# Regular Show Regular Show is J.G. Quintel's Cartoon Network cartoon about slacker groundskeepers Mordecai and Rigby, which premiered September 6, 2010 and pulled 2.097 million viewers with its debut episode 'The Power'[1]. The show's mix of 1980s references, quotable dialogue and adult humor built a dedicated fandom that turned its characters into an advice animal macro series and a massive fan art catalog[2]. ## Origin The show grew out of J.G. Quintel's student work at the California Institute of the Arts, specifically the 2005 short 'The Naive Man from Lolliland' (source of Pops) and the 2006 short '2 in the AM PM' (source of the Mordecai and Rigby dynamic)[2]. After Quintel joined Cartoon Network Studios, he was invited to pitch for the network's Cartoonstitute incubator, and the pilot he built from those student films eventually became Regular Show[2]. The series premiered on Cartoon Network on September 6, 2010 with the episode 'The Power,' which drew 2.097 million viewers on its first night[1]. The KYM entry, which mirrors the show's own history section, embeds the pilot's opening as the reference video for the meme fandom[1]. - **Platform:** Cartoon Network (source) / Meme Generator & Tumblr (fandom spread) - **Creator:** J.G. Quintel (show); meme macro creators unknown - **Date:** 2010 ## Overview Regular Show follows Mordecai, a blue jay, and Rigby, a raccoon, two twenty-something groundskeepers at a park run by a gumball-machine boss named Benson[2]. Their side cast, an immortal yeti named Skips, the lollipop-headed Pops, Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost, gave the fandom a rotating cast of remixable faces long after the pilot aired[2]. On the meme side, the show's biggest format is a Mordecai and Rigby advice animal macro that pastes the pair's heads over a pinwheel background, with top-text/bottom-text jokes riffing on their dialogue and voice quirks[2]. Fans also produced an extensive body of illustrated fan art built around ship pairings, screencap redraws and 1980s pastiche in the style the show itself pulls from[2]. Urban Dictionary entries turned the show's quotable lines into their own micro-currency, from Muscle Man's 'MY MOM' jokes to Mordecai's 'MAD MAN MORDO' rap[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Regular Show? Regular Show is an American animated Cartoon Network series created by J.G. Quintel about two park groundskeepers, Mordecai the blue jay and Rigby the raccoon, that premiered September 6, 2010[1]. ### Where did Regular Show come from? Quintel developed the characters from two CalArts student films, 'The Naive Man from Lolliland' (2005) and '2 in the AM PM' (2006), then reworked them into a pilot for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute program before the show was greenlit[2]. ### What does Regular Show mean? In fandom usage, 'Regular Show' points to the cartoon and its meme output, from a Mordecai and Rigby pinwheel advice animal template to Urban Dictionary entries built around the show's most quoted lines[3]. ### How do you use Regular Show as a meme? The most common format pastes Mordecai and Rigby's heads onto a pinwheel background as an advice animal, with top/bottom text riffing on their slacker banter; the template had 910+ submissions on Meme Generator by October 2012[2]. ### Is Regular Show still popular? The show finished its run in 2017 but stays a classic Cartoon Network reference point, with its Facebook page already past 2 million likes by December 2012 and a fan wiki still maintained by the community[2]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTBco0eetDM]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/regular-show]() 3. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Regular%20Show]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/regular-show Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library