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"One Pull Up" is the eighth episode of Regular Show's fourth season (and eighty-seventh overall) of Regular Show. It first aired on November 26, 2012.
Synopsis
Eileen trains Rigby to perform a single pull-up for the park fitness test before the week is up.
Plot
Benson announces that the government requires all park employees to pass a new fitness test to keep their jobs. The test seems easy at first, but then comes the pull-up bar. Everyone can do a pull-up except Rigby, even after several tries, which earns him mockery from Muscle Man. After Rigby fails, Benson tells Rigby he has to do a pull-up by the end of the week or he will be forced to fire him. Rigby decides to play “Gym Class" the video game, believing it is adequate training, and "Carbo-Loads" with potato chips, both of which Mordecai chides him for and insists he needs to take it seriously. Rigby instead tries to do the pull up again in front of everyone, but to no avail. Benson reminds him he has until Friday.
At the coffee shop, Eileen notices Rigby's dour mood, revealing she knows about the pull-up since Muscle Man put up fliers to sell tickets to watch him fail. She offers to help train him, revealing she was on the high school pep squad and can train Rigby. Initially, Rigby still has no luck. Eileen tells him to visualize his goal in his mind, and after picturing himself doing the pull-up in his mind, he almost does it for real. Rigby does some serious training with Eileen in a "Rocky" esque montage. However, when he tries the pull up again afterwards, he still can’t do it, and he runs out of the coffee shop declaring he’ll never be able to do it. Eileen, however, still believes in him.
As he walks home dejected, Rigby walks by a store and sees a TV commercial for "The Russian", which uses electrotherapy to build muscles within minutes, and Rigby buys it. Back at home, the instructions say not to use it for more than 10 minutes per day, but Rigby turns it up to eleven to get extra ripped, and eats a bag of chips before falling asleep.
In the morning, everyone has gathered at the pull-up bar, including a crowd of people who bought tickets from Muscle Man. Benson warns that Rigby is almost out of time, with Pops wondering if he gave up, but Mordecai insists he’ll come. Eileen says Rigby wouldn’t quit after how hard he worked and goes to check on him. She goes to the house and is frightened to find Rigby with enormous muscles. Rigby is awed at first but realizes he can't stand up as now his muscles are too heavy will break anything they come in contact with. He believes all hope is lost, but Eileen insists he can still do it, and with her reminding him to visualize his goal, he uses his fists to walk and makes his way over to everyone and the pull-up bar. With thirty seconds left, Rigby gets himself to climb up to the bar, but once he’s on the bar the ground cracks and he’s left in a crater underneath. Eileen tells him there’s fifteen seconds left, and Rigby winds up punching the sides of the walls to make his way up, and he finally successfully does the pull-up. Everyone cheers and Benson happily says he can stay at the park.
The final scene shows Rigby on a gurney looking tired. Eileen congratulates him. Rigby says he couldn’t have done it without her, and that he would hug her but his muscles would probably break her spine. Eileen removes her glasses and takes the risk anyway. They hug, and a cracking sound is heard implying to be Eileen's spine, hurting her, but Eileen with a slight pained look in her eyes says it’s totally worth it.
Characters
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Trivia
- This is the second time Eileen has removed her glasses.
Initial Broadcast & Reception
- The episode premiered on Cartoon Network on November 26, 2012 at 8:00pm as part of the channel's Monday Nights block, following the premiere of Adventure Time's "Up a Tree" and preceding The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange's "Generic Holiday Special".
- This episode received 2.136 million views domestically in the United States.
Pop Culture References
- When Rigby is failing to pull himself up, Muscle Man imitates the losing horns from the game show The Price is Right.
- The scene where Rigby trains with Eileen heavily references the Rocky movie series. Similarly to the Rocky movies it features training montage of Rigby and Eileen performing various exercises, punching The track that plays seems to be inspired by “Gonna Fly Now“ by Bill Conti, the main theme of Rocky. Rigby even wears an outfit that looks identical to one that Rocky wears.
Goofs
- The ground starts cracking when Rigby climbs the pull-up bar, but in the next scene, the cracks are gone.
- In "Eggscellent" it was revealed that Rigby is allergic to eggs and went into a coma after eating them. However in this episode, in one scene Rigby drinks a dozen raw eggs and nothing happens to him.
- Rigby breaks the Russian in this episode, however in "Wall Buddy" the Russian is seen intact.
Official Releases
- On iTunes and Amazon Prime, the episode was paired with "Guys Night" under "Volume Five". It was released digitally on November 19, 2012 for the price of $2.99 in HD, or $1.99 in SD.
- This episode is available as part of the following DVD sets: