Fish Hooks

**Fish Hooks** is an American television series created by Noah Z. Jones.

It focuses on three friends who attend a school for fish submerged in a pet shop.

The series premiered on Disney Channel on September 3, 2010 and aired for three seasons until April 4, 2014.

## Plot

The series revolves around a fun-personified fish named Milo, his nervous brother Oscar, and their "overly dramatic" best friend Bea Goldfishberg, with whom Oscar is infatuated. They attend a school known as Freshwater High, submerged in an aquarium in a pet store named Bud's Pets. The series chronicles their daily lives as they deal with typical teen problems, such as romance and homework, as well as havoc conjured with other animals in the pet store.

## Cast and Characters

### Main

* Kyle Massey as Milo Fishtooth
* Justin Roiland as Oscar Fishtooth
* Chelsea Kane as Bea Goldfishberg

### Recurring

* Kari Wahlgren as Shellsea
* Alex Hirsch as Clamantha
* Atticus Shaffer as Albert Glass
* Steven Christopher Parker as Jumbo Shrimp
* Kimberly Mooney as Finberley
* Rachel Dratch as Esmargot / Koi
* John DiMaggio as Jocktopus
* Laura Ortiz as Piranhica
* Greg Cipes as Steve Jackson
* Dana Snyder as Mr. Baldwin
* Jerry Stiller and Jeff Bennett as Principal Stickler
* Josh Sussman as Randall "Randy" Pincherson
* Roger Craig Smith, Dave Wittenberg and Alex Hirsch as Pass, Punt and Fumble

## Episodes

See Also: List of Fish Hooks Episodes

 2 | 22
 3 | 16

## Production

In 2009, Disney Channels Worldwide's 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 – bringing an ingenious twist to the classic archetypes of high school life." The series is 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.

## Release

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. The show premiered in the United States 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 Southeast Asia, the show premiered on April 1, 2011. It previewed on January 15, 2011, and premiered on February 13, 2011, in South Africa.

The entire series was released on Disney+ on April 3, 2020.

## Reception

"Fish Hooks" was met with mixed reviews. In The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows, David Perlmutter wrote, "While this program started out well, given the veteran talent involved, it quickly faltered, becoming so obsessed with plotting the minutiae of its own self-created fishbowl universe that it abruptly lost its creative touch." He criticized the voice acting as "incredibly shrill; loud; and, above all, hammy," and said that the show "was a shotgun wedding between the typically hyperspace-paced narrative approaches of Cartoon Network and the more measured and balanced style typical of Disney." In a more positive review, a reviewer for Common Sense Media said that it was entertaining and that it "gives many life lessons having to do with friendship and following dreams."

## Awards and Nominations

 Children's Television
 2012
 Best Animated Series