I used to love this show. I was pretty sick as a kid and I remember spending a few days in the hospital and missing a few episodes of Fetch. My mom emailed PBS and told them how much I loved the show and they sent me a care package with a note from Ruff Ruffman. It made me feel so special. This is still a comfort show for me.
i want a “where are they now” of some of the cast especially the original. i was in the 3rd grade when this came out and always dreamed of being casted.
There was a point in time growing up where my family didn't have cable. I simply cannot put into words how hard Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman carried me for two years. The days where my brother would hog out Xbox all day and I had nothing else to do, I could always rely on the show to entertain me, or the games on the website. I lived vicariously through the kids, solving the puzzles along with them and choosing my favorite contestants. I remember being so excited when Jay won as I'd been rooting for him the entire season. Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman will always have a special place in my heart and I'll always look back on my time with PBS fondly due to this one show. Jim Conroy did a kickass job voicing all these characters and making Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman an experience to remember.
I grew up with no cable at home. If i ever wanted to watch CN, nick, or mtv. I had to go to other people houses to watch. Which made a lot of awkward why are you in my house alone by parents. But at home pbs was goat. Till the news came on and i had to look through what else happens to be on.
You all are terrific. I didn't realize how many comments are on this thread. I can't respond to them all tho I would. I still voice Ruff here and there but you can't replace Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman. Season 1 will always be the most special because we were making it up as we went along. Usually, with animation, you will go line by line and read each a few times and so on. But the show had such a spontaneous improv atmosphere. Shot out of sequence and assembled by the editors. The amount of footage and dialogue they had to sift thru. The hours of work. Can't imagine how hard that was. I would go to Boston for a few weeks to shoot the in-studio scenes. The intro, the halftime quiz show, and then the points and endings. The challenges were already done. Then later I would be in a studio in NYC and watch the footage of their challenges while the microphone was on and just Mystery Science Theater my way through the scenes. If I gave them 5 min of useful commentary in an hour I was happy. You don't get that kind of freedom as a voice performer often. It will always be my fav. This has been incredible to sift thru. Thank you again and GOOOOOOOOOOOOO FETCH!!!!!!!
Awesome work. I hadn't heard about Fetch before this episode as it was a little after my time, but it was cool to learn about and seemed like such a fun and positive show for all involved. It's impressive how it was all able to come together so smoothly in the end.
I remember so vividly this show coming on at 3pm on PBS and it being the only show I religiously tuned in to as a kid. I hope you know I still hear Ruff Ruffmans voice in my head from time to time. Cheers :)
Fetch was my LIFE when I was younger, I was always fascinated by his Doghouse and the creative settings and appearances of Fetch’s scoreboards and halftime shows. Is there any place I can go to rewatch it?
Fetch with Ruff Ruffman was MY SHOW. I genuinely loved it so much as a kid and grew up with it. I learned so much and adored every minute of it. As a kid I didn't always know when "new seasons" would appear, but I would always watch when I knew about them. The show is genuinely so incredible, and it disappoints me so much that there's never been a revival of the show. I always thought that one of the coolest things that could ever happen in my life would be doing this show. It seems like genuinely a life changing experience. To this day it has left an impression on me, and it makes me sad it hasn't returned.
"Many of the young cast members knew that the true prize of each season was not the karate trophies or the helmets of victory, but rather the opportunity to be on the show itself and to meet their fellow contestants." So the real prize really WAS the friends they made along the way.
True true, tbh to 10 year old me, just getting to be on tv would’ve been a huge prize in and of itself! When I was in 3rd grade our school had a fundraiser where the state news channel showed up and filmed some of it, and I was so hyped that I got to be on tv, even though it was just a 4 second video of me walking in a line of kids and for half of that it was just the back of my head XD
THEY AREEE also man lowkey though i hope they bring this show back cause man the fucking hallowen episodes too were just TOP TIER o and to add on too I HOPE the next generation can experience something like ruff ruffman :""D but anywyas im jsut glad im not the only one who remembers this show vividly
As a huge Zoom fan I was devastated when it was cancelled, but Fetch with Ruff Ruffman really rekindled the magic from that show for me and gave me a new cast of kids to look up to. The season 1 cast has a special place in my childhood memories.
@@gwenmloveskpopandmore Yea Zoom was a little too chaotic for me to understand, but with Fetch it felt like it was its own school with a teacher (Ruff) and classroom (Studio G).
I used to be so embarrassed growing up because I didn’t have cable but, now that I’m older, I really cherish the fact that I got experience this show and many more on PBS kids.
I was a little bit embarrassed as a kid but at the same time it didn't bother me too much because I wasn't too familiar with cable unless I went to my God sister's house.
Same. But honestly, it was thanks to tv like this that I did really well in school. My parents were not supportive about school and we were poor, so we never got to go to museums or things like that. Everything I knew and learned outside of school came from PBS shows full of math and science. 🥲 I owe PBS a lot ❤️
Totally agree. Not to sound stuck-up or anything but looking back, the shows that were airing on Disney channel etc. at the time absolutely pale in comparison to PBS shows, they're vapid trash. I can't stomach any of those shows nowadays but PBS shows hold up *so well* that I regularly go back and watch them. I addition to Fetch!, shows like The Electric Company, Martha Speaks, Arthur, and probably half a dozen more that I'm forgetting were formative for me in helping me through school and even in developing my sense of humour. I can't imagine how different a person I would be if I didn't watch PBS growing up. All my love to PBS, for real
I kid you not, this show is the reason I chose my career path. I was 9 when I watched the episode. They did an episode about Ruff’s grandma regarding a note written in pen. They used a simple chromatography experiment in a forensics lab to identify the pen used. I’m 17 now, and am on my way to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Forensic Chemistry. Thank you Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman.
I remember being incapable of imagining Ruff’s human VA as a kid. His character was so life-like and filled with so much personality. Kudos to Jim Conroy.
Understandable. It's like knowing a faceless TH-camr did a face reveal but being unable to imagine the face at all without the knowledge that there was a voice actor for it in the first place.
Same!! Although i was pretty young when the show was on and i watched it (i was probably 5 or 6) so i didn't really understand the concept of voice actors yet.
I clicked on this video fearing that there would be hidden controversies, scandals, and just ugly and dark truths behind the show- just like lots of other childhood gems. Glad to know this isn’t the case.
i feel like this show never had a first episode like it just came out of nowhere one day and existed since randomly appearing, pbs just decided to continue airing it/didn’t know it was there
Well maybe for you but I vividly remember the first episode premiere as well as the promotions leading up to that first episode. It wasn't like a super crazy promotion on PBSKids but I still remember it all these years later. I can link you the video if you want to see it.
I will always respect this show for having an overarching story throughout Season 5 before plot-heavy cartoons like Gravity Falls or Steven Universe started.
Honestly I think its even more amazing that they all became what appears to be really good friends and I wonder if any of them are still in touch today
You know I expected a kid that was on the show to be in the comments saying, “I WAS A CONTESTANT!!!” but I totally did not expect you here, Mr. Conroy. I didn’t watch the show often, but you truly were the show’s heart and soul. Looking back, I hear a lot of Phil Hartman in Ruff.
I remember being an awkward 9 year old and crying because when I learned I couldn’t audition for Fetch because I didn’t live in Boston. I wish that TV like this still existed.
Same! I was so shocked to see that they're little kids. I guess since they were older than me at the time, I always rembered them being slightly older than me.
