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Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman
Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, sometimes shortened as Fetch!, is a children's television series for children ages 6–12 on PBS during the PBS Kids Go! block of educational programming. It is a game show/reality show that is hosted by an animated anthropomorphic dog named Ruff Ruffman who dispenses challenges to the show's real-life contestants. The series ran for five seasons and 100 episodes from May 29, 2006 to November 4, 2010 on PBS, with 30 contestants in that time. In June 2010, WGBH announced that the series would end due to lack of funding. In June 2008, the series received its first Emmy for Best Original Song for its theme.
Seasons
1. 3-2-1 Blast Off!
Air Date: 2006-05-29
While Ruff Ruffman scrambles to get ready for the first episode, Anna, Julia, and Khalil go on a hunt for all nine planets in a scale model of the Solar System scattered throughout the "lovely city of Boston". Taylor, Noah, and Brian stay in Studio G (Ruff's garage).
2. Good Dancing and Bad Teeth
Air Date: 2006-05-29
Ruff Ruffman sends Julia and Khalil to learn how to dance the waltz, while Anna and Brian investigate whether dog mouths are cleaner than human mouths. Noah and Taylor stay behind.
3. How To Get Out Your Inner Hip Hop
Air Date: 2006-05-29
Anna learns hip hop dance, and Noah, Khalil, and Julia cook for zoo animals. Taylor and Brian stay behind.
4. Cats? I Thought You Said Kites!
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Noah and Brian built a kite to deliver a dog biscuit, and Taylor and Anna attempt to teach cats to fetch. Julia and Khalil stay behind.
5. Ye Olde Colonial Episode
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6. Saturday Night With A Slight Fever
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Taylor, Brian, and Noah are required to make a music video with some easily-recognizable stars - their grandparents- while staying under a budget. Anna, Julia, and Khalil stay behind at Studio G.
7. To Bee or Not to Bee
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Ruff gets stuck in a bee costume when filming an advertisement for FETCH!. Brian and Khalil learn to be beekeepers, while Julia and Anna learn to windsurf. Taylor and Noah stay in Studio G.
8. B.L.T. For Breakfast?
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Ruff must sell his new beverage. Brian braves a day as a short-order cook in a local diner, while Taylor, Khalil, and Noah design a new ice-cream flavor with ingredients that start with the letters B, L, and T. Anna and Julia stay at the Studio.
9. The Mystery of the Missing Thing in the Haunted Castle
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Ruff forces the kids to retrieve a lost invention in the castle of inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr.
10. This Old... Lemonade Stand
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Ruff accidentally reduces the show's budget to 13¢. Norm Abram, one of the hosts of This Old House, another program on PBS, teaches Anna and Noah to build a lemonade stand. Anna and Noah must also test thermal insulation to sell lemonade as a fundraiser. Meanwhile, the rest stay in Studio G and help bail Ruff out with his financial problems.
11. It's Raining Cats and Dogs
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Ruff is confused when a weather forecast predicts clear skies, but there is thunder. Taylor learns to forecast the weather, conduct interviews, and give a live weather report in front of a greenscreen. The boys paint a mural in Jamaica Plain for the mayor of Boston. Julia and Anna stay at Studio G once more.
12. That Doesn't Float My Boat
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Ruff Ruffman floods the doghouse when trying to relax. Julia, Anna, and Khalil build a boat out of recycled trash, test it out and race in it. Taylor, Noah, and Brian stay behind.
13. Send in the Clowns
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It is revealed that Ruff wanted to be a clown, but was cheated out by Spot Spotnik (see character list). Julia, Taylor, Noah, and Anna build water balloon launchers for revenge. Brian spends the day with Circus Smirkus and learns how to be a clown. Khalil stays behind, alone.
14. Grandma Ruffman's Recipe for Success
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Under Grandma Ruffman's marketing advice, Khalil learns to be a stand-up comedian, and Taylor, Noah, and Brian cook Grandma Ruffman's recipes on a farm to learn about energy transfers in a New England food chain. Julia and Anna stay at Studio G.
