Death Bear

It's movie night and Mordecai, Rigby, Margaret, and Eileen are going through movies when Rigby starts talking about "Death Bear", a bear who killed his trainer in the old park zoo. Rigby dares Mordecai to have his picture taken in Death Bear's cage. He accepts, and the four head into the zoo. Rigby taunts Mordecai of being scared of Death Bear. Rigby runs into the cage, through a tunnel and screams to scare Mordecai and the girls. They take the picture, and then Death Bear comes out. They all run back to the house, where Death Bear bursts in. Eileen calls Animal Control. When Animal Control shows up, Death Bear kicks the officers around and throws them, too. Mordecai grabs a tranquilizer gun and shoots Death Bear repeatedly as he runs toward them. He tranquilizes Death Bear, and Rigby as well in the process. Death Bear is released into the wild. Margaret is impressed with Mordecai for saving her life. They hug, and Mordecai admits he was scared.

Mordecai, Rigby, Pops, Benson

Cartoon Network ordered six episodes on August 13, 2009.

Each show is composed of two 11-minute episodes.

Developed as an animated short for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute.

Two groundskeepers, Mordecai (a six-foot-tall blue jay) and Rigby (a hyperactive raccoon), are best friends who spend their days trying to entertain themselves by any means necessary, much to the displeasure of Benson (their boss, who is a gumball machine) and to the delight of Pops (an older, lollipop-headed gentleman). Their everyday pursuits often lead to things spiraling out of control and into the surreal: they open portals to other dimensions, summon demons via an '80s arcade game and accidentally use choreographed dance moves to send co-workers to the moon. All in a typical day's work on Regular Show.