03x01 - The Debut of Smell-o-Vision

[bunniefuu]

of FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman...

You heard right, so purchase

your Smellovision television, and you, too, will be saying...

will be saying... Jerry, Jerry!

[caws] Ruff Ruffman.

Now he smells.

Yes... No, keep working on that, Jerry.

So, guess why I'm extra, extra excited.

["Hail to the Chief" plays]The President has Smellovision!

My boss, Henry, is with him, and he'll be tuning in

from the White House any second now.

I'm so nervous.

Yep? Yes, Henry.

The President's turning on his... his what?[clattering]

Hey, hang on a second, someone's messing

with my trash cans.

Hey, no stray cats!

[animal growls]Oh, wait a minute, I didn't...

[screams]

I've just been sprayed by a skunk!

Oh, yes, Henry? Oh, the President's angry?

I smelled up the whole White House?

[cries]

Oh, if only Blossom were still my assistant,

she'd know what to do.

No, you're not going to get weepy over a cat, Ruff!

If she doesn't want to come back, that's just fine.

[gasps][sniffs, meows]

Blossom, you're back!

Hey, wait, where you going, where you going?

Oh, that's just great.

[gasps]

No, my first date ever with Charlene is tonight.

What will she think

if I greet her smelling like this?

[caws] Ruff Ruffman-- now he smells.

RUFF: ♪ Life was missing its mystique ♪

♪ My squeaky toys had lost their squeak ♪

And then, out of the blue, I saw the phone and bam!

My destiny was calling me.

[instrumental jazz playing]

♪ Pitched my vision for a show

♪ They loved it, thought I was a pro ♪

♪ They got my contract back to find ♪

♪ To their alarm, a dog had signed ♪

♪ FETCH! Oh, I like that name.

♪ With Ruff Ruffman

♪ I didn't wait to renovate

♪ Found six contestants, all were great ♪

♪ And now I'm on the road to fame ♪

♪ I've got a game show and its name is... ♪

♪ FETCH!

It's very catchy.

♪ With Ruff Ruffman

It rolls off the tongue.

Wait, stop.♪ With Ruff Ruffman.

Somebody want to tell me why we got cats singing?

And with that wonderful new contestant smell,

here come the brand-new,

shiny Season Three contestants now!

He once tripped over an overweight cat,

and man, haven't we all?

His teachers call him Demetrius,

but that takes too long to say.

In Studio G, he's...

She knows how to knit,

so I'll be expecting a holiday scarf from...

She thinks she has bad luck when she doesn't make her bed.

Well, fluff those pillows, it's...

He says he's not afraid of geese.

I think I found the perfect FETCHer

for the dangerous goose challenge...

She's afraid of roller coasters.

Guess she hasn't heard how Studio G can do loop-de-loops!

Welcome to Season Three![fanfare plays]

[kids cheer]

This is going to be an outstanding season, FETCHers,

and it's all going to end

with one of you taking your place

on the hallowed Wall of Fame

as FETCH! Grand Champion,

right next to Anna and Mike.

[kids cheer]So...

[clears throat]

What?

This is a little embarrassing, but...

What's with the smell?What's with the gas mask?

Oh, things got off on a bad foot today.

I got sprayed by a skunk.

[kids groan in disgust]

I smell terrible!

Things have not... It's okay.

gone well this week.

I'm not even going to mention

the car my person is storing in the studio indefinitely.

[kids laugh]

You know, everything would've been fine if only my assistant,

Princess Blossom Pepperdoodle von Yum-yum, were around, but...

Oh, Blossom! Blossom!

RUFF: Blossom-- look, she's back!Hey, Blossom!

Guess you couldn't stay away

from the old Ruffster, huh, Blossom?

No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! Please don't go!

You'll only stay if I make this challenge number one?

[Ruff laughs]

All right, FETCHers,

let's have us some challenges!

[cheering]

See, what I haven't mentioned yet is that perfection

in poodle form, otherwise known as Charlene,

has finally agreed to go on a date with me,

[kids cheering]which is great, except the date is tonight,

and smelling like a skunk is definitely not

in the Ruffman Book of Suave Moves.

Challenge number one!

Make your host stop smelling.

This is Luanne.

She follows skunks around.

Cool.And who's on their way to meet her?

DJ and...

Harsha. [kids cheering them on]

Your instructions are in the mailbox.

Go FETCH!

All right, see you guys later.

[kids saying farewells]

RUFF: Challenge number two.

I had a big Smellovision treat

for the President of the United States and, uh,

then things didn't go too well.

[laughs]

Not quite the Smellovision treat I was hoping for,

because I wanted you to be smelling

Sam and Jay at the beach!

Just look for Pat when you get there.

Your instructions are in the mailbox.

Go FETCH!

All right, let's go. Bye, guys. See ya.

RUFF: All right, guys, take care.

As determined by the FETCH ,

Sammy and Noel are staying behind

in the studio this week. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

But you two will be eligible for points of your own

during the ever popular Half-Time Quiz Show.

Whoo, yeah!

And the FETCH! Fairness Guarantee: all the contestants

will have competed for the same number of points

by the Grand Finale.

So, for the four kids out on the challenges,

up to points are at stake in the Triumph Tally.

So let's check in on DJ and Harsha in challenge number one.

All right, Ruff.

Are you Luanne?

I am-- Ruff sent you.

He got sprayed by three skunks.

Why do you think he got sprayed?

'Cause he's a dog.

Most likely, he frightened the skunk,

and the skunk used its major defense mechanism, which...

Its spray. Its spray. It sprayed.

Hey, I didn't frighten anybody!

They were trespassing in my trash can.

Well, I'm a wildlife biologist,

and I study skunks,

and I have a few skunks out here that I have to go track today.

I try to study skunks where they live,

and when animals live in a place,

do you know what that's called?

Their habitat.Their habitat.

Well, apparently my garbage can is a habitat for skunks.

And what do habitats provide for them?

Shelter, food, water, air.

Yes, and they also need a certain amount of area or space.

That's true-- they need space to run around, look for food

and-- blech-- raise more baby skunks.

One of my objectives in my study is to actually learn

how much space skunks use, and in order to do that,

I capture them and I put radio collars on them

that look like this.

It has an antenna, and it goes...

the skunk's head goes through here.

It's going to send a signal to us, this beeping sound,

and I track them with this receiver.

And this antenna helps me pick up their signals.

RUFF: She uses a radio signal to track the skunks.

Calling all skunks.

You can hear this beeping sound? Mm-hmm.

So if I point this antenna...

[beep] Wow, that's a really loud beep.

So this skunk

must be in this direction.

[beep] HARSHA: A little louder.

I think he'd most likely be over there,

because when you pointed to that direction,

it started getting the loudest.

RUFF: The louder the beep, the closer the skunk!

[beep]It's getting louder.

Try to turn... take it up, like, this way.

LUANNE: You might want to start looking.

DJ: You see it?

Ah, there's one!

HARSHA: Here's the skunk. DJ: It's a toy.

LUANNE: It's a toy skunk.

I thought it was a real skunk.

That was your practice skunk.

RUFF: A practice skunk?!

I tell you, the skunk in my trash can

was not a practice skunk.

Ah, the beach.

Here come my FETCHers.

We're trying to find Pat. Pat?

I'm Pat.RUFF: And there's Pat.

He's a real lifeguard.

Your challenge for today is to join our team.

RUFF: Yeah, you guys are going to become junior lifeguards!

I want you guys to go get your wet suits on

and be back down here in five minutes.

Awesome, let's do it. Let's do it.

RUFF: They get wet suits?

That is sweet!

It's time for...

with...

and...

I'm smelling a spin-off.

All right, we got our suits on.

All right, we're going to do a little, uh,

run/swim here to get you going.

Now, I want you guys both to swim with rescue buoys.

We're going to swim out to that buoy

and straight back in.

Okay. All right.

PAT: Let's go. RUFF: All right.

That's cold. I know.

Whoa, that water's apparently a... little chilly.

SAM: I can't.

Just, like, whenever a big wave comes,

I just can't do it.

Oh, man, it is cold out there.

Sam is having a little bit of a tough time.

Will I get used to it eventually?

You sure?

Sam is going out anyway.

Man, he is one tough FETCHer.

All right, well, they've made it out to the buoy.

Circling... and on their way back in.

