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All Episodes of Rainbow Fish

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...
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Season 1

  • Rainbow Fish and the New Girl at School
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    Rainbow Fish and the New Girl at School

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2000

    Sea Filly the Sea-horse, comes to the school of fish, and Rainbow and his best friend Blue, welcome her in.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Rowby Goren, Dean Stefan

  • Rainbow Fish Meets Wayne Grunion
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    Rainbow Fish Meets Wayne Grunion

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/2000

    Rainbow is excited to meet his hero, renowned hockey star Wayne Grunion when he comes to town for a visit.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Dean Stefan

  • Rainbow Fish Plays the Conch Shell
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    Rainbow Fish Plays the Conch Shell

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2000

    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 practice, and he does so, gradually making for a better performance at the school concert.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Dean Stefan

  • Riptide
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    Riptide

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2000

    When Rainbow Fish and his friends attempt a dangerous sport called "Riptiding", Blue is swept away on a riptide, and Sea Filly and Rainbow must find him before it's too late.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Richard Stanley

  • Rainbow Fish Gets an 'A'
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    Rainbow Fish Gets an 'A'

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2000

    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's, his parents mistake the "C" grade for an "A". Rainbow must prevent them from meeting Principal Gefilte and learning the truth. For getting a "C", changing his grades, and lying that he got an "A", he is cave grounded by his parents until he gets his grades up. This means until he gets his grades up, he is "cave grounded" except for school (meaning he can only leave the house to go to school while cave grounded).

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Alan Swayze

  • Grandpa's Fish Tales
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    Grandpa's Fish Tales

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2000

    Rainbow is not enthusiastic about spending time with his grandpa while his parents are away at the store, thinking that he will be bored, but when his grandpa tells him an amazing story that hides an incredible secret, Rainbow discovers that old people can be exciting after all.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Ian James Corlett

  • Rainbow's Dental Dilemma
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    Rainbow's Dental Dilemma

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/2000

    Rainbow fears visiting the dentist, but when he goes, he discovers that dentists are not as bad as he thought they were.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Brooks Wachtel

  • Rainbow Fish and the Pop Star
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    Rainbow Fish and the Pop Star

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/2000

    Rainbow mistakenly brags to his friends that he knows the famous pop star, Bruce Sturgeon, which lands him in trouble and causes him to force Bruce Sturgeon himself to perform at the school.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Shelley Zellman

  • Sherman Shrimp
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    Sherman Shrimp

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/3/2000

    A new student, Sherman Shrimp, comes to school and Rainbow Fish treats him badly. However, after Sherman saves Rainbow from a sudden shipwreck, Rainbow realizes that he has been bad to Sherman all along.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Lara Runnels, Patricia Carr

  • Lost in Crumbling Canyon
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    Lost in Crumbling Canyon

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/10/2000

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Francis Moss

  • The Golf Lesson
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    The Golf Lesson

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/17/2000

    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 Sword.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: S.M. Molitor

  • Ruby's Adventures in Babysitting
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    Ruby's Adventures in Babysitting

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/24/2000

    Ruby decides to babysit their guppy neighbors' baby, Ferdie, and says Rainbow is too irresponsible to help her. However, Ferdie turns out to be more troublesome than expected and swims away. Rainbow then finds him and Ruby apologizes for what she said.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Francis Moss

  • Sir Sword Goes Back to School
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    Sir Sword Goes Back to School

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/31/2000

    Sir Sword needs to finish third grade, so he attends Rainbow's school, the School Of Fish.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Dean Stefan

  • Rainbow de Bergerac
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    Rainbow de Bergerac

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/7/2000

    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. However, Chomper and Stingo soon ruin the plan.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Alan Swayze

  • Big Fish on Campus
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    Big Fish on Campus

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/14/2000

    When Blue becomes a hall monitor for the School Of Fish, he lets the power go to his head.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Kati Rocky

  • Sibling Rivalry
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    Sibling Rivalry

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/21/2000

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Sindy McKay

  • One Fish's Treasure
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    One Fish's Treasure

