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Recap / Regular Show S 05 E 16 Portable Toilet

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Written and storyboarded by Toby Jones and Owen Dennis

During a lunchtime game of "Would You Rather?" with Eileen and CJ, Mordecai says he'd eat a sandwich in a portable toilet, prompting CJ to dare him to do it for real, with Rigby joining him as a witness. However, the two end up trapped inside and it's up to CJ and Eileen to free them when the portable toilet gets transferred to an artillery range.


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  • A Day in the Limelight: For CJ and Eileen.
  • Bowdlerization: In the UK version, the line "3...2...1...Let's drop a laser gun 'number 2' on this dukebucket" was changed to "3...2...1... Let's liberate some latrines" to remove the Toilet Humor.
  • Claustrophobia: Happens to Rigby.
  • Continuity Nod:
    • CJ turns stormy again when she starts to panic about Mordecai and Rigby's situation.
    • Rigby's claustrophobia, as a callback to the Terror Tales of the Park II short, Wallpaper Man.
  • General Failure: The General in charge of testing the space laser, who ignores one of his men perpetually, and upon being reminded the President told him to only fire the laser three times a day due to how expensive it is to do so, says "The President's not my father, I'll blow up as many toilets as I like" then sighs like an annoyed teenager at the end.
  • Heroic BSoD: CJ, who laments that things were just getting normal with Mordecai when she believes there's no way to save him and Rigby. Eileen snaps her out of this.
  • Insane Troll Logic: In-Universe, due to Rigby's claustrophobia kicking in.
    Rigby: We're gonna starve before they find us! Why did you eat the whole sandwich?! You should have saved some just in case!
    Mordecai: Dude, that makes no sense!
    Rigby: You makes no sense! (pounds on the door and screams) Help! I'm trapped in here with a crazy person!
  • Overturned Outhouse: Mordecai and Rigby accidentally get locked inside Muscle Man's special portable toilet while eating a sandwich inside it as a dare. The duo try to break down the door, only for the toilet to fall down and knock them out. Muscle Man unknowingly sends them to a military base to be used as target practice when he returns to it.
    Muscle Man: Make sure she gets a good home!
    Helicopter Pilot: She will! Decommissioned units get sent to the military for target practice!
    Muscle Man: That's so honorable!
  • Running Gag: The General refusing to let the man on the left speak freely while granting the man on the right permission.
    • Rigby is still far more aware of Mordecai's love life than Mordecai himself.
  • Ship Tease: At the end, it's revealed somewhat that Mordecai still has feelings for CJ.
  • Unresolved Sexual Tension: It's clear, albeit subtly, that Mordecai and CJ have feelings for each other. Lampshaded by Rigby:
    Rigby: Don't put this on me, man! I'm not the one who flirts by taking toilet dares!

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