04x15 - Ruff Needs His Herring Checked

[bunniefuu]

Ooh! Okay, don't panic.

Blossom, do you know who has a birthday tomorrow?

The most wonderful poodle in the universe-- Charlene.

Have to buy the perfect birthday gift,

and I can't think of anything.[beeping and honking]

LATIN MALE VOICE: The way to her heart is to make the gift, not buy it.

Not a bad suggestion, Blossom.

You didn't suggest anything?

Wait. You just said...

VOICE: Brussels sprout cookies.

RUFF: Brussels sprout cookies?

VOICE: A vegetable she does not like

transformed into something she loves.

Tell me you just said brussels sprout cookies?

No? Chad, buddy, you just said brussels sprout cookies, right?

VOICE: You, Ruff, are like a big, orange brussels sprout to her.

Something she does not like,

and yet, you can be sweet company

and a nutritious lunch.

Um, okay. Dog's have good hearing, right?

So I'm just hearing something from far away.

VOICE: But how to bring the brussels sprout and cookie

into harmony, for she is a delicate flower

that will wilt if the vegetable clashes

with the sugary treat.

I finally lost my mind thinking about Charlene.

[beeping and honking]

Yup, that sums it up.

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.

♪ With Ruff Ruffman

Can somebody tell me what happened to the singing cats?

♪ FETCH!

Funding for FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman with captioningRUFF: And here come the contestants now.

He once sold magazines door-to-door-- Isaac.

She loves tofu.

When it's miles away from her.

Liza.

He once accidentally ate shampoo.

Well, he now has the cleanest esophagus in town.

Sterling.

She's interested in botany, the study of plants.

Bethany.

He once had to perform a play in his boxers.

Brian.

She likes washing her hands.

Are they clean now?

Talia.

Let's get an update on the scores.

Brian is sixth with points.

Liza has dropped all the way to fifth with .

Bethany up to fourth with /.

Talia up to third with .

Isaac still in second with /.

And Sterling still in first

with / points.

Hi, guys.

ALL: Hi, Ruff.

VOICE: No, no, no. Flatter them.

Tell them they look particularly good today.

You guys look good today.

ALL: Thank you.

VOICE: No, no, no, no, no. With more feeling.

Okay, did you guys hear that?

ALL: No. Hear what? What?

You didn't hear a voice?

What are you talking about, Ruff?

Yeah. What?

RUFF: I've been under a lot of stress lately.

I have trouble talking to Charlene, the poodle next door.

VOICE: Talk is cheap.

You will woo her with vegetable dessert.

Stop saying that!

We didn't say anything.RUFF: No, no.

Not you guys. I'm sorry.

I'm talking to the...

You know what? Never mind.

I was just kidding. I'm fine.

Got me.RUFF: Why don't we get

to challenge number one, right?

ALL: Yeah.

I need a doctor.

Here. Go find Dr. Kemar.

He's a doctor that will make this voice I'm hearing go away.

VOICE: Voice. I do not hear a voice.

RUFF: Isaac, Liza,

your instructions are in the mailbox, so

go fetch!

Doctor. Yes.

Bye, guys.

Make sure he's covered by my insurance.

Now, the thing is, this

voice-- well, it's been giving me advice

about how to woo Charlene.

Really? What did it say?

VOICE: Look, if you don't

make her cookies, then write her poetry.

No. Uh, tried that in season two. That didn't work.

What? What didn't work?VOICE: Take her mother out to lunch.

Nah. It was, you know, season three, also.

What's going on?RUFF: It did not work.

Fine. We'll do it. Okay, guys.

Challenge number two.

Cookies. In Charlene's mind, I am like a yucky vegetable.

You need to change her mind about vegetables

so she'll change her mind about me.

Through the power of cookies.

Brian, Sterling.

Cool.RUFF: Everything you need to know

is in that mailbox, so go fetch!

Cookies!

Yes!

RUFF: Yes, cookies.

All right, see you, Ruff. Bye! Bye, guys.

RUFF: Good luck!

As determined by the FETCH ,

Talia and Bethany have stayed behind in the studio, but...

they'll be eligible to win points during

the Half-Time Quiz Show.

And not only

is the Fetch Fairness Guarantee

still in effect.

Hey, it's in sparkly lights.

Yay! Awesome!Wow! That's awesome!

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

and my sanity are at stake in the Triumph Tally.

So let's zip on over to Isaac and Liza.

VOICE: You yell a lot.

[crying]: Leave me alone!

Do you know Dr. Kemar?

I can page Dr. Kemar.

Dr. Kemar, please report to the lobby.

You can wait for Dr. Kemar right by the elevators.

BOTH: Thank you.

What is that?

What is what?

[Ruff yelling]

What is that?!

VOICE: It's only a dummy.

Whoa. That's so

creepy.

VOICE: No need to scream like a baby.

MAN: Hi, guys.

Hi. My name is Eric.

I'm one of the audiologists here at the hospital.

RUFF: Ah. An audiologist.

Blossom, what does that mean?

Oh, he studies hearing.

ERIC: You've met Dr. Kemar.

He's actually a mannequin.

His name stands for:

More like Knowles Electronics Mannequin

for freaking my freaking my FETCHers out.

He's a mannequin that helps us study sound.

When the sound comes in his ears,

it actually sends sound to a meter

that we can measure, and then we use those numbers.

RUFF: A medical instrument in the shape of a bald man. Ha.

Okay, here come Brian and Sterling. All right.

So, "Go to a park and ask people

which vegetable they like the least."

Well, I think we're here.

Oh, there's some over there. Yeah.

RUFF: And there we go, nice and organized.

BRIAN: Let's interview each other first.

I like broccoli the least.

I dislike radishes.

RUFF: Okay, so we have one for broccoli, one for radishes.

What is your least favorite vegetable?

Green beans.

Cooked carrots.

Spinach.

Spinach.

RUFF: Whoa! Spinach is on a run!

Corn on the cob.

Rutabaga.

Kale.

How do you spell that?

Spinach.

Spinach.

That's a lot of spinach.

Doggies. RUFF: How about you guys?

What is your least favorite vegetable?

RUFF: This dog is more interested in being scratched.

I think he said spinach. [laughter]

All right, Sterling, what was the total tally?

Spinach won with six votes.

[phone ringing]Oh, I think it's Ruff.

Hello. Hey, Sterling, you guys are doing great interviews.

You're better than Oprah.

So, uh, what did you find out?

Uh, we found out a lot of people don't like spinach.

RUFF: Okay. Spinach unpopular.

Like I am to Charlene.

So you need to make people like spinach in the form of a cookie.

I want you both to go to the store

and pick up five bags of fresh spinach.

Five bags of fresh spinach.

Then I want you to go see my friend Marissa

over at Dancing Deer.

She'll know what to do.

All right, let's hop.

And I'm going to introduce you to Dr. Halpin.

Nice to meet you. Thanks for coming in.

ERIC: He's another audiologist.

Today, we're going to talk a little bit

about sound and how it works.

Tell me a little bit about it.

Well, sound starts as a vibration.

Yeah, well, lately, sound starts as a Latin voice in my head.

VOICE: Shh! Ruff, please. I want to hear this.

So when, like, I hit the table,

you can hear it, and it's a vibration.

And then it sends vibration waves...

When you make a sound,

the particles of air clump together,

and we call that...

And they pull apart, alternately, called...

So the vibration is actually alternating...

So sounds are just vibrating air?

And that is what we call a...

That's a funny-looking wave.

It's not like an ocean wave at all.

So how do you know

when sounds get, like, louder or softer?

The air particles compress together,

and for a soft sound,

they compress a little bit.

But for a very loud sound, there's a lot

of pressure.

The more the air particles compress

in a sound wave, the louder it sounds.

Now, we take that wave, and we make it into one number

with the help of Dr. Kemar.

In his ear, there's a microphone.

It puts together all

the sound wave variations

in a unit called...

or...

