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"Over the Top" is the twenty-first episode of Season Two (and thirty-third episode overall) of Regular Show. It first aired on May 23, 2011.
Synopsis[]
In a flashback, Skips accidentally kills Rigby during an arm-wrestling match. In the present, Skips arm-wrestles with Death to bring Rigby back to life.
Plot[]
At the hospital, Rigby is pronounced dead by a doctor, who then covers his corpse up wjth a blanket and offers his condolences to a mournful Mordecai, Benson, Pops, Skips. Mordecai then says to Skips, spitefully, "You couldn't let it go. Well, I hope you got what you wanted", and all except Skips leave, who looks at Rigby's corpse wjth remorse.
The episode flashes back to a few days previous at McHooligan's. Benson is boasting how Skips is the strongest of all, which leads everyone challenging to arm wrestle him, and to no surprise they all lose. Rigby decides to challenge Skips, which results in laughter due to Rigby's slim to none possibility of winning, but Skips agrees anyways to humor him. However, Rigby beats Skips with complete ease, and beats him again after she insists he wasn’t ready. Everyone else leaves while congratulating a smug Rigby, leaving Skips at the table shocked and speechless.
The next day, after he laments about how Rigby beat him, Pops comforts Skips, telling him he just had a bad day, and to demand a rematch from Rigby. He finds Rigby with Mordecai in the living room playing video games, and after Rigby refuses a rematch, and continues to mock Skips over losing, Skips breaks their console and leaves. Later at Skips' house, Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson walk in and Benson tells Skips he has to pay for their console. Skips says he will in exchange for a rematch, telling Benson "You wouldn't understand". Rigby accepts the match but wins easily once more.
Later, the gang decides to go back to McHooligan's with Skips out of the picture. Mordecai then realizes he forgot his drink ticket and runs back to his room when he finds Skips trashing it looking through Rigby's stuff. After Skips laments to Mordecai over Rigby somehow beung stronger than him, Mordecai decides to reveal that Rigby has been prancing him, sayuing "two words - Playco Armyboy" as he finds his drink ticket and leaves. Skips looks up Playco Armboy online, which is a metal contraption worn and concealed along the arm to cheat at arm wrestling, leaving Skips furious, and more determined than ever to beat Rigby.
At McHooligan's, Skips enters, silently challenges Rigby, who smugly agrees tom boasting about his strength again. However, Skips instead rips off Rigby's PlayCo Armboy in front of everyone. He then arm wrestles a nervous Rigby, now without the PlayCo Armboy, and smashes him against the table hard enough it breaks in two, killing him.
Back in the present in the hospital room, Skips apologizes to Rigby for killing him. Death then enters, and Skips makes a deal with him to arm wrestle to bring Rigby back, wagering his own immortal soul if he were to lose (something Death has been after for years), but if he won, Rigby will be brought back to life. The match soon begins, and the table begins to float up into the air and spin vigorously. After the long struggle between the two, Skips ends up winning, thanks to Playco Armboy, thereby getting Rigby's soul back. Death keeps his promise but swears he will get Skip's soul one day, and hawks a loogie into Rigby's mouth, resurrecting him as he leaves on his motorcycle.
Skips apologizes to Rigby for what happened, which Rigby accepts and forgives him for. Rigby’s impressed at Skips using reveals that he used the PlayCo Armboy to beat Death, which they have a laugh over, but Skios then seriously tells Rigby he shouldn’t cheat, and he only did it to save his life.
As they leave the room, Rigby says they should prank the rest of the gang since they all currently think he’s still dead, but Skips says he thinks he’s done with pranks for a while.
Characters[]
- Skips
- Rigby
- Mordecai
- Benson
- Pops
- Muscle Man
- Hi Five Ghost
- Death
- Doctor
- Ghost Referee
Locations[]
- Park
- McHooligan's
- The Hospital
Video[]
Trivia[]
Pop Culture References[]
- The title of the episode is a reference to the 1987 movie classic Over the Top starring Sylvester Stallone as a truck-driving single father who enters an arm-wrestling contest to win a new truck.
- When Mordecai and Rigby are playing their guitar video game, Mordecai instructs Rigby to use the combination 'Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right', this is the first half of the famous Konami Code.
- It is interesting to note that, on the Regular Show: The Complete First and Second Seasons DVD, on the main menu of Disc 1, this code works if performed with a DVD remote.
Episode Connections[]
- This is the third time Rigby has been killed and resurrected, and the second time another main character has killed him.
- The first was by Mordecai in "It's Time", the second was by Snowballs the Ice Monster in "Appreciation Day".
- This is the first appearance of Death.
Production Notes[]
- This episode received 1.957 million views worldwide.
Goofs[]
- Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost disappear when Skips smashes Rigby into the table.
- They are additionally not seen in the hospital at the beginning of the episode before the flashback.
- Pops is not sitting next to Benson when he's talking about how strong Skips is.
- The TV screen is turned off when Skips grabs Mordecai and Rigby's console and throws it.
- The crack on the wall made by Skips throwing the console changes when Skips leaves.
- When Skips is searching Mordecai and Rigby's room, the items on the floor change throughout.
- Even though Skips pulled the Playco Armboy off of Rigby's arm, no scene previous contains Rigby wearing the Playco Armboy.
Alternate Versions[]
UK[]
- The first scene of the episode was cut and instead shows the McHooligans Restaurant.
- The word "McHooligan's" is blanked out.
- Muscle Man saying: "Oh yeah! Hooligan's round two!" is changed to "Alright! Family Restaurant round two!"
- High-Five Ghost saying "Shotgun!" was muted.
- Death spitting in Rigby's mouth to revive him was changed to him shooting a laser from his finger.