How Did Mordecai and Rigby's Friendship LAST?

armada welcome to another episode of the mordecai margaret cj arc series where i go over this entire series long arc and analyze it episode by episode currently we're on do me a solid the last season 2 margaret centric episode and if you haven't seen any of the others leading up to this it's all nicely organized in bingeable form within the playlist either in the description or pin comment also look at my reddit so do me a solid and catch up to speed so you can understand everything going on here the last episode had mordecai and rigby fake being in a band for two different reasons for rigby he wanted to do it because it sounded cool but for mordecai he did it because margaret wanted to see them perform and somehow they almost managed to get away with it with mordechai coming clean at the last minute leading to another participant in the open mic event to go on a dinner date with margaret it should be noted that before i started this arc i already talked about its time which would have been in the middle of the last episode that i covered and this one and that one had rigby going out of his way to mess with mordecai and lighten the mood between mordecai and margaret by taking the leap to ask margaret out to prove that it isn't such a hard thing to do it didn't end well for him so going off of that we're now at dumi asala the well-known episode for introducing the solid aspect in the show and possibly to some of you watching they don't spend a lot of time explaining it hey mordecai do me a solid and get me a lemonade from the kitchen okay but you owe me a solid of course that's how solids work getting into it quickly you see how both a solid works but more importantly how they're so casual with it they use it to accentuate the rather trademark tendency to take the path of least resistance and you know what as a panda who has spent the foundational time of his life falling off of a tree branch that's not too bad of a life honestly apparently mordecai and rigby are watching some of the other regular show reviews out on youtube that they couldn't show on cartoon network for legal purposes plus it would ruin the space-time continuum and mordecai and rigby changed the channel because only one channel knows how to do it and do it right you'll go on to see that they use it for frivolous uses turning a comic page drying hands cheesing nachos creating a demon hell spawn oh my god mordecai ricky hey pops hey skips you think you want some chips with that cheese oh yeah i guess we overdid it with the cheese huh as we round out season two you'll notice that the chemistry between the guys are getting there within the season one episodes that i talked about they behaved the way that my sims behave when they're at acquaintanceship level and that makes sense because we get to know them over time skips pops musclemen they all get to know these two as well it's also just nice to see them vibe together given that in mordecai and margaret-based episodes they're usually not around to witness the sheer simpage that this man would do you shouldn't abuse the power of the solid bad things will happen can you at least pretend you didn't see us okay but you owe me a solid the wise stern deadpan and funny skips makes this moment as with that warning you would notice that they don't listen to that warning it's similar to hooky from spongebob where because nothing bad has happened yet why stop clearly that is skips just being way too cautious and that they know what they're doing they never know what they're doing however now we get to a crucial scene i'm about to test your regular show knowledge there's going to be a few things said here that if you are a fan of the show and you've watched the show and you remember the show some of the reactions should seem rather ironic in hindsight as they head to the coffee shop eileen is seen checking out rigby of course rigby razzed a bit by mordecai goes out of his way to say that he's not interested but not in a way that is outwardly rude to eileen in fact he's actually very polite in comparison to what he could have done and would have done if he was pushed over the edge so um rigby i was wondering do you like miniature golf my shift ends early tonight wanna go yeah i'm waxing my car tonight so oh that's cool i didn't mean it like a date or anything it would be a group thing you me mordecai and margaret now my theory is that the double date was not planned because if that were the case as a shy panda myself you would ask it in the way to create the least amount of friction and you would have phrased it as a group thing to begin with however this had to be her plan b because we had later learned that margaret had prior plans i would have loved to see that scene and see how margaret spoke about mordecai when mordecai wasn't around now let's play a game of mortar y it's a game i just made up four choices so with this information that margaret is going to be there does mordecai a respect his friend's boundaries and double down on not going b respect his friend's boundaries and decide to go without him c respect his friend's boundaries and see if they can make it a bigger group thing or d respect his friend's boundaries and try to make it less awkward for eileen and rigby causing them to respect her more do me a solid and go out with eileen so i can go on a date with margaret what why dude come on this is my chance to finally get with margaret of course it was e now let's step aside here and make sure that we all have the same definition of sim i looked the word up on urban dictionary and i didn't like a lot of those definitions there so put that aside a simp as a person can be any gender or identity where you put someone else on a pedestal meaning that their opinions thoughts behaviors and actions instantaneously align with yours even if contradictory in an attempt to develop a more fruitful relationship later via doing things that you would not normally do for anyone else this can include always defending a person even when it makes you look like a hypocrite adjusting your day or your finances to accompany someone else even when it don't need it or don't ask for it or even worshiping them everything that they say even when they don't view themselves