Fish Hooks is an American animated television series created by Noah Z. Jones that originally aired on Disney Channel from September 3, 2010 to April 4, 2014. Twenty-one episodes were ordered for the first season. It premiered on September 24, 2010.
The stars of Fish Hooks are former That's So Raven and Cory in the House star Kyle Massey, Starstruck, Baby Daddy, as well as Jonas's Chelsea Kane and Justin Roiland. On September 23, 2013, Tom Warburton announced that Season 3 would be the final season as they had finished the last episode.
Plot
The series revolves around outgoing fish Milo, his nervous brother Oscar, as well as their "overly dramatic" friend Bea Goldfishberg. They attend a school known as Fresh Water High, submerged in an aquarium in a pet store. The series chronicles their daily lives as they deal with everything, from eel attacks and field trips, to romance and homework.
Characters
Main
- Milo (voiced by Kyle Massey) is an adventurous Siamese fighting fish who is a self-proclaimed "party guy". He attempts to have fun in any situation and is very loud and often dangerous. It was confirmed in "Doris Flores Gorgeous" that he is 17 years old and is friends with Bea, an aspiring actress. He is also friends with his older brother Oscar. In "Fail Fish", Milo is shown to have an attention disability and only learns by absorbing knowledge in near-death situations.
- Bea Goldfishberg (voiced by Chelsea Kane) is a goldfish who is very "overly dramatic", as well as dreams to be a movie star in the future. For the first and a half seasons, her friend Oscar had a huge and regularly unspoken crush on her, to which she was completely oblivious. She is extremely self-centered and regularly boasts about her acting abilities and various talents. She also has a strong interest in the dramatic arts and constantly enrolls in various school plays. She has a stoic, regularly monotonic best friend named Shellsea, who usually has to snap Bea out of her dramatic tantrums or provide solutions to her problems. Now, Bea has feelings for Oscar.
- Oscar (voiced by Justin Roiland) is a routinely nervous Siamese fighting fish with an afro and Milo's older brother. He is a video game lover and regularly serves as the voice of reason and justice between the main cast. He is often very stressed throughout the series, mostly because of Milo's misadventures and wild behavior. Oscar has had a somewhat-secret crush on Bea until mid-Season 2, where he falls in love with an angelfish named Angela, a gamer girl on a rival debate team, who becomes his girlfriend for the remainder of the season. He is shown as a neat-freak, as well as despite being brothers with Milo, they are the opposite of each other (along with being an entirely different species). For the first season of the series, a clam named Clamantha was Oscar's stalker and regularly followed him in secret, roughly until he met Angela. After Angela spends nearly all of prom playing video games, Oscar accidentally calls her Bea, as well as then subsequently they break up. Now, Oscar returned to his crush on Bea, with Bea harbouring some romantic interests in him as well.
Recurring
- Shellsea (Kari Wahlgren), a jewelfish, who is Bea's best friend. She loves fashion and is concerned about looking good. She is usually negative and pessimistic. She supports Bea and is also good friends with Finberley, Koi, Esmargot, and Clamantha - however, she regularly and constantly talks behind Oscar's back. Like most of the other female cast, she has a huge crush on Steve Jackson.
- Clamantha (Alex Hirsch), a crazy, high stressed, as well as energetic teen clam who is friends with Bea. She had an unhealthily obsessive crush on Oscar and would stop at nothing to become his girlfriend for the entire first season. However, Clamantha's relationship with Oscar is one-sided, as Oscar finds Clamantha's attraction unsettling and disturbing. She is also in the Freshwater cheer squad and has lots of spirit, positive attitude and enthusiasm: although she isn't very bright. She is also the leader of a punk-rock band called The Shiny Objects.
- Albert Glass (Atticus Shaffer), a nerdy glass fish who is very intelligent and diligent. He is abnormally pale and, as a result of being transparent, his brain can be seen through his head. He is best friends with Jumbo Shrimp and is good friends with Milo, Oscar and Bea. Albert is very shy and quiet and he and Jumbo are the main targets of bullying from Jocktopus and his gang. He is shown to play the trumpet. He starts dating Esmargot in "Chicks Dig Vampires". In the season 3 episode "Glass Man Standing", Albert's voice gets lower and he grows a mustache.
