Mordecai Did NOTHING Wrong.

when you think of regular show what comes to mind is it the wacky misadventures the comically high stakes the countless niche references to obscure things from the 80s which is now like 50 years ago or is it that mid hot dog water romance subplot arc that they tried to pull off okay i'm being a little mean honestly it wasn't even that bad but most regular show fans agree the mordecai dating arc that happens in the show was one they probably could have skipped it's at least divisive i mean the show even makes fun of itself for doing it later on so but when mordecai started dating margaret things leveled off a little i was always more of a cj fan myself if you're not sure what i'm even talking about i'm basically referring to the love triangle between mordecai margaret and cj mordecai and margaret were the classic he has a crush and is too shy to do anything and always messes up in front of her archetype that totally works in the first few seasons and makes for some pretty crazy episodes including the one where rigby dies jesus but as the show went on and they got more and more episodes developed the characters further and further it made sense to develop the relationship too this is honestly something i applaud the show for as margaret and even eileen become basically main characters by the end of the show even getting solo episodes of their own we even get to see their apartment which is cool looks like a fun place to hang out however in a show that focuses on simple chores turning into deadly laser fights the attempt to create an emotional focus on mordecai's simpy relationship drama just wasn't hitting for some fans and they gave this alright quite a few episodes regardless rewatching the episodes i'm enjoying them way more now but that's not what we're here to talk about today no sir instead i want to play a little devil's advocate see mordecai got a pretty bad rap by the time the storyline was over kind of came off looking like a bit of a toxic person at the very least a really shitty partner but i'm here to say i think he got a little bit of a bad rap when i'm not sure my boy entirely deserves all on his own did he mess up yeah but i can't lie after re-watching these episodes i really don't see anything he truly did that was that bad except for some of the things they did that were really bad it's complicated regardless i have a case to make so hear me out speaking of birds let's take a moment to thank today's sponsor semford look we all want to smell good but i for one am overwhelmed when it comes to navigating the complicated world of fragrance from endless expensive colognes to confusing and pretentious names that don't make any sense it can be daunting that's where semford comes in semperd is changing the game when it comes to how people discover shop buy and even experience their signature scent sembert is where you can start your fragrance journey and deepen your relationship with fragrances discover your style to build your collection 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you because i sure haven't i can't erase this image from my head at this point mordecai is a hapless awkward romantic sweaty and horny constantly fumbling the margaret bag and it works with the show that was just starting but yeah as they went on they start to develop these characters and in turn their relationship and it's really cute to watch but i can't lie all their little moments when they're exploring the abandoned zoo just even gives me the warm fuzzies i mean the camping trip come on now have a soul that was adorable but this dynamic couldn't last forever eventually something had to happen here the appeal of oh will they won't they is that eventually they either will or won't so by the end of season four the show finally gave the fans what we wanted to see our two little lovebirds finally got a kiss hell yeah look at him go but unfortunately for the shippers out there that's all we get when mordecai finally goes to ask her out she turns him down because she's going off to her dream college also makes it more confusing how old are they supposed to be in the show i could never figure that out naturally mordecai is heartbroken and we see his depression arc which is i don't know it's as entertaining as you make it out to be but that makes it hard to judge if mordecai is a good or bad boyfriend per se i mean he never really is one with margaret dun dun dun do you hear the drums in the distance bro the war march is coming but i'm getting ahead of myself we can look at his actions leading up to it and yeah i mean he was still kind of sucky here i mean yes dude yes he literally assumed margaret is getting engaged off of like zero information and decides to get back out in the dating world and that's where we get introduced to cj this poor poor person this man literally screws up so bad that cj almost destroys the entire coffee shop but hold on now did he screw up i mean looking at this objectively this feels like a lot more of an overreaction on cj's part something that doesn't really go away as the series goes along and honestly every single time mordecai quote-unquote kind of screws up it's really mostly him just trying to do the right thing and then it horribly backfires like in butt dial he records a super embarrassing voicemail to margaret and tries to delete it but if you're telling me you wouldn't do the exact same thing bro you are lying especially in the chaotic world the show takes place in nah you're lying yourself the only legitimate l is in do or diaper when he makes a bet with muscle man about taking margaret out on a date like that classic trope why would you fall for that my guy that never goes well it backfires obviously but mordecai takes it on the chin apologizing and everything and even eats the punishment like a real chad he's even pretty level-headed when margaret goes away to college sad obviously but far from the toxicity that he could have been this is a dramatic situation big life change stuff and he wasn't selfish at all point for him man i think it gets so much worse more kaiser catch bro it only makes sense that he bounces back and finds another baddie but their relationship is filled with tragedy after tragedy it's hard to watch for instance in the episode merry christmas mordecai they have this christmas party right and margaret gets invited causing mordecai to absolutely freak out because his current girl is there it's just messy i don't know why margaret would go to be quite fair but okay but then you mean to tell me that these two managed to accidentally kiss record scratch stop pause that is not a thing that happens bro and then mordecai tries to act like it's no big deal i'd