that way or even if they do this online discourse about mordechai being a semper knot is so weird because if mordecai isn't a simp then who would be he literally blocked out his entire day to train to become a musician he blocked out his own time to help margaret move not to help her out of the kindness of his heart by the way but to ask her out on a date afterwards and even went as far as the microwave clocks just to ruin rigby's date because he feels so entitled to margaret rigby please you have to do me this solid all right i'll do it for 10 solids what oh and he literally gave rigby 10 reasons 10 times in life 10 solids to make his life worse just for this date let's talk about what a simp is not a simp is not someone who is interested in the girl if mordechai was interested but didn't make it seem like a no was like the end of the world or wasn't so desperate about it you know that that's fine that's that's one thing a simp is not someone who pays for a date wants to arrange a date or even defend someone online if they genuinely believe in the argument you know it's like a simp isn't someone who casually donates to a stream because they want to support the streamer with no strings attached a simp also isn't someone who enjoys playing with someone of the opposite gender all of these things are casual you can do these things without sacrificing your own self-worth and self-respect because you're desperate for something or that you feel like you need to have that thing to make your life feel full here this man is fighting for the date mind you for a coffee girl that is still bland she is so bland and so basic up to this point we still know very little about margaret except that she's had a few dates and she likes basic things oh movies music coffee wow much depth and that's not a knock to her because later on we'd learn that she'd actually have a great personality but just to view this situation the right way we're not talking about two people who know each other well monica is just a repeat customer that's the same age as her this is a lot of determination at least according to the audience perspective for a freaking stranger hey mordecai can you do me a solid and hang back with eileen ah fine and the crazy thing is they do eileen dirty in this episode would you just show you how amazing eileen and rigby would go on to be like both of them have acknowledged that margaret is hot but it seems like eileen is the biggest chad here given that she wrangled everyone together for the date however just for historical purposes i should say rigby's first solid was getting mordekai to sit in the back and i mean i get it you want to sit up front with who you think would be a future girl but let's be honest what are you gonna do up there that you couldn't do in the back seat that's right nothing get your bird butt in the back hey margaret check it out i want to suck your blood so red and juicy hey rigby look at me i just laid sea turtle eggs and now i'm gonna swim out to sea although many of my hatchlings won't live to adulthood okay so we're not gonna talk about how eileen literally teleported within the scene and no one noticed anywho i know i hope a lot of mordekai and i should say this little disclaimer it might be a little bit annoying because i'm gonna be saying in every single episode involving an arc but just bear with me i love the show i love the characters this is a really good episode but just because this is a good episode doesn't mean that i'm gonna look away from the simp behavior that goes on here i'm not gonna look away from his behavior just because i like the episode i like the show i like the characters okay cool you can be a simp and entertaining in fact if you were to say that mordecai was just normal and none of this stuff happened that he would be boring i'd agree with you he actually wouldn't be mordecai if he didn't do these desperate things and if he was just like a regular guy or bird but again you can be a simp and entertaining those two words are not against each other so just earlier what i said about not looking away from order kai's behavior yeah that goes for rippy as well he ends up using his solids progressively throughout the date to embarrass mordecai in a sense getting back at him for using a solid to basically force him on a date with a very interested eileen do me a solid and yell as loud as you can what why you don't even get anything out of that cool then we can call off this stupid date and go home okay okay i'll do it if we're counting that second solid you can clearly see what rigby's angle is he'd even use his third solid to trick mordecai into eating a burrito doused in hot sauce so which i would probably ask what kind of mini golf course would have such a hot hot sauce just on deck but you know i'm probably assuming maybe rigby bought it himself i don't even know i should say gradually over the course of this episode we'd see that margaret takes a lot of these awkward moments and she wears them she doesn't make a fuss and is actually quite mature about all of this oddly you do me a salad and get some popcorn i'm all out of money uh hey margaret can i borrow five bucks sure mordecai oh man that's that's really painful to see not only does he spit up the hot sauce and burrito and everything all over her but then has to ask the girl for five dollars also can we talk about homie in the top right i'm pretty sure that's muscle man in a mask there's no way and you're probably wondering why i'm not laying into rigby as much for his disrespect to eileen and also just treatment to mordecai well besides the fact that i was forced onto a date i would feel a certain way just the episode preceding this if i wasn't pushed to my death after someone proclaimed that they wanted to kill me so as you can see i'm not really in a hurry to bash this raccoon however i will say eileen is the best thing to ever happen to rigby post school and yes i'm putting it over episodes like excellent he just doesn't know it yet and it's gonna take like around five seasons to confirm so rigby's fifth solid would be for butter and six solid would be for napkins with this seventh solid being this hey give me a solid take the heat for this take the heat for what sorry sorry everybody alright quick question