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This was a really good episode. Cause I am Sci-fi nerd, I love time travel and how going back in time where there could be 2 of you. 1 of you that hasn't experience going back in time and the other 1 of you does. Good Job J. G Quintel and writers.

The second season of Regular Show relaxed a bit from the first and I found I enjoyed it more for not being quite as targeted or as focused on only supernatural events. The third season more or less continues this, with fewer obviously pitched bits, and a more varied approach which has its fair share of excessive plots, but usually based in very small things. The plots are generally quite good in a way that makes sense in the context of the show and characters, and the events that play out mostly work as funny flights of invention rather than just being silliness for the sake of it. As before the style and tone is generally relaxed, natural and cool (with 80's style electro pop being well and frequently used)

The longer run of episodes (approaching 40) does seem to make consistency harder to achieve though. Speaking generally, some of the plots work against the establishment of character in a consistent manner; for example Benson tends to be a very simple angry plot device of a boss, with fewer touches of character than he has in the odd moment, however the weakest aspect of the third season is more apparent than that – Muscle Man. Perhaps he is popular with others but for me he is pretty much the least interesting of the characters in the show, and unfortunately he is the one supporting character that this season seems to go to more than all the others, particularly in the second half of the season. The focus on him seemed to offer less variety in the tone, less variety in the characters, and generally limited my interest in the episodes where this was the case. This added to the handful of lesser episodes, does rather combine to make the third season feel uneven as a result.

I did still enjoy the majority of this longer season, but I hope that the fourth season returns with fewer episodes, a more even spread of characters (and a smarter use of them), along with continuing development of characters within the frame of creative and funny plots. This season was enjoyable, but hard not to feel that it would have been better if it had been given 25% fewer episodes to deliver on.