02x07 - I'm OK, You're Okra

[bunniefuu]

Check this out: my owner person

wants to volunteer me as a therapy dog.

See?

Unlike cats,

dogs calm people.

What's with the dubious look?

[gasps]: Yikes!

Oh, my gosh! I almost forgot

my famous Ruffman gumbo.

I'm practicing for the Game Show Host Celebrity Cook-off.

And I'm going to win!

Mmm, delicious.

I put in three different types of corn.

Sweet corn, yellow corn

and what?

Popcorn?!

Uh-oh. Oh, not good.

Oh!

[yells][buzzer rings]

Ooh, that's my kitchen timer telling me

my secret ingredient is ready.

Ugh, now where did I put that timer?

I'm warming them in the oven!

Spicy crackers.

That ought to give it some kick.

Or, no, I think

they're called hot crackers.

Fire crackers?!

[bang, popping, whizzing]

Oh, get down!

Okay, now come on. Admit it.

Isn't it calmer being around me?

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 here come the contestants now.

He digs jazz.

Bet he loves the theme song to this show.

Puppies make her happy.

We'll put that to the test today.

It's...

Cocoa, it's hot chocolate

and it's also the bunny rabbit belonging to...

She loves the smell of cinnamon.

Mm-mm-mm. It's...

On the baseball field, you'll find him over

at third base anchoring the hot corner.

It's...

She's been to India and seen the Taj Mahal.

Hey, let's get an update on the scores, shall we?

In fifth place: Madi, with points.

Tied for fourth: Mike and Nina with points.

Bridget has slipped to third place with points.

All the way up to second place, Rosario with points,

and Willie is our new leader with points.

Hello, and welcome toFETCH!,

the reality game show

with the calmest contestants around.

Why are they so calm?

Guilty as charged. Ruff Ruffman, Mr. Calming.

[laughing]Yeah, definitely.

Don't you think, huh? You think I'm calming?

If you had one word to describe me, what would it be?

Hyper.Who said that? Who's off the show?

I didn't say...I kid, I kid.

See how calm I take an insult?

Why are we talking about calmness?

Because I'm making it part of my challenge.

Woo! Yeah!

Oh, hi! Hi, Blossom!

Blossom. Blossom.

My loyal intern, Blossom,

seems to insist that dogs do not make people feel calmer.

They don't.I say they do and I say it calmly.

Madi, Mike,

prove whether dogs make people

more relaxed or stressed.

Your instructions are in the mailbox.

Go and calmly fetch.

"Go and calmly fetch."

Go calmly fetch.

Have fun, you guys. All right.

Have a wonderfully

calm experience.

Have fun.

It says here in the dictionary,

that a "bayou" is an area of slow-moving water.

It also says that a bayou has something to do

with today's challenge #.

It says it only because I wrote it in.

[laughing]

Rosario, Nina, in the mailbox are instructions and...

two plane tickets to New Orleans.

Awesome.

That's right. They're all yours, guys, so

go Fetch!

Bye, guys.

Thanks so much, Ruff.

See you, guys.Bye, guys.

Awesome.

Now, as determined by the FETCH ,

Willie and Bridget are staying behind in the studio this week,

but they'll be eligible to win points

during the half-time quiz show.

And of course, this wouldn't beFETCH

without the FETCH fairness guarantee, would it? No.

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 why dally?

Let's sally forth to the doctor's office

with Madi and Mike.

Okay. All right.

I'm calm.

Hi. How are you?

You must be Dr. Ballenger.I am. How do you do?

Ah, Dr. Ballenger.

She's a pediatrician.

That means a doctor for kids.

I have a couple of friends I'd like you to meet.

Those aren't kids.

Shane and Joseph.

These are called therapy dogs.

Oh, those are real therapy dogs!

That's what I'm going to be.

They are calm

and soothing

and want to make everyone feel better.

Well, I'm relaxed already just looking at them.

Our jobs today is

to see if dogs make people more relaxed or more stressed.

And what do you mean when you say stressed?

What sorts of things might cause you to be uptight, nervous?

I've had a couple of bad experiences with dogs.

What?

You never told me this.

I just get this feeling...

like I'm not really, not really comfortable.

You do realize you're on a show that's hosted by a dog, right?

Stress is often responsible

for a response that's called fight or flight.

Yeah, I know about fight or flight.

Fight or flight means that

adrenaline gets pumped into your system

and you get a lot of power and energy.

So you either have the power

to stay to back and fight your fear,

or you have the power to run away from your fear.

DR. BALLENGER: The adrenaline has been released.

