Fish Hooks (2010) is a cartoon on Disney Channel, created by Noah Z. Jones (whose other claim to fame is Almost Naked Animals). The show deals with three fish: Milo, his brother Oscar, and their "overly dramatic" friend Bea, as they attend school in an aquarium at a pet store. The series chronicles their daily lives as they deal with various things, such as friendships, dating, and sports, as well as typical t(w)een issues such as giant lobster attacks and field trips to the hamster cages.
Advertised Extra: Piranhica, despite even appearing in promotional artwork, has had a grand total of seven lines through out season 1. One of them being a part of background noise.
Clamanda, Clamantha's rival from the episode "We've Got Fish Spirit".
Lovable Alpha Bitch: Shellsea, who is good friends with Milo, Bea, and Oscar.
Ambiguous Disorder: Oscar. He's really smart, can't understand, or act, in some social interactions, and in one episode, he can't seem to understand jokes, or visual gags, so Milo has to teach to fake how to laugh.
Bea is a more explicit example since she has parents who sport Jewfros.
And You Were There: Oscar hits his head and wakes up in a fantasy kingdom populated by fish that look like people he knows. He thinks it's all a dream, but Milo and Bea find him and tell him he was just moved to another fish tank. Turns out a lot of fish look alike.
Animals Not To Scale: Keep in mind these guys are normal-sized fish that live in a pet store aquarium... and yet it seems like they have a whole town inside it.
Anti-Humor: Despite the show having punny character names such as "Clamantha" and "Jocktopus," any reference to the fish-world equivalent of a real-world locale simply has the word "Fish" attached to it rather than a fish-related pun, such as "Fish Broadway" or "Fish Austin, Texas."
An extreme use of this is "Fish Ancient Greece". Not "Ancient Fish Greece".
Semi-justified as there are other species around the pet shop, a point brought up in "Hooray for Hamsterwood".
Chekhov's Gun: In "Dollars and Fish", Milo gets a loan from Randy Pincherson and spends it on a diamond-encrusted motorcycle. After getting his pay from a job, he realizes that his job alone won't get him the money he needs sooner when Milo's boss points out said motorcycle.
Continuity Nod: In "Fail Fish", Kevin brings up two events that happened in "Doggonit!" and "Fish Out of Water".
Couch Gag: Each episode opens with an exterior shot of the pet shop with a sign that says "Bud's Pets And [Insert Plot Relevant Service or Product Here]".
Dawson Casting: Averted with Albert Glass, who is voiced by 12-year-old Atticus Shaffer. The other students are voiced by people who obviously wouldn't be in high school, 19-year-old Kyle Massey being the youngest.
Disguised in Drag: Milo and Oscar dress as girls to get into Bea's all-girl slumber party. No one was fooled.
Except Clamantha.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: Milo and Bea's reaction to Oscar's blogging, and in the same episode, Oscar's attempt at flushing himself down a toilet.
Bea: Listen to me, whatever is troubling you, you'll make it through.
Feather Fingers: The entire cast. Oddly, they change from normal fins to "hand" fins when needed.
Tailfin Walking: The entire cast, again. Oddly, their tailfins are designed nothing like those of real fish or legs and feet.
Feud Episode: Fish Talent Show. An incident involving Clamantha's face and Shellsea's foot causes causes them to fight. At one point, the whole school gets involved.
The one-sided romance between Clamantha and Oscar counts, since clams technically aren't fish.
Also the one-sided romance between Randy, a crab, and Bea, a fish.
Mr. Baldwin, the pregnant seahorse teacher mentioned previously, is revealed to have a "mega crush" on Ms. Lips, a squid. For a long time, he is too scared to approach her until his secret gets out
They later start dating officially
Albert Glass, a glass fish, and Esmargot, a snail, are dating
Koi (don't need to say anything here) starts a relationship with another boy in school, who is of a different species of fish
Finberly had a failed phone-romance with a ferret named Cody, and is distressed about being dumped for several episodes
Piranica, an piranah, and Jocktopus, an octopus
Several episodes revolve around them having relationship issues
It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY: Everyone except Oscar keeps pronouncing Angela's name wrong, despite her correcting them every time. It's pronounced "Angel-ah".
Karma Houdini: Randy Pincherson in the Christmas Episode. He admits out loud that he was only doing the job for money, he treated kids like crap all day, and he even tried to quit before his job was done. Unfortunately, when Bea snapped and tried to get the Santa costume off of him, she got fired after Randy made it seem like it was her fault. He never gets his comeuppance.
