03x10 - What's Bugging Ruff

[bunniefuu]

I've been up all night reading this book.

We need to prioritize the codification of our paradigms

within a win-win proactive synergizing framework.

Nope, I have no idea what I just said,

but I said it anyway.

Uh, uh, okay,

why are there bugs all over me?

(Ruff screams)

Blossom, no parties at the office!

You know this!

Well, then who threw it?

Chet!

All right, people, we need to have a meeting.

Or, uh, no, something better.

Uh, a-a check-in.

Or, no, a powwow!

Pull up some chairs.

We're going to be here a while.

Now, if we chart the nexus of vertical bug integration,

we can create a hierarchical dynamic.

Any questions?

I believe the cat has the floor.

A real powwow is a Native American gathering?

This is just a boring meeting

that isn't dealing with the bugs?

Okay, Blossom, that is called a criticism.

Not helpful.

Bingo cards?

Of course!

Interfacing with the bugs

through a recreational activity like bingo!

Now that's thinking like a team player.

See, Blossom?

You can learn a lot from Chet.

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?

Funding for FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman has been And here come the contestants now!

At a party for robots

this fetcher could infiltrate robot society

without raising suspicion.

Who's your favorite red-haired comedian

from the mid-th century?

Hers is Lucille Ball.

In the summer she runs a thriving

ice-cold lemonade stand.

In the middle of winter, not so thriving.

When she was young,

she once cut off her hair and hid it in a treasure chest.

His favorite type of music: R & B.

Ah, yes, Rachmaninoff and Beethoven.

Oh, wait, no, rhythm and blues.

And his favorite type of music:

Jam bands--

Strawberry, grape.

Loves the jam bands.

What, I don't have that right?

Let's get an update on the scores.

Noel in sixth place with points.

Sammy in fifth place with points.

Harsha's up to fourth place with points.

DJ's still in third with points.

Sam in second with points.

And Jay's still on top with points.

Hello, and welcome to another highly efficient and

productive entertainment delivery product unit of Fetch.

Sorry about the lingo. (all greeting)

Reading a new book on canine management techniques.

It's really eye-opening. For example,

you probably think games are all about having fun, right?

Yep. Yeah.

But here's the

exciting part about games.

They can also be an effective

team-building exercise for overcoming

entomological prejudices.

Ow. Great.

I hurt my tongue on that one.

Or in other words, it's challenge #.

All right.

It says in my book

that we should be nice to each other,

'cause we're all in the same boat.

And that's why Sammy, Noel, and Jay--

you're all going on a boat!

The same boat!

Your instructions are in the mailbox

and your backpacks are in the wagon.

Go fetch!

JAY: All right, guys.

Let's go!

Okay.

Bye!

All right, see you.

Challenge #!

Since getting this book, Blossom,

Chet and I have had a lot of meetings,

conferences, powwows, if you will.

But Blossom says I need to learn what a real

powwow looks like.

And that's why,

Harsha, I'm sending you on a plane

to a meeting, kinda.

Once you get there, find Henrietta.

Everything you need to know

is in the mailbox and

I've got another box for you in the apple crate.

Go fetch!

SAM: All right.

Hey.

Bye, Harsha.

Bye, Harsha. Bye.

Have a good flight! Okay.

What Harsha doesn't know is

that she's going to an actual

Native American powwow in New Mexico.

It's going to be great! Yep.

As determined by the Fetch ,

Sam and DJ have stayed behind in Studio G.

But they'll be eligible to win points during

the Half-Time Quiz Show!

Mirror, mirror, on the wall

who has the fairest guarantee of them all?

I do!

The "Fetch Fairness Guarantee" means

that 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 check up on Sammy, Jay, and Noel.

Here come my fetchers.

This our boat? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, hello, nice vacation cruise boat to Thompson Island.

Hi!

I'm Jay. I'm Jessica, nice to meet you.

I'm an entomologist. JAY: Oh.

That's right.

And today you're all going to be entomologists, too.

Uh-oh. Oh. Oh.

So we're going to have you collecting insects today.

Ruff, are you kidding me? You know we hate bugs.

