"Space Escape" is the fifteenth episode in Season 8 (and two hundred and thirty-second overall) of Regular Show. It aired on October 12, 2016.
Synopsis
Mordecai and Rigby must stop an attack on the Space Tree Station.
Plot
After graduating from the Space Tree Station Academy, Mordecai and Rigby goes to a space mart Comet Stop to buy snacks for the celebration. However, they overhear a space troop's plan to destroy Space Tree Station, as well as seeing the space troop's master, who looks just like Pops, but all black with glowing white eyes and evil, and call him "Anti-Pops". They sneak away from Anti-Pops and his soldier to the Space Tree Station to warn the others about Anti-Pops.
Once Colonel Rawls hears this news about Anti-Pops' attack on Space Tree Station, Rawls announces that all members are "graduated" from the Space Tree Station and leaves the station immediately, but the emergency call was too late, as Anti-Pops ship already invades the station and his troops have taken all hostages. Rawls orders the park crew to get Pops away from Anti-Pops, knowing that evil Pops is after the original Pops due to Pops has something special within him, while Rawls holds and distracts Anti-Pops and his troop off. However, Pops, following the Space Tree Ranger's code cannot leave Rawls and the other hostages behind, with Mordecai and Rigby has another plan when they see a balloon to distract Anti-Pops.
While Rawls distracts Anti-Pops until he is tired, Anti-Pops' troops spots the park crew's ship has escaping. Upon capturing the park crew's ship, almost far away from the station, Anti-Pops' being tricked, with his hostages, and most importantly Pops are loosing. During an escape from Anti-Pops' army, Rawls sacrifices himself to hold the door for long and to make sure the park crew, particularly Pops escapes safely. While activating the hyper space to escape Anti-Pops, the park crew's land ship is caught by a tractor beam from Anti-Pops' ship due to the hyper space needs to take time to recharge from one minute and is about to destroy the land ship, but Sureshot sacrifices his life to save the park crew, in the same time the hyper space activation of the park crew's land ship is activated.
Characters
- Mordecai
- Rigby
- Benson
- Pops
- Skips
- Muscle Man
- Hi Five Ghost
- Eileen
- Chance Sureshot
- Toothpick Sally
- Recap Robot
- Colonel Rawls
- Anti-Pops
- Spacey McSpaceTree (non-speaking cameo)
Locations
- Space Tree
- Cafeteria
- Dome Room
- Park Dome
- Comet Stop
Trivia
- This is the second appearance of Anti-Pops.
- This episode also reveals that Anti-Pops is known as "He who will erase us."
- The Space Tree is destroyed.
- Chance Sureshot, Toothpick Sally, Recap Robot, and Colonel Rawls are presumed dead.
- This is also Colonel Rawls' final appearance.
Episode Connections
- Anti-Pops and his army were able to find Pops' location thanks to Pops revealing his location to Carl from "The Dream Warrior".
- Mordecai and Rigby's ships made their 2nd appearances since "Regular Show: The Movie".
- Mordecai jinxes Rigby when they both say "Anti-Pops. This is the second time Mordecai jinxes Rigby, the first time was in the episode "Jinx."
- This is also the second and last appearance of Spacey McSpaceTree since his debut in "Spacey McSpaceTree."
- While escaping from Anti-Pops, Chance Sureshot fires a shot with his blaster which misses and bounces across the Space Tree. In the following episode "New Beds" it is revealed that Chance's "missed shot" ended up shooting Skips' bed.
Production Notes
- This is the third episode to air during the sixth "Regular Show Bomb."
Goofs
- Even though Spacey McSpaceTree gave Rigby his helmet in "Spacey McSpaceTree", he is seen wearing it again in this episode.