Rock Paper Scissors (TV series)
American animated series
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Rock Paper Scissors is an American animated comedy television series created by Kyle Stegina and Josh Lehrman for Nickelodeon. The first original production to originate from the Nickelodeon Intergalactic Shorts Program, it revolves around three friends: aspiring fashion model Rock, inventor Paper, and desperate-to-be-cool Scissors, who go on all sorts of wild adventures together. The show was picked up for a full release in 2021;[1] the first episodes were released on YouTube on August 19, 2023, and officially premiered on Nickelodeon on February 11, 2024, airing after the network's alternate broadcast of Super Bowl LVIII.[2]
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| Genre | Comedy |
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| 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 | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 37 |
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| Production company | Nickelodeon Animation Studio |
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| Network | Nickelodeon |
| Release | February 11, 2024 – present |
The series was renewed for two additional seasons on April 24, 2025, with the second season premiering in November 2025, while the third season premiered in June 2026.[3]
Plot
Aspiring fashion model Rock, inventor Paper, and desperate-to-be-cool Scissors go on all sorts of wild adventures together.
Characters
Main
- Rock (voiced by Ron Funches) – A model rock who has a big heart.
- 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 does mischievous schemes and mooches.
Supporting
- Pencil (voiced by Melissa Villaseñor) – A smart anthropomorphic pencil and Paper's crush.
- Lou Zer (voiced by Eddie Pepitone)[4] – The trio's very bad-tempered trash bucket landlord. His catchphrase is "I'm raising the rent!". His name is a pun on the term "loser".
- The Rat Bros (all voiced by Ray Chase) – A group of four arrogant rat brothers named Logan, Brody, Brogan, and Dirf who love to party. Their repeated catchphrase is "Nice, bro!".
- Sandpaper (voiced by Lauren Ash) – Paper's older sister who works as an action movie star. She tends to turn mundane tasks into dramatic movie sequences.
- The Astonishing Catalina (voiced by Marlene Martinez) – Scissors' nemesis, a magician who uses her magic tricks to torment Scissors.
- Potato (voiced by Betsy Sodaro) – Rock's "go-with-the-flow" potato friend.
- Putty (voiced by Eugene Cordero) - A talking ball of purple putty who is friends with the trio. He can only repeat several simple phrases, such as "Haha, yeah!" and "You guys are the best."
Minor
- Lolly (voiced by Alessia Cara)[5] - A talking lollipop who is a famous pop star.
- Officer Wishkowski (voiced by Carla Gugino)[5] - An aggressive police officer who arrests people who lie about their birthdays.
- Chad Brockchad (voiced by Diedrich Bader) – A con artist who constantly scams the three protagonists.
Episodes
Series overview
Pilot (2023)
| Title [6][7][8] | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original release date [6][7][8] | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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| "TV Time" | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Nick Bachman & Ethan Hegge | August 19, 2023 (YouTube) December 25, 2023 (Nickelodeon)[a] | 000 | 0.90[10] |
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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 their 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 help from Paper, gets eliminated, as everything goes back to normal until the house gets bulldozed. | |||||
Special (2024)
Season 1 (2024)
The episodes are ordered below according to Nickelodeon's packaging order, and not their broadcast order.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [6][7][13][8] | Storyboard directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original release date [6][7][8] | Prod. code [14] | U.S. viewers (millions) | ||||||
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| 1 | 1 | "Birthday Police" | James Burks | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Max Johnson | February 28, 2024[b] | 101 | 0.09[14] | ||||||
| "Paper's Big Lie" | Ben Balistreri | David Shair | February 14, 2024[b] | 0.14[14] | ||||||||||
