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Rainbow Fish
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Based on the popular books by Marcus Pfister, the animated series follows the adventures of a boy fish with glittering scales and his friends in the underwater Bay of Neptune.
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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01Rainbow Fish and the New Girl at SchoolJanuary 8, 2000—Sea Filly the Sea-horse, comes to the school of fish, and Rainbow and his best friend Blue, welcome her in.
- S01E02Rainbow Fish Meets Wayne GrunionJanuary 15, 2000—Rainbow is excited to meet his hero, renowned hockey star Wayne Grunion when he comes to town for a visit.
- S01E03Rainbow Fish Plays the Conch ShellJanuary 22, 2000—In the school band, Mrs Chips gives Rainbow Fish the conch shell, the hardest instrument in the band to play. Rainbow is then forced to prac
- S01E04RiptideJanuary 29, 2000—When Rainbow Fish and his friends attempt a dangerous sport called "Riptiding", Blue is swept away on a riptide, and Sea Filly and Rainbow m
- S01E05Rainbow Fish Gets an 'A'February 4, 2000—Rainbow Fish gets a bad report card (he gets a "C"). But when he accidentally spills ice cream (from a kelp gusher milkshake) on it at Wanda
- S01E06Grandpa's Fish TalesFebruary 11, 2000—Rainbow is not enthusiastic about spending time with his grandpa while his parents are away at the store, thinking that he will be bored, bu
- S01E07Rainbow's Dental DilemmaFebruary 18, 2000—Rainbow fears visiting the dentist, but when he goes, he discovers that dentists are not as bad as he thought they were.
- S01E08Rainbow Fish and the Pop StarFebruary 25, 2000—Rainbow mistakenly brags to his friends that he knows the famous pop star, Bruce Sturgeon, which lands him in trouble and causes him to forc
- S01E09Sherman ShrimpMarch 3, 2000—A new student, Sherman Shrimp, comes to school and Rainbow Fish treats him badly. However, after Sherman saves Rainbow from a sudden shipwre
- S01E10Lost in Crumbling CanyonMarch 10, 2000—Chomper, the school bully, gets lost in a canyon along with Rainbow Fish, and the two opposites must work together to find their way out.
- S01E11The Golf LessonMarch 17, 2000—Rainbow fools around with his father's golf club and breaks it, causing him to search for a new one before his father's big game with Sir Sw
- S01E12Ruby's Adventures in BabysittingMarch 24, 2000—Ruby decides to babysit their guppy neighbors' baby, Ferdie, and says Rainbow is too irresponsible to help her. However, Ferdie turns out to
- S01E13Sir Sword Goes Back to SchoolMarch 31, 2000—Sir Sword needs to finish third grade, so he attends Rainbow's school, the School Of Fish.
- S01E14Rainbow de BergeracApril 7, 2000—Blue has a crush on Goldie, but he's too shy to ask her on a date, so Rainbow tells him what to say via a communicator made by Sea Filly. Ho
- S01E15Big Fish on CampusApril 14, 2000—When Blue becomes a hall monitor for the School Of Fish, he lets the power go to his head.
- S01E16Sibling RivalryApril 21, 2000—Blue gets a new baby sister, and he feels left out, all because of the attention his mum and friends are giving to the baby.
- S01E17One Fish's TreasureApril 28, 2000—Rainbow lines a sea-monkey bowl with his sister Ruby's magazine, ruining the magazine itself in the process.
- S01E18Project Rainbow FishMay 5, 2000—Rainbow learns a lesson about charity and works on a project involving just it.
- S01E19Ruby Slips InMay 12, 2000—Ruby starts spending time with Rainbow, Blue and Sea Filly the sea-horse, leading Rainbow to believe that she is trying to steal his friends
- S01E20Working FishMay 19, 2000—Rainbow gets a job at the Candy Counter to earn money.
- S01E21Cecil B. de RainbowMay 26, 2000—Rainbow takes up making movies, thanks to a new waterproof camera, and casts himself as Director.
- S01E22Rainbow's Pen PalJune 2, 2000—Rainbow's pen pal is coming to visit him, and Rainbow is excited about it.
- S01E23Campus CurrentJune 9, 2000—Sea Filly becomes the editor of the School Of Fish newspaper. Unfortunately, in her enthusiasm for journalism however, she soon becomes noth
- S01E24Fish AloneJune 16, 2000—In spite of some ongoing construction taking place outside the School Of Fish causing a big deal of noise, Rainbow is sent home early and ge
- S01E25Rainbow Fish and the In CrowdJune 23, 2000—Rainbow and Blue start hanging out with a new clique called the High Tides, due to the chagrin of Sea Filly.
