List of Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman characters

This is a list of characters that are featured in the television series FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman.

Animated characters

In Season 4, Blossom and Chet (in an airplane) joined Ruff in the opening. At the end, Chet crashes his airplane, which prompts Ruff to say a phrase that differs from episode to episode (e.g. "Now I bet Arthur dosen't have to deal with stuff like this").

Main characters

• Ruff Ruffman (voiced by Jim Conroy) is the host of the show. He doesn't like cats, or at least thinks that dogs are superior to them in most ways. He has a crush on Charlene. Ruff grouses about his contract to produce a reality TV program, and the stresses of running one. He loves all food, American-Chinese take-out in particular. His physical appearance features "eyebrows that hover mysteriously above his head". Ruff has many relatives and ancestors, all with a similar physical appearance to him, and he has five other brothers and sisters besides Scruff and Roxy. According to the episode Ruff Bounces Back, Ruff is a mutt and is proud of it. At the end of season 4, Ruff mentions about his mom and dad, stating that they had vanished when he was a pup, but Jeri the parrot explains that they're still alive, implying that that will be the storyline for season 5.
• Blossom, whose full name is Princess Blossom Pepperdoodle Von Yum Yum is a cat and was Ruff's intern for Season 2. She is usually simply called "Blossom". Quite serious, she is usually seen taking notes on her laptop. She has never spoken, but only makes strange squeaking sounds to get Ruff's attention. She was promoted to supervisor in Season 3. Ruff didn't enjoy Blossom's company at first, but eventually forms a close bond with her. Despite all of the hijinks that Ruff puts her through, she continues to be loyal to Ruff and the show, particuarly when she decided to 'work' for Harriet Hackensack so she could find out the reason for her misocyny (hatred for dogs). In "Don't like Fencing? Try Fencing!", Blossom is shown watching Design Squad (and also shows that she is a fan of Nate from the show).
• Grandma Ruffman, also voiced by Conroy, is Ruff Ruffman's stubborn grandmother who appeared in eleven episodes so far: Grandma Ruffman's Recipe for Success, The Small Fork Is For Dessert (Unless You're a Dolphin), Tape Loops and Loop-the-Loops, There's Food Safety and Then There's Food Safety, Socket to Me, The People vs. Grandma Ruffman, the FETCH! with Scruff Ruffman Finale, Season Four is Cancelled, Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? It's... Ruffmanman!, Gearing Up for Getting Ruff's Goat, and How to Really Train Your Dog. Like Ruff, she is also pretentious, and animated in Macromedia Flash. As a writer, she attempted to market her products on her grandson's show, and as a grandmother, she constantly fusses about insignificant things, such as Ruff's manners and other FETCHers staying behind in the studio. However, she cares for Ruff, going as far as to retrieve the stolen Fetch 3000 Scruff stole in the premire of Season 4.
• Henry is Ruff's boss. He is only mentioned when Ruff receives phone calls on the "Henry Hotline". Henry provides Ruff with the show's budget and oversees Ruff's spending. He also sent the intern Blossom, his niece's cat, to learn about producing for Season 2. In Season 3 onward, Henry is mentioned less and less, probably because Blossom is now head of the network. It is possible that "Henry" is a reference to Henry Becton, Jr., the former President of WGBH, and currently Vice Chair of the WGBH Board of Trustees.
• Murray is one of Ruff's cousins. He runs the behind-the-scenes technical work, and is constantly blamed for minor problems regarding the show. Unlike the other animated animals, Murray is portrayed by a real basset hound, and sometimes appears in the kids' challenges. Like Ruff, he seems to enjoy being fussed over by the FETCHers. On the first episode of Season 4, Murray quits because he stole a valuable sled from Mrs. Hackensack and replaced himself with Tank.
• Chet, a mouse, is Ruff's new intern. He first appears in When Home is a House of Cards in Season 3 while Ruff is looking for a new intern after Blossom gets promoted. He also doesn't speak and he doesn't seem to have any eyes or limbs either (this was mentioned by Ruff in some episodes) and his general body appearance resembles a computer mouse. He is capable of doing feats that one would normally consider impossible, such as completing an obstacle course in seconds and building a jet engine that runs solely on milkshakes. Like Blossom, Ruff didn't like Chet at first, but was friends with him eventually. Chet's major flaw is taking things the wrong way, some of them indirectly causing challenges for the FETCHers (one example is when Ruff said to "Blow it up", when he was talking about an image for the projector, Chet meant it was to literally blow it up. Another example is when Ruff asked Chet to "give [him] the keys. Great," he literally throws the key to the grate. Another example is when Ruff tells Chet to "Burn it," referring to trashing his wet kibble, Chet puts it in a building on fire)
• Tank is Ruff's new technical worker, replacing Murray after he quits. He is a real bulldog who wears a FETCH! shirt and sometimes radio earmuffs. Though it doesn't seem like it at first, Tank has proven to be a reliable worker; Ruff says that he has Tank because "he's a bruiser (hard worker), and looks good in a FETCH! shirt". A running gag is whenever Ruff calls on Tank, he usually just smiles and pants at the camera, while Ruff replies "Hello? Anyone home in there?".

