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(Do this), or you’re fired!
~ Benson's catchphrase
GET BACK TO WORK! NOW!
~ Benson towards Mordecai and Rigby if they slack off

Benson Dunwoody is the deuteragonist of the Cartoon Network series Regular Show.

He was voiced by Sam Marin, who also voiced Muscle Man in the same series.

Appearance[]

Benson is a gumball machine (standing at 5'4” and about 150 pounds) with pinkish-purple gumballs enclosed by a glass dome, sunken eyes and a large, straight nose that just about overlaps his mouth. As seen many times, his gumballs and thus his face turn red whenever he is angered.

During the time montage following the final events of "A Regular Epic Final Battle" and at the 25-year park reunion, Benson has grown grey hair, although still bald on the top of his head, that is tied in a ponytail under a blue hat.

Personality[]

Benson's short temper is usually attributed to the continuous lack of productivity from Mordecai and Rigby on work time, thus he would scream and yell at them in an ear-bleeding way whenever the duo is doing something off-task, often threatening to fire them or at the very least, assign more work and/or refusing to let them have fun. He and Skips are the only serious workers of the park, although he still seems to have a sense of humor as he sometimes shows amusement towards the duo's antics after he calms down. He also joins in on his worker's zany antics off the clock if they do not take things too far. Furthermore, he does show a more generous side by buying dinner for his co-workers. In "Eggscelent", he seems quite arrogant with his job as a park manager, which Mordecai points it out.

Although he is often angry at Mordecai and Rigby, he still considerably likes them, as he has invited them to special celebrations, and most notably in the episode Stick Hockey, he risked himself to help the two. He also admitted the two were cool in Cool Bikes, as he helped saving them from the cool police, and in Eggscellent after Benson down talks Rigby at the hospital only to get punched by Mordecai. Benson later apologizes to him and then started training Mordecai for the omelette challenge. Afterwards, Mordecai tells Benson that despite acting like a jerk, he is still a true friend. In the episode "Busted Cart", he admitted he doesn't hates them and he just wants to push them to do better.

In Think Positive, while he was yelling at Mordecai and Rigby after Pops finally allows him to with the anger that was held up for days and released in an ear-deafening way, he mentions he is trying to teach them responsibility. From that point, he also promised to yell less of the time. He, for the most part, kept this promise as while he still screams at the duo whenever they go too far, he generally only does it when they cross the line like when they ruined the Thanksgiving Feast. Even then, he usually forgives them after cooling off. Furthermore, while he mostly targets the duo, he is willing to call out the other workers (except for Pops who he at most, expresses mild annoyance with) such as when Skips damaged Mordecai and Rigby's console once the latter kept bragging after beating him at arm-wrestling.

In later seasons, Benson becomes much kinder and more tolerant aside from a few episodes (e.g. One Space Day at a Time, his aggression returns when he punches Rigby, then Rigby punches Benson back, turning this into a fight.) where he reverts to his former ways. He treats Mordecai and Rigby with much more respect than before, even letting some things slide. His friendship with the latter grows even more as they find out that they relate to each other, and because Rigby eventfully earns Benson's respect after his maturity and when he helped save the world from Anti-Pops.

Villainous Acts[]

