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Rock Paper Scissors (TV series)

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Rock Paper Scissors
GenreComedy
Created by
  • Kyle Stegina
  • Josh Lehrman
Voices of
Opening theme"Rock Paper Scissors"
Ending theme"Rock Paper Scissors" (instrumental)
ComposerMike Reagan
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes27
Production
Executive producers
Production companyNickelodeon Animation Studio
Original release
NetworkNickelodeon
ReleaseFebruary 11, 2024 (2024-02-11) –
present

Rock Paper Scissors is an American animated comedy television series created by Kyle Stegina and Josh Lehrman for Nickelodeon. It premiered on February 11, 2024, airing after the network's alternate broadcast of Super Bowl LVIII.[1]

Plot

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Aspiring fashion model Rock, inventor Paper and ladies' man Scissors go on all sorts of wild adventures together.

Production

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After graduating from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 2008, Josh Lehrman worked on Family Guy, Brickleberry, and Robot Chicken. During these gigs, Lehrman tried to come up with his own show ideas. Thankfully, he and his writing partner Kyle Stegina would soon receive professional help with their ideas. Lehrman and Stegina's managers submitted applications to the Disney Channel's Storytellers program in 2014, and their applications were accepted.

During the Storytellers program, Lehrman and Stegina developed what would later become their three-season Disney series Bizaardvark. After the show ended in 2019, Lehrman discovered an opportunity at the competing channel Nickelodeon: the Intergalactic Shorts program. The program was "searching for new and diverse creators from across the globe, focusing on new voices and nurturing their vision for original comedy-driven content with an eye toward representation." Lehrman paired up with Stegina again to pitch Rock, Paper, Scissors as part of the program.

"We knew we were onto something special with creators Kyle Stegina and Josh Lehrman and their hilarious characters in Rock, Paper, Scissors, which we are so proud to bring to series," said Nickelodeon Animation head Ramsey Naito. "Finding and growing talent through the process of pitch to hit is what powers our Intergalactic Shorts program, and we can't wait to get started finding the next great creator in animation through our program's just-launched second phase."

The full pilot episode was released on August 19, 2023, on the Nicktoons YouTube channel[citation needed], and an exclusive preview of the pilot was introduced at the NFL Nickmas game on December 25, 2023.

Characters

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Main

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  • Rock (voiced by Ron Funches) – A model rock who has a big heart but low intelligence.
  • Paper (voiced by Thomas Lennon) – A strip of paper who is an inventor and usually the voice of reason. He is also Sandpaper's younger brother.
  • Scissors (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui) – An insecure bad boy humanoid pair of scissors who schemes and mooches.

Supporting

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  • Pencil (voiced by Melissa Villaseñor) – An anthropomorphic pencil and Paper's smart crush.
  • Lou Zer (voiced by Eddie Pepitone)[2] – The trio's very bad-tempered bucket full of trash landlord. His catchphrase is "I'm raising the rent!"
  • The Rat Bros (all voiced by Ray Chase) – A group of four cocky rats named Logan, Brody, Brogan, and Dirf who love to party.

Minor

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  • Sandpaper (voiced by Lauren Ash) – Paper's older sister and an over-the-top action movie star.
  • Potato (voiced by Betsy Sodaro) – Rock's "go with the flow" potato friend.
  • Chad Brockchad (voiced by Diedrich Bader) – A con artist who constantly scams the three protagonists.

Episodes

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Pilot (2023)

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Title [3][4]Written byStoryboarded byOriginal air date [3][4]Prod.
code		U.S. viewers
(millions)
"TV Time"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaNick Bachman & Ethan HeggeDecember 25, 2023 (2023-12-25)[a]0000.90[6]
Rock, Paper and Scissors fight over the TV until Scissors brings in an anthropomorphic shark that watches reality TV. The trio try to get their TV back, though one of plans turns into developing a stage show, in which the shark thinks the whole world should see. It was planned out for 9 months, but had forgotten their original plan of getting the TV back. They end up in a game of elimination of a reality TV show, and the shark decides to vote himself to get eliminated, and with an additional from Paper, gets eliminated, as everything goes back to normal until the house gets bulldozed.

