WonderCon 2026: Regular Show Q&OOOHHHHHH!!: Down Memory Lane, Bro

 

Regular Show: The Lost Tapes starts airing May 11th on Cartoon Network, that's as much as was could be revealed by series creator and executive producer J.G. Quintel. Head writer Matt Price led the panel as best he could with as little feedback and preparedness from the rest of the cast and crew. I had forgotten and you have might have forgotten how much Cartoon Network animators are huge dorks. Friendly, nice, courteous people with low-scoring social skills. J.G Quintel and Executive Producer Sean Szeles might not have been high, but there was no way I could tell. They answered every question they could during the Q&A with joyful optimism like they had just graduated high school and it sort of brought me back to many of the other panels I covered of Cartoon Network and I was reminded of how other creators like Pen Ward, creator of Adventure Time and Rebecca Sugar, creator of Steven Universe are huge dorks. Friendly dorks with not the greatest people skills.

 

William Salyers the voice of Rigby was there and so was Sam Marin who voices Benson, Pops and Muscle Man. The didn't really do the voices to pump the crowd in any way. That might have been fun. Nothing seemed very much planned out.

 

Here's the silliest part, didn't hate the panel, just wish it was little like the old days when Cartoon Network shelled out some free stuff to promote the show. I think the boys just did this for fun.

 

So, what really happened is WonderCon fans spent an intimate hour with the people behind Regular Show as they reminisced about making it. We looked at clips from each person's favorite episode and learned a little about the behind-the -scenes from the show. Then came the Q&A. Here's some highlights.

 

-We all screamed  OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! at the start and the end as one those.

 

-  J.G. Quintel has no idea how Mordecai and Riby are in Fortnite, he's never even played Fortnite. He has zero control over that.

 

- Episodes written that were considered too messed-up to air on TV would be call "cold subs", because a sandwich shop the crew went to for lunch heard the staff there being sad when saying, "cold subs" into a mic to the people making them in the back. And, happy when saying, "hot subs." So, episodes making it to air would be called "hot subs."

 

-Some times they would "reheat" bring back bad episodes "cold subs" to turn them into acceptable episodes "hot subs" 

 

-The famous Eggcellent Hat episode was much more gross before network notes. Apparently, Mordecai's own barf was going to teach him how to make it through the omelette in time. J.G.'s first fix, what about more barf? The network said no.

 

- Every episode had notes and J.G. liked it that way, because it made them have to rewrite there ideas to fit a show that children could watch or at least make it to air.

 

-Matt Price was very worried the new show was a massive prank. 

-William Salyers, voice of Rigby, got to deliver a graduation speech at a real LA High School Graduation, because his character Rigby had an arc of going back to high school and giving a speech.

-Last Cartoon Network show to use Post-It Notes for story-boarding before switching to Storyboard Pro software.