🎬 Interesting fact: Regular Show (2010–2017) — The show’s creator, J.G. Quintel, originally developed the main characters in much more “adult” student films at CalArts. Mordecai and Benson actually first appeared in a 2006 short called 2 in the AM PM, where two convenience store clerks accidentally ingest candy laced with LSD and transform into a blue jay and a gumball machine. While the Cartoon Network series is (mostly) kid-friendly, this “trippy” origin explains the show’s surreal logic and