
11-dubbed Southern Canal-ifornia Sounds-featured up-and-coming Niagara Falls entertainer Evan Rotella and iconic Niagara musician Rick Rose, with special guest Joe Lavoie.Įvan’s dad Dave Rotella Jr. The tribute show held at Canalside on Feb. That foundation, founded in Niagara in 2007, has raised about $500,000 for Parkinson’s research and care through annual live entertainment shows, which have featured names ranging from Ron Sexsmith and the Sam Roberts Band to Blue Rodeo, Steve Earle and the Trews. U/Drew_Ferran on reddit thinks they found Rick in the Regular Show from the episode "Party Pete" and it's a closer resemblance than the Eggscellent Knight but in my opinion even less probable with "Party Pete" having first aired on February 21, 2011.A chili cooking contest, a tribute show to Southern California tunes and a music trivia night might not seem to have a whole lot in common, but folks who headed to the Canalside Restaurant in Port Colborne for any of those events held in February had something in common: supporting people living with Parkinson’s disease.Īs part of the City of Port Colborne Sportsfest initiative that month, featuring various events raising funds for charity, Canalside owners Greg and Rosemari Poisson opted to have the eatery’s three events all raise funds for The Light of Day Foundation. Jonathan Kimble's fate echoes that of Walter Donovan, the primary villain of Last Crusade.Ĭompare the rooms and knights in the following images.

Aside from physical resemblance, they both guard a room of similar-looking objects (goblets in the original, hats in "Eggscellent") that visitors must choose from those who "choose poorly" are met with death. The Eggscellent Knight is based on the Grail Knight from the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

It is most likely that the Eggscellent Knight is just a reference to the Grail Knight from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as also mentioned on the Regular Show wikia. Therefore, it seems highly unlikely he has a connection to Rick. Rick and Morty first aired on Decemand the Eggscellent Knight first appeared in the episode "Eggscellent" which first aired on February 27, 2012. There doesn't even appear to be any directors or writers in common between the two. In fact when looking for connections between the shows the only thing I can really find is that Rick and Morty is an Adult Swim show which is a part of Cartoon Network which makes the Regular Show. Vulture, Talking to Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland About Their New Adult Swim Show, ‘Rick and Morty’

You’ll notice mouths are kind of similar and teeth are similar, but I think that’s also a stylistic thing that… all of us are kind of the same age, and we’re all inspired by The Simpsons and all these other shows we’re kind of subconsciously tapping into. People are gonna say that it’s got similarities to Regular Show, but that’s just my style, J.G. Harmon: No, I didn’t come to the table a huge animation buff. Were there other shows you looked to model this after? The similar art style has even been mentioned by Justin Roiland, co-creator of Rick and Morty. Whilst I don't know the answer for sure there seems to be very little connection between the shows beyond similar generic tropes and art style.
