Max and Ruby- Season 3
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Max and Ruby is a children's television series, based on the books by Rosemary Wells, and which was first broadcast in 2002. This article lists and details episodes from the third season of this series.
[edit] Episodes
[edit] 1. Ruby’s Loose Tooth
Max wants to eat the Triple-Nut-Coconut Crunch muffin that Grandma brought over for them, but Ruby has discovered she lost her loose tooth, and she HAS to find it. Of course they end up finding it in Ruby’s "Muffin!"
- Featuring Max and Ruby.
[edit] 2. Ruby Scores!
Ruby, Louise and Roger are playing soccer. Ruby really wants to score a goal and Louise is cheering her on. But Max keeps getting in the way. Eventually Ruby does score, because of Max’s "Robots!"
- Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Roger.
[edit] 3. Ruby's Sandcastle
Ruby and Grandma are at the beach. Max wants to go in the "Water!" but Ruby wants to make a sandcastle. She sends Max out on a mission for the castle. Ruby ends up making a sandcastle with everything, including a moat with "Water!"
- Featuring Max, Ruby and Grandma.
[edit] 4. Little Red Ruby Hood
Ruby is taking cookies to Grandma and Max wants to have some. Ruby tells a variation on the story of Little Red Riding Hood, in which the Big Bad Wolf ends up eating Grandma’s cookies. Which gives Max a wonderful idea….
- Featuring Max, Ruby and Grandma.
- This was the first episode in this season to have Ruby telling Max a story.
- Another title for this episode is "Ruby Riding Hood".
[edit] 5. Max and the beanstalk
When Max won’t eat his beans, Ruby tells him the story of Jack & the Beanstalk to show him that beans can be wonderful. After they’ve created their own fantasy version of the story, Max does have a different opinion of beans … and happily plants them in the garden!
- Featuring Max and Ruby.
[edit] 6. The Froggy Prince
Ruby and Louise want to act out a play with them as princesses and Max as a prince, but Max wants to play with “Froggy!” so Ruby tells him the story of The Frog Prince, hoping to encourage him to play the prince. However, after their fantasy version of the story is told, Max knows who should play the prince. “Froggy!”
- Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Froggy.
[edit] 7. Ruby Delivers
Ruby has to deliver flyers announcing the Bunny Scout Bake Sale and Max keeps getting in the way with his own flyers – all his flying toys. Just when it looks like Ruby’s not going to get her flyers out in time, Max comes up with a solution, using his own “Flyers!"
- Featuring Max and Ruby.
- Cameos by The Huffingtons.
[edit] 8. Getting Crabby at the Beach
Grandma, Max and Ruby are at the beach, and Ruby wants to create a tidal pool with all kinds of interesting sea creatures, plants and shells in it. But when they keep disappearing, she thinks Max is playing tricks on her. But it’s not Max who’s playing tricks, it’s the sneaky “Crab!”
- Featuring Max, Ruby and Grandma.
[edit] 9. Max Babysits
Ruby goes to help keep an eye on Baby Huffington while she works in the garden. Ruby wants to stop Baby H from crying, and is sure Max’s noisy toys aren’t helping. But in fact, it’s Max’s noisy toys that make Baby Huffington happiest.
- Featuring Max, Ruby, Baby Huffington and Mrs. Huffington.
[edit] 10. Max’s Fireflies
Ruby and Louise are getting ready to go to see the fireworks in the park with Grandma, but Max is focused on catching “Fireflies!”
- Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Grandma.
[edit] 11. Max & Ruby’s Fashion Show
Ruby and Louise are playing in Grandma’s attic and think it would be great fun to have a fashion show in Grandma’s old clothes. They want Max to be in the fashion show too, but Max would rather play “Pirate!”
- Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Grandma.
[edit] 12. Ruby’s Singalong
Ruby is trying to decide what song she’ll perform in the upcoming talent show. Max makes the practicing difficult because he keeps getting his noisy animal toys out and saying “Sing!” In the end, they do a uniquely Max & Ruby interpretation of “Old Macdonald had a Farm”.
- Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Valerie.
- Martha is mentioned.
[edit] 13. Ruby’s Safari
Ruby and Louise have to fill out the last page of their Bunny Scout Scrapbook and they decide to have a safari in the back hard and get a picture of a special creature. Max keeps leading them astray with his animal toys, but in the end, his red rubber elephant attracts a hummingbird, and the girls get their photo.
- Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Bunny Scout Leader.
[edit] 14. Max’s Mudbath
Ruby and Louise have set up the beauty shop again and want to subject Max to an all-natural treatment with crushed up fruits and veggies. Max thinks the treatments look quite tasty, and would rather play in the mud.
- Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Grandma.