So, the louder the sounds, the higher up the number is.

Let's put on a sound to listen to.

[beep]What's it read now?

ISAAC: About .

Let's make it a little bit louder.

[beeping becomes louder]RUFF: That's louder.

ISAAC: . Let's make it soft.

[soft beeping] LIZA: .

And that's how we measure the sound.

RUFF: You know, all this talk about decibels is giving me an idea.

I need to go somewhere that's so loud

it will drown out the voice I'm hearing.

And the FETCHers can help me find

the loudest place in the city.

But before we do that,

let's check in with Brian and Sterling.

Oh, look, there's some green stuff!

There's the spinach.

I'm open!

A new sport-- spinach football.

Okay, I have five bags of spinach.

Hopefully they were on sale.

Let's go.Let's go.

We're out.

All right, so we have five bags of spinach and now we have

to meet Marissa.

Hi, are you Marissa? I am.

Welcome to Dancing Deer.

It's Dancing Deer Bakery.

They make my favorite cookies.

Next to Grandma's.

Okay, before you can enter the test kitchen,

we need to wear hairnets.

All right, Ruff sent over some special aprons.

Dancing Dog.

Well, that's more accurate because I am a dog

who loves to dance.

[chuckles, grunts]

Check out the moves.

[grunts]

Today we're going to make spinach cookies.

What? [laughs]

Of course, Sterling. We're turning

spinach, which many people don't like,

into cookies, which everyone loves!

Because the voice in my head said this is a good idea.

[sighs]

So, Ruff has sent

Dr. Kemar, your next challenge.

And a nice hat.

It's a map of several locations around the hospital.

And Ruff would like you to go to those locations

using Dr. Kemar to measure the decibels.

Let's roll.

LIZA: The lobby.

So now we need to measure

how... loud it is.Take a reading.

RUFF: All right, Dr. Kemar, you're on.

. .

in the lobby, that's nice and pleasant.

Okay, the first thing we're going to do

is wash our star ingredient.

Brian if you could go over

work with my friend Milton over there,

and rinse off the spinach.

Sterling and I are going to get started with the dough.

You put the butter into the-the mixing bowl.

[whirring]

Ah, it's a good mixer.

And add all the sugar.

Mmm, yummy.

The eggs.

Ruff, does this look good to you?

It does!

Oh, we're on the right track.

Slowly poor the dry ingredients.

[whirring]

VOICE: Mmm, those cookies look delicious.

Ruff Ruffman and weird mysterious voice

here in Studio G

with Bethany and Talia.

VOICE: Well, what do we do now?

Well, now, uh, what we're going to do is have

the Half-Time Quiz Show.

Yeah!

VOICE: Ah, yes, you mentioned this earlier.

points are available.

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

Ten questions available at five points a piece.

Are you ladies ready?

Yeah!

Then let the quiz... begin!

Yes!

[buzzer]Uh... broccoli.

No. Fill in the blank.

...blank.

Rarefactions.

That's it.Rarefactions.

Yes. Here are pictures

of two sound waves traveling through air.

B! B! B! A! I mean...

Yes.

...what?

Decibels. Yes!

[buzzer] . decibels.

No.

...kale.Kale.

K-l-e-e.

K-l-e. Yeah.

K-a-l-e.

Final answer?

Yes. Kale. Kale.

...what?

Yes.BOTH: Research.

Five. Five. Yes.

[bell rings]Oh, we are out of time.

VOICE: Wow, that was exciting.

What do they win, a car?

I wish.No, they don't win a car.

So, let's go over the ones you missed.

I dislike...

radishes.

Radishes.

Oh!

Also...

You were close.

You said , the answer is...

decibels.Oh, you were right.

So, we tallied up. What'd you get?

Seven correct answers, points.

Good score, ladies.Yeah!

Moving right along,

have Isaac and Liza come to any sound conclusions?

[chuckling]

VOICE: Your jokes are just not that funny.

Well, let's tune in and find out.

So what do you think out of

all of the locations is going to be the loudest?

The construction site or the subway underpass.

