Hooking Nemo

"**Hooking Nemo**" is an Antonio Cool Guy episode from season one. In this episode, Nemo plays "hooky" with his friends and Dory

## Plot

The episode begins with Antonio sleeping. He then gets woken up by yelling. Antonio then goes down to the reef pond while Marlin rushes to the surface while shouting and panicking like a maniac, telling of the "return of the hooks." Antonio ignores him, while Nemo and Dory are confused, and Marlin tells them that they have to try not to go near a hook, or they will be brought up to the surface and eaten or sold at an aquarium. Then Marlin brings Nemo to school while Dory plays with shells. Then, Mr. Ray and his class take another trip to the drop off. Dory shows up, saying that the carnival has come to town, insisting that Nemo and his friends come with her. He agrees, assuming that they’re not quitting school but just taking a break.

The five friends go to the carnival, but much to Nemo’s horror, the "carnival" is really the site of the hooks that Marlin tried to warn everyone about. Dory deliberately hooks herself and shoots up towards the surface. Nemo panics, wails, and cries, until he sees Dory again, who explains that she jumped off and floated down just before he reached the surface. Ignoring what Marlin said, Nemo then plays "hooky" with his friends

Meanwhile, at school, Mr. Ray talks to the class about the dangers of hooks and Marlin asks him what happened. Mr. Ray says that Nemo took a break and isn't back yet. Marlin thinks Mr. Ray is playing around with him, and he asks Mr. Ray to repeat what he said. After hearing this the second time, Marlin swims over to the hooks and runs up to Nemo and Dory to catch them; meanwhile, Mr. Ray gets pummeled with questions as to where Nemo and friends went. Marlin misses catching them the first time, but once they float down, Marlin grabs them and makes them promise to never go near the hooks again and tells Dory to not be a bad influence on Nemo. However, the very next day, Tad persuades Nemo to play "hooky" again, once again ignoring what Marlin said. Nemo denies Tad’s request, but he goes to the hooks anyway.

Eventually, Nemo gets his dorsal fin caught on a hook, and, terrified, runs to Mr. Ray for help. He tries to cover it up, but the hook pulls him in every time he lies, until he is forced to tell the truth. Mr. Ray tells Nemo that the only way to remove the hook is to tell his father- right in front of Pearl and her friends. After being persuaded, he tells Marlin, only for his father to tell him that he needs to do it himself. Naturally, Nemo doesn't want to take off the hook, so Marlin tells him he'll have to find another son, hopefully one that will listen to him. Terrified, Nemo pulls on a piece of seaweed and the hook takes his dorsal fin away. Nemo breathes a sigh of relief, but the sign flings him into a rock. Pearl and her friends tease Nemo and laugh at him for not being normal, calling him "Nemo NoFins." Marlin then tells Nemo that he is grounded. Utterly humiliated, Nemo screams and swims away.

Then, it is revealed that Antonio was the one who hooked Nemo and got him naked, and that Marlin told him to do that because Nemo needed to learn his lesson. When Antonio pulls the ripped dorsal fin into the his boat, Marlin congratulates him and Antonio tells Marlin that he thinks that Nemo will remember the humiliation for a long time. Both Antonio and Marlin laugh as Nemo swims all the way home. The episode ends with Dory, now trapped in a tuna can. He gets dropped off from the current shortly after Nemo comes back home and requests a can opener to free her.

## Characters

### Major

* Marlin
* Nemo
* Dory

### Suppourting

* Tad
* Sheldon
* Pearl

### Minor

* Antonio
* Nemo’s Class
* Mr. Ray

## Trivia

* This is the first major role of Marlin, Nemo, and Dory