17 Facts About Regular Show

Regular Show is an American animated sitcom created by J G Quintel for Cartoon Network.

Many of Regular Show characters were loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts: The Naive Man from Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM.

Regular Show has been nominated for several awards, including seven Annie Awards, six Primetime Emmy Awards—one of which it won for the episode "Eggscellent" —and three British Academy Children's Awards.

Regular Show largely grew out of creator J G Quintel's life and experiences in college.

Quintel attended the California Institute of the Arts, and many of the characters on Regular Show are based on the characters developed for his student films The Naive Man from Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM.

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Regular Show was later invited to pitch for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute, a project to showcase short films created without the interference of network executives and focus testing.

Regular Show was one of two series from the project that were green-lit.

Regular Show liked the design and developed the character of Rigby to be far less responsible than his companion.

Regular Show looked through blogs and convention panels for the "total package", which he said was the ability to write and draw; something that many independent comic book artists possess.

The style and sensibility of Regular Show was difficult to work with in the beginning; the artists struggled to create a natural, sitcom-like sound for the series.

The Regular Show cast recorded their lines together in group as opposed to individual recording sessions for each actor; this helped make the show's dialogue sound natural.

Regular Show has no regular theme music; instead, at the beginning of each episode, a blurred sound followed by a ticking clock is heard over the title cards.

Regular Show made use of licensed songs—mostly from the 1980s; this began when Quintel and the staff writers started recording the animatics using copyrighted songs for the montage scenes.

Regular Show praised the show's writing, and said that it included "snappy dialogue, odd characters, and clever stories—each more irrelevant than the last—Regular Show never ceases to tickle the funny bone".

Regular Show finished his review by calling the show "a pretty awesome piece of refreshing off-the-wall comedy" and wrote that it's "humorously animated, brazenly silly and almost always funny".

Regular Show wrote that the network has found "animated gold with Regular Show, which is too offbeat and unique to be called regular" and that it is a "comedic animated gem worthy of being discovered for years to come".

Regular Show said that the episodes' plots can occasionally be too complex to explore completely in the show's 11 minutes, and said that the usual story setup can make some stories feel structurally the same as others.