I think that, too.

What do you think is going to be the quietest?

The quietest...

A stone bench.

LIZA: Okay, we have a subway underpass.

Okay, now, let's wait

for a train.

RUFF: Let's see what we got.

It's like . .

Much louder than the lobby.

Now we have to get to

the middle of a footbridge.

Here we go.

LIZA: .

. Okay. So, now

we're headed to...

a covered bench.

Oh, it's one up there.

Yes. It's the bench that's covered.

There is a cover above it.

Let's get a reading.

It's about .

. Stone bench.

Looks like about

sixty-six.

I think it's because we're a lot farther away

from all the cars.

Do you see anything we might use as a wild card.

Hmm, they have two wild cards now

for unexpected noise.

Oh, helicopter.

It's a helicopter wild card.

[whirring]

That was like .

I'm thinking that the optimal

amount of spinach is five ounces.

Sterling, I understand that you've never tried spinach.

I may want to try a leaf.

He's eating spinach for the first time, folks.

Want to spit it out?

And I can... see it.

[coughs]

[clears throat]

It just tastes bad.

Spinach industry's not going to be happy about this one.

Give this a good mix.

Now we're mixing

the spinach and the cookie dough.

Milton happens to be the expert

on the scooping technique.

Oh, look at that scoop. Okay, you try now.

Let see how Sterling does.

Yep.

Fantastic.

Sterling, you're a natural!

VOICE: That boy can scoop.

MARISSA: So these cookies will go

in for about eight minutes.

ISAAC: Fire engine four.

[siren wailing]

Wow!

Deafening and, yet, I want to chase it.

LIZA: Wow, that was really loud.

That was our highest reading.

.

Here's the, uh, construction site.

Now it's around , .

So I will put .

MILTON: Okay, the cookies are ready.

Ruff, they smell good.

Smells good.

That's a first step.

One, two...Two...

three. three.

Please like it. Please like it.

Please like it.

It's good.

I'm now getting the taste of the spinach.

Uh-oh. Maybe spinachSTERLING: Gross.

is not the way to go.

VOICE: Spinach is the way to Charlene's heart.

We still need another wild card.

So, want to... just kind of hang out.

So without us talking, it's... .

Right, in the elevator.

All right, well, how did it go?

It went pretty well.

We got that the elevator with no talking

was the quietest at .

And then the loudest was the, uh...

Fire engine at .Fire engine.

That is perfect.

I'll just hang out by the fire station,

and the noise from the sirens

will drown out this voice I'm hearing.

What's that, Blossom?

Sounds above decibels

can cause permanent hearing loss?!

I better come up with something else to get rid of this voice.

What can we change with this batch?

Cooking it or sautéing it.

We can absolutely try sautéing the spinach

in some butter, maybe with some spices.

Cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger.

Okay, so three spices.

VOICE: This is a recipe for love.

MARISSA: Okay, we're ready

to start mixing batch number two.

Oh, I smell it.

That looks pretty good.

We have one more addition that we can add.

RUFF: Ooh! White chocolate chips.

While I scoop this last batch,

why don't you guys come up with a name.

Oh! The Ruffles Delight.

Yeah, Ruffles Delight.

Ooh, I like it!

Brian, nicely done!

So, guys, after this whole process,

is spinach that bad?

Compared to the other ingredients we had this morning,

I think spinach would probably be one of the best things

you could put in a cookie. Yeah.

Well, your next challenge

is actually waiting right around the corner for you.

"From the desk of Ruff Ruffman.

"Liza and Isaac,

"you must create a sound dampening environment

"using a box,

"and up to two of the materials on the table.

"The sound inside the box must be at least

" decibels lower

than the same sound outside of the box."

Liza and Isaac have to build a box

that'll muffle sound.

And after they build it

I can use the box as a sound blocking helmet

so I don't have to hear this annoying voice anymore.

VOICE: Please, Ruff, do not call me annoying.

This is very hurtful.

ISAAC: First we should play a sound

with like nothing over any part of his head.

Like .

