Kupowered: The Regular Show is Pretty Great.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

The Regular Show is Pretty Great.

So, I haven't really been in the best mood today. To say that I've been "blah" is a bit optimistic, but the only real problem it's created is that I've sat here for two hours staring at a blank screen wondering just what to write. And my mind has kept wandering to, in my opinion, the best Cartoon out there at the moment: The Regular Show. And I just...had no real idea on how to do an actual blogpost about it, because I don't want to link to, y'know, full episodes since that might become a felony at some point, but then I realized, hey, Cartoon Network should have clips. And they do.

Basically, the premise of The Regular Show is to be a goddamn cartoon and be funny. You don't get a lot of those these days, in all honesty. Some just want to be 'creative' for creativity's sake, some want to use it as a delivery method of ideals or whatnot, but The Regular Show? Nah. It's about two slackers who work at a park. And....work is used loosely here. Mordecai, a Blue Jay, and Rigby, a raccoon, are just best buds who like playing video games, hanging out, and looking out for number one. It's evocative of older shows, where they come up with absurd ideas to make money and fail spectacularly and hilariously, but they duo aren't always looking for money.

In this clip they are, though. (Embedding is disabled, sorry you'll just have to live with links.) They just want a little cash for tickets to Fist Pump, a rather popular band in the Regular Show universe. And they're using their new friends who are coffee dealers to help! In 80s Montage style.

And in this clip Mordecai and Rigby are having a bit of a wrestling match with.....well, they're just having a wrestling match. At home. Which you probably shouldn't do.

And here, Rigby discovers the best plate ever and the duo quickly decide such a great plate deserves a delicious treat atop it, but discover a personal shortcoming preventing them from achieving that.

So, if you're particularly inclined to watching cartoons, consider this the highest recommendation I can offer. I absolutely love the show and hope you do too.

3 comments:

ChanceJuly 8, 2011 at 4:41 AM
Goddamned not-available-in-your-country videos! Oh the international humanity!
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MogsJuly 8, 2011 at 7:04 PM
D'oh. Figures. Well, there's other videos out there on youtube that can let you get a taste of the show if you care to look around. Do you even get Cartoon Network in Canada, though? Or is there an 'equivalent' channel?
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ChanceJuly 9, 2011 at 4:50 AM
There's sort-of an equivalent channel, but like our Comedy Network there's often missing shows (we don't really get an Adult Swim, for example).

Usually it's fine, 'cause we don't know what we're missing out on.
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This is going to be many things, but first and foremost, it is, quite simply and unsurprisingly, a place for me to write. Sometimes about video games, sometimes about movies, and other times, just to write out mini-stories and the like. As an outlet for me, it will likely reflect how I am; at times it will be entertaining, and other times it will be informative. I just hope that every time it's interesting at the very least.

The current goal is a post every other day to settle myself in; eventually, I will seek to post every day, if just to raise an inquiry that I've found I've tripped over most of that day, or to retell an amusing, or perhaps less so, tale from the day. I find that I can be long-winded at times, so perhaps this will be less of a concern than I imagine!

While it would make sense to change this to grow as "Kupowered" does, I hope to keep this just as it is and, sometime down the road, re-read it with a slight chuckle and mumble to myself, "I did it." So take this as a mission statement, if you will, and we will see how it works out!

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A Look Back: In lieu of reviews (which I might do in the future), these posts will be fond recollections of older games from my past, telling you why I believe them to be good and why you might be interested in playing them.
Giant Robot On: I like Giant Robots. Who doesn't? These posts will always be talking about something with Giant Robots in it, be it video games or anime or movies.
Less-Short Story: On occasion, inspiration will hit me and I'll want to write a short story or, as the name implies, expand on a story from my old Ficly. That will be these posts.
LittleBigThings: In these posts, I will be discussing (read: gushing about) things in the LittleBigPlanet series of games, from the game itself, to user-created levels, to my own adventures in Craftworld.
Music!: Fairly self-Explanatory. In these posts, I will talk (gush) about music I like, and possibly music that I don't care for.
Popcorn On: These posts will revolve around movies that I've seen that are just great in one way or another. The aim is to give you enough to interest you into seeing it without giving too much so that you feel you know what's going to happen.
Quick Note: These will usually be, as can be expected, short posts to keep in touch with the blog and it's readers if I'm not prepared for a full post or if I'm updating on a past post.
Ragequit: Completely opposite of A Look Back, these posts will be about the few games I've had to quit playing because they just weren't fun. (Or that I might have finished, but still hated.)

There will likely be more types of posts added in the future that will be explained here.