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When Scissors constructs a lie that it is Rock's birthday in an opportunity to get free cake, the trio get caught, end up on the run from the Birthday Police, and hide in an underground cave with other people who have done the same thing. 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. | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Pogo Sticks" | Ben Balistreri | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Davey Jarrell | July 15, 2024 | 102 | 0.06[17] | ||||||
| "Car Wash" | Rebecca Schauer | David Shair | July 16, 2024 | 0.08[17] | ||||||||||
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In order to join the Rat Bros' pogo stick party and be cool, the trio seek to obtain a set of pogo sticks. When all else fails, they go and meet Georgie, the Queen of Uncool, who controls all things cool to help make them relevant, but they are rejected when that Georgie turns out to be the girl that Scissors did 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. Rock has to find a new job after he accidentally destroys a car repeatedly 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. | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Weekend Story" | James Burks | Julia Prescott | Isaiah Kim | February 14, 2024 | 103 | 0.14[14] | ||||||
| "Putty" | Rebecca Schauer | Mike Trapp | Davey Jarrell | February 29, 2024 | 0.08[14] | |||||||||
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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. The trio get 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. | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Hide and Seek" | Rebecca Schauer | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Carmen Liang | February 26, 2024 | 104 | 0.11[14] | ||||||
| "The First Lou Episode" | James Burks | Isaiah Kim | February 11, 2024[c] | 0.08[14] | ||||||||||
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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. 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. | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | 5 | "The Susan" | Ben Balistreri | Julia Prescott | David Shair | March 4, 2024 | 105 | 0.12[14] | ||||||
| "Eyebrows" | Aram Spencer Porter | Jordan Koch | ||||||||||||
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The trio try 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. Meanwhile, Scissors hires two actors to play Rock and Paper since they can't join him on his jungle adventure. | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Scissors Gets a Job" | James Burks & Ben Balistreri | Mike Trapp, Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Isaiah Kim & David Shair | February 12, 2024 | 106 | 0.16[14] | ||||||
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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. | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Arctic" | James Burks | Aram Spencer Porter | Max Johnson | February 13, 2024 | 107 | 0.14[14] | ||||||
| "Prank War" | Rebecca Schauer | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Carmen Liang | February 20, 2024 | 0.13[14] | |||||||||
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After the heater breaks, freezing their apartment, Paper tries to save his friends while Lou attends Landlord Con. 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 sides with the Rat Bros and invents a laser that can alter their genetic code, making their jobs a lot harder. | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Key Limes" | Ben Balistreri | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Jordan Koch | February 20, 2024 | 108 | 0.13[14] | ||||||
| "Six Pieces of Turkey" | Rebecca Schauer | Julia Prescott | Davey Jarrell | March 5, 2024 | 0.10[14] | |||||||||
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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. Rock finds out that the amount of turkey in his microwave dinner is only four instead of the six 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 six pieces as advertised. | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | 9 | "The Other Rock Paper Scissors" | James Burks | Aram Spencer Porter | Max Johnson | July 17, 2024 | 109 | 0.10[17] | ||||||
| "The Astonishing Catalina" | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Isaiah Kim | July 18, 2024 | 0.07[17] | ||||||||||
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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 are worse than them, making them feel better. Scissors has a fight 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. | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Pencil Comes Over" | Rebecca Schauer | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Carmen Liang | February 21, 2024 | 110 | 0.10[17] | ||||||
| "The Wind" | Mike Trapp | March 5, 2024 | 0.10[14] | |||||||||||
