02x02 - Ruff's Case of Blues On the Brain

[bunniefuu]

♪ Oh, I've got the blues from my head to my knees. ♪

[plays blues riff on harmonica]

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from Ruff Ruffman.

♪ Yeah, I got the blues-- I also might have some fleas ♪

♪ I have a cat for an intern

♪ And a computer that makes me grilled cheese... ♪

Sandwiches.

ANNOUNCER: With instrumental solos by Ruff himself

on the blues cymbals.

[cymbals clashing]What? I can't hear you, Blossom.

What, it sounds sad?

Well, it's supposed to-- it's the blues.

Oh, wait, it doesn't sound sad?

It sounds bad?

Oh. Yeah.

You know what the problem is, Blossom?

I am just too happy to play the blues.

In fact, my life would be perfect

if it weren't for the dripping faucet

that I just can't seem to fix!

Come on!

[sighs] There.

Uh-oh.

[screams]

Okay.

I'm definitely feeling the blues now.

Where are my cymbals?

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.♪Ruff Ruffman♪

Somebody want to tell me why we got cats singing?

♪ FETCH!

RUFF: And here come the contestants now.

Her father calls her the very nickname, Bubbles!

Nina!

Getting what he wants makes him happy.

Well, I hope he wants to be introduced.

Mike!

Centipedes give her the creeps.

Me, too.

Bridget!

He plays the piano.

Willie!

He shakes his legs when he gets nervous.

Rosario!

She chews gum, but don't tell her orthodontist.

Madi!

Let's get an update on the scores.

We have a two-way tie for fifth.

Bridget and Rosario each have points.

In fourth place, Mike, with .

Coming in third is Willie with points.

In second, Madi with points,

and in first place, Nina, with points.

[plays blues riff on harmonica]

♪ Welcome toFETCH!♪

♪ A reality game show

♪ Where the host will sing in a bluesy style ♪

♪ The whole show

♪ Yeah.

♪ This isFETCH! and I've got two ♪

♪ Fabulous challenges today that I've to... ♪

Hi, guys.

[applauding]

The host singing the blues-- good idea, bad idea?

That was awesome.

Well, you see, guys,

I've got a mean case of the blues today.

What's wrong? Why?

The plumbing here at Mission Control

went a little crazy on me

this morning.Ooh.

I wasn't aware that

water pipes are apparently,

you know, full of water.

Anyway, the place is flooded.

And look at this! Whoa!

Whoa! Oh, man!

This was entitled "Happy Dogs

in a Sailboat."

Well, do you see any happy dogs?

No.

Do you see any sailboats?

KIDS: No.

All my watercolors were washed away.

All of them.Oh...

The wall of fame was spared, thank goodness,

but losing "Happy Dogs"

is serious blow to my eclectic collection.

Now, I don't expect you to understand, you know.

I mean humans only use ten percent of their brain.

I don't, I don't actually believe that.

How much do you use?

So that brings us to challenge number one!

Madi, Willie,

I need to get over my plumbing blues.

And you're going to cheer me up.

All right.

You need to get me some new art

and also take a music lesson by some

world famous blues musicians.

[kids cheer]I looked them up in the phone book.

Oh, and uh, can you see if you can do anything

with this PVC pipe?

Yeah. Oh, sure, yeah.

A blank canvas is in the wagon and your instructions

and PVC pipe are in the mailbox.

Go... fetch!

Bye-bye.

Whoa. Okay,

that is big. That is huge!

Bye, guys, have fun.

Good luck to whatever you're doing.

Now, then I...

definitely read that dogs use % of their brains,

and humans use

ten percent.

And cats use none of their own brains

and instead get all their instructions

from the mother ship hovering above us.

[giggles]

Oh, come on, Blossom,

it's all here in The Cat Conspiracy.

You haven't read it?

It'll blow your little kitty mind.

And speaking of minds,[kids laugh]

challenge number two!

All right. Yeah.

Prove or disprove

the saying that humans use ten percent of their brains.

This is Dr. Weisman.

She's a neurologist and won't mind

minding the time till the minds of Mike and Bridget,

uh and the rest of your bodies show up.

Everything you need to know is in that mailbox,

so go... fetch!

All right, guys. Nice, guys.

All right.

Bye, guys. See ya.

As determined by the Fetch ,

Nina and Rosario have stayed behind in the studio this week,

but they'll be eligible to win points

during the Half-Time Quiz Show.

And of course,

we bring to you free of charge,

the Fetch Fairness Guarantee.

All the contestants will have competed

for the same number of points by the grand finale.

For the four kids out on the challenges,

up to points are at stake in the Triumph Tally.

So let's catch up with Madi and Willie

in the blues music challenge.

Cheer up, Ruff.

Come on, we're looking for musicians.

Blues musicians.

Whoa.

Wow, these guys take the blues thing pretty seriously.

What, what was that?

Wait a minute.

That guy just made art with spit.

Colored spit.

Wait a minute, that's not spit it's paint.

Ugh, guys, don't eat those.

These are trained spit painting professionals.

Do not try this at home.Wow.

Whoa, that is aw... ew.

Okay, that was wicked cool.

That's awesome.

Oh, that would look good on my wall.

Oh, that's cool.That's awesome.

That's, like, in his mouth.

Do you guys speak English?

I don't think they speak at all, guys.

Ruff, who are these guys?

They're blues musicians.

I think.

I don't know, wait, wait a minute.

Ooh, wait, they're Blue Man Group.

[laughing]: Oh. Did I read that wrong?

Well, let's just see what happens.

I mean they're, they're supposed to be pretty awesome.

Hi, are you Dr. Wiesman?

I am.

Well, we are here to figure out

whether it's true

that humans only use ten percent of their brain.

We were wondering if you could help us.

I think so.

I'm a neurologist, a doctor

who studies the function of the brain and spinal cord.

Well, I say that humans only use ten percent of their brains,

which means % is doing nothing.

I have a little model here of the brain.

This would be life-size for a normal adult male.

It weighs about three pounds.

Three pounds?

It's the consistency of Jell-O or a raw egg.

And there are four main lobes.

WEISMAN: Here's the frontal lobe.

It predicts the future.

It creates language.

When you want to say something that's where it comes from.

But I'm always saying smart stuff,

so my frontal lobe must be huge!

What are you looking at?

WEISMAN: Here's the parietal lobe.

The way you feel, the texture of things,

the temperature of things.

So when I feel this warm, crispy egg roll.

I'm using my parietal lobe.

Oh, that's good to know.

WEISMAN: This is the occipital lobe.

When you see something, this is where the information comes.

That's weird.

You see with the part of the brain farthest from you eyes?

WEISMAN: The temporal lobe.

When you hear things

you're hearing it in your temporal lobe.

So what you're saying is the temporal lobe

is where I'm really hearing all of this dripping water, huh?

WEISMAN: This is the cerebellum, and that helps you

keep your balance, coordinate your limbs.

And then finally,

the brain stem.

That maintains your body temperature

and your heart rate, all that stuff.

The brain's really busy.

Okay, back to Blue Man Group.

Let's see how they're doing with my art and plumbing problem.

You want to teach me?

I think I have to copy them.

Oh, hey.

He changed the pitch.Oh, they're making music.

By pulling on that tube.

WILLIE: It's like lower.

That's awesome.

MADI: As least they're using his pipes.

Yeah.

Hey, that's my PVC pipe!

They did use it.

MADI: That's so cool.

WILLIE: That's awesome.

How's it different?

MADI: Oh, connect them.

They're thinking of connecting them.

WILLIE: Oh, I wonder how that's going to sound?

They're connecting the pipes and changing the pitch.

That is, that is so cool.

That doesn't sound like the blues at all.

That sounds like cool, happy music.

Wow, this is helping.

I'm not feeling blue anymore.

Nice. Whoo!

Ruff, did that cheer you up?

Oh, that cheered me up like instantly.

What...?

Like, uh, what happened?

Touchdown! Right now. Yes?

Ruff has left us a quiz.

Not just a quiz.

The Penguin of Enlightenment.

He was on sale.

We have some questions here,

and you're going to read the question

and answer it by touching the probe

to the correct part of Ruff's brain.

And the penguin's going to let you know

if you got it right.

That's right. The penguin knows everything.

Okay, so...

"Gruff." "Buff."

"Buff" and "tough" and other stuff.

Frontal lobe?

Aha! Penguin says yes!Yes!

Okay.

[humming theme song]

[scatting]

We needed to hear the song.

Then it's the temporal lobe.

Ah, yes! Penguin says yeah.

Occipital.

Occipital. Yes! That's a good one.

Parietal lobe?

Yes! Parietal lobe.Not bad.

We got them all right.We got them all!

So now that we know a few things about the brain,

what's your prediction?

Well, I definitely think

that we use more than ten percent.

Yeah, because there are so many parts of the brain

that do different things.

How do you think we could prove that?

Looking at a brain?

Looking at a brain. All right.

Wait. How do you look at it?

No one's going to look at my brain.

I have some white coats for you, and I think

that will help you think a little bit better.

How about that? Okay.

RUFF: That's a joke, there.

Lab coats just make you look cool.

In the olden days,

doctors would see someone who had damage

to a certain part of their brain,

and then later, they'd go ahead

and take the brain and look at it.

Really? Oh, that's creepy.

We're going to be looking at dead people's brains?

There's another way called Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

It takes a very detailed picture of the brain.

And I have a friend, and he can show you what MRI can do.

All right, let's go.Okay. Cool.

Cool indeed. We're going to see an MRI-- that's awesome.

Welcome to the MRI center.

RUFF: Hey, there's Dr. Kim.

He runs the MRI lab.

What you guys want is to find out

whether we are using only ten percent of our brain.

Yeah.Right.

Okay. It's time for Dr. Kim

to prove once and for all

that humans only use ten percent of their brains.

I hope.

Whenever a specific part of the brain is active,

that part of the brain needs a lot of oxygen.

So if oxygen is in that part of the brain,

can we see that?

RUFF: That's a good question, Mike.

If you put a brain inside a very strong magnetic field--

blood with oxygen

and blood without oxygen,

they behave differently.

When we do the MRI, we'll see the one with...

the blood with oxygen?Exactly.

We will have a subject-- a volunteer--

inside the MRI scanner.

And we will show to the subject something,

or we will have the subject to do something.

And while you are doing it, we can take pictures of the brain,

and we can just look which part of the brain

has more blood with oxygen, and which part of the brain

has more blood without oxygen.

Oh, I get it.

They're gonna try to activate different parts of the brain.

Then, they can find out how much of the brain people use

when they do different things.

KIM: Here's some stuff that Ruff gave me.

So what do you think we can do with this stuff here?

Some music.

MIKE: I think we can use that

to show them using the temporal lobe.

RUFF: That's for hearing.

BRIDGET: The video would be for occipital.

That's for seeing.

KIM: Oh, this is for touching.

MIKE: So the parietal lobe?

RUFF: That's for touching.

KIM: So what can we do with the frontal lobe?

Maybe we can have the subject to think something.

RUFF: And that's for thinking.

Math problem, maybe?

Oh, yeah, we could...

While Mike and Bridget work on their math problem,

Nina and Rosario will work on a few questions.

Ready, guys?

It's time to earn some points

during the Half-Time Quiz Show.

Well, 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?

Um, a little bit.

Doesn't matter.Yeah.

We're getting ready to go

right now!

WEISMAN: I have a little model here of the brain.

Raw eggs! Or Jell-O!Raw eggs and Jell-O!