Your heart rate goes up.

It's giving you everything you need to run

or fight.

So let's talk about how you might measure stress

and use our friends here for your challenge.

Maybe we can take the pulse of the patients

before and after they play with the dogs?

Yeah.

When you say "take the pulse,"

what do you mean?

I remember that.

Your pulse is how you can feel your heartbeat.

It measures beats...

Beats per minute.

How many times you can feel your heart b*at in one minute.

Do you know where you can check your pulse?

Wrist? Up here.

This is called your carotid pulse,

and then the one that you've seen most people use--

the radial pulse.

RUFF: Ah, New Orleans.

I've always wanted to go.

Wow, how awesome is this, huh? It's so pretty.

Hi. Hello.

I'm Chef Leah Chase.

RUFF: Chef Leah Chase.

Best gumbo chef ever!

We're going to have a...

All right. That's so cool. Today.

And your challenge is

to make your own gumbo.

Right, woo!

Uh, what's gumbo?

Gumbo is a New Orleans soup--

thick, a lot of ingredients.

I have a list of ingredients and you have

a $ budget.

[groans] $. Ruff...!

Let me tell you something:

bucks is a lot for a challenge on this show.

And I'm going to call my nephew, Jerry.

Hi, guys, I'm Jerry.

RUFF: Jerry is Leah's nephew.

He's going to help them get their ingredients.

Here's the cooler. We don't have much time.

We've got to go. Let's go.

Bye!Well, go, go, go.

I think we should do you first, actually.

RUFF: Dr. Madi is going to measure Mike's pulse

before and after playing with dogs

to see if there's any change in his stress level.

MADI: I'm just going to time it.

DR. BALLENGER: So what is his pulse?

.

.

what?

MADI: Beats per minute.

RUFF: beats per minute.

That seems pretty calm.

Get on the floor with Shane.

Just kind of...

He's shy.We'll give you a little bit of time.

Like a minute?

RUFF: I have to study.

This is how a professional therapy dog works.

Apparently you are to sit there and look cute and cuddly.

I could do that.

All right, I want you

to take his pulse again.

We're going to do it for seconds.

RUFF: seconds. Now that means Madi will

have to multiply by four to equal one minute.

. So what is his pulse?

. You got it.

RUFF: .

The dog had a calming effect on him.

DR. BALLENGER: Your pulse came down by four beats per minute.

RUFF: Great job, guys!

Head back to Studio G.

Ha-ha!

I told you, Blossom: dogs are very relaxing.

Do you think it was just being quiet

that helped your pulse go down?

I don't know.

Do you think we can do some tests

on subjects without a dog?

RUFF: No, no, no, no.

You're fine! You're fine!

Come back. You proved it. You're fine!

That's called a control group.

A control group?

Those will be the patients that get to sit

and then you can compare them to those who held the dog

to see whether it's time, or whether it's the dog.

Mike and Madi will test two groups of people.

One group will play with dogs

and one group will just sit quietly and do nothing.

Then they'll compare what happens with their pulses.

What is your prediction?I think

some people might havehigherpulse rates,

because they might be scared of dogs.

RUFF: Scared of dogs!

Come on, Mike, you're supposed

to be on my side.

This is the Farmers' Market.

RUFF: I love farmers' markets.

Oddly enough, they don't sell farmers.

Don't be afraid to barter for your ingredients.

Try to get the prices down, 'cause we only have...

ALL: ...a $ budget.

Uh, little tip?

Don't try this in your local supermarket.

Bargaining is expected at an outdoor market.

First, filé powder.

I see you're grinding up some sassafras. Oh, yeah.

Filé powder is made from dried and cured sassafras leaves.

So how much does filé powder cost?

$. an ounce.

$.!

Do you think you could bargain with us?

I can bargain with you if you make your own.

Deal.

RUFF: Come on, Nina!

There you go, Rosario!

I told you this was hard work.

Now you got powder.

Here's your jar of filé.

We made a deal for three dollars.

Thanks, Keith.All right, Jerry.

See you later.

NINA: So now we have sausage, shrimp, okra and crab.

Well, I think a pound of shrimp looks about right.

Ooh, yummy shrimp.

They're six dollars a pound.

We only have $.

Well, I can knock off a dollar,

but that's about all that I can do.

Okay, take it!

Sold.

Sausage.

We retail it here for $..

We only have

seven dollars left.Seven dollars.

Then how about if I give it to you for $.?

That's good. That's fair enough.

Now we need okra.

It's four dollars a basket.

Two dollars?

