Jerry and the Raiders

Discarded as silly action figures for Jerry's 7th birthday, The Galactic Raiders - Bakko and Gant - magically come to life to investigate a mysterious sound coming from down the hall. Waking up their startled "Commander" Jerry, they take him and his 4-year old sister Nicole on a mission to save the neighborhood from what they believe is an invading force trying to steal Jerry's water from a leaking faucet - drop by drop.  “Ruby’s Studio: The Feelings Show” helps young children understand, appropriately express, and move through their big feelings. Featuring curriculum guided by child development expert Betsy Brown Braun. Discarded as silly action figures for Jerry's 7th birthday, The Galactic Raiders - Bakko and Gant - magically come to life to investigate a mysterious sound coming from down the hall. Waking up their startled "Commander" Jerry, they take him and his 4-year old sister Nicole on a mission to save the neighborhood from what they believe is an invading force trying to steal Jerry's water from a leaking faucet - drop by drop.

Excited to go on a family beach outing, Jerry’s mother warns she will leave him with the babysitter if his room is not cleaned in ten minutes. But when Jerry turns on the vacuum (over the protest of the Raiders convinced this Monster Robot from outer space will suck up the neighborhood) Gant becomes ROBO VAC’S first victim. Jerry has to figure out how a vacuum works in order to rescue Gant AND get his room cleaned --with the help of Nicole and the Raiders -- all before ten minutes are up.

Jerry discovers a good use for his math when the Raiders find holes in the lettuce leaves he is picking for Dad. Raiders first blame Nicole but are quickly convinced this Munching Monster must be captured before he eats the whole garden. Raiders to the Rescue! Which results in all the lettuce accidently being ripped up. When the Munching Monster turns out to be garden slugs, Jerry is delighted to see one up close and tells them all about slugs. Dad is not quite as delighted when Jerry brings in all the lettuce, but promises to rid their garden of slugs.

Nicole is devastated to miss Jerry’s first sleep-out in the tree house (she is catching a cold) so her brother teaches her flashlight signals. But while Jerry is inside showing Nicole how, the Raiders spot spies silently flying around the tree house, blinking signals to each other, obviously planning an invasion. Raiders to the Rescue! The sleep-out is ruined as Jerry and the Raiders try to capture the invaders. Finally under a magnifying glass, they discover the magic of fireflies. But by then everyone (but Bakko) falls asleep.

Dad keeps interrupting Jerry’s (and the Raider’s) soccer game to remind him about finishing the jobs he started. But when Jerry forgets to put the garbage lid back on in the shed, strange sounds and shapes scare them. The Raiders are convinced it is the Gruel of Garbage! Raiders to the Rescue! Trying to scare the Gruel away they only make matters worse until they discover it is simply a mother raccoon trying to feed her baby. Jerry now understands why it was a good idea to finish putting the lid on that garbage!

Nicole and the Raiders feel increasingly ignored as Jerry becomes totally absorbed with a new fish he caught in their pond and named Herman. Feeling hurt, the Raiders take a closer look, discovering Herman has legs, which means he is not a fish -- he is a MONFIBIAN -- a monster that eats everything in sight! Raiders to the Rescue! They dump Herman back in the pond. Finding his beloved Herman gone, Jerry now feels terrible. He’s sorry he ignored them but explains Herman was actually a TADPOLE for his school project—and explains the life cycle of a frog. Now Nicole and the Raiders feel terrible. Finally the four of them catch Herman (or a look-alike) and his mother who is a jumping frog.

Realizing he forgot to make anything for his mother’s birthday, Jerry asks Nicole to keep his mother occupied upstairs so he and Raiders can pick blueberries. But a web covering the back door convinces Bakko that they are up against the dreaded Web Master. Jerry explains it is a harmless spider web just as Bakko throws Nicole’s hand-made birthday card into the web to knock it down -- but it gets caught. Jerry orders Bakko to get it down before Nicole freaks out. But Bakko would rather send Gant instead. A daring rescue of Nicole’s card has a happy birthday ending for Jerry’s mom.