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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 accidentally 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. The news reports that there'll be a light breeze around town, but Rock and Scissors are worried that Paper is out on the street. The wind blows Paper away and now he has to find a way to safely escape, with Rock and Scissors attempting to help. | ||||||||||||||
| 11 | 11 | "The Holiday Picture" | Rebecca Schauer | Juila Prescott | Davey Jarrell | July 22, 2024 | 111 | 0.13[17] | ||||||
| "Scrubs" | Ben Balistreri | Mike Trapp | Jordan Koch | February 15, 2024 | 0.08[17] | |||||||||
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The trio always end up with a not so perfect photo for the holidays every year, so this year they want the photo to go right, but they run into ghostly problems taking it. Note: This episode includes 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 perfect Rocko impression.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. | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Bowling" | James Burks | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Isaiah Kim | July 23, 2024 | 112 | 0.07[17] | ||||||
| "The Character Quiz" | Ben Balistreri | Aram Spencer Porter | David Shair | July 24, 2024 | 0.10[17] | |||||||||
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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 at a time together in pants. Rock tries 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 its 1,000th episode is gonna be live. | ||||||||||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Potato" | James Burks | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Max Johnson | July 25, 2024 | 113 | 0.07[17] | ||||||
| "The Fart Joke Debate" | Rebecca Schauer | Davey Jarrell | February 11, 2024[d] | 0.28[14] | ||||||||||
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Paper becomes jealous when his friends start to like Potato, who makes everyone laugh. So he attempts to win back their attention. When Paper doesn't think that fart jokes are funny, Rock, Scissors & Pencil get help from an old comedian who used to tell stand-up comedy using fart jokes. | ||||||||||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Paper's Secret Weapon" | Ben Balistreri | Aram Spencer Porter | David Shair | February 27, 2024 | 114 | 0.08[17] | ||||||
| "The Sled Hill" | Rebecca Schauer | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Carmen Liang | March 6, 2024 | 0.08[17] | |||||||||
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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. 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 go into a whole musical production. | ||||||||||||||
| 15 | 15 | "Scissors' Catapult" | Ben Balistreri & Isaiah Kim | Mike Trapp | Jackie Lee | November 12, 2024 | 115 | 0.08[17] | ||||||
| "Pencil and Potato" | James Burks | Julia Prescott | Max Johnson | November 13, 2024 | 0.05[17] | |||||||||
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A man from Scissors' past returns all buffed up and threatens him that if he does not mow his lawn, he'll kick his butt. Pencil and Potato get lost in the mountains. | ||||||||||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Resolutions" | James Burks | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Taylor Chang & Amanda Tran | November 14, 2024 | 116 | 0.08[17] | ||||||
| "Paper's Book Club" | Rebecca Schauer | Davey Jarrell | November 11, 2024 | 0.07[17] | ||||||||||
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Scissors quickly tries to do his New Year's resolution. Paper puts together a book club with the least intelligent people he knows. | ||||||||||||||
| 17 | 17 | "The Family Business" | James Burks | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Max Johnson | November 11, 2024 | 117 | 0.07[17] | ||||||
| "Glitter Bomb" | Rebecca Schauer | Davey Jarrell | November 18, 2024 | 0.07[17] | ||||||||||
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Rock tries to impress his father when he comes to town. Paper plays a prank on Rock, but Rock does not like it and vows fierce revenge. | ||||||||||||||
| 18 | 18 | "National Paper Day" | Isaiah Kim | Juila Prescott | David Shair | July 13, 2024 | 118 | 0.12[14] | ||||||
| "Helping with the Groceries" | Rebecca Schauer | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Carmen Liang | November 19, 2024 | 0.05[17] | |||||||||
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When Paper finds out about Rock's holiday called 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 Raspberry 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." Scissors goes deep in his mind to decide if he should help his friends bring in the groceries. | ||||||||||||||
