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"Terror Tales of the Park II" is the third episode in season four (and eighty-second episode overall) of Regular Show. It first aired on October 15, 2012. The episode's events are noncanonical.

Synopsis

The gang tells scary stories on their way to a Halloween party:

Payback: Mordecai keeps seeing the spirit of his deceased uncle after he accidentally knocks him into the ball insert in Stardust Lanes.

Party Bus: Mordecai, Rigby, Margaret and Eileen board a haunted bus on which the passengers become more elderly as the bus travels around the city..

Wallpaper Man: Mordecai and Rigby hire an interior designer to re-wallpaper the house, but they soon find out that the designer is a giant, evil spider.

Plot

Like before, it contained three Halloween-themed stories.

The park gang are on their way to a party, but they are hopelessly lost. To pass the time, Mordecai and Rigby offer to tell scary stories. Benson objects, saying that Pops can't handle scary stories (especially after the last time), but Pops dismisses the notion.

Payback (as told by Mordecai)

Mordecai and the others (along with Mordecai's Uncle Steve) are at the bowling alley, playing through a game (Uncle Steve did not play). Everyone else wanted to go home after they finished, as Uncle Steve was creeping them all out, but Mordecai managed to convince them to play one more game.

After loaning Uncle Steve five dollars (as he was short on money to be able to pay for the game, after he purchased a light-up bowling tie), Mordecai starts dancing in excitement, but he ends up bumping into Uncle Steve, whose tie gets dragged into the ball return, killing him. After Uncle Steve's funeral, Mordecai begins seeing Uncle Steve's ghost everywhere, due to the guilt he felt for being involved in his death.

Uncle Steve's ghost finally shows itself for real, and he chases Mordecai (and later Rigby) all the way to his grave site, before revealing that he just wanted to return the five dollars Mordecai lent him. Mordecai takes the money back, and Uncle Steve's ghost digs himself back underground.

Interlude 1

The story turns out to frighten Pops, and just as Benson was about to shut down the story telling, Mordecai gets a call from Margaret, who says that she and Eileen are at the party and if they are inside. Mordecai mentions that they aren't there yet and that they're in the middle of nowhere, but that they are telling scary stories to pass the time. Margaret says she has one of her own, and after Mordecai puts her on speakerphone, she begins telling her story.

Party Bus (as told by Margaret via speakerphone)

Mordecai, Rigby, Margaret and Eileen are going to the movies. They try using the cart as Margaret's car was being repaired, but Benson and Skips commandeer it to patrol the park for hooligans. Eileen calls a cab to drive them over, but a mysterious bus arrives before the taxi does.

They board the bus, which turns out to be a party bus, but as the bus moves forward, everyone on the bus starts aging. It is then that everything falls into place: the bus they are on is a supernatural vehicle, which affects everyone's time.

The group attempts to get the bus stopped, but everything they try ultimately fails until Mordecai puts it in reverse. Just when all seems to be well, the opposite effect is now taking place- they start de-aging rapidly. They climb through a hatch on the top of the bus, and leap off just as they turn into babies, celebrating their escape, but as they fall, they disappear into dust.

Interlude 2

Margaret's story also frightens Pops. Benson once again tries to shut the story telling down, which only heightens tension in the van. Skips is distracted and tries to defuse the situation, and fails to notice that they have strayed into oncoming traffic. He swerves to avoid a truck bearing down on them, but wrecks the van in the process. Eventually a tow truck arrives, and the driver agrees to deliver them to the party. As they ride in the cab of the truck, Mordecai and Rigby convince Benson to allow one more story. Benson agrees- but only if he gets to tell it.

Wallpaper Man (as told by Benson)

Mordecai and Rigby are tasked with wallpapering the entire house after destroying the now discontinued wallpaper in the hall outside their room. As they bemoan the work of wallpapering, the house TV appears in the hall and switches to a commercial for Jan the wallpaper man, who offers to do his first wallpapering job for free. The two are reluctant at first (questioning the commercials legitimacy), but are convinced after Muscle Man mentions that he once bought hand grenade replicas from a TV ad that turned out to be real. Mordecai and Rigby agree to call him.

Later, Jan arrives and gets to work while Mordecai and Rigby go play video games. Eventually, they go check on Jan's progress. They are impressed with the new wallpaper, but everything goes wrong when they discover Jan wallpapering a scared Pops to the wall.

