"I just wanted to be player one!"
Written and storyboarded by Mike Roth and Jake Armstrong.
Rigby finally had enough of losing to Mordecai in both the video game and "death punchies" so he decided to train and challenge him.
Tropes of death used in this episode of death:
- Adrenaline Makeover: By both Mordecai and Rigby to use Death-Kwon-Do.
- Ambulance Cut: Happens when Rigby tries to play punchies with Skips.
- Artistic License – Geology: Even a kid would know that magma isn't in the Earth's crust.
- Big "NO!": Death Kwon Do Sensei gets three. First when he sees that Rigby stole the page for the Death Punch of Death, the second one, where one of his students says that somebody just Death Kwon Clogged the toilet, and finally, when he realizes that the Death Jump & Death Dump pages are missing.
- Bowdlerization: In the UK, Rigby's line, "Speed it up! My pepperonis are roasting down here!" was changed to "Speed it up! My chest hairs are roasting down here!"
- Clothes Make the Superman: Death Kwan Do won't work unless you have cut off denim shorts and a mullet.
- Convection, Schmonvection: During the episode's climax, when the lava seeps into Mordecai and Rigby's sinkhole, it doesn't cause them any ill effects whatsoever.
- Covers Always Lie: Parodied when Mordecai and Rigby say that the game screen looks "just like the cover", when clearly it does not.
- Determinator: Both Mordecai and Rigby sure don't give up in the final fight.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The whole reason that Rigby learned Punchies was to be Player 1.
- Drunk with Power: Once he gets the power of the Death Punch Of Death, Rigby goes on a rampage through the park, to make up for his constant humiliating losses at punchies.
- Foreshadowing: During Rigby’s rampage on the park, he punches Pops into the sun.
- Here We Go Again!: Upon dying after Mordecai gives him the chance to be player 1, Rigby wants to be player 2 like last time.
- Hypocritical Humor: Mordecai explains to Rigby that the shovel guy & the pickaxe guy are exactly the same, but he refuses to be player 2, since he thinks the pickaxe sucks, like Rigby said.
- I Let You Win: Mordecai realizes that in order to get Rigby to stop is this.
- I'll Kill You!: Rigby actually tells this to Mordecai several times, and means it. He tries to kill his best friend with the Death Punch, and they end up trapped in a pit fifty feet underground with lava pouring out the walls.
- Jerkass Realization: When Rigby cries about never winning punchies, Mordecai has a flashback montage where he realizes that "play punchies" has always meant "I will get my way and hurt you while doing it" to Rigby, as it is always Mordecai hurting Rigby.
- Manchild: Rigby throws a huge tantrum from losing to Mordecai by jumping on the bed and throwing a book.
- No-Sell: Mordecai learns the Death Block, which renders Rigby's Death Punch completely ineffective.
- No, You: When Sensei tells Rigby that he only wants to use the Death Punch to beat up his friends and that he's not pure of heart.Rigby: Don't call me not pure of heart! What about you with your crappy mullet? You're the one who's not pure of heart!
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The entire sequence of Rigby terrorizing the park, considering how everyone humiliated him at one point.
- Rule of Three: Sensei's Big "NO!" after Rigby steals his Death Punch move, then one of his students says that Rigby just Death Kwon Clogged the toilet, and then Mordecai steals the Death Jump & Death Dump.
- Take Our Word for It: Mordecai asks if he and Rigby should use the Death Jump or Death Dump to escape. Rigby is a little disturbed about the Death Dump and decides to "Jump" instead.
- Tears of Remorse: After finally being declared of being player 1, Rigby started crying about dying in the lava.
- Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object: The Death Punch vs the Death Block. The Block completely nullifies the punch.
