FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman (TV Series) Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? It's... Ruffmanman! (2009) User Reviews

The worst twist ever thought of for a kids' show.

[nwzande · 3/10 · 24 March 2024]

SPOILERS: The twist is that Gamma Ray Person is actually Grandma Ruffman, who, I'm not kidding, actually uses gamma rays to reheat her food. Which is just plain disgusting on so many levels. Because it can cause the food to become toxic, radioactive, and just downright inedible, and I'm pretty sure doing so is banned by the FDA. I get that this is both a cartoon and a kids' show, but this is just ridiculous. I'm okay with twists like this, like how in another episode of this show where Glen showcases his obession with cosplaying, it turns out that the goblet isn't filled with rings, but wings, because amusingly, Ruff can't distinguish between whether or not Glen is saying word with Ws or Rs, or how in Long Glen Silver, it's revealed that the Golden Fetchie is a brainwashing device used to make people think they're cats. This twist however doesn't work since it goes against Grandma Ruffman's character, as she would normally be against poisoning her food with anything, since she's very strict about what she puts in her food, especially cakes, and it's the closest thing this show has to a jumping the shark moment. Even without the twist, the episode is just a carbon copy of the last larper episode, just with worse jokes, and a twist that makes no sense, and ruins an already established character.