Regular Show season 2 explained

Season Number:2
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Network:Cartoon Network
Num Episodes:28
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Next Season:Season 3
Episode List:List of Regular Show episodes

The second season of the American animated television series Regular Show, created by J. G. Quintel, originally aired on Cartoon Network in the United States. Quintel created the series' pilot using characters from his comedy shorts for the canceled anthology series The Cartoonstitute. He developed Regular Show from his own experiences in college. Simultaneously, several of the show's main characters originated from his animated shorts 2 in the AM PM and The Naïve Man from Lolliland. Following its first season's success, Regular Show was renewed for a second season in 2009, ahead of its premiere. The season ran from November 29, 2010, to August 1, 2011, and was produced by Cartoon Network Studios.

Regular Shows second season was storyboarded and written by Quintel, Sean Szeles, Shion Takeuchi, Benton Connor, Calvin Wong, Paul Scarlata, Kat Morris, Mike Roth, John Infantino, Minty Lewis, Henry Yu, and Dennis Messmer. For this season, the writers were Quintel, Roth, Infantino, Michele Cavin, and Matt Price, who is also the story editor.

Development

Concept

Two 23-year-old friends,[1] a blue jay named Mordecai and a raccoon named Rigby, are employed as groundskeepers at a park and spend their days trying to slack off and entertain themselves by any means. This is much to the chagrin of their boss Benson and their coworker Skips, but the delight of Pops. Their other coworkers, Muscle Man (an overweight green man) and Hi-Five Ghost (a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head) serve as their rivals.

Production

Many of the characters are loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts: The Naive Man From Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM. Quintel pitched Regular Show for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute project, in which the network allowed artists to create pilots with no notes to be optioned as a show possibly. After The Cartoonstitute was scrapped, and Cartoon Network executives approved the greenlight for Regular Show, production officially began on August 14, 2009.[2] After being green-lit, Quintel recruited several indie comic book artists to compose the show's staff, as their style matched close to what he desired for the series. The season was storyboarded and written by Quintel, Sean Szeles, Shion Takeuchi, Benton Connor, Calvin Wong, Paul Scarlata, Kat Morris, Mike Roth, John Infantino, Minty Lewis, Henry Yu, and Dennis Messmer. For this season, the writers were Quintel, Roth, Infantino, Michele Cavin, and Matt Price, who is also the story editor while being produced by Cartoon Network Studios.

The second season of Regular Show was produced between August 2010 to November 2010. It utilizes double entendres and mild language; Quintel stated that, although the network wanted to step up from the more child-oriented fare, some restrictions came with this switch.

Episodes

See also: List of Regular Show episodes.

Home media

Warner Home Video released multiple DVDs, consisting of region 1 formats.Slack Pack, The Best DVD in the World *At this Moment in Time, Party Pack, Fright Pack, Mordecai & Margaret Pack and Rigby Pack were created for Region 1 markets containing episodes from the second season.

Full season release

The Complete First & Second Seasons was released on Blu-ray and DVD on July 16, 2013.

Regular Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons
Set details[3] [4] Special features
  • 40 episodes
  • 2-disc set (Blu-ray)
    3-disc set (DVD)
  • 1.78:1 aspect ratio
  • Subtitles: English
  • English (Dolby Stereo)
  • Episode commentaries
  • Deleted scenes
  • The Naive Man from Lolliland student short
  • CG Test for Hodgepodge Monster
  • Hot Topic interview
  • Pops character reading by Sam Marin
  • Original drawings of the main characters
  • Original Post-it used to pitch Regular Show
  • Unaired "Regular Show" pilot
  • Sam Marin singing Blitzkrieg Bop
  • J. G. pitches "The Power"
  • Animatic for the unaired pilot
  • Animatic for "The Power"
  • Pencil test drawings
  • Comic-Con 2010 teaser trailer
  • Party Tonight music video
  • Original Regular Show commercials
Release dates
Region 1Region 2Region 4Region ARegion B
N/AThe Complete First Season: [5]
The Complete Second Season: [6]
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Notes and References

  1. The Power . Regular Show . Cartoon Network . September 6, 2010 . 1 . 1 . Dude, we're 23 years old, we shouldn't be busting holes in walls..
  2. Web site: Cartoon Network Announces Comedy Animation Greenlights . . August 13, 2009 . May 21, 2013 . Lach, Dawn . https://web.archive.org/web/20090818231649/http://news.turner.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=4597 . August 18, 2009.
  3. Web site: Regular Show: Season 1 & Season 2 . Amazon . March 16, 2013.
  4. Web site: Regular Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons Blu-ray . Blu-ray.com/Warner Bros. Home Entertainment . March 14, 2013 . March 14, 2013.
  5. Web site: Buy Regular Show: Season 1 on DVD-Video from EzyDVD.com.au. EzyDVD. January 28, 2014.
  6. Web site: Buy Regular Show: Season 2 on DVD-Video from EzyDVD.com.au. EzyDVD. January 28, 2014.
  7. Web site: Buy Regular Show: Season 1 & 2 on Blu-ray from EzyDVD.com.au. EzyDVD. January 28, 2014.