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/28/2000

    Rainbow lines a sea-monkey bowl with his sister Ruby's magazine, ruining the magazine itself in the process.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Sindy McKay

  • Project Rainbow Fish
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    Project Rainbow Fish

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/5/2000

    Rainbow learns a lesson about charity and works on a project involving just it.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Sindy McKay

  • Ruby Slips In
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    Ruby Slips In

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/12/2000

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: William Forrest Cluverius

  • Working Fish
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    Working Fish

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/19/2000

    Rainbow gets a job at the Candy Counter to earn money.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Lara Runnels, Patricia Carr

  • Cecil B. de Rainbow
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    Cecil B. de Rainbow

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/26/2000

    Rainbow takes up making movies, thanks to a new waterproof camera, and casts himself as Director.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Ian James Corlett

  • Rainbow's Pen Pal
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    Rainbow's Pen Pal

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/2/2000

    Rainbow's pen pal is coming to visit him, and Rainbow is excited about it.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Shelley Zellman

  • Campus Current
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    Campus Current

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 6/9/2000

    Sea Filly becomes the editor of the School Of Fish newspaper. Unfortunately, in her enthusiasm for journalism however, she soon becomes nothing but a tabloid gossip columnist and no fish is safe from her probing and humiliating articles. Rainbow comes up with a plan that ends with Sea Filly writing a false article about Principal Gefilte and losing her job. Sea Filly soon learns that real journalists have a responsibility to print only what they know is true.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Kati Rocky

  • Fish Alone
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    Fish Alone

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 6/16/2000

    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 gets freedom. A pair of burglars soon break into the Fish cave, and try to ruin it any way they can, all while Rainbow watches his favourite cartoon, "Silly Salmon" on TV by himself. Thanks to a 911 call being traced, Rainbow arrests the burglars and saves the day, pleasing Aqua and Sol in the process.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Richard Stanley

  • Rainbow Fish and the In Crowd
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    Rainbow Fish and the In Crowd

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 6/23/2000

    Rainbow and Blue start hanging out with a new clique called the High Tides, due to the chagrin of Sea Filly.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Shelley Zellman

  • Knights Of The Coral Table
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    Knights Of The Coral Table

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 6/30/2000

    Sir Sword lends Rainbow a book that he becomes hooked on and cannot stop reading.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Dean Stefan

  • Bad Luck Ruby
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    Bad Luck Ruby

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 7/7/2000

    When Ruby encounters a series of unfortunate events one day, she believes that she has been cursed.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Alan Swayze

  • Father's Day
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    Father's Day

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 7/14/2000

    Rainbow's class has Dads' Day at school and all students' fathers are invited to describe their own, personal jobs. Rainbow is worried, however, as he thinks his father has a boring job.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Kati Rocky

  • Prehistoric Pal
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    Prehistoric Pal

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 7/21/2000

    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 world, trying to impress Ruby. This might be a reference to another Marcus Pfister book, called Dazzle the Dinosaur.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Brooks Wachtel

  • May the Better Fish Win
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    May the Better Fish Win

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 7/28/2000

    Rainbow and Blue compete for the role of class president. They both try to impress Sea Filly in order to get her vote.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Erika Strobel

  • Blue's Fishy Catch
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    Blue's Fishy Catch

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 8/4/2000

    Blue wins the clamball championship for his school, but only because no one sees him drop the ball anywhere.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Dean Stefan

  • To Catch a Thief
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    To Catch a Thief

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 8/11/2000

    Rainbow is suspicious of his sister, Ruby, when she starts acting very strangely. However, it turns out, that she is just making a surprise gift for their parents.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Ian James Corlett

  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
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    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 8/18/2000

    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 teacher.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Dean Stefan

  • It's a Wonderful Fish
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    It's a Wonderful Fish

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 8/25/2000

    One difficult day, a glowing guardian angel fish shows Rainbow Fish the value of his life.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Francis Moss

  • Moving Day
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    Moving Day

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 9/1/2000

    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 attempt to make his house as much of a wreck as possible to avoid it being sold. However, Rainbow then discovers his parents were planning to build a new recreation room.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Kati Rocky

