User Reviews

This episode, and the episode before it, do a fantastic job tackling a pretty mature topic in digestible way. Mordecai's struggle is extremely relatable, especially to teens and young adults. Relationships can be complicated and messy, and sometimes our emotions can cause us to act in irrational ways that hurt other people. This episode explores that, and actually has real stakes. CJ's feelings are completely valid, and since we know Margaret and Mordecai didn't work out, there is real tension around if CJ and Mordecai will get back together. Tackled this topic so well, including a good amount of Regular Show humor with the sax guy. All in only 12 minutes. Great episode.

A third great episode in a row with first"White Elephant Gift Exchange" and "Merry Christmas Mordecai".

Now this...

First, I thought the CJ misunderstanding stuff was annoying but good for the plot. First the phone call happened. Then, she saw the friendship hug between the two. It was annoying and easy to see-through, but understandable to be so reluctant with the kiss happening the previous episode.

I also love how JG didn't wait a couple episodes later in the season to do this episode, he did it right after, great and simple to say the least.

And I kinda liked the Sad Sax guy, the cutaway to the art advice he had for Mordecai was hilarious.

Again, a great episode of Regular Show!

I'm gonna be honest, I found CJ catching Mordecai kissing Margaret to be such a painfully predictable and contrived twist. I was worried about where they would go from here, and while my worries were mostly confirmed, I did leave this episode with a smile on my face. I'll start with the negatives first though:

The fact that CJ getting mad at Mordecai over a misunderstanding happened not once, but TWICE, was infuriating. How forced can this episode possibly be? Since CJ was ready to forgive him at the beginning of the episode (until Margaret conveniently called), the whole thing felt kind of pointless and frustrating.

Another terrible scene I wanted to mention is when Mordecai faked his own death as an attempt to apologize. Yes, I understand that the humor comes from how cringy his behavior is (the cheerleader bit was pretty funny), but this was just too far. What Mordecai did was a form of abuse and should not have been written off as a random gag. Honestly, CJ should have broken up with him just for that. It was way worse than him kissing Margaret.

Then we get to the climax. While Mordecai's lights message was undeniably cute, I can't help but feel a bit confused. Wasn't the whole lesson of this episode that grandiose, showy displays of apologies were bad? We literally got an entire montage of Mordecai's apology attemps failing because of how over the top they were. How was his lights apology any different? Sure, it was sweeter and less cringy, but it still feels like Mordecai didn't learn from his mistakes. After failing to get CJ's attention, Mordecai ends up getting her attention by... doing the exact same thing as before. Just really weird writing.

At least the episode ended well. Mordecai's apology in the hospital was heartfelt and genuine, however I'm not a fan of the events leading up to it. I have no idea whether to like or dislike this episode. I'm just happy Mordecai's arc ended on a good note in the end and they didn't ruin his character.