Not bad for your first challenge.

We're off to a rip-roaring start, boys.

Would skunks be near, like, a woodsy area?

LUANNE: This might be a good habitat for them.

Would that provide some shelter?Yeah.

Mm-hmm.And do you see any areas

that might be full of food around here?

DJ: Like, closer to the trees and bushes,

'cause they could probably feed off little insects

or something that live on the trees.

Oh, boy.

There could be skunks out there.

What do skunks eat?

LUANNE: Skunks are omnivorous.

Do you know what that means?

HARSHA & DJ: They eat both meat and plants.

RUFF: Well, what's the name for someone

that only eats Chinese food?

Moo shu-nivorous?

So, are you ready to go track a live skunk?

Sure.Let's go.

Let's change our frequency on our radio.

Okay, this is the real deal.

Do skunks have any methods

of, like, camouflage?

Camouflage?

Well, they're black and white.

And they usually come out in the night.

LUANNE: They're mostly nocturnal.

RUFF: Yeah.

Except for the one that came out today.

LUANNE: They have coloration

that we call aposematic coloration.

It's a warning coloration.

When they are frightened, they puff up their tail

and they make themselves look even bigger.

What else attracts skunks?

Well, Ruff needs to maybe check and see

whether or not he has his garbage contained,

so that raccoons can't open it up

and then dump it on the ground for the skunks to eat.

Um... okay.

I probably could stand to, uh, pick up a little bit.

If Ruff has a bird feeder,

he might think about putting a seed catcher under it

so that there isn't seed all on the ground every night,

because the skunks will definitely come

and clean up all that seed.

Uh, bird feeder. You hearing that, Jerry?

[squawks]

We're going to talk about rip currents.

So rip currents form when...

the waves wash over some sandbars

and the water gets caught up toward shore.

You can't go out over here 'cause a wave's breaking.

You can't go out over here 'cause a wave's breaking.

But if there's a channel between the two sandbars,

water just kind of starts flowing on out.

If you get caught in the rip current

and you start getting pulled away from shore,

instead of trying to fight it and tiring yourself out,

just swim sideways out of it

and eventually, you get to a part where the rip current

isn't running, and you can swim in right there.

Now, you see, I didn't know that.

I always struggled against the current.

So this skunk is sleeping.

It's a nocturnal animal, and so we are going

to sneak up on it.

RUFF: Okay, they are tiptoeing very gently through an open field.

I think it's right here.

Murray, I need you to be very quiet and not bark.

[Ruff screams]

Do you think he can spray me through the TV screen?

LUANNE: Okay, don't get any closer.

[Ruff screams]We don't want to end up like Ruff.

'Cause you're in his spray zone.

DJ [whispering]: Couldn't we go down this way?

You're in his spray zone.

Aw, look out! Guys, she said

you're in his spray zone.

Ooh, I can't look.

So... something we're going to talk about first

is something that we call a distressed swimmer.

This isn't a person who's in immediate danger of dying.

They just need a little help.

We're going to use Scott here, one of our junior lifeguards.

And he's going to go out in the water

and act like a distressed swimmer.

RUFF: Ah, an aqua-thespian.

And then I'm going to go out

and get him. You don't want to

just rush right up next to them, because they might jump on you.

I'd swim up pretty close to him,

I'd pull my buoy up near me,

and then extend it towards him and have him grab on.

I'm going to try and keep an eye on him,

kick, and pull myself back in till we get close to shore.

"Active drowning victim" is a completely different story.

Someone who's drowning only has a few seconds before they go under.

You need to go get them really, really quickly,

and when you come up to them,

you don't stop short and hand the buoy to them,

because they might not even see it,

so you need to rush up and grab that person as fast as you can

and get their head above water

and get them safe.

RUFF: Wow, that is professional lifeguarding right there.

Whistles are great because you can hear them

over a very long distance.

If I just want to get your attention,

I give two short blasts.

[whistle blows]

One long blast...

[whistle blows]

...is an emergency.

I'm going in for a rescue.

RUFF: Yes, of course

there's an emergency, Blossom.

I'm down to my last bite of moo shu.

I know actually where you can get a close-up look at a skunk.

I did some trapping last night and I have a skunk in a trap.