  • The Unicorns Have Got to Go: After helping Mordecai and Rigby get rid of the Unicorns, Benson hoses them down while angrily berating them for bringing the Unicorns to the house and reminds Mordecai to stop spraying that Cologne because that never got to attract any ladies. He then, like most episodes, makes them clean up the mess and threatens to make their lives miserable. This is the first time he is shown abusing the two, though he did almost die himself before this.
  • Peeps: He is so obsessed with making Mordecai and Rigby do work all day that he installed surveillance cameras called Peeps to spy on them, even when they were on break and went to the bathroom. This was the only episode to portray him as a villain until the arrival of the more sinister Peeps. This shows that he has absolutely no respect for Mordecai and Rigby's privacy whatsoever, and his desire to observe them constantly ends up breaching the privacy of everyone in the park.
  • High Score: He never respects Mordecai and Rigby at all and refuses to give them checks. Even when he was about to give them their paychecks, he immediately changed his mind and ripped it up furiously for something that was actually kind of their fault.
  • Temp Check: After Mordecai and Rigby mow the lawn at the Park’s ultimate frisbee field, Benson angrily tells them to mow it all over again for a ridiculous reason: the grass is an inch too tall. Rigby justifiably complains, but Benson responds by smugly threatening to fire him. Rigby decides to hire Doug Shablowski (the episode's main antagonist) to do all of his work at the park for him. In the end, Benson angrily punishes Rigby with three months of toilet duty with the threat of firing him yet again. The problem is that Rigby wouldn’t have hired Doug to do all of his work at the park for him had Benson not been needlessly unfair to him and Mordecai in the first place.
  • Karaoke Video: He forces Mordecai and Rigby to go to Carrey O'Key's karaoke bar with the rest of the park workers and refuses their suggestions for another place. This indirectly leads them to accidentally start a bar fight, ruining karaoke night. Mordecai and Rigby later sincerely apologize, but Benson furiously rejects them instead and drives off without them.
  • Big Winner: He orders Mordecai and Rigby to tell the truth to Muscle Man that the lottery ticket that they gave him is fake threatening to fire them if they don't do that. While it was fair considering that Muscle Man was trashing the park thinking that he can buy new stuff to replace it, he seemingly shows no concern for what Muscle Man could do to the duo since when Rigby suggested that could Benson tell him for them, he answers saying that he has no time to be put in the hospital.
  • Think Positive: When Pops threatens to fire Benson if he continues to yell at Mordecai and Rigby, Benson tries to hold his anger, eventually destroying most of the park and nearly exploding in the likeness of a Super Saiyan. Pops then allows him to let out his anger, causing him to yell so loud at Mordecai and Rigby that he accidentally deafens them.
  • Stick Hockey: He promises not to give away a stick hockey table if Mordecai and Rigby do their work. Despite that the two finished their work, Benson doesn't keep his word and gives away the table as he assumed that they were not going to do their work, leading them to grow upset with him. However, he later discovers that they are in danger for trying to win it back against Chong. Benson risks his own safety to fix his mistake and retrieve the stick hockey table, making this one of few instances where Benson does something nice for Mordecai and Rigby in the first few seasons.
  • Eggscellent: He down talks Rigby heartlessly, blaming him and Mordecai not working for his condition. Mordecai responds by punching him and angrily storming out of Rigby's hospital room. Later in the episode, Benson apologizes to Mordecai and corrects his mistake by helping him train for the challenge. He also forgives Mordecai for punching him and does not fire him as he knew he deserved it.
  • The Best Burger in the World: After Mordecai and Rigby failed to finish their work for an entire week, Benson forces them to finish all of their work before they can go to a food truck to get the Ulti-Meatum, a burger that only comes out every 100 years. This is one of Benson's cruelest roles in the show by the fact he wouldn't let them even go anywhere near the truck until they finished the work; he even beat them down and ate their burgers when they finally managed to buy them (even after defeating holographic versions of themselves). On the other hand, he did have the right to be angry with them, considering that they slacked off for an entire week (though one may question why Benson didn't inform them immediately upon missing their first chore that week, yet it may be possible that he did warn them, but the duo didn't care).
  • Replaced: Briefly replaces Mordecai and Rigby with Jeremy and Chad, unfairly fires them and flashes a camera at them repeatedly. He then gets his well-deserved punishment when Jeremy and Chad decide to quit the job, and Mordecai and Rigby take it back and flash the camera at him in revenge.
  • Trash Boat: He, along with Mordecai, Muscle Man, Hi Five Ghost, Pops and Skips made fun of Rigby when he changed his name to "Trash Boat". He also threatened to fire Rigby if he didn't wear his nametag so he could make fun of him, showing how much of a jerk he is.
  • Pie Contest: While fair that he decided to give Mordecai and Rigby the judge charge after they complained that cleaning was lame and learn for themselves that being a pie contest judge is not an easy job, threatening to fire them if they decide to quit that charge, the truly antagonistic moment was before Mordecai and Rigby decide to give everyone good points as a draw, Benson comes to see them and starts to mock them about being the judges and that they have to be brutally honest, he jokingly tells them that if they want can stop being the judges but then he mockingly says that if they do that he will fire them, this caused that Mordecai and Rigby try to find aforementioned solution and afterwards have to get the help from Promise Pie who started to eat the contestants, afterwards the Pie gets defeated, he showed to be ungrateful on Mordecai and Rigby, making them clean the mess that the Pie did or threatens to fire them.
