The DVD

**“The DVD”** is the first episode of season 1 of the Excellent World of Rumball and is the first episode overall.

## Synopsis

Rumball and Hammer Bro go to extreme lengths to avoid paying a DVD fine.

## Plot

The episode begins with Spiffy asking Rumball to return a DVD of ***Bears on a Car*** back to X2 to avoid paying a fine, and after a bit of deliberation and a violent outburst from Spiffy, Rumball fearfully obliges.

He goes to the kitchen to ask Hammer Bro of the DVD's whereabouts, only to find Hammer Bro using the disc to cut a pizza. Rumball grabs it from him and tries to clean it with a sponge, but he accidentally uses the abrasive side, scratching the disc up and causing him to freak out. In the ensuing panic, he accidentally drops the disc into the kitchen sink's garbage disposal, shredding it to pieces. Rumball then decides they need to find a way to replace the DVD without their father finding out what they have done.

First, he tries to replace the DVD with a cardboard cut-out, but the trick fails to deceive Arthur who sends them increasingly urgent notices. Instead of facing the consequences, however, Rumball decides the next best solution is to beg for money on the street to pay off their debt, though unsurprisingly, it too fails to work (with Coiny getting rich in the process by taking their earnings and winning the lottery).

Back at home, Rumball and Hammer Bro search for jobs in the newspaper, eventually settling on a job in cosmetics for make-up testing. The two go in a booth that manually applies the make-up, but Rumball suffers an allergic reaction, horrifying the employee.

They return home once more, where Rumball discovers a bunch of more letters from X2. He realizes that he and Hammer Bro are in trouble and he tells Hammer Bro that they have to hide the letters before Spiffy gets home. Then, they get a call from him who suspects something is amiss; when the two try to assure him that the situation is under control, he suspects that they are lying and tells them he is coming home. Panicked, they double down on one last resort, however degrading and unlikely to work it may be. Right as Spiffy arrives and discovers the letters from X2 and becomes enraged, Rumball and Hammer Bro run away from the house. A chase ensues, with Spiffy trying to chase them down to reprimand them, but it ends when he accidentally slams into a wall.

Rumball and Hammer Bro arrive at X2 and hand over the DVD, which turns out to be a homemade version of *Bears on a Car*, featuring cardboard cut-outs and the pair's names exclusively in the credits. Unconvinced, Arthur orders Rumball and Hammer Bro to return the original DVD immediately. Upon hearing this, Rumball and Hammer Bro cry and confess what happened to the DVD and beg Arthur not to tell Spiffy, who turns out to be right behind them. He pays off the fine of thirty dollars for the lost DVD, telling Rumball and Hammer Bro that he still loves them no matter what they do. Unfortunately, he fails to account for the late fee on the DVD, totaling seven hundred dollars, and the episode ends with a freeze-frame of them running away from Arthur to avoid paying it off.

## Trivia

This episode has a merchandise DVD named after it.

A mobile application, *Backyard Bolt*, centers around Spiffy’s chase after Rumball and Hammer Bro.

* Spiffy is the first character to speak in this episode, making her the first character to speak in the entire series. If one counts the early reel, Rumball is the first character to speak.
	+ Spiffy and Rumball are the first characters to appear in this episode, making them the first characters to appear in the entire series.
* This episode reveals that Rumball is allergic to make-up, as shown when his face is severely swollen during the scene where they try to get money from doing a make-up test.
* When this episode is shown by itself, or when it is seen on Fiji, an extended version of the *Bears on a Car* credit song will play on the closing credits of the episode. It is the only episode to have an alternate credits theme.
* Assuming thirty days is a month, a late fee of $700 over three months and three days means that it costs around $7.50 a day to rent from X2.
* A preview of the episode aired on June 4, 2012, and gathered 2.120 million viewers. When the full episode aired on June 10, 2012, it gathered 1.937 million viewers.
* Though this episode aired in the United States as the series premiere, it was actually the final episode of season 1 to be produced and actually the final episode of season 1 on Watchflix.