Benson Dunwoody

Villainous Benchmark

Full Name

Benson Dunwoody

Alias

Benson

The Boss
Boss
Death Dragon (by Chong)
Bean Bag
Bean-teen (by Mr. Maellard)
Mad King Edmund

Origin

Regular Show

Allies

Mordecai

Rigby
Pops Maellard †
Skips
Muscle Man
Hi Five Ghost
Thomas
Eileen
Mr. Mallard
Pam (love interest)

Powers / Skills

Short temper

Drumming
Archery
Stick hockey expertise
Acrobatics

Goals

Fire and punish Mordecai and Rigby when he thinks they have gone way too far (formerly).
Maintain the park tidy and in order.
Protect his employees.
Help defeat dangerous villains.
Be sent to a therapy for anger management so that he can become a better person whilst continuing his career as park manager.
Do away with celebrating New Year's Day.
Apologize to his friends for his firing and unlawful termination of them (all succeeded).

MEH or Worst Act

Endangering everyone in the Park by causing mass property damage by yelling at Mordecai and Rigby, resulting in a non-lethal, but loud explosion.

Kill Count

7-10 (undone)

Crimes

Abuse of power
Mass murder (undone)
Vandalism
Blackmail
Theft
Unfair dismissal
Unlawful termination
Sabotage
Assault
Espionage
Animal cruelty
Incrimination
Workplace violations
Mass property damage

Type of Villain

Wrathful Businessman

Benson Dunwoody is the deuteragonist of the 2010-2017 Cartoon Network series Regular Show.

He acts as an antagonist in multiple episodes early on in the series. He eventually becomes kinder if still sometimes unreasonable.

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

His Evil Ranking[]

His Villainous Deeds[]

Season 1[]

In 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 emotionally spites Mordecai by advising him to stop spraying Cologne because it "won't 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.

Season 2[]

In 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.
In 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.
In Temp Check, after Mordecai and Rigby mow the lawn at an ultimate frisbee field, Benson angrily tells them to mow it all over again all because the grass was an inch too tall. Rigby justifiably complains, but Benson responds by smugly threatening to fire him. Rigby decides to hire Doug (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. His anger was, however, somewhat justified, considering that Rigby had lied and scoffed at Doug's words of wisdom encouraging Rigby to be more grateful for what he had.
In 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.

Season 3[]

In 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 first few seasons.
In 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.
In Eggscellent, he down talks Rigby heartlessly, blaming him and Mordecai not working for his condition. Mordecai responds by violently punching Benson 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.
In The Best Burgers 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 by far Benson's cruelest role 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 shore that week, yet it may be possible that he did warn them, but the duo didn't care).
In Replaced, he 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.
In 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.
In 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

Season 4[]

In Exit 9B, 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.
In Fireworks 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.
In A Bunch of Full-Grown Geese, He angrily forces Mordecai and Rigby to get rid of the geese, then at the end of the episode, he yells at Mordecai, Rigby and the baby ducks for destroying the park rather than thanking them for getting rid of the Geese, showing his lack of gratitude. This time, however, he gets his karma when the baby ducks' mother scolds him for his actions. He apologizes and walks away, humbled from getting rebuked for being ungrateful for the murders the duo caused.
In 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.
In 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.

Season 5[]

In Return of the Mordecai and the Rigbys, When the Park Gang goes into the bathroom, they find out that Benson overheard them and was extremely mad and called them "backstabbers" and left the band. When they are told it was a lie, Mordecai messes with Benson's drum kit and Benson does the same with Mordecai's guitar. They angrily argue over messing with each other's stuff and then begin destroying each other's instruments.
In 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, while justified during this situation, is still illegal.
In 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.
In 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.
In 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.

Season 6[]

In 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.

Season 7[]

In The Lunch Club, Benson and Rigby are forced to write a letter to Mr. Maellard after the latter ruins Maellard's lunch and are locked in the office and the two eventually decide to have fun and ultimately the two leave Maellard an insulting letter of both deciding to resign.

Season 8[]

In Operation: Hear No Evil, when he finds out Mordecai and Rigby left work to watch Lazer Hunters, he took advantage of this by attempting to spoiler it for them on every circumstances.

Why He Doesn't Stand Out?[]

Committing mass murder is bad enough to pass the general baseline even if it was undone, but he massively fails the heinous standards compared to other Regular Show villains, such as Rigby, Nikolai, and Future Mordecai.
He is an on & off character, as he is capable of being heroic.
He apologizes to his employees whenever he gets too mad.
While he can be a bad boss to Mordecai and Rigby, he actually cared for them wanting them to do better, stated during his yell that he is trying to teach them simple responsibilities. He has also stated in "Busted Cart" that while he does hate their antics, he doesn't hate Mordecai and Rigby altogether. He even has several different moments across the series where he gets along and hangs out with them, and in "Yes Dude Yes", he helped out a depressed Mordecai by encouraging him to tell Margaret his true feelings.
He has some sympathetic moments as he was humiliated on "Say That Word" where he said banana instead of bandana that he couldn’t leave the house without people offering him a banana. He also had a strict, miserable childhood where he grew up in a verbally abusive household, and his father never approved of his hobbies, telling him that he didn't have any talent and to get "a real job" back when Benson was a drummer.
He shown to have standards, such as being disgusted by Bert Coleman for humiliating Rigby, even if he's a jerk to him.