We are Matt Price (head writer) and Calvin Wong (supervising director) of Regular Show. AMA!!!!

First question, great question. We felt like the Margaret / CJ story was complete, and they were both on their own path already. We also felt like Mordecai had moved on in his life. He finally left the park to pursue art, and we thought it'd be cool if he met someone while doing that. But we love Margaret and C.J., and we're sure that they're happy without Mordecai! He was too wishy-washy with them!!

That's a Cartoon Network decision. But demand it!!! It would be pretty cool...

Yeah, that's what I always liked about writing the show. All of our ideas come from a place of making us laugh. We wanted to write things that made us laugh (as adults) as well a younger audience. And the 80s references just added to that. Somehow the 80's is goofy enough to appeal to kids while enjoying the comforting weirdness that is "Safety Dance."

No. But one day it will.

Thank you! We thought it was a perfect way to go out.

Overall, I feel like the CN treated "Regular Show" very well. When I first saw the pilot, I couldn't believe someone was taking a chance on it. Not because it wasn't good, because it was really good. But because the show was so interesting and grounded and then totally surreal. I hadn't seen anything like it, and the CN was smart enough to give it a shot. And then while we were getting started, they were encouraging, and then once we got going, they let us do whatever we wanted to do (within reason) forever. Like 8 seasons of really excellent creative freedom. And I've worked at many different places where that is not the case at all. Most places note their shows to death. But the CN is fairly hands off. The CN really respects the artist, and that's so rare in TV. So for that, I'm totally grateful to them and think that they treated us well.

Having said that, yeah, I mean I think the last few seasons weren't aired as well as they could have been. I'm not a fan of dumping a bunch of episodes at once, and they've been doing that with all of the shows. No-one has explained to me why that helps, and I don't think it helped us. And I agree that the Saturday premiere coupled with running Teen Titans Go all day and then Shrek and THEN our series finale was not cool. I thought it deserved more of a "Regular Show" send-off. But in their defense, they have a business to run, and we're not a part of the future of that business. And we had been on the air for eight seasons! That's a long time! So I guess they figured that it had to end, and they'll end it with more of a whimper than a bang.

At the end of the day though, they fostered an environment for "Regular Show" to succeed, and that's all that mattered. On another network, we wouldn't have lasted long at all. So for that (and a job for seven years - um...pretty cool), I'll always appreciate the CN and how they treated us and let us be anything but regular.

haha, i think those are the main two. I remember in Skips Story I had the babies say "Help us Skips, you're our only hope."

I remember the day he had to record for Skips Story. He would always come in cold and never read the script beforehand (he's a busy guy) and when he came to that "A long time ago..." line, he facepalmed and was like "oh brother."

Once he said, "help me, Obenson Kenobi. You're my only hope."

I feel like we started talking about Pops being the key to the universe around Season 6. It was definitely a few seasons ago. We weren't sure exactly how he'd show this, but he was deemed magical (in our heads) a little ways back.

Thomas did not make an appearance in the finale because he was trapped back on Earth. Perhaps in a submarine of some sort.

One: we never named Mordecai's wife. I guess we should. JG loves Goonies so I'm going to say her name is Stef.

Two: I imagine that Margaret has advanced in the news world, and she's currently traveling the world reporting on global events that finally get her out of town. She's definitely still friends with Eileen and keeps up with Mordecai. They still laugh about how weird their brief relationship was. C.J. moved on to play professional dodgeball, but she doesn't talk to any of them anymore.

bottom line is that it's reallllllly expensive to license songs and we're only budgeted for so much. We saved almost all that budget for "Heroes"

Thank you for also using Dragonforce, it brought me so much joy!

Thanks very much for your comment!

That's also a great question about character development. I always like creating a character around something real. Whether that thing comes from someone that I'm really close with (a good friend, an ex-girlfriend, etc) or just from something that I observed at Yogurtland (lots of characters there), I feel like it's more genuine to begin that way. And if you come at the character more in that way, then you can hear the character in your head more. I'm always jotting stuff down that I hear people say or do. Then I refer to it later.

Does any of that help?? Because there are a million other ways too...

Personally, my favorite episode I ever worked on was TGI Tuesday, if for nothing else I got the line "these burritos taste like failure" in.

I loved "Eggscellent." It took over a year to write, with many stops and starts. At one point there was a Vomit Man who helped train Mordecai, but the CN thought a Vomit Man was too gross. But that was a great example of believing in a story and continuing to make it better. And I thought it had all of the elements that I love about the show. I also loved making the finale. I was really proud of that one, especially the last three minutes.