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Rock Paper Scissors | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Created by |
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Voices of | |
Opening theme | "Rock Paper Scissors" |
Ending theme | "Rock Paper Scissors" (instrumental) |
Composer | Mike Reagan |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 18 |
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Executive producers |
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Production company | Nickelodeon Animation Studio |
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Network | Nickelodeon |
Release | February 11, 2024 – 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]
Aspiring fashion model Rock, inventor Paper and ladies' man Scissors go on all sorts of wild adventures together.
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 once 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, and an exclusive preview of the pilot was introduced at the NFL Nickmas game on December 25, 2023.
Title [3] [4] | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date [3] [4] | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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"TV Time" | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Nick Bachman & Ethan Hegge | December 25, 2023 [lower-alpha 1] | 000 | 0.90 [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. |
No. | Title [3] [4] [7] | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date [3] [4] | Prod. code [8] | U.S. viewers (millions) | |||||
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1 | "The Fart Joke Debate" | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Rebecca Schauer (director), Davey Jarrell | February 11, 2024 | 113B | 0.28 [9] | |||||
When Paper doesn't think that fart jokes are funny, Pencil, Scissors & Rock get help from a old comedian who used to tell stand-up comedy using fart jokes. | |||||||||||
2 | "The First Lou Episode" | Josh Lehrman &Kyle Stegina | James Burks (director),Isaiah Kim | February 11, 2024 | 104B | 0.28 [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 Trapp | James Burks &Ben Bailstreri (directors),Isaiah Kim &David Shair | February 12, 2024 | 106 | 0.16 [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 Porter | James Burks (director),Max Johnson | February 13, 2024 | 107A | 0.14 [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 Stegina | Ben Bailstreri (director),David Shair | February 14, 2024 [lower-alpha 2] | 101B | 0.14 [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 Prescott | James Burks (director),Isaiah Kim | February 14, 2024 | 103A | 0.14 [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 Trapp | Ben Bailstreri (director),Jordan Koch | February 15, 2024 | TBA | N/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 Stegina | Ben Bailstreri (director),Jordan Koch | February 20, 2024 | 108A | 0.13 [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 Stegina | Rebecca Schauer (director),Carmen Liang | February 20, 2024 | 107B | 0.13 [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 Stegina | Rebecca Schauer (director),Carmen Liang | February 21, 2024 | 110A | N/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 Stegina | Rebecca Schauer (director),Carmen Liang | February 26, 2024 | 104A | 0.11 [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 Porter | Ben Bailstreri (director),David Shair | February 27, 2024 | 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 Stegina | James Burks (director),Max Burks | February 28, 2024 [lower-alpha 2] | 101A | 0.09 [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 Trapp | Rebecca Schauer (director),Davey Jarrell | February 29, 2024 | 103B | 0.08 [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 Prescott | Ben Bailstreri (director),David Shair | March 4, 2024 | 105 | 0.12 [8] | |||||
"Eyebrows" | Aram Spencer Porter | Ben 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 Trapp | Rebecca Schauer (director),Carmen Liang | March 5, 2024 | 110B | 0.10 [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 Prescott | Rebecca Schauer (director),Davey Jarrell | March 5, 2024 | 108B | 0.10 [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 Stegina | Rebecca Schauer (director),Carmen Liang | March 6, 2024 | 114B | 0.08 [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. | |||||||||||
TBA | "Pogo Sticks" | TBD | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD | |||||
"Car Wash" | |||||||||||
TBA | "The Other Rock Paper Scissors" | TBD | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD | |||||
TBA | "The Astonishing Catalina" | TBD | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD | |||||
TBA | "The Holiday Picture" [13] | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD | |||||
TBA | "Potato" [14] | TBA | TBA | TBA | 113A | TBD |
Title [3] [4] | Original air date [3] [4] | Prod. code [15] | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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"Lights,Camera,Rock,Paper,Scissors!" | February 5, 2024 | 001 | 0.08 [16] |
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