This skunk is asleep for now.

I gave him a sh*t to make him fall asleep.

RUFF: Oh, so he's sleeping. He's okay.

So we take some measurements on skunks.

Very cool.

My FETCHers are helping Luanne

with real scientific research.

Where does the spray come out?

On a skunk, underneath their tail...

Oh!

Murray, back it up.

They open up this opening here,

and inside here are their glands,

and they can spray it and direct it up to feet.

Oh, my apologies to the viewing audience.

It's Ruff. Hello?

DJ & HARSHA: Hey, Ruff.Hey, guys.

Uh, so how do I avoid any future run-ins with skunks?

Don't go out after night

because that's when skunks really are active.

Yeah, and stay away from grassy, woodsy areas.

Okay, but I still smell.And open areas, too.

And my date with Charlene is only a few hours away.

I have to solve this problem now.

Now?Now?

Right now!

Now look, there's a lab you can work in

at the nearby elementary school.

You'll find everything you need there.

Ew, good luck.

We have to go to an elementary school? When?Now.

And we are back in Studio G

with Noel and Sammy.

[cheering]

It's time for you guys to earn some points

of your own in the Half-Time Quiz Show.

Let's brush up on the rules.

points are available.

You have seconds to answer as many questions as you can.

Ten questions available at five points apiece.

Are you ready?

BOTH: Yeah!

Um, a wildlife-ologist.

Biologist.

A wildlife biologist.

[bell dings]Correct.

Woods.Woods.

Grassy areas.

[bell dings]Good, good, good.

The beepy thing.

The what?

That gave the beeps.

[buzzer]Too vague. Moving on.

Um... five feet?No.

Is that your final answer?

No.I don't know.

Four feet, four feet.

[buzzer]No, incorrect.

Nighttime.Night, correct. They're nocturnal.

Oh, something coloration.

Something coloration.Something coloration.

I need specifics.

Why, why, why are they colored that way?

Oh, because then...

other animals are scared of them.

Yes, we're going to give you that one.Yes!

Space, air, water.

Wow, that's great.

Um... um...

You... you... uh...[bell dings]

Oh, we're out of time.

Let's go over the questions you missed.

The answer is a radio signal.

The answer is up to feet.

Don't try to swim against the current.

Swim sideways along the shore until you're out of the current.

Then you swim towards shore.

SAMMY: Okay, okay.

RUFF: FETCH , what do we have for our first quiz show?

points!

Okay, first show.Yeah.

Now then, do I smell

success for DJ and Harsha?

Let's get back to the skunk challenge

and find out.

When you were a kid, did you know from the start

that you wanted to be a biologist?Yes.

When I was a little girl I saw Jane Goodall on television.

Do you know who she is?

HARSHA: Yeah, she works with, like, primates.

LUANNE: She's a primatologist.

And then I saw that women can do that kind of work,

and that's when I decided to become a wildlife biologist.

Oh, yeah. Hey, Murray, aren't you getting

your Ph.D. right now?

LUANNE: So here's the school.

DJ & HARSHA: Whoa! "Find a way to get rid

of the smell using the stuff in this box."

I got it.We should take it in.

RUFF: Yes, let's get to work.

Science lab.

I hope there's something in that box

that can get rid of this smell-- ugh!

DJ: Hydrogen Peroxide Solution.

Ruff Baking Soda.

Tomato juice.

HARSHA: Ruff sent us cologne.

He sent us socks.

Ew, it's skunk juice."Caution..."

Ew!

That's right, I wrung it out of my fur over the sink.

We have to probably use all of this other stuff

and test it out on this, to know...

What are you going to do with these socks?

We're going to put

the stink on it, and then we're going

to make something and then put it on the stinky sock

and see if it goes away.

Okay, so first they'll put the skunk juice on the socks.

Then they'll apply some of the potential stink removers

and then they'll be able to find out

which removes a skunk's stink the best.

We should leave this as a control.

So, what's the control sock?

Just to know how bad it smells in the first place.

So you're not going to put anything on the control sock?

We're going to just put this. Okay.

RUFF: So for the control sock,

they're going to put on skunk juice and nothing else.

Then, they can compare how that sock smells

to how the other socks smell.