It's the consistency of Jell-O or a raw egg.

Fine, we don't need to put an omelet up; it's good.

Oh, a pipe...!A pipe and the canvas!

RUFF: Excellent.

Frontal lobe!

Awesome!Yes! Yes!

So welcome to the MRI center.

Oh, um...Magnetic...

Magnetic...

Oh! Reno-sance Imagina...

Imaging.Im-Image!

RUFF: Wow.

True or false:

No! False!True. False.

Do you guys speak English?All right, fine.

Occipent...

Occipent... Pass.

All right.

Oh, you hear!You can hear!

You hear... with the cerebellum.

No, wait! No, it was...

Incorrect.

Three pounds!It weighs about three pounds.

Excellent.

They went, like, up and down.

[drumming changing pitch]

RUFF: Excellent.

Oxygen! Oxygen! Correct!

Let's go back to one of the ones you passed on.

The occipenter...

Occipenter!

Occipentic! Occipent...Occipent!

Well, you got that one wrong,

but I enjoyed hearing you babble.

Time is up, g*ng.

Let's first go over the ones you missed.

Sorry, you were close.

You did octagon, octagonal, oxymoron...

but you did not get occipital.

You hear with it.

No. No, no, no.

The cerebellum helps you keep balance

and muscle coordination.[sighs]

And that's it,

which means, you guys got eight out of ten

for an awesome score of points!

All right.

That brings us to the end of another awesome

Half-Time Quiz Show.

And now, let's check back in

with Willie, Madi and Blue Man Group.

[drumming melodically]

RUFF: That sounds very familiar.

Oh, it's kind of like a scale.

Oh, like a piano. Yeah.

It's a pipe piano.

Piano made of PVC piping.

It's a, it's a pipe-ano.

[discordant note]Oops!

[melodic note]Oh, there you go.

[playing "Ode to Joy"]

[playing "Ode to Joy"]

Okay, he knows that tune. Oh.

Cool. You want to do it together?

[both playing "Ode to Joy"]

RUFF [to tune of "Ode"]: ♪ I sent Willie, I sent Madi

♪ Thought they would learn the blues ♪

♪ But instead, they met the Blue Men ♪

♪ Because I was so confused.

[record scratching, music stops]

Oh, sorry. [chuckles]

I went Ludwig von Ruffman there for a minute.

You want to play?

WILLIE: I think they have a song.

I think so, too.

That's pretty cool.

Whoa. Whoa.

That sounds really good.

That sounds awesome.

That's awesome.

RUFF: Wow, this is like a whole song.

This is really cool.

That sounds so good.

Oh, my gosh.

You guys are awesome.

This is inspiring me to make my own art

and move on with my life.

Whoa.

This is great!

I don't think I've ever been this happy!

I'm never getting the blues again!

Awesome, you guys.Whoo-hoo!

Whoo!

Touchdown!

That was amazing.

[on TV]: Hey, guys, it's Ruff.

Hey, Ruff, what's up?

You guys have inspired me to make my own art,

just like the Blue Men do.

Awesome.

Hey, watch this.

See, I can spin this, right?

And take some mouthwash.

[gargling]

Okay? And then, now add a little grape juice.

[gargling]

And then, I can... Whoa, whoa, whoa!

[Ruff screaming, crashing]

Oh, all right, then.

I think you need some practice.

Well, you still need

to bring me back some more artwork.

This is the MRI scanner here.

I asked Stephanie, who works in the center,

to be your experimental subject today.

Hi.Hi, Stephanie.

Hi.

MIKE: Can you get in the MRI for us,

and can we, like, study your brain?

[laughter]STEPHANIE: Sure, that's fine.

BRIDGET: All right, here we go.

Bye, Stephanie.

Bye, Stephanie.

You guys should operate the MRI scanner.

So, Stephanie, are you ready also?

I'm all set.Well, let's get started.