[edit] 15. Max’s Lost Lizard
Ruby and Louise are making a terrarium for the Bunny Scout chameleon, and Max is very interested in the “Lizard!” When the chameleon escapes, Max is the only one who sees through its camouflage, and manages to help get it safely back in the girls’ finished terrarium.
- Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Bunny Scout Leader.
[edit] 16. Max & Ruby’s Christmas Tree
It’s time to trim the Christmas tree, and Ruby wants to decorate it with all her favourite ornaments, so the tree will look “Beautiful.” Max thinks his snakes and bugs and other toys are “Beautiful”. In the end, when Ruby discovers they forgot to put the star treetopper on the tree, Max uses one of his toys to put his pinwheel on top. And they both pronounce it “Beautiful!”
- Featuring Max and Ruby.
[edit] =17. Max & Ruby’s Snow Plow
There’s been a huge snowfall and Ruby thinks it would be wonderful to surprise Grandma by shovelling the walk to their house. But Max wants to play with his pedal “Car!” When the job looks too big to finish, Max helps by making a snow plow out of his “Car!”
- Featuring Max, Ruby and Grandma.
[edit] 18. Grandma’s Present
Grandma, Max and Ruby go to the department store to finish their Christmas shopping. Ruby tells Max to keep Grandma busy while she looks for the perfect Christmas present for her. Max and Grandma play with cowboy toys while Ruby finds a boa. But after interruptions from Max, Ruby discovers that someone else has bought the boa. But in the end, everyone is happy with their Christmas “Present!”
- Featuring Max, Ruby and Grandma.
- Cameo by Mr. Huffington.
[edit] 19. Ruby’s Bird Bath
Ruby wants to get her Bunny Scout Young Environmentalist badge by creating an environmentally correct birdbath in their outdoor pool for the migrating birds. Max misinterprets and wants to fill the pool with “Bath toys!” Ruby is worried that his toys are going to scare her birds away, but in the end they are attracted by the rubber ducky – Max’s favourite “Bath Toy!"
- Featuring Max, Ruby and Bunny Scout Leader.
- This is the only episode in this season to have Max seen naked.
[edit] 20. Ruby’s Hippity Hop Dance
Ruby and Louise are trying to remember the steps to the Hippity Hop dance. AS they’re trying to figure it out, Max and Roger keep interrupting with their game of “Football!” finally, when Max scores a touchdown, he and Roger do a victory dance that provides Ruby and Louise with the final step of the Hippity Hop.
- Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise, Roger and Grandma.
[edit] 21. Super Max Saves the World
Ruby and Louise are trying to make a papier mache mobile of the sun, moon and earth for their science project. Max and Morris are playing their favourite super heroes, Super Bunny and Zoom Zoom. The girls are worried that the super heroes are going to ruin their project but in the end, Super Bunny and Zoom Zoom literally save the world!
- Featuring Max, Morris, Louise and Ruby.
- This episode has Morris seen as a super hero. (Zoom Zoom)
[edit] 22. Max & The Easter Bunny
Ruby and the rest of the Bunny Scouts are eager to participate in the annual Easter Egg Hunt. She explains to Max that the Easter Bunny hides the eggs and it’s their job to find them. But when they start finding the same eggs over and over and their baskets aren’t getting any more fully, they suddenly realize that Max has become the “Easter Bunny!"
- Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise, Martha, Valerie and Bunny Scout Leader.
[edit] 23. Ruby’s Easter Bonnet
Ruby is making an Easter Bonnet for the Bunny Scout Easter Bonnet contest. Max is trying to teach Froggy to “hop!” Ruby finally wins top prize for her most original spring Easter Bonnet, when Froggy actually hops right out of her bonnet!
- Featuring Max, Ruby, Bunny Scout Leader, Martha and Valerie
- Cameo by The Huffingtons, Rosalinda, Grandma and Morris.
[edit] 24. Max’s Easter Parade
Ruby is happy decorating Easter Eggs but Max wants a “Parade!” Ruby explains that there’s no Easter Parade, and asks Max to take each egg as she finishes it and put it in a basket to show Grandma. But when Grandma comes, there are no eggs in the basket. Instead, Max has incorporated the eggs and his toys to make his own Easter “Parade!”
- Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Grandma.
[edit] 25. Max’s Snow Day
It’s snowing and blowing, but that doesn’t stop Max from wanting to play “Outside!” Ruby says it’s a Snow Day and tries to engage him in all kinds of inside activities. Max gets finger paints everywhere but the page, gets macramé tangled all around the house and creates chaos with Ruby’s Dolly Tea Party. When the snow stops and Ruby says they can play outside now, Max looks around at all the havoc he’s created and decides he would rather stay “Inside!”
[edit] 26. Max’s Snow Bunny
Max & Ruby are entranced by the radio show The Abominable Snow Bunny, and when they go outside, Max is determined to find it. When he starts finding clues, Ruby reminds him that there’s no such thing … but after a while, she’s starting to wonder if there really is a “Snow Bunny!”