I learned so much from this show. Literally years after watching it I still remembered the things I learned like carbon dating, buoyancy, how a lever works, and so much more. This show will forever hold a place in my heart
Same. Despite my terrible-at-trivia memory, I've always been able to recall the year of the first moon landing (1969) simply because it was one of the details that led to one contestant winning the episode.
The production of this show is actually genius. They increasingly relied on animated segments as the show went on, ensuring that it could be continued as an animated show if the budget ran out.
Y’all remember when Grandma Ruffman was on trial, and the fetchers were her defense attorneys? I dunno what that had to do with science, but I REMEMBER it!
I loved this show. The science, the parody elements, the cartoon host, everything about it melded into a wonderful experience that absolutely made my day every time the show came on.
Fetch was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I heard about it after seeing a commercial for it on Cartoon Network. My brother despised educational shows and made fun of it at every chance. It got to the point where he would delete the new episodes I recorded from the DVR just to spite me. Granted I was also deleting his Southpark episodes for the same reason. Yeah this show was difficult to watch, you can't even get it on DVD.
@@emmab23791 it was in Netflix for a while, I remember binging the entire snow when I was younger. Although one season was missing and when I found out my heart broke 😭
I remember watching this show and being absolutely perplexed by how they animated Ruff in time to the kids' talking/questions/etc. I wanted to figure it out so badly
@@marthflores3515 I actually thought the animators were animating it in real-time. 😅 Obviously not possible but it was the only thing I could think of.
@@darkknight5541 No, the dialogue was most likely spontaneous; Jim was actually talking with the Fetchers, and they just called him Ruff, and they recorded the dialogue and animated accordingly.
I wanted to be on Fetch! SO BAD, I tried to convince my parents to let me spend the summer with my cousins in new jersey. Little west coast me didn't 100% understand that Boston is hundreds of miles away...
This show was EVERYTHING- I literally had dreams of being in this show with my friends and I couldn’t even fathom the idea of it being canceled because of low ratings. I hope it makes an awesome comeback though, as I think it’ll be really fun for kids now too.
Gosh, all the kids who spent some portion of their childhood with no cable probably knows this show *very* well. One of my (and my brother's) favorite kids shows to watch back then :')
Jesus Christ, I... I think I’m having a crisis man. Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman was a show I watched all the time growing up. It was the 2000s kid's equivalent to a Saturday morning cartoon. And now it’s being documented for people who’ve never even heard of it before... is this what it feels like to get old?
Fetch was my absolute favorite show as a kid. I was homeschooled and wasn't allowed to watch tv until I finished all my "classes" for the day. The only reason I managed to get through things on time (with my ADHD trying to sabatoge me) was because I needed to finish before Fetch started. This show taught me so much as a kid, it was so funny, and had some surprisingly heartfelt moments too. I remember one episode where the group was going to hang out with a scientist who studies spiders, and one of the girls started to panic due to her aracnophobia, and they immediately removed her from the group and found something else for her to do. It really touched me as a kid how, even though a lot of the show is the kids doing things that might make them uncomfortable, they didn't try to talk her into something that genuinely scared her.
Oh yea I remember that episode too! I also remember the episode where a girl fell off her bike and scraped her knee. She was bleeding and one of the fetchers in the group helped put a bandaid on her.
And there was one episode with SCUBA and Nina got scared, so she snorkled instead. She got the bonus points for the episode for still finding a way to participate! ETA: I was rewatching the Space Camp one, and they were doing a simulator. Julia was a little nervous, but she did end up trying it, had a great time, and earned bonus points for it. Meanwhile, Taylor said she was opting out, and that was that, no further comment. The show overall was great about getting the kids out of their comfort zones a little, while respecting their limits when it was too much of a stretch (Brian from Season 1's fear of bees comes to mind.)
As others have said, this show is an all-time classic for kids without cable. As a kid, I wished I could have been casted, and played along to the intermediary quizzes. The theme song still occupies at least 10% of my childhood memories. Great retrospective.
It’s cool to have been on the internet long enough to where the things you wished people would be talking about nostalgically are finally being discussed. But honestly, looking back on this show, it’s easily one of the best kids shows of all time in that I can actually see myself watching it nowadays entirely unironically. Excellent work breaking down this brilliant show Kevin!
Came home from college over the winter break, my mom and I ended up sitting down to watch it again for some reason. We realized it’s actually pretty engaging, even for adults. Definitely one of the best kid’s shows out there.
So much nostalgia here. As a nerdy, homeschooled kid who watched almost exclusively PBS, this show was probably my favorite. My sister and I used to watch the whole programming block, but we were really waiting for Fetch to come on. It’s wild how much I remember from this show even now. Grateful for everyone who worked on it.
I remember that show lol. I never thought about it much as a kid, but in hindsight, wasn't it weird af that the kid that had a crush on wordgirl was literally her brother? LMFAOOO
Yo my older sister used to have a little dance she would do whenever the theme came on, and would like run around our couch spin and all kinds of stuff. Nostalgic
@@gnerdeek5362 God it's been years since I saw Wordgirl so at first I was like "What Toby isn't her brother the fuck kind of show are you watching?" And then I remembered. I remembered. Why did they do Tj like that?
God I really didn't appreciate how creatively unique this show was as a kid. The amount of expression and energy in what is literally just a game show framing device is amazing.
I'm legit sitting here tearing up because there really was so much love and care put into this project. They genuinely cared about the cast of kids and made the experiences and learning so fun and entertaining to watch. And when ruff would tell you thank you for watching, it always really got to me. Like no, thank you Ruff Ruffman 🥲
Fun fact: The younger sister of Brian from season one was one of the kids who participated in Kid Nation, that one controversial reality show that had a bunch of kids run their own town. She actually showed up in a few episodes of Fetch, as well.
@@cripplynipplily Auditions for Season 6 had begun, though I can't remember if anyone had been cast. I'm pretty sure they had the six fetchers, though.
I submitted an audition tape (even tho I didn’t leave anywhere near where the show was filmed) and was convinced I would get cast only for the show to end
Also the fact that shows aren't made to be educational anymore. Executives and corporate leaders believe that kids aren't smart enough to understand various topics as it's clear that most shows explain virtually everything. I would love for new education shows because ruff ruffman was genuine in its ability to teach with limited funding of certified programs and kids didn't need to truly act for the camera.
@@Ari180_RE exactly this kids content only has the primary focus of money now. Yeah it might have still been money then but they also prioritised learning and interactivity. ngl one of the best kids shows to date was nina and the neurons - it was entertaining, presented science in a really fun and engaging way, and had cute funny animated cohosts that also helped keep kids watching. That show is the primary reason i grew up loving science in general so much and its kind of worrying that current kids arent getting the same opportunity to find something they love
Fetch was legitimately one of the best bits of reality tv I’ve ever seen. Educational, creative, bond-forming. It was everything I was taught that reality tv couldn’t be.
Hey! I animated some of those Ruff Ruffman: Humble Media Genius bits. Fun fact, a handful of those were made at Flaming Medusa Animation studio in Cincinnati, OH (and if you're reading this Darcy - hiii!!)
I grew up watching this show, and I have to say, this was one of the reasons I developed a passion for science and I am a biology grad student now :) Eternally grateful to have grown up with this amazing show
I watched this religiously as a kid. I got emotionally invested in Ruff's journey. The "haunted" castle episode was my absolute favorite. I can still sing that theme song with perfect clarity. I was surprised to see this in my recommended lol. I'm glad it's still remembered a bit. It was so enjoyable for kids.
