Review: Regular Show “Saving Time”

What is the time of the year that everyone dreads? Daylight Savings. Find out how Mordecai and Rigby deal with it after the jump!

Spoilers!

Daylight Savings begins in the wrong moment when Rigby forgets that it’s “spring forward, fall back” for Daylight Savings. They arrive to work an hour late, because they were actually a day early for Daylight Savings, and they were late. Benson punishes them by docking them an hour, and making them stay up to change the clocks at 2am. While trying to stay awake, they decide to change all of the clocks. After they change the park clocks, they go to Benson’s apartment, and change his clocks two hours back.

In the morning, Benson is surprised by the surprisingly punctual Mordecai and Rigby. Everyone else shows up, and song birds and the garbage men all show up early, as are the sprinklers going off. After Rigby and Mordecai tell the group what they did, the park actually lifts off. Skips says they are relocating to their new time zone, somewhere in the middle of the universe. They need to change back all of the clocks, and do so with relative ease. Unfortunately, Benson’s apartment building is floating as well. Pops gets his car, and they jump the car over to the apartment. They change the clocks back, and the buildings go back to where they are supposed to.

This was hilarious. As a person who thinks Daylight Savings is as far fetched as this plot, it works out so well.  Again, simplicity works best for the show. Mordecai and Rigby are given simple tasks by Benson, under duress of losing their job. They find a way to screw it up, and find an even more screwed up way to fix it. I’m glad the crew behind the show had this return to form, because the hit or miss from the last year or so made me want to write it off. Yes, it becomes formulaic, but if the formula works, go for it.

The songs with Mordecai and Rigby need to be released to digital stores, and given full length treatments. The rap they do in this episode is GREAT! Hopefully, we get a best of compilation sooner or later. All in all, this is a fantastic episode, and the upward trend continues.