Their hallucinations hilariously lead each other to become Mordecai, the blue jay, and Benson, a gumball machine who also became a central character in “Regular Show.”Īfter watching this short, it’s easy to see where the Emmy Award-winning “Regular Show” came from and the horizon ahead for cartoons. Whereas Mordecai and Rigby are limited on “Regular Show” to kid-friendly exclamations like “What the H!” or “How are we gonna fix this S?” the short employs curse words and straightforward drug use as it follows two gas station clerks working the graveyard shift who eat candy laced with acid. Of the two Quintel short films available on YouTube, “2 in the AM PM” is his only work that definitely could not run on Cartoon Network’s daily rotation, unless it was part of the channel’s late-night “Adult Swim” program. The animated short is a hand-drawn film that is basically the first-ever episode of “Regular Show,” clearly only made for giggling adolescents. Mordecai, voiced by Quintel, makes his first appearance in Quintel’s “ 2 in the AM PM,” while he was still at the California Institute of the Arts in 2006. Quintel, whose own experiences, he’s said, sparked many of the on-screen plots. While Mordecai and Rigby never explicitly smoke, their formulaic “guy messes up, leading to a psychedelic space endeavor” adventures stem from the college projects of the show’s creator, J.G. The show’s characters (including talking animals and an Ice King voiced by “Spongebob” voice actor Tom Kenny) and bizarre spontaneity, all crammed into 11-minute episodes, put “Adventure Time” in the same conversation as “Regular Show.” “Adventure Time” follows a boy and adventurer, Finn, and his dog Jake, as they travel in the Land of Ooo. The website Cannabis Destiny, a marijuana media network, included both “Regular Show” and “Adventure Time” on its list of “Top 5 Cartoons That are More Adult Than You Think.” Yet, look deeper, and you’ll see that the show has a habit of slipping in discreet nods to a viewership closer to its protagonists’ ages (and hobbies) with Pink Floyd posters, references to stoner movie “The Big Lebowski” and 4:20 digital clock faces.Ī search for “Regular Show” on the website Reddit’s “trees” section, which is a self-declared community of marijuana enthusiasts, returns numerous “look what I found!” posts of images of the same 4:20 clocks - all of which, I imagine, have to be read in a voice similar to Shaggy’s from “Scooby Doo.” It follows Mordecai, a 20-something blue jay, and his buddy Rigby, a raccoon of the same age, in their work as park groundskeepers. On the surface, “Regular Show” looks like any other kids’ show.
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