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 teen issues such as giant lobster attacks and field trips to the hamster cages.
Clamanda, Clamantha's rival from 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.
Ambiguously Gay: Milo. Why? He seems to be very happy about his shorts in "We've Got Fish Spirit". He is too excited to be a girl in "Fish Sleepover Party". He talks like a girl, for example "Girl, you crazy." and he is obsessed with his "booty". Wow, his lyrics in "Fish School Musical" pretty much prove he is gay: "When I get down, shake my booty around, all the potatoes in the town, rise up from the ground." Also, Coach Salmons seems obviously gay.
In Halloween Haul, Bea and the other girls are drooling over Steve Jackson's Shirtless Werewolf costume; when Steve does his Pec Flex, Milo approves. Mm-hmm. Though since it is Steve Jackson, it could just be Even the Guys Want Him.
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 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."
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.
Christmas Episode: Word Of God confirmed that there will be one this year. We don't know what it's about though.
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.
Demoted to 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.
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.
Getting Crap Past the Radar: This wouldn't have been that big a deal if it wasn't on Disney, but in "Fish Out of Water", the teacher, a seahorse, starts ranting:
Teacher: You think you got problems? Look at me! I'm pregnant!
[class gasps with horrified looks on their faces; Clamantha laughs, unfazed]
Teacher: You probably didn't know that male seahorses could get pregnant. Well, neither did I! But LIFE HAPPENS!
Not to mention the use of "screw" in the same episode, which again wouldn't be a big deal if it wasn't on Disney.
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.
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.
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.
Punny Name: Quite a few. For example, Clamantha (guess what she is), Jocktopus, Finberley, Shellsea, 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.
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.
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.
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.
He actually tosses Clamantha out a window (and onto a car) during "Fish Floaters".
And was about to beat up Bea in one episode until Oscar stopped him.
Yandere: In the episode "Fishing for Compliments: The Albert Glass Story", Bea becomes obsessed with Albert Glass because he doesn't like her. It bugs her so much because she's not used to people not liking her and she spends the entire episode trying to get on his good side. In the end, after going to so much trouble, she no longer cares if anybody likes her or not and realizes that what's important is that she likes herself.
Oscar: I like you. Bea: Yeah whatever.
Which, ironically, is how she finally becomes friends with Albert in the end.
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