The world of Regular Show was a world of pure chaos. And with so many different characters,
it’s tough to keep up with it all.
Many of them are smart and diligent, while others are in need of help with chores. So
today, we are asking, which of these characters have the most brains… And
which ones truly deserve to be yelled at by Benson for their incompetence?
I’m Brad with Wickedbinge; and these are Regular Show Characters: Dumb to Brilliant.
As usual, we’ll be starting with the dumbest characters, and working
our way down to the most brilliant. These characters are the Dimwitted.
Starting the list with our Gold Medal of most dimwitted character on the show,
we decided to give it to Rigby.
While you could argue that Rigby improved as the series went on, for most of
the series, it was Rigby that started most of the conflicts that the park had to deal with.
We won’t be able to list most of the episodes, but there were many times Rigby’s lying,
laziness, ignorance, and incompetence nearly killed him, Mordecai, and their friends,
or nearly destroyed the park several times… and even the time he bet his own soul and
his friends' souls for a bowling ball. In the movie, it was Rigby that distracted
the volleyball team from winning, which ended up setting the course for Mr. Ross to attempt to
destroy space and time with the Timenado if Rigby didn’t apologize to him before it was too late.
For those reasons, we’re giving Rigby the Gold Medal for being dimwitted,
as the dumbest character on the show. Our Silver Medal of dumb is going to be Pops.
Pops is a carefree man who doesn’t always think things through. There were a couple of times
where he caused problems for the park. Like when he paid the park’s taxes with lollipops.
In the episode “Think Positive”, he barred Benson from yelling at Mordecai and Rigby,
and it ended up causing destruction at the park. At the end however, he was able to figure out how
to beat his brother Anti-Pops, and saved the universe.
Our Bronze Medal of dumb is going to Muscle Man. While Muscle Man isn’t as dimwitted as Rigby and
other characters, he has shown numerous times that he’s all brawn and no brains.
Like the time he got a lottery ticket for his birthday and he thought it was real until
Mordecai and Rigby revealed that it was fake. There have been times where Muscle Man has done
some clever things, like setting up pranks when no one expects it, or the time he fooled the Health
Inspector with him thinking the trailer was in his brother’s truck in the episode
“Trailer Trash”. But in that same episode, he also destroys his brother’s truck, showing that
he didn’t think things all the way through. Overall, while Muscle Man has had some clever
moments, he’s mainly a man who always acts before he thinks.
Next will be Muscle Man’s girlfriend and later wife, Starla.
Starla is a lot like Muscle Man, except she can be more destructive and merciless than him. She
will try to get revenge on anyone who wrongs her. Like when she was first introduced, she destroys
the entire park over Mordecai dumping her. She ranks higher because she does have some
competence… but because of her destructive matters, we can’t place her any higher.
Our next person on the list is going to be the other main character, Mordecai.
While Mordecai is responsible for some of the things he does with Rigby, he definitely has
more competence and responsibility than Rigby. He’s not afraid to call out Rigby and his other
friends when they're doing something wrong. In several episodes, Mordecai can be lazy and
irresponsible, but he has at least tried to make things right unlike Rigby. Like when he realized
that Margaret was happy in college and it wasn’t worth giving her the sweater for.
In the movie, it was Mordecai that tried to stop Mr. Ross from destroying space
and time until Rigby came and helped him. We can’t rank him any higher for some of
the same reasons as Rigby and the others, but we can put him here for good measure.
Our next person on the list is going to be the manager of the rival park, Gene.
Gene may be the park manager for East Pines, but he’s clearly not that smart.
In his debut episode “Prankless”, he challenged the park again after Muscle Man decided to quit
pranking. But when he refused to give up after Muscle Man got back into it, he got deeply
scarred after Muscle Man’s mirror prank and was forced to clean up the park and give up pranking.
And in the episode “Thomas Fights Back”, he was easily fooled by Thomas and lost
the statue that he stole. Next is the evil brother of
the guardians of eternal youth, Clorbane. Clorbane used to be just a bully back at
Walks’ (Skips) high school. After he killed Mona, he was defeated and was sent into a
cycle around the universe for 157 years. When he returned, he defeated Skips and he
was defeated by Mordecai and Rigby and was sent for another 157 year cycle. But we will mention
that he only defeated Skips because Skips’ hand got crushed by a piano right before the match.
If this was a Weak to Powerful ranking, he would definitely be ranked higher,
but in the brains department… its a different story. Afterall, he was failing school and only
cared about power rather than smarts. Now we are moving onto the Average
People. These are characters that are basically your average joe.
Our first average ranking is going to be Mordecai’s ex-girlfriend, CJ.
CJ is not exactly a dumb person, she’s smart in her own right. But we decided
to rank her this low because of her anger outbursts over simple misunderstandings.
A few times, she gets jealous really easily and prefers to shout out her anger before people
have a chance to explain themselves. She’s like Muscle Man where she acts
and turns into a storm cloud before she tries to understand what’s going on.
Next, we have the most logical of the park workers, High-Five Ghost.
High-Five Ghost is the soft spoken ghost of the group. While he doesn’t seem to talk much,
in the episode “The Button”, he was revealed to be the most logical of the whole park.
It may not be saying too much, but he is the brightest
character amongst all of his co-workers. Next is Garrett Bobby Ferguson, or GBF.
GBF was the universe record holder for the arcade game Broken Bonez. He tried to keep his record by
making up a fake sob story and attempting to sabotage Mordecai and Rigby. After he lost,
he exploded into goo in a fit of rage. Later in the series, when his son Garrett
Bobby Ferguson Jr. (who we’ll get to later.) he was proud of his son for reviving him,
but was foiled with a fake document. And became so disappointed in his son that he exploded again.