Season 1 (2024)

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No.Title [3][4][7]Written byStoryboarded byOriginal air date [3][4]Prod.
code [8]		U.S. viewers
(millions)
1"The Fart Joke Debate"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaRebecca Schauer (director), Davey JarrellFebruary 11, 2024 (2024-02-11)113B0.28[9]
When Paper doesn't think that fart jokes are funny, Pencil, Scissors & Rock get help from an old comedian who used to tell stand-up comedy using fart jokes.
2"The First Lou Episode"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaJames Burks (director), Isaiah KimFebruary 11, 2024 (2024-02-11)104B0.28[9]
In order to make him lower the rent, Rock, Paper & Scissors help their grumpy landlord Lou on his bucket list for one thing: becoming a pop star.
3"Scissors Gets a Job"Mike TrappJames Burks (director), Isaiah Kim
Ben Bailstreri (director), David Shair		February 12, 2024 (2024-02-12)1060.16[8]
Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina
Scissors, struggling to make ends meet, is repeatedly fired from various jobs until he lands a position as a janitor for a secret crime-fighting organization, embarking on his first (and only) mission to confront a supervillain alongside his fellow janitors.
4"The Arctic"Aram Spencer PorterJames Burks (director), Max JohnsonFebruary 13, 2024 (2024-02-13)107A0.14[8]
After the heater breaks, freezing their apartment, Paper tries to save his friends while Lou attends Landlord Con.
5"Paper's Big Lie"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaBen Bailstreri (director), David ShairFebruary 14, 2024 (2024-02-14)[b]101B0.14[8]
Paper falls in love with his next door neighbor Pencil, and when he becomes desperate to impress her, he lies about being a proper inventor. Things spill over when he ends up being the Earth's only hope against an alien invasion led by hippos.
6"Weekend Story"Julia PrescottJames Burks (director), Isaiah KimFebruary 14, 2024 (2024-02-14)103A0.14[8]
Paper, wanting to impress Pencil, enlists the help of Scissors to come up with an interesting weekend story. They do everything from skydiving, meeting pirates and even training a pair of tortoises in martial arts, but it's all overshadowed by Rock's amazing story: buying a hat.
7"Scrubs"Mike TrappBen Bailstreri (director), Jordan KochFebruary 15, 2024 (2024-02-15)111BN/A
When Scissors points out and is annoyed by the fact that Paper is wearing scrubs and pretending to be a doctor to gain people's respect, he also pretends to be a famous basketball star, thus leading them to go at each other's throats until one of them confesses that they aren't who they say they are.
8"Key Limes"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaBen Bailstreri (director), Jordan KochFebruary 20, 2024 (2024-02-20)108A0.13[8]
It's Roommate Appreciation Day, and Paper's action star sister, Sandpaper, decides to drop by. Having blown up the key limes they needed to make Paper's signature key lime pie, Sandpaper and the trio go on an unnecessarily action-packed journey to get another batch of limes.
9"Prank War"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaRebecca Schauer (director), Carmen LiangFebruary 20, 2024 (2024-02-20)107B0.13[8]
Having lost 10 years in a row to the Rat Bros, Rock and Scissors bring on Paper to help them win their prank war. But to their dismay, Pencil joins the Rat Bros' team and invents a laser that can alter their genetic code, making their jobs a lot harder.
10"Pencil Comes Over"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaRebecca Schauer (director), Carmen LiangFebruary 21, 2024 (2024-02-21)110AN/A
When Pencil visits to watch a horror movie, Paper is worried that he won't be able to handle it, so he decides to use Pencil's calming glasses. However, he grabs the wrong pair of glasses and instead of helping him get through the movie, they make Paper's lies come back to haunt him.
11"Hide and Seek"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaRebecca Schauer (director), Carmen LiangFebruary 26, 2024 (2024-02-26)104A0.11[8]
Having lost to Scissors multiple times, Paper is determined to beat him in a game of hide and seek. But when he and Rock are not able to find him in any part of the world, they figure out Scissors is hiding somewhere in time, leading them to finally find him and finish the game.
12"Paper's Secret Weapon"Aram Spencer PorterBen Bailstreri (director), David ShairFebruary 27, 2024 (2024-02-27)114A[12]N/A
Rock and Scissors are worried that Paper will once again lose at the Inventor's Fair and become an emotional wreck, but when they notice that Paper makes actually functioning inventions whenever he's angry, they and Pencil, as his friends, try to make him incredibly angry so he can make a decent invention to win the fair.
13"Birthday Police"
"The Birthday Police"		Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaJames Burks (director), Max JohnsonFebruary 28, 2024 (2024-02-28)[b]101A0.09[8]
When Scissors constructs a lie that it was Rock's birthday in an opportunity to get free cake, the trio gets caught and is on the run from the Birthday Police, and hide in an underground cave with other people who have done the same thing.
14"Putty"Mike TrappRebecca Schauer (director), Davey JarrellFebruary 29, 2024 (2024-02-29)103B0.08[8]
The trio gets along with a new friend named Putty, so much that they want to invite him into their trio, but since there can't be four people in a trio, they all get scared thinking that one of them could be replaced, so they all try to cement their spots in the trio.
15"The Susan"Julia PrescottBen Bailstreri (director), David ShairMarch 4, 2024 (2024-03-04)1050.12[8]
"Eyebrows"Aram Spencer PorterBen Bailstreri (director), Jordan Koch

The trio tries to enter their car, which they affectionately call The Susan, into a car show. But when they see how talented the other cars are, they try to turn her into a more normal, acceptable car to win the show.

Rock gets a modeling gig and is super excited about it, but when his barber accidentally shaves off his eyebrows, Paper makes him a set of animatronic eyebrows to help him out, only for the eyebrows to get the gig rather than Rock. Scissors hires two actors to play Rock and Paper since they can't join him on his jungle adventure.
16"The Wind"Mike TrappRebecca Schauer (director), Carmen LiangMarch 5, 2024 (2024-03-05)110B0.10[8]
The news reports that there'll be a light breeze around town, but Rock and Scissors are worried as Paper is out on the street. The wind traps Paper and he now has to find a way to safely escape, with Rock and Scissors attempting to help.
17"Six Pieces of Turkey"Julia PrescottRebecca Schauer (director), Davey JarrellMarch 5, 2024 (2024-03-05)108B0.10[8]
Rock finds out that the amount of turkey in his microwave dinner is only 4 instead of the 6 pieces advertised on the box, so he stages a protest next to the headquarters of the company that produces the meals to make them change it to have 6 pieces as advertised.
18"The Sled Hill"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaRebecca Schauer (director), Carmen LiangMarch 6, 2024 (2024-03-06)114B0.08[8]
Scissors sleds down a dangerous, snowy hill that Paper deliberately warned him not to, breaking his arm in the process. Paper, who doesn't realize that Scissors did exactly what he expected him to, takes him to an extreme adventure park as a reward for resisting his intuition. Rock tries to get Scissors to tell Paper the truth, but Scissors doesn't want Paper to brag about being right and going into a whole musical production.
19"National Paper Day"Juila PrescottIsaiah Kim (director), David ShairJuly 13, 2024 (2024-07-13)117A0.12
When Paper finds out about Rock's holiday National Rock Day, he desires a holiday about paper. After failing to prove himself worthy of one to the Council of Holidays, he goes to a machine indexing all of the holidays and deletes National Rasberry Cake Day from the calendar, sending the world into chaos. Meanwhile, Scissors keeps the National Rock Day spirit going by dragging the marching band parade into different events the marchers are missing out on over many days and weeks, calling it "an apology tour."
20"Pogo Sticks"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaBen Bailstreri (director), Jordan KochJuly 15, 2024 (2024-07-15)102ATBD
In order to join the Rat Bros' party and be cool, the trio seek to obtain a set of pogo sticks. When all else fails, they go and meet the woman who controls all things cool to help make them relevant, but they are rejected when that woman turns out to be the girl that Scissors happened to not invite to his birthday party. In the end, Rock realizes that the gang doesn't need to follow trends to be cool, but Paper and Scissors run off to find the next cool thing: six-foot phones.
21"Car Wash"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaRebecca Schauer (director), Davey JarrellJuly 16, 2024 (2024-07-16)102BTBD
Rock has to find a new job after he accidentally destroys a car at the car wash, attempting to land a gig at an evil robot corporation who plans to destroy the world. Paper and Scissors try to warn him and enter the workplace as faux-employees, but they get caught up in trying to outdo each other as smarter members of the corporation in a business meeting.
22"The Other Rock Paper Scissors"Aram Spencer PorterJames Burks (director), Max JohnsonJuly 17, 2024 (2024-07-17)109ATBD
When the trio receive a gift basket from Canada that they don't remember getting, they find out it belongs to another trio also named Rock, Paper and Scissors who are better people than them in every way. Jealous of them, they try to find dirt on them to prove they aren't who they say they are. Alas, they cannot, but while trying to be more like them, they come across yet another trio who worse than them, making them feel better.
23"The Astonishing Catalina"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaJames Burks (director), Isaiah KimJuly 18, 2024 (2024-07-18)109BTBD
Scissors has a beef with a magician named Catalina about a magic trick that she wanted to do and he ended up humiliating her, so it's up to Rock and Paper to end their feud.
24"The Holiday Picture"Juila PrescottRebecca Schauer (director), Davey JarrellJuly 22, 2024 (2024-07-22)111ATBD
The trio always end up with a not so perfect photo for Christmas every year, so this year they want the photo to go right, but they run into problems taking it. Note: A reference to "Rocko's Modern Life" when Rock has on Rocko's signature shirt in a photo and Carlos Alazraqui as Scissors does a spot-on Rocko voice.
25"Bowling"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaJames Burks (director), Isaiah KimJuly 23, 2024 (2024-07-23)112ATBD
Rock challenges Scissors to a game of bowling when Scissors has an addiction to the bowling alley's curly fries and he gets free games and takes advantages of deals. Meanwhile, Paper and Pencil try to put their two legs on together at a time in pants.
26"The Character Quiz"Aram Spencer PorterBen Bailsteri (director), David ShairJuly 24, 2024 (2024-07-24)112BTBD
Rock trys to prove to everyone that he's not who he thinks he is when he is given the worst result on a character quiz while Paper and Scissors star in the sitcom: "The Gang's All Here" about 27 characters living under the same roof and their 1,000th episode is gonna be live.
27"Potato"[13]Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaJames Burks (director), Max JohnsonJuly 25, 2024 (2024-07-25)113ATBD
Paper becomes jealous when his friends start to like Potato, who makes everyone laugh. Paper attempts to win back their attention.
TBA"Scissors' Catapult"Mike TrappBen Ballisteri & Isaiah Kim (directors), Jackie LeeTBA115TBD
"Pencil and Potato"Julia PrescottJames Burks (director), Max Johnson
TBA"Resolutions"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaJames Burks (director), Taylor Chang, Amanda TranTBA116TBD
"Paper's Book Club"Rebecca Schauer (director), Davey Jarrell
TBA"Helping with the Groceries"[14]Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaRebecca Schauer (director), Carmen LiangTBA117BTBD
TBA"The Family Business"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaJames Burks (director), Max JohnsonTBA118TBD
"Glitter Bomb"Rebecca Schauer (director), Davey Jarrell
TBA"Diapers"Mike TrappIsaiah Kim (director), Jordan KochTBA119TBD
"R.O.V.E.R."Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaJames Burks (director), Amanda Tran, Taylor Chang, Max Johnson
TBA"Trash"Josh Lehrman & Kyle SteginaIsaiah Kim (director), David ShairTBA120TBD
Ron RappaportRebecca Schauer (director), Carmen Liang

Special

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Title [3][4]Original air date [3][4]Prod.
code [15]		U.S. viewers
(millions)
"Lights, Camera, Rock, Paper, Scissors!"February 5, 2024 (2024-02-05)0010.08[16]

Notes

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  1. ^ This short aired as a "sneak peek" of the series at 2:30pm during the 2023 NFL Nickmas game. It was also released on the Nicktoons YouTube channel on August 19, 2023.[5]
  2. ^ a b This episode was first released on video on demand on August 22, 2023. "Birthday Police" was released on YouTube on September 2, 2023.[10] "Paper's Big Lie" was released on YouTube on October 7, 2023.[11] The episode was originally going to debut on November 6, 2023, although it would eventually be pulled.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Nickelodeon Sets 'Rock Paper Scissors' Series Launch". Animation World Network. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
  2. ^ "NICKELODEON INTRODUCES ROCK PAPER SCISSORS, DEBUTING FEBRUARY 12, 2024" (Press release). Nickelodeon. Retrieved December 30, 2023 – via PR Newswire.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Rock Paper Scissors Episode Listings". The Futon Critic.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Rock Paper Scissors Episode Guide". Zap2it.
  5. ^ FULL EPISODE: Rock Paper Scissors 🪨📄✂️ Brand New Nicktoon! | Nicktoons. Nicktoons. August 19, 2023 – via YouTube.
  6. ^ "Nick NFL Singles Ratings on Nickelodeon". USTVDB. December 25, 2023. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
  7. ^ a b "Rock Paper Scissors Season 1". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Rock Paper Scissors Ratings on Nickelodeon". USTVDB. February 14, 2024. Retrieved March 8, 2024.
  9. ^ a b Rebecca Bunch (February 14, 2024). "Sunday Cable Ratings 2/11/24: Puppy Bowl Steady with 2023, Curb Your Enthusiasm and True Detective Slide to New Lows Against Super Bowl". The TV Ratings Guide.
  10. ^ FULL EPISODE: Rock Paper Scissors 'The Birthday Police' 🎂🥳 BRAND NEW – Nicktoons. September 2, 2023. Retrieved January 25, 2024 – via YouTube.
  11. ^ FULL EPISODE: Rock Paper Scissors! – Paper Defeats an Alien Invasion – Nicktoons. October 7, 2023. Retrieved January 25, 2024 – via YouTube.
  12. ^ This episode is listed in the credits of The Sled Hill, making them sister episodes and confirming its production code.
  13. ^ Credits of The Fart Joke Debate
  14. ^ Credits of National Paper Day
  15. ^ "Rock Paper Scissors Ratings on Nicktoons". USTVDB. February 14, 2024. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
  16. ^ "Lights, Camera, RPS! Ratings on Nickelodeon". USTVDB. February 5, 2024. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
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