Benson's boss, Mr. Maellard, demotes Benson to park worker thanks to Mordecai and Rigby's actions. Benson's replacement, Susan, however, turns out to be a worse replacement...
"Benson Be Gone" contains examples of:
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Susan starts out nice and professional and is understandably upset with Benson when he refuses to work anymore, but the moment Benson is fired and leaves, she begins showing her true colors as she angrily orders the crew to work themselves to the bone until they begin turning into her. Then when Benson returns and gives them counter-orders to ignore their job duties and slack off (which reverses the transformation process), she turns into a demon giantess.
- Clone by Conversion: Susan's management of employee behavior is so strict they literally start changing into copies of her. It's implicit that the one managing them isn't even the original.
- Continuity Nod: The mishaps Mr. Maellard mentions.Mr. Maellard: Snacks disappearing from the snack bar, holes in the walls, $500 worth of prank calls? It's RIDICULOUS!
- Everyone Has Standards: Mordecai and Rigby may slack off a lot, but even they are baffled when Benson decides to straight-up abandon his duties.
- Epic Fail: Benson told Mordecai and Rigby to park Mr. Maellard's limo but they end up crashing it into the park house... on the second floor.
- Firing Day: Benson is fired by Susan when he refuses to work anymore. Not that he cares.
- Foreshadowing: Benson is shown in this episode to be an excellent player of stick hockey, setting up the premise for the Season 3 premiere.
- Gone Horribly Right:
- When Benson is demoted, Mordecai and Rigby try to cheer him up by trying to show him how much fun it is to slack off occasionally. However, this succeeds all too well to the point that he becomes lazier than the two, as while they eventually make up for their work afterwards, Benson winds up not wanting to work at all and is glad to be fired by Susan.
- Likewise, Susan did a bit too good a job managing the park, because she overworked her employees until they began transforming into copies of her. Then she nearly kills Mr. Maellard for scolding her.
- Grew a Spine: Benson, who normally let Mr. Maellard step all over him, finally stands up to his Mean Boss and orders him to reinstate him as Park Manager again if he wants to be rescued from giant Susan.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Leon defeats Susan by crashing Mr. Maellard's limo through her heels before smashing into a wall and exploding.
- Humanoid Abomination: Susan slowly transforms the park staff into copies of her. When they break free she snarls in a demonic voice, levitates outside and a giant version of her emerges from a fiery pit and eats her.
- Hypocritical Humor: After Pops is "Susanized", he demands Mordecai and Rigby quit their video games and clean the living room. Benson retorts, "Why don't you clean it?!", a Wham Line that helps de-Susanize the other park workers.
- Irony: The normally uptight Benson saves the day by ordering his employees to disobey Susan's orders and slack off.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While Mordecai and Rigby may be at fault for crashing Maellard's car into the house, Maellard isn't wrong to blame Benson since he specifically ordered him to park it, but Benson instead passed the task off to Mordecai and Rigby.
- Never My Fault: Benson complains that the mishaps Mr. Maellard mentions are never his fault, which includes holes in the walls. Actually this is wrong. In "Prank Callers", Benson made a huge hole in the wall by ripping out a phone. Mordecai and Rigby made one hole in the wall back in "The Power". So yes, there's (at least) 2 holes in the wall but 1 of them is Benson's fault.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Benson gives one as he prepares to take down Susan.Benson: Hey, Susan! YOU'RE FIRED!!!
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Benson pulls this twice.
- Susan threatens to fire Benson for slacking off, but he no longer cares. He decides to leave the moment she follows through with her threat.
- As Benson first delves into his new life of being an unemployed bum, he meets Leon and is horrified of Leon never showering so he runs back to the house for his old job back.... only to find he dodged a bullet having quit his job and discovered the "Susan Effect".
- Shockingly Expensive Bill: Mr. Maellard receives one for phone calls. It comes out to $500.
- The Slacker:
- Leon, Benson's predecessor who decided to give up his job at the park for a life of slacking off. How he describes his life is enough to make Benson want his old job back so he doesn't end up like him.
- Benson turns out to be an even bigger one than Mordecai and Rigby. He's not good at doing work, he's only good at bossing around others to do work.Rigby: (to Benson) You rake like an old man that has a fatter old man holding his arms down.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Benson. While he seemingly reverts back to his normal status in the end, he witnesses Mordecai and Rigby slacking off again... and decides to let it slide.
- Understatement: "Hey, Benson... remember when I told you I could drive stick? Well, turns out I'm a little rusty."
- Visual Pun: After Leon drives Mr. Maellard's limo into Susan's heels, she falls back into the fiery pit she came from as the flames flare up. In other words, she was literally fired.
