History WesternAnimation / RainbowFish

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Happens to Blue in "Prince Blue" when he learns his family came from royalty. He starts acting like a snobbish prince and belittles his peers, including Chomper and Stingo much to their anger. Meanwhile, Rainbow and Sea Filly are not angry at Blue as much as worried about him alienating everyone with his ego. [[spoiler:However, it turns out Blue's ancestors were not royalty but the ''servants'' of royalty.]]

* {{Pun}}: It's a cartoon about fish, so this is expected.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: This is how Ruby seems to view Rainbow, but at times, she does show that she does care about him a lot.

* AdaptationDeviation: Rainbow keeps all of his sparkling scales for the TV series. They are also nothing more than just part of his character design.

In January 2000, an AnimatedAdaptation of Swiss author Marcus Pfister's children's book ''The Rainbow Fish'', was released. It was produced by Canada's Decode Entertainment (now part of Creator/WildBrain) and Sony Wonder Television (the kids and family entertainment label of Creator/SonyPictures Home Entertainment) for Creator/{{Teletoon}} and Creator/{{HBO}} Family. It ran for 26 episodes over a single season.

* TheBully: Chomper and Stingo, who are a [[ThreateningShark shark]] and a stingray respectively.

* TheCheerleader: Angel. She's very vain and makes fun of the boys, especially Sea Filly for being a tomboy.

Interestingly, this is actually the second AnimatedAdaptation of the original book, the first being a 1997 direct-to-home-video animated short retelling the book. This ''Raimbow Fish'' adaptation was released in the same home video alongside an AnimatedAdaptation of another book by Pfister called ''Literature/DazzleTheDinosaur''.

In January 2000, an AnimatedAdaptation TV series of Marcus Pfister's children's book ''Rainbow Fish'', was released. It was produced by Decode Entertainment and EM.TV for Sony Wonder.

The TV series takes the character and setting and puts them into a new story, different from the children's books (as well the 1997 animated short). Here, the fish live in Neptune Bay and attend a school called "The School of Fish". There's also a shipwreck called "Shipwreck Park", which resembles the Titanic.

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* CanonImmigrant: Every character besides Rainbow. Blue and Wanda are somewhat based on the Little Blue Fish and the Wise Octopus from the original book, but it's never stated if they are the same characters, or just based on them.

* AllJustADream: The episode ''Halloween Under H20'', where Rainbow nightmares that Blue is an evil Dr. Frankenstein knockoff planning to remvoe his brain as soon as he's done creating a Frankenstein bride like-creature that looks eerily similar to Sea-Filly with the help of his devoted assistant Seagor (Sherman).

* CanonImmigrant: Every character besides Rainbow, Blue and Wanda.

* HalloweenEpisode: "Halloween Under H2O".

* HalloweenEpisode: "Halloween Under H2O"

* RecycledInSpace: The series is basically ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' -- [-WITH UNDERSEA CREATURES!-]

* ThroughAFaceFullofFur:
* Blue in the episode "Sibling Rivalry". In this case, it's more like a through-a- face-full-of-gills-or-scales moment, as his cheeks get rosy when his mom says that both he and his baby sister, Turquoise, are her babies.

* ThroughaFaceFullofFur: * Blue in the episode "Sibling Rivalry". In this case, it's more like a through-a- face-full-of-gills-or-scales moment, as his cheeks get rosy when his mom says that both he and his baby sister, Turquoise, are her babies.
** Sir Swordfish in "One Fish's Treasure". His whole face goes red with anger and annoyance after being startled by Rainbow fish and causing him to spill seaweed out of his wheelbarrow, and his head gets steamy, frying the seaweed.

* RecyledInSpace: The series is basically ''WesternAnimation/Doug'' -- [-WITH UNDERSEA CREATURES!-]