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For more information on the individual stories told within this episode, visit any of the following: "Mr. Bossman", "WerePops", "Going Up" or "Chocolatude"
Terror Tales of the Park V is the ninth episode of Season Seven (and one hundred ninetieth overall) of Regular Show. It aired on October 29, 2015.
Synopsis
Benson tries to spice up the park's annual Halloween party by renting a wish making machine.
Plot
The episode starts with Muscle Man, High-Five Ghost, Thomas, and Johnny Skydiver launching pumpkins with a catapult. In the house, Eileen talks to a broom and Audrey takes a picture of Quips while everyone else's mingles. Moments later, Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost come into Benson's office where Benson tells them (and everyone else, already inside) about the wishing machine. Everyone looks disinterested, but Benson insists that they stay and that he would not let his deposit go to waste; to demonstrate, Benson wishes that he could motivate Mordecai and Rigby at work. Racki the Wishmaker then says, "A hard worker is all you desire, so to their backside let us add some fire." Racki's and Benson's eyes glow red while he laughs maniacally, and he sees his wish.
After Benson's wish ends, Mordecai asks him what happened and he explains what happened and wants to stop but pops steps up and makes his wish to travel. Pops' wish ends as he happily dances after returning to reality. Mordecai asks if Racki is scary or lame to which the machine says he’s scary. Hi Five Ghost then decides to make his wish albeit reluctantly and Benson says go ahead. Fives says anyone can go but Rigby insists. He wishes to meet up with Celia. His wish ends and he panics as Muscle Man runs over and snaps him out. Fives says it felt real. Benson believes they had enough for one evening, but Rigby decides to make his wish saying he was popular and Racki agrees but says this is one for all to see and pulls everyone in, despite their protests.
When reality comes back, everyone is horrified and Rigby states he didn't intend for. The staff agrees that Racki is scary. They soon find him gone and see him trying to escape and see he stole their stuff. His fellow wishmakers tell him to hurry to the van, as they are revealed to be a thieving crew. Racki sees the gang chase him and he decides to use a catapult to escape but it backfires and he breaks. The fortune telling machines drive off in horror. The park staff joke about Racki's situation but Racki gets the last laugh because he says Benson won’t get his deposit back. Benson screams and suddenly reveals he’s actually in a store before he rented him. An employee walks up and asks how his wish went. Benson says it was terrible and unsurprisingly refuses to rent it for fear of not getting his deposit back. He then decides to get the streamers and leaves. The employee angrily tells Racki no one will rent him if all he does is scare customers. He suggests the worker should be fired but is interrupted by being unplugged with the man calling him a dumb rapping robot.
Characters
- Benson
- Mordecai
- Rigby
- Pops
- Skips
- Muscle Man
- Hi Five Ghost
- Racki the Wishmaker
- Eileen (non-speaking role)
- Thomas (non-speaking role)
- Quips (non-speaking role)
- Monica (non-speaking role)
- Yuji (non-speaking role)
- Johnny Skydiver (non-speaking role)
Stories Only
Locations
Video
Trivia
- This Terror Tales of the Park episode has four stories instead of the usual three and the main characters do not tell their stories.
- During the first commercial break, the TV trailer for, "Regular Show: The Movie," aired.
- "Going Up" is the only story that only focuses on just one of the main characters, in this case, Hi-Five Ghost.
- In "Going Up", both the hotel lights and the elevator lights create a skull pattern.
- This is the first and only Terror Tales of the Park special where Hi Five Ghost has a story.
- The guests at the Halloween party include: Eileen, Thomas, Johnny Skydiver, Quips, Monica, and Yuji.
Pop Culture References
- Racki The Wishmaker was based from a real life fortune teller machine, it was called Zoltar - a fortune teller that cost more than 8,000 US dollars.
- Rigby says "Thank you, Mario." which is reference to the Super Mario series.
- The guys' costumes are references to real and fictional characters. Mordecai is the martial artist, Bruce Lee, Rigby is M. Bison from Street Fighter, Benson is Sherlock Holmes, Pops is The Fourth Doctor from Doctor Who, Skips is John Rambo from First Blood, Muscle Man is Snake Plissken from Escape from New York and High Five Ghost is Willow Ufgood from Willow.
- Muscle Man's costume also looks similar to Hoss Delgado from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and the No Rules Man from "House Rules."
- Eileen is dressed up as Kiki from the Studio Ghibli film, Kiki's Delivery Service, evident by the broom, black cloak, and over-sized bow.
- Thomas and Johnny Skydiver are dressed as Sub-Zero II/Kuai Liang/Thundra from Mortal Kombat and Ted Logan from Bill and Ted respectively.
- A party-goer seen to the right of the man in the shark costume when Quips is being put into the stockade is dressed like Raoul Duke from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
- When Rigby tries to save Mordecai from the machine and pulls a leg, it calls back the 1988 version of The Blob.
- Mr. Bossman seems to be based from a character Slappy the Dummy from the Goosebumps novels, created by R.L Stine.
- When the werewolf says he's going to London, it's a reference to the John Landis film An American Werewolf in London.
- "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon played in this episode at the end of "Werepops."
- Two of the girls eating the chocolate Rigby are dressed up as Ariel from The Little Mermaid and the famous Mexican self-portrait artist Frida Kahlo, respectively.
- Mr. Bossman's son is dressed similarly like Chucky from the Child's Play movie franchise.
- When Pops is on trial as a werewolf, he says, "uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh" which is a direct reference to the earlier Cartoon Network show Courage the Cowardly Dog. Courage would say this same line in the same way many times throughout that show.
Production Notes
- This is the last episode where John Infantino, who was supervising director for Seasons 2-6, had written on the show, though it was not the last episode production wise, as "The Dome Experiment" was his last credited episode.
Goofs
- Mordecai refers to the leaves he was cutting as lettuce, despite it being cabbage.
- In Hi-Five Ghost's story when he was trapped in the elevator, as revealed in See You There, he could just go through the elevator and hover to floor 36.
- When Rigby fell over after turning completely into chocolate, his eyes were halfway closed. However, when the teenagers began to eat him, his eyes are open all the way.
Alternate Versions
UK
Mr Bossman
- Benson picking up Mr Bossman and then throwing him was cut.
- Benson cracking up Mr Bossman's head with the door along with his reaction: "Benson, you're cracking me up!" was cut.
- The story ends early with the shot of Benson running towards the house.
- "I'd never say something like that!" was cut.
Going Up
- The elevator repairman pulling Hi Five Ghost into the elevator was cut.
Chocolatude
- "That kid's dressed as a box of fart medicine!" was cut.
- Rigby's following line "Where!?" was muted.