RUFF: Room noise decibels.

Okay, now with just

the box on its head.

.

So that's nine less.

It's not enough.

Now they're going to line the inside of the box

to help deaden the sound.

Styrofoam.

We start with Styrofoam.

Let's see what we've got.

ISAAC: .

Whoa! Adding Styrofoam

actually makes the sound inside the box louder.

So what do you think is going to be even better than Styrofoam?

I think the wood, because when we were outside,

and we were sitting on the stone bench,

there was a lot of trees around us which was pretty much

blocking out the sound.

It was like absorbing the sound.

That looks about the same thickness.

Okay, they're going to test

each material at the same thickness.

That way they can be sure that any difference

in sound muffling comes from the material itself

and not just how thick it is.

ISAAC: Looks like it's .

Little better.

I think the carpet next.

Seems like it would absorb a lot of sound,

because it's, like, furry and stuff.

Put it in.

ISAAC: It's .

Carpet is also coming in at , same as the wood.

Let's try this.

It was about as well.

Still at .

Let's try cardboard.

It's .

, that's a little worse.

So we do not want to use

the cardboard or the Styrofoam.

So, now, you can pick which two materials you want to use

to cover the whole inside of the box.

Meanwhile...

let's call our cookie creators.

[phone ringing]

Hello? Hey, Famous Amos.

How the spinach cookie?

Good, it's awesome.

Listen, for the final part of your challenge,

your cookies have to pass muster

with... the experts.

What's "the experts"?

The cookie experts: Marissa's boss

and a couple of kids we found.

Okay, Ruff, you're making me nervous right now.

Come on, Sterling!

Where's that cookie spirit?

Two, one...Two, one... Two, one...

Here we go.

Cross your paws, Blossom.

Yeah, it has, like, a crunch on top,

but then the middle is all chewy. Middle's chewy.

I got a huge chunk of spinach.

Brian's not liking the spinach.

Overall, are you happy with this batch?

Yes. I think it's our best.

By combining the spinach with our combination of spices,

white chocolate chips...

We're not masking the spinach,

but we chose flavors to pair with it that would

really bring out the best of the spinach.

Okay, guys, my boss is waiting. Let's get upstairs.

Okay, the original noise level in the room was decibels.

Liza and Isaac need to get it down to decibels.

Now, they can choose two materials

for the sound-dampening helmet.

Yeah, let's put this in.

Up. It doesn't fit.

It's not fitting. Yeah.

Whoopsie! Guess we didn't get that right.

That's not going to fit.Let's use the carpet.

Can't use that.

We'll just get this out of the way.

So that leave us down with carpet and foam.

Plus, making it more comfortable as well. We're done.

LIZA: ...

ISAAC: One. ...one.

Whoa!Did you make it?

ISAAC: minus , .

We've done it!

That's even more than we needed.

Nice job, guys.Nice!

You did it.

So if you go to a really loud place,

just put a box on your head.

Here we are, Marissa's boss.

Oh, goodness.

We've been working all day

on our new cookie called

The Ruffles Delight.

We used a regular cookie base,

and then we just added some white chocolate chips.

And then, we put in a little bit of spinach.

Yes, describe the ingredients,

describe the process.

Whet the palate.

Judge number one.

It's good.

He likes it.Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Thumbs up?Nice.

Two thumbs up!

Judge number two.

It smells good. Likes the smell.

Thumbs up?

One thumb. That's all we needed.

Awesome. And judge number three.

And now, Marissa's boss.

Thumbs up. It's there! Thumbs up, a little nervous.

Just a little, uh, wavered and then...

extended. I like it.

See you back at Studio G, Ruff.

That was awesome. See you guys!

You guys did excellent.

Thanks. Bye.Thanks for everything, bye.

Dude, I got to try this on.

Oh, try it on.

[laughs]: This is so weird.

See you back at Studio G, Ruff. Bye!

Liza! Liza, watch out for those trash cans!

[Isaac and Ruff exclaim]

Well, it's just the four of us here in Studio G.