15. Tryin' Chef
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Ruff is tired of his food. Taylor, Brian, Julia, and Khalil compete against each other as chefs - Iron Chef style to cook up new recipes for Ruff. Noah and Anna are left behind again, but help bail Ruff out.
16. Don't Put the Kart Before the Sea Lion
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Ruff is training for an interactive driving test monitored by the DMV, but crashes into a sea lion tank. Taylor trains sea lions; Julia helps in a pit crew for a junior go-karter. Anna, Khalil, Noah, and Brian stay behind.
17. Relaxin' with Ruff
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Ruff decides to calm down from the stresses of running a show. The kids learn to relax with yoga and to calculate heart rate (pulses in 15 sec * 4). Next, they mathematically measure their "fear factor" at Canobie Lake Park, an amusement park in New Hampshire.
18. Scat Cat, Scat
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A cat steals Ruff's kneeboard. Noah learns to kneeboard. The girls track down wild animals using various clues, especially scat. Khalil and Brian stay in the studio.
19. Ruff Ruffman Spaces Out
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The FETCHers go to space camp when the FETCH satellite breaks down.
20. The Dogcathalon Finale
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Three rounds of competition and one ultimate quiz will pit the FETCHers against each other. At last Anna was crowned FETCH! seasonal champion.
1. Ruff Ruffman Breaks the Mold
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It's the premiere of FETCH, Season 2! Ruff learns he has a new intern: Princess Blossom Pepper Doodle Von Yum Yum. One little detail... she's a CAT! If that isn't bad enough, he then accidentally sends a message to the press about his horrible mold problem, and now the health department is shutting down his show until further notice! Ruff immediately sends two FETCHers out to learn about germs (so he can sanitize his doghouse), and he sends two other kids to a chocolate factory to make candy (as a bribe for the health inspector). Will the new season be more than one episode long?
2. Ruff's Case of Blues in the Brain
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Ruff challenges Bridget and Mike to prove the urban myth that humans only use 10% of their brains. He sends Madi and Willie to take music lessons with Blue Man Group. Rosario and Nina stay behind.
3. You Lucky Dog
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Ruff enters Rosario, Nina and Mike into a soapbox derby race. He enters Bridget in a Chinese Dragon Boat race to improve his own bad luck. Madi and Willie stay behind.
4. Ruff's Big Break
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Ruff spins and dances on the fence outside the doghouse, and hurts his leg. He sends Bridget and Rosario to ease his fears about going to the hospital, and sends Mike and Willie to learn how to improve his balance. Nina and Madi stay behind.
5. The Mystery of DogTopia and Catlantis
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Ruff sends all the FETCHers to Misery Island to solve the mystery of what happened between dogs and cats in the lost civilization of Dogtopia and Catlantis.
6. Reducing The Calories and Cats In Your Life
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Ruff challenges Mike and Nina to make a healthier pizza and sends Bridget and Madi to volunteer as "kitty adoption counselors" at an animal shelter. Rosario and Willie stay behind.
7. I'm OK, You're Okra
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Ruff challenges Madi and Mike to prove that dogs have a soothing effect on people, and he sends Rosario and Nina to the Louisiana Bayou to learn how to make gumbo. Bridget and Willie stay behind.
8. The Small Fork Is For Dessert (Unless You're A Dolphin)
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Grandma Ruffman returns! Appalled by Ruff's manners, Grandma sends Rosario and Nina to meet an etiquette expert. She sends Willie to Florida to compete against Calvin the dolphin. Bridget, Mike, and Madi stay behind.
9. Roughing It With Ruff
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Fearing that he is being forced to live out in the wild, Ruff sends all the kids into the wilderness to meet with a survival expert to learn the ways of the woods.
10. Ruff's Bowling Is Going Downhill
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Rosario goes to the mountains to learn how to snowboard, and Bridget and Willie go to Michigan to build a better bowling machine. Mike, Madi, and Nina stay behind.