Come on. I know. Come on.

How can you hate bugs?

They're so... so, uh, cute.

Ugh.

Bugs are

bizzare, and they're cool-looking,

and there are so many of them around

that once you start looking at 'em up close

I think you'll-- you might learn

to appreciate them a little more.

Trust me, ladies.

At the end of the day you'll think you're bugs.

HARSHA: So I have to find Henrietta.

Now all Harsha needs to do is find Henrietta.

Gotta be around here somewhere.

Uh...

Uh, excuse me, hey, buddy.

Hey, have you seen Hen...

Hi, uh, Murray, stop him!

do you know a Henrietta or are you Henrietta?

Yes, I am. Oh, hi, I'm Harsha.

Oh, well, that worked out great.

I have no idea where I am.

You're at Taos Pueblo.

Yeah. Yeah,

the northernmost pueblo in New Mexico.

A pueblo is like a house, right?

"Pueblo" is a Spanish word for "village."

Ah, village.

You know what they say.

It takes a pueblo.

(chuckling)

Are you Native American?

Yes, I am.

This is where my people lived for thousands of years.

Thousands of years?

That's cool!

My house isn't really built of...

Mud?

Wait, I'm sorry. Did you just say that that's made of mud?

See the adobes there?

That's what the houses are made of.

Can I touch it? Sure. Go ahead.

Is it sturdy? Wow, it's really strong.

And these are the bricks.

Could I pick it up?

Sure. Go ahead.

It weighs about at least ten pounds.

Huh. I never knew mud could be this heavy.

The only thing I've made with mud is a mess.

There are a lot of dogs here. Yes.

Ooh.

My kind of town.

Hey, Ruff, I bet you'd like that.

Well, who wouldn't like that?

Chet, you got something on your head

there, buddy. No, no, the other side.

There you go.

Bugs are

really important in the environment.

A lot of what you eat are plants.

I hope you eat vegetables for dinner.

In order for plants to reproduce successfully,

a lot of them require insect pollinators.

RUFF: Wait, so planets need insects to pollinate them

so they can reproduce and grow food?

There's also insects that break apart leaves,

and turn that into good soil.

RUFF: So some bugs can turn dead leaves into dirt.

Maybe-maybe you guys could do that outside.

What about predators?

What kind of role do predators play?

Population control. Yes!

So say a dragonfly--

dragonflies love to eat mosquitoes.

So humans use

insect predators a lot to help 'em control

other insects that we think of as pests.

RUFF: Insects can help with pest control, too.

Well, I am all for that.

Getting tired of this flea collar.

Without insects,

if you took all the insects away,

well, we wouldn't be able to survive,

and the whole ecosystem as we know it would fall apart.

So let's find out a little more

about what you know about insects.

What makes an insect an insect?

Six legs. Six legs?

Three parts. Three body parts?

Yeah. The thorax.

The head and the abdomen.

JESSICA: The head and the abdomen.

They have antennae. Mm-hmm.

Um... They're invertebrate?

They don't have an internal

skeleton like we have.

Their skeleton is all on the outside.

Man, can you imagine what I would look like

with my skeleton on the outside?

(screams)

Not very many people live in the pueblo, but we use it

as a ceremony place.

My family gathers here,

and in the wintertime, I like to come down here

and build a fire and just sit here and enjoy myself

because we don't have electricity here.

Wait, what? We don't have running water

inside the pueblo because it's a ceremony place

and our people want to keep it the way it was.

Are you trying to say there's no TV?

We come from an oral tradition.

Our language is not written.

Really? Nothing's written?

In order to keep our culture and our language alive

and our way of life,

we have to practice it every day,

speak our language every day,

so that our children can know who they are

and where they came from.

That's cool.

So Ruff gave me these bingo cards.

RUFF: Oh, I love bingo.

JESSICA: So these are all the kinds of insects

and other invertebrates... That's unusual.

...we find on the island--

things like earwigs,

butterflies, daddy longlegs.

And also on this card,

what kinds of things they eat-- whether they eat plants,

and those are herbivores;

scavengers-- those are things

that eat dead animals or dead plants;

pollinators, or nectar feeders, like...

JAY: Bees.

JESSICA: ...and then predators.

The last feeding group are the decomposers,

and those are things that break down

leaf litter and other kinds of vegetation.

Now, every time you collect one,

you put one of the red stickers over that square.

They need to find five bugs in a row to win.

Now, they can go horizontally, vertically, or diagonally,

but it has to be in a row.

So what is the question mark? Is that

a free spot so we don't have to catch a bug?

That's a mystery spot

and you'll find out later what that is.

Wait till they see the mystery bugs.

Here's a hint.

The mystery bugs are big and there are three of 'em.

(laughs)

HENRIETTA: Would you like to ride a horse?

Are you serious?

Oh, wow, hi.

This is Talpa. RUFF: Hello, Talpa.

Welcome to the show. I'm actually going

to go on the horse.

I never thought I would ever ride a horse ever.

Ah, come on, Harsha. It'll be easy.

It's like riding a bike... except you're on a horse.

How do I get on?

He won't move. Oh!

Whoa, gravity.

Where's Harsha?

(chuckling): Yeah, I'm fine.

You got to just...

Oh, good, she's okay, whew. (laughter)

Look at that: she gets right back on the horse...

(Ruff chuckles)

...both literally and figuratively.

Wow.

She's looking good up there.

Hey, Ruff, if you could ride a horse, I think you should.

This is pretty awesome.

I'm actually a great rider.

The trick is to never show any fear.

Otherwise, I just...

(screaming): Blossom, get it off me!

Would you like to thank Talpa for letting you ride...

HARSHA: Thank you, Talpa.

Let me tell you just a little bit

about the project that I'm working on

on Thompson Island.

We're trying to inventory

all the insects on the island.

Oh, good, she's making a list of all the bugs on the island.

You're actually involved in our project.

When you're catching insects, at the end of the day

you'll be handing those off to our park ranger

and they'll be incorporated into our database.

Oh, wow, the bugs they find are part of a real

science research project.

Well, if they find a new bug, they should name it after me.

Ruffus Ruffmanicus.

I don't know. I-I got to work on it.

You're all going to be going to certain points

around the island to find the bugs,

and actually, at several of the points,

you'll see some of the traps

that we're using in our project.

So we have a lot of devious ways

that we collect insects.

This device is a sucky uppy thing.

RUFF: Blossom, can you order me

a sucky uppy thingy, please?

JESSICA: So I'm gonna suck on this tube

and it'll be like a little vacuum cleaner.

(chokes)

(screams)

I swallowed an earwig!

(screaming)

You don't have to worry about sucking in the insect

'cause there's a little screen there.

(indistinct chatter and screaming)

Hey, back in Studio G

with Sam and DJ,

who are ready to earn some points

during the Half-Time Quiz Show.

Yes. Yeah. Let us brush up on the rules.

points available.

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

Ten questions available at five points apiece.

Are you ready?

SAM & DJ: Yes.

Entomologist.

Yes.

Village. Yes. Yes.

To decompose...

and to pollinate. And to... pollinate.

Yes.

False. False. Correct.

Herbivores, "predavor"-- no, "herma"-- "hormivores."

Herbivores... Herbivores, predators,

and pollinators.

Yes!

Mud. Adobe.

Adobe mud. Yes.

The blowy-sucky... Sucky-uppy-thingy...

...uppy-thingy. ...sucky-uppy-thingy.

Yes.

They talk it. By speaking it every day.

They speak it every day, yeah. That's correct.

They'll be donated to their experiment.

Yes, and we are out of time.

So you got to nine questions and you got all nine right.

points-- an excellent score.

Congratulations to both of you.

Thank you. Are Jay, Noel,

and Sammy feeling fine or have they caught a bug?

Or both? Let's give them a buzz

and find out.

So here's your first clue.

(all reading)

A-- six legs.

Six, A. Six.

RUFF: Okay, the correct answer is A-- six legs.

Where's location "A" on the map?

Farm site.

RUFF: Off to the farm site.

Bye, thank you. Bye, thank you.

Thanks, Jessica.

Come on, Noel.

