Ok i just finished binging Regular Show and I have so many emotions right now. I decided to get into it again because I had finished watching Close Enough and after that I just felt nostalgic for it after seeing jg quintel’s storytelling style and animation. I had never watched the last season and would always watch it on and off when the episodes would air on Cartoon Network but I finally got around to watching it and just finished and gotta say I was not expecting where it was going. I may have binged Regular Show but i remember a lot of the earlier episodes very well from when I would watch it back then and just finally seeing the ending made me so sad but so happy. I wasn’t feeling the whole space thing for a while because I thought regular show was just supposed to be a REGULAR SHOW about a bunch of guys working at the park and their lives but the whole destiny thing with Pops eventually grew on me and jg quintel really got me with that cop-op I legit thought they were going to show the first episode all over again in the finale. Like my mind blanked and I was genuinely shocked when the “bud-dum” theme opening came on and “The Power” episode began to show because it was so sudden. But then they DIDN’T do that and Pops was able to keep the universe from resetting and have his friends continue their lives all with a hug. I loved seeing everyone grow up and mature especially in the end but also throughout the show. I had only remembered the earlier episodes back then so I had come in remembering Mordecai and Rigby as lazy and immature and honestly that would get on my nerves a lot during the rewatch. But as it continued they also continued to grow and had more character depth. I was really happy for Starla and Muscleman when they finally married. Fives was happy playing as a dj with Celia and doing his own thing. Benson finally ended up with someone, Pam, long-term and adopted a bunch of cats and Applesauce the pig and started running the park after Mr. Maellard passed. Skips continued doing his thing but changed things up with some jorts instead of jeans. Rigby graduated and married Eileen and became a loving dad. And I loved how Mordecai didn’t end up with either CJ or Margaret. He was able to move on, begin an art career, and start over and I just really liked that. Pops was my second favorite character (Skips and Gary tie for first place but just barely above Pops) and seeing how he became the focus really surprised me. He’s so loving and loves his friends and I just love how he cares so much. I especially liked the episode “Cheer Up Pops” because I was crying right there with him and it felt like that episode was for the viewers as well to help them cheer up.
I cried seeing everyone continue their lives and I was just sobbing when everyone put up a memorial statue for Pops.
I was sad to see that he didn’t get to live with his friends and continue to grow with them, but I also liked the direction the writers decided to take the story in the end. I always like to look up stuff at the end of something I watch when I really care about it because that just makes me feel a little better and I had found the animations that quintel presented to Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon to try and get the show launched and I really really liked “The Naive Man From Lolliland”. I ended up watching it a lot lol. It didn’t register for me until like probably the last couple episodes of season 8 that Pops was supposed to be a lollipop. I just thought he had a big head lol.
I had been in a slump for a long time and I loved all the surreal weirdness that would occur in the show and the fourth wall breaking as it lead up to the finale, especially with The Seer. Just seeing everyone and the continuation of their lives and happiness made me feel like everything would work out. I’m a little late I guess but finally seeing one of my childhood shows until the end may have been the boost I needed. Jolly good show.
