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''FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman'' (2006-2010) is a [[PBS]] show that is part game show, part parody of game shows, and part reality TV (the children who take the roles of contestants actually have to go out and do something, ranging from adventures in space camp to working out a "haunted castle", but they also have interactions with the titular dog and each other inside a sort of hub for the show). It is also a [[Spiritual
[[Hilarity
Each episode generally follows a standard format, with the introduction of the six contestants. These change each season, but are generally middle-school aged kids. Ruff sends some of them (and occasionally all of them) out on various challenges. The contestants who stay behind have to answer trivia questions about the challenges during the Half-Time Quiz Show. At the end of the show, each contestant is awarded points, leading up to the final episode in each season and the crowning of another Grand Champion.
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* [[Actor
* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right|The Archaeologist Was
* [[As Long as It Sounds
** Le Fleape, the flea in Ruff's ear also has this.
* [[Arson, Murder, and
* [[Big
* [[Blessed Are the
* [[Brand X]]: Ruff insists that every product on the show be branded with [[Large Ham|pictures of himself]].
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: In an episode towards the end of the fifth season, Ruff has his Fetchers become private investigators and they infiltrate the headquarters of P.U.R.R.S., the Pussycat Underground Rather Rotten Society and the group responsible for the rip-off show ''Go Get It!'' Inside the headquarters, they discover a grocery list written by one of the members of P.U.R.R.S. that reads Get Milk. Get Tuna. [[Take Over the World]].
** Also used earlier in season 5 when Grandma Ruffman has the Fetchers make a picnic basket to keep out squirrels, chipmunks and grizzly bears
* [[Cats Are
** And in season three, Blossom becomes his boss.
** Even {{spoiler|Tom and Trixie}} averted it {{spoiler|by turning out to actually be Ruff's long-lost parents in disguise}}.
* [[Chekhov's
* [[Comm
* [[Continuity Nod]]: True to form, in later seasons there are stuff that's mentioned in past seasons. The season premier for the 4th Season mentions different objects that Ruff had in his doghouse and mentions other obscure facts from Season 2 and 3 (one of them being that pineapples float).
* [[Cliff
* [[Courtroom
* [[Cute
* [[Deadpan
* [[Disembodied
* [[Dogs Are Dumb]]: He gets a few facts wrong, but Ruff pretty much averts this.
** The NASA episode ramps this [[Up to
* [[Duct Tape for
* [[Edutainment Show]]
* [[Evil
* [[Excited Kids' Show
* [[Expository Theme
* [[Eye
* [[Fat
* [[Fear of
* [[Female Feline, Male
* [[Final Exam
* [[Adobe Flash|Flash
* [[Follow the
* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: In a Season 3 episode, one of the challenges was for two FETCHers (Jay and Noel) to live each other's lives. For Noel, this meant playing guitar and playing lacross. For Jay, it meant placing makeup on Noel's sisters...and wearing a cheerleader outfit.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Chet. He made an engine that was powered out of Ruff's leftover pineapple-liver shakes from Season 1...but has no idea how to file.
* [[Heavy Metal Umlaut|Heävy Mëtal Ümlaut[[Category:TV Series]]]: Rüf Rüfmün, Ruff's Swedish rock star cousin.
* [[He Who Must Not Be
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: <s>Glen</s> '''Glendalf'''
** [[Shout-
* [[Hostile Show
* [[Insistent
** Although in the Season 2 premiere he admits that the "G" actually means "Garage".
* [[I Read That As|I Spoke That
* [[I Thought It
** It goes into hilarious proportions in Season 5. After Ruff and Blossom lose a game of charades when Ruff couldn't tell that Blossom was a blue jay, Ruff asks Chet if he can do one. In response Chet gets some blue paint and paints a picture of Jay, {{spoiler|Winner of Season 3}} and paints it blue.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Scruff has this. He says hello to Grandma Ruffman when she appears in one episode, got a replacement trophy for the winner of Season 3 and {{spoiler|when Ruff accidentally got sent to prison on Poodle Island, he finds the jail walls of Scruff's cell has pictures of the two when they were young and a poster for Ruff's show. The poster is justified as it actually hides the hole Scruff was digging to escape.}}
* [[Lampshade
* [[Large
* [[LARP]]: Glen is a LARPer and runs his introductory episode as one.
* [[Latin
* [[Legacy Character|Legacy Game Show
* [[Magical
* [[Medium
* [[Morality
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: In a challenge on season five, Marc and Shreya meet with a hand model who calls them pretty much any names starting with "M" or "S" other than their own.
* [[Name's the
* [[90% of Your
* [[Only Sane
* [[Overly Long
** Lampshaded by Ruff several times, who usually just calls her Blossom or Blossom von Yum-Yum, since according to him, if he took the time to say her full name every time he talked to her, the show would end too quickly.
** Blossom's evil sister "Le Purr" also has this. Her real name is Duchess Petunia Cupcake von Yum-Yum.
* [[Real Life Writes the
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Some episodes have boys dressing up in female outfits. Jay in Season 3 wore a cheerleading outfit (but it had shorts) and in the Superhero episode of Season 4, Bryan was with Bethany as part of the [[It Makes Sense in Context|"Indestructible Butterflies"]]
* [[Relax-O-
* [[Repetitive
* [[Rule of
* [[Shout-
** There was also a sly reference to a ''[[Sesame
** The haunted house episode in season 5 has a fair few ''[[Scooby
** Many of the episode titles have this. The episode "The [[Dog
* [[Sibling
* [[Similar Squad]]: Tom and Trixie (and their show: "Go Get It!") in Season 5.
* [[Five-Token Band|Six Token Band]]: Justified, as the kids are drawn from the Boston metro area, which is fairly diverse. Usually no mention is made of any of the contestant's ethnic background, other than the occasional mention of ethnic cuisine.
* [[Skyward
{{quote|Ruff: (as Ken L. Koff gets away) [[Say My Name|KEN L. KOFF!]]}}
** And there's the one that Sterling does when {{spoiler|the train with the other Fetchers leave him and Brian in the rain...[[It Makes Sense in Context|and with Ruff's Chinese Food.]]}}
** In the Season 3 finale, Ruff [[Say My Name|screams
* [[Slow
* [[Small Name, Big
* [[The
** Blossom is more like [[The Silent Bob]].
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Ruff still runs the show, even though Blossom is his boss.
* [[Story Arc]]: Each season has this. For example, in season four it was the quest for the [[Cool Helmet|Helmet of
* [[Take Over the World]]: The goal of P.U.R.R.S., the Pussycat Underground Rather Rotten Society.
* [[Talking Animal]]: Ruff, as well as any other members of the Ruffman family.
* [[Talking to Himself]]: Jim Conroy provides the voice for ''every'' animated character, with [[The Speechless|Blossom and Chet being the obvious
* [[The Tape Knew You Would Say
* [[Theme Tune
* [[The
* [[Title Theme
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Moo Shu pork for Ruff.
* [[Trope 2000]]: The Fetch 3000, the Go Get It 6000
* [[You Meddling
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