Can Camping Be Cool With MORDECAI?

thank you thank you it's a great honor to have received this episode keep my white name out your [ __ ] mouth [Music] welcome back to the mordecai and cj arc we're back after a small muscle man detour back into the main course of today's meal of course the playlist is in the description pin comment anywhere i can put it can camping be cool with mordecai also shout out to benson underscore dancing who made this opening meme his links are below as well we start out with mordecai and rigby doing something that people who generally go outside do check the weather what weirdos hey guys do you need any more this is a living watch everywhere it's gonna be hot try that then i don't need a jacket thanks arthur upon learning that the weather is going to be ideal for camping mordecai and rigby start hyping up their camping trip hinting that it is a tradition that they specifically do i bring this up because it's a common theme within these videos to have mordecai make rigby do something against his will like and do me a solid here is no different it sets up the same expectation that this is going to be the night mordekai makes his move and doesn't now as most of us know he doesn't make the move until it's far too late so when it comes to the first margaret centric season 3 episode it's still rather early in learning this cycle as margaret and eileen come over to speak to them margaret reveals she's never been camping before and rigby denounces her and mordecai punches him and i don't get why i absolutely hate it when someone camps with a sniper and pops people and no one notices them until it's 20 kills too late we don't like campers here i bet your boyfriend won't like you going on a camping trip with two dudes ugh what boyfriend i'm not seeing anyone right now guys are jerks god i know right guys are the worst that is the face of someone who's going to fold on his next two to three relationships i do think that's a clever way to introduce that aspect into the writing without margaret coming out to say it because it also doubles up as rigby's way of trying to find an out for them to spend time together however little does he know a young eileen really likes him and would stop at nothing to continue to try because we'd go on to learn that eileen is a chat if i've ever seen one it follows into a montage quite early on mayad replacing the usual montage that comes a bit later into the episode of all of them having fun except rigby who looks like he ordered a happy meal and they had no toys to add to it stay strong brother where you all headed today oh um hey where's the secret we're just headed up to the campgrounds oh pine ridge or valley fields why don't you mind your home in business pal i'm a cartoon star all right well here's a map stick to the roads and trails great thank you the storytelling is so simple and none of it goes to waste everything from them watching the weather report to them using this car eileen having an experience to them meeting this ranger every part of it will come up and feel important within the story that's one thing you kind of have to hand to regular show it doesn't have a lot of fluff within its episodes but everything is in and it can't be taken out or it'll affect the quality of the story as they reach the entrance into the secret campsite they're greeted with a sign that says restricted no public access now i am not here to insult your intelligence or your eyesight but when i turn on my no sim filter it actually says why would mordecai tell the coffee girls whose job it is to be friendly and welcoming about a secret time honored tradition yeah i know right episode hides tiny details like that i kind of got this filter off of amazon another tiny detail that gets overlooked is how the dynamic of these episodes generally work just as mordecai and rigby are speaking a lot to each other margaret and eileen usually do the same which is quite realistic given that the respective duos here are usually spending more time with their friends at work and not potential love interests this is shown when margaret looks at eileen first to get approval not knowing that she'll do anything to be around rigby and also loves camping to not pass up on this opportunity and trust the boys however if she's not going to question anything i will when rigby goes to open a gate and the car turns into the path who opens the door for rigby to get in it certainly wasn't eileen [Music] not bad right mordecai it's beautiful now i don't have too much negative to say about this episode except for this part story wise the episode doesn't do too much wrong and even some of the tiny inconsistencies i've pointed out and will point out towards the latter half of this episode it doesn't ruin the flow or make the story less clear i'm only highlighting this scene here because a forest leaves a lot to be desired pun not intended i know regular show takes place primarily within a park and the park always looks great but there's something so dead about this forest that i wouldn't really call it beautiful maybe it's the fact that there isn't enough trees to cover all the beige around maybe it's how the scale and detail of the trees don't make it look like enough time and budget covered making this look nicer maybe it's because this entire scene is just so bright i'm not sure but when you look at its peers gravity falls harvey beak's adventure time all on their own respective networks they treated the force in different ways and it looks good what else isn't that good is that mordecai trusted rigby to pack everything and guess what there's no matches for the fire give me that they're not in here you forgot them what do you mean i forgot them don't fight they probably just fell out of the bag or something it's cool guys i got it eileen starting the fire with essentially nothing leads into a pack of wrapped hot dogs hitting eileen's face hey don't you dare start with your innuendo the reason this happened is because with the scenes preceding this we see the first hints of rigby and eileen's relationship becoming a bit more romantic also it's a subtle nod to meet your maker or season 1 episode where hot dogs played an important role in that episode after a great day eating hiking swimming and meeting what looks to be a very curious deer it's now night now i'm gonna spare all of you guys because absolutely no one wants to see me over analyze every single sentence mordecai is about to say in this next scene so i'm gonna break it up into my three favorite moments for better or for worse i think that's a ursula merger right there so you like the handle of the ladle it's called ursa major not ursula merger and that's not even it that's orion oh and she didn't even have to look