Rainbow Fish
Rainbow Fish
TV ShowEnded

Rainbow Fish

2000
1 season
52 episodes
AnimationFamily

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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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Rainbow Fish and the New Girl at School

    08-01-2000

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

  • Ep 2

    2.Rainbow Fish Meets Wayne Grunion

    15-01-2000

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

  • Ep 3

    3.Rainbow Fish Plays the Conch Shell

    22-01-2000

    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 f...

  • Ep 4

    4.Riptide

    29-01-2000

    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.

  • Ep 5

    5.Rainbow Fish Gets an 'A'

    04-02-2000

    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 fo...

  • Ep 6

    6.Grandpa's Fish Tales

    11-02-2000

    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...

  • Ep 7

    7.Rainbow's Dental Dilemma

    18-02-2000

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

  • Ep 8

    8.Rainbow Fish and the Pop Star

    25-02-2000

    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 t...

  • Ep 9

    9.Sherman Shrimp

    03-03-2000

    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 ba...

  • Ep 10

    10.Lost in Crumbling Canyon

    10-03-2000

    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.

  • Ep 11

    11.The Golf Lesson

    17-03-2000

    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.

  • Ep 12

    12.Ruby's Adventures in Babysitting

    24-03-2000

    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 s...

  • Ep 13

    13.Sir Sword Goes Back to School

    31-03-2000

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

  • Ep 14

    14.Rainbow de Bergerac

    07-04-2000

    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...

  • Ep 15

    15.Big Fish on Campus

    14-04-2000

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

  • Ep 16

    16.Sibling Rivalry

    21-04-2000

    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.

  • Ep 17

    17.One Fish's Treasure

    28-04-2000

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

  • Ep 18

    18.Project Rainbow Fish

    05-05-2000

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

  • Ep 19

    19.Ruby Slips In

    12-05-2000

    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.

  • Ep 20

    20.Working Fish

    19-05-2000

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

  • Ep 21

    21.Cecil B. de Rainbow

    26-05-2000

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

  • Ep 22

    22.Rainbow's Pen Pal

    02-06-2000

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

  • Ep 23

    23.Campus Current

    09-06-2000

    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 n...

  • Ep 24

    24.Fish Alone

    16-06-2000

    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 brea...

  • Ep 25

    25.Rainbow Fish and the In Crowd

    23-06-2000

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

  • Ep 26

    26.Knights Of The Coral Table

    30-06-2000

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

  • Ep 27

    27.Bad Luck Ruby

    07-07-2000

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

  • Ep 28

    28.Father's Day

    14-07-2000

    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 borin...

  • Ep 29

    29.Prehistoric Pal

    21-07-2000

    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 migh...

  • Ep 30

    30.May the Better Fish Win

    28-07-2000

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

  • Ep 31

    31.Blue's Fishy Catch

    04-08-2000

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

  • Ep 32

    32.To Catch a Thief

    11-08-2000

    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.

  • Ep 33

    33.Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

    18-08-2000

    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.

  • Ep 34

    34.It's a Wonderful Fish

    25-08-2000

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

  • Ep 35

    35.Moving Day

    01-09-2000

    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...

  • Ep 36

    36.Romantic Dinner

    08-09-2000

    Rainbow and Ruby prepare an anniversary dinner for their parents.

  • Ep 37

    37.The Bodyguard

    15-09-2000

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

  • Ep 38

    38.Mom's Away

    22-09-2000

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

  • Ep 39

    39.How Sea Filly Got Her Groove Back

    29-09-2000

    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 pers...

  • Ep 40

    40.High Tide Noon

    06-10-2000

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

  • Ep 41

    41.Game Girl

    13-10-2000

    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...

  • Ep 42

    42.There's No Business Like...

    20-10-2000

    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.

  • Ep 43

    43.Sea Filly Needs A Helping Fin

    27-10-2000

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

  • Ep 44

    44.Prince Blue

    03-11-2000

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

  • Ep 45

    45.The Pool Shark

    10-11-2000

    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...

  • Ep 46

    46.Halloween Under H₂O

    17-11-2000

    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.

  • Ep 47

    47.Eviction Notice

    24-11-2000

    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 F...

  • Ep 48

    48.The Vacation

    01-12-2000

    Rainbow and his family go on a camping trip.

  • Ep 49

    49.Cave Mates

    08-12-2000

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

  • Ep 50

    50.Chomper, Master Thespian

    15-12-2000

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

  • Ep 51

    51.Rainbow's Hiccups

    22-12-2000

    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.

  • Ep 52

    52.Santa Sword Is Coming To Town

    24-12-2000

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

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