- Featuring Max and Ruby.
[edit] 27. Surprise Ruby!
It’s Ruby’s birthday and she’s very excited. She’s convinced her friends are going to giver her a surprise party. She wants to stay close to home so she’ll be ready for it, but Max keeps luring her away with his own little surprises. He finally leads her to Grandma’s house, and she thinks she’s going to miss the party, but Max says “Surprise!” as Grandma and all Ruby’s friends throw her a party.
- Featuring Max, Ruby and Grandma.
[edit] 28. Ruby’s Party
Ruby’s having a great time at her party, but Max just wants “Cake!” Ruby explains that they can’t have cake until they’ve played all their party games. So Max sets out to ensure that the games are over very quickly so they can get to the “Cake!”
- Featuring Max and Ruby.
[edit] 29. Max’s Present
Ruby and Louise are opening Ruby’s presents after the party. Ruby is as enthralled with the wrapping paper as she is with the presents and wants to save it all. Max keeps intruding, making off with the wrapping paper and eventually getting it stuck all over himself, so in the end, he becomes Ruby’s last birthday “Present!”
- Featuring Max, Ruby and Louise.
[edit] 30. Max’s Ant Farm
The success of Ruby’s fancy dress-up party is threatened when Max’s ants accidentally get out of their ant farm. But Max manages to snag all the ants before anyone notices them, and actually becomes the hit of the party!
- Featuring Max and Ruby.
[edit] =31. Sugar Plum Max
Ruby and Louise want to do the dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, but that involves doing a very difficult pirouette. Max only wants to get to the Sugar Plums that Grandma made, and to Ruby’s surprise, his efforts help her do her pirouette.
[edit] 32. Ruby’s Puppet Show
Ruby and Louise want to put on a puppet show, and Max wants to use his toys as puppets. But they keep telling him his toys aren’t puppets... until one of them turns out to be just right.
[edit] 33. Max’s Jack-o-Lantern
Ruby wants a smiley jack-o-lantern for her Halloween party and Max wants a scary one. Ruby thinks she’s convinced Max until he discovers that a smile turned upside down can look pretty scary.
[edit] 34. Max & Ruby’s Perfect Pumpkin
Max & Ruby go to Mr. Piazza’s to pick out a pumpkin for Halloween. But every time Ruby thinks she’s found the perfect one, she gets distracted by Max, and someone else buys the pumpkin. In the end, Max helps her find a pumpkin that’s just perfect.
[edit] 35. Max’s Big Boo!
Ruby is determined not to be scared by Max’s Halloween pranks, and Max is equally determined to scare her. The last thing Max expects is to have the tables turned!
[edit] =36. Grandma’s Berry Patch
Ruby wants to pick lots of berries from Grandma’s berry patch so Grandma can make her surprise berry recipe. Max is eager to pick berries too – but he wants to eat them right away.
[edit] 37. Ruby’s Bunny Scout Parade
Ruby and Louise want to finish their banner for the Bunny Scout Parade. Max wants to be in the parade too, but it’s just for Bunny Scouts.
[edit] 38. Ruby’s Detective Agency
Ruby and Max are about to go to Grandma’s to see what her surprise is when Ruby discovers that Mrs. Quack has gone missing. This is a job for Ruby’s Detective Agency!
[edit] 39. Max’s Rocket Racer
Max wants to go on the Rocket Racer at the East Bunnyhop Fair, but Ruby and Louise keep showing him the height line and telling him that he’s not tall enough to go on the ride, no matter how many tricks he uses to look taller.
[edit] 40. Max’s Candy Apple
Ruby wants to win a race in the East Bunny Hop Fair, but each time she tries to compete, she gets distracted by Max who wants a Candy Apple. When she ties their legs together for the Three-legged Race she’s sure he won’t be able to get away this time!
[edit] 41. Max’s Blast off!
Ruby and Louise want Max and Morris to put away Max’s rockets in the backyard. It’s Bunny Scout Leader’s birthday and the girls are preparing for a special Bunny Scout meeting. But when Bunny Scout Leader arrives, she gets a surprise show nobody expected!
[edit] Notes
- Ruby's dress was coloured light pink and dark pink in this season.
- First season to have Ruby be voiced by Rebecca Peters.
- No new characters are introduced in this season.
- First season where Grandma becomes unhappy.
- First season to use scene transitions.
- First season to not feature episodes that are based on books by Rosemary Wells.
- Roger actually speaks instead of just saying 'Uh-huh' and 'Unh-uh'.
- When Max nods, instead of saying "yes", his head squeaks.
- First season to have a song, although only three are in this season. (Max we love you, There's no one quite like Ruby, It's great to be a rabbit)
