Regular show a serious talk
3 years ago more....
Mordecai ending up with the bat girl at the end isn't bad writing, in fact it shows Mordecai's growth as he moves away from the park and onward with his life.
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Slapstick humor aside, Regular Show actually has a heart beneath its comedic exterior that allows for some profound teachable moments.
When Mordecai gets rejected by his love interest, Margaret, in “Laundry Woes,” he falls into a deep state of depression that you don’t typically see in a children’s show. Going through the motions, like sitting in the dark and crying while listening to depressing music and wishing he was dead, Mordecai shows a level of vulnerability that’s not commonly portrayed in a cartoon with a TV-PG rating.
Regular Show playfully unpacks Mordecai’s existential dread as he overcomes his first real heartbreak. The episode takes him on a 20-hour long drive to Margaret’s college campus so he can return her missing sweater that he found while doing the laundry.
Through a series of vivid hallucinations, Mordecai eventually comes to his senses, and with the help of his friends, finds the strength to move on with his life without the companionship he thought he so desperately nee