  • Romantic Dinner
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    Romantic Dinner

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 9/8/2000

    Rainbow and Ruby prepare an anniversary dinner for their parents.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Sindy McKay

  • The Bodyguard
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    The Bodyguard

    Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 9/15/2000

    Rainbow saves a whale's life, and, in return, the whale (Leslie David Baker) becomes his bodyguard.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Sindy McKay

  • Mom's Away
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    Mom's Away

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 9/22/2000

    Rainbow is not pleased when his mother, Aqua, gets a job in his school.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Kati Rocky

  • How Sea Filly Got Her Groove Back
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    How Sea Filly Got Her Groove Back

    Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 9/29/2000

    After being teased by her classmates for not being feminine enough, Sea Filly decides to take up cheerleading, causing Blue and Rainbow to worry about her becoming a different person altogether.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: William Forrest Cluverius

  • High Tide Noon
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    High Tide Noon

    Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 10/6/2000

    Rainbow is embarrassed after failing to stand up to Rocko Rockfish (Alan Marriott), a bullying second grader.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Alan Swayze

  • Game Girl
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    Game Girl

    Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 10/13/2000

    After watching Rainbow and Blue play it in Shipwreck Park, Sea Filly becomes addicted to a 2000 computer game called "Clam Blaster" and hardly does anything else. However, when she brings the video game to the School Of Fish one day and plays it there during a difficult maths test with Mrs Chips, she soon discovers that the video game itself is "dumb, violent and intellectually worthless".

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Dean Stefan

  • There's No Business Like...
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    There's No Business Like...

    Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 10/20/2000

    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 them back together, once and for all.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Erika Strobel

  • Sea Filly Needs A Helping Fin
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    Sea Filly Needs A Helping Fin

    Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 10/27/2000

    Sea Filly gets a bad grade on a maths test at the School Of Fish and worries greatly.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Sindy McKay

  • Prince Blue
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    Prince Blue

    Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 11/3/2000

    When Blue looks at his book and mistakenly thinks that his ancestors were royalty, he starts acting like a prince.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Kati Rocky

  • The Pool Shark
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    The Pool Shark

    Season 1 Episode 45 - Aired 11/10/2000

    When Chomper's cousin Slick (Macaulay Culkin), a pool-playing master, comes to Wanda's refreshment shop, he beats everyone in Pool by secretly cheating. Rainbow, unaware of this at first, is in awe, and decides to become his assistant, then discovers his secret. Rainbow then declares a match to determine that Chomper's relative is cheating. Rainbow then wins, and the other player leaves the shop forever.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Lara Runnels, Patricia Carr

  • Halloween Under H₂O
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    Halloween Under H₂O

    Season 1 Episode 46 - Aired 11/17/2000

    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 actually scared him in his sleep.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Dean Stefan

  • Eviction Notice
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    Eviction Notice

    Season 1 Episode 47 - Aired 11/24/2000

    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 mall in its place. Rainbow, Blue and Sea Filly have to stop him in time, or they'll all be for it.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Alan Swayze

  • The Vacation
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    The Vacation

    Season 1 Episode 48 - Aired 12/1/2000

    Rainbow and his family go on a camping trip.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Ian James Corlett

  • Cave Mates
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    Cave Mates

    Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 12/8/2000

    Important friendship is tested when Blue comes to stay in Rainbow's cave.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Kati Rocky

  • Chomper, Master Thespian
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    Chomper, Master Thespian

    Season 1 Episode 50 - Aired 12/15/2000

    Chomper is given the lead role in the school play, but he mistakenly believes that voice acting is for wimps.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Dean Stefan

  • Rainbow's Hiccups
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    Rainbow's Hiccups

    Season 1 Episode 51 - Aired 12/22/2000

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Kati Rocky

  • Santa Sword Is Coming To Town
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    Santa Sword Is Coming To Town

    Season 1 Episode 52 - Aired 12/24/2000

    Rainbow Fish helps Sir Sword dressed up as Santa Sword on Christmas Eve.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Dean Stefan