up shades of brian griffin mordecai tries to flex his intelligence and get something wrong i will say that the recovery was pretty good but i do find it funny that throughout this arc you don't really see mordechai flex's intelligence unless it's around margaret under the premise that she probably likes complex deep guys which to this point if you've ever seen the guys that she dates it's kind of all over the place i also do like the seeds being sewn for rigby and eileen they're great i can't wait for season seven this second moment revolves around mordecai making small talk and asking margaret about college as you may or may not know margaret is in school while working at the coffee shop when appealing to mordecai's experiences in school he has a look of either shame or disappointment in oneself saying that it's different and we don't get too much about mordecai's days in schools there was bad portrait a season 5 episode where mordecai would have to repaint a ruined painting and have to break out his art school experience but for the most part he doesn't really talk about that either i bring these two things up because when you think of mordecai you don't think of a person that flexes his intelligence or speaks about art school he's a completely different person around margaret and that's why throughout all of these episodes so far i have no problem calling him a sim not because i think that he would do this to everyone but that mordecai that's not around margaret is a completely different mordekai that person isn't a symp but this one is but then the third line you don't think all guys are jerks right wait did you hear that what now the main problem area is up here all of this going on up here is what's causing me the most physical discomfort this man is really shooting his shot post breakup and listen i have no problem with shooting your shot with someone post breakup but you don't start it off with so you don't think all guys are bad right this is such a lame line you're just opening yourself up to problems because what if she says yes she does then you have to say what you actually mean which is that you're speaking about yourself so skip over to appetizer let's get to the main course mordecai it's such a simple obviously he blows his chance once more always waiting for the right opportunity not even realizing that the right opportunity is in front of him and we'll get around to how i know it was the right opportunity in a second but we have a weather update another update it's raining mordecai didn't pack a tent rigby didn't pack a tarp but eileen the chad packed back up because she tends to not only think of herself and through that process we learn a few things one mordecai lock the keys in the car which is why this man isn't mature enough to handle anything above a go-kart two and this is gonna sound a little bit messed up but i found it funny that these anthropomorphic animals are struggling with making a shelter and i know what you're gonna say easy for you to say po ripoff i bet you never had to make a den before and listen shut up and three the ranger finds all of them and he says that he has tools to help them it doesn't pick them up and take them to an uncovered area he just leaves them in the rain take filthy hands off branches she doesn't say guys she says mordecai when she was in danger she called out to mordecai she runs into mordecai's arms and he doesn't even realize he had his chance he even knew it however we get to the big moment the deer that was following them around during their camping trip has come for his vengeance healed off of his love for the forest and abandonment of his mother who went to the city don't ask plans to hunt them down for ruining the force in his opinion i don't mind him as an antagonist as we've seen in caffeinated concert tickets and what a kind of rigbies the episode can be good with thin antagonist of the day sort of setups because as a serialized show it's about the adventures you have with these characters along the way which may involve seeing characters for one time only as you'd expect a chase scene follows which is typical of a regular show episode not as fun as muscle woman because starla was awesome but it was fine here nonetheless the only thing i can probably say that may have improved what was going on here is if the episode took more time to show them actually ruining the forest in a way that they couldn't explain so trash everywhere leaving plastic or fishing lines in the water things like that now that would have given him more of a point or go the opposite way have eileen or mordecai be super environmentally friendly and portrayed a dear dude as someone who just wants to be alone in the forest and is used to them being from the outside as an excuse this episode doesn't really lean towards either of these extremes and i do think that would have provided a better dynamic than being in the middle speaking of being in the middle being an issue [Applause] another weird part is how the ranger was so nonchalant about the fact that there was clearly a supernatural being within the woods and you know what i think this ranger ran over his mom let me explain so it makes sense for a ranger to block off certain spots within the forest but it doesn't make sense for said ranger to see an anomaly and think that it's in any way something that you would regularly see in the forest and given that said anomaly never saw his mom after going into the city clearly with the way that they frame it what he experienced his mother experienced as well a car crash and that's why the ranger blocks off this section because he's aware of what's over there and he doesn't want others to find out his misdeeds even the ranger's partner sees something strange here and blows it off he killed his mom you can't tell me anything different but that's just a theory an alpha theory the ending is also quite weak the second half is kind of weaker altogether but basically the episode ends with everyone excited about the trip optimistic despite everything going wrong and margaret thanking mordecai for pushing her to go camping something she wouldn't have done without his guidance camping can be cool it's pretty good not as good as muscle woman or do me a solid it's definitely a step down a tier lower than those episodes but it's not a bad episode in its own right the next episode is slam dunk though which admittedly that's not really much of a margaret centric episode but it is memorable for reasons that we'll get into until then let me know in the comments down below can camping be cool with mordecai until then take care alpha

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Id: ePjK-VyYRXw

Length: 13min 17sec (797 seconds)

Published: Wed May 18 2022