List of Regular Show characters
These characters appear in the American animated television series Regular Show, created by J. G. Quintel for Cartoon Network.
The series revolves around the daily lives of two friends, Mordecai, and Rigby. They work as groundskeepers at a park, and spend their days trying to avoid work and entertain themselves by any means. This is much to the chagrin of their boss Benson and their coworker Skips, but to the delight of Pops. Their other coworkers include a pig-nosed green humanoid nicknamed Muscle Man, and a ghost nicknamed Hi-Five Ghost.
Overview
Main characters
Mordecai
Mordecai is a 23-year-old anthropomorphic blue jay who works as a groundskeeper at The Park. He has been best friends with Rigby ever since childhood. Mordecai is more conscientious, intelligent, responsible, and mature about his actions than Rigby is, which sometimes leads to him opposing Rigby when he is the cause of some kind of chaotic problem, albeit unintentionally. Even though Mordecai dislikes his job, he is often willing to put up with it begrudgingly as opposed to Rigby, who is more open about his hatred towards his job and prone to avoid work as much as possible. However, Mordecai usually sides with his friend, occasionally going along with Rigby's attempts to get out of work and the two generally stick together through their adventures.Mordecai loves to play video games and in most cases is a better player than Rigby, he also demonstrates decent strength, such as carrying large boulders, fighting the death bear, never getting hurt by Rigby's punches, and being able to punch Rigby across an entire room with ease. He can sometimes become caught up in his emotions, often letting them get the better of him. However, he is usually quick to apologize to others if he has hurt them and most of the time takes the lead in fixing a situation.
Mordecai's romantic life is the subject of several episodes, particularly his crush on Margaret Smith, a red-breasted robin who worked as a waitress at a local coffee shop. Mordecai would often hang out with her, along with Rigby and Eileen Roberts. Mordecai had many failed attempts at starting a relationship with her due to either his own nerves or Margaret having a boyfriend at the time. He attempts to date other people in "Yes Dude Yes" and meets CJ. Though the two have a lot in common they part ways at the end of the episode. Mordecai and Margaret finally begin to date in the fourth season until Margaret decides to leave for college, thus ending their relationship and causing Mordecai to go into a brief depression.
Mordecai later bumps into CJ at a New Year's Eve party and they start dating soon after. CJ and Mordecai's relationship is strained due to CJ seeing Mordecai and Margaret having fun together on several occasions as she returned from college. He eventually decides to take a break from dating in "Dumped at the Altar", after his relationship with CJ didn't work out.
In the episode "Camping Can Be Cool", it is revealed that he attended art school before being employed at The Park; however, he did not finish school due to his bad portrait skills, which were revealed in the episode "Bad Portrait". He is shown to have an outgoing mom, who embarrasses him around his girlfriends and also made a highlight reel of Mordecai's most embarrassing moments, as seen in "Maxin' and Relaxin'".
In the epilogue to "A Regular Epic Final Battle", Mordecai quits The Park, parts ways with Rigby, moves to New York City, and returns to making art. He opens a successful exhibition and meets a bat woman whom he eventually marries and starts a family. Mordecai's wife was not given a name in the show. Head writer Matt Price, on Reddit, gave her the name Stef when asked about it, and writer Owen Dennis stated on Tumblr that there had not been previous plans to give a name to the character.
Rigby
Rigby is a 3'5" 23-year-old anthropomorphic brown raccoon who works as a groundskeeper at The Park. He has been best friends with Mordecai since childhood and is more prone to slacking off than Mordecai is. Rigby is hyperactive and extremely mischievous, which sometimes puts him at odds with Mordecai. He mostly lives for simply having a good time and relaxing, which he achieves occasionally through selfish acts like lying or cheating. His immaturity often gets the better of him and puts others into trouble, often causing many of the chaotic and surreal problems that arise in The Park. Mordecai punches him on the arm for this as a running gag. Nevertheless, he is very kind-hearted at least deep down, so he sticks closely to his friends and feels terrible remorse for his choices which clearly reflect a lack of foresight rather than cold-blooded sociopathy.Like Mordecai, Rigby loves to play video games, but he is the worse of the two in most cases. He is also shown to be the weakest of The Park workers, although he has surprised them on a few occasions. Rigby's lack of strength was a major plot point in the episode "One Pull Up", in which Rigby had to pass a company physical and keep his job by performing one pull up. He has a younger brother named Don, whose height and physique lead people to believe that he, not Rigby, is the elder brother.
It is hinted in the episode "'Ello Gov'nor" that Rigby's last name may be Riggerson, however, this has neither been confirmed nor denied by J. G. Quintel.
Eileen Roberts, a female mole who works at a local coffee shop, previously alongside Margaret Smith, has strong feelings for Rigby and makes this very obvious. He originally did not reciprocate her feelings and harshly ignored her several times, but he quickly begins to warm up to her and implies that he likes her, as well. In "Dumped at the Altar", Rigby reveals to Mordecai that he and Eileen have been dating for 3 months.
