History WesternAnimation / FetchWithRuffRuffman

* BigFun: Ruff is defintely this, while being a slightly chubby dog who's a sucker for Chinese food, he's also an energetic game show host.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Ruff may not like cats, but he doesn't discriminate orphaned animal; even if they're kittens, as shown in "Reducing The Calories and Cats in Your Life: where Ruff gets moist-eyed seeing Bridget and Madi bottle-feed kittens.

* VocalEvolution: In Season 1, Ruff's voice is lower-pitched than usual, starting in Season 2 and from each season it gets higher. The Ruff Ruffman Show has his voice taken the highest degree. In the "Humble Media Genius" video his voice is normal-pitched.

* EvenNerdsHaveStandards: Not really a "too nerdy" example, But even though Ruff's nephew Glen may be a self-obsessed nerd, In the Humble Media Genius video "Hang up and Drive", even he knows [[SafeDrivingAesop no one should get distracted and multitask while driving]], helps set Ruff straight to he can beat Spotnik in a racing video game, and offers to be his co-pilot at the end of the video.
* EverybodyCries: In season 3, episode 2, Ruff, Blossom, and Chet all cry after watching Sam and Sammy's PSA for the Animal Rescue League of Boston due to thinking that it was beautiful.

* StressVomit: In "How Not to Impress The Press", Well, [[DownplayedTrope Blossom holds it back]], but her understandable reaction to seeing Ruff getting turned into a [[BodyHorror Turkey Vulture complete with a gross appearance and how his voice changed to sounding parrot-like]] is ''nearly'' vomiting from of the horrific sight.

** In "It's Ruff in the Ring", Chet thinks the Canadian Holiday "Boxing Day" is about the sport "Boxing" and as a result, Ruff gets [[TheBoxingEpisode booked against his will into a match against the boxing champion]] "Whipped Cream Mcgee". God knows NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what would've BludgeonedToDeath happened to him if it weren't for those challenges.

'''Ruff:''' That's a shame. Did I tell you Blossom here eats a lot of sushi and she swears by it? but I like my Chinese food.\\

* StressVomit: In "How Not to Impress The Press", Well, [[DownplayedTrope Blossom holds it back]], but her understandable reaction to seeing Ruff getting turned into a [[BodyHorror Turkey Vulture complete with a gross appearance and how his voice changed to sounding parrot-like is ''nearly'' vomiting from of the horrific sight.

In March 1st 2024, WinBackTheCrowd Ruff and Chet returned in new 5 Humble Media Genius videos, teaching viewers about Artificial intelligence with the help of a new blue female cat named Lupine.

* KindheartedSimpleton: It's clear that Ruff isn't the smartest dog in the pack, but he always has good intentions at heart.

** In "It's Ruff in the Ring", Chet thinks the Canadian Holiday "Boxing Day" is about the sport "Boxing" and as a result, Ruff gets [[TheBoxingEpisode booked against his will into a match against the boxing champion]] "Whipped Cream Mcgee". God knows [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what would've]] [[BludgeonedToDeath happened to him]] if it weren't for those challenges.

* ScreamDiscretionShot: Happens in "Ruff's Big Break" when Ruff injured himself in the [[ColdOpen cold open]], as we only Blossom cringing the moment we hear Ruff cry out in pain.

* RogerRabbitEffect

** Le Fleape, the flea on Ruff's body also has this.

* BrainFreeze: Happens to Ruff in "Just Toying With Ruff" as he eats Ice Cream while getting interviewed about his "Action to the Maxion" action figure's poor reception ("as a result of Ruff getting injured trying to mimic it last season, no less"). The Challenges for that episode are to built Ruff a new toy ,and to do a news Report about Brain Freezes.
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Temporarily happened to Ruff in "Ye Olde Colonial Episode" after blowing a fuse. This happens again at the end of the "An Orange Dog Goes Green" Humble Media Genius video after Blossom turns off the lights as a way to save electricity.

* JustGotOutOfJail: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] for Scruff, as Season 5 shows that he's recently released from Prison, And in the episode "That Sculpture Isn't Yours, It's Mime'" reveals he's living under Grandma Ruffman's custody, based on what we've seen in that episode; other than competing against Ruff in charades, He seems to be doing well on parole.