Khalish will help you to get the images.

It's scanning your brain.

Her brain is in black and white-- must have an old brain.

Can you see the video?Yes, I can.

Remember, they want to activate her occipital lobe

by showing her a video.

Okay, Stephanie, we're gonna give you a math problem.

What is... four times four?Four times four.

I'll try.

Thatshould fire up her frontal lobe.

Keep squeezing. [laughs]

Squeezing should activate her parietal lobe.

[rock music playing]

Music-- that's for the temporal lobe.

Did you guys pick this music?No.

BOTH: Ruff picked it.

Hey, look, if you don't like REO Speedwagon,

that's fine, but I happen to enjoy their ballads.

All right, Stephanie, you're all set. Thank you.

Okay, guys, great job.

Let's go somewhere else to analyze her brain.

Let's go.

Back to the Blue Man Group.

Wait a minute, why do my fetchers have, like,

raincoats and goggles... Whoa, what was that?!

Mary, you got a little splotch there on the camera.

Okay, they've moved on to actual drums this time,

and it looks like they're pouring paint onto them!

Oh, you're gonna ruin the drums!

Wow, look at the paint dance on the drums.

It's like fire!

[laughs]: Okay!

[laughing]

RUFF: Like they're drumming on a volcano!

Aha! They have a canvas.

Now, I'm not psychic, but it looks like

they're about to make some kind of art.

Oh!

Yeah, look at it-- sticks right on the canvas.

Wow! That is a totally different way of painting.

I love it!

[drumming continues]

Wow!

That's going to look great in the doghouse!

Let me introduce you to Jamie.

Hey. How's it going? Hey.

JAMIE: So now we're actually going to go inside

and take a look at the brain and see...

BOTH: Whoa!

What is the orange and the yellow?

Those are the regions of the brain which were active.

That was where the increase in oxygen was? Absolutely.

You guys had a visual test.

[beeping]

So there is an occipital lobe right here.

RUFF: Wow, look at that!

The occipital lobe loves my show.

JAMIE: We see activation because the person

was viewingFETCH!, but they're also probably

thinking about it a little.

Right? Right. Yeah.

So that's why we see activation up here in the frontal lobe.

BRIDGET: 'Cause they were using

all different parts of their brain? Exactly.

Now, here, the person was feeling the object,

so we have activation in the parietal lobe.

We had one more test, right?

BOTH: Four times four.

We had to enter...

Well, think about a couple of math problems.

That's all frontal lobe, and often...

But it's also in the occipital.

Right. If you're doing a calculation in your head,

you're probably imagining the image,

so that's why you see activation in the occipital love.

Mm. Because you're thinking about it.

You're visualizing it.

And you're actually also doing the calculation.

Wow. There's a lot of brain activity going on there.

And now it's time for Mike and Bridget

to draw a conclusion from their experiment.

You're prediction was that humans use more

than ten percent of the brain?

Yeah.Yeah.

Okay. And maybe you can just, uh, paint

on this picture which part of the brain was active

for the visual study.

RUFF: Occipital lobe is lit up.

Great. How about music?

RUFF: Temporal lobe.

Math problem?

RUFF: Frontal lobe.

And the last one? MIKE: Feeling.

So they use the parietal lobe.Okay. Great.

RUFF: And apparently, they've turned the brain into a lima bean.

Uh-oh!

It looks like more than ten percent.

It looks like we have a lot of parts

of the brain activated, right?

BOTH: Yeah.

So we don't know whether we used the entire brain,

but we know for sure that we used more

than ten percent of the brain, right?

RUFF: What? Again?

Yeah, definitely. Yeah.

I hate to say this, Ruff, but you're wrong.

You're wrong, Ruff, and it feels good to say it.

RUFF: Well, I'm sure it does.

Thank you, Dr. Kim.

Okay, you guys are welcome.

MIKE: Thank you.Okay. As always, welcome.