11. Mush If By Land, Mush Mush If By Sea
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In the first of this two-part episode, Willie and Nina embark on a race following Paul Revere's famous ride through the streets of Boston. Madi and Rosario go to Colorado in search of the Continental Divide. Bridget and Mike stay behind.
12. Still More Mush If By Land, Mush Mush If By Sea
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In the second half of this two-part episode, Madi and Rosario travel by dogsled and snowshoe to the Continental divide, while Nina and Willie warn the countryside (Boston suburbs) that the Redcoats are coming. Bridget and Mike are still in the studio. Technically there is no Half-time Quiz Show" in this episode (due to the fact that this was a "Part two" episode), but Ruff gave Bridget and Mike a task to complete for the same number of points.
13. Yippie Tie Yie Yay, Get Along Little Doggies
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Ruff is inspired by a dream about ranch dressing in a ten-gallon hat and sends all his FETCHers out west on a cattle drive.
14. Tape Loops and Loop-the-Loops
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Ruff challenges Mike and Madi to write a song for Grandma Ruffman; Bridget and Willie go to Disney World to design a rollercoaster. Rosario and Nina stay behind.
15. A Lobster Bake? Oh Buoy!
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Ruff challenges Nina and Willie to learn scuba diving to retrieve some stuff he lost. He then sends Bridget and Rosario out to learn about lobster trapping. Mike and Madi stay behind.
16. How to Get Dogs and Doggerel in Better Shape
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Ruff wants to impress Charlene, the poodle, so he sends Madi, Mike, and Willie to learn about getting fit. He sends Nina to learn the art of writing poetry. Bridget and Rosario stay behind.
17. Scruff Ruffman At Large!
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Ruff discovers that his evil twin, Scruff Ruffman, has pulled off a major art heist. Ruff sends Bridget, Rosario, and Nina down into a cave to recover the missing paintings. He challenges Madi to be a trapeze artist. Willie and Mike stay behind.
18. Take Me Out to the Fashion Show
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Ruff has two things that are mistakenly at the same time- throw the first pitch at a baseball game and go to Europe for a party for his fashion cousin, Helga. So, he hires someone to dress up like him and throw the pitch while he goes to Europe. He soon realizes he accidentally put his clothes in the trash and his trash in the dry cleaning. After the party, Helga tells Ruff he can no longer go to Europe unless he can get some fashion sense, and the Ruff costume was so big the pitch was thrown badly. Ruff sends Mike out to the ballpark to learn the science of pitching strikes, and he challenges Bridget, Madi and Rosario to create high fashion for dogs. Willie and Nina stay behind.
19. CSI Ruff
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Ruff's grand prize has been stolen! Ruff sends the all the FETCHers to a forensics lab to solve the crime.
20. The Grand Prizeless Grand Finale
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It's the grand finale and Ruff may be going to jail for stealing the FETCH Grand Prize! The kids compete in a series of elimination games to become the FETCH Grand Champion. Blossom disguises as Scruff, gets the grand prize fom Scruff's assistants and gives it to Ruff, meaning Ruff doesn't go to jail.
1. The Debut of Smell-O-Vision
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2. When Home Is A House of Cards
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3. Just Call Him Spot
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4. Mr. Ruffman Goes to Washington
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5. Mission Improbable
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6. How Not to Impress A Poodle's Mother
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7. There's Food Safety and Then There's Food Safety
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8. Do-Se-Dos and Do-Se-Don'ts
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9. The Dogvinci Code
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10. What's Bugging Ruff
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11. Will They Like The Show? It's A Shoe-In!
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12. Socket to Me
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13. Dog of the Rings
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14. Arrgh - All Me Eggs Are Cracked
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15. Feeling Sheepish Ruff?
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16. I'll Ruff and I'll Ruff and I'll Blow Your House Down
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17. The People Vs. Grandma Ruffman
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18. Just Toying with Ruff
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19. The Ol' Switcheroo
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20. FETCH! With Scruff Ruffman Finale: Ruff and Scruff: The Untold Story
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Grandma Ruffman does the beginning of this one. Ruff's twin brother Scruff takes control of the show, renames it as "FETCH! with Scruff Ruffman", and designs a series of elimination games for the contestants. After all the rounds, Jay becomes the champion and wins a Ruffman trophy, similar to trophy Mike won in Season 2. After the show, it turns out that FETCH! was canceled and Ruff was fired.
