While Ruff is trying to build a card table, he interviews the first candidate for his new assistant. This is a mouse named Chet who abruptly moves into the Fetch 3000. Ruff has no choice-Chet is now an employee.
To his dismay, Ruff finds out that it's against the law for a dog to host a reality game show. Wanting to overturn it, Ruff decides to run for Local Dog Officer of Canine-Human Affairs-but he needs to know more about the job of an elected official!
Blossom points out that Ruff is using too much electricity. Ruff protests. Hey, he's only running an electric leaf blower, a vacuum, a blender, all the lights, the washing machine, the dryer, and a karaoke machine...
There's a pirate curse on Ruff's family! Uncle MacRuffmantosh just wrote a book about the curse and their pirate ancestor, Blackmuzzle. To break it, Ruff sends Sammy and Jay to the Florida Keys to search the ocean floor for Blackmuzzle's treasure! Harsha and Sam's challenge is to work at a grocery store and compete in a grocery-bagging showdown!
Ruff agrees to watch his sister's sheep, assuming that "sheep" means one sheep... When hundreds of them arrive, they stampede the doghouse, forcing Ruff and Blossom to barricade themselves inside the bathroom!
Ruff is having a lot of trouble with Chet, his new mouse assistant. Chet needs training, and it would actually be nice if he lived somewhere other than the Fetch 3000. Ruff sends DJ out to a dog obedience school to become an expert trainer. Noel, Sammy and Jay go to an engineering school to construct Chet's new home... out of straw!
The latest poll in Toy Magazine just ranked Ruff's Action-to-the-Maxion Figure "the Worst Toy of the Century." Ruff, who is eating ice cream when a reporter asks for a comment, gets an ice cream headache-Brain Freeze! This inspires Ruff to send Harsha and Sammy to become radio reporters and do a news piece on Brain Freeze. He assigns Noel and DJ to invent a new Ruff Ruffman toy.
Ruff gets scary news: he's been tapped to play goalie in a celebrity hockey tournament! More scary news: his opponents are inmates from Poodle Island, including his twin brother Scruff! Ruff is terrified and sends Harsha and DJ out to engineer a "puck stopper." Meanwhile, Ruff discovers that Scruff is actually living in his doghouse, so he gets Jay to live in Noel's house, and Noel to live in Jay's house for the day.
