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If regular show were TVMA things would be much different. This short gave me weird vibes that made me honestly confused. For only a $500 budget, this is a memorable short.

Knowing this is the beginning of regular show and watching this and it being so different but still very funny and weird lets you see how far it will eventually go even if it does become family friendly well sort of it's still an amazing start to one of the greatest cartoons of all time!

His work on regular show made me want to check this out and I was not disappointed. This is one of the most humorous things I have ever seen. With so many witty and quotable lines and amazing voicework J.G. Really knocked it out of the park with this short. Do yourself a favor and take 7 minutes at any time of day and watch it.

Don't @ me. Please. I also like the cursing and it doesn't feel out of character.

'2 in the AM PM (2006)' is essentially JG Quintel's test run for 'Regular Show (2009-2017)', featuring characters who would go onto become Mordecai and Benson in that show and also displaying the same sort of absurdist humour (albeit a less child-friendly version). Taking inspiration from Kevin Smith's 'Clerks (1994)', the piece follows two gas station employees who take acid-laced candy while working the night shift. The pair experience strange visions that freak them out and, eventually, threaten their job security. My brother pointed out that this could actually be canonical with Quintel's later work: the main character looks a lot like Josh from 'Close Enough (2020-2022)' and his hallucinations look a lot like the characters from 'Regular Show (2009-2017)', so perhaps the latter actually depicts Josh's life prior to meeting Emily but shows it through his own constantly-high eyes (which is why the characters are mostly animals or objects and their daily lives are so crazy). It's an interesting fan theory that strikes at the heart of what makes this piece as enjoyable as it is: its connection to Quintel's later work. It still works fairly well on its own, though, and is entertaining for most of its duration. It is rough around the edges, with a storyboard animation style and a slack pacing, but it's occasionally quite funny and it's typically rather charming in its own way. Plus, it's enjoyably strange to see versions of characters we're familiar with swear and overtly drop acid. It's a solid short overall.

This short film created by J.G. Quintel and Sam Martin is extremely entertaining and hilarious. Many memorable quotes that can be recited in conversation because of how funny they are. Eve with the basic animation the voicing is so good I must give 10/10. If you I'd give it lower... "Well, you thought wrong!"

I never thought the creator of regular show would do this in 2006! This is hilarious totally recommend if ur just bored on youtube! Also love the fact they added regular show characters lol.

Today marks 15 years since this short film was released and it's the 2nd short film based on Regular Show the first being The Naive Man from Lolliland. Mordecai and Benson could've stayed as humans in Regular Show if they didn't go on an acid trip.