Supporting characters

• Charlene is Ruff's unrequited love interest. She is a poodle who is only seen in a heart-shaped picture that Ruff periodically pulls out, as well as a newspaper in Season 4's first episode.
• Scruff Ruffman is Ruff's identical (but evil) twin brother. He steals artwork in the episode Scruff Ruffman At Large!, leading to one of the episode's challenges. He also stole the Grand Prize in Season 2, which was recovered by Blossom, and is an expert trapeze artist. He appears twice in Season 3, first in The Ol' Switcheroo, where he is in Ruff's basement, and then in the Finale, where he becomes a host along with Ruff. At the end of the episode, Scruff ends up stealing all of Ruff's stuff and selling it on the internet so that he could pay for luge lessons to remove a curse from the Ruffman ancestry. Season 4's first episode also showed a possible reason for Scruff's criminal antics: to "win glory for the Ruffmans" his way. It is also revealed in that same episode that he cares for his brother, seeing that he had kept photos of him and Ruff taped amongst the prison cell walls. Also, he and Ruff both team up to finish the World Luge Championship which--despite both ending in last place--made them famous for being the first all canine luge team (helping lift the 1000 year sled curse on the Ruffmans and helped Harriet Hackensack like dogs once more). Despite that fame, he was soon sent back to Poodle Island Prison, sending a video to Ruff requesting to send him the Helmet of Victory in "How to Really Train your Dog."
• Ruffael Ruffmanowitz is Ruff's great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather. He was only seen in photographs in a Season 1 episode, The Mystery of the Missing Thing in the Haunted Castle, and is said to be the dog of inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr.. He looks like Ruff, except with hair and a moustache like Albert Einstein's . He also invented the FETCH 100, a primitive version of the FETCH 3000, which unfortunately calculated that 3 plus 3 is 24. The FETCH 100 is a possible reference to Colossus, the first "true" computer ever made.
• Great Uncle McRuffmantosh is Ruff's great uncle who has a beard and speaks with an exaggerated Scottish accent. He has appeared in the episodes The Mystery of DogTopia and Catlantis, The DogVinci Code, Arrgh - All Me Eggs Are Cracked!, and Season Four is Cancelled. He is usually worried about the FETCHers going on potentially dangerous missions and is a believer in legends, monsters, and curses. In the episodes, he usually finds clues for treasure related challenges. His name is a possible pun on the Macintosh computers. At the end of the second episode of Season 4 Uncle McRuffmantosh is on the hunt for the Helmet of Victory. He knows a lot about different legends (ranging from Dogtopia/Catlantis, Blackmuzzle's treasure, and Dogvinci's sketchebook), but ironically has a memory problem (stated in "How to Train Your Dog").
• Spot Spotnik is Ruff's rival. He is tan colored with brown spots in appearance and is mentioned in Send in the Clowns, when the kids build a water balloon launcher to get back at him, in You Lucky Dog when Ruff challenges him to a race, in How to Get Dogs and Doggerel in Better Shape when he tries to win Charlene's love, and in Just Call Him "Spot" when he tricks Ruff into drawing spots on himself with permanent marker. Season 4's first episode showed a picture of Spot, showing him with a much better physical appearance than Ruff. His name is a possible pun on Sputnik. Also in that same episode, Spot sent Ruff a phony fax that told Ruff he was fired so he can wear Ruff's pants and be Charlene's date at the Poodle Ball. However, Ruff's pants had a self-destruct system which left Spot completely humiliated and in front of Charlene to boot, giving Ruff a measure of revenge from Spot's dirty tricks.
• Helga is Ruff's cousin, a fashion designer from Europe. She is shown in the Season 2 episode Take Me Out to the Fashion Show. In that episode, she tells Ruff that if he can get a good enough fashion, she'll let him visit her. She, at first, is mad with his choice of clothes, until the end of the episode (when Ruff's outfit is based on the trash he was supposed to throw away). She appears again in "How to Train Your Dog" in a video, asking Ruff to give her the Helmet of Victory (stating that her birthday was before Grandma Ruffman's and Ruff had to make it up to her)
• Glen (aka Glendalf) is Ruff and Scruff's nephew. He wears braces and is obsessed with magic and fantasy, and makes his first appearance in the Season 3 episode Dog of the Rings to sends the FETCHers to Wing's Castle portrayed as LARPers. He also briefly appears in the beginning of the Season 3 Finale, changing all of the passwords of the Fetch 3000 so that Scruff can run the show instead of Ruff (however, he says he wouldn't have done it if Scruff hadn't "promised him the Scepter of Wogganot", which was nothing more than a toilet brush). He also briefly appeared again in Season 4's first episode telling his uncle to luge. Due to his braces, it is hard to understand what he's saying (An example being what Ruff heard as "Ring Goblet" was Glen actually saying "Wing Goblet"). In Episode #413, Glen adopted a superhero identity after reading comic books and redubbed himself "Ultra-Glen". He also appears in Episode #419, asking Ruff to give him the Helmet of Victory so that he could 'no longer be a looger (loser)" .It is possible that Glen's name is a reference to Glen Berger, the program's head writer.
• Jerry is Grandma Ruffman's parrot friend who is a master at checkers. He often mocks Ruff of his situations. However, in the season 4 finale, he explains to Ruff that his parents are alive (Ruff mentioned to Blossom that they vanished when he was a pup).
• Rüf Rüfman is Ruff's Swedish rock star/environmentalist cousin. He speaks with a Swedish accent and sometimes uses Swedish phrases or sayings. He is seen in Episode #407, when he has a concert booked in South Carolina, but he needs a "green" place to stay, so the Fetchers go build him one, while the others are learning how to play rock.
• Bluff is another of Ruff's cousins. He talks in gangster lingo and wears sunglasses and a gold necklace. According to Ruff's Voicemail, Bluff likes to play Crazy 8's with his friends. His only appearance so far is in When Home is a House of Cards in Season 3. He is seen at the end of "How to Really Train Your Dog", stating that he's selling front row tickets for the family to see the finale (despite Helga mentioning that it was on Television, so he couldn't sell tickets).
• Blackmuzzle is the most feared dog pirate of the seven seas. He appeared at the end of Arrgh - All Me Eggs Are Cracked! for pledging the show with his own loot. Strangely, he's a ghost but is animated as if he was still alive. He appeared in the middle of Season 4's first episode to attack Ruff's doghouse boat because he was bored and Ruff refused to give him Jerry. He told Ruff that he recently acquired the internet so that he doesn't have to be shoutin' from his ship; in response Ruff told him to visit his website, which he does so, allowing Ruff, Blossom, and Chet to lose him.
• Roxy Ruffman is Ruff's sister. She is mentioned in Feeling Sheepish Ruff? where she has Ruff babysit her sheep.
• Ms. Taylor is Ruff's owner. She never appears on the show, but can be heard occasionally calling Ruff to dinner.
• Mrs. Harriet Hackensack is the new owner of Ruff's network company which she has recently bought at the start of Season 4. She dislikes Murray for stealing her valuable sled Rosebud.
• Fleape is a mysterious voice who talked in Ruff's ear with a sultry Latin voice in "Ruff Needs His Herring Checked", giving him advice on wooing Charlene. At first, Ruff thought that maybe he was the only one who could hear the voice because of his sensitive dog hearing, but when he could still hear the voice after using a noise-cancellation box, he began to think he was losing his mind. The voice actually turned out to be a flea who had taken up residence in Ruff's ear.
• Le Purr first surfaced in "Laser/Candid Camera." As Scruff is Ruff's evil twin, Le Purr is Blossom's evil twin (her real name being Duchess Petunia Cupcake Von Yum Yum). The name is pronounced with a slight roll of the "r"s at the end. Le Purr is a master of disguise (as seen in the photo album Blossom keeps in her desk), loves flowers and disco music, and regularly steals flowers that are being delivered and replaces them with CDs of annoying disco music. Her lair is protected by a disco ball which refracts lasers. The difference between identifying Blossom and Petunia is by their glasses (Petunia wears pink cat's eye glasses while Blossom wears round lenses)