And Ruff, we're heading back to home base. Yup.

I'm sick of being wrong on this show. It's my show.

Hi. Ruff Ruffman here back in Studio G with Nina and Rosario.

[laughing]

I know.

I'm still green.

It's not easy. Oh, man.

Yeah, that's it, laugh at me.

Know how long it's going to take to get this out of my fur?

I don't want to know.Just think-- you can be one of...

in the Green Man Band.

All right, let's welcome back

the very brainy Bridget and Mike.

What's up?

Right behind Bridget and Mike--

it's those PVC pipe-playing painters, Willie and Madi.

You guys looks awesome.

Willie, Madi, I see you got those gorgeous pictures.

Hold them up. Let me take a look at them.

Oh, that is awesome!

Now, if I don't give out points soon,

this points pipe is going to burst,

and I can't handle another pipe bursting.

RUFF: So let's do it.[cheering]

We start with Bridget and Mike.

Ruff has left us a quiz.

RUFF: You guys aced the brain quiz.

That's points.

[cheering and chatter]

I definitely think that we use more than ten percent...

RUFF: Nice use of your frontal lobe in making your prediction.

That's points.

[cheering and chatter]

But we know for sure that we use more than ten percent

of the brain, right? BOTH: Yes.

RUFF: And for proving your prediction right,

even though you proved your host wrong...

You're wrong, Ruff.

RUFF: points!

[cheering]

For a grand total of points!

[cheering and whooping]

Willie and Madi.

For making some snazzy art for my doghouse, points!

ALL: Yeah!Nice!

Awesome.[drums playing]

For learning, uh...

the blues, I guess,

in an entirely unexpected way, more points.

[cheering]

For finding a way to make my plumbing entertaining...

points.

[cheering and chatter]

Which brings your total to...

points.

[cheering and chatter and whooping]

RUFF: Yeah.

But is that all the points a dog can give?

ALL: No.

What time is it?

ALL: Bonus points.

RUFF: Bonus point time. Five points are for

the first contestant ever

to play Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"on plumbing.

[playing "Ode to Joy"]

Which means, Madi with points.

You're today's daily winner.

[cheering and chatter]

Now, Madi,

I have here two representations of my brain.

Yes, they're life-sized.

Oh, yeah, believe it.

And under one of these enormous brains,

a prize guaranteed to wipe away the blues.

And under the other brain,

a prize that might give you the blues.

So, which brain of mine shall it be?

Brain A or Brain B?

Well, with a smarter brain, you get an A in school,

so I'm going to chose A.

I like your thinking.

Then Madi step up to the mailbox and retrieve your prize.

[overlapping chatter]

The suspense is k*lling me.

[gasps] Ooh.

It's a pipe. It's...

RUFF: Oh, that's not just a pipe.

It's one of the old plumbing pipes from my doghouse.

Oh. Yay!

RUFF: Yeah!

Oh, well, you know, the MRI scanner

you almost won under the other brain

probably wouldn't have fit in your bedroom anyway.

What?RUFF: So enjoy.

It's been a messy,

art-filled, braniac day,

and that's how we end things here

onFETCH! with Ruff Ruffman.

I'm your braniac host.

See you next time.

ALL: Bye.

♪ FETCH!

Well, Blossom, I've just taken my tenth shower,

and I'm still green, and I'm out of soap.

But you know what?

I'm just going to embrace it.

Yes! I'll be a performance artist

out on the streets earning my keep.

Now, now, hold on, Blossom.

Now, I've got the whole drumming thing down now.

I've been practicing, see?

Watch!

Ooh! Uh! Ee! Uh!

What do you think? Pretty good, huh?

Oh, for the love of poodles.

No. No!

[whimpering]



[Ruff scatting]

♪FETCH!♪

♪With Ruff Ruffman!♪

[Ruff scatting]

Oh, whatever.

♪FETCH!♪

♪With Ruff Ruffman!♪

♪FETCH!♪