A question you might have

is why did Ruff have these two together.

I don't know. I was panicking.

HARSHA: When you put these together, it makes a chemical reaction?

Maybe.

We're going to try and crank out a rescue now.

RUFF: All right, it's time to actually perform a rescue!

So, Sam, you're going to be our distressed swimmer.

Jay's going to come out and rescue you with his torpedo buoy.

RUFF: Excellent! Sam has an opportunity

to give the performance of a lifetime!

All right, Ruff, I think I got this.

RUFF: Sam will pretend

he's gotten caught in a riptide.

Now he's exhausted.

Okay? This is acting.

Sam, our distressed swimmer, grabs onto the buoy,

and Jay pulls him safely to shore.

Oh, what a performance! Ooh!

Jay, that was awesome, dude.

They don't call me

a lifeguard-in-training for nothing.

[phone rings]

Hello?

Hey, guys, it's Ruff.

JAY [over phone]: Hey, Ruff. What's up?

Well, you guys are doing a super, fantastic, awesome job.

So I've arranged for you to participate

in a land-line rescue.

A land-line... What's a land-line rescue? Land-line?

RUFF [over phone]: Yeah, a land line, or line reel.

I'm sending my lifeguard buddy Gordon over there.

He'll explain everything. Good luck.

See you, Ruff.All right, see you.

RUFF: Okay, that's the control sock.

That will have nothing but the skunk smell on it.

DJ & HARSHA: One, two, three, four, five...

RUFF: Here goes the tomato juice.

DJ & HARSHA: One, two, three, four, five...

It looks like they're putting the same number of drops

on each sock.

Nice technique, FETCHers.

Now we'll know they're doing a fair test.

That smells bad.

RUFF: Now we're going to try a little cologne.

Phew, it smells bad.

Wow, Ruff, that really stinks.

RUFF: Hydrogen peroxide

and baking soda.

Wait a minute now.

One, two, three, four...

RUFF: We're going to combine those two.

Ruff's baking soda.

Hydrogen peroxide.

Stir it up a bit.

Ruff, this is a very stinky challenge.

Hey, if you think this challenge is stinky,

you should get a whiff of me.

You want to talk a little bit about what is actually

in the solution that skunks spray at you?

What they're spraying at you is a thiol

and it's really smelly.

What does it tell you about something

if it smells really bad?

Stay away.

So is that a good defense mechanism?

Yeah. Yeah.

This is called the line reel rescue.

We use this when somebody's way out

and the conditions are really bad.

We have a primary rescuer

who swims to the victim.

Then we have someone that swims a line out to the victim.

We have a person who runs a reel

and we have some other people who feed out the line.

So, Sammy, you're going to be on the reel

and Jay, you're going to be the primary rescuer

this time, buddy.All right.

RUFF: Oh, boy. This is it. They're going to put

everything they've learned to the test.

Diving into the wave. Go!

And here comes the line-feeding team.

Oh! Murray! Who is he trying to rescue?

Hey, that looks like me.

Hey, wait! I'm drowning!

No! I... Wait a minute. I'm here.

Is that a blow-up inflatable Ruff?

Good job, guys.

Feed the line!

What is he wearing?

Not the most attractive pair of swimming trunks,

but they were on sale.

It was the only one in my size.

Good!

Pull it in!

Great job, guys!

Way to save me!

Or my likeness.

Ooh, I'm out of air.

[kids laughing]

Okay, well, you're pushing on the... [chokes]

That's the throat.

Okay, next challenge, CPR class.

All right. Well, it's really been great working with you.

Hey! Careful of those ears. They're very sensitive.

All you guys! You can come through our

junior guard program.See you at Studio G, Ruff.

Bye, Ruff. See you back at Studio G.Let's go!

Get me to a pump!

Good job, guys, but maybe we're not ready for a spin-off.

So you can probably go back to your first one

and see if you still have skunk smell.

This is the control.

So that smells.

Of course the control stinks.

Those smell really bad.

Tomato juice doesn't smell as bad. Better.

RUFF: Tomato juice is a little better, but it still smells.

Those two, one, two, three.

One, two and three.

Do you want one to be smelly?

DJ: One is the worst and three is the best.

So the control is one.

