Was That The Most Messed-Up 'Regular Show' Ever?

Regular Show is always weird. That's kind of the point. But last night's episode, "That's My Television," was so weird that it left this commentator open-mouthed and shocked like no episode before -- not even the one where Santa Claus got shot.

Because the show has established a reality in which a gumball machine with arms manages the caretakers at a public park, I pretty much accepted it unquestioningly when last night's episode introduced an anthropomorphized TV named RGB2 (voice of Sam Marin), star of beloved '80s series That's My Television. (Basically, the show that would result if ALF had been about a naïve TV instead of a cat-eating alien.) When Mordecai (voice of J.G. Quintel) and Rigby (William Salyers) win a raffle for a signed TMTV box set, it sets off a series of events that leads to the pair helping RGB2 to escape his exploitative handlers -- because, I mean, obviously. Extra credit, by the way, goes to the Regular Show storyboard artists who drew the evil TV executive in the style of Cartoon Network founder Ted Turner.

Anyway, Mordecai and Rigby's daring escape touches off a multi-vehicle chase, during the course of which RGB2 produces a rocket launcher...

...and uses it to shoot down a helicopter full of henchmen.

And by the way, we don't see them parachute out or anything, so those dudes are dead.

All that was screwed-up enough, but somehow the reveal at the very end was even more shocking: RGB2 isn't a TV at all!

RGB2: What, did you actually think I was a TV?
Rigby/Me: Yeah, I guess.

And, like, I suppose it would be hot in the box, but why does this poor, atrophied creature have to be naked?!