Animated settings or things

• The FETCH 3000 is Ruff's personal supercomputer that aids him in running the show. It is occasionally subject to breakdowns and malfunctions in the earlier seasons, but they become less frequent in the later seasons. It can transform into a multitude of machines, shrink into a small cube when not in use, and is semi-sentient, capable of acting on its own.
• Ruff's doghouse, while not a character, should be noted in that its actual size is debatable. The first episode of Season 1 has Ruff say that his doghouse is about 6 feet, but later episodes have Ruff's doghouse the size of a truck at the least, especially in Season 4, when the modified doghouse boat is compared to Blackmuzzle's ship.

Contestants

Season 1

• Noah Ellis
• Taylor Garrson-You might know Taylor from her previous appearances on ZOOM. Taylor has a great sense of humor, an interest in predicting the future, and a knack for getting caught up in some pretty outrageous situations.
• Khalil Mathews
• Brian McGoff
• Julia Garcia
• Anna Sheridan- She the oldest FETCHer, Anna brings maturity and some amazing advanced math skills to the group. She can also speek spanish.

Season 2

• Madison Bader ("Madi")
• William Erickson ("Willie")
• Bridget O'Sullivan[1]
• Rosario Michales
• Michael O'Donnell ("Mike")
• Nina Wadekar

Season 3

• Demetrius John ("DJ")
• Harsha
• Jay Brosnan
• Samuel Blumenfeld ("Sam")
• Noel
• Samantha Rameriz ("Sammy")

Season 4

• Isaac Bean
• Talia Patapoutian
• Sterling Singletary
• Liza Giangrande
• Brian Conry
• Bethany Owens

Season 5

• Shreya
• Emmie
• Marc
• Marco
• TBA
• TBA

External links

• William Erickson's personal website
• Isaac Bean's personal website