This show was magical to me as a kid. I looked up to the contestants in awe as they overcame challenges and became close friends. I dreamt of being on the show and would even pretend to go on missions with my siblings. Fetch inspired an intrigue in science inside me at a young age which persists to this day. Reading the comments on this video has been amazing because of how much we have in common as childhood fans of the show. Thank you for making this video and reminding me of these magical memories 💛
When I heard the last episode aired in "2010" I was like, oh that wasn't too long ago...checked my computer date of 2021 and had to realize that was 11 years ago..
@@urielc918 Possibly. I'm not too sure, I stopped watching the show right after Season 4. But I heard there was another TV show on PBS simply called The Ruff Ruffman Show and it was basically Fetch with Ruff Ruffman but without the contestants and the reality portion of it.
Me: heh I’m not nostalgic 2 secs later: LIFE WAS MISSING IT’S MYSTIQUE MY SQUEAKY TOYS HAD LOST THEIR SQUEAK, THEN, OUT OF THE BLUE, I SAW A PHONE, AND BAM-
I didn't even know they stopped till now, but I loved their games and concept, plus I watched a few episodes so that's why I'm here Edit: just realized I had seen the 2014 spinoff and played it's games
@@christiankallio8586 (Background) Fetch! Oh, I miss that name (Background) With Ruff Ruffman, I couldn't wait for it's timeslate Had 5 whole seasons, all were great! But now it's gone it's such a shame Such a great gameshow and its name was (Background) Fetch!
@@kolbymiller3440 It's very catchy (Background) With With Ruff Ruffman It rolls of the tongue (Chet crashes his plane) Can anyone tell me where the singing cats went?
God, this appeared on my feed now and I just got hit with a wall of nostalgia, not a wave or a wash, a wall of it. It's absolutely amazing how great this show was. Plus the fact I've been to some of the places now helps haha...
I remember that they did a space episode about fixing the ruff satellite and training the kids as astronauts , and It was one of the things that got me really hyped about space and space exploration. Here I am at 17 planning to go into aerospace engineering and the USAF to chase my dream of being an actual astronaut. Crazy how Fetch helped shape my life.
… I’m also 17 and looking into pursuing Aerospace Engineering (at Purdue, GeorgiaTech, Embry-Riddle, or somewhere similar). And I was also really really inspired by Fetch! So yeah, similar!
Godspeed you madlads I cannot into space, and I'm very okay with that, but mad props to those that can, because we need people like you to pave the way towards colonizing the galaxy and other such important space related shiet
I really appreciate this deep dive! I’m born & raised in MA & was so into these shows. My older sister auditioned for ZOOM but I was too young and so auditioned for fetch! as soon as I could (it came out when I was 9). Neither of us got on the show but a few years later in middle school, a classmate of mine did and when it aired I felt so much jealousy I could never watch it again lol
THE KIDS WEREN'T ACTORS??? HOLY CRAP!! i totally remember emailing ruff at the spry age of 6 and asking to be on the show. Now I'm a theatre kid, so not much has changed.
I’m a Boston area kid, there were auditions for every season and I personally knew some of the kids on the show. My brother’s best friend was in the first season, and he shared all the details with us once it started airing. If I had a villain origin story it’d be the fact that right when I turned 10, the show cancelled so I didn’t even have the chance to audition. Either way though I never knew fetch was aired all across America since it’s extremely Boston specific, most of the locations were local businesses/museums/etc. I could walk rn to some of the places they filmed in, so I always thought it was just a local show 😭😭 weird learning all of the US was obsessed with it but didn’t have the context of growing up in the area to understand its full significance.
This was my favorite show growing up and I wanted so badly to be a contestant!!! I always wanted to go into the entrance to the studio. I wish more people talked about it. Thanks for this video ❤️
Bro I feel you, 6 year old me was absolutely crushed, but I'm so glad everyone else felt the same way, and the cast loved it too and we're good friends
I genuinely think this was one of the greatest kids' shows of all time. Maybe I'm biased since I grew up on it, but I don't think anything will ever come close to Fetch!
Great to hear that a show involving kids didn’t result in scarring the kids for life and that they had an overwhelmingly positive experience during and after being on the show. I only watched the shows first season as a kid, not knowing it went on until years later. And I remember loving the show. Sucks that it got canceled but for the run it had, it was good
I bet some of them will go on to do great things with all they learned(first season was around my age at the time so they should be just finishing college/military/trade/whatever)
i think i saw the first season and a bit of the second. Because I only remember the cast of season 1 but I also distinctly remember the episode of the kid who swam with a dolphin, which was a season 2 episode.
This show is truly something i will NEVER forget. A show that brought me so much nostalgia and memories is BEYOND me. I miss this generation. This was my FAVORITE show and i would repeat every episode, every season (even as a rerun) if it was still available anywhere. Id watch it and itll bring a smile on my face. ❤
*Kids who grew up without cable understand how important PBS kids GO was. We all looked forward to it after school*
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Absolutely.
Amen
On god
Straight up
I used to love this show. I was pretty sick as a kid and I remember spending a few days in the hospital and missing a few episodes of Fetch. My mom emailed PBS and told them how much I loved the show and they sent me a care package with a note from Ruff Ruffman. It made me feel so special. This is still a comfort show for me.
That's awesome! 😄
Smaller to Barney & Friends, Kidsongs and Zoom
Hmm
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That’s so sweet
The fact that canonically the show only exists because PBS somehow accidentally hired a D O G is amazing
To their alarm, a DOG had signed!
Best theme song ever
I 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!
YO DID TH-cam ACTUALLY JUST NOTIFY ME THAT SOMEBODY LIKED MY COMMENT
Especially with at will employment being the norm and that this was before doc-u-sign and other esignatures.
i loved this show because it talked to you not like a kid but as someone who knows and understands sarcasm and humor
This 100%. Sorely lacking in most kids shows unfortunately.
@@isaiahmumawThe Amazing World of Gumball would like a word.
@@mr.x2567MOST kids shows. not all
I always hated that as a kid since at least 7 years old. We understand that you're talking down to us. Please talk normally.
"But Zoom was failing to capture children's attention."
Online teachers everywhere: Sigh~
Lol finishing my final year uni via zoom was a pain in the arse
@@DyslexicMitochondria Ur username made me click on ur profile. Ur channeI is a hidden gem bro
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"Kids, do me a favor- If a viking in a purple duck boat ever shows up at your house? Just... just go back inside." -Ruff Ruffman
I could not promise that as a child
@@princessazulaofthefirenati5870 nor could your brother promise the fire nation to return to his honor
@@jamesbajzer9436 yeah
Lol the fact that I heard this in his exact voice and cadence 😂
Wise Words…
hearing somebody say “viewers like you” and not following it up with “thank you” just feels...wrong
Fax.
viewers like you should _turn into a goomba_
Yes
Bruh you have NO idea
90s kids had it weird for that reason lmaooooo
i want a “where are they now” of some of the cast especially the original. i was in the 3rd grade when this came out and always dreamed of being casted.
I wanted to be on the show so bad!
I begged my parents to move to Boston so I could be in the show. They said no for some reason?
Me too😅
@@erc6943 lol
that sounds a little bit like an invasion of privacy
So this time, the prize actually *was* the friends they made along the way
Well, they did get more physical prizes as well, so there's that.
Wonder where they are at now
Crank Lab Explosion - lab central i know Madi from season 2 is a lawyer now
@@AmericanGirlGymnasts And I think WIllie was, don't know if he still is, an actor.
Darkknight55 interesting, also I follow Brian’s sister on TikTok haha, Erin McGoff
Fetch with Ruff Ruffman was my SHIT when I was younger. Always wanted to get on the show somehow
Me too
I was about to comment on the same thing too.... *I Fucking Love that show XD*
me too, turning 13 was devastating for me
Same! I think we all did!
