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"Exit 9B" is the first episode of Regular Show's fourth season (and eightieth episode overall). It first aired on October 1, 2012.

Synopsis

Two months after the park is seized by a mysterious contractor, Mordecai and Rigby must bring their brainwashed friends, excluding the park's new intern Thomas, back to their former selves to prevent a freeway from being built over it.

Plot

A new intern, Thomas, arrives at the park, but can't find any of the park staff. He enters the house, looking for Benson. As he gets a call from his mother, he tells him that it's his first internship day and he will get recommendations. Right before Thomas could hang it up, suddenly a crash is heard outside. Thomas frantically runs outside to investigate and to his shock and horror, he sees complete chaos. A mysterious bearded character is chasing and shooting the park employees with a laser stun gun. Only Mordecai and Rigby manage to escape, with Rigby holding a document and Mordecai using the time machine from "Bad Kiss". Shortly after Mordecai and Rigby disappear into time, the stranger demolishes the house and laughs maniacally, with Thomas watching in disbelief and horror.

Two months later, Mordecai and Rigby discover that the rest of the staff have been brainwashed and had their memories wiped, and that the park has been razed to make place for a freeway known as Exit 9B. They have a document from City Hall that can end the freeway construction by making the park a historical site, but in order for it to be effective, it needs to be signed by every member of staff.

Mordecai and Rigby now must find everyone to sign the documents. Starting with Skips, they find that he has left his home, but a business card reveals that he has his own auto body shop (as seen earlier). Skips has no memory of the duo, but Rigby can trigger his memory by reminding him of the only woman he ever loved. Skips signs the document and the three set off to find the rest of the park staff.

Pops is working at the city butterfly sanctuary but is given a memory jog by a lollipop. A "My Mom" joke brings Muscle Man back from his new job and new look as a quantum physics professor. Hi Five Ghost is working as a pizza delivery man but is reminded by a high five. Only Benson remains.

Benson still works at the park but is now under the employment of the mysterious bearded stranger. Thomas also remains at the park, now as the stranger's intern and coffee boy. The team is unable to convince Benson to sign the document before they are captured and buried neck-deep in cement by the mysterious stranger's goons, who were commanded by the brainwashed gumball machine.

The mysterious stranger reveals himself to be Garrett Bobby Ferguson Jr., the son of Garrett Bobby Ferguson, and explains that the entire Exit 9B project is part of his plot for revenge against Mordecai and Rigby, who defeated his father in the episode "High Score". By destroying everything Mordecai and Rigby hold dear, he hopes to make his father proud. With Exit 9B's construction completed, many dozens of villains of previous episodes, including Garrett Bobby Ferguson himself, emerge from it and the six buried staff members seem doomed.

However, Skips can summon allies of his own, with Gary, Death, Techmo, the God of Basketball and the Guardians of Eternal Youth appearing to free the park employees from their cement prison. Though they are outnumbered, Mordecai gives a short speech about standing up for the park. An epic battle ensues, with the gang and their allies facing off against the G.B.F.s' forces.

After an intense battle, Mordecai and Rigby are ambushed by Benson and must take the golf cart to escape from Benson's giant digger. Reaching a dead end, they find themselves stuck in the mud, but manage to get Benson's memory back by turning donuts. Realizing that their actions could trigger Benson's memory, the duo begins to do their signature actions (such as hamboning, "not setting up the chairs next time!", and their signature "Woooooooooaaaaaaaaaahhh!"), which triggers Benson's memory, causing him to return to his normal state.

Benson finally signs the document and the gang thinks they have won. However, G.B.F. Jr. points out that there is one missing employee - Thomas, who started working that very day. G.B.F. Jr. threatens to murder Thomas unless Mordecai hands over the document - Mordecai appears to give into his demand and Thomas smacks G.B.F. Jr. with his coffee and he is kicked over the edge of the freeway ramp. However, Benson manages to swoop down and save Thomas, while Mordecai and Rigby reveal that they had made a last-minute switch to the document folder, meaning that Thomas can sign the document and save the park at the last minute, thus sending the revived villains back to the afterlife from whence they came. G.B.F. then explodes, while his distraught son follows suit.

After the crisis is averted, Thomas asks if this kind of thing happens often - he is assured that it does. As everyone else leaves to fix the damage, Thomas then receives a call from his mother, and tells her that, despite what he said earlier, he now doesn't want to quit his internship, because he feels working at the park is going to be really cool.

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