skips says he thinks he’s done with pranks for a while.
Characters[]
- Skips
- Rigby
- Mordecai
- Benson
- Pops
- Muscle Man
- Hi Five Ghost
- Death
- Doctor
- Ghost Referee
Locations[]
- Park
- McHooligan's
- The Hospital
Video[]
Trivia[]
Pop Culture References[]
- The title of the episode is a reference to the 1987 movie classic Over the Top starring Sylvester Stallone as a truck-driving single father who enters an arm-wrestling contest to win a new truck.
- When Mordecai and Rigby are playing their guitar video game, Mordecai instructs Rigby to use the combination 'Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right', this is the first half of the famous Konami Code.
- It is interesting to note that, on the Regular Show: The Complete First and Second Seasons DVD, on the main menu of Disc 1, this code works if performed with a DVD remote.
Episode Connections[]
- This is the third time Rigby has been killed and resurrected, and the second time another main character has killed him.
- The first was by Mordecai in "It's Time", the second was by Snowballs the Ice Monster in "Appreciation Day".
- This is the first appearance of Death.
Production Notes[]
- This episode received 1.957 million views worldwide.
Goofs[]
- Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost disappear when Skips smashes Rigby into the table.
- They are additionally not seen in the hospital at the beginning of the episode before the flashback.
- Pops is not sitting next to Benson when he's talking about how strong Skips is.
- The TV screen is turned off when Skips grabs Mordecai and Rigby's console and throws it.
- The crack on the wall made by Skips throwing the console changes when Skips leaves.
- When Skips is searching Mordecai and Rigby's room, the items on the floor change throughout the scene.
- Even though Skips pulled the Playco Armboy off of Rigby's arm, no scene previous contains Rigby wearing the Playco Armboy.
Alternate Versions[]
UK[]
- The first scene of the episode was cut and instead shows the McHooligans Restaurant.
- The word "McHooligan's" is blanked out.
- Muscle Man saying: "Oh yeah! Hooligan's round two!" is changed to "Alright! Family Restaurant round two!"
- High-Five Ghost saying "Shotgun!" was muted.
- Death spitting in Rigby's mouth to revive him was changed to him shooting a laser from his finger.
Official Releases[]
- On iTunes and Amazon Prime, the episode was paired with "Really Real Wrestling" under "Volume Three". It was released digitally on May 30, 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