OMG the Flashbacks!
I was today years old when I found out that FETCH is an acronym
Same
I was today years old when I understood Stu-D-O-G.
Same
Same!
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There was a point in time growing up where my family didn't have cable. I simply cannot put into words how hard Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman carried me for two years. The days where my brother would hog out Xbox all day and I had nothing else to do, I could always rely on the show to entertain me, or the games on the website. I lived vicariously through the kids, solving the puzzles along with them and choosing my favorite contestants. I remember being so excited when Jay won as I'd been rooting for him the entire season. Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman will always have a special place in my heart and I'll always look back on my time with PBS fondly due to this one show. Jim Conroy did a kickass job voicing all these characters and making Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman an experience to remember.
No way! Jay was my favorite in Season 3, too.
Same here! We did not have cable for a year or two and fetch was one of the shows I watched! Also I remember Jay!
i never had cable. '96 north tx. ive only known about 20 channels 4-49 lolll
I grew up with no cable at home. If i ever wanted to watch CN, nick, or mtv. I had to go to other people houses to watch. Which made a lot of awkward why are you in my house alone by parents. But at home pbs was goat. Till the news came on and i had to look through what else happens to be on.
and having no cable is supposed to be a struggle? do you want a cookie? there are people dying out there.
You all are terrific. I didn't realize how many comments are on this thread. I can't respond to them all tho I would. I still voice Ruff here and there but you can't replace Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman. Season 1 will always be the most special because we were making it up as we went along. Usually, with animation, you will go line by line and read each a few times and so on. But the show had such a spontaneous improv atmosphere. Shot out of sequence and assembled by the editors. The amount of footage and dialogue they had to sift thru. The hours of work. Can't imagine how hard that was. I would go to Boston for a few weeks to shoot the in-studio scenes. The intro, the halftime quiz show, and then the points and endings. The challenges were already done. Then later I would be in a studio in NYC and watch the footage of their challenges while the microphone was on and just Mystery Science Theater my way through the scenes. If I gave them 5 min of useful commentary in an hour I was happy. You don't get that kind of freedom as a voice performer often. It will always be my fav. This has been incredible to sift thru. Thank you again and GOOOOOOOOOOOOO FETCH!!!!!!!
Awesome work. I hadn't heard about Fetch before this episode as it was a little after my time, but it was cool to learn about and seemed like such a fun and positive show for all involved. It's impressive how it was all able to come together so smoothly in the end.
I remember so vividly this show coming on at 3pm on PBS and it being the only show I religiously tuned in to as a kid. I hope you know I still hear Ruff Ruffmans voice in my head from time to time. Cheers :)
this is amazing to read. thank you for voicing ruff! really shaped my childhood and my love for learning and puzzles/thing along those lines :p
Fetch was my LIFE when I was younger, I was always fascinated by his Doghouse and the creative settings and appearances of Fetch’s scoreboards and halftime shows. Is there any place I can go to rewatch it?
ThAnk you thank you to everyone who saw the spark and fetched the idea ;0 so brilliant and funny
"But is that all the points a dog can give?"
"NOOOOOO"
"What time is it?"
*"BONE-US POINTS!!!!!"*
bone us o.o
Fuck that nostalgia hits hard
@@OneFinalAutumn hit me like a train
My dad still quotes that to this day 😭
I can still hear this
MY WHOLE LIFE GOAL WAS TO BE ON THIS SHOW
SAMEEEEEEEEEEEE
SAME HERE
Same tbh never did
Same was too young and didn’t live in Boston
@@huntrrams I was of the right age but they denied me because i wasn’t a Boston native. Crushed my dreams. But hey I can always use my IMAGINATION
Fetch with Ruff Ruffman was MY SHOW. I genuinely loved it so much as a kid and grew up with it. I learned so much and adored every minute of it. As a kid I didn't always know when "new seasons" would appear, but I would always watch when I knew about them. The show is genuinely so incredible, and it disappoints me so much that there's never been a revival of the show. I always thought that one of the coolest things that could ever happen in my life would be doing this show. It seems like genuinely a life changing experience. To this day it has left an impression on me, and it makes me sad it hasn't returned.
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I loved this show as a kid and when watching this, I had the huge smile on my face. I still remember all the words to the theme song
They did make another show called "The Ruff Ruffman Show" but I never got a chance to watch it. It also didn't seem to feature any real life footage.
"Many of the young cast members knew that the true prize of each season was not the karate trophies or the helmets of victory, but rather the opportunity to be on the show itself and to meet their fellow contestants."
So the real prize really WAS the friends they made along the way.
At last, a reality show where you ARE there to make friends.
In this case that's right!
Heck, that whitewater rafting trip had to have been a real blast for the kids, but whitewater isn't exactly an object you put up on your top shelf.
This made me actually laugh a little bit
True true, tbh to 10 year old me, just getting to be on tv would’ve been a huge prize in and of itself!
When I was in 3rd grade our school had a fundraiser where the state news channel showed up and filmed some of it, and I was so hyped that I got to be on tv, even though it was just a 4 second video of me walking in a line of kids and for half of that it was just the back of my head XD
“yeah, i don’t cry that easi-“
fetch with ruff-ruff man
*immediate sobbing in the corner*
lol
Crying in the corner huh?
Mind if I join ya?
@@lukecoyle632 go ahead, I’m crying too.
I never realized how many people grew up with this masterpiece. The comments are so wholesome.
i ask my friends about this show and they dont even know what this show was 😭 so glad there’s people out there who remember this
THEY AREEE
also man lowkey though i hope they bring this show back cause man the fucking hallowen episodes too were just TOP TIER
o and to add on too I HOPE the next generation can experience something like ruff ruffman :""D but anywyas im jsut glad im not the only one who remembers this show vividly
Yeah. I find it a great comfort that the series was preserved online.
I watched this show for the first two seasons, and really enjoyed it. Khalil is my all time favorite player.
Guess i'm one of them
As a huge Zoom fan I was devastated when it was cancelled, but Fetch with Ruff Ruffman really rekindled the magic from that show for me and gave me a new cast of kids to look up to. The season 1 cast has a special place in my childhood memories.
Yeah plus it had a host whereas on zoom the kids were the host
@@gwenmloveskpopandmore Yea Zoom was a little too chaotic for me to understand, but with Fetch it felt like it was its own school with a teacher (Ruff) and classroom (Studio G).
I used to be so embarrassed growing up because I didn’t have cable but, now that I’m older, I really cherish the fact that I got experience this show and many more on PBS kids.
I was a little bit embarrassed as a kid but at the same time it didn't bother me too much because I wasn't too familiar with cable unless I went to my God sister's house.
Me too
The only chance I ever got to watch cable was going to my friend's place, PBS KIDS IS GOATED
Same. But honestly, it was thanks to tv like this that I did really well in school. My parents were not supportive about school and we were poor, so we never got to go to museums or things like that. Everything I knew and learned outside of school came from PBS shows full of math and science. 🥲 I owe PBS a lot ❤️
Totally agree. Not to sound stuck-up or anything but looking back, the shows that were airing on Disney channel etc. at the time absolutely pale in comparison to PBS shows, they're vapid trash. I can't stomach any of those shows nowadays but PBS shows hold up *so well* that I regularly go back and watch them. I addition to Fetch!, shows like The Electric Company, Martha Speaks, Arthur, and probably half a dozen more that I'm forgetting were formative for me in helping me through school and even in developing my sense of humour. I can't imagine how different a person I would be if I didn't watch PBS growing up. All my love to PBS, for real
I kid you not, this show is the reason I chose my career path. I was 9 when I watched the episode. They did an episode about Ruff’s grandma regarding a note written in pen. They used a simple chromatography experiment in a forensics lab to identify the pen used. I’m 17 now, and am on my way to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Forensic Chemistry. Thank you Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman.