I can sell you half of this for two.

That'd be great. Okay.

Perfect.

Okay, got a buck left.

What do we need now?

We need crab.

We don't have crabs.

What?!What?!

What? You're out?

You will be my helper.

We'll go and catch some crabs.

How much?

$..

Good.

RUFF: That's perfect!

That's what they have: $..

Let's start working on creating our study.

I think the first column should be when

we take the first pulse, and the second column

to be when we take a second pulse.

RUFF: Now remember, their experiment

is to measure people's pulses, before and after.

If they go up, dogs cause stress,

and if they go down, dogs are calming.

We're doing this study to see if

kids get more stressed or less stressed around dogs,

and we were wondering if your son would like to help out?

Okay. Great! Follow us.

Go.

Okay, this should be pretty easy.

This kid looks very relaxed.

Stop.

.

RUFF: Times four.

MADI: .

RUFF: Nice, calming number.

So now we're going to bring in the dogs.

And we're just going

to you play with them for three minutes.

RUFF: Now the professionals enter.

Look at the calm and cuteness.

Oh, his pulse is going down to, like, zero.

What? Wait, no, no.

We don't want that to happen.

So, yeah, it'll go down a little bit.

So we're just going to do your pulse again. Go.

RUFF: Here's the -second check.

Time.

times four is... .

RUFF: ? His pulse went up!

But he looks calm!

Oh, man, nowmystress is going up.

First off, we'll introduce you to this turkey neck.

Just imagine if you were a crab, huh?

That would be the most juicy morsel in the world.

Oh, that looks tasty tome!

The heck with the crab!

Let's get these nets over in the bayou.

What's the bayou?What's the bayou?

Slow-moving, sweet, fresh water.

I'm fishingby you.

Fishingbayou.

[laughing] That's a good one.

Murray, write that one down.

One, two... Come and get it, crab!

Three! Heave!

Heave!

Those nets will sink down to the bottom,

and the slow-moving bayou water

will bring the scent to the crab.

The crab will paddle real quickly into the net.

RUFF: Wise words from Wilfred Brimley.

The moment of truth.Oh, it's heavy.

Will they have a crab? Yes!

RUFF: Yes! They caught a crab!

You want to escape, don't you, little guy?

There you go, Ruff.

RUFFMAN: That is $. well spent right there.

Now you can pet him any way you want.

Let's not get too attached

to the crab because we're going to eat him.

You got it? Don't let go. I'm letting go.

[shrieks]

Whoa, Nina!

He's scary.

This guy will make excellent gumbo.

But is that enough? I mean, don't we need more crabs?

For your good work and extra hard help,

I'll give you, free of charge,

the rest of the crabs to make the gumbo.

Whoo! Thank you, Joey.

Good job.

Hi, Ruff Ruffman here,

back in Studio G with Willie

and Bridget. I think it's time

for you guys to earn some points of your own.

It's the Half-Time Quiz Show!

Yeah!

points are available.

seconds to answer as many questions as you can.

Ten questions available at five points apiece.

Are you ready?

Yes.

I think.

Then let's go!

Mike. Mike.

I've had a couple of bad experiences with dogs.

Correct.

Flight... Flight or fight.

Flight or fight.

RUFF: Excellent.

They were testing patients who didn't have a dog.

Yeah, and it was seeing whether stress came from time or dogs.

Okay, awesome.

Pulse?

Maybe we can check

the pulse of the patient

before and after they play with the dogs.

Excellent.

Shane and Joseph.Shane and Joseph.

Shane and Joseph.

Correct.

Beats per minute.

Beats per minute.

RUFF: Yes!

Here and the radius.

Like above your neck

and your radius pulse.

Your carotid pulse and radial pulse.

RUFF: Awesome.

From Rosario and Nina's shopping list...

Filé powder, shrimp, sausage...

and okra. RUFF: Awesome.

Oh, gosh.

I don't know. Pass!

Well, I think a pound of shrimp

looks about right for some gumbo.

... Uh, no.

Five dollars. Five dollars.

RUFF: Correct.

And, oh! We are out of time.

Oh!

Nice.

You guys missed one question.

Let's take a look at it.

It is the sassafras tree.

Filé powder is made from dried and cured sassafras leaves.

Ohh.

But, hey,

points is awesome.

Nearly perfect. So.

that brings us to the end

of another awesome

Half-Time Quiz show.

All right!

So now, it's time to check

back with Madi and Mike

and those pettable pooches.

Does anyone else want to participate in our study?

Okay, we need some more test subjects.