- S01E26Knights Of The Coral TableJune 30, 2000—Sir Sword lends Rainbow a book that he becomes hooked on and cannot stop reading.
- S01E27Bad Luck RubyJuly 7, 2000—When Ruby encounters a series of unfortunate events one day, she believes that she has been cursed.
- S01E28Father's DayJuly 14, 2000—Rainbow's class has Dads' Day at school and all students' fathers are invited to describe their own, personal jobs. Rainbow is worried, howe
- S01E29Prehistoric PalJuly 21, 2000—Rainbow finds a hole in the ground that an extinct coelacanth called Carl swims out of. However, Carl spends most of his time in the modern
- S01E30May the Better Fish WinJuly 28, 2000—Rainbow and Blue compete for the role of class president. They both try to impress Sea Filly in order to get her vote.
- S01E31Blue's Fishy CatchAugust 4, 2000—Blue wins the clamball championship for his school, but only because no one sees him drop the ball anywhere.
- S01E32To Catch a ThiefAugust 11, 2000—Rainbow is suspicious of his sister, Ruby, when she starts acting very strangely. However, it turns out, that she is just making a surprise
- S01E33Guess Who's Coming to DinnerAugust 18, 2000—Rainbow's mother, Aqua, invites his teacher, Mrs Chips, to dinner, and Rainbow Fish is worried that Mrs Chips herself will act just like a t
- S01E34It's a Wonderful FishAugust 25, 2000—One difficult day, a glowing guardian angel fish shows Rainbow Fish the value of his life.
- S01E35Moving DaySeptember 1, 2000—Rainbow Fish fears that both his parents, Sol and Aqua, are planning to sell the cave to two fish called Ret and Snapper, and so his friends
- S01E36Romantic DinnerSeptember 8, 2000—Rainbow and Ruby prepare an anniversary dinner for their parents.
- S01E37The BodyguardSeptember 15, 2000—Rainbow saves a whale's life, and, in return, the whale (Leslie David Baker) becomes his bodyguard.
- S01E38Mom's AwaySeptember 22, 2000—Rainbow is not pleased when his mother, Aqua, gets a job in his school.
- S01E39How Sea Filly Got Her Groove BackSeptember 29, 2000—After being teased by her classmates for not being feminine enough, Sea Filly decides to take up cheerleading, causing Blue and Rainbow to w
- S01E40High Tide NoonOctober 6, 2000—Rainbow is embarrassed after failing to stand up to Rocko Rockfish (Alan Marriott), a bullying second grader.
- S01E41Game GirlOctober 13, 2000—After watching Rainbow and Blue play it in Shipwreck Park, Sea Filly becomes addicted to a 2000 computer game called "Clam Blaster" and hard
- S01E42There's No Business Like...October 20, 2000—Rainbow, Blue, and Sea Filly hear the tale of two feuding crabs who were once song-and-dance partners, and then, they all set out to bring t
- S01E43Sea Filly Needs A Helping FinOctober 27, 2000—Sea Filly gets a bad grade on a maths test at the School Of Fish and worries greatly.
- S01E44Prince BlueNovember 3, 2000—When Blue looks at his book and mistakenly thinks that his ancestors were royalty, he starts acting like a prince.
- S01E45The Pool SharkNovember 10, 2000—When Chomper's cousin Slick (Macaulay Culkin), a pool-playing master, comes to Wanda's refreshment shop, he beats everyone in Pool by secret
- S01E46Halloween Under H₂ONovember 17, 2000—Rainbow tries to put Sea Filly in the Halloween spirit, but then has a haunting Halloween dream, and wakes up to find that Sea Filly has act
- S01E47Eviction NoticeNovember 24, 2000—Phineas T. Gronch is planning to permanently demolish the Mollusk Reef Villas as well as wipe out half of Neptune Bay to build a shopping ma
- S01E48The VacationDecember 1, 2000—Rainbow and his family go on a camping trip.
- S01E49Cave MatesDecember 8, 2000—Important friendship is tested when Blue comes to stay in Rainbow's cave.
- S01E50Chomper, Master ThespianDecember 15, 2000—Chomper is given the lead role in the school play, but he mistakenly believes that voice acting is for wimps.
- S01E51Rainbow's HiccupsDecember 22, 2000—Rainbow's love of kelp gusher drinks causes him to get a nasty case of hiccups. It's Wanda the Octopus who eventually finds the "wild" cure.
- S01E52Santa Sword Is Coming To TownDecember 24, 2000—Rainbow Fish helps Sir Sword dressed up as Santa Sword on Christmas Eve.
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