| 19 | 19 | "Diapers" | Isaiah Kim | Jordan Koch | Max Johnson | November 25, 2024 | 119 | 0.06[17] | ||||||
| "R.O.V.E.R." | James Burks | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Amanda Tran, Taylor Chang, & Max Johnson | November 26, 2024 | 0.03[17] | |||||||||
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Scissors gets embarrassed when Chad Brockchad puts him on a new diaper product. Rock takes care of a deadly robotic dog to prove that he can have a pet. | ||||||||||||||
| 20 | 20 | "Trash" | Isaiah Kim & Rebecca Schauer | Josh Lehrman, Kyle Stegina & Ron Rappaport | David Shair & Carmen Liang | November 27, 2024 | 120 | 0.07[17] | ||||||
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The trash in the apartment turns sentient because Scissors is too lazy to take it out despite Paper's insistence. Another tenant named Dian (Wanda Sykes) does it for them, as she was fed up with all of the trio's antics. Meanwhile, Rock is hoping a good story will come along and Lou falls in love with a queen. | ||||||||||||||
Season 2 (2025–26)
The episodes are ordered below according to Nickelodeon's packaging order, and not their broadcast order.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [6][7][18] | Storyboard directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original release date [6][7] | Prod. code [17][19] | U.S. viewers (millions) | ||||||
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| 21 | 1 | "Franz Roll and the Lost Rainbow Hot Pants of Atraxes the Apple Bottomed" | Emily Broder | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Nick Bakker & Agnes Salek | November 7, 2025 | 201 | 0.07[20] | ||||||
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Rock quests for an ancient artifact in order to prove he is worthy of working with his modelling role model, Franz Roll. Paper and Scissors compete to be more supportive of Rock in the hopes that one of them will head his entourage when he's famous. | ||||||||||||||
| 22 | 2 | "Paper and Pencil Tell a Joke" | Chad Hicks | Rekha Barua, Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Ian Westoby | November 14, 2025 | 202 | 0.04[20] | ||||||
| "Scissors' Orchestra" | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Emma Frew | ||||||||||||
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After getting their first-ever laugh at a party, Paper and Pencil become obsessed with recapturing the feeling and decide to become stand-up comedians, retelling the exact same joke over and over again in various ways. Meanwhile, Scissors tries to get himself fired from a desk job so that he can yell "You can't fire me, I quit" in a cool way, but his attempts at getting fired lead him to be promoted. Scissors hires a full orchestra to follow him everywhere, but soon realizes he is missing love in his life with Cate Blanket. | ||||||||||||||
| 23 | 3 | "Shoot" | Riccardo Durante | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Brian Coughlan | November 28, 2025 | 203 | 0.07[20] | ||||||
| "Rock's First Day of Work" | Jeff Barker | Derek Jessome | ||||||||||||
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Rock, Paper and Scissors struggle to cut ties with their overly competitive plant friend Shoot after he returns from his 10-year trip in Australia, having been banished there from a bet by Scissors. Not being able to pour a word from their mouth in front of him, the three decide that the one who loses the next competition Shoot makes will tell him the relationship is over. Unfortunately, that competition involves making 1 million dollars from farming, which proves to be a challenge. Following the events of "Franz Roll and the Lost Rainbow Hot Pants of Atraxes the Apple Bottomed", Rock is stressed out by the amount of work that Franz Roll has loaded onto him as his new assistant. Meanwhile, Scissors gets around life's troubles by using a puppet fall guy of himself, and he convinces Rock to cut corners through life like him. This works until Rock disguises a group of baby penguins as white owls, which Franz plans to walk on during an airborne fashion display, putting his life in danger. | ||||||||||||||
| 24 | 4 | "Paper Attends an Elite Institution" | Riccardo Durante & Chad Hicks | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Brian Coughlan & Emma Frew | December 5, 2025 | 204 | 0.04[20] | ||||||
| "The New Landlord" | Chad Hicks | Emma Frew | ||||||||||||