So on a scale of three, one being the worst,

three being the best,

the control will obviously be the worst.

So I'd say this is like a two.

Tomato juice is a two.

This is a cologne?

How about cologne?

Cologne just overpowered it, but it didn't really

take away the smell, so maybe it's a one, even.

One point one.One point five. Yeah.

Okay, so cologne not as good as tomato juice.

Let's go smell your last one.

Smell this.

The smell is pretty much gone.

It's gone? Yeah, pretty much.

I think it's a three.

Yeah, probably. A three! Yes!

What's happening here with this

hydrogen peroxide and baking soda--

it's a chemical reaction and we're getting

a ton of oxygen released there.

And the oxygen is kind of attacking the thiol

and it's turning the thiols into a compound

that doesn't smell at all.

Does it smell like skunk?

No.

Really? It's not just covering it?

I can't smell nothing.

It works!

Hello, Charlene.

Thank you, Luanne.

It was nice working with you two.

Ruff, see you back at Studio G.

Bring it on back, guys!

Thank you so much!

And here come the intrepid skunkateers--

DJ and Harsha!

Hey, guys!

And, paddle swimming

all the way back to Studio G,

Jay and Sam!

Before we do anything else,

DJ, Harsha, I need to try out your

de-skunkifier solution pronto

So please, put it in the mailbox.

Okay, Ruff. Here it is.

Okay, hang on a second. [gargling]

Let's hope that settles in

and takes away the stink. Okay!

Let's tally up some points.

[whoops and cheers]

All right. DJ and Harsha.

DJ: Ruff, this is a very stinky challenge.

RUFF: For spending the day as wildlife biologists

and enlightening a dog in the matter

of skunk-avoidance techniques... points!

[whoops and cheers]Good job, guys!

You whipped up a batch of de-skunkifier in the lab...

but does it work?

Blossom, give me your best whiff.

[sniffing]

I don't smell!

[cheering]

My date with Charlene is saved, and you get points.

[cheering]

Which brings your total to... points.

[cheering]

To Sam and Jay...

SAM: All right, we got our suits on.

You channeled your inner polar bear

and swam in an icy cold ocean just for points, and for that...

points!

Yeah! Right. points.

I thought I was going to drown out there

and then you saved me.

That is good for points!

Which brings your total to points.

But... is that all the points a dog can give?

FETCHers: No!

What time is it?

FETCHers: Bonus points!

Yes! These personal bonus points

are being given to the FETCHer who thought like a scientist

and used the control for the experiment

that led to my de-smellification.

HARSHA: We should leave this as a control.

RUFF: Ten bonus points for you, Harsha! Which means...

Harsha, with points, you're today's daily winner.

Now, Harsha,

I have here two skunks--

Skunk A and Skunk B.

They're listening to soothing music. They're happy.

Underneath one skunk is a great prize,

and underneath the other, a not-so-great-prize,

which will probably wind up angering the skunk.

Okay. So... which skunk is it going to be?

I'm thinking... Skunk B.

Harsha, your prize is in the mailbox.

Go FETCH it.

Skunk Essence Sunblock?

It's a bottle of Ruffman's own Eau de Skunk Sunblock

with added skunk essence. And that's not all. Read the note.

"For the FETCHer who thinks sunblock isn't enough,

look behind the fence near the Wall of Fame. Love, Ruff."

Fame...

Ohh! It's a boogie board!

RUFF: A boogie board for floating,

surfing, or, you know, general, all-around boogying.

All right, g*ng, that brings us to the end...

of the first episode of Season Three...

on FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman.

We'll see you next time.

ALL: Bye!

Hey, Blossom! Date night.

Need a smell check.

"Enclosed please find date you asked me for last week.

Sincerely, Charlene"?

I wasn't asking her for a piece of dried fruit.

Blossom, take this down.

What? You won't take dictation?

Henry's giving you a promotion?

But this says he's putting you in charge!

Hello? The Blossom Hotline?!

Get back to work?!

How about you? Take dictation?

[parrot squawks]

I didn't think so.

[Ruff scatting]

♪ FETCH!

♪ With Ruff Ruffman!

[Ruff scatting]

Ah, whatever.

♪ FETCH!

♪ With Ruff Ruffman!

♪ FETCH!