Mordecai and Rigby finally get fired. Say goodbye to Regular Show.
Okay. I'll go get the shovel. Cartoon Network announced that Regular Show, created and executive produced by JG Quintel, will end after season 8. That means it’s time start lying at 100 percent. The network promised that the Emmy-winning series will head “into space for an out-of-this-world series finale.”
“From JG's original pitch on post-it notes, through eight successful seasons and more than 250 episodes produced, Regular Show has been one of the most original animated series of this generation creating indelible characters and signature comedy mayhem laced with heart,” Cartoon Network's chief content officer Rob Sorcher said in a statement.
Regular Showis about “two friends Mordecai (Quintel) and Rigby (William Salyers) who work as groundskeepers who tend to have lazy afternoons or crazy misadventures with their friends,” according to the official press release.
But they are leaving the grounds behind as season eight “will now take place entirely in outer space.”
Regular Show ended season 7 on a massive cliffhanger. The Park was ripped from earth and took Mordecai, Rigby and the gang with it.
Regular Show’s last season will be an intergalactic battle of good vs evil that will include Pops, Benson, Muscle Man (all voiced by Sam Marin) and Skip (Mark Hamill).
Regular Show began as a project by Quintel during his time as a student at CalArts, and was the first series to be greenlit from Cartoon Network Studio’s Artists Program in 2008.
“Making Regular Show has been so much fun,” Quintel added. “We got to tell all of the stories we wanted to tell, and making the choice to go out exactly how we want to go out. We’re so proud and excited for people to see how we’re wrapping things up in a big, big way. We're bringing everything full circle.”
Regular Show won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program in 2012 for the episode “Eggscellent.” It has been nominated for five Emmys since its debut. The series also spawned a feature-length film, Regular Show: The Movie, which premiered on Cartoon Network in 2015.
The panic ensues beginning Monday, Sept. 26 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT) on Cartoon Network. New Regular Show episodes will air weeknights through January 2017.