  • Exit 9B: Although he was brainwashed by Garrett Bobby Ferguson Jr., in this scenario he was close to angrily killing Mordecai and Rigby when they attempt to reason with him before regaining his memory when Mordecai and Rigby annoy him with his antics. This redeems him, as he signs the document as well.
  • Firework Run: When Muscle Man accidentally sets the fireworks off early, he threatens to fire him, Mordecai, Rigby, and Hi Five Ghost unless they bring new fireworks, even though the other three were completely innocent. Then, when they save Benson's life after Hector nearly kills Benson, he yells at them and demands they replace the grass that was burnt from the firework they brought, showing no gratitude for their actions and for topping last year's firework show.
  • Muscle Mentor: He humiliates Rigby by forcing him to stay attached to Muscle Man for eight hours, then allowed Muscle Man to almost kill Rigby, despite Mordecai's pleads to stop him. He even threatened to do the same to Mordecai. Unlike most episodes, aside from Mordecai getting upset with him, no one holds him accountable for putting two employees in danger (though debatable, since Mr. Maellard may have yelled at him off screen as usual). To be fair, he did this because he wanted to get back at Rigby for badmouthing him and not taking him seriously. However, he also did it to have an excuse to fire Rigby despite that it was a "second chance" to him, although when Rigby didn't give up and saved Muscle Man, Benson was genuinely impressed by that and he praised Rigby for how he didn't gave up for everything he had been through and adds that he is proud of him.
  • Sleep Fighter: He shows no concern over Muscle Man's sleep fighting and the injuries his employees are sustaining, only helping when Muscle Man breaks into his house and beats him up during one of his sleep fighting episodes.
  • Sandwich of Death: He attempted to punish Mordecai and Rigby for eating his Grilled Cheese Deluxe by stealing their sandwich and eating it, unaware that it was the Death Sandwich, which kills those who do not eat it in the correct way. Benson falls ill and almost gets himself killed because of this. He is cured by the end of the episode and survives. However, despite this, it famously served as karma for Benson for eating Mordecai and Rigby's burgers.
  • A Bunch of Full Grown Geese: Benson tasks Mordecai and Rigby with getting rid of the titular geese. Mordecai kindly and justifiably protests. Unfortunately, Benson doesn’t want to hear it and threatens to fire him and Rigby if they don’t get rid of the geese. Rigby responds by justifiably calling Benson out on the fact that he always threatens to fire him and Mordecai for something that could be harmful or fatal to him and Mordecai and Rigby finishes his sentence by saying that Benson threatening to fire him and Mordecai is getting old. Benson responds by making himself look like a psycho by screaming out in anger and chasing Mordecai and Rigby out of his office while throwing a fit. After Mordecai, Rigby and the titular ducks from “A Bunch of Baby Ducks” defeat the geese, an unjustifiably ungrateful Benson scolds all six of them for the unavoidable mess that they made. Fortunately, the Baby Ducks’ mother shows up and scolds Benson for not appreciating the fact that Mordecai and Rigby saved the park and quite possibly the world and for scolding at her children. Ashamed and realizing the Baby Ducks’ mother’s point, Benson apologizes to the Baby Ducks’ mother and leaves sad and gloomy.
  • Paint Job: When his car gets destroyed, he decides to blame Mordecai and Rigby for it and refuses to pay them for 6 months, which is illegal.
  • Take the Cake: He storms into Pops's house with Thomas just as Skips finishes patching up the teleporter, launching into an angry tirade about the failed plan. Mordecai and Rigby quickly try to explain themselves, but Benson ignores them and snatches said teleporter. The three wrestle over the device which finally goes off and teleports the cake and everyone else with it out of the room.
  • Gold Watch: He blames Mordecai and Rigby for getting stranded in the desert during a drunken stupor, despite eating the hot wings that intoxicated him on his own accord. Instead of showing concern for the two when he found out they were missing too, he attempts to strangle Mordecai. This was thankfully sorted out in little over 3 minutes.
  • Tent Trouble: He showed some sadistic enjoyment out of watching Mordecai and Rigby getting beat up by Starla and her sister Peggy during the wrestling match, although he did seem to show some sympathy for them later as the fight got more intense.
  • Brilliant Century Duck Crisis Special: When a cassowary appears at the park and after being told how dangerous it can be, Benson leaves that as a job for Mordecai and Rigby, threatening with fire them, even though Skips told the bird's characteristics. Also when PlayCo arrives and offer a deal with Mordecai, Rigby and the Baby Ducks in sign a contract to make toys of them, Benson and the others appear and tells Mordecai and Rigby to sign, saying that it's sensible and pretty lucrative and he gets frustrated after the duo refuses by telling that they are not sell-outs. However after PlayCo forces them to sign by their refusal, by bringing back the geese and transforming with the cassowary, Benson, same as the other park staff, join forces with Mordecai, Rigby and the ducks to fight them.
  • Lunch Break: He forces Mordecai and Rigby to eat a very long sub sandwich until the end of the day or he will angrily fire them. Mordecai and Rigby found it difficult because they were already feeling satisfied and had to remember past meal challenges to gain motivation, Benson at one-point scares them when he says that he is going to call the move to take Mordecai and Rigby's things to their respective families since it is very likely that they will not succeed. Although this could be justified at first, given that Benson spent a large amount of money because of that sub sandwich that was ordered by Mordecai and Rigby, this ends up being invalidated since in the end Mordecai and Rigby end up eating the sub sandwich completely. Furthermore, Benson himself had said he'd pay for anything they asked and could have simply called them and have them order something less expensive. Benson sarcastically congratulates them and as a "reward", he forces them to run 50 laps on the newly repaired basketball court immediately since they didn't help finish it and threatens to fire them. This is done despite the reason they didn't help with the basketball court was they were eating the sandwich Benson had forced them to eat.

