regular show is anything but a shocking statement to start off i know but one of the biggest appeals
to the show is how it starts off like an average day that quickly can turn into a multitude of
unexplainably weird adventures from grounded street level journeys to universal expanding
voyages the final season of regular show itself encompasses the weirdness by taking the story
completely into space and having a through-line narrative between pretty much every episode rather
than these stand-alone wacky episode regular show remains one of the shows that will completely go
left when it's heading right the mundane to madness workplace buddy comedy always filled
its 11-minute segment run times with entertaining nonsense that played on the edge of a kids show
and something slightly more adult and which is a direction the creator would venture off to
after regular show would come to an end but today let's take a look at how this seemingly
innocent show ended its eight season run with a funny yet emotional episode that would blow
the minds of fans and cement itself as one of the most interesting and best endings
to a show out there this is the shockingly weird way regular show ended we don't care
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video makes sense to me jg quintel has had one of the most exciting runs for cartoon network on a
variety of shows to then creating some of his own from attending cal arts with thorp van orman the
creative behind the marvelous misadventures of flapjack and pendleton ward who took the world
by storm with adventure time initially working on star wars clone wars as an apprentice no not that
type of apprentice the type of apprentice that revises storyboards to then working on camp laszlo
as well as the creative director for flapjack before he would be invited to cartoon network's
cartoon institute there has to be a better name for that to pitch and show off creative ideas
that could have a chance of going beyond just a short having had some characters created for
his student films he inevitably came up with a visual pitch instead of a verbal pitch as the
idea of regular show is for sure a harder concept to explain rather than just show what it was both
craig mccracken and rob renzetti were pretty on board with what jg had to show and the project
was greenlit at the same time he would work with ward on adventure time keeping his schedule pretty
full at cartoon network from 2010 to 2017 regular show would span eight seasons for a total of 261
individual segments and even a movie in 2015. to say that regular show made quite the impact on the
network would be a massive understatement along with the one-two punch of adventure time running
simultaneously this would be a part of the new age cartoon network is still currently in you could
make a million videos talking about almost any episode from the show to speak about how fun weird
and downright interesting the show consistently was but season 8 in general completely diverts
from its usual to deliver something special the first episode of season 8 one space day at a time
sets in motion an overarching story that takes our lovable slackers and company into the stars
and that culminates in an ending only regular show could produce starting off with a domed
over park being sent into space a plot point from the previous season where the dome was part of an
experiment and during the season 7 finale after rigby graduates they somehow get sent into orbit
after hitting a button with secret motives from mr maylard the owner of the park so to end season
seven on such a massive cliffhanger and to have drip-fed this space mystery a bit before we even
get to season 8 was a sneaky and cool way to prepare us for something rather different later
on throughout their space ventures we arrive at a space vhs store that claims pops is the chosen one
where a special vhs that contains the past and origins of pops it explains how mr maylord found
him as a baby with a scroll about two brothers one of good and one of evil who were destined
to fight one another pops has been experiencing some changes and powers and for good reason he
needs to train to master his abilities and prepare to fight against his evil counterpart after pops
takes on intense training to hone his powers and skills he wants nothing more than to not face off
against anti-pops which is just pops but he's evil through meditation he's able to contact anti-pops
right inside his head as we see how pops tries to reason with anti-pops where then he is tricked
into believing that there is a way to settle this battle without a fight as he thinks that there is
still good inside of anti-pops when they confront each other pops tries to extend a hug of peace hm
foreshadowing maybe but that didn't work and a fight breaks out but this battle shows off
their powers against each other in action with pops finding anti-pops's erasing powers to be
overpowering as the rest of the park's crew has to swoop in to rescue him and pops his trainer
giving his life to save them as they escape now with the battle coming up they must travel to his
home world of loliland to fulfill the destiny of battling anti-pops in which pop still struggles
with this conflict he's terrified on both ends of not being able to save the universe and of course
being in this fight in general this whole build up throughout season 8 felt like a celebration
of explaining the method of the madness we've seen for the seasons before as it pays tribute to the
character of pops and his journey of just being this happy-go-lucky fella to the sole defense
against the destruction and reset of everything there's a touching episode before the end where
everyone spends time cheering up pops and making sure he knows that they have his back no matter
what to commemorate their life and times together they save their memories as individual moments to
be put on a blu-ray box set which in real life does not exist and i'm not happy about that fact
i know it's all on streaming but it's not the same i'll fight for physical over-streaming
any day wait is that foreshadowing be right back everyone coming up next regular show
let's get into the finale of the show starting off with pops having nightmares about himself losing
the battle and being scared to fight anti-pops now as they arrive at his home planet of loliland the
guardian statue explains about this exact battle happening every 14 billion years as a part of a
universe resetting cycle we get a further deep dive into the history of pops how him
and his planetary race of people came to be seeing that when the perfect ultimate creation
in pops was created there needed to be a balance thus giving birth to anti-pops every cycle this
has all happened before the same people in the same places ending in the same result
a draw no one wins as when the fists collide the impact causes the universe to reset once more
and so on the cycle goes this time has to be different though so the rest of the crew try to
strategize setting up traps to catch anti-pops off guard once the battle starts but pops is
hesitant due to his good nature but allows them to all go through with setting them up
once anti-pops arrives pops offers another chance to reason with him for peace but it
doesn't work which springs the traps into action but all of those efforts fall flat as anti-pops
