Ask any creator of popular cartoons where their ideas came from and you might be surprised how much you find out; it's considered fact that the Simpsons is a yellow skinned representation of the creators own family while in anime land the likes of Evangelion are created to represent the creators depression, but what if I was to tell you that Regular Show originated from a short about an acid trip? Need more convincing? This is the story of "2 in the AM PM"

Regular Show gets away with a lot of adult jokes in an era that still finds the likes of Shezow mind corrupting. (Yeah that's a pretty stupid show to complain about) So adult works may come as no surprise when you dive into the origins of creator J.G.Quintel's work. As a student he first designed a short about a lollyman called the "Naive Man from Lolliland" which starred a character that would later be called Pops in Regular Show where said character tries to pay for a bill with candy.
However his second short "2 in the AM PM" is ten times more adult than the Lolliland short. The short begins with 2 gas station workers who sound familiar, mainly because they are the voices of Mordecai & Benson, Mordecai of course is JG Quintel while Benson is voiced by his friend Sam Marin.
Anyway the two workers are bored until they eat some candy containing acid, this is when the trippy bit begins as both characters keep turning into different things including a gumball machine and a blue jay, yeah the whole cartoon is an acid trip and those forms I just mentioned were the design choices for Mordecai & Benson for Regular Show; so the million dollar question is: Was Regular Show created from Acid Trip? Who knows? It's not my place to ask people about their personal habits; if you consider the content of Regular Show and the fact that Mordecai is the creator himself then it's possible but it's something that Quintel wouldn't want to admit.
No preview video, the short is mature rating and you know the rules by now.