Rigby is allergic to eggs, as evidenced in the episode "Eggscellent" when Rigby tried to eat a 12-egg omelet to win a trucker hat and went into a coma due to a severe allergic reaction. Rigby also faced death several times and actually died four of those times, but was swiftly resurrected. As of Rigby's Graduation Day Special, Rigby has finally graduated from high school.
In the epilogue to "A Regular Epic Final Battle", Rigby quits The Park and moves in with Eileen. They eventually get married and start a family.
Benson Dunwoody
Benson Dunwoody is a grumpy, austere, no-nonsense but well-meaning middle-aged 5'4" anthropomorphic gumball machine who works as the manager of The Park. Usually he is at constant odds with Mordecai and Rigby; he is only occasionally depicted as being at odds with Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost. He tends to yell at his employees when they are slacking off and not working, and frequently threatens to get them fired, although he was never successful. His full name is revealed in the episode "The Dome Experiment".Despite being at constant odds with them, Benson becomes more friendly toward Mordecai and Rigby after calming down in the episode "Benson Be Gone" and the three subsequently bond as the series progresses. He is skilled at stick hockey and formerly played the game competitively. Benson has a strong love for music, and is revealed to be a former drummer for the band "Hair to the Throne" in the episode "150 Piece Kit": having performed a seemingly impossible drum solo for the band during his youth.
Benson used to date Audrey, a human woman who lives across from him in his apartment complex. It is revealed that they broke up in "The Real Thomas", in which Benson starts to date an undercover Russian spy named Natalia, although she is later eaten by a whale.
In the episode "Pam I Am", Benson develops feelings for one of the dome scientists named Pam and they go on a 'date'. However, Dr. Langer witnesses the 'date' and makes a new rule that forbids the dome staff from dating anyone who works at the park. At the end of the episode, it is implied that Benson and Pam will date once the dome is gone. During the beginning of the episode "Fries Night", Benson contacts Pam back on earth, to which she revealed that having a "long distance" relationship with Benson because he is now in space is too difficult for her. She states that the reason for the break up is that she doesn't know when or if he will ever return to earth again. They both agree to become friends even though Benson later gets depressed from yet another break up with a woman he really cared for.
In the epilogue to "A Regular Epic Final Battle", Benson becomes Mr. Maellard's caretaker, who eventually leaves behind his possessions as well as the ownership of The Park to Benson: the only person as close to him as Pops, possibly due to his gratitude toward Benson for all his hard work as a steadfast park manager. Despite this, a running gag throughout the series features Mr.
Maellard forgetting Benson's name.
He gets back together with Pam, and they apparently adopt Applesauce as well as a variety of cats.
Pops Maellard/Mega Kranus
Pops Maellard is a cheerful and somewhat naive 6'2" humanoid lollipop man who resides at the house in The Park and always talks in a whiny-like tone. His adoptive father, Mr. Maellard, is the owner of The Park. Pops tends to be very ecstatic about everything, often exclaiming "Good show!" or "Jolly good show!" when he is happy about something. When something bad happens, he will instead say "Bad show."Pops tends to dress and act like he is in the late 1800s to early 1900s and utilizes technology and slang from that time period. He carries small butterscotch lollipops in his wallet, sincerely believing that they are real money, much to everyone's confusion. He is an upright gentleman who is very kind and well-mannered to everyone. He is also very sensitive, often becoming upset or crying if his feelings are hurt. He has strong interests in poetry, wrestling, music, nature, animals, and games. Despite being an elderly man, he is very childish and is often oblivious to serious things around him. Because of this, the group frequently looks after him, especially Benson.
Pops has also been shown to have immense strength on several occasions, despite his slim build. In the episode "Prank Callers", it is shown that Pops was once a more serious and mature man back in the early 1980s. However, when Mordecai and Rigby had been sent back to that time and accidentally hit him with a golf cart, he is shown to have turned into his zany self. Pops once owned a British doll named Percival, or Percy, who turned his back on him and tried to kill Pops in "Terror Tales of the Park". Pops is also one with nature, but lost it until he tries to find the answer to get it back, as shown in "Catching the Wave".
In Season 8, Pops is revealed to be the universe's Chosen One due to being born with god-like abilities,as well as having an evil younger twin brother who has the ability to erase a person from existence. Pops' destiny is to kill Malum Kranus, later nicknamed "Anti-Pops", his brother, to prevent the destruction of the universe. In "A Regular Epic Final Battle", it is revealed that his real name is Mega Kranus. Pops realizes that the best way to defeat Malum Kranus is with kindness. Pops gives Malum Kranus a hug and the two fly into the sun, killing them both in the process, and the universe is saved. In Heaven, Pops' voice is heard saying his catchphrase 'Jolly Good Show' as a VHS of the show ejects itself from a Hanatronic TV which was seen in "Eileen Flat Screen", and the series itself concludes.