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Fresh Fish is a 1939 Merrie Melodies short directed by Tex Avery. A title card reads "Any resemblance to the poor fish in this photoplay either living or at Santa Anita is purely co-incidental." Then, a voice begins to explain what the viewer will be seeing in this cartoon. The ship has a...
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Fresh Fish is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery.
The cartoon begins with a message to the audience: "Any resemblance to the poor fish in this photoplay either living or at Santa Anita is purely co-incidental." Then, a voice begins to explain what the viewer will be seeing in this cartoon. The ship has a glass-bottom so that one can see the many fish and aquatic life that live in the ocean. The ship "slowly" approaches the shore. The voice introduces Professor Mackrel fish-face. A man who steps into the diving device to search for the rarely known, legendary whim-wam-whistling shark. A shark that has never been caught by man before.
Viewing through the glass bottom pan, one can see the school of sardines, tightly compact together as if in a can. Then a tuna that acts like a chicken. The tuna then lays many eggs. Crabs come from the crustacean family and the old crab tells the viewer to mind their own business. Then he shows the viewer a hermit crab, reading a book titled "How to live alone and like it". And then a little taxi cab comes by.
The viewer then sees a dainty little starfish who dreams of becoming a famous actor. And then an electric eel flashing the message "Eat at Joe's" before a strange, two headed fish swims by, eager to be seen. The fish apparently have a question and both tell the other to ask the voice a question they have. They both ask the voice if they could be given directions but he tells them to leave instead. And then he continues, discussing a Polynesian dog fish but the little shell fish it was barking at scared it away.
A menacing fish turns to the side to show-off his fins, apparently composed of dollar bills. The professor meanwhile is still trying to find the shark so the voice continues.
He then views an octopus, about to attack a harmless little fish, but is startled away when the little fish goes "boo!". The voice continues, telling off the strange two-headed fish again before he discusses a well-known subject to the clam family, a mussel. Then onto the pickled herring, which seems to have gotten drunk. It walks right into a whales mouth as the whale winks to the viewers and the herring quickly swims out.
Nearby a bunch of seahorses are preparing for a race. The two headed fish appear again and try to ask him, but he responds by telling them to go and lay an egg. The two headed fish leave, then return a second later with two eggs!
Warner cartoon no. 263. Release date: November 4, 1939. Series: Merrie Melodies. Supervision: Tex Avery. Producer: Leon Schlesinger. Starring: Danny Webb (Fish Teacher), Sara Berner (Starfish), Robert C. Bruce (Narrator) and Mel Blanc (Shark/Tuna/Pickled Herring/Two-Headed Fish). Story: Jack Miller. Animation: Sid Sutherland.
Running Time: 7 minutes. Color. U.S.A. Release Dates: Nov 4, 1939 - Original Release. Apr 6, 1946 - Blue Ribbon Reissue. Cartoon Production Information: Blackout gags caricature movie stars, including Katharine Hepburn as a "starfish," Ned Sparks as an "old crab" and Lionel Barrymore as a "teacher of a school of fish."
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List of fictional fish. This is a list of fictional fish from literature, animation and movies. This includes sharks and eels, both of which are fish. Cetaceans and seacows are aquatic mammals, not fish, and shellfish are mollusks, not fish, so they are therefore excluded.
With Danny Webb, Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc. A tour of the waters near a South Sea island, introducing us to the various kinds of marine life, including the pickled herring, the hermit crab, the starfish, a seahorse race, and many other puns.
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