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"Temp Check" is the fifteenth episode in Season Two (and the twenty-seventh episode overall) of Regular Show. It first aired on April 11, 2011.
Synopsis[]
Rigby hires a temp to do his work but gets jealous when the temp becomes tight with Mordecai.
Plot[]
Mordecai and Rigby just had finishing mowing the lawn at an ultimate frisbee field. They pretend to give a celebratory hug, but both back away at the last second, claiming it's "sick." Just then, Benson arrives, saying that it needs another inch cut off, because the ultimate Frisbee players will trip and sue them. Rigby thinks it is lame, and Benson threatens to fire Rigby. Rigby then complains, and Mordecai says that he can't just hire someone to do all of his work for him.
Rigby realizes he could do just that, and the scene moves to that park's entering gate. Rigby is seen using a blue marker to decorating a stand. Mordecai comes, asking why Rigby bailed on him from the Frisbee field. Rigby says that he's going to hire a temp. Rigby talks to a fat guy on fire, a pirate, and a muscular redneck who can play the harmonica by farting into it, but each is weird and stupid. Just when Rigby is about to give up, a bus arrives and out comes a river otter by the name of Doug, who coincidentally, is desperately looking for a job. He's qualified - he even notices that the grass is an inch too tall - so Rigby hires him. Mordecai and Doug are raking leaves, and Rigby hands out an envelope to Doug containing his paycheck, but snatches it back and just hands him the coins. Doug still happily accepts this small amount, saying it's the most he's ever been paid.
Doug continues to be overly appreciative of the accommodation, and Mordecai begins to take a liking to him. His Rigby impression is dead-on. Mordecai and Doug take on Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost in two-on-two basketball, have fun working The Snack Bar, and do park chores, all while Doug more and more is resembling Rigby, with his hair, lack of clothes, tail, and eyes. Benson even calls Doug "Rigby" when congratulating the two on good work.
As Rigby confronts Mordecai about Doug's behavior, he discovers that even Mordecai couldn't tell the two apart. As Rigby confronts Doug just leaving the shower, he tries to fire his "temp," at which point Doug refuses: "I'm more Rigby than you ever were... or will be!" He then morphs into a form identical to Rigby's. They wrestle and go downstairs, at which point Mordecai sees the identical duo and realizes the problem. Even Skips could not tell who's who. Benson then runs the two through a series of tests: they punch Mordecai (weakly), they play video games (poorly), they mop the floor (and give up), and answer Rigby-related questions correctly. As one Rigby correctly identifies Rigby's greatest fear as "amusement park mascots," Mordecai gives that Rigby a celebratory hug, and the other Rigby whines and sulks away, so that allows Mordecai to identify the real Rigby, as only the real one could whine that much, and the real Rigby would never hug him. He is caught, and the police arrest him. Doug's full name is revealed as "Doug 'The Doppelganger' Shablowski" and the crew is informed that he's been pulling this scam across the country.
Doug in his true, much deeper voice is walked up to Rigby, and lets him know that while Doug has little to be thankful for, Rigby has plenty: friends, a job, a warm bed. Rigby dismisses him as a windbag and mocks his friends for buying his act, an attitude that gets him glares from all of them. Benson in particular calls Rigby out on his "unbelievable" move. As Benson is the only one who hires and fires, Rigby is threatened with the latter if he doesn't perform toilet duty for the next three months as punishment. Benson and the others walk off, and the episode closes with Rigby offering Mordecai a way to get "an easy ten bucks."
Characters[]
- Rigby
- Doug
- Mordecai
- Benson
- Skips
- Pops
- Muscle Man
- Hi Five Ghost
- Police Officer
- Detective
- Temp Candidates
Locations[]
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- Both Mordecai and Rigby say that that would never hug each other in this episode, but during the ending montage from "A Regular Epic Final Battle" they do.
Production Notes[]
- This episode received 1.689 million views nationwide.
Worldbuilding[]
- Rigby likes his BLT's with:
- No lettuce
- No tomatoes
- Hold the bacon
- Double the bacon
- Rigby's high score in Strong Johns is 3.
- Rigby's favorite cereal is sugar-frosted marshmallow clusters.
- Rigby's greatest fear is amusement park mascots.
Episode Connections[]
- Doug makes a reappearance in the finale for Season Seven. [1]
- Rigby's fear of amusement park mascots is shown in a Season Eight episode. [2]
Pop Culture References[]
- When Doug is arrested, the police officer bears a strong resemblance to Commissioner Gordon in the Dark Knight trilogy.
- When Doug and Mordecai are playing basketball, Doug's quotes consisting of āFrom downtown!ā and āBoom-shaka-laka!ā are taken straight from the announcer of the 1993 arcade game NBA Jam.
- The episode's main plot parodies a scene from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Goofs[]
- The grass on the Frisbee field changes in various long and close-up shots.
- The word "IN" from one of Rigby's signs is not present when he loudly states that is "Dudes hiring Dudes" campaign is a huge scam.
- A pen on Rigby's desk is only present when he's interviewing people (excluding Doug). It does not appear in any other scene.
- After Rigby shows Doug where he is sleeping, we cut to Doug telling Rigby that he is the best boss ever. Also, in that scene, the hallway changes from red to a light-blue color.
- The red cover on the book Mordecai is reading disappears after Mordecai tells Rigby that he should have seen his face.
- When Doug says "Ah, you know it", there is black scribble written on the pages of Mordecai's book, despite it not being present in other scenes.
- In the same scene, the green bowl of cereal is positioned on a different edge of the table.
- There is some grime on a bin when Rigby is watching Mordecai and Doug at the snack bar. However, that wasn't the case when the scene circle-wiped to an establishing shot of the snack bar.
- The towel Doug was using to dry himself upon getting out of the shower disappears when he transforms into a clone of Rigby.
Alternate Versions[]
UK[]
- The Muscular Redneck farting through a harmonica was changed to him shoving a kazoo up his nose.
Official Releases[]
- On iTunes and Amazon Prime, the episode was paired with "Jinx" under "Volume Two". It was released digitally on April 11, 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
- Regular Show: The Complete Second Season
Special Features:- Commentary
- Rigby Pack
- The Complete First and Second Seasons