is completely fine and more ready to fight than ever a deal is made for the duel however
the first to knock over the other settles the fate of the universe as when they rip off their shirts
they're both ripped from martial arts to then their abilities pops actually gets the upper hand
knocking over anti-pops and the battle ends in pop's favor is what should have been but
anti-pops breaks the deal and continues the fight the henchmen begin to enter the fight as they go
after the rest of the park's crew but once the literal embodiment of streaming shows up to
aid on the side of anti-pops i enter the fight because i said i'll fight streaming okay well
you know that of course that didn't happen but physical media does as hd dvd and blu-ray show
up to the fight along with a plethora of cameos from characters throughout the show's run show up
for one more intense and over-the-top battle it pulls off the same feeling as avengers end game
two years before that movie even happened i sensed some regular show fans on the writing team over at
marvel jokes aside as pops handles anti-pops and mordecai along with rigby fight off the henchmen
in aerial combat the rest of the crew and the backup combined forces to turn into a giant
mech to fight streaming with hd dvd and blu-ray ultimately landing the crushing blow with their
superior sound quality compared to streaming and that just makes me feel so justified in
why i love physical media thank you regular show anti-pops however has grown more and more powerful
growing in size and starts to erase everything in sight but once he fully erases muscle man and
high five ghosts pops can no longer hold back in his ultimate power growing massive to match
anti-pops the battle becomes more intense and the big colliding punch seems to be happening
so in a last-second effort mordecai and rigby fly directly in between the punch and in a flash that
seems to reset the universe and find ourselves back in the original episode of the show the power
yeah it just cuts to the original first episode of the show i'm sure someone watching this
live had to be totally confused and thought something happened and cartoon network messed
up their broadcast but this confusion would be short-lived as rigby quickly remembers every
journey and adventure they've ever been on up until the final battle he tries to explain this
to mordecai but it doesn't hit him until they dig up that blu-ray set that was just made for them
and it works but what doesn't work is the fact that we still don't have this blu-ray they then
realize that they aren't back in time they are frozen in time in this pseudo-pocket dimension so
they use the power of the keyboard to fling them back to the battle still raging on during this
pops gets knocked back into his own past as the original jg quintel short of the naive man from
loliland stuff like this specifically is what i love to see these little inside jokes and moments
and the creators getting to go full-on bonkers with their vision offering a visual treat not
only for the audience but for the fans furthering this into the whole fabric of the show unraveling
with the characters turning into production notes and storyboards it has been something
i feel we have seen more and more recently and even in quintel's newest show close enough with
the daughter character somehow breaking into cartoon network's offices to see the production
of the show being made but it just doesn't get old it's truly a fun little meta spectacle that
adds a layer of appreciation to the creative process now as the fight is looking grim pops
wants to go in for a different approach one that was foreshadowed several episodes back and now
trying to settle the score with kindness rather than fight pops goes in for a hug to help balance
out anti-pops's evil heart as they barrel towards the sun and in these final moments anti-pops loses
the struggle of evil and finally accepts the love into his heart as they both crash into the sun pop
sacrifices himself a selfless act that would not only end the battle and save the universe
but stop this cycle from continuing further we then cut back to earth as the dome returns with
everyone back home cheering on their arrival we see as everyone celebrates this that life goes on
a statue for pops is put up and the park crew gets older they are now able to live their lives start
families and all with no threat of this great reset all that is missing is pops a main character
in this seemingly day-to-day nothingness show gave up their life to save everyone from certain doom
it's beautiful and touching how well done this is 25 years after we meet with mordecai and
rigby once more they reminisce on their lives and how they got to the spot in life that they're at
all while we pull back and see that this was all being watched from a vhs titled regular show from
pops himself in the afterlife as he says jolly good show and the sounds of david bowie's heroes
plays as we end this seemingly regular show and if that didn't hit you right in the feels
that moment right there then i don't know what will how hard did you hit your head yeah yeah yeah
in the end this finale nay the whole season is such a weird diversion from the original setup of
the show but it feels so much more impactful that it did something so different it left the series
at a truly memorable moment each episode has a connective tissue leading the adventure with a
constant beat by beat story that takes the wacky nothingness journeys and fuses it together with a
mystery thriller that leads to a satisfying emotionally driven ending it's something so
unexpected from the show that you almost feel like you should have expected it the charm of
the show about the day-to-day life at the park is still there they found a great way to still
incorporate those feelings within the park being their spaceship essentially with this allowing
for intergalactic adventures with some silly non-consequential side quests to story-driven
plot points that build towards the gravitas of the ending it's not only a good ending it's a great
ending easily one of the best out there in modern times that i can recall the whole ending sequence
of time passing the rest of the crew's life going by as their futures are all being watched on a vhs
tape by pops in the afterlife it's beautiful the show especially in the last season didn't shy away
from death most times at the expense of a gag or joke but to kill off a main character it's a
lot harder and for the sacrifice made especially it was for a purpose for the universe to be safe
for his friends to be safe while the show had connecting stories before plot points that
would flow through multiple episodes and character traits that don't just disappear when the episode
ends it was nothing like how this final season handled this larger and well-told narrative to me
this intimate slice of the park life really connected the relationships of all these
characters further it was all unexpected and well executed but those are just my opinions how do you
feel about the ending of regular show did it have the same impact on you it was intending to go for
or was season 8's changes and structure a distraction let me know in the comments thanks
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