Review: Regular Show “Take the Cake”

In this episode of Regular Show, grabbing a cake turns into an Olympic sport. Find out how after the jump!

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This is a great episode to show that the writers are willing to make other characters the focal points. This week, one of the characters on the far end of ancillary is having a birthday. Generally speaking, birthdays are great plot hooks. Regular Show has a huge list of ancillary characters, and this character has been getting a lot screen time as of late. Well, here’s this week’s Regular Show, “Take the Cake!”

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Benson is getting everyone ready for the big day. No one knows what the big day is, except for Pops, because it’s his father’s birthday! Benson knows that Maellard loves surprises, but he’s almost impossible to surprise. So, Benson comes up with the perfect plan: a fake surprise. He’s going to pull a dummy surprise, then take Maellard to the real one. He tells Mordecai and Rigby to get the cake.

After a quick cake rap, they end up at Top Tier Cakes. They wait in a long line for a minute, before they find that there is a pre-paid line also. They go in that line to jump ahead of the others, because they get priority. This pisses off the lady who was next in the regular line. The lady thinks they cut the line, but the attendant tells the angry woman that she needs to learn to read the signs better. Mordecai and Rigby run out, so they can make it back to the park with the cake. That plan doesn’t exactly go well, because the woman is back. She tries to run Modecai and Rigby off the road, because she refuses to believe Mordecai and Rigby were in the right.

The woman forces Mordecai to veer into an alley, where the cake flies off. The bums on the road try to claim the cake as their own, until one of the bums get a text on his phone. They all run off into a gold convertible, leaving Mordecai and Rigby stupified. Maellard arrives at the park, wanting Pops so they can go out for his birthday dinner. Mordecai and Rigby have Eileen and CJ come by so they can remake the cake. After a really well animated cake making montage, the four try to get the cake out the door. There’s one problem, however. The cake is bigger than the doorway.

At the table, Skips, Hi-Five, and Pops are worried that Mordecai and Rigby aren’t back with the cake yet. Skips and the gang go in, and find Mordecai, Rigby, and the girls with the bigger cake. Muscle Man and Hi-Five lay the fact that Mordecai and Rigby screwed up really thick, but Pops thinks of a way to help. Up in Pops’s room, he finds a Kimmel Handy Home Matter Mover, and tells Mordecai and Rigby of how he found it. What he doesn’t tell them is that whatever gets shot by the mover, doesn’t necessarily get to its destination in one piece.

Benson brings Maellard to the snack stand, and “surprises” Maellard with Thomas and a cupcake. Maellard isn’t very surprised, and hints that he knows there’s another. Back at the house, Mordecai can’t get the matter mover to work, and Benson is telling the unattended walkie-talkie that he’s bringing Maellard to the party spot. Skips almost has the matter mover working, when Benson walks in, and blows a gasket. He tries to take the matter mover, but Mordecai tries to stop him, but ends up teleporting everyone to the table.

We now have a sad Maellard, thinking that the employees really think low of him. Unfortunately for Maellard, he doesn’t see the cake that’s about to fall on the table, causing an explosion of cake. That cake surprise caused Maellard to go into a coma for three weeks. Before Benson can fully apologize, Maellard thanks Benson for getting the man something who has everything.

I love Maellard! This grumpy son of a bitch was the typical asshole boss / owner, and he turned that corner to be somewhat jovial! Mordecai and Rigby actually did the right thing, got boned, and then fix it. This was Bizzaro-Regular Show! This episode was different. Maellard had more time than normal, which is good, and the entirety of the main cast was involved. Yet, it didn’t feel like they were doing too much in one episode. And also, we have Benson who actually had a good plan, even though Maellard saw right through it.

The animation for the cake montage was really well done. I loved part where the cake was going through that familiar space background, probably because it’s a cake flying through space. This was a solid episode. The plot in of itself is a basic plot, but it was done with a twist, with a lot of screw ups to get us there. I think there could have been some things go down where the ending could have been different, but it was an enjoyable trip, nonetheless.