be on my hands and knees at this point i feel like the universe wants me to lose either you believe me or you don't the only episode where mordecai really gets benefit of the doubt and cj looks bad is the helicopter episode where mordecai goes to margaret's birthday party and just really doesn't want to because of everything that happened but still does and the whole time he's trying to stay away from margaret because he knows that something's gonna happen but the universe just simply won't allow it like nah you two are getting into some shady just watch they both end up in a helicopter together and then the helicopter moves and they fall onto each other and it's just like this is too much at this point cj obviously freaks out but like almost kills them so like she officially loses all her leverage and then that time she admits that she overreacted and yeah she definitely has anger issues even though it did look bad at this point i just feel like margaret and mordecai are tag teaming their horribleness like on not so great double date they go on a double date which is beyond a bad idea like they just need to move to different cities at this point and yeah it backfires of course it does margaret realizes she has feelings for mordecai and who gets hurt again cj every single time my lord this all peaks in the worst possible way in the aptly name episode dumped at the altar can you guess what happens they even managed to bring muscle man into this because this all takes place at muscle man's wedding what if i realized that he loves margaret at muscle man's wedding during their vows and then he literally hijacks the whole speech during the most important part to confess his love for her meanwhile cj is literally in the crowd leave this woman alone bro leave this woman alone not only is this beyonce cj right and also super embarrassing for her but it's like it's not even funny but it's really funny but this even school's a muscle man like this is his big moment he's literally declaring his vows to the love of his life and mordecai literally uses it to make it about him and hurt somebody else completely yeah so unsurprisingly this is where their horrible time ends all this pain all this suffering it was hard to watch but it was worth it because in the end mordecai and margaret finally get together right at this point in the most unsatisfying ending literally ever this is the end of their relationship for the most part like margaret and mordecai will have some romantic moments and everything builds up to these two finally getting together they just don't like there's an episode where they see their future they see that they have kids in a happy life and all that jazz but then once they see that they just decide not to bruh i don't even know what to say i'm tired do you hear me in my voice my voice is tired after that mordecai literally remains pretty much single for the rest of the series to me this feels like the show basically saying we're sorry for doing all this relationship stuff we're gonna stop now and then after that it basically just goes back to being regular show nothing crazy and yeah margaret and eileen are just kind of like main characters especially because eileen and rigby start dating with literally zero drama maybe there's a lesson in there somewhere bro i mean there's some relationship stuff with benson later and that's like mixing with a space arc it's cute i'm into it but that's a separate video bro i want to begin thinking about benson's romance life it just seems depressing oh yeah and speaking of that when they do get space snapped margaret yells from mordecai so maybe that says something but when they get back she doesn't even care so yeah i wish it was more for me to say but after this whole arc after all that messiness are gonna mortice they're just friends super dope so the final day on the coffin for all this is the finale obviously the show does like a full completion of all the characters it's showing them growing up after the event of the show it's really cool and eventually we see an older mordekai who does in fact fall in love and gets married even has a few kids don't want to think about that but yeah it's just not with margaret it's with this random girl good for him i don't know they look happy the show confirmed later that they're still friends and even kept in touch and i think the point of the house board episode was literally to close the ark and then just move on like it gave the fans exactly what they wanted to see them dating them happy whatever and then they decided to just not go for it i mean i'm not mad at all it's kind of like a more realistic story it does make everything before that a whole lot messier though especially when people were already like not really messing with it but in a weird way i would say mordecai and margaret are one of the best love stories it's a messy but real one a lot of conflict and a mediocre ending but the entire thesis that crux this video let's answer this question was he a bad boyfriend yeah he was honestly i went in this video thinking i would like prove something or i'd have like a big grand point but i just kind of watched it play out and yeah he does kind of suck at certain points because look he was only boyfriend to cj and he and margaret put that girl through hell don't get me wrong she had some anger issues she had some stuff to do with too no one's perfect but more than enough has happened here to warren being extremely salty that being said i will say a majority of the stuff that he did wrong was like comically funny how it happened to him and a lot of it was unintentional or him just trying to do the right thing but that wedding man i don't know that was just that was bad that's why i like regular show so much though it's like people in their 20s and then they were messing up you know and then also like grand conflicts with space wizards it's a good show if you haven't seen it how are you still watching this video go watch it now regardless i would love to know what you guys think about all this i mean did you like this arc i feel like there's gonna be some more defenders now that it's been some time it's aged a little differently do you think that mordecai should have ended up with margaret or cj one or the other neither i'm not gonna say both anyways that wraps up this deep dive this dissection of this arc and mordecai is a boyfriend and all that jazz my advice to you love is dead never believe in it yada yada thank you for watching and i'll see you next time peace [Music] [Music] you

Channel: The Roundtable

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Length: 12min 57sec (777 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 21 2022