YMMV / FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman

• Awesome Music:
  • The theme song is very catchy, has great vocals, and is an upbeat and jazzy way to explain the show's premise.
  • Season 3's trailer has Ruff provide his own cover of "September".
    Ruff: Ba-de-yah, FETCH is in September!
  • There's this catchy rap that promotes Season 5.
  • The Humble Media Genius Music Video Just Drive! helps teach viewers how to drive safely. At the end of the song has a great Shout-Out to Beyoncé!
    Ruff: Look out, Beyoncé!
  • Ruff showing off his musical prowess in the Humble Media Genius video "Getting the Most out of the Internet", by singing in 5 different genres. He even does the classic Mic Drop at one point.
  • Ruff and Lupine singing in the Algorithms music video.
• Broken Base: When Lupine is featured in the 2024 "Humble Media Genius" videos as Ruff's new friend, many viewers wanted Blossom to return.
• Cargo Ship:
  • A throwaway gag in season 1 ended up pairing Ruff with the Fetch 3000.
  • There was also the joke at the end of one episode involving Ruff being forced to cuddle and kiss a chew toy shaped like a golfing cat. And saying "What a pretty puss-puss." Multiple times. Even the recording of the relative of his that gave the instructions on a vinyl record laughed.
• Cult Classic: Among kids who watched PBS Kids in the mid to late 2000's.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Blossom becomes for viewers, due to her being The Silent Bob with some shades of being The Comically Serious.
• Fanfic Fuel: For unknown reasons, there are various "Fetchertale" artworks on Deviantart which are parodies of Ruff Ruffman with Undertale.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The episode "Ruff Pigs Out and Has a Whale of a Time" (which aired September 17, 2009) features orca trainer Dawn Brancheau, who was killed by an orca five months after the episode aired.
  • Any joke about the show having a tight budget becomes this when one of the main reasons it got cancelled was lack of funding.
• Nausea Fuel: Ruff's extremely gross appearance as a Turkey Vulture in "How Not to Impress the Press", along with how his voiced changed into sounding bird-like and would often Squawk. Just... Yuck. Poor Blossom is rendered nauseated at the horrific sight.
  • Also, the Skunk accident Ruff had in the season 3 Premiere, which is such a humiliating way to start the third season no less! He gets better near the end with a more realistic method, but still...
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • A major one in the episode "How Not to Impress the Press" when Ruff becomes a Vulture can freak viewers out. The fact that Ruff's voice changed into sounding very cringy and Parrot-like as a vulture does not help at all. Poor Blossom was on the verge of vomiting when this happened to him. Thankfully, at the very end of the episode, the cream that Ruff mixed on the stove (the one that turned Ruff into a vulture) wore off, turning him back to his old self off-screen, Until he accidentally turns himself into one again right before the episode ends, Although it happens off-screen, he thankfully turned back to normal by the time "How to Break the Ice and Also Waddle on It" aired, and never turned into another animal again.
  • Any Continuity Nod may not help either. In the Season 5 episode "It's Ruff in the Ring", Ruff's Calendar has images of him as a vulture. And when you reach the final question of this Humble Media genius Quiz, You'll see three photos of Ruff as a scavenger bird◊.
• Periphery Demographic: The witty writing and the story arcs in each season, as well as the genuinely fun challenges, made the show popular with older viewers.
• Tear Jerker: In the first episode of season five, a continuity error is fixed in the most heartbreaking way possible. Ruff reveals the the last thing his mother made for him before her disappearance along with his father was a homemade rope bone. Blossom is confused, saying that a "Good Luck from Mom" balloon and note were seen in the pilot episode of Fetch (which is true; it's seen in the first scene of the pilot). Ruff discloses miserably to a shocked and saddened Blossom that he forged his mother's "Good luck" note out of grief that she and his father couldn't celebrate his first big break with him.
• The Woobie: Ruff, where to even begin with him, his parents were M.I.A. for most of his life, most of his relatives don't give him any respect (except for his Great-Uncle and occasionally his nephew), and he's constantly getting gaslighted by Blossom and Chet on several occasions.
  • While we don't know how old Ruff's sister Roxy was when their parents disappeared, let alone how she's dealt with it due to her never appearing in person, one can still spare a little bit of sympathy for her as well.
  • Jerkass Woobie in the case of Scruff; being Ruff's twin brother, he was also a puppy when their parents disappeared. Though there is no info as to whether this played a role in his becoming a criminal (and if it did, it doesn't justify his crimes), one can't help but feel a little bit sorry for him too.

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