And above all, Mr. Mussels. He is a drama teacher, after all.
Line-of-Sight Name: How Oscar came up with Doris Flores Gorgeous, by altering the words "door" and "floor" and adding an adjective that was also an attractive character trait.
Medium Blending: Most of the fish are drawn in regular cartoon-y style, but their setting and anything outside the tanks are portrayed in a photorealistic style.
Mr. Seahorse: A literal example with one of their teachers, Mr. Baldwin. Lampshaded, even. And he apparently has the Longest Pregnancy Ever, which got a brief lampshade during "Koi Story".
Mouse World: The characters are fish-sized and reside in an aquarium.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In "Mascotastrophe", Milo reveals the fact that he and Oscar are both the school mascot. Because of this, the geckos use this to their advantage and kidnap Oscar so the fishes' basketball team would lose.
No Cartoon Fish: Inverted; the fish cast are cartoony, but the rest of the world is photorealistic.
No Sympathy: In "Science Fair Detective Mystery" Oscar wins the science fair, but gets his ribbon taken away when his project is stolen even though he already won.
Punny Name: Quite a few. For example, Clamantha (guess what she is), Jocktopus, Finberley, Shellsea, Piranhica and several others, with possibly more to come.
Recurring Extra: At the end credits, there is a snake and a mouse who usually give commentary on what's happened in the last episode (or the episode it was paired with, it depends on which one Disney Channel aired). The snake wants to join the fish in their tanks, while the mouse is all right with being in a small terrarium with the snake.
Reptiles Are Abhorrent: The geckos are heartless jerkasses that enjoy seeing a fish suffocate without water. Only the snake is an exception to the general abhorrence.
Satellite Character: All of Angela's appearances revolve around her being Oscar's girlfriend.
Series Continuity Error: Run, Oscar, Run, an episode that deals with the possibility of Oscar ruining his perfect attendance record, contradicts a major plot point in The Tale of Sir Oscar Fish, Oscar being tanks away during school.
Short Run In Peru: In Poland, the Czech Republic, and Romania, the first 22-minute episode had aired around 2 months before its US airing.
In Latin America, Driving in Cars with Fish aired the day before its US airing.
Disney Channel UK aired Fish School Musical a week before it came on in the US. They also premiered "Milo on the Lam" 2 months before its US airing.
The last few episodes of the second season, including "Fish Prom", got aired in Asia weeks, even months, before finally airing in its home country.
Shout Out: To Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros.; one episode has Oscar liken himself to a plumber, Bea to a princess, and their dilemma to a gorilla in a tank top throwing barrels at them.
"Hooray for Hamsterwood" has Milo saying that Pamela Hamster is the finest hamster actress of their generation, immediately followed by Pamela (on the TV show) saying, "Science class is so random!"
During "Two Clams in Love", Oscar accidentally paints himself blue while trying to run away from Clamantha; the next shot we see depicts Clamantha chasing Oscar in a Pac-Man-like fashion. She even stops to eat a cherry.
"Just One of The Fish" has Oscar making the "Oh Crap" face.
Adventures in Fish Sitting has Ms. Lips' cat escaping the house when Bea was asked to look after him. So she disguises Milo as the cat. Following are three Garfield references.
Ms. Lips': Haha! You can talk now!
Milo: Uhh, yeah. Hey, can you make me some lasagna?
Slapstick Knows No Gender: During "Two Clams in Love", the gang had played a video game. Oscar told Milo to hit the B button on his controller. Instead, he hit Bea.
There was a string of episodes where Clamantha fell victim to this.
Temporary Love Interest: Played Up to Eleven with Bea's boyfriends in "Doris Flores Gorgeous". She wasn't replacing her boyfriends rapidly because she's promiscuous, but rather because she thinks that's what high school girls are supposed to do.
Trailers Always Spoil: A promo for the special episode, "We've Got Fish Spirit", already spoils a good chunk of the episode: Bea being able to compete in the cheer off.
The promos for "Just One of The Fish" implied that Bea would end up competing on the football team and that she was a completely different person from a student that had a strong resemblance to her.
Widget Series: You'd be surprised how amazingly weird this series actually is.
Worthless Yellow Rocks: Jocktopus is given money on his birthday and thinks it's just worthless paper. His girlfriend Piranhica knows what money is, but intentionally keeps him in the dark so she can keep it for herself.
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