We should be coming up to the field soon.

Think I see the trap. Oh, over there,

over there, there! They found the trap.

This trap is only for, like, flying insects.

SAMMY: We have to empty this?

JAY: All right, do it.

I'm gonna get out some bottles.

Pour the things into the tray. Yeah.

Empty into the tray.

Wow, look at all these.

RUFF: Ugh, what's that green stuff, Blossom-- antifreeze?

Oh, it preserves the insects.

Huh.

Also keeps them from freezing.

(chuckles)

Nothing I say is funny to you, is it?

NOEL & SAMMY: Be careful. RUFF: Oh, the Fetchers need

to be real careful with that antifreeze.

It's nasty stuff.

Do not try this at home.

SAMMY: It looks like a fly.

(mumbles)

I'll get the ladybug.

JAY: Okay.

Put it in there.

JAY: Okay, so that's under beetles.

Wait. (all talking)

SAMMY: "Spiders are insects.

True or false?"

RUFF: False, so that means they have

to go to the "F" area.

SAMMY: Go.

Follow the road.

RUFF: And off they go. Come on. Run faster.

Let's look around.

I think I see something. Maybe it's a clue.

All right, they've made it to Pine Forest.

Oh, cool. Oh, look at that.

I'll pour these guys in.

Ugh...

Oh, beetles.

These are huge. Beetles.

Hey, looks like the kids have found us.

Look at these, Ruff.

JAY: All right, that's a couple of beetles.

The beetles are in there because...

ALL: They're ground beetles.

They like it dark, under...

So that is the place where beetles will hang out.

What's that? Looks like a pill bug.

RUFF: A pill bug.

All right, so let's cover that up.

JAY: All right, so there's pill bug.

A spider.

RUFF: There's a spider.

W-Wait, wait... It's a mite. It's a mite.

SAMMY: So let's cover mite.

RUFF: So they found crawly predators and decomposers

in the Pine Forest habitat.

Ew...

The next challenge is we're going to make fry bread.

We're going to make what? It's, uh, fried dough.

You'll see. Okay.

We'll make the dough in this. You're going to need

four cups of flour... One, two, three, four.

...a handful of baking powder, a pinch of sugar,

and then we use water to get it to the right texture.

Perfect.

I hope this tastes good, Ruff.

Maybe it'll be even better than that mu shu pork you eat.

Nothing beats mu shu.

And we'll roll it out.

cut it up, and fry it.

RUFF: But I do love fried food.

So is fry bread a traditional food here?

HENRIETTA: Yeah, Spanish people call it sopaipillas.

We call it ...

You think we could make a dog bone-shaped one for Ruff?

Oh, yeah, you want to? You can cut one out.

Okay.

RUFF: Oh, look at that.

All for you, Ruff.

Doesn't that look pretty good?

That looks delicious.

That is good.

Where's our next clue? I think you're sitting on it.

SAMMY & NOEL: Crickets eat pollen, plant matter, or other crickets?

JAY: It's plant matter 'cause if you look, it says grasshoppers

and crickets eat plant matter.

SAMMY: So let's look at the map. "E."

"E." RUFF: "E." Go.

So we're looking for "E" and it's at the coastline.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, look. There it is.

RUFF: Okay, we've made it to the beach.

Wow! Wow!

ALL: Ew...

That is definitely a cricket. Crickets.

Let's collect all the earwigs. Earwigs.

We need one more jar for beach fleas.

There's fleas on the beach?

Oh, look, there are ants.

JAY: And they live off

all the dead leaves... The ants can go, like, under the stones and stuff

'cause they're so small. They're so small, yeah.

Well, looks like there's something

for every kind of insect at the beach.

Oh, we would have a bingo if we knew what this mystery one was.

You're going to find out what the mystery bugs are.

Or should I say who the mystery bugs are?

So maybe the next clue.

"Invertebrates"...

Invertebrates never have G-- brains, H-- shells,

or I-- backbones.

I-- backbones.

Invertebrates never have backbones.

RUFF: All right, off to "I."

JAY: Go.

Whoa, you guys, look at that.

That's a big beetle. It's huge. Wow,

that's a huge beetle.

