Regular Show (non-existent Flash pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; late 2000s-2010)

Screenshot of one of the Flash animated scenes.

Status: Non-existent

Regular Show was an animated show created by J.G. Quintel. Its first episode aired on Cartoon Network on September 6th, 2010, but before that, an 11-minute pilot was aired called "First Day". It was believed that two other pilots were made, one of them being Flash animated, the other using a slightly different animation style and character design.

Availability

Two short clips of the pilot being animated in Flash are available online. The first is the intro, where Mordecai and Rigby are playing "punchies" for the clean spoon, and the second part being the segment where they are about tying their game of Rock Paper Scissors 100 times. Both of these, as stated before, have the same premise and plot of the other pilots.

Status

Before information was given by one of the animators, the only proof of existence a Flash pilot may have existed were the resurfaced clips.

On December 15th, 2021, Eric J. Pringle, who animated the Flash clips, along animating with other Cartoon Network shows, confirmed on Twitter to a question about the Flash pilot, that the pilot was not animated in Flash, nor was there a full pilot animated in Flash, but rather 2 clips were recreated in Flash as a test, though they were not made into the cut. The other pilots, and the final show, use traditional animation, rather than the experimented-with Flash animation.

Gallery

RebelTaxi's video on the show's history, talking about the Flash animation tested.

See Also

• Ben 10 (partially found unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; early-mid 2000s)
• Billy and Mandy in Trepanation of the Skull and You (found prototype short of "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" Cartoon Network animated series; 1995)
• Camp Lazlo "Monkey See, Camping Doo" (lost unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2004)
• Captain Sturdy (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)
• Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe (partially lost pilots from animation studio; 2008-2011)
• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (found unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2003)
• IMP, Inc. (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)
• Jeffrey Cat: Claw and Order (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2002)
• A Kitty Bobo Show (found storyboard of cancelled second animated pilot for Cartoon Network; 2002)
• Major Flake in "Soggy Sales" (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (partially found "Wedgies pilot" of Cartoon Network animated series; 2007)
• Mess O' Blues (partially found prototype short of "Johnny Bravo" Cartoon Network animated series; 1993)
• My Gym Partner's a Monkey (lost unaired pilots of Cartoon Network animated series; 2003/2004)
• Nikki (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2000)
• The Powerpuff Girls (lost pilot of Cartoon Network animated series reboot; 2016)
• Project Gilroy (lost Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2007)
• Squirrel Boy "Kite Makes Right" (lost unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2004)
• Uncle Gus (partially found original English audio of Cartoon Network animated pilots; 2000-2001)