Joel Heyman credited as playing...
Dr. Bartholomew Oobleck
- Yang: I guess I just never saw you as much of a fighter.
- Oobleck: I admit, I fancy myself more as an intellectual, but I can assure you, as a Huntsman, I've had my fair share of tussles.
- Ruby: Like the mushroom?
- Blake: Those are truffles.
- Ruby: Like the sprout?
- Yang: Those are brussels.
- Oobleck: Besides, given my expertise in the field of history as well as my dabblings in the archeological surveys, our dear headmaster saw it fit to assign me to this particular... assignment.
- Weiss: What does history have to do with this?
- Oobleck: What a preposterous question, you silly girl. Why history is the backbone of our very society... and the liver! Probably the kidneys, if I were to wager.
- [Oobleck and Team RWBY have seen a lone Grimm]
- Ruby: What now?
- Oobleck: We wait. We track. If this specimen leads us to its pack, that pack may subsequently lead us to our prey.
- Blake: How long do we wait?
- Oobleck: It's uncertain. Hours, days, weeks... why, lone Grimm have been known to stay isolated from the pack for months... and there's the whole pack.
- Weiss: What?
- Oobleck: And now they've seen us.
- Weiss: What?
- Oobleck: AND NOW THEY'VE SEEN US!
- Ruby: I take it tracking is out of the question.
- Oobleck: An accurate assumption, yes.
- [Team RWBY has been assigned to the last Huntsman they expected...]
- Weiss: Prof. Oobleck?
- Oobleck: Yes, I'm afraid those bags won't be necessary, girls. Seeing as you've opted to shadow a Huntsman on what is now essentially a reconnaissance mission, I can assure you we will not be establishing a single base of operations. Rather, we will be traversing several miles of hazardous wasteland and making camp in any defendable location we may stumble upon. I've packed all of our essentials myself, plotted the course and readied the airship.
- [rushes toward Weiss]
- Oobleck: And it's *Doctor* Oobleck. I didn't earn the PhD for fun, thank you very much.
- Oobleck: Ladies, you still may be students, but as of this moment your first mission as Huntresses has begun. From this point forward, you need to do exactly as I say. Do you understand?
- [they nod]
- Oobleck: Ruby! I thought I told you to leave all your bags back at school.
- Ruby: But, you hadn't told us to listen to you yet, so I didn't.
- Oobleck: [quietly] She's not wrong.