- Jumbo Shrimp (Steven Christopher Parker), an awkward shrimp who is best friends with Albert Glass. Jumbo is a science nerd and loves figuring out and solving problems, finding and correcting errors in textbooks, as well as researching various topics in his spare time. Like Albert, Jumbo is an easy target for bullies. Along with Albert, he occasionally plays the tuba. After his robot date for prom leaves him, Angela and he begin dating.
- Finberley (Kimberly Mooney), a small, kind fish who is one of Bea's friends. Finberley is often seen with Esmargot and has a notable crush on Steve Jackson, more so than the rest of the cast. A running gag on the show is that she is injured on a regular basis and recovers in the next scene. She also appears to have a notable crush on Milo.
- Esmargot (Rachel Dratch), a strange slimy sea slug. Esmargot appears to be constantly sick with a stuffed nose, as well as she leaves a trail of slime behind wherever she goes. Esmargot is one of Bea's friends, and like the other girls has a crush on Steve Jackson. She plays the saxophone at school. She starts dating Albert Glass in "Chicks Dig Vampires".
- Mr. Baldwin (Dana Snyder), Milo, Oscar and Bea's homeroom teacher, a seahorse, at Freshwater High. Baldwin despises Milo and seems to hate his job. He is always bored, unenthusiastic and lazy and is constantly trying to find a way to quit his job as a teacher. He is pregnant for the majority of the series until "Labor of Love" where he gives birth to 100-200 baby seahorses.
- Principal Stickler (Jerry Stiller (Season 1), Jeff Bennett (Season 2)) is Freshwater High's principal. Principal Stickler is a sea urchin who shouts orders to his assistant, Nurse Fishington. He is very strict and careful about sanitation and is an obsessive clean-freak similar to Oscar - which leads to overreactions which quickly get out-of-hand. In "Principal Bea", Stickler gives the position of principal to Fishington, as well as pilots a robotic walker, apparently leaving the pet shop for good. However, he returns afterward in "Get a Yob!"
- Randall "Randy" Pincherson (Josh Sussman), a fiddler crab. Randy comes from a rich family and is extremely spoiled and is able to afford practically anything so he has anything he wants. He loves provoking, blackmailing, gossiping and threatening students for varying reasons. He is very sarcastic, lazy, but ultimately tragic. Early on he is a bully to Milo, although he devolves to more of a pest as the series progresses. Randy has a one-sided crush on Bea, which becomes one of his main concerns after Oscar starts dating Angela.
- Pass, Punt and Fumble (Dave Wittenberg, Roger Craig Smith and Alex Hirsch, respectively), a lake trout, gar and grouper trio of football players who are Jocktopus's friends and assist him with his bullying. Punt is the tallest and apparent leader of the trio, Pass is the shortest and most intelligent and Fumble is the least intelligent. Although it seems Jocktopus just uses them for that sole purpose, they are still loyal to him almost all of the time.
Production
In 2009, President of entertainment Gary Marsh said of the show, "The Fish Hooks team has created one of the most original, inventive animated series on television â€" bringing an ingenious twist to the classic archetypes of high school life." The series will be produced using a mix of 2D digital animation and photo collages. The series is created and co-executive produced by children's book illustrator Noah Z. Jones and developed for television by Alex Hirsch and Bill Reiss. Main and recurring cast were announced in a Disney Channel press release on August 26, 2010.
Episodes
Broadcast
The series airs worldwide on Disney Channel. An 11-minute preview was shown on September 3, 2010, following the Disney Channel Original Movie, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. It also premiered on ABC Family on January 15, 2011, at 7/6c. The show premiered in the US on Disney Channel on September 24, 2010 and on Disney XD on January 14, 2011.
The show previewed in Canada on September 3, 2010 and premiered on September 25, 2010. In the United Kingdom and Ireland it premiered on November 6, 2010. It previewed in Australia and New Zealand on October 2, 2010 and premiered on November 23, 2010. In Singapore, the Philippines and Malaysia, the show premiered on April 1, 2011. It previewed on January 15, 2011 and premiered on February 12, 2011 in South Africa. In Indonesia, the show was also broadcast on MNCTV.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
- Official website
- Fish Hooks on Internet Movie Database
- Fish Hooks TV Episode Guide at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- Fish Hooks at TV.com
- Fish Hooks at TV Guide