** In "It's Ruff in the Ring", Chet thinks the Canadian Holiday "Boxing Day" is about the sport "Boxing" and as a result, Ruff gets [[TheBoxingEpisode booked against his will into a match against the boxing champion]] "Whipped Cream Mcgee". God knows what would've happened to him if it weren't for those challenges.

* JustGotOutOfJail: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] for Scruff, as Season 5 show that he's recently released from Prison, And in the episode "That Sculpture Isn't Yours, It's Mime'" reveals he's living under Grandma Ruffman's custody.

** Le Fleape, the flea in Ruff's ear also has this.

** In "It's Ruff in the Ring", Chet thinks the Canadian Holiday "Boxing Day" is about the sport "Boxing" and as a result, Ruff gets [[TheBoxingEpisode booked against his will into a match against the boxing champion]] "Whipped Cream Mcgee". God knows [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what would've]] [[BludgeonedToDeath happened to him]] if it weren't for those challenges.

In March 1st 2024, [[[[WinBackTheCrowd Ruff and Chet returned in new 5 Humble Media Genius videos]], about Artificial intelligence with the help of a new blue female cat named Lupine.

In 2020, PBS introduced another short-form series, ''Team Hamster!'', [[AudienceAlienatingEra in which said hamsters have to solve problems created by Ruff when he screws up in his role as a school janitor]].

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: Season 1 had a few unique traits to it. For starters, the half time quiz show was 90 seconds instead of 60, there were occasions where Fetchers earned more than 100 points in a given episode, some episodes played around with the number of contestants who stayed behind in the episode: The most being 4, and the lowest being one (in future seasons, the number was generally 2, sometimes 3 if the episode was one where a fetcher was given a solo challenge). Ruff is also missing his sidekicks (Blossom wouldn't be introduced until next season), and there was only one prize for the winner of an episode, which they could either keep or give to someone else. Also, the penultimate episode was a standalone, still had all 6 fetchers out of studio , but no different than just beyond adding to the point tallies, where as every other season used it to set up the finale in some way. This is all justified, as it was the first season and they were still trying to figure out what worked.

* CatsAreSuperior: Blossom is [[HypercompetentSidekick much more intelligent and capable]] than Ruff. And in season three, she becomes ''his'' boss.

** Subverted; as season 2 progresses, Ruff slowly loses his stance on cats to where he asks Blossom to come back for the next season.

* CatsAreMean: Subverted; as season 2 progresses, Ruff slowly loses his stance on cats to where he asks Blossom to come back for the next season.
** And in season three, Blossom becomes his boss.

** And there's the one that Sterling does when [[spoiler: the train with the other Fetchers (and the guy in the Ruff costum) leave him and Brian in the rain...[[ItMakesSenseInContext and with Ruff's Chinese Food.]]]]

** And in season 3, he pets his entire house Dingy Grey, thinking it was ''Singy'' Grey.

* HostileShowTakeover: At the end of season 3.

* PubescentBraces: Several contestants are shown to wear braces.

* SanitySlippage: Ruff [[DownplayedTrope clearly goes through]] ''some'' form of this in "Ruff Needs His Herring Checked" as a result of hearing a mysterious voice no one else can hear; telling him to bake 'Brussels Sprouts' Cookies to impress Charlene for her birthday, to the point where Issac and Liza were sent to meet an audiologist while Sterling and Brian visited a cookie company. Ruff snaps out of it when he learns that the voice is coming from 'Fleape", a flea with a sultry Italian accent who resides on Ruff's Body.

* DontTryThisAtHome: In Season 5 Episode 3, Marco and Shreya go to Disney's Animal Kingdom and, as part of their challenge, need to match animal droppings with the animals that left them. The samples they had were coated in a clear shellac so they could be handled safely, and Ruff had this to say (with large animated "Warning - Don't Try This At Home" signs in the background):

* PubescentBraces: Anna and Brian from season one are shown to wear braces in the second episode "Good Dancing and Bad Breath".

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