His past is obviously weaved into the show. Regular Show is inspired greatly by Quintel’s life experiences while he was in college, and he identifies himself with the main character Mordecai. Cartoons seemed to always have been Quintel’s calling. Before Regular Show, Quintel worked at Cartoon Network as the creative director of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (which tragically no longer airs) with Thurop Van Orman, with whom he attended college. The network picked up Quintel’s show quickly. Regular Show was pitched for Cartoon Network’s Cartoonstitute project, where young people were invited to create pilots of their ideas. Quintel created the show based off of characters from his student films ( The Naïve Man from Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM) when he studied at California Institute of the Arts. The show has gained intense popularity since its premiere four seasons ago in 2010. It takes a simple issue like lying to people or getting angry and teaches a lesson in an exaggerated (and comedic!) way. The trouble always accelerates, causing the park staff (including an overweight green monster Muscle Man, an immortal Yeti named Skips, and a large-headed, high-pitched old man named Pops) to undergo crazy, surrealistic adventures until the last second, when everything gets neatly sorted out. They’re always trying to slack off, which tends to lead them into trouble with their gumball machine boss, Benson. Each episode is about fifteen minutes long and the plot usually centers around Mordecai and Rigby, a blue-jay and a raccoon in their twenties working as groundkeepers in a park. There’s a wonderful chunk of time in the early evening on Cartoon Network when Regular Show plays consistently for almost two hours. Since 2007, Cartoon Network has been releasing wonderful, enjoyable cartoons for all ages and these shows- Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Chowder, Regular Show, etc.- have dug up the buried treasure of ridiculousness. But fret no more! Cartoons are making a great comeback, and I can’t be the only happy one. They became too careful with what they tried to achieve and that exaggeration that was so funny disappeared. Although I can’t speak for all cartoons, many of them lost their creativity. But the early 2000s brought such a disappointment to the cartoon world. The nineties were filled with them, every cartoon enjoyable to watch, unique in its plot, and filled with interesting characters exaggerating the ones surrounding us in real life. It’s been difficult in the last ten years to really appreciate a cartoon.
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