if anyone has a law degree in like solids in the chat in the comments so what would happen if you were to counter a solid by saying that a certain solid means that you now owe them a solid like if rigby wanted this that mordecai would say hypothetically that would owe me a solid could they have like a solid war these are the subjects they need to teach in school rigby drunk off power uses two solids to send mordecai on a long run apparently for the better ice cream sandwiches in which the meantime we really center in on margaret wanting to leave both mordecai and eileen insist in separate scenes for her to stay and that's super important eileen wanted this margaret never made any inclination in this episode to make it appear that this is nothing more than just a fun time with her friend and these two guys they had one tiny interaction at the mini golf course but that's literally it rigby said there were ice cream sandwiches at this party hook it up ladies you want some of this the greatest short scenes in this arc can we just agree that muscle man is like the best character in this mordecai margaret cj arc so far he's just so blissfully and unapologetically happy and excited for like just tiny things whether it was the concert or laughing with rigby about mordecai and margaret he's just been a bro and it's the best thing ever with one solid left mordecai finally allocates brain space away from worshiping margaret to finally bring rigby aside and question his motives it only took majority of this episode for him to realize that this was a sabotage why are you using your solves to ruin my date with margaret why'd you use your salad to ruin my life ah quit being a baby ironically it was eileen's involvement in his world that ended up course correcting his life for the better but again it's just one of those neat things to see in retrospect however mordecai is asked to do something that we don't get to hear that's so bad that mordecai denies the solid it really shows you how they crank up the intensity here with showing the consequences of both taking solids too far for your own benefit and also the danger of rejecting a solid which is kind of weird so if you owe someone a solid and they ask for your social security number you basically have to give it to them when the world would crumble note to self get the algorithm to owe me a solid however in the meantime the world is crumbling and rigby is demanding mordechai to do this solid what's happening she really thought benson skips and pops show up like it was nothing at night when the parks is seemingly closed it's so random like i get it pops and skips they live there but you would think benson would be i don't know in his apartment but anywho skips reminds the jokers that he warned them earlier which he did but then also used the solid so you know but more importantly i wanted to show you this scene here this is why i love this art just do it already mordecai but you'll never respect me again not if you're just doing a solid that's what friends are for they come through for each other when they need it most wow i guess i never thought of it that way before so basically you're telling me throughout this entire adventure or even your entire life you never thought for at least one second of your desperate existence that perk to this friendship is that they may do things for you that they may not necessarily see as ideal because they respect you and what's the best for you when the beginning of this episode literally had you lean on your friendship with rigby and the entire solid system in order to get rugby to do something that if he wasn't friends with you he wouldn't have done in a million years what was that definition i said again having their opinions thoughts and behaviors and actions instantaneously align with yours even if contradictory in an attempt to develop a more fruitful relationship later margaret the basic starbucks coffee bird that she is literally said friends help each other and mordecai acts like it's like one of the math problems that can't be solved being solved in his face this man's a sin margaret does so it's for me all the time yeah like tonight i broke a date so eileen could go out with rigby wait you're only here because you're doing eileen a solid she was never interested in you in that way or if she was she was waiting for you to make the first move which you never did you never did that at all and not only that but even though margaret's words are more basic than your nick jr lineup what he got out of that was that it was never a double date eileen never said it was a double date but a group thing she even worded it in the beginning as initially a date with rigby where is this man's head at because whatever's going on up there it's like his head is in the sand and it only comes out coincidentally for the wrong reason anyway this man does the dumb solid which apparently is too raunchy for television but everyone's face says it all throughout all of this we get to our title how did mordecai and rigby's friendship last well luckily it wasn't heavily reliant on margaret's involvement or else i couldn't have told you rigby has embarrassed this man in an unforgettable way which doesn't even cover the pocket dial that he do later on and it makes you wonder did mordecai reach his limit you know what rigby you're a jerk i'm going to the arcade i'll come with you no way i'm done hanging out with you you're not my friend i'm out of here what a dude realizing that he's got nothing without mordecai genuine empathy and guilt for someone who really likes a girl and was embarrassed because of it or the vcr being 4 20 p.m or even because status quo rigby in theory should have too much pride to apologize in public however rigby destroys the tape that has the embarrassing moment on it and i wonder what it could have been anywho you guys voted for a muscle man detour so we're gonna be doing that the next episode in the arc will be muscle woman and in the next one after that we'll be right back on track when season 3 camping can be cool until then thank you so much for your time take care now you

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Id: IVC149sBMdM

Length: 17min 16sec (1036 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 19 2021