Good luck!
Dude me too! I’m getting my Bachelor in FS biology tho! Props to you for doing chem! You can do it
I loved that episode!
That's great
I remember being incapable of imagining Ruff’s human VA as a kid. His character was so life-like and filled with so much personality. Kudos to Jim Conroy.
Understandable. It's like knowing a faceless TH-camr did a face reveal but being unable to imagine the face at all without the knowledge that there was a voice actor for it in the first place.
Same!! Although i was pretty young when the show was on and i watched it (i was probably 5 or 6) so i didn't really understand the concept of voice actors yet.
Jim conroy did a wonderful job. He deserves more recognition!
Im sorry WHAT he was a kid this whole time?
Edit: i forgot ruff ruffman isn't real and that you meant when you were a kid
Same here, though I may had known voice actors existed and was in denial? I don't remember the timeline of when I watched the show
I clicked on this video fearing that there would be hidden controversies, scandals, and just ugly and dark truths behind the show- just like lots of other childhood gems. Glad to know this isn’t the case.
i feel like this show never had a first episode like it just came out of nowhere one day and existed since randomly appearing, pbs just decided to continue airing it/didn’t know it was there
Well maybe for you but I vividly remember the first episode premiere as well as the promotions leading up to that first episode. It wasn't like a super crazy promotion on PBSKids but I still remember it all these years later. I can link you the video if you want to see it.
@@professional.commentator I want to see it
@@professional.commentator i wanna see it too, i just remember watching it one day. i had no clue the space race was the first episode
Did my link get deleted? I swear I posted it on here like a few days ago and now it's gone.
Okay TH-cam search, "fetch with ruff ruffman promo 2006" and click the first video that pops up. I don't know why my link was deleted.
I dreamed about going on this show as a kid just to see how we would talk to Ruff Ruffman lol
Same thing
Me too! I begged to be allowed to apply but mom said no
I wanted to, but that would require living in Boston
@@odenmoffett8524 I imagine they would listen to the voice actor or something.
If I'm correct wasn't there a podcast as well?
I NEVER CLICKED SO FAST, THIS IS THE CORNERSTONE OF MY CHILDHOOD
ME TOO
Ik right
@@williampittard4633
I know!! 😁👍👍
Literally same lol. I remember coming home from 4th grade and this was on at 4:00 and I would watch the fuck out of it
ONGGGGBBROOO
The sheer quality of this show is really heartwarming
I will always respect this show for having an overarching story throughout Season 5 before plot-heavy cartoons like Gravity Falls or Steven Universe started.
PBS did that a few times, Like with Cyberchase
@@KingsBard yeah understandable.
Agreed, it gave the show some flair at the time. Plot-based shows always seem to be the best imo
>steven universe
lmfao
@@erravi Even if you don't like it, it was plot heavy.
I love how all the kids got the grand prize. That just makes me feel all fuzzy and preserves the sense of team work the show sought to foster.
Honestly I think its even more amazing that they all became what appears to be really good friends and I wonder if any of them are still in touch today
@@GideonFoxo That's what I was about to say. This just seems like a fun bonding experience.
I've never been in a documentary before!! This was very cool and a wonderful walk down memory lane with this wonderful show.
I loved your voice work in the show!
Ruff! I love you!
Uh, I mean...Hey, Jim. 😀
Watched the show intensely myself; well done, dog!
You know I expected a kid that was on the show to be in the comments saying, “I WAS A CONTESTANT!!!” but I totally did not expect you here, Mr. Conroy. I didn’t watch the show often, but you truly were the show’s heart and soul. Looking back, I hear a lot of Phil Hartman in Ruff.
Thanks for being a part of my childhood ❤️
I remember being an awkward 9 year old and crying because when I learned I couldn’t audition for Fetch because I didn’t live in Boston.
I wish that TV like this still existed.
I still live near Boston and it was impossible to find any info on how to get cast! 🤔😅
"Pluto, still considered a planet at the time..."
I felt that
Same 😭
Same
Still is
It technically still is, but Pluto really did get it's planet status downgraded
The Defunctland of celestial bodies
I’m loosing my mind at how little those kids are....I was so little when this came out that I thought they were practically grown ups 😭
Same! I thought the kids were in high school 😭😂
Yeah there was always someone I had a crush on every season
Yea it's crazy. They seemed so old when I first watched it.
Same! I was so shocked to see that they're little kids. I guess since they were older than me at the time, I always rembered them being slightly older than me.
Sameeee 😭
We clearly need a "Fetchers: Where Are They Now?" follow up episode!
yes yes yes
Fr! I was like three when this show started- I’m 17 now, so these kids are already in their mid-twenties!
I've followed Taylor Garron for a while on twitter! she's a comedian now and very funny
Y E S !
@@lilo5010 th-cam.com/video/G7EH70UPJHM/w-d-xo.html
I learned so much from this show. Literally years after watching it I still remembered the things I learned like carbon dating, buoyancy, how a lever works, and so much more. This show will forever hold a place in my heart
Same. Despite my terrible-at-trivia memory, I've always been able to recall the year of the first moon landing (1969) simply because it was one of the details that led to one contestant winning the episode.
The production of this show is actually genius. They increasingly relied on animated segments as the show went on, ensuring that it could be continued as an animated show if the budget ran out.
I totally forgot, this was on PBS so it was essentially crowd funded.
I'm so glad that the show ended the way it did. It's a show that literally grew with it's audience, from beginning to end.
Yeah, although I kinda wish they didn't do Humble Media Genius and The Ruff Ruffman Show, they didn't feel nostalgia
@VECTORMan the flash game where ruff ruffman was sick?
@@youraveragedude9325 yeah I wish they hadn't removed that site I loved those games
Y’all remember when Grandma Ruffman was on trial, and the fetchers were her defense attorneys? I dunno what that had to do with science, but I REMEMBER it!
Detective science. They tested ink.
and Rosario was one of the jurors
I wanted to be a forensic scientist so badly after that!!
@@ananonymoushuman8258 same!!!!
@@corpsecartoonist7400 ‘Huh, that young man looks EXACTLY like Rosario...’
Blossom: *Facepalm*
I loved this show. The science, the parody elements, the cartoon host, everything about it melded into a wonderful experience that absolutely made my day every time the show came on.
Fetch was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I heard about it after seeing a commercial for it on Cartoon Network.
My brother despised educational shows and made fun of it at every chance. It got to the point where he would delete the new episodes I recorded from the DVR just to spite me. Granted I was also deleting his Southpark episodes for the same reason.
Yeah this show was difficult to watch, you can't even get it on DVD.
Do y’all remember when it ended and they said it was going to be on Netflix? I was so sad that’s it’s not on there anymore
>south park
yea you did the world a service
@@emmab23791 it was in Netflix for a while, I remember binging the entire snow when I was younger. Although one season was missing and when I found out my heart broke 😭
Fetch! is on Amazon Prime Video if you want to re-watch it.
I wish they’d bring it back 😭 I would legit binge watch it rn
I remember watching this show and being absolutely perplexed by how they animated Ruff in time to the kids' talking/questions/etc. I wanted to figure it out so badly
Ikr! Same! It was like watching a magic trick taking place on the side. 🤯
same i always thought it was prerecorded and the kids thought it was live
@@marthflores3515 I actually thought the animators were animating it in real-time. 😅 Obviously not possible but it was the only thing I could think of.