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Thinking he got accepted to an elite institution, Paper is shocked to discover he was actually placed in a third grade classroom. After Scissors manages to convince Lou to quit his job as landlord, the Astonishing Catalina returns to get revenge on Scissors. | ||||||||||||||
| 25 | 5 | "The Origami Robot" | Jeff Barker | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Nick Bakker | December 12, 2025 | 205 | 0.03[20] | ||||||
| "Scissors Sees an Inspirational Sports Movie" | Riccardo Durante | Agnes Salek | ||||||||||||
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After Scissors accidentally eats a pinecone during Christmas, Pencil sends down an origami robot in Scissors' body to remove it. After watching an inspirational football movie about not giving up, Scissors signs up to play professional football, which worries Rock and Paper. | ||||||||||||||
| 26 | 6 | "The Altrustic-Off" | Chad Hicks | Paige VanTassell | Ian Westoby | May 15, 2026 | 206 | 0.11[20] | ||||||
| "The Album" | Jeff Barker | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Derek Jessome | |||||||||||
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When the trio discover the Rat Bros. take a job at tutoring underprivileged children, they try to up their altruistic game in any mean necessary. After Scissors accidentally drops noodles on his girlfriend, Lolly's dress, she makes a hit breakup album about him, making him the most hated man in the world. | ||||||||||||||
| 27 | 7 | "Paper Takes the Phones" | Chad Hicks | Josh Lehrman | Emma Frew | May 22, 2026 | 207 | 0.09[20] | ||||||
| "The Bedtime Story" | Riccardo Durante | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Brian Coughlan | |||||||||||
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When Paper takes away Rock and Scissors' phones in order for them to bond together, he learns of a zombie invasion in the town and must keep Rock and Scissors from finding out. When Rock refuses to sleep without a bedtime story, Paper and Scissors try their best to tell him a good story without their own personal additions. | ||||||||||||||
| 28 | 8 | "Scissors is a Good Boy" | Jeff Barker | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Nick Bakker | May 29, 2026 | 208 | 0.05[20] | ||||||
| "Paper's Family Get-Together" | Riccardo Durante | Agnes Salek | ||||||||||||
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When Franz Roll meets Scissors and mistakes him for a dog, Rock soon grows jealous of their newfound relationship. Meanwhile, Paper tries to prove he's not a boring person. Embarrassed and worried his family members will mock him on their annual get-together, Paper stages a kidnapping act in order to escape the gathering. | ||||||||||||||
| 29 | 9 | "Moonami 12" | Chad Hicks | Rekha Barua & Josh Lehrman | Ian Westoby | June 5, 2026 | 209 | 0.12[20] | ||||||
| "Spider Court" | Jeff Barker | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Derek Jessome | |||||||||||
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When the trio learn about the new high-pricing of candy before the screening of the new Moonami film, they go on a wild goose chase to retrieve some more before the showing starts. When Rock, Paper, and Scissors get sentenced to spider court after squishing a spider, they try to prove their innocence, while Rock uncovers a huge secret behind the scenes. | ||||||||||||||
| 30 | 10 | "Scissors, the Supervillain" | Riccardo Durante | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stagina | Agnes Salek | June 12, 2026 | 210 | N/A | ||||||
| "Car Wash Nationals" | Jeff Barker | Josh Lehrman | Nick Bakker | |||||||||||
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Inspired by a superhero movie, Scissors decides to be a supervillain and teams up with Dreamscape to turn the city into his sheep army. However, Scissors soon regrets it after realizing there's a long process to being evil. Meanwhile, Paper tries to prove he's a good guy, but struggles to maintain his cool. When Rock is sick and can't work his shift at the Robo Car Wash, Paper and Scissors must cover for him, until they learn of a dance competition, and struggle to keep up with the other robots. | ||||||||||||||
Season 3 (2026)
The episodes are ordered below according to Nickelodeon's packaging order, and not their broadcast order.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [6][7][21][8] | Storyboard directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original release date [6][7][8] | Prod. code [17] | U.S. viewers (millions) | ||||||
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| 31 | 1 | "The Watching"[22][23] | N/A | N/A | N/A | TBA | TBA | TBD | ||||||
