Review: Regular Show ‘The Postcard’

Spoilers Below

Four years ago High Five runs into this girl named Celia and evidently the two have a lot in common. Problem is Celia leaves for Prague the next day and they make a promise that if both are single after four years, she will send a postcard. Four years later, guess what? Celia sends the post card, but the hand-writing is so bad and the envelope is in such shoddy shape that no one can read the fucking thing. Fives turns to the other park employees for help, and we learn that Celia indeed sets up a meeting time and date, but we still can’t figure out where. Everyone decides to go to the police station for help, a friendly game of fucking around turns almost illegal, but eventually cooler heads prevail and the cops do everything they can to figure out what the letter says. Even with all of the latest technology, we are able to get a bunch of the letter translated except for the part about which place the meetup is going to be held. We learn that she wants to meet at a pizza place, but which one? After a bunch of effort looking all over town for the right place, the cops dispatch that they actually cracked the last line and we learn the meet is at a pizza place across from the mall. Problem is, everyone gets to the pizza place too late and we miss Celia by a lot. Turns out, High Five meets up with Celia at the local coffee shop…just like the old days.

It’s been a really long time since Regular Show has shown the kind of heart the series exhibited during the Margaret/Mordecai era. Even the Muscle Man/Starla plot lines hasn’t been able to match the spacey climactic sequences but grounded consequences that happen as a result. With that being said, I really hope we get more Fives/Celia episodes, because tonight’s episode was somewhat brilliant. High Five has so many good mannerisms that I just don’t think get a lot of publicity like when he blushes or when he goes crazy on you and his arms turn into spaghetti. Also, the police station was a laugh riot and as a matter of fact I could’ve taken a whole hour of the two teams yelling at each other and calling each other names.

Similar to the Mordecai and Rigby story lines where we see easy situations turn into cluster fuck situations, that certainly happened this week as well, however the reward was much sweeter and certainly hearkened back to Season 4 which I think was the season that really showed the world what these writers are made of.