We placed him in the lower section of the Average because we’re sure it took great
skills to hold the universe record, but we didn't see anything else after that.
Next is the grim reaper of the show, Death.
We’re placing Death here because being like the grim reaper of the show, he knows who and
when is going to die, and keeping track of who goes to each underworld is no easy task.
He can make deals with people and knows how to get to them and find a way to take their soul.
However, we are docking points due to the obliviousness of his son Baby Thomas
being 300 years old and tricking him into taking care of him for who knows how long.
Next is one of the main villains of the show, Anti-Pops.
Anti-Pops is an evil overlord that ruled a massive space army.
He attempted to manipulate Pops and kill him before he gained his original powers.
However, we placed him in the average tier because he doesn’t have any real
motivation for destroying the universe. He just wants to do it because it’s in his
nature to do so. Plus he gives one star reviews to places he didn’t even go to.
The last person in the average tier is going to the park owner, Mr. Maellard.
Mr. Maellard is a smart businessman who tries to get as much money as he can. He was a meteorite
fragment salesman before he owned the park, and knows how to make a profit.
However, we’re placing him last in the average tier because he has yelled at Benson for things
Mordecai and Rigby have done, under the logic that Benson is in charge, it should
be his responsibility. And he didn’t bother to remember his name until he saved him from Susan.
We are now moving on to the College Bound tier. These are people that are
experts on what they do or they have a college degree.
Our first college bound character is going to be the park manager, Benson.
We’re placing Benson above Mr. Maellard because he’s more involved in the park
then Mr. Maellard is. He handles everything from checking, insurance, repairs, inspections, etc.
For as much as Benson yells at Mordecai and Rigby for being lazy slackers,
he mainly does it because he has more experience with the real world than the both of them,
and doesn’t want them to make some of the same mistakes that he did presumably in his 20’s.
Overall, Benson is a good park manager who we are happy to take over the park in the series finale.
Next is our news reporter and Mordecai’s former love interest, Margaret.
Margaret started out as a waitress at a coffee store, but eventually at the
end of season four, she got into her dream college and after graduating,
she accomplished her dream of becoming a successful news reporter like her dad.
We’re giving her this spot on the list because she is one of the few confirmed
characters that have a college degree. And she does a damn good job at being a newswoman.
Next is the previous intern to the park and secret russian spy, Thomas.
We’re giving Thomas this spot on the list because of how well he is at being undercover.
In the episode “Thomas Fights Back”, Thomas goes undercover as one of
Gene’s interns to get the statue back, and completely outsmarts him in the process.
He also had gone undercover as the park intern to try and get
the park to Russia. He was able to keep it a secret from his debut episode all
the way until season six when he exposed himself and their plans.
For him to keep it a secret for that long shows how smart Thomas is.
In our last spot in the College Bound tier, we’re giving it to Rigby’s younger brother, Don.
Don is an accountant that is both brains and brawn. He helped the park from being audited,
and he helped Rigby with advice on how to do bank shots to win a
match against cash. And he’s shown to be a black belt in martial arts.
While we don’t see Don much in the series, what we do see is that he’s a successful accountant and
can put up a good fight if he wanted to, and that he deserves to be put on this spot on the list.
Finally, we have reached the Geniuses of Regular
Show. These are people that will know what to do when something bad happens.
Our first genius is going to Rigby’s girlfriend and eventual wife, Eileen.
Unlike her boyfriend/husband Rigby, Eileen is considered to be a genius among her friends.
She can guess whenever Rigby tries to take her somewhere on a date, talk about a bunch of facts
for astronomy, and even corrects Mordecai what constellation he was talking about without even
looking up in the sky while playing a video game in the episode “Camping can be Cool”.
She was one of the college students that got straight A’s in her classes and got
her college degree right before season 8 started.
For those reasons, we’re giving Eileen the first spot of geniuses, just outside of the Top 3.
Our Bronze Medal of Brains goes to the movie antagonist, Mr. Ross.
Mr. Ross was a science teacher and a volleyball coach. After Mordecai and
Rigby accidentally created a Timenado, he found a way to harness its power to
destroy space and time to get back at Rigby for ruining his volleyball game.
He also manipulated future Mordecai to join him and be his right hand man. He
was very close to succeeding in his plans if
not for Rigby destroying his collar and sending him inside the Timenado
While he was able to harness a massive destructive power
to attempt to destroy the universe, there are two beings that outrank him in smarts.
Our Silver Medal of Brains is going to the master of time, Father Time.
We’re giving Father Time the Silver Medal because
he knows everything that’s going to happen in every possible timeline.
He gives Mordecai a do-over after he shows him that was jealous and essentially created
a new timeline. And he tells Rigby how to fix the timeline with both Mordecai to fix his
friendship, and Mr. Ross to prevent the Timenado from being used again.
However, he gets the Silver Medal because he has less screen time than everyone else on the
list. Otherwise, he would have won the Gold Medal if he had appeared more on the show.
And finally, we are happy to say that the Gold
Medal of Brains and the smartest being in Regular Show is of course, Skips.
Because of Skips’ immortality, he has the most experience than
everyone else on Earth. There have been numerous times where everyone,
especially Mordecai and Rigby, have come to Skips to help with a problem they have to fix.
For most of the episodes, he has been the main source for helping people on what to do with
a problem and how to get out of it. There were a couple times however that Skips either didn’t know
what to do, or was wrong about. Like how he didn’t know to fix a virus on a computer or being wrong
about giving Pops more sugar until he crashes, instead just eating something that healthy.
But in those cases, Skips just took it as for how to do it next time so
it wouldn’t happen again to anyone else. And we’re proud to give Skips
the Gold Medal of Geniuses and declare him the smartest being in Regular Show.
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