The eighth and final season of the American animated comedy television series ''

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'' (promoted as ''Regular Show in Space''), created by

J. G. Quintel James Garland Quintel is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, writer, producer, and voice actor. He is best known as the creator of the Cartoon Network series ''Regular Show'' (2010–2017), in which he voiced Mordecai and High ...

, originally aired on

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in the United States. Quintel created the series' pilot using characters from his comedy shorts for the canceled anthology series ''

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''. He developed ''Regular Show'' from his own experiences in college. Simultaneously, several of the show's main characters originated from his animated shorts ''The Naïve Man from Lolliland'' and ''2 in the AM PM''. The series was renewed for an eighth and final season on July 7, 2015. The season ran from September 26, 2016, to January 16, 2017, and was produced by

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. Taking place shortly after the seventh season finale, Mordecai and Rigby along with rest of the park itself eventually find themselves in space, where they must learn to adapt to their newfound surroundings all while getting into the same comedic antics as with the previous seasons. The season later progresses to being narrative-driven once the crew ends up confronting Pops’s brother Anti-Pops, a cataclysmic being, forcing them to uncover the truth behind Pops’s past. The series finale included a reference to Quintel's original short “The Naive Man from Lolliland,” in which Pops's original design is created. The episodes "Can You Ear Me Now?" and "The Ice Tape" feature the final voice performances of both

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, who died on May 13, 2017, and

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, who died on March 3, 2018.

Development

Production

The series was renewed for an eighth season on July 7, 2015, along with many other Cartoon Network shows. ''Regular Show'' is one of two Cartoon Network series ever to get an eighth season, the other being ''

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''. 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,

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, Minty Lewis, Ryan Pequin, Sam Spina, Gideon Chase, Alex Cline, and newcomer Sean Glaze. In March 2016, Kacie Hermanson was announced as the new main character designer for the season,Hermanson, Kacie
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. Retrieved on 28 December 2016. 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

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. Calvin Wong served as supervising director for the season. The story writers for the season are Quintel, Sean Szeles, Gina Ippolito, Patrick Baker, and Matt Price, who is also the story editor, while being produced by

. Szeles also served as supervising producer, while Ryan Slater served as producer. A former writer and storyboard artist Andres Salaff briefly returned to work on the final episode. After production on the series wrapped up, several crew members continued to work with Quintel on his next series, ''

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''.

Episodes

References

External links

* {{Regular Show Regular Show seasons 2016 American animated television seasons 2017 American animated television seasons Fiction about alien visitations Fiction about parallel universes Fiction about shapeshifting