Yes! He's huge.

It's a beetle.

All right, let me give Henrietta a little call here.

(cell phone ringing)

Hello.

Henrietta, hey, it's Ruff.

Oh, hi, Ruff.

Listen, you know that box Harsha's been

Yes. carrying around all day?

Well, it's time to have Harsha open it.

Oh. Okay.

Harsha's gonna love this challenge.

Your next challenge.

Here's the box.

Mystery unraveled.

It's a little purse. Moccasins?

Uh-huh. Jewelry.

Uh-huh. That's a shawl.

So all this stuff is

for me to wear? Yes. Yes.

When would somebody wear this?

At a powwow.

A powwow?

Yeah! (chanting, steady drumming)

Harsha's gonna participate in a powwow.

HENRIETTA: Powwow is a gathering of Native American people.

Many tribes come together to dance and celebrate.

Oh, my gosh.

The dress.

We have this belt.

RUFF: Oh, thank goodness, it looks like it fits.

Do we start? Yes.

On go the boots.

She looks great!

You're ready. Uh, we need the fry bread.

Oh, yes, don't forget the food.

Let's go to the powwow.

Oh, my gosh, look at that thing.

Ooh, ooh, almost there.

I can't believe I'm making them do this.

It says "Climb me." Climb me.

Welcome to the biggest bug trap you'll ever see!

Hey. Hey, I'm Paul.

Welcome to the Alpine Tower.

We're gonna do some climbing, so we got

to get you in some helmets and harnesses.

There you go.

Oh, there we go. Footholds, sweet.

Ah, Jay loves climbing.

(screaming) NOEL: Oh, my gosh, Sammy! Oh, my gosh!

Hold on!

PAUL: That's it. Now pull...

Nice job. Oh! Oh, that's right.

They're locked in. Okay.

Now, don't rush. Take your time.

(screaming)

Trust your foot, now, your toe.

I can't turn around.

Oh! Noel, careful!

Get your weight on your feet again. That's it!

Let's keep going up.

Excellent, Noel. Look at you go now.

That's great. Whoo! What's up, Ruff?

You're up, Jay!

Hey, Ruff!

You're almost there, Sammy!

PAUL: You're almost there, Jay.

Whoo! They made it!

Made it up, Ruff! That was awesome!

Which way do I go?

PAUL: Bring your head over to this side, Noel.

Oh, no! Wait! Noel's stuck!

It's too scary that way.

Where do I hold on to?

Just grab my hand. Yeah, yeah, help her up.

Good, good. JAY: You got it, you're up.

Yay! Yeah, Noel!

There you go! Yes!

Ruff, I did it!

Yes, you did it, Noel!

(sighs): Oh, man!

JAY: All right, let's read this clue.

KIDS: "Welcome to the Alpine Tower!

Congratulations! You are the mystery bugs!"

(Ruff chuckles)

RUFF: The Fetchers are the mystery bugs.

Ah, they couldn't win Bingo

without climbing up the tower trap.

Course, if they were real bugs, they'd need more legs.

(Ruff laughing)

"Grab the flypaper

and head back to Studio G!"

There's flypaper on each corner.

RUFF: My three Fetcher bugs

now have to catch themselves with flypaper.

Mine's all sticky! (Ruff laughing)

This is disgusting!

Ew! There are tons of flies!

Actually, in hindsight, that was kind of disgusting.

Here are samples for the whole day.

All right, thank you, bye. Bye.

See you, Ruff. All right, guys, see you back at Studio G.

Harsha, it's really muddy,

so watch where you step.

(Ruff groans) All muddy out today.

Oh, boy, I'm gonna lose my deposit on those boots.

Murray, make sure you don't drop the camera in the mud.

(chuckles): Okay? That wouldn't be good.

Okay, let's go.

Ruff, are you ready to bowwow for the powwow?

Yeah! It's powwow time!

(chanting, steady drumming)

Wow! A real powwow!

This is amazing!

Ooh, there's Harsha!

Oh, wait. No, that's not her.

Hey, Murray, what's going on? Where's Harsha?

Ah, there's Harsha.

