Review: Regular Show “Tent Trouble”

Spoilers Below

Now we’re back to the Regular Show we know and love. Mordecai and Rigby screw up CJ’s new tent that she bought for the camping trip that her, Eileen, Rigby, and Mordecai are going on. CJ said she bought it because Mordecai and Rigby liked camping so much. Judging from the first few seconds of the episode, I think that’s a little false. I could be wrong, though.

The formula is still there, and I am in my happy place. Mordecai has resumed beating on Rigby for not playing cool at least four times, and it reminds me of when the show first started. After going to the camping store to find CJ’s tent costs over $200, Mordecai and Rigby try to get Benson to give them extra work to raise the funds to get the tent, but Benson stops that right away because the work doesn’t get done. Are you getting that nostalgia feeling back, yet?

So, we get a montage Mordecai and Rigby screwing up all of these odd jobs to the tune of Takin’ Care of Business by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, but it leads them right back to the park snack bar. Of course, the episode has to take that turn to the unconventional means when conventional goes up in flames. No, seriously, all of the jobs ended in explosions and fire. That leads into Muscle Man telling the Mordecai and Rigby about how to make $400 if they can last two minutes with Starla and her sister, Peggy.

I dig this nod to the WWE, because Starla and Peggy had a very WWE entrance, complete with entrance video. All that was missing was Howard Finkel as the ring announcer. Watching Benson take total pleasure in Mordecai’s pain was hilarious. Actually, this entire episode is a must watch. You can’t go wrong with two women going ham on two guys in a mud wrestling ring, and watching Mordecai and Rigby take the beating like champs was the crust to this mud pie.

Overall, “Tent Trouble” really was a nod to seasons past. The overall story really felt like a throwback, because it was just a really good Mordecai and Rigby story, without the useless worrying from Mordecai about Margaret. That was the worst. Everything is streamlined, and felt like the perfect combination of old school nostalgia, and new school experience. That mixture helped craft one of the best episodes of Regular Show in recent memory, and definitely best episode of this season.