Regular Show : New Bro On Campus
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By Raging Cole
Yeahhh!!, Regular Show is back on a regular schedule again!...
After last weeks stellar Season Premiere “Maxin’ and Relaxin’” we’re treated to a more filler-ry episode exploring the beginning of Muscle-Man and Hi-Five Ghosts’ friendship.The episode starts out with Muscle-Man refusing to pair up with Hi-Five Ghost for a job because Fives recently uploaded an embarrassing video of Muscle Man and it went viral (50 million views apparently). Muscle Man yells at Fives until Fives storms off. Mordecai and Rigby tell him to chill out because they’ve been friends forever but Muscle Man explains that they were actually rivals when they first met. This is all a setup for a flashback episode dedicated to Muscle Man and Five’s high school days.
The narrative that follows is a little generic for such a creative show, Muscle Man is considered the cool guy at school until Fives shows up as the new kid and everybody starts treating him as the cool guy now. This makes Muscle Man angry (of course) who then challenges Fives to a nacho eating competition (Cue mandatory Regular Show montage scene set to probably old rock music) to establish who the cool guy is After Muscle Man loses, the students move his car from the cool guy parking spot by lifting it away and placing Five’s car on the spot. Gotta admit that scene got a chuckle out of me for the sheer absurdity. Eventually the beef is resolved with a drag race that ends with the duo both abandoning their cars into the newly discovered crash pit and them becoming best friends.
I’m disappointed that Regular Show has already started airing filler episodes as I was hoping the season would open with a streak of heavy character development episodes. Overall while this episode didn’t push the narrative in any way, it was still funny and explored the characters of Muscle Man and Hi-Five Ghost a little.
Other Stuff...
● My other hopes for this season is a serious long term storyline for Rigby, Margaret coming back for more than just one episode and less backstory episodes for supporting
characters and back to more Mordecai and Rigby focused episodes like earlier seasons.
● Hi-Five’s response to the first My Mom joke he’s heard, “Ha ha ha, That’s really funny but that’s, that’s really sad. You should probably be more considerate of your mother. It’ll probably hurt her feelings if she heard you talking like that.”
The episode was funny though, I was just hoping for an episode more connected to the previous one story wise and also have character development. As far as filler episodes I guess it was ok. What Grade do you give this ep?
ReplyDeleteI would probably give it a solid B for giving focus to an underdeveloped character, even if it didn't break a whole lot of new ground character-wise. It also kept the laughs coming, which usually puts me in a more forgiving mood.
ReplyDeleteI don't necessarily need Regular Show to become more serialized than it is already. I'm fine with alternating the story episodes with some off the wall goofiness or one-off backstory building every now and then. Mordecai and CJ's relationship developed in a flash compared to Mordecai and Margaret's, so I think they have a good handle on progressing plot arcs without every episode having to directly contribute to it.
Long time Regular Show fan, thought I'd finally join the discussion after Av Club coverage was cancelled two weeks back. Keep it up with the blog!
ReplyDeleteI also thought this episode was filler-y, but this week's 'Daddy Issues' was hilrious.