Quotes[]

No you don't! You're not getting that chair! But here's what you do get. You get to flip that cart back over, you're throwing that chair away, and then you're cleaning up this whole MESS! Pops, you're coming with me, and you two idiots, if this isn't cleaned up when I get back, YOU'RE FIRED!
~ Benson angrily accusing Mordecai and Rigby in the pilot
NOW CLEAN UP THIS MESS OR YOU'RE FIRED!
~ Benson telling Mordecai and Rigby to clean up the mess, or otherwise he's going to fire them
YOU IDIOTS! That's the last time I entrust you with something important, LIKE THE CHAIRS!
~ Benson furiously reprimanding Mordecai and Rigby for failing to follow simple instructions in "Just Set Up the Chairs"
I can't believe you idiots let those unicorns in here. You two morons have better get this mess cleaned up or I'll make you wish it was you driving that car! And you! Quit spraying that cologne! It's not gonna get you any ladies. Idiots...
~ Benson berating Mordecai and Rigby while spraying the two with a hose in "The Unicorns Have Got to Go"
No you won't! You be nice to your brother or you're fired!
~ Benson in "Don"
Hang up that phone! You think your little pranks are funny, huh? You think they're funny? Well, what do you guys think of my prank? "Ring, ring. Hello. What's that? Mordecai and Rigby are banned from using the house phone? Okay."
(Benson proceeds to tear the house phone off the wall and destroy it)
Good luck making your prank calls now!
~ Benson after getting fed up with Mordecai and Rigby's prank calls in "Prank Callers"
No he didn't buy it! Now get off your lazy butts and GO GET ME ANOTHER GRILLED CHEESE DELUXE!!!
~ Benson after finding out that Rigby took his sandwich in "Grilled Cheese Deluxe"
I'm the only one around here who hires and fires! So if you really don't want to do your own job, I'd be glad to accommodate you. Otherwise, you're on toilet duty for the next THREE MONTHS! UNBELIEVABLE!
~ Benson
Maybe if you'd been working like you were supposed to, none of this would've happened.
~ Benson callously blaming Mordecai and Rigby's laziness after the latter landed in a coma in "Eggscellent"
I don't hate you. I just hate some of the things you do. Okay, I really hate some of the things you do. I know you don't mean them, but I'm your boss and it's my job to push you to do better.
~ Benson being honest with Mordecai and Rigby in "Busted Cart"
Excuses, excuses! How am I supposed to trust you when all you give me are EXCUSES?! When are you two gonna learn that your actions have consequences?! Consequences that affect other people, (voice breaking) Like me! Don't you two understand? I'm about to lose my job! You may not care about keeping your jobs, but I care about keeping mine! Cause if I lose my job, I have nothing! Do you hear me? I have nothing! (cries)… Now if you'll excuse me, I need to take my last bathroom break as an employed man.
~ Benson's breakdown after Mordecai and Rigby let him down in "Busted Cart"
YOU TWO! DAMAGE TO THE HOUSE, DAMAGE TO MY CAR! MY BUS FARE FOR THE NEXT MONTH! YOU'RE PAYING FOR ALL OF IT!
~ Benson
Oh wait, is that the sound of somebody who wants to be fired? (silence from Mordecai and Rigby) That's what I thought.
~ Benson
Mordecai: If we can get you to admit that we're cool, then you have to give us the cart back.
Benson: Sounds good to me, 'cause it'll never happen.
Rigby: You're wrong! You're all like "that'll never happen", and then we'll get all cool and you'll be all like "Woah!" and then we'll be all like "In yo face!"
Benson: Hehe, and I'll be all like, "GET BACK TO WORK!"
~ Benson in "Cool Bikes"
If you don't stop goofing off and clean up this graffiti now, I'M GONNA TEAR YOU LIMB FROM LIMB!
~ Benson
You were tired because you were up all night PLAYING VIDEO GAMES!
~ Benson angrily berates Rigby for his recent screw-up.
YOU LAZY NO GOOD SLACKERS DRIVE ME NUTS!! CAN'T YOU JUST LISTEN TO ME ONCE IN YOUR WORTHLESS LIVES!? 'CAUSE IF YOU DID, YOU'D SEE I'M TRYING TO TEACH YOU SOME SIMPLE RESPONSIBILITY!! SOME PRIDE IN DOING A JOB WELL DONE!! BUT YOU WOULDN'T KNOW A JOB WELL DONE IF YOU PAID SOMEONE TO DO IT FOR YOU, AND EVEN THEN YOU'D SCREW IT ALL UP ON THE ACCOUNT THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN FOLLOW THE SIMPLEST OF INSTRUCTIONS, WORRYING MORE ABOUT LOOKING COOL THAN DOING YOUR JOB!!
~ Benson letting out all his destructive anger on to Mordecai and Rigby in "Think Positive"


