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"Trash Boat" is the twenty-third episode of Regular Show's third season (and sixty-third episode overall). It first aired on April 23, 2012.
Synopsis[]
Rigby must change his name back after realizing all the negative attention he has received with his new name, Trash Boat.
Plot[]
While watching a show on TV about a band, Barracuda Deathwish, Rigby learns that the band's leader, The Urge, became famous by combining his name with two random words. This gives Rigby the idea to change his name to "Trash Boat" after he looks around the loungeroom and notices both a trash can and a picture of a boat. Later, Rigby asks Mordecai what he would think if he changed his name to Trash Boat. Mordecai tells him that he would think Rigby is a loser, and asks him if he really did it. When Rigby nervously denies it, Mordecai pushes him aside to find him holding a "Certificate of Name Change" behind his back, revealing that he officially changed his name to Trash Boat. Mordecai goes to tell everyone else and Rigby—now Trash Boat for the rest of the episode—decides that he needs to regain his original name.
Embarrassed, Trash Boat makes his way to the courthouse to change his name back and learns that he can only change it back for 50 bucks. Trash Boat returns to the park to look for extra work so he can change his name back but everyone mocks him for his new name, including Benson, who gives him a name tag to wear. When he asked for extra work, Benson says that Muscle Man and High Five Ghost have already done the extra work and blew all their money on temporary tattoos. Pops offered to give the money, which is lollipops, and Trash Boat once again asks Benson if there is one type of work available. Benson says that the only work available for him to do is litter duty, and forces him wear the name tag while doing it or he will be fired. When Trash Boat gets fed up, he asks Mordecai to loan him the money, but Mordecai declines, sarcastically saying he only loans money to his friends, and he has only known Trash Boat for one day. Trash Boat tries to get a second job, but because of his name, no one takes him seriously. To make matters worse, he finds out that his name change made the news. He proceeds to go cry in an alley, when a portal opens up and an obese and bald man comes out. The man is The Urge, and he has come back in time to kill Trash Boat because he stole his fame with his incredibly absurd name. The Urge chases him to the park ignoring the idea to change his name and attacking him with his guitar.
When he gets to the house, Trash Boat explains the situation to Mordecai, who gives him the money he was saving to use on a date with Margaret. The pair head for the courthouse in the cart, with The Urge in pursuit. Mordecai and Trash Boat barely make it to courthouse, and barricade the door with The Urge trying to break in. Trash Boat—now Rigby again—gets his name change finalized just as The Urge breaks into the courthouse. Now that Rigby's name is back to normal, The Urge finds that there is no need to kill him. However, as The Urge is celebrating his regained victory, a portal opens up to reveal Duncan Flex, another British rock star, who wants to kill The Urge for the same reason he wanted to kill Rigby. He proceeds to do so, when another portal transports a third British rock star called Velvet Overkill, who wants to kill Duncan for the same reason. Another portal opens to reveal Crocodile Deathspin, who proceeds to kill them both. Multiple portals bearing multiple rock stars open in the courthouse, and a musical battle ensues, while Rigby and Mordecai quietly leave the courthouse. Suddenly, last star, one with maracas, appears and gets shot, dropping one of his weapons, which turns out to be a hidden grenade. This results in the destruction of the courthouse, killing all of guests from future inside. As the slightly burnt Mordecai and Rigby walk away from the courthouse, Mordecai tells Rigby to never change his name again.
Characters[]
- Rigby
- Mordecai
- Benson
- Muscle Man
- Hi Five Ghost
- The Urge
- Skips
- Pops
- Courtroom Employee
- Crocodile Deathspin
- Duncan Flex
- Velvet Overkill
- Musicians
Locations[]
Trivia[]
- In 2014, there's a band named after the title of the episode and Rigby's new name.[1]
- In the Latin American dub, in the last scene Mordecai's line was changed by an idiom from "Nunca vuelvas a cambiar el nombre" (Don't ever change your name again.) to "Para la próxima te pones Arturo Cataño." (Change your name to Arturo Cataño next time.) referring to Mordecai's first Latin American voice actor, Arturo Cataño.
Continuity[]
- One of the ads in the newspaper mentions an opportunity to travel to every possible country to do "important very top secret jobs" from somebody called Nikolai, coincidentally foreshadowing the arc and true identity of Thomas.[1]
- Skips mentions the time he changed his name from Walks to Skips.[2]
Pop Culture References[]
- The picture on the wall in The Urge’s house is the album cover from Blackout by the German hard rock/heavy metal Scorpions.
- The font used for Barracuda Deathwish is similar to that of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
- The decapitated fish in the commercial is a reference to Ozzy Osbourne when he bit off a bat's head during a concert.
- The Urge's name is a reference to The Edge, who is the lead guitarist of U2.
- This episode references two movies from 1984:
- The TV documentary about the members of Barracuda Deathwish is a reference to the comedy movie This Is Spinal Tap.
- The Urge trying to get revenge on Rigby for his name change is a parody of the film The Terminator.
- Rigby changing his name because it’s cool, different and no one else has a name like it is also similar to when Phoebe Buffay from Friends decided to change hers in the episode “The One With Princess Consuela”.
- However, unlike Phoebe, who named herself four names (Princess Consuela Banana Hammock), Rigby only did two, similar to what Mike Hannigan proposed for his name change, (Crap Bag), much like Rigby’s (Trash Boat) considering the similarities in the abstract objects they name themselves after.
Goofs[]
- The picture of The Urge doing a hang loose on the billboard shows him with four fingers and a thumb.
- When Duncan Flex says "Nice!" after killing The Urge, the thigh part of his costume is in the same color as his skin.
- Here are some goofs during a battle of rock stars:
- When the last group just appears, rock star with a clarinet gets shot, but then continues fighting just fine.
- Similar issue happens with a rock star with a guitar and red hair and rock star with a guitar shaped like an axe (the former is shot by someone behind a rock star with drums, while the latter is shot by him).
- When last rock star's portal appears, it had two others' bodies (those mentioned above) lying nearby and having wall damaged from shots. But when rock star emerges, all of that disappeared.
Official Releases[]
- On iTunes and Amazon Prime, the episode was paired with "Replaced" under "Volume Four". It was released digitally on April 16, 2012 for the price of $2.99 in HD, or $1.99 in SD.
- This episode is available as part of the following DVD sets: