Max and Ruby- Season 2

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 vignettes (3 per episode) from the second season of this series, which was first broadcast in 2003.

Vignettes

1. Max's Work of Art

Ruby and Louise are painting pictures for the Bunny Scout Art Exhibit - and they use Max as a model. But Max doesn’t want to model – he wants to paint!
* Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Grandma.
* Max's suit is a reference to Max's New Suit.

2. Max Meets Morris

Ruby and Louise think Max and Morris will become friends while they make a banner for the Bunny Scout Picnic. But Morris isn't very good at sharing and wants to play with all of Max's toys, so Max is not eager to make friends.
*Introducing Morris.
*Featuring Ruby, Louise, Max, Morris and Bunny Scout Leader.

3.Ruby's Scavenger Hunt

Bunny Scout Leader has organized a scavenger hunt in the park for all the Bunny Scouts, but Max keeps interrupting Ruby's search. In the end, Max finds the one thing the rest of the Bunny Scouts can't.
*Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise, Valerie and Bunny Scout Leader.
*This is the only episode in the entire season where Valerie is voiced by a different voice actress.

4. Ruby's Hiccups

Max wants Ruby to help him find his monster mask, but Ruby has a bad case of the hiccups. She and Louise try all kinds of remedies, but in the end, it's Grandma who scares her hiccups away.
*Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Grandma.

5. The Big Picture

Ruby wants to take a picture of her and Max for Grandma, but Max is more interested in chasing a butterfly. After "wasting" several pictures, Ruby finally gets a beautiful picture of her, and Max ... and the butterfly.
*Featuring Max, Ruby and Grandma.

6. Ruby's Stage Show

Ruby and Louise decide to put on a show for Grandma, but Max wants to wear his dragon mask instead. Despite all attempts to get him into the prince's role, Max insists on staying in character as the dragon.
*Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Grandma.

7. Max's Froggy Friend

Max makes friends with a frog in the creek and wants to take it home with him. But Ruby is planning a tea party for Grandma and that's no place for a froggy. She tells Max that froggy needs to stay in its home in the creek, but Max - and froggy - have other ideas.
*This episode did introduce Froggy.
*Featuring Max, Froggy, Ruby and Grandma.

8. Max's Music

Ruby, Valerie and Louise are practicing for the Bunny Scout concert. Max wants to play too, but just makes a lot of banging noise. But when the trio can't keep time, Max adds just the right beat and turns the trio into a quartet.
*Featuring Max, Ruby, Valerie, Louise and Mr. Huffington.

9. Max Gets Wet

It's a very hot day and Max wants to go in his swimming pool. But Ruby says they've just had lunch so he's going to have to wait. In the meantime, she decides to water the plants. Finally, Ruby comes up with a solution that allows the plants to get their drink and for Max to get wet without getting a stomach ache.
*Featuring Max and Ruby
*Bunny Scout Leader is mentioned.

10. Ruby's Tea Party

Ruby wants to have a tea party for her dollies, but Max wants to play pirate. When it looks like Ruby's lost the ruby necklace she was going to wear for the tea party, only Pirate Max can help her out.
*Featuring Max and Ruby.

11. Max Is It

Ruby, Louise and Valerie want to play Freeze Tag. Max wants a Slime Dribbler. When Max is It, he freezes everyone ... and seizes the moment to get his slime dribbler.
*Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Valerie.

12. Ruby's Science Project

Ruby and Louise are making a paper pulp volcano for a Bunny Scout project. Max wants sweets. Little do the girls know that Max has a totally different purpose for his Red Hot Marshmallow Squirters than they thought.
*Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Bunny Scout Leader.

13. Ruby's Panda Prize

Ruby wants to win a plush giant panda at the annual fair. Max wants jellyballs. By the time their money's run out, Ruby gets her panda, but not the way she expected.
*Featuring Max, Ruby, Valerie, Mr. Piazza, Roger, The Huffingtons, Rosalinda, Louise and Grandma.
*Roger appears in this episode but he didint make his proper appearance until Roger's choise (like Froggy in Max Drives Away.)

14. Ruby's Roller Skates

Ruby's got a new pair of roller skates and she wants to skate all the way over to Grandma's to surprise her. Max wants to play tow truck ... and in the end, he helps Ruby skate to Grandma's.
*Featuring Max, Ruby and Grandma.

15. Ghost Bunny

The Bunny Scouts are having a jamboree, and the highlight (after marshmallows) is the telling of ghost stories around the campfire. Ruby tells Max he has to go to sleep because the ghost stories will be too scary ... but Max isn't the one who ends up frightened by "Ghost Bunny!"
*Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise, Valerie, Martha and Bunny Scout Leader.

16. Max's Bug Salad

Grandma is having a tea party and Ruby wants to make something special for Grandma's friends. Max wants to play with bugs. Grandma helps Ruby make a gelatin salad, and Max helps Ruby find a "special ingredient".
*Featuring Max, Ruby, Grandma, Rosalinda, Candi and Mrs. Huffington.

17. Ruby's Beach Party

Ruby and Louise decide to have a beach party in the sandbox. Unfortunately, Max and Morris want to use the same space for their dump trucks. The turf war ends happily as they both get their way.
*Featuring Morris, Max, Ruby and Louise.

18. Super Max to the Rescue

Ruby and Louise decide to play circus in the backyard. Max is listening to (and acting out) his favorite radio show - Super Bunny. But when Max sees his trusty friend, Red Rubber Elephant in peril at the circus, it's Super Max, to the rescue!
*Featuring Max, Ruby and Louise.

19. Max's Dragon Shirt

At the Department Store, Max wants a Dragon Shirt but Ruby only has five dollars to buy him a brand new pair of overalls. While a pretty dress distracts Ruby, Max finds his Dragon Shirt. But Ruby doesn't have any money left for his overalls.
*Featuring Max and Ruby.
*This was the last episode to be based on one of Rosemary Wells's "Max and Ruby" books.

20. Max's Rabbit Racer

Ruby and Louise are taking baton twirling lessons from Mrs. Huffington and Max is entertaining himself and Baby Huffington with his Rabbit Racer. When Ruby's baton ends up on the roof, there's only one way to get it down.
*Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise, Mrs. Huffington and Baby Huffington.

21. Roger's Choice

Roger is the cool kid in Ruby and Louise's class and they want him to stop and play with them. Max wants to play with his car and keeps getting in the way as they try to prepare different games for Roger. But when Roger finally arrives, there's only one thing he's interested in playing...
*Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Roger
*This episode did introduce Roger but he only says UH-HUH and UH-UH and he's not saying words until season 3.
*Mr. Piazza was mentioned.

22. Ruby's Pajama Party

Ruby invites Louise and Valerie for a pajama party. Max wants to crash the party. Especially when he sees the snacks.
*Featuring Max, Ruby, Louise and Valerie.
*Grandma and Baby Huffington are mentioned.

23. Baby Max

Ruby and Louise decide it would be fun to pretend they have a baby. Max doesn't think it's such a good idea.
*Featuring Ruby, Louise, Baby Huffington, Mrs. Huffington and Max.

24. Bunny Scout Brownies

Ruby wants to sell her Bunny Scout Brownies to make money for Bunny Scouts. Max wants to help ... and sample the brownies. Just when it looks like Max' help is going to keep Ruby from selling any brownies, Candi surprises both of them.
*Featuring Ruby, Max, Rosalinda, Mr. Piazza, Roger, Louise, Mr and Mrs. Huffington, Baby Huffington, Valerie and Candi.

25. Max's Shadow

Max is enjoying playing with his shadow in the backyard ... until a cloud comes and it disappears. Meanwhile Ruby and Valerie are trying to draw a bunny ballerina, but keep getting interrupted by Max, who wants his shadow to come back.
*Featuring Max, Ruby, Valerie, and Mr. Huffington

26. Max Remembers

Ruby discovers a string tied around Max's finger and leaps to the assumption that he's supposed to remember something. She takes him through the whole house finding all sorts of things Max should have done (and doing them for him) until discovering what the string was really for.
*Featuring Ruby and Max.

27. Ruby's Candy Store

Ruby's learning how to run a candy store with Candi's help. Ruby tells Max he shouldn't eat too much candy or he'll get sick, but she has to sample candies so she "knows the product." Unfortunately, Ruby gets to know the product a little too well.
*Featuring Max, Ruby and Candi.

28. Max's Check up

Ruby and Louise decide to play Doctor’s Office. All they need is a patient. But Max wants to play with his markers.
*Featuring Ruby, Louise and Max.

29. Max's Prize

Ruby and Louise look for special things for Ruby's charm bracelet while Max tries to get to the bottom of the cereal box to get his prize.
*Featuring Ruby, Louise and Max.

30. Space Max

Valerie, Louise and Ruby want to make a beautiful float for the Bunny Scout Parade. But Max wants to play spaceman and soon their float takes a different direction.
*Featuring Max, Valerie, Louise, Bunny Scout Leader and Ruby.

31. Ruby's Figure Eight

Ruby is determined to skate a figure eight. Max, who barely knows how to skate, is equally determined to play hockey with Roger and the big bunnies.
*Featuirng Max, Ruby, Roger, Valerie, Louise and Katie.
*Katie appears in this episode but she not made her proper appearance until Ruby's Surprise Party.

32. Ruby's Surprise Party

Ruby plans a surprise party for Louise and employs Max as the lookout. But Ruby gets more surprised than Louise, and Max gets the cake he was craving.
*Featuring Max, Ruby, Bunny Scout Leader, Valerie, Louise and Katie.
*This episode did introduce Katie.
*These two episodes where it feature Katie ( the first episode is Ruby's Figure Eight ).
*Cameo by Martha.

33. Ruby's Tent

Ruby and Valerie try to put a tent together despite interruptions from ... Super Max.
*Featuring Max, Ruby and Valerie.

34. Ruby Writes a Story

Ruby needs absolute quiet while she tries to write a story. But Max wants to play cowboy. Eventually he helps Ruby come up with the perfect idea for her story.
*Featuring Max and Ruby.

35. Max's Dominoes

Ruby and Louise want to earn their hospitality badge by hosting a Bunny Scout meeting. Max and Morris are busy exploring the domino effect with a variety of toys – which culminates in a terrific welcome for the Bunny Scouts.
*Featuring Max, Morris, Ruby, Louise, Bunny Scout Leader.
*Cameo by Valerie and Martha.

36. Grandma's Attic

In Grandma’s attic, Ruby is delighted to try on old clothes, and Max finds an old chest that Grandma says nobody ever goes into. When he finds the key, they all get a surprise.

*Featuring Max, Ruby and Grandma.
*This episode introduces a place called the Attic.

37. Max's Thanksgiving

Ruby and Max are at Grandma’s to help with Thanksgiving dinner. Ruby is thrilled to help decorate, but Max just wants to sample Grandma’s famous stuffing. Unfortunately, by the time dinner is ready, Max has sampled.
*Featuring Grandma, Max and Ruby.

38. Max's Pretend Friend

Ruby doesn’t see that Max is playing with Froggy and assumes that he’s got a “pretend friend”. When froggy creates chaos, Ruby thinks Max is blaming his “pretend friend” for things he’s done.
*Featuring Ruby, Max and Froggy.

39. Fireman Max

Ruby wants to practice jumping rope for the Bunny Scout Jump-a-thon but Max wants to play Fireman and keeps tripping her up.
*Featuring Max, Louise, Ruby and Bunny Scout Leader.

Trivia

* Morris, Froggy and Roger are the only three characters introduced in this season.
* This was Samantha Morton's last season to voice Ruby.