Trivia[]

  • Benson and Muscle Man were the show's main antagonists in early seasons. In later seasons, he is only an antagonist when he goes too far or briefly reverts back to his old ways.
  • Although he didn't appear in the episode Rigby's Body, it appears that he made Mordecai and Rigby work at the Snack Bar to pay off all they ate (because only Pops, the unofficial owner and Benson's other boss, can have free snacks while working there).
  • In Stick Hockey, it was shown that he was once a coach, until his student was killed during a tournament. He then implies that the whole sport supposedly led him to his current job.
  • Benson is spoofed in one episode of the TV show, MAD TV. In the episode, Benson appeared in a snippet called "Celebrities Without Their Make-Up" and said that actor Zack Galifianakis "looked like a regular guy" without make-up, and a make-up brush paints Benson's face of Galifianakis' face.
  • He is revealed to have a crush on his neighbor, Audrey, who made her debut in the season three episode, "Weekend at Benson's". They started dating and formed a relationship but eventually broke up.
  • In Dumptown USA, it was revealed that Benson has been to the town of the same name before and got over multiple break-ups there (including his break-up with Audrey). While he appeared to have enjoyed his time there, it is more than likely his responsibility as park manager was what brought him back.
  • In Think Positive, it was revealed that Benson's family angrily told him that he wouldn't get what he wanted in life unless he yelled for it, explaining his personality and anger issues. Part of his character arc involved him losing this mentality.

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