1. Season Four Is Canceled
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2. Don't Like Fencing? Try Fencing!
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3. The RuffMeal Needs More Roughage
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4. Ruff Pigs Out and Has a Whale of a Time
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5. Ruff's Just Fueling Around
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6. Finding Eight-Legged Tights Isn't Easy
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7. Ruff Rocks the (Environmentally Sustainable) House!
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8. Doggie Duties
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9. How Not to Impress the Press
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10. How to Break the Ice and Also Waddle On It
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11. Blossom Bawls While Ruff Has a Ball With Balls
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12. Ruff Bounces Back
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13. Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? It's ... Ruffmanman!
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14. Shrimp a la Cart
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15. Ruff Needs His Herring Checked
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16. Laser/Candid Camera
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17. Ruff's Yard Sale Makes A Racket
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18. Gearing Up for Getting Ruff's Goat
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19. How to Really Train Your Dog
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20. Fetch Finale IV: The Prophecy Fulfilled!
Air Date: 2009-10-15
As with previous seasons, Ruff designs elimination rounds for all the kids. Liza becomes the champion, and receives the Helmet of Victory. At the end of the episode, Ruff finds out that his parents are still alive.
1. Ruff Fetches The Fetchers
Air Date: 2010-10-04
On Season 5's first episode, Ruff is caught up trying to locate his long-lost parents, and forgets to choose his Season 5 contestants. When he does, he loses them on their way to Studio G. He also learns that a competitor show, Go Get It, has come on the market which is actually a rip-off of Fetch.
2. Game Show Isle
Air Date: 2010-10-05
Ruff finds his lost FETCHers on a mysterious island, known as Game Show Island. In order for them to leave the island, they must find relics from "The Fabulous Four" gameshow by sundown. Meanwhile, Ruff finds clues on where his parents are.
3. You Can't Teach An Orange Dog New Tricks
Air Date: 2010-10-06
Ruff finds out that his cousin, Bluff Ruffman is sending animals to the doghouse. Ruff sends Shreya and Marco to Disneyworld in Florida to learn how to care for animals. Meanwhile, Rubye is sent to Las Vegas to learn magic tricks from Penn and Teller. Jay, Emmie, and Marc stay behind.
4. The Ol' Shell Game
Air Date: 2010-10-07
Ruff learns from Crush, a turtle in Finding Nemo that there is trouble going on with the turtles. So Ruff sends Marco and Shreya go to Florida to learn about turtles and help with the turtle hatchlings on the beach. Meanwhile, Jay appears on a radio game show. Marc, Emmie and Rubye stay behind.
5. Ruffman Manor Is Haunted
Air Date: 2010-10-11
Ruff inherits Ruffman Manor, but finds out it is haunted. Ruff receives an invitation to go to Ruffman Manor, but instead sends out all the kids to spend the night to see if it is truly haunted.
6. It's Ruff In The Ring
Air Date: 2010-10-12
Chet signs Ruff up for a boxing match versus Whipped Cream McGee. Ruff sends out Shreya to learn how to box, and sends out Marc and Marco to meet a helmet designer to design a boxing helmet for Ruff. Rubye, Emmie and Jay stay behind.
7. A Whole Flock Of Cheese
Air Date: 2010-10-13
Ruff wants to send a letter to his parents. So Ruff sends Emmie out to make her own cheese and sends out Rubye and Jay to meet a carrier pigeon. Marc, Marco, and Shreya stay behind.
8. How Much Frosting Can You Bear?
Air Date: 2010-10-14
Ruff sends Rubye and Jay to engineer a bear-proof picnic basket. Shreya, Emmie, Marc, Marco compete in a wedding cake bake-off. No Fetcher stays behind.
