Regular Show season 8
Regular Show | |
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Season 8 | |
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No. of episodes | 31 |
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Original network | Cartoon Network |
Original release | September 26, 2016 January 16, 2017[1] | –
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The eighth and final season of the American animated comedy television series Regular Show, created by J. G. Quintel, originally aired on Cartoon Network in the United States. Quintel originally created the series' pilot using characters from his comedy shorts for the cancelled anthology series The Cartoonstitute. He developed Regular Show from his own experiences in college, while several of its main characters originated from his animated shorts The Naïve Man from Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM. He himself voice acts one of the main characters in the show, "Mordecai", a blue jay. It was announced on July 7, 2015 and aired from September 26, 2016 to January 16, 2017. The season was branded under the title Regular Show in Space, the final episode also included a reference to Quintel's original short “The Naive Man from Lolliland” in which the original design for Pops is created.
The episode "The Ice Tape" features the final voice performance of David Ogden Stiers as he died on March 3, 2018 which was 16 months after the episode aired.
Development
Production
The series was renewed for an eighth season on July 7, 2015, along with many other Cartoon Network shows.[2] Regular Show is one of two Cartoon Network series ever to get an eighth season, the other being Adventure Time. The release date was announced at San Diego Comic-Con and the season premiered on September 26, 2016. The writers and storyboard artists for season 8 are Benton Connor, Madeline Queripel, Casey Crowe, Owen Dennis, Minty Lewis, Ryan Pequin, Sam Spina, Gideon Chase, Alex Cline, J. G. Quintel, and newcomer Sean Glaze. In March 2016, Kacie Hermanson was announced as the new main character designer for the season,[3] replacing long-time designer Ben Adams, who left the show after the sixth episode of the season to work on Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer for Disney XD. Calvin Wong serves as supervising director. The story writers for the season are Quintel, Sean Szeles, Gina Ippolito, Patrick Baker, and Matt Price, who is also the story editor. Szeles also serves as supervising producer, while Ryan Slater serves as producer. Former writer and storyboard artist Andres Salaff briefly returned to work on the final episode.
After production on the series wrapped up, several of its crew members continued to work with Quintel on his latest series, Close Enough.
Episodes
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written and storyboarded by | Original air date [4] | Prod. code [5] | US viewers (millions) |
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231 | 1 | "One Space Day at a Time" | Owen Dennis and Sean Glaze | September 26, 2016 | 1043-234 | 1.14[6] |
232 | 2 | "Cool Bro Bots" | Benton Connor and Sam Spina | September 26, 2016 | 1043-235 | 1.14[6] |
233 | 3 | "Welcome to Space" | Madeline Queripel and Alex Cline | September 27, 2016 | 1043-236 | 0.96[7] |
234 | 4 | "Space Creds" | Casey Crowe and Gideon Chase | September 27, 2016 | 1043-237 | 0.96[7] |
235 | 5 | "Lost and Found" | Minty Lewis and Ryan Pequin | September 28, 2016 | 1043-239 | 0.96[8] |
236 | 6 | "Ugly Moons" | Benton Connor and Sam Spina | September 29, 2016 | 1043-240 | 0.98[9] |
237 | 7 | "The Dream Warrior" | Madeline Queripel and Alex Cline | September 30, 2016 | 1043-241 | 1.09[10] |
238 | 8 | "The Brain of Evil" | Owen Dennis and Sean Glaze | October 3, 2016 | 1043-238 | 0.82[11] |
239 | 9 | "Fries Night" | Casey Crowe and Gideon Chase | October 4, 2016 | 1043-242 | 0.95[12] |
240 | 10 | "Spacey McSpaceTree" | Benton Connor and Sam Spina | October 5, 2016 | 1043-243 | 1.04[13] |
241 | 11 | "Can You Ear Me Now?" | Madeline Queripel and Alex Cline | October 6, 2016 | 1043-246 | 0.92[14] |
242 | 12 | "Stuck in an Elevator" | Casey Crowe and Gideon Chase | October 7, 2016 | 1043-247 | 0.95[15] |
243 | 13 | "The Space Race" | Owen Dennis and Sean Glaze | October 10, 2016 | 1043-248 | 0.93[16] |
244 | 14 | "Operation: Hear No Evil" | Minty Lewis and Ryan Pequin | October 11, 2016 | 1043-249 | 0.91[17] |
245 | 15 | "Space Escape" | Benton Connor and Sam Spina | October 12, 2016 | 1043-250 | 0.84[18] |
246 | 16 | "New Beds" | Madeline Queripel and Alex Cline | October 13, 2016 | 1043-251 | 1.15[19] |
247 | 17 | "Mordeby and Rigbecai" | Casey Crowe and Gideon Chase | October 14, 2016 | 1043-252 | 0.88[20] |
248 | 18 | "Alpha Dome" | Owen Dennis and Sean Glaze | October 20, 2016 | 1043-253 | 0.99[21] |
249 250 | 19 20 | "Terror Tales of the Park VI" | Sean Glaze, Owen Dennis, Minty Lewis, and Ryan Pequin | October 27, 2016 | 1043-244 1043-245 | 1.05[22] |
251 | 21 | "The Ice Tape" | Madeline Queripel and Alex Cline | November 3, 2016 | 1043-256 | 0.92[23] |
252 | 22 | "The Key to the Universe" | Casey Crowe and Gideon Chase | November 10, 2016 | 1043-257 | 1.02[24] |
253 | 23 | "No Train No Gain" | Owen Dennis and Sean Glaze | November 17, 2016 | 1043-258 | 0.99[25] |
254 255 | 24 25 | "Christmas in Space" | Minty Lewis, Ryan Pequin, Benton Connor, and Sam Spina | December 1, 2016 | 1043-254A 1043-254B | 0.92[26] |
256 | 26 | "Kill 'Em with Kindness" | Minty Lewis and Ryan Pequin | January 14, 2017 | 1043-259 | 1.08[27] |
257 | 27 | "Meet the Seer" | Benton Connor and Sam Spina | January 14, 2017 | 1043-260 | 1.08[27] |
258 | 28 | "Cheer Up Pops" | Casey Crowe and Gideon Chase | January 16, 2017 | 1043-261 | 1.33[28] |
259 260 261 | 29 30 31 | "A Regular Epic Final Battle" | Madeline Queripel, Alex Cline, Minty Lewis, Ryan Pequin, Andres Salaff, Benton Connor, Owen Dennis, and Sam Spina | January 16, 2017 | 1043-262 1043-264A 1043-264B | 1.33[28] 1.37[28] 1.37[28] |
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