Mike and Madi have only tested

one kid so far, and his pulse went up!

Two, three...

Done. .

times four... .

RUFF: , good.

MADI: Now we're going to bring in dogs.

RUFF: Okay, here come the therapy dogs.

Moment of truth.

All right, and go ahead.

Good petting, good scratching.

Cuddly, yes.

Wow, these are some serious professionals.

Oh... Oh, that's the most relaxing scene ever.

Don't shake.

Don't scare the kid.

Awesome.

So we're just going to do your pulse again.

And is .

RUFF: It went up!

That's awful. We're oh for two.

That's down!

That's relaxed.

That's like a three- to-one lead though.

That's again.

No change!

That counts for me.

What do you think?

MADI: It's the same thing.

BOTH: .

Aw, these kids' pulses are all over the map.

Some are going up, some are going down.

What's going on here?

Hi. Hi.

What did you get?

Crabs, shrimp.

Okay. Sausage.

And I have some things I added for you.

So we can make our gumbo really great.

So put on these aprons. We're going to go to work.

So I did some things to help you out

and make a good gumbo today

because we have to have a good gumbo.

Now, we're going to take all these crabs,

and we going to put them in this pot of water.

Let's cut our sausage.

Watch your fingers now.

RUFF: Yes, please, watch the fingers.

Just dump it in there.

RUFF: Look at all that yummy sausage!

Now, we're going to have to cut onions, bell pepper, celery.

Let's peel these shrimp, Rosario.

RUFF: Oh, delicious shrimp.

Eww!

That didn't go over well.

Ugh! It's got three legs!

RUFF: Oh!

Oh, it's slimy.

See how good it looks?

I can see the legs!

See how nice and thick it's looking?

Let's taste it before we put the filé powder in it.

How is it?

Good.

I'm in heaven.

So here, let's add a little bit of filé.

It looks delish.

You have done it.

We have done it!

Yes, gumbo is ready!

It's a winner.

Nobody can make a gumbo better than this.

We're off to the competition.

Thank you.Thank you very much.

We couldn't have done it without you.

Bye-bye.

RUFF: Bye, Chef Leah! You're the best.

Any volunteers to be in our control group?

The control group will just sit in the room

and not play with the dogs.

That way, Madi and Mike have something

to compare the dog group to.

All right, so it's .

.

?

.

.

.

.

And we're not going to get the dogs.

So we're just going to have her sit here for three minutes?

Ruff, this is fun, but it's awkward silence.

Well, Madi, make some noise then.

Get the pulses up.

MIKE: I'm going to take your pulse one more time.

.

.

RUFF: Okay, he went up

and he wasn't even doing anything.

.

. Okay, she went down.

.

.

Okay, no pulse change at all.

Pulses went up. See? It's not the dogs.

[playing "When the Saints Come Marching In"]

Do you know where the gumbo cookout is?

I can show you guys where that is.

That'd be awesome.

Here, why don't you guys join in?

Let's do it New Orleans style.

RUFF: Yeah!

["When the Saints Go Marching In" playing]

RUFF: Now wait, you guys got to get to the gumbo contest.

We don't have time to...

Okay, fine, you can march a little.

Hey, man, I think this is the place

that you guys are looking for. Thank you.

RUFF: Hurry up, guys. Contest is starting.

We have a gumbo we want to enter.

Yeah. Oh, good.

How you doing, Jerry?

Hey, there's Jerry! He cooked his own gumbo.

He's in the contest, too.

Welcome, everyone, to the New Orleans Gumbo Cook-off.

We have four gumbos.

We'll see who's cooked the best one.

Let's try this one.

Ooh, yum.

Kind of hot.

RUFF: It's awful.

See, it's too hot!

Uh, may I have a sip of yours?

Yes, you may.

Very good.

Very good, okay, that one's good too.

Who's next?

Oh, I see sausage.

Yeah, we've got some sausage.Chicken in there,

bell peppers,

onions and celery.

RUFF: Delicious, delicious.

It's very good.Very good.

Not just good. Very good.

Okay.

A good stock.

Oh, good stock.

Is that, what does that mean? Is that good?

I think the spiciest one was this one.

Oh, yeah, that's ours, super spicy!

And this one is just full of everything we have in Louisiana.

I think we have two number ones.

RUFF: It's a tie for first place.

Nina, Rosario and Jerry!

Nice job, guys.

So, Ruff, we did it.

RUFF: You did it!

So we'll see you back at Studio G.

Bye, Ruff. See you.

RUFF: Have a nice flight back, guys.

Feel free to bring me a little gumbo.

