<Tr> <Th> Original release </Th> <Td> September 6, 2010 (2010 - 09 - 06)--January 16, 2017 (2017 - 01 - 16) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/regularshow/index.html </Td> </Tr> <P> Regular Show (also known as Regular Show in Space during its eighth season) is an American animated television sitcom created by J.G. Quintel for Cartoon Network that aired between September 6, 2010 to January 16, 2017 . The series revolves around the lives of two working - class friends, a blue jay named Mordecai and a raccoon named Rigby--both employed as groundskeepers at a local park . They usually try to solve a simple problem but then it leads to a surreal, extreme, and often supernatural misadventure . During these misadventures, they interact with the show's other main characters: Benson, Pops, Muscle Man, Hi - Five Ghost, Skips, Margaret and Eileen . </P> <P> Many of Regular Show's characters were loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts: The Naïve Man from Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM . The former was one of the winners of the 2005 Nicktoons Film Festival and received international attention after being broadcast on Nicktoons Network . Quintel pitched Regular Show for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute project, in which the network allowed young artists to create pilots with no notes, which would possibly be optioned as shows . The project was green - lit and it premiered on September 6, 2010 . </P>

When did the first episode of regular show air