9. The Legend Of Ruffman's Gold
Air Date: 2010-10-18
Ruff's ancestor Gus Ruffman is believed to have hidden gold in an abandoned mine somewhere in Colorado. He sends Marc, Jay and Emmie to find the mine, and most importantly, find the gold! Marco, Rubye, & Shreya stayed behind.
10. Who Wants To Trade For Some Old Tracks?
Air Date: 2010-10-19
Emmie and Marco analyze fossilized dinosaur footprints out in the field, while Rubye and Shreya learn how to make a good trade. Marc, & Jay stayed behind.
11. Eureka Is Not a Brand of Dog Food
Air Date: 2010-10-20
Emmie and Shreya learn how to build a hovercraft and then compete in a fetching race. Ruff sends Jay and Marco to invent a device that will make his life easier. Marc & Rubye stayed behind.
12. That Sculpture Isn't Yours, It's Mime
Air Date: 2010-10-21
Ruff sends Emmie and Marc to learn how to mime. Then he sends Jay and Rubye to learn how to build sculptures that move. Marco & Shreya stayed behind.
13. Look What the Dog Dug Up!
Air Date: 2010-10-25
Ruff believes a sarcophagus he found in his backyard contains a cursed Egyptian mummy, so he sends the kids to a museum to carbon date the mummy to prove his hunch. Along the way, the kids enjoy an Egypt-theme amusement park.
14. Ruff Follows His Dream
Air Date: 2010-10-26
Ruff wants to make a recent dream ---in which he was flying with an elephant---come true.So he sends Marco to an elephant sanctuary to learn how to care for elephants, and has Marc and Rubye learn to skydive indoors.
15. Birds Are Handy!
Air Date: 2010-10-27
Ruff's rock-star cousin Rüf Rüfman wants songbirds on his next album, so Ruff sends Emmie and Rubye to the field to work with songbirds. Ruff also sends Marc and Shreya to learn how to dance with their hands.
16. Wolfing Down Some Barbeque
Air Date: 2010-10-28
To prepare for a family-reunion barbecue that will include distant wolf relatives, Ruff sends Emmie and Rubye to Yellowstone National Park to learn about wolves, and Ruff sends Jay and Marc to South Carolina to learn about Southern barbecue.
17. Go Belugas Go!
Air Date: 2010-11-01
FETCH! competes with Go Get It!, the rival cat game show, in a synchronized swimming match, so he sends Marco, Shreya, and Rubye to learn about synchronized swimming, and he sends Marc to Mystic Aquarium to learn how beluga whales are adapted for the water.
18. Snoop Dog
Air Date: 2010-11-02
FETCH!'s rival game show Go Get It! is produced by a mysterious organization called PURRS. Ruff sends all six kids to meet with a team of private investigators and learn how to become gumshoes. Ruff and the FETCHers then try to use their sleuthing skills to get to the bottom of who is behind PURRS.
19. Long Glen Silver and the Pursuit of the Golden Fetchie!
Air Date: 2010-11-03
Ruff's nephew Glen has been playing a pirate-themed video game on the Go Get It! website. Through this game he's somehow gotten into the Go Get It! mainframe computer, and discovers that they're hunting for something called The Golden Fetchie. Ruff wants to find the FETCHie first, so he sends the kids off to the island. And at Glen's request, he makes them dress up as pirates.
20. The FETCH! Finale
Air Date: 2010-11-04
Ruff has learned that PURRS, the organization that runs Go Get It!, is an evil cat organization! PURRS plans to brainwash the entire country with a device that makes everyone think they're cats. PURRS is also responsible for the disappearance of Ruff's parents. After learning that PURRS headquarters is hidden somewhere inside a water park, Ruff sends the FETCHers to find a way inside. The HQ of PURRS is Studio P, Go Get It's Studio (Only a remodeled Studio G in production terms). The season finale was incorporated during the whole episode and the final winner of the show is determined.
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Rating
7.8/10
Release Date
2006-05-29
Episodes
100 (5 seasons)
Status
Ended
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