They probably relayed the Fetcher's side of the conversation to Jim, had him record an appropriate response and then animated it later.
@@darkknight5541 No, the dialogue was most likely spontaneous; Jim was actually talking with the Fetchers, and they just called him Ruff, and they recorded the dialogue and animated accordingly.
Good GOD the theme song is great. This show was fantastic, so pleased to see an episode about it.
Well, pleasure seeing you here Mr. Max Box.
Hell yeah Max, great take
childhood's quite the thing isn't it?
I didnt understand what ruff said when i was a kid untill now
Box
I wanted to be on Fetch! SO BAD, I tried to convince my parents to let me spend the summer with my cousins in new jersey. Little west coast me didn't 100% understand that Boston is hundreds of miles away...
When he said “the scoring was arbitrary” and i knew my life was a lie
fr lol winning was nothing. it was about the game, the journey, and friendships made along the way.
@@1337_bean some of these kids got to go to Six Flags for free. That’s enough in my books.
@@1337_bean Maybe the real Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman was the friends we made along the way
It's not like that was some secret or anything. That was part of the humor and jokes of the show. That the scoring didn't really matter
This, Cyberchase, Word Girl, Zaboomafoo, we’re all gems of my early childhood.
How could you forget Martha Speaks
@@peoniibud omfg im sorry that too
@@tangy6451 what about Arthur
Can you tell me what Zaboomafoo was? I remember all the shows that you and Peonii mentioned, except that one. Could you maybe jog my memory?
@@kimmy1325 zaboomafoo was the animal show with the krat brothers and the lemur. They got their own cartoon called wild krats a while back
This show was EVERYTHING- I literally had dreams of being in this show with my friends and I couldn’t even fathom the idea of it being canceled because of low ratings. I hope it makes an awesome comeback though, as I think it’ll be really fun for kids now too.
I wanted to be on this show so bad too. I was obsessed with it, watching this video brought back so many good memories
Sameeeeeeeeee
friends? can't relate
I literally also had dreams about being on the show with my friends.
No thanks. It'll turn into woke shoehorning like most kids shows nowadays.
Gosh, all the kids who spent some portion of their childhood with no cable probably knows this show *very* well. One of my (and my brother's) favorite kids shows to watch back then :')
"National Science Foundation"
"Arthur Vining David Foundation"
"Arby's"
"Viewers like you"
Mmmm, one of these things iS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS
Three of those things are permanently ingrained in my memory. I swear they never mentioned arbys on the show.
@@aidankocherhans9861 same
Clearly it's the National Science Foundation because it doesn't start with A.
But viewers like you also doesn't start with an a.
I'm just gonna guess Arby's provided the food for everyone
"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 is calling me!"
“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”
After that I couldn't wait, found 6 contests, all were great!
@@Ash-uo8sp And now I'm on the road to fame, I've got a game show and it's name is
It's very catchy, it rolls off the tongue...
Wait, stop! Someone wanna tell me why we've got cats singing?
@@daphnerogers4277 FETCH! WITH RUFF RUFFMAN! WITH RUFF RUFFMAN! FETCH!
Jesus Christ, I... I think I’m having a crisis man. Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman was a show I watched all the time growing up. It was the 2000s kid's equivalent to a Saturday morning cartoon. And now it’s being documented for people who’ve never even heard of it before... is this what it feels like to get old?
@@gabrielantos4144 Your comment resonated deeply with me. Also, your name is incredible.
@@gabrielantos4144 That is some food for thought I must say.
Yes. Also when there is kids on the Internet today commenting on videos of your dog when your dog is older than they are.
Yes.. yes it is.
I never watched the show but I fucking loved the games on the PBS kids website when I was a kid. Rip flash
Fetch was my absolute favorite show as a kid. I was homeschooled and wasn't allowed to watch tv until I finished all my "classes" for the day. The only reason I managed to get through things on time (with my ADHD trying to sabatoge me) was because I needed to finish before Fetch started.
This show taught me so much as a kid, it was so funny, and had some surprisingly heartfelt moments too. I remember one episode where the group was going to hang out with a scientist who studies spiders, and one of the girls started to panic due to her aracnophobia, and they immediately removed her from the group and found something else for her to do. It really touched me as a kid how, even though a lot of the show is the kids doing things that might make them uncomfortable, they didn't try to talk her into something that genuinely scared her.
Oh yea I remember that episode too! I also remember the episode where a girl fell off her bike and scraped her knee. She was bleeding and one of the fetchers in the group helped put a bandaid on her.
And there was one episode with SCUBA and Nina got scared, so she snorkled instead. She got the bonus points for the episode for still finding a way to participate!
ETA: I was rewatching the Space Camp one, and they were doing a simulator. Julia was a little nervous, but she did end up trying it, had a great time, and earned bonus points for it. Meanwhile, Taylor said she was opting out, and that was that, no further comment. The show overall was great about getting the kids out of their comfort zones a little, while respecting their limits when it was too much of a stretch (Brian from Season 1's fear of bees comes to mind.)
It’s a fact that everyone wanted to be on the show
yes
Yup
Yeah
Absolutely
That episode where they reenact Paul Revere saying "the British are coming!" With the two dudes playing Redcoats is seared I to my brain
Remember when Ruff's grandma was almost sent to jail? That one is seared into my brain.
Sameeee
Or the one where they explored Hammond Castle. That episode gave me nightmares when I was younger.
@@Odinsday SAMEEE
Mine is when they went back in time and had to make their own beds and all these different chores 😂
I’m a simple man, I see fetch with ruff ruffman, I click.
As others have said, this show is an all-time classic for kids without cable. As a kid, I wished I could have been casted, and played along to the intermediary quizzes. The theme song still occupies at least 10% of my childhood memories. Great retrospective.
"[Noah] once saved a wild turkey from a... coyote? Really"
Yes, Mr. Ruffman. Noah's a badass and you know it.
It’s cool to have been on the internet long enough to where the things you wished people would be talking about nostalgically are finally being discussed. But honestly, looking back on this show, it’s easily one of the best kids shows of all time in that I can actually see myself watching it nowadays entirely unironically. Excellent work breaking down this brilliant show Kevin!
Came home from college over the winter break, my mom and I ended up sitting down to watch it again for some reason. We realized it’s actually pretty engaging, even for adults. Definitely one of the best kid’s shows out there.
My sister and I rewatched some episodes during the start of quarantine - we are college age now and it still slaps tbh
i wholeheartedly agree :,)
Same, I'm still so amazed to see my childhood media finally getting the documentary style attention like this
I was 14 when it aired so I didn't really know anything about it. I would have liked it when I was younger
Something about that theme song hits different when you haven’t hears it in over a decade
So much nostalgia here. As a nerdy, homeschooled kid who watched almost exclusively PBS, this show was probably my favorite. My sister and I used to watch the whole programming block, but we were really waiting for Fetch to come on. It’s wild how much I remember from this show even now. Grateful for everyone who worked on it.
"There is no good reality television"
*reminded of Fetch!*
"There is one good reality television"
Also Survivor, The Challenge, Kitchen Nightmares, and Canada's Worst Drivers.
Also Pawn Stars
@@reillymcwriting Survivor went downhill after season 3.
I mean there’s some pretty good stuff over in the National Geographic archives
The only reality tv is the news. The rest are jokes. Reality doesn't walk around with a camera.
