YMMV / Fish Hooks

• Awesome Art: Not that the show is normally a slouch in the animation department, but there quite a few fans who preferred the human character designs in "Pool Party Panic". Aside from them managing to avert falling in to the Unintentional Uncanny Valley and all of them actually looking good if not better, their faces, shape, and personality are honest-to-god faithful to their fish counterparts and beautifully diverse.
• Cliché Storm: Possibly half the reason the show is considered average at best is due to having plots that have been used before, as well as Stock Characters. These episodes usually take place in school. For example, you think we would've seen an episode about class pictures, passing a test, forgetting someone's anniversary before?
• Crazy Is Cool: Milo. He is the self-titled party guy, and it shows of how much awesome he can be.
• Critical Dissonance: The show has not been as well received by critics as some other animated Disney Channel shows, but this show still scored about 3 million viewers on average each new episode. Not to mention the pilot, "Bea Stays In the Picture", scored a huge 4.8 million, which is about more than most episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Designated Monkey:
  • Albert Glass is a Nice Guy who suffers the misfortune of being bullied for his youth and nerdiness, mainly by Jocktopus.
  • Finberly is also a pretty Nice Girl, yet she has fallen victim to slapstick and sudden bad luck as of Season 2.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: 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.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Clamantha and Shellsea are fondly remembered years after the show ended, with frequent comments about them on Youtube and Twitter consisting of mentioning how the two carried the show.
• Fandom Rivalry: A one-sided one with Wander over Yonder as this series, a Cliché Storm, got a third season and a finale in favor of Wander, and reruns of it replaced premieres of two of its episodes on Disney Channel before it was banished to Disney XD.
• Fan Nickname: A lot of fans give Milo and Oscar the surname "Fishtooth", which was given a Fandom Nod during "Bye Bye Bea Bea" as "Mr. Fishtooth" was the name Milo used whenever he pretended to run a company with Oscar as children.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Managed to make nomination rounds in the Argentine KCAs in 2012.
• Growing the Beard: The show was more well received later on due to more apparent character development and better plots in general.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: The Latin American Spanish dub of Fish Hooks has the voices of Milo, Bea, and Oscar singing the theme song. The end of the series finale has the gang sing a variant of the theme song in celebration of their graduation, meaning that the last lines the dub's voice actors recorded were likely the parts of the theme song they first sang.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The episode and location called "Camp Camp."
• Just Here for Godzilla: Most people were probably introduced to this show from Mr. Warburton and Maxwell Atoms' involvement as writers and directors respectively. Likewise for fans of Rick and Morty, to hear Justin Roiland do something more family friendly in a leading role (Before this show he was Lemongrab in Adventure Time. A show with... really wonky content).
• Memetic Mutation: A scene from the Albert Glass episode has been going viral on TikTok, where he gives cupcakes to everyone except for Bea.
  "I like you, have a cupcake! I like you, have a cupcake! EWWWW! I like you, have a cupcake!"
• Moe: For a show with deranged animation, this show has a lot of surprisingly cute characters. The main trio, Albert Glass, Jumbo Shrimp, Finberley, and Esmargot all come to mind.
• One-Scene Wonder: Brandon Bubbler, the Justin Bieber Expy, before he became an Ascended Extra by Season 3.
  • Shiloh, Milo's Distaff Counterpart who appears in the last 30 seconds of "Guys' Night Out".
  • Also Oscar's brain, which gives him advice on girls and is voiced by The 10th Doctor.
  • "Pool Party Panic" is a One Episode Wonder, featuring the entire show re-imagined with a human cast, a premise that turned out to be popular with the fans.
• Ships That Pass in the Night: With the Oscar x Bea pairing, there tends to be a paring of Milo x Shellsea, despite that both have very little dialogue together, the most being in the sleepover episode, when Milo is Disguised in Drag.
• So Okay, It's Average: Most usually cite the animation and unique setting as a main draw of the series. But find the characters and plots pretty run of the mill otherwise.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: A lot of people have criticized the show for being too similar to SpongeBob SquarePants, both being aquatic-themed cartoons and all. Heck, even the episode “Milo’s Magical Shake” is very similar to the SpongeBob episode “To Love a Patty”.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Both fans and haters of the show agree that if the show was focused less on school, and more on the weirdness, it wouldn't be such a indecisive crowd. Needless to say, episodes like "Fish Out of Water" or "Peopleing" are better received than episodes like "Queen Bea" or "Fish Floaters".
  • "Pool Party Panic". A lot of fans preferred the human designs and found the characters of that universe much more interesting.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley:
  • The pet shop cat. Dear God. He looks almost like a real cat, but too round, a strange greyish-orange colour, and with a fur pattern that makes him look almost like a zombie cat. Additionally, he roars instead of meowing.
  • Bea with make-up when she dresses as an adult◊. The teeth and hair are live-action, but the eyes are still cartoonish, and her face looks kind of like a realistic fish, but eerily not quite like one.
• Ugly Cute:
  • Baldwin's Babies looks misshaped, but they're cute in their own right.
  • Also, Koi, Clamantha, and Mr. Baldwin himself.
• Vindicated by History: Back when the show aired, reception was average at best, with the general impression of it just being another poor man's SpongeBob with crappy animation by Disney standards and generic plots, as well as it being one big Cliché Storm. However, years after the show ended, as the demographic grew up, the show has been seen in a more positive light.
• The Woobie:
  • Clamantha becomes a much more sympathetic character after "Two Clams In Love." It's revealed that all she wants is for someone to love her in a relationship.
  • Albert Glass could also count as one. Being bullied for being nerdy and the youngest character of the class doesn't help.
  • At times, Oscar also qualifies. He is such a nervous wreck, and is implied several times that he has some sort of anxiety disorder.

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