Jerry’s best friend Wolf comes over to skateboard, but Dad won’t let Jerry skate until he finds his helmet (if you put things up, you will always find them). Jerry talks the Raiders into helping him look for it in his room- but don’t mess it up! Encountering Fuzzbots under the bed (dust bunnies), ferocious fuzzy creatures that smother everything, the Raiders perform a daring rescue to get Jerry’s helmet, creating a total mess in the room. As the Raiders begrudgingly clean the mess that night, Jerry educates them with the odd and unusual habits and appetite of dust bunnies.

Haircut day! Nicole is excited but Jerry hates change especially changing his hair. Suddenly Nicole wails - her caterpillar Stripey is missing!! The kids ask mom for time to look for Stripey. The Raiders find Stripey. He’s been captured by the Pod Poacher and is trapped inside a pod. The Raiders are about to slingshot the pod over the fence to save them all when Jerry realizes that it might just be a chrysalis. Sure enough, they watch a beautiful monarch emerge— pretty big change for Stripey. They are all so happy that even Jerry is now ready for a change – at least to his hair.

One rainy day Jerry reads Nicole’s favorite poem about a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, boring the Raiders to tears. As the sun comes out, the Raiders spot a rainbow that ends in the garden. Jerry tries to convince them this is just a fable, but they insist on digging to find the pot of gold —hole after hole. Mom is not happy with all the holes in her garden, but when they find GOLD and give it to her, she is very happy. It is her grandmother’s gold ring that she lost a long time ago. That night as Jerry discovers how rainbows work, Bakko is still convinced there is a pot of gold waiting.

The Raiders help Jerry build a model airplane when a new neighbor, 7-year old Jamie, asks for help finding Mr. Rathbone, her cat. Jerry gets his dad to draw a picture for a poster, but the Raiders overhear “long Claws and long teeth” and are convinced a jungle cat is on the loose. They will ‘capture’ it with dad’s camera. When they spot BURNING RED EYES in the back yard, they are terrified. Flying Jerry’s newly built plane to scare off the animal, they sputter and fall to the ground - and almost get caught as not your normal toys , but Jamie is distracted by her cat in the tree. Later, even though Jerry explains how cat’s eyes turn red in reflected light, but Bakko is still sure Burning Eyes is out there.

As Jerry and his friend Wolf perch in the tree house taking pictures of a moon eclipse, Bakko and Gant mistakenly think it is the RED BARRON turning the moon red. He will turn everything and everyone red if they don’t stop him. Seeing the moon’s red reflection in the pond, Gant jumps in to capture him. Jerry has to rescue Gant, trying not to make Wolf suspicious, and misses the actual eclipse. But Wolf got it on camera, and thanks to the Raiders, Jerry comes up with the perfect way to demonstrate the eclipse for their school project.

When Amanda, Jerry’s dreaded babysitter arrives, he and the Raiders pretend to play ‘hide in his closet’ until a terrible odor drives them out. Trying to locate the terrible smell means tearing the house apart, much to Amanda’s dismay. But when they go outside to search, and Nicole chases a sweet black and white’ kitty’ (a skunk), it is the Raiders who save the day. Soaking in a special concoction to get the skunk smell off, the Raiders are less than interested in learning about a sense of smell than in smelling better fast!

Jerry had promised to make a party hat for Nicole but forgot and now realizes he is running out of time. The Raiders decide to give him a hand by stopping time. They sneak down to mom’s special Grandfather clock in the hallway. But when Bakko gets locked inside, swinging dizzily on the pendulum, Jerry must stop work on the hat and figure out how to get Gant inside the clock in a huge rescue operation. By the time Mom and Nicole appear with a cookie party hat, Jerry has saved the day and mom’s clock.

No one can figure out why Nicole loves taking out the compost until the day she accidently drops Jerry’s new pen inside the compost box. When Jerry hears that some guy named “Tom Post” won’t give his pen back Jerry goes with her to confront him quickly realizing Nicole has mistaken ‘compost’ for “Tom Post”. Nicole thinks she is feeding him. Jerry tries to explain to her what compost is and what it does but realizes that Wolf’s comic books (ones he thought he had lost) are very likely in the compost box as well. In a daring and dirty feat, the Raiders dive into the compost box (managing to tip it over) and discover Jerry’s pen and Wolf’s comics, fortunately still in their wrapper.

Dad has a deadline so Jerry offers to make lunch—how hard can it be?! Nicole has gum from a Birthday party she was told not to chew, but she sneaks a piece anyway, chews it, and sticks it on the kitchen table. Curious, Gant steps in it and gets stuck. Desperate to get out of the gum, he gets Bakko’s attention. Bakko is convinced this sticky stuff is a Blibber Blubber plot to trap everyone. Things get worse when Jerry is ready to bring dad in for lunch. Jerry notices the Raiders are stuck to the ceiling, hanging on a bubble-gum thread right over an unsuspecting dad. Once Jerry figures out the properties of gum and how to get gum off surfaces, he rescues the Raiders and even shows his sister how to blow huge bubbles.

When Wolf brings over his brand new robot Riley, the Raiders and Nicole are competitive and jealous. This robot even picks dandelions, a job Jerry had not finished. The Raiders and Nicole decide to show how good they are by attempting to clean the house, but in the process make a total mess. Jerry assures the Raiders that no one can replace them, but he needs all of their help to get this mess cleaned up before dad finishes next door. As Riley starts shorting out, the Raiders come to the rescue to charge him up. At the end of the day, they all appreciate and welcome Riley.

When Jerry’s aunt brings over her new puppy Wilson, both kids compete to take care of him. But the puppy only sleeps. Jerry needs to finish practicing his musical recorder, (despite everyone’s aching ears) and forgets to check – and the puppy disappears. They look everywhere, trying every Raider trick, but no luck. Jerry finds a whistle in the basket, but no sound comes out of it. Disappointed he blows again and to everyone’s surprise the puppy comes. That night they explore human hearing and dog’s hearing. When Bakko makes fun of Jerry’s recorder playing, he tries himself – and even dogs outside howl.

Mom has set up a guessing riddle for the kids. A bowl filled with water under a lamp-light sits on a table in Jerry’s room and they need to guess what it is. Plying her with questions they’re told it is brine shrimp. But when the Raiders find the box mom sent away for and see the picture, they are sure it is a gigantic feather sea monster that will smother them. They try to get rid of it to save Jerry and his family. But Jerry saves the shrimp just in time -- and learns all about the life cycle of brine shrimp. Gant is convinced that eleven pairs of legs and extra eyeballs is just creepy!

Jerry is sleeping out in the treehouse with the Raiders, trying his Knock-Knock jokes on them for show and tell in the morning. Neither Raider understands the jokes right away, but finally Gant does and won’t quit making them up. Gant keeps physically knocking when he says KNOCK-KNOCK. Finally Jerry gets them both to quiet down, but the knocking persists. And there is a terrible smell too. Scared, they check it out. Bakko is convinced it is a Hammer Head – and that could only spell trouble. Finally they capture the monster making the knocking to find it is a fascinating Mink Frog who makes a sound exactly like a hammer knocking. Now Jerry really has something for his show and tell… and he might do one of Gant’s Knock-Knock jokes too.

Just because you are little does not mean you cannot do big thing! Nicole creates a surprise Tea Party for Jerry and Jamie. Jerry is less than excited, but plays along. Of course the Raiders, not happy watching from the tree house, suddenly see a threat-an invasion of MIGHTY MARCHERS who plan to steal the cookies. The Raiders execute a daring and dangerous plan to divert the Marchers, which fails, and a few ants crawl up Jamie's leg, ruining Nicole's party. Devastated, Jerry helps Nicole put the party back together. That night, learning all about ants, Jerry assures Nicole that her party was perfect-as she was the Queen ant, pulling it all together.