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Recap / Regular Show S 06 E 24 Brilliant Century Duck Crisis Special

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In this special, non-holiday 30-minute episode (similar to "Exit 9B" and "The Real Thomas"), Benson ordering Mordecai and Rigby to get rid of a cassowary in the park turns into a space battle over merchandising rights when the baby ducks and full-grown geese return to enlist the help of the park workers to defeat a pair of lawyers and their iron-clad contracts.


  • Affectionate Parody: Of Anime, specifically Giant Robot shows. The episode's intro even resembles anime!
  • Artistic License – Law: The executives trying to get Mordecai and Rigby to sign away their likenesses by force would completely invalidate the contracts in a court of law but then there wouldn't be an episode would there?
  • Battle in the Rain: The opening battle between Hyperduck and Mega-Goose before taking their fight into space.
  • Brick Joke: In one of the credit shots, Mordecai, Rigby, and the Baby Ducks are in an adventure in prehistoric times. Earlier, Mordecai and Rigby were wondering if they ever had an adventure involving with dinosaurs.
  • Briefcase Full of Money: The PlayCo execs tries to bribe Mordecai and Rigby with a suitcase containing a $100 dollar bill.
  • But Now I Must Go: Andy has to go for "a hot date on Europa."
  • The Cameo: The astronauts from Grilled Cheese Deluxe and Mother Duck.
  • Detonation Moon / Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Both of them in the episode. The moon gets shattered to pieces in the fight and used as armor in the execs' and geese's mecha. And in the climax, when the heroes and the geese combine their mecha, they elbow drop the execs' mech back on the Earth, the impact of which devastates the entire planet.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: The Moon and Jupiter are destroyed, and all life on Earth is wiped out, over a toy manufacturing contract.
  • Enemy Mine: The Geese are initially against the group, but once they find out in the contract that they'll be the enemies in the toy line, they quickly break ties with the execs and join the heroes in beating them.
  • Gainax Ending: The Earth has burned away into a desolate husk, the main characters and villains are the only survivors, and the lawyers decide to sign everyone to a video game contract instead of a toy contract. Knowing the show's loose grip on continuity, everything will be back to normal by the next episode.
  • Gondor Calls for Aid: Andy, the ducks' long lost brother, comes in to aid the group. Later followed by Carter and Brigs who want revenge for getting a crappy toy line.
  • Karma Houdini: The two marketing execs not only don't die, but while they give up on the toy deal, they are able to easily convince everyone into signing a video game contract.
  • Macross Missile Massacre: Now even more Scramble Missiles in Lunar Goosowary X Omega Warrior mode.
  • Mundane Made Awesome: An extreme example even by the show's standards. The Park crew get into an epic world shattering Giant Mecha battle… to stop their likenesses from being made into crappy toys.
  • Negative Continuity: The Earth being destroyed at the end of the episode is never brought up again afterwards, and the next episode has the Earth turn out fine.
  • Overly Long Name: Each time a robot gets a new transformation their name gets longer and longer.
  • Read the Fine Print: The geese fail to do so when they did sign it, thinking that they'll be the heroes in the toy line. It isn't until they nearly beat the heroes that the ducks point this out in the toy contract.
  • Sequel Episode: To A Bunch of Full Grown Geese
  • Shout-Out:
    • The intro is a send-up of the intro of Neon Genesis Evangelion (which, believe it or not, has aired on Cartoon Network's Toonaminote ).
  • Gundam. Benson's latex suit in particular is a reference to Mobile Fighter G Gundam.
  • Fullmetal Alchemist. In a Freeze-Frame Bonus in the opening, there is a transmutation circle that is similar to the one used on Edward and Alphonse's mother. More transmutation circles coming out of Andy's eyes when he hooks his brain up to the Hyperduck.
  • The final mecha combination is a reference to Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, specifically the titular Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann made up of Mecha piloting Mecha. The Geese's robot even fuses with the moon!
  • The ending credits are taken from Cowboy Bebop.

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