The fifth season of the American animated comedy television seriesRegular Show, created by J. G. Quintel, originally aired on Cartoon Network in the United States. Quintel created the series' pilot using characters from his comedy shorts for the canceled anthology series The Cartoonstitute. He developed Regular Show from his own experiences in college. Simultaneously, several of the show's main characters originated from his animated shorts 2 in the AM PM and The Naïve Man from Lolliland. Following its fourth season's success, Regular Show was renewed for a fifth season on November 1, 2012.[1][2] The season ran from September 2, 2013, to August 14, 2014, and was produced by Cartoon Network Studios.[3]
Regular Show's fifth season was storyboarded and written by Calvin Wong, Toby Jones, Andres Salaff (who left to become a supervising director on Adventure Time), Madeline Queripel, Benton Connor, Hilary Florido (who moved on following this season to work on Steven Universe), Sarah Oleksyk (currently storyboard director for Sanjay and Craig), Minty Lewis, Ryan Pequin and Owen Dennis. For this season, the writers were Quintel, Mike Roth, John Infantino, Sean Szeles, Michele Cavin, and Matt Price, who is also the story editor.
The season aired with the first episodes, "Laundry Woes" and "Silver Dude." The season contains a half-hour Halloween special entitled "Terror Tales of the Park III" that aired on October 21, 2013, a half-hour Thanksgiving episode titled "The Thanksgiving Special" that aired on November 25, 2013, and a half-hour episode centered on Skips titled "Skips' Story" that aired on April 14, 2014.
Development
Concept
Two 23-year-old friends,[4] a blue jay named Mordecai and a raccoon named Rigby, are employed as groundskeepers at a park and spend their days trying to slack off and entertain themselves by any means. This is much to the chagrin of their boss Benson and their coworker Skips, but the delight of Pops. Their other coworkers, Muscle Man (an overweight green man) and Hi-Five Ghost (a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head) serve as their rivals.
Production
Many of the characters are loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts: The Naive Man From Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM. Quintel pitched Regular Show for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute project, in which the network allowed artists to create pilots with no notes to be optioned as a show possibly. After The Cartoonstitute was scrapped, and Cartoon Network executives approved the greenlight for Regular Show, production officially began on August 14, 2009.[5] After being green-lit, Quintel recruited several indie comic book artists to compose the show's staff, as their style matched close to what he desired for the series. The season was storyboarded and written by Calvin Wong, Toby Jones, Andres Salaff, Madeline Queripel, Benton Connor, Hilary Florido, Sarah Oleksyk, Minty Lewis, Ryan Pequin, and Owen Dennis. For this season, the writers were Quintel, Mike Roth, John Infantino, Sean Szeles, Michele Cavin, and Matt Price, who is also the story editor while being produced by Cartoon Network Studios.
The fifth season of Regular Show was produced between October 2012 and August
2013. It utilizes double entendres and mild language; Quintel stated that, although the network wanted to step up from the more child-oriented fare, some restrictions came with this switch.
After nearly recovering from a broken heart, Mordecai embarks on a road trip to Margaret's college to return her sweater, taking Rigby along, who wishes for Mordecai to move on, but a hallucination of Margaret gets the better of him.
Mordecai and Rigby try street-performing to earn extra money quickly for a video game, but soon compete with another street performer who uses their act to his advantage. Guest voices: John Cygan as Silver Dude and Wayne Knight as God of Street Performing
When Mordecai and Rigby break the window in Benson's car, they have to get it fixed before he finds out and has them fired. Guest voices: John Cygan as Bring'Em Back Jack, Roger and Cop.
Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, and Hi-Five Ghost strive to get Every Meat Burritos, a new special type of burrito, from the Jimbros' Burritos Drive-Thru. Guest voices: Lex Lang as Barry
After a time-traveling tornado sends an 18th-century Skips to the present, Mordecai and Rigby have to help present Skips return his teenage self to his time or else he will die.
The group makes a bet over who can tell the scariest story at their Halloween party. • "Killer Bed" – Rigby purchases a bed that turns out actually to be a transformed local murderer. • "Jacked-Up Jack-o-Lantern" – Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, and Hi-Five Ghost end up in trouble after smashing the wrong pumpkins. • "The Previous Owner" – Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, Hi-Five Ghost, and Pops make a bet over who can stay the night in the house the longest after being told by Benson that the previous owner's ghost is going to return.
Pops gives Mordecai and Rigby tants– pants that double as tables– which they pretend to like. But when the duo accidentally ruin the tants, they try to fix them so they don't hurt Pops' feelings.
Mordecai and Rigby accidentally ruin Thanksgiving and have to fix it before their families arrive for dinner. Song: "Chewing On Freedom" by Jeniffer, Auto T and Dusty B and "What Are You Thankful For? (Thanksgiving)" by Mordecai and Rigby Guest voices: Terry Crews as Stettman, Chord Overstreet as Dusty B., LeToya Luckett as Jennifer, and Josh Keaton as Auto T.
Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, and Hi-Five Ghost try to get stuntman licenses so they can perform for Timmy's stuntman-themed birthday party. Guest voices: Bobcat Goldthwait as Johnny Crasher
Mordecai and Rigby get stuck in a portable toilet at the park after Mordecai takes a dare from C.J. Guest voices: Tim Russ as Sergeant and Helicopter Pilot, Mark Deklin as Corporal and Rhomeyn Johnson as General
With his high school reunion arriving, Rigby tries to accomplish skydiving while eating a burrito, a task he claimed he would do before attending the reunion. Guest voices: Steven Weber as Jumpin' Jim
Mordecai and Rigby revive their band with the rest of the group and compete in a battle of the bands to win an air conditioner during a massive heatwave.
Mordecai, Rigby, and C.J. help Eileen make a music video for her college filmmaking class.
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Mordecai ponders over his feelings towards C.J. after he sends an auto-corrected text message to her saying that he likes her. Guest voices: Rich Fulcher as the Keepers of the Voicemail
Rigby is humiliated on the game show Expert or Liar, so he sets off with Benson to redeem himself by locating the show's host and making another appearance.
Benson's chance of winning a gold watch at the park is jeopardized when he eats too many buffalo wings. Guest voices: Liam O'Brien as Tango and Travis Willingham as Stash