There she is.

Oh, she's even dancing along.

Way to go, Harsha.

Ah, she's getting into it.

Wow, the clothing is awesome!

This is really cool!

We need to have our own powwow here, Blossom.

Just me and you and Chet.

(insects buzzing) And no bugs.

Thank you so much, Henrietta!

You're welcome.

I-I guess I have to go back to Studio G and see Ruff,

so bye. Bye.

Welcome back to a bug-free Studio G.

They don't have exoskeletons,

but we can identify them anyway.

They're Sammy, Noel and Jay.

What's up, Ruff?

Hey, mystery bugs,

I see you guys are still stuck to the flypaper

you got on the Alpine Tower trap.

All right.

She was a wow at the powwow,

welcome back, Harsha!

Hey, do the dance, do the dance!

(chanting, steady drumming)

Looking good, Harsha.

Ah, that is just awesome. Awesome.

I have something, Ruff.

What do you have?

I got that fry bread, uh, dog bone

(gasps) Ooh, give me! that I made with Henrietta.

Oh! Okay, okay.

Oh, thank you so much!

(gasps)

Oh, how good does this look? (sniffing)

Pardon me for two seconds while I embarrass myself.

(chewing noisily)

(chuckles)

So, what's one of the habits

of an effective Fetcher?

Points!

They wind up with a lot of points!

(cheering)

Harsha...

Hope this tastes good, Ruff.

For making a tasty looking fry bread

and bringing home some for the Ruffster,

a delicious points to you.

Cool. Nice.

And for taking part in the powwow

and even dancing along, another points!

(cheering)

Bringing your total to an awesome points.

Awesome. Sweet.

On a personal note,

I want to apologize for the shabby camerawork

done by Murray.

But maybe that's what I get

for hiring a cousin with no previous TV experience.

Sammy, Noel and Jay...

Look at that. That's a big beetle.

For being entertaining entomologists

and collecting all sorts of invertebrates

in all sorts of habitats,

points!

(cheering) Nice! Nice!

For climbing the Alpine Tower

to become the ultimate mystery bugs...

Ruff, I did it!

... points!

(cheering)

That brings your

creepy, crawly total to points!

(cheering)

But something seems to be missing.

What's that, Chet?

No, you're right, that's not all the points a dog can give.

And I'm glad you mentioned that.

What time is it?

KIDS: Bonus points!

Yes, today's bonus points

go the Fetcher who experienced a metamorphosis

when her intense dislike of insects

turned into beetle mania!

Look at these, Ruff.

Sammy!

With points, you're today's daily winner!

(cheering) Yeah!

Now, Sammy, I have here two identical logs.

Under one of these microhabitats,

there's a fabulous prize!

So which log is it going to be, log "A" or log "B"?

Log "B".

Then, Sammy,

you will find your prize

in the mailbox.

(laughter)

It's a butterfly breeding kit!

There's a form in there, Whoa!

you just send in that form,

and they'll mail you some butterfly larvae.

And to make your butterflies feel at home in their new home,

a pair of butterfly wings for you in the back corner!

(kids gasping) Oh! Oh!

That's awesome!

NOEL: They're so cute, Sammy!

Oh, my gosh!

Fly. I want to see you fly.

Oh, my goodness, that is just precious beyond belief.

All right, guys.

We're out of here!

From Studio G, I'm Ruff Ruffman. See ya!

KIDS: Bye, Ruff!

We were able to round up the bugs because according to

this flowchart from Nine Habits of Highly Effective Dogs,

(doorbell rings) we and the bugs are units of

(door opens) self-motivated, codependent, enabling the...

What's this?

Oh, there was a typo on my book jacket,

so they're sending me a new one?

Oh, that was nice of them!

Ah, so it's actually

The Nine Habits of Highly Annoying Dogs?!

Oh, yeah, that makes sense.

Well, I guess we should let the bugs go.

Ah, I meant outside the doghouse!

(Ruff scatting)

* FETCH! *

* With Ruff Ruffman! *

(Ruff scatting)

Oh, whatever.

* FETCH! *

* With Ruff Ruffman! *

* FETCH! *