I hope you'll talk about WordGirl next.
I remember that show lol. I never thought about it much as a kid, but in hindsight, wasn't it weird af that the kid that had a crush on wordgirl was literally her brother? LMFAOOO
Yo my older sister used to have a little dance she would do whenever the theme came on, and would like run around our couch spin and all kinds of stuff. Nostalgic
Dude yes, that show was strangely self aware at times.
@@gnerdeek5362 God it's been years since I saw Wordgirl so at first I was like "What Toby isn't her brother the fuck kind of show are you watching?" And then I remembered. I remembered. Why did they do Tj like that?
@@selselsky How tf did TJ not realize it was HIS OWN SISTER?!?! And why is he attracted to a girl that looks just like her sister anyways?!?! lmao
God I really didn't appreciate how creatively unique this show was as a kid. The amount of expression and energy in what is literally just a game show framing device is amazing.
I'm legit sitting here tearing up because there really was so much love and care put into this project. They genuinely cared about the cast of kids and made the experiences and learning so fun and entertaining to watch. And when ruff would tell you thank you for watching, it always really got to me. Like no, thank you Ruff Ruffman 🥲
I was born in 2003 and PBS was my childhood. This show gave me so much creativity growing up and will forever have a warm spot in my heart
Fun fact: The younger sister of Brian from season one was one of the kids who participated in Kid Nation, that one controversial reality show that had a bunch of kids run their own town. She actually showed up in a few episodes of Fetch, as well.
Omg that's crazy
One of the biggest and most controversial experiments of Mid 2000s TV. What a crazy time lol
haha, I liked that show, believe it or not. Now I feel bad that I did. I was a kid at the time though.
Now I want Jontron to do a video on Fetch!
omg really? we watched Kid Nation in my 8th grade social studies class lol
Man, imagine being told you'll be on the latest season of your favorite tv show...only for it to get cancelled before you can ever get on camera.
Did that really happen
@@cripplynipplily Auditions for Season 6 had begun, though I can't remember if anyone had been cast. I'm pretty sure they had the six fetchers, though.
I submitted an audition tape (even tho I didn’t leave anywhere near where the show was filmed) and was convinced I would get cast only for the show to end
They don't make kids shows like this anymore. This was one of my favorite PBS shows when I was in 3rd-4th grade. I loved it, and so did my parents.
Yeah
Fr
Yeah, now it’s all about milked kids shows with a random animal going on “wacky” adventures which a season later it gets a lot of criticism
Also the fact that shows aren't made to be educational anymore. Executives and corporate leaders believe that kids aren't smart enough to understand various topics as it's clear that most shows explain virtually everything.
I would love for new education shows because ruff ruffman was genuine in its ability to teach with limited funding of certified programs and kids didn't need to truly act for the camera.
@@Ari180_RE exactly this kids content only has the primary focus of money now. Yeah it might have still been money then but they also prioritised learning and interactivity. ngl one of the best kids shows to date was nina and the neurons - it was entertaining, presented science in a really fun and engaging way, and had cute funny animated cohosts that also helped keep kids watching. That show is the primary reason i grew up loving science in general so much and its kind of worrying that current kids arent getting the same opportunity to find something they love
Fetch was legitimately one of the best bits of reality tv I’ve ever seen. Educational, creative, bond-forming. It was everything I was taught that reality tv couldn’t be.
"Not only do I host my own television show BUT-" that plug for the website is ENGRANED into the deepest depths of my memory
I felt transported back in time by those words o ___ o
those games are a serious throwback... so sad I’ll never get to see them again without flash 😔
One of my earliest memories of using the internet was visiting that site
@@the_beast183 Germinator was my game! Could never get very far, though, cos I sucked at games. Still do
Same here buddy. Back in the day when we all had Pentium 4s in our Windows XP computers with our CRT displays. Good memories man
I'm glad to hear the children genuinely enjoyed their time on the show. No bad blood behind the scenes. 🙂
Hey! I animated some of those Ruff Ruffman: Humble Media Genius bits. Fun fact, a handful of those were made at Flaming Medusa Animation studio in Cincinnati, OH (and if you're reading this Darcy - hiii!!)
That's cool
Thank you, you're probably talking to a different Darcy but that's my name too so I'll take it.
Hello man who animated someone’s childhood
legend
Thank you for keeping my 5 year old self entertained thank you my good sir
I grew up watching this show, and I have to say, this was one of the reasons I developed a passion for science and I am a biology grad student now :) Eternally grateful to have grown up with this amazing show
I watched this religiously as a kid. I got emotionally invested in Ruff's journey. The "haunted" castle episode was my absolute favorite. I can still sing that theme song with perfect clarity.
I was surprised to see this in my recommended lol. I'm glad it's still remembered a bit. It was so enjoyable for kids.
Yes the haunted castle episode is totally the best one! It's the one I remember the most
I also remember the water park episode the most and I have the faintest memory of the Fetchers going to a beach to watch baby turtles hatch
I barely watched this show, but I saw the Haunted House episode and "DID YOU SEE ANY GHOST CATS?!" was burned into my brain and idk know why.
Omg that episode was also one of my favorites!!! My favorite was the one on the weird cat and dog island thing, it was so much fun
The haunted castle episode was sooo memorable
Alternate title: The History of the best show on PBS Kids
It's in contestant with wild krats
It’s between This and Arthur 💯
@@ShalemAhava Eh, Arthur isn't what it used to be.
So fucking true
@@Midtermsmi Oh and that
"Pluto, which was still considered a planet at the time..."
Wow that makes me feel old
@Will N I see what you did there
Same 😭
This show was magical to me as a kid. I looked up to the contestants in awe as they overcame challenges and became close friends. I dreamt of being on the show and would even pretend to go on missions with my siblings.
Fetch inspired an intrigue in science inside me at a young age which persists to this day. Reading the comments on this video has been amazing because of how much we have in common as childhood fans of the show. Thank you for making this video and reminding me of these magical memories 💛
I'm glad we all agree that "FETCH!" was a great show. But can we also agree that the theme song IS TOP TEIR???
*absolutely*
Obviously! I remember always humming and dancing along to the theme song whenever I watched the show lol
It slaps so hard for no reason
Considering I started singing the theme song when I saw this video in my recommended, I gotta agree
It did not need to go as hard as it did but it was awesome
When I heard the last episode aired in "2010" I was like, oh that wasn't too long ago...checked my computer date of 2021 and had to realize that was 11 years ago..
Yea and the craziest part was how this show ended right before social media and smartphones took over our lives.
they kept rerunning it for a while, no?
@@urielc918 Possibly. I'm not too sure, I stopped watching the show right after Season 4. But I heard there was another TV show on PBS simply called The Ruff Ruffman Show and it was basically Fetch with Ruff Ruffman but without the contestants and the reality portion of it.
I remember when this came out. I would’ve been 8 years old. This video brought back so much nostalgia that I didn’t know I had lol
@@DreamDear me too
When they started introducing story arcs in the later seasons, I was addicted. Holy hell this brings me back.
SAME. i need to rewatch it all
@Caralena Lindberg Yeah I’m from the New England/Boston area. I remember walking the freedom trail and was like “wait this was on Fetch” lol
The Le Purr arc still holds strong in my mind oh my god
@@xxSk8ing4christxx literally I went on a field trip back in like 5th grade and all I could think of was this show. I miss it real bad
This show was incredibly inventive. I wish it went on just a little longer than it did, but it was a highlight of my childhood
Me: heh I’m not nostalgic
2 secs later: LIFE WAS MISSING IT’S MYSTIQUE MY SQUEAKY TOYS HAD LOST THEIR SQUEAK, THEN, OUT OF THE BLUE, I SAW A PHONE, AND BAM-
MY DESTINY WAS CALLING ME....