Talia, Bethany, myself

and, you know, the mysterious voice.

VOICE: Does the "G" stand for "garage"?

I'm going to ignore you on that one.

And I'm welcoming back my FETCHers.

First, the twosome who made a pretty

kooky cookie: Brian and Sterling.

They know exactly how loud my voice is now.

And now, it's Isaac and Liza.

Go down.

[laughter]

Howdy, guys!

Well, as the eraser said to the box of sharpened pencils,

"You've got some good points."

VOICE: Do not tell another joke, ever again.

Isaac, Liza,

I challenged you make a soundproof box

and you were up to the challenge.

I have here...Oh, yeah.

a soundproof box built exactly to the specs

that you two worked out.

Now, in theory, the box filters out

noise from the outside.

So if I put it on, and I still hear that voice,

then we'll know it's coming from inside my head

and I've gone crazy.

So here we go.

[Bethany laughs]

I can't hear a thing.

VOICE: Ruff, once you send Charlene the cookies,

sing her a cookie love song.

[Ruff screams]

[laughs]

I still heard the other voice!

What? Ruff, maybe it's

something in your ear.

Something in my ear?

Blossom, what are you doing?

What's with the tweezers?

Hey! Wait a minute.

What is that?

[gasps]: It's a flea.

Hello. My name is Fleape.

If you don't mind, I'd like to go back here.

Ba-bing!I've been getting

romance advice from a flea?

That's kind of embarrassing.

Oh, well, anyhoo,

you have clearly built a soundproof box.

Nice!

points.

Yeah!Nice!

Sterling, you tried spinach for the first time.

BRIAN: Want to spit it out?

Brian...I think he said, "Spinach."

You took time to consider the opinion of dogs

when it comes to vegetables.

That's good for points for each of you.

Yeah!Nice!

But as the saying goes, the proof is in the pudding.

Please deliver your batch of cookies

to the mailbox.

Chet, you're an unbiased rodent.

I trust your judgment.

You will be the taste tester of these cookies.

[sniffing]Okay, he's eating it.

And now he's going away and coming back with thumbtacks.

What's that, Blossom?

There's thumbtacks?

points! Yeah! Yeah!

Nice, guys! Yeah!

Which brings your total to points!

Nice!

But is that all the points a dog,

or in this case, a mouse can give?

ALL: No.

What time is it?

ALL: Bonus points!

Today's five points go to the contestant

who clearly enjoyed the fruits of his labor.

Especially when those fruits are cookies.

I'm now getting the taste of the spinach.

RUFF: Sterling, with points

you're today's daily winner.

Now, Sterling, if you want a vegetable with good hearing,

get yourself an ear of corn.

Ha! I get it.

FLEAPE: I told you to stop.

I have here two identical ears of corn.

Under one,

an amazing prize.

Under the other, something as exciting

as kibble in a cookie.

Which is it going to be?

Corn "A" or corn "B"?

"B.""B."

You will find your prize in the mailbox.

Go get it.All right.

FLEAPE: What did he get? Fleape...

It looks like a lot of really,

really good-tasting things.

It's kibble in a cookie!

[FETCHers jeering]

Ruff Ruffman's Kibble Crunch.

Enjoy!

Right, Ruff, here, you can have these.

Okay, maybe I don't want to eat these kibble cookies, either.

Well, that is our show!

Tune in next time and we'll see if I have ticks, too.

But until then, I'm Ruff Ruffman.

See you, FETCHers!

Bye!Bye, Ruff!

Adios, my friends.Bye.

Oh, I sent Charlene cookies made out of vegetables.

I can't believe I've been listening to a flea.

[gasps]

Charlene says she got the cookies

and now, she wants to meet me by the fence!

Yes!

What?

[gasps]

"Covered in fleas"?!

Wait a minute, I just have one flea.

Fleape, you're alone, right?

Eh, not exactly.

[Ruff scatting]

♪ FETCH!

♪ With Ruff Ruffman

[Ruff scatting]

♪ FETCH!

♪ With Ruff Ruffman

♪ FETCH!