Mordecai and Rigby rescue Pops, but hear Benson's distant cries of "Help!" and are forced to find their way through a constantly shifting maze of wallpaper to rescue him and the others. The room seemingly gets smaller as they go along (thanks to an optical illusion), and they're eventually trapped in a small area. Rigby starts panicking (as he is seemingly claustrophobic) and starts tearing at the walls, ripping holes in them to reveal an exit. The three begin ripping through walls until they eventually enter a cave where Benson, Muscle Man, Skips and a delivery guy are tied to the ceiling with wallpaper.

It is revealed that Jan is actually a giant spider that uses wallpaper as an equivalent to organic silk for spider webs, and it proceeds to tie Pops to the ceiling. Mordecai and Rigby free the group by throwing rocks to rip open the wallpaper. Unfortunately, Skips and Pops are injured in the fall (Skips falls on his legs, breaking his ankles, and Pops falls on his side, breaking his arm), and Muscle Man is eaten by the spider. Mordecai and Rigby are forced to destroy the spider since Benson says that they hired him, and so they must fire him. Rigby says that the spider is going to kill them, but Benson says it's not his problem as he carries Skips. Pops, and the delivery guy away. The two finally defeat the spider by using the package of real grenades the delivery guy had brought. As they celebrate, Rigby questions how far away from the explosion they should be. The grenades explode, destroying the house, the spider, and themselves.

Ending

Mordecai and Rigby begin to defend themselves against Benson's portrayal of the duo, saying that they wouldn't have acted that dumb in such a situation. Rigby attempts to counter with a story about how stupid Benson is as they reach the party house, but they end up getting into a shoving match, leading to Benson bumping into the tow truck driver, who crashes into a tree in the front yard.

Margaret, Eileen, and the rest of the guests rush outside to ask if they are okay, when it becomes evident none of them survived the crash and are now ghosts. Benson gets angry that Rigby ended up causing this (except Hi Five Ghost) and fires him, but Rigby claims he cannot be fired since he is dead. Despite having been killed, everyone else heads inside for the party, including Benson after asking himself why he even bothers.

Characters

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Locations

Trivia

  • This episode reveals that Rigby has claustrophobia- However, this is not proven canon until the episode Portable Toilet.
  • The guys wear costumes is this episode:
    • Mordecai is Frankenstein.
    • Rigby is a wrestler.
    • Benson is a pirate.
    • Pops is a mummy.
    • Skips is a vampire.
    • Muscle Man is Abraham Lincoln.
    • Hi Five Ghost is wearing a mustache.
    • Thomas is wearing a black mask.
  • During the cuts to Margaret and Eileen at the party, other partygoers are seen dressed as famous characters from film.
  • In "Party Bus", Mordecai, Rigby, Margaret and Eileen wear costumes, each with pop-culture inspiration.
    • Mordecai is dressed as a three-eyed reptilian creature with green claws. He is wearing a torn letterman jacket in red with matching sneakers, a possible riff on Michael J. Fox's character in Teen Wolf.
    • Rigby is dressed as a classic mad scientist, with a white lab coat, purple tinted goggles and yellow safety gloves. His hair has been combed so that it is spiking upwards.
    • Margaret is dressed in a gray top with military dog tags, green combat fatigues, black boots, a black headband and a mock bandage on her left arm, seemingly inspired by the outfit worn by the Sylvester Stallone character John Rambo in First Blood.
    • Eileen is dressed in a maroon suit with a blue collared shirt and red tie, her hair is slicked back with a pair of black shades on her head, and she carries a briefcase which holds an '80s cell phone. Her outfit appears to be inspired by that of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho.

Production Notes

  • This episode received an audience of 3.109 million viewers, beating "Exit 9B," which had 3.047 million viewers as the most watched premiere in the series' history.
  • A much darker ending was originally planned, but was cut (probably due to the fact it was implied the guys were going to Hell), where the park crew get caught up in a traffic jam ahead of an accident. As they pass the scene, the tow truck driver slows down so that they may get a good look. They see police and paramedics tending to the bodies of the victims of a car wreck- the wreck is of Skip's van and the bodies are those of the Park crew, implying that they were killed in the first crash. One of the paramedics turn arounds around, revealing a demonic, skeletal face. He shrieks at them and the tow truck driver reveals his own skull-like face, Benson tries to open the door but it won't budge, The driver hits the gas, and a flaming portal opens up in the road. The guys scream in horror as the truck speeds into the void with spirits flying past. The camera zooms out through the cutouts of a Jack 'o lantern. who laughs maniacally before shouting "Happy Halloween!".
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