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"New Year's Kiss" is the fourteenth episode of Regular Show's fifth season (and one hundredth-thirtieth episode overall). It first aired on December 31, 2013.
Synopsis[]
Rigby has to stop Mordecai from kissing a girl on New Year’s Eve.
Plot[]
Mordecai, Rigby, Hi-Five Ghost, Thomas, and Muscle Man are sitting at the coffee shop, discussing their New Year's Resolutions. Muscle Man decides to work on his muscles, Hi-Five Ghost wants to learn a second language, Thomas wants to help out his mom more (a resolution Rigby thinks is lame, but Muscle Man respects), and Rigby simply declares the coming year will be the "year of the Rigby." Mordecai's resolution is to be more forward with women, due to his hesitation with Margaret. Shortly after, a girl with snake hair and her friends walk into the coffee shop and sit down at a table, exchanging glances with Mordecai. He is encouraged by the guys to go talk to her. After a conversation, he comes back to the table revealing that he got the phone number of the girl, Tracy, and plans to invite her to the Park's masquerade party.
When Rigby goes to use the restroom, a future version of himself in hologram form appears. After establishing that he is really future Rigby by stating his New Year's resolution, he warns him of several events that happen at the New Year's party, which includes Mordecai kissing a girl he shouldn't kiss, demanding that Rigby stop the kiss from happening. He says that he can't give anymore details, but tells Rigby that this is the only way Mordecai will be happy. Rigby is hesitant at first, but after having a nightmare that night involving everything future Rigby told him, he promptly flushes Tracy's number down the toilet. That morning, Mordecai easily figures out that Rigby did something with the number and doesn't believe Rigby's story about his future self. Just as Rigby is convincing him to just come to the party to hang out with his friends, Tracy calls him. He invites her to the party, which she accepts.
Going downstairs, Rigby sees Muscle Man making preparations to streak at the party. Noticing that everything lines up with what future Rigby said, he runs out of the house and seeks advice on what to do from Skips. Skips doesn't offer much, but tells him that because he was already visited by his future self, he will probably fail. Above all, he shouldn't overthink the situation.
At the party, Rigby is worried about the predictions of future Rigby. Fortunately, Mordecai's date with Tracy isn't going well. Rigby overhears Tracy telling a friend she's going to kiss Mordecai to make her boyfriend jealous. Rigby explains this to Mordecai, who locks Rigby in the restroom to prevent him from messing up the kiss. Rigby is visited once more by his future self, who tells him to escape through the air vent and provides him with a device to slow down time. Rigby uses the device and identifies silhouettes of Tracy and Mordecai right before the clock strikes 12. As predicted, Pops opens a bottle of sparking apple juice too early, Muscle Man tears off his pants and streaks in a diaper, then Tracy and Mordecai inch in to kiss. Rigby tackles Mordecai at the strike of midnight, only to find out that Tracy and her boyfriend had reconciled and the boyfriend was wearing a mask in the shape of Mordecai's head.
Mordecai informs Rigby that he found out about the boyfriend and left Tracy alone. Happy that his efforts seemingly succeeded, Rigby chest-bumps Mordecai which causes him to bump into a girl behind him. After a brief conversation, the girl and Mordecai take a moment to look at all the kissing couples surrounding them. She suggests that since it is still midnight, they could still make the best of this. Before Mordecai can fully understand, she suddenly kisses him. After a brief pause, he becomes fully receptive of it and they continue. When they remove their masks after the kiss, Mordecai realizes he has kissed CJ, whom he hasn't seen since the events of Yes Dude Yes. Rigby, who is now confused about what kiss he was supposed to prevent, retreats to the restroom. As Mordecai turns back to CJ, he sees her running out of the building, leaving only her mask on the floor. Mordecai is left alone, staring at CJ's mask in his hand as the party presses on.
Characters[]
- Rigby
- Mordecai
- Future Rigby
- Tracy Hashtag
- Muscle Man
- Hi Five Ghost
- Thomas
- Pops
- Eileen
- Skips
- Benson
- CJ
- Tommy
- Party Host
Locations[]
Trivia[]
- As the title implies, it is an episode based around New Year's Eve/Day.
- The episode even aired on the same holiday.
- Muscle Man can be heard yelling "Noice" in the episode. this references popular internet memes involving alternative spellings such as "Boi".
- It's unknown to this day what future Rigby was talking about in the bathroom, or which girl (Tracy or CJ) Mordecai wasn’t supposed to kiss.
- Tracy's number is 555-0155.
- These are everyone's New Year's resolutions:
- Mordecai's resolution is to be more forward with women.
- Rigby's resolution is to make it the "Year of the Rigby."
- Muscle Man's resolution is to work more on his muscles.
- HFG's resolution is to learn a second language.
- Thomas' resolution is to help his mom out more.
- Eileen's resolution is to work on her Craft Blog more but she won't have time to do that until the Coffee Shop hires another waitress.
Episode Connections[]
- This marks CJ's first appearance since "Yes Dude Yes".
- This is also the first time she and Mordecai kiss, which would lead to their reconciliation as friends in the following episode, and would later in the season become an official couple.
- Rigby finding a guy who has the same hair style as Mordecai is a reference to when Mordecai found a girl who has the same hair style as Margaret.[1][2].
Pop Culture References[]
- Rigby described his New Year's resolution as "Year of the Rigby", this is a reference to the Chinese cultural zodiac years. (Click to View)
Production Notes[]
- This is the last Regular Show episode to air in 2013.
Goofs[]
- The two people behind Mordecai and Rigby in the coffee shop disappear when Mordecai asks what Muscle Man's resolution is.
Official Releases[]
- On iTunes and Amazon Prime, the episode was paired with "The Heart of a Stuntman" under "Volume Seven". It was released digitally on December 31, 2013 for the price of $2.99 in HD, or $1.99 in SD.
- This episode is available as part of the following DVD sets: