A Ruff Start

A Ruff Start is the first episode of Battle of the Breeds. It premiered on YouTube on January 29, 2017. In this episode, we meet the 20 contestants as they survive their first contest.

Plot
Paw welcomes the viewers to Battle of the Breeds and takes the audience around showing them the elimination place and the Box of Losers. He then says to let the games begin, starting the intro.

After the intro Cookie and Pencil Top are introduced asking the challenge. Then Paw shows them the confession box where the contestants can confess what they're feeling about the show. Cookie then introduces herself in the box.

Then Paw reveals the contest, to stay on balance beam the longest. The last two remaining will be the team captains. The rules are simple; horseplay is allowed. Pencil Top and Battery are the first ones to get out; Domino kicks Battery off and Pencil Top accidentally jumps off to escape Domino. Rango and Mug decide to help eachother during the contest. Meanwhile, Caney and Carrot are fighting because Caney can't boss her around due to her lack of speech. Carrot calls her an idiot through literal sign language and they fight offscreen. Paw says this is taking forever and grabs a remote saying he didn't want to do this, but then he said he actually did. He presses the big red button on their remote prompting a giant explosion to happen.

This kills most of the people on the beam except for Rango, Mug and Caney. Rango punches Caney off, making Rango and Mug win the contest and become the team captains. Paw says to catch them in the next episode, ending the episode.

Trivia

 * This is technically the first episode of the BOTB reboot since the original 2016 BOTB was cancelled after 1 episode.
 * The explosion came from the season 2 episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, "Dying for Pie". Gabriel is a huge fan of the show which can explain the use of the explosion.
 * Cookie is the first contestant to speak.