Review: Regular Show “The Heart of a Stuntman”

Spoilers Below

You know how Mordecai and Rigby love stuff like action flicks, karate, video games, and monster trucks? What’s that you say? You didn’t know that? Well, they do, and you need to watch more Regular Show, friend. With interests like those, it stands to reason that they would have a respect and admiration for stuntmen. In this episode, not only do they meet a legendary stuntman, but they get to train to become stuntmen themselves! Aw yea-yah!

The episode opens up with the park crew preparing for Benson’s nephew Timmy’s birthday party, which he has at the park every year. As he got older, the themes got more intense. This year, the theme was a stuntman party, but the professional stuntman that Benson had hired pulled out of the gig at the last minute. Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, and Hi-Five Ghost all volunteered to train to become professional stuntmen to save Timmy’s party. Benson warned them that the success rate for stuntman training is only twenty-five percent, but they were all hellbent on defying the odds.

Johnny Crasher, a legendary stuntman with forty comas under his belt, would be their stunt sensei. As you would expect, there was a series of grueling challenges that the four park employees would have to overcome to save Timmy’s birthday. There was action, risk-taking, explosions, and injuries…lots of injuries. Would any of the guys be able to deliver? I’m not going to give it away.

I’d do, however, want to point out that I recognized the voice of Bobcat Goldthwait (Johnny Crasher) right away. You can’t watch Disney’s Hercules as many times as I have and not recognize Pain’s voice. I wrote that last sentence with zero shame, if you were wondering. It was a decent episode, but I feel like they could’ve kicked it up a few notches and created a dastardly villain. It was all pretty cut and dry, which is unlike Regular Show. It wasn’t bad, but not very memorable either. With .5 points awarded for the guest spot, this episode comes up short of the ramp and lands on a