THE EGGSCELLENT CHALLENGE SERIES

THE EGGSCELLENT CHALLENGE SERIES

Regular Show was one of two series from the project that were green-lit (the other show being Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, based on the Cartoonstitute short Uncle Grandpa, which in turn became its own series later on). He storyboarded the idea for the pilot, and Craig McCracken and Rob Renzetti liked his presentation.

Quintel wanted to present a visual pitch rather than a verbal one, believing the idea would make little sense otherwise. Quintel returned to the characters from his films, put them together with newer characters and created a pilot. He was later invited to pitch for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute, a project to showcase short films created without the interference of network executives and focus testing. Quintel concurrently worked on Camp Lazlo and as creative director on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack while completing his degree.

Quintel attended college with Thurop Van Orman and Pendleton Ward, who both went on to work at Cartoon Network Studios with Quintel Van Orman created The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and Ward created Adventure Time. Both originated as part of a game called '48-hour films', in which students put words into a hat, pulled out one word at midnight and spent a weekend developing ideas for a film. Quintel attended the California Institute of the Arts, and many of the characters on Regular Show are based on the characters developed for his student films The Naïve Man from Lolliland (2005) and 2 in the AM PM (2006). Quintel's life and experiences in college. Regular Show largely grew out of creator J. Quintel, creator of the show, and voice of Mordecai (and Hi-Five Ghost in seasons 2–8), based the show on his student films produced at CalArts Īfter eight seasons and 261 episodes, the series concluded on January 16, 2017, with the one-hour finale ' A Regular Epic Final Battle'. A film based on the series, titled Regular Show: The Movie, premiered in 2015. Regular Show has been nominated for several awards, including seven Annie Awards, six Primetime Emmy Awards-one of which it won for the episode 'Eggscellent' (season 3, episode 18)-and three British Academy Children's Awards. The series has received critical acclaim from critics and has developed a following of all ages, although it has garnered controversy for its dark humor, sexual innuendos, violence and mature themes. The series premiered on September 6, 2010, on Cartoon Network.Īs of May 2013, the program had been watched by approximately 2 to 2.5 million viewers each week. Quintel pitched Regular Show for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute project, in which the network allowed young artists to create pilots with no notes, which would possibly be optioned as shows. The former was one of the winners of the 2005 Nicktoons Film Festival and received international attention after being broadcast on Nicktoons Network. Many of Regular Show 's characters were loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts: The Naïve Man from Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM. Mordecai and Rigby spend their days slacking-off and trying to avoid work to entertain themselves by any means which leads to surrealistic, extreme, and supernatural misconduct. The series stars Mordecai (a bluejay), Rigby (a raccoon), their co-workers: Skips (a yeti), Pops, Muscle Man, Hi-Five Ghost, and their boss Benson (a gumball machine) all of whom work at a local park as groundskeepers. It aired on Cartoon Network from Septem, to January 16, 2017, over 8 seasons and 200 episodes. Regular Show (known as Regular Show in Space during its eighth season) is an American animated sitcom television series created by J.

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