All right, so let's, like,

round up all of our information.

Yeah, let's interpret our data.

So let's see who went up.

Five. Five out of ten, so that's %.

RUFF: So % of the participants got stressed out.

Now pulse is up in the control group,

two out of five, which is four out of ten, which is %.

MIKE: So in the dog group, % of the pulses went up,

and in the control group, % of the pulses went up.

More pulses went up in the dog group than the control group.

It looks like playing with dogs made peoplemorestressed.

This is terrible.

The pulses probably went up

because people were playing with them

on the floor and making them use all their energy.

That's a good point, Madi.

Maybe all that activity increased their pulse.

If you really want to get the answer to this,

you may have to go back to the drawing board.

Okay, so it looks like dogs

might, might make people more stressed.

But we don't know for sure.

Their experiment wasn't perfect.

That's right, Blossom.

They should repeat the experiment, but next time

they should make sure that the kids who don't play with dogs

are just as active as the kids who do play with dogs.

Bye, Ruff, we're heading back to Studio G.

And we'll see you there.

BOTH: Bye.

Bye-bye.

RUFF: Thanks, Doc.

So let's bring back some fetchers, shall we?

Yeah.

Now arriving back at Studio G,

the tension testers, Madi and Mike!

And right behind,

they know their okra,

it's Nina and Rosario.

We brought you some delicious gumbo.

What are you doing staring at me for?

Open up that mailbox, young man!

There you go.

Oh, awesome!

Points!

ALL: Yeah! Whoo!

We'll start with Madi and Mike.

You designed your very own way to measure stress in kids.

Yeah!

Nice.

Good job.

For following the steps a true scientist would,

like making a prediction,

designing an experiment, collecting and analyzing data...

Yeah, let's interpret our data.

RUFF: A solid points!

ALL: Yeah! Good job!

And for proving decisively that dogs are a calming influence,

, points.

What's that, Blossom?

Okay, okay, I know.

Their study was inconclusive.

Whatever.

If you really want to get the answer to this,

you may have to go back to the drawing board.

Yes, in the true spirit of scientific inquiry,

more tests would be needed

before we could rewrite the medical textbooks.

Oh, come on.

But for introducing kids to dogs--

always a good thing-- ten points for you guys.

All right.

For a still respectable points.

ALL: Yeah!

Nice, guys.

Rosario and Nina, for being tough negotiators

and staying within budget...

Think you could bargain with us?

... points.

Yeah!

For gathering all five ingredients

from the shopping list.

Sold.

points.

Nice!

And for making your very own

spur-of-the-moment marching band, an extra points.

Yeah!

Hold it.

Taste-test time.

Oh, oh, for making one mean pot of gumbo

and snagging the first-prize ribbon: points.

Yeah!

For a grand, incredible total of points!

All right! Yeah! Whoo!

But is that all the points a dog can give?

ALL: No.

What time is it?

ALL: Bonus points!

Five points

to the contestant who braved the wildlife

of the bayou and held a crab:

Rosario.

ALL: Yeah!

Now Nina, I would have said that you held a crab,

but you more or less dropped the crab.

[shrieking]

And another five points for Mike and his explanation

of the fight-or-flight response.

Nicely done, Mike.

Nice.Well done.

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

Yeah!

Now Rosario, you know how this works.

We have two okra,

the same in every way

except under one okra is an awesome prize,

and under the other is a prize without the awesomeness.

Actually, Ruff, I think I'll give this one to Nina

because Nina actually, you know, conquered her fear,

not to even touch the crab.

I think that's very sweet of you.

You still get the points, but Nina,

step on up to the mailbox

and retrieve your prize.

It's a book!Crab Cakes!

Ruff's Cajun Kitchen.

RUFF: Crab Cakes and other crab-flavored desserts

from Ruff's Cajun kitchen.

That's awesome.

That's so awesome.

So, from Studio G,

the end of another awesome and delicious episode ofFETCH!

With Ruff Ruffman.Take care.

See you!

Bye, Ruff.

FETCH!

Oh, boy, at last I get to finish

Rosario and Nina's special gumbo.

What is it, Blossom?

I want to eat.

No, I didn't actually read the therapy dog brochure,

but you know...

Wait, is it about therapy dogs?

It's about dog therapy?

Give me that.

"Is your dog stressed out?

We have trained professionals who..."

Oh, Ruffie!

It's time for your therapy session!

But wait, what about the gumbo?

The gumbo!

I'm a calm dog.

I'm very, very calm.



[Ruff scatting]

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[Ruff scatting]

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