>phone beeps
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! ooo I like that name- with Ruff Ruffman!
I didn't wait to renovate, found 6 contestants ALL WERE GREAT!
10 minutes and it's already freaking recommended! But THANK GOODNESS! This was my favorite show LOL
Saaame I haven't heard of that name for a long time
even the "brought to you by" is nostalgic 🤣
*Editing this cause I wasn't trying to add an @ to that 😅*
Was my go to show as a kid, not gonna lie I’d totally forgot abt this show.😂
Yesssss!!!!!
I'm right there with ya! I watched this show everyday when I came home from school and I loved every minute of it
"Zoom was failing to capture children's attention" is a sentence I'd think I would have heard in a different context these days.
Apparently it would have no trouble getting attention if The New Yorker is hosting, although not for the reasons the hosts would like.
I just got so nostalgic over this. I remember loving this show as a kid. Its so entertaining and educational
where have I heard of edutainment before? I’m looking at YOU, EPCOT!
when i was a kid i was absolutely DEVASTATED that ruff ruffman was cancelled, on a cliffhanger no less 🥺😭
I didn't even know they stopped till now, but I loved their games and concept, plus I watched a few episodes so that's why I'm here
Edit: just realized I had seen the 2014 spinoff and played it's games
I remember when I was a kid I thought ruff ruffman was actually a real life person because of how he would actually talk to the kids
I did too! I always used to wonder how they did it.
They probably animated ruffs bits in post while the voice actor would talk to the kids in studio with just him face on screen
*one second of the theme song plays*
My Brain: BAM! MY NOSTALGIA WAS CALLING ME!
My memories of this show
I LOVE 'EM why'd it have to go?
(Please someone else continue these lyrics)
@@kolbymiller3440 I turned on my tv just to find
No Season 6?! I lost my mind!
@@christiankallio8586
(Background) Fetch!
Oh, I miss that name
(Background) With Ruff Ruffman,
I couldn't wait for it's timeslate
Had 5 whole seasons, all were great!
But now it's gone it's such a shame
Such a great gameshow and its name was
(Background) Fetch!
@@kolbymiller3440 It's very catchy
(Background) With With Ruff Ruffman
It rolls of the tongue
(Chet crashes his plane) Can anyone tell me where the singing cats went?
@@christiankallio8586
Fetch!
Thank you this was really good
God, this appeared on my feed now and I just got hit with a wall of nostalgia, not a wave or a wash, a wall of it. It's absolutely amazing how great this show was.
Plus the fact I've been to some of the places now helps haha...
Me too 😢😢
I remember that they did a space episode about fixing the ruff satellite and training the kids as astronauts , and It was one of the things that got me really hyped about space and space exploration. Here I am at 17 planning to go into aerospace engineering and the USAF to chase my dream of being an actual astronaut. Crazy how Fetch helped shape my life.
Dude I remember that episode, it blew my mind because I thought the show was real 😂
… I’m also 17 and looking into pursuing Aerospace Engineering (at Purdue, GeorgiaTech, Embry-Riddle, or somewhere similar). And I was also really really inspired by Fetch! So yeah, similar!
@@wangzisworks yoo, let’s go!
@@wangzisworks dude I'm looking at the same things, same schools, and im 17. Great minds think alike lol
Godspeed you madlads
I cannot into space, and I'm very okay with that, but mad props to those that can, because we need people like you to pave the way towards colonizing the galaxy and other such important space related shiet
Seeing Ruff Ruffman's face in my feed was one of the most surreal, unexpected nostalgia blasts I've ever experienced
Same.
Me too
Me four
Me five
I never knew in all this time that I would see his face in the recommended section. It's nice
10:28 "And of course, viewers like you."
Me: *thank you*
Valuable PBS Kids history right here ^^^^^^^^^
That hit so hard
@@louienathan7135 🤣
I really appreciate this deep dive! I’m born & raised in MA & was so into these shows. My older sister auditioned for ZOOM but I was too young and so auditioned for fetch! as soon as I could (it came out when I was 9). Neither of us got on the show but a few years later in middle school, a classmate of mine did and when it aired I felt so much jealousy I could never watch it again lol
that's actually amazing! which season was it and which fetcher was it?
Nothing in this video made me feel older than "Pluto, still considered a planet at the time..."
THE KIDS WEREN'T ACTORS??? HOLY CRAP!!
i totally remember emailing ruff at the spry age of 6 and asking to be on the show. Now I'm a theatre kid, so not much has changed.
I’m a Boston area kid, there were auditions for every season and I personally knew some of the kids on the show. My brother’s best friend was in the first season, and he shared all the details with us once it started airing.
If I had a villain origin story it’d be the fact that right when I turned 10, the show cancelled so I didn’t even have the chance to audition.
Either way though I never knew fetch was aired all across America since it’s extremely Boston specific, most of the locations were local businesses/museums/etc. I could walk rn to some of the places they filmed in, so I always thought it was just a local show 😭😭 weird learning all of the US was obsessed with it but didn’t have the context of growing up in the area to understand its full significance.
@@chaeyoungsbestie414 which fetcher was your brother's friend?
I did this too! When I was five, wrote a letter to Ruff asking to be in the show. I’m also a theatre kid now 😂
I hate you I hate you I want my Kidsongs
Fire Is there an emergency
Hearing the intro shot 6 gallons of raw nostalgia directly into my veins
For me it was 30 gallons.
6:16
Gave me whiplash!
Omg my gosh, this was such a huge nostalgia trip, I had the theme song wired into my brain for the longest time, those really were the days, dude
I think that was heroin
This was my favorite show growing up and I wanted so badly to be a contestant!!! I always wanted to go into the entrance to the studio. I wish more people talked about it. Thanks for this video ❤️
10-year-old me burst into tears the day I learned this show's run was ending.
Me with Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego.
Bro I feel you, 6 year old me was absolutely crushed, but I'm so glad everyone else felt the same way, and the cast loved it too and we're good friends
I was 7 and I was pretty upset.
Yeah, I felt that way when Zoom ended.
Same! I always wanted to be in it
I genuinely think this was one of the greatest kids' shows of all time. Maybe I'm biased since I grew up on it, but I don't think anything will ever come close to Fetch!
For me it was Fetch and Doctor Who. Those two shows were the foundation of my childhood!
Imo how it’s made was better just because my sister didn’t like it.
Great to hear that a show involving kids didn’t result in scarring the kids for life and that they had an overwhelmingly positive experience during and after being on the show. I only watched the shows first season as a kid, not knowing it went on until years later. And I remember loving the show. Sucks that it got canceled but for the run it had, it was good
I think it’s because they weren’t forced to act a certain way. They just did fun things and got to be kids
I bet some of them will go on to do great things with all they learned(first season was around my age at the time so they should be just finishing college/military/trade/whatever)
i think i saw the first season and a bit of the second. Because I only remember the cast of season 1 but I also distinctly remember the episode of the kid who swam with a dolphin, which was a season 2 episode.
This show is truly something i will NEVER forget. A show that brought me so much nostalgia and memories is BEYOND me. I miss this generation. This was my FAVORITE show and i would repeat every episode, every season (even as a rerun) if it was still available anywhere. Id watch it and itll bring a smile on my face. ❤
Idk if you saw but he mentioned that it’s on a lot of streaming services! I think atleast Amazon Video