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Regular Show: Hydration is a 2014 original graphic novel written by Rachel Connor and based off the animated television series Regular Show.

Plot
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Background
Rachel Connor was previously a writer for Ed, Edd n Eddy, another Cartoon Network show, including the television film Big Picture Show based on it. Connor was introduced to Regular Show upon watching the second season episode "Ello Gov'nor". She most enjoyed the "great dynamic" of the cast, explaining that "they're a lot of fun to play around with and since episodes always escalate into totally out of left-field fantastical stuff, there are few constraints on where you can go with them". She described the process of pitching the novel to the network certainly "quite nerve-wracking" given the short length of the series' episodes, whereas the novel would constitute a feature length film. Connor called her experience with Big Picture Show fortunate in that respect. She estimated each page of the comic to amount to roughly 20 seconds 30 of the show, but because she had to "communicate movement a little more efficiently" when she dealt with "solely still images", she appreciated the "luxury of space".

The premise of the water park was described as "the elevator pitch", while from there it grew out until it became "a bit more of a sprawling epic".

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