| "Nightmares"[22][23] | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||||||
| 32 | 2 | "Emotional Support Convertible" | Ian Westoby | Chase Mitchell | N/A | June 19, 2026 | TBA | 0.14[20] | ||||||
| "The Baseball" | Jeff Barker | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Derek Jessome | |||||||||||
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After Scissors wins a convertible from a raffle, he registers it as an emotional support convertible, which annoys Paper as he brings it everywhere he goes. The latter then gets the idea to secretly sell the convertible, but is forced to win it back in a demolition derby, when Scissors proves he can't live without it. After the trio's baseball lands in an air force base, they are swept into a high-stakes action mission to save the country, when all they want to do is to just play baseball. | ||||||||||||||
| 33 | 3 | "Rock's Half Birthday" | Riccardo Durante | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Brian Coughlan | June 26, 2026 | TBA | N/A | ||||||
| "Cherry Picking" | Chad Hicks | N/A | ||||||||||||
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When Rock wishes to fly on his half-birthday, Paper and Scissors struggle to make his wish come true, without him turning into a bummer like them. Scissors begins to feel alone when Rock and Paper start going cherry picking without him, and tries to get their attention. | ||||||||||||||
| 34 | 4 | "Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Paper, Scissors" | Riccardo Durante | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Agnes Salek | July 10, 2026 | TBA | N/A | ||||||
| "The Wish" | Jeff Barker | Nick Bakker | ||||||||||||
| 35 | 5 | "The Train Problem" | Jeff Barker | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Derek Jessome | July 17, 2026 | TBA | N/A | ||||||
| "Salmon Delivery for Ya" | Ian Westoby | N/A | ||||||||||||
| 36 | 6 | "Hardcore" | Chad Hicks | Fareid El Gafy | N/A | July 24, 2026 | TBA | TBD | ||||||
| "Scissors' New Therapist" | Riccardo Durante | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Brian Coughlan | |||||||||||
| 37 | 7 | "The Henry Winkler Episode" | Jeff Barker | Josh Lehrman | Nick Bakker | July 31, 2026 | TBA | TBD | ||||||
| "Paper Loves Potato" | Riccardo Durante | Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina | Agnes Salek | |||||||||||
| 38 | 8 | "Sandpaper's Workout Program" | N/A | N/A | N/A | August 7, 2026 | TBA | TBD | ||||||
| "The Secret" | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||||||
| 39 | 9 | "Paper: Renowned Researcher" | N/A | N/A | N/A | August 21, 2026 | TBA | TBD | ||||||
| "Meatball" | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||||||
| 40 | 10 | "Scissors' Perfect Match" | N/A | N/A | N/A | August 28, 2026 | TBA | TBD | ||||||
| "The Apology Soirée" | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||||||
Production
Rock Paper Scissors was greenlit for a full series from Nickelodeon's Intergalactic Shorts Program in November 2021. Produced by Nickelodeon Animation, the original Rock Paper Scissors short was by Kyle Stegina and Josh Lehrman (who both created the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark, and who wrote the script for Seth Green and Matthew Senreich's Robot Chicken), with Conrad Vernon and Bob Boyle serving as executive producers on the series.
The full pilot episode was released on August 19, 2023, on the Nicktoons YouTube channel,[9] and an exclusive preview of the pilot was introduced at the NFL Nickmas game on December 25, 2023.
On April 24, 2025, the series was renewed for two more seasons. The second season premiered on November 7, 2025, while the third season premiered on June 19, 2026.[3]
Notes
- This pilot aired as a "sneak peek" of the series during the 2023 NFL Nickmas game. It was also released on the Nicktoons YouTube channel on August 19, 2023.[9] The pilot officially premiered on Nickelodeon on February 6, 2024.
- This episode was first released on video on demand on August 22, 2023. "Birthday Police" was released on YouTube on September 2, 2023.[15] "Paper's Big Lie" was released on YouTube on October 7, 2023.[16] The episode was originally going to debut on November 6, 2023, although it would eventually be pulled.[13]
- This episode premiered as a "sneak peek" on Nickelodeon's nighttime programming block, Nick at Nite. The episode aired on Nickelodeon as a "new episode" on February 26, 2024.
- This episode premiered as a "sneak peek" on Nickelodeon's nighttime programming block, Nick at Nite. The episode aired on Nickelodeon as a "new episode" on February 22, 2024.
