Help! I'm a Fish: Difference between revisions

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''What if you were turned into a fish?''

This is the plight of Fly, his sister Stella, and their cousin Chuck, after stumbling across [[Absent Minded Professor|Professor MacKrill's]] labratory, where Stella mistakes a bottle of [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Fish Potion]] for a drink, and (unknown to the others) is [[Animorphism|transformed into a starfish]]. In the ensuing confusion, she accidentally gets thrown out of a window into the sea by Fly, and only upon consulting a video tape do the other three find out what happened to her. Whilst searching the sea for Stella though, a storm brews up, and in a moment of hot-headedness Fly drinks the potion, turning into a fish himself. A few moments later the boat capsizes, and to save himself from drowning Chuck drinks the potion himself, whilst the MacKrill [[Disney Death|seemingly drowns]].

This is the plight of Fly, his sister Stella, and their cousin Chuck, after stumbling across [[Absent-Minded Professor|Professor MacKrill's]] labratory, where Stella mistakes a bottle of [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Fish Potion]] for a drink, and (unknown to the others) is [[Animorphism|transformed into a starfish]]. In the ensuing confusion, she accidentally gets thrown out of a window into the sea by Fly, and only upon consulting a video tape do the other three find out what happened to her. Whilst searching the sea for Stella though, a storm brews up, and in a moment of hot-headedness Fly drinks the potion, turning into a fish himself. A few moments later the boat capsizes, and to save himself from drowning Chuck drinks the potion himself, whilst the MacKrill [[Disney Death|seemingly drowns]].

Although things seem hopeless, the professor ''did'' make an antidote, but as luck would have it, it was tossed into the ocean when the boat capsized, and is now in the hands of Joe - a megalomaniac pilot fish, who has plans to rule the fish.

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=== ''[[Help I'm a Fish]]'' provides examples of: ===

* [[Absent Minded Professor]]: Mac Krill. Also counts as a [[Mad Scientist]].

* [[Absent-Minded Professor]]: Mac Krill. Also counts as a [[Mad Scientist]].

* [[Adult Fear]]: Imagine waking up, finding a darkened house with the kids you were looking after ''gone''...

* [[Animal Talk]]: Averted. Even though Fly, Chuck, and Stella have been turned into fish, they can't speak with others except ones that have been exposed to the antidote.

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* [[Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud]]: An ''underwater'' version, but nonetheless seems to work under the same principles.

* {{spoiler|[[Disney Death]]}}: {{spoiler|1=MacKrill nearly drowns during the storm, but the main characters still think he ''did''.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Family Unfriendly Death]]}}: {{spoiler|Joe, who also gets a slight [[Death By Irony]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Family-Unfriendly Death]]}}: {{spoiler|Joe, who also gets a slight [[Death By Irony]].}}

* [[Family Unfriendly Violence]]: {{spoiler|Fly getting injured at the hands...uh....claws of a crab.}}

* [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]]: {{spoiler|Fly getting injured at the hands...uh....claws of a crab.}}

* [[Foreshadowing]]: When Chuck is washed into Mac Krill's lab, he has a jellyfish stuck on his head, which is what he will turn into later. Similarly, while in the lab, Fly comes across a stuffed fish labeled "California ''Fly''fish", which looks exactly like the one he will turn into.

* [[Green Aesop]]: The professor's whole reason for creating the fish potion - due to a danger presented by melting icecaps. It's not actually as big of a motivator as you might think, though.

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* [[Happily Married]]: Fly is a serious oddity in the world of children's animation--not only does he still have both his parents, but they genuinely love each other! Who'da thunk?

* [[Heroes Gone Fishing]]: Literal variation; the whole plot springs up from a fishing trip.

* [[Hey ~~Its~~ That Voice]]: Alan "[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Severus-Snape]]" Rickman voices Joe. And the Professor is Terry Jones.

* [[Hey It's That Voice]]: Alan "[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Severus-Snape]]" Rickman voices Joe. And the Professor is Terry Jones.

** The Father is [[Maison Ikkoku|Shun Mitaka]], The Mother is [[Project a Ko|A-Ko]], and the Aunt is [[Dragonball Z|Freiza]].

** In the Japanese version, Chuck is [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Rei Ayanami.]] And [[The Slayers|Lina Inverse.]] And pretty much every major female anime character you can think of, up to and including the [[Ranma One Half|other one half of Ranma.]]

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* [[Oh Crap]]: Joe gets a minor one {{spoiler|right before he kicks the bucket.}}

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Fly''': "Can a human breathe underwater?"}}}}

* [[Poor ~~Mans~~ Substitute]]: Here, Alan Rickman is kind of like [[Tim Curry]] if [[Tim Curry]] was unavailable. However, that doesn't make him any less awesome as Joe.

* [[Poor Man's Substitute]]: Here, Alan Rickman is kind of like [[Tim Curry]] if [[Tim Curry]] was unavailable. However, that doesn't make him any less awesome as Joe.

* [[